Select the following from the WordPerfect pull-down menu:.(You can now skip directly to the usage instructions, if you like.) The steps below are therefore recommended but not necessary. If you want, you can assign keyboard shortcuts to the two new macros for ease of use. The macro directory location will be shown in the Default macro folder field. If you don't know where your macro directory is, you can get the location by selecting the following from the WordPerfect pull-down menu: Save the two macro files ( wordcount-story.wcm and wordcount-story-true.wcm) from the zip archive to your WordPerfect macro directory.The template directory location will be shown in the Default template folder field, as in the example graphic below:

If you don't know where your template directory is, you can get the location by selecting the following from the WordPerfect pull-down menu:

Save the template file ( format-story.wpt) from the zip archive to your WordPerfect template directory.

They will likely work on other platforms and older versions of WordPerfect, back at least to 10 and perhaps farther, but I don't guarantee it. Please note that these files were designed on WordPerfect 12 for Windows.

This zip archive contains the following three files: Here WordPerfect users can download and install some handy files to help automate the task of formatting short story manuscripts:

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