RE: display and dates

["Ambos, Paul" <PAMBOS@nospam.bejh.com>]

For some years I have used a save-get to insert a hard date in a letter form
in XyWrite.  Since a hard date can only be created by the "today" command, a
template will not do, but a macro that puts text into a new blank file can
then jump to the command line, run "today, and revert to the text insertion.
You end up with a form with the current date.  Stephen Board's idea of
putting the "today" command into a keyboard file will give a similar
insertion, but the save-get I use inserts the date in the context of a
template.  Note that the save-get checks for the presence of an open file,
gives a message if one is not open in the current window, inserts a date in
a running header, and leaves the cursor in an appropriate insertion point.
(The "RM" setting is a holdover from XY3+.)

The file is attached.  I seem to recall that NB lacks the save-get
management features of XY, so I'm not sure what might be the best way for
NBers to load it, and I defer to others more adept.

Regards,

Paul Ambos
pambos@nospam.bejh.com


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Ossar [SMTP:mlo@nospam.ksu.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2000 10:16 AM
> To:   Multiple recipients of list NOTABENE
> Subject:      NBW: display and dates
>
> Folks--
>
> Two questions:
>
> 1) is there a way to construct a template that will automatically
> enter the current date into a letter (without it having to be typed
> in), but will not change the date every time the file is called to
> the screen (as the MS Word default does), thus obliterating the
> original date of composition?
>
> 2) a friend asks whether one can change the default background color
> of a blank document, since his eyes are sensitive to white.  The
> drop-down preference menu doesn't seem to include this option.
>
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