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From: drp@dosbears.UUCP (David R. Preston)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Need autosave macro for Winword
Message-ID: <420@dosbears>
Date: 8 Jun 91 01:14:34 GMT
References: <1991Jun1.082921.13846@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <376@dosbears> <1991Jun7.021329.12392@milton.u.washington.edu>
Reply-To: drp%dosbears.uucp@ingres.com (David R. Preston)
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In article <1991Jun7.021329.12392@milton.u.washington.edu> kpleas@milton.u.washington.edu (Keith Pleas) writes:
>
> (David R. Preston) writes:
>>The thing that bugs me is that there is no temporary
>>variable space, so I have to use a "glossary"
>
>David:
>
>Well, there are other options.
>   1) Open a document with another template, and use THAT glossary.
>   2) Use the temporary document opened in 1).
>   3) Use the clipboard.  The clipboard can be used as a stack to put
>      multiple pieces of info if they're separated by something (like
>      a non-printing character).
>   4) Use an .ini file.

I decided that using the glossary was more trouble that it's worth,
because I always get the "save glossary changes" dialog at the end
of a session.  I haven't tried using the clipboard (would that be
the same as using the "spike" glossary?  Maybe I should try the
spike), but I have been playing with using win.ini.  The SetProfileString
takes a fair amount of time, but the GetProfileString is faster.  I'll
be posting a simple version of autosave that can be turned off by use
of modifying the win.ini (i.e. save=on or save=off).  I'm also
working on autosave with a temp file like Marshall wanted.


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