Running WordPerfect's Shipping Macros

WordPerfect ships with a collection of macros that are helpful both to use and to examine if you want to become familiar with the PerfectScript macro language. In a later section, I'll show you how to edit macros, so you can open any of the shipping macros and see how they were written.

  • Abbrev.wcm Opens an Abbreviations dialog box, where you can select a QuickWord and expand it in a document. The dialog box stays open so that you can expand multiple QuickWords without opening the QuickCorrect dialog box each time.

  • adrs2mrg.wcm Opens an Address Book to Merge dialog box, where you can choose an Address Book and then create a merge data file from the entire Address Book or just from selected records. This ...

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