Lotus Word Pro tip
Posted by Consistent_Cat7541@reddit | vintagecomputing | View on Reddit | 6 comments
Hi all,
For those of you still using (or looking to use) Lotus Word Pro full time, I stumbled across some new information today.
Inside Word Pro, there's a menu item, under "Text > Insert Other > Address..." that allows you to insert saved addresses into your documents. Normally, to add an address to the internal address book, you need to first create an envelope, put an address into the envelope, then push the button "Send to Address..." which brings up a dialog box where you can add the address permanently to Word Pro.
OR
You can go to the registry to:
Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Lotus\WordPro\99.0\lwptools.ini\Address List
There you would add keys. The keys are formatted as {text|text|text|text}.
FYI.
m-in@reddit
Isn’t Word Pro a Samna acquisition?
Consistent_Cat7541@reddit (OP)
originally.
mariteaux@reddit
I have never used a Lotus product, but I love seeing people still use old office software, so you get my upvote.
CubicleHermit@reddit
I still use word pro, but just because it's literally the only thing that runs on Windows 11 that can read my old AmiPro documents from high school
Skycbs@reddit
Why not save them in a different format? Or PDF?
CubicleHermit@reddit
As I find them, I do. I only discovered recently that I had a whole bunch of them unconverted on old backups