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The <B> and <K> block markers aren't shown as they cause problems. If you use ^KH it will show these markers as thick vertical bars and the existace of these markers will be indicated in the Word Status Bar below your document.
If you want these thick vertical bars displayed by default each time you start Word, click Utilities then Options. Then in Word Options click the View tab, and then select the Bookmarks option and then click OK. (In the standard Word menus this is under Tools, Options).
Block selections made with a mouse, or by using Windows style SHIFT+ cursor movement, or Word''s F8 (lock start position) + cursor movement don''t update the ^KB and ^KK markers as it would (except F8, etc.) in WordStar 7. This isn''t possible in Word 97 because VBA doesn''t give any signals of actions taken in the Word editing area.
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The insert text into another document in Word can be at any position in the document. This function may be added if there is sufficient demand for it.
In the WordStar Command Emulator ^KF has been reassigned to toggle the Word display between Full Screen and Normal view. As most Windows users aren't particularly DOS aware this was considered to be a better use of the key assignment.
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In The WordStar Command Emulator the ^C and ^R scroll commands don't maintain cursor vertical position because there is no facility in Word to determine the portion of the document in view, or the cursor's position in the view window. The WordStar scroll commands currently try to emulate WordStar, but doing this within the Page Layout view - where zoom factors, font size, and line spacing all have an affect, rather than just the draft view - where all lines are the same height.
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