OfficeVision

Create Special Characters in Your OfficeVision Documents

In Office Products did you know that you can create symbols that are not on your keyboard by using an Alt-A and the number of the symbol? To get a list of these symbols, go into a document and press Alt-A followed by the Help key.

- Leigh Guerra

Merge Printed Output into Office

With a program or command that generates printed output, use the AS/400 Office .RUN instruction. This causes the spooled output to be embedded into the document at the location of the instruction. For example, the following instruction can be used to embed a list of all objects in a library named USERLIB:

.RUN(DSPTAP DEV(TAP01) DATA(*SAVRST) OUTPUT(*PRINT))

In order for a user to be able to place a .RUN instruction in a document, the Office Enrollment must specify Y=Yes for the "Allow commands in a document" prompt.

- Ignatius Wong

Create a Job Queue for Office

Do you ever wait all day for a simple document to print from Office/400 because your job queue is clogged up? It's easy to fix. Change the job description that is used to print the document. We did the following:

ENDSBS QBATCH *CNTRLD CRTJOBQ JOBQ(QGPL/PRTDOCJOBQ) + TEXT('Printing Office/400 documents') ADDJOBQE SBSD(QBATCH) JOBQ(PRTDOCJOBQ) SEQNBR(11) STRSBS QBATCH CRTDUPOBJ OBJ(QBATCH) FROMLIB(QGPL) + OBJTYPE(*JOBD) NEWOBJ(PRTDOCJOBD) CHGJOBD JOBD(PRTDOCJOBD) JOBQ(QGPL/PRTDOCJOBQ)

The WRKTXTPRF screen allows you to revise the profile you are using. So revise the profile to use the PRTDOCJOBD job description as the job description (page 3 of Print Options screens). Existing documents will have to be changed on the Print Options screens associated with those documents. New documents will be submitted to the new PRTDOCJOBQ and should be printed in a timely manner.

- Mike Krebs