Macro - Locks Up When Performing A Merge

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Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 8:29:16 PM

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WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS

Problem

Symptoms: A customer created the following macro that performs a merge: {DISPLAY OFF}{MERGE/SORT}1 {ENTER}{ENTER} The customer's primary file contains only text and keyboard merge commands. He created another macro that contains names and addresses to be inserted in the merge at the keyboard prompt. When he starts the merge using the macro and comes to the first {KEYBOARD} prompt, he runs the macro containing the name and address information, and the computer locks up. If he runs this merge manually, with Ctrl-F9, 1, , {ENTER}, {ENTER}, when the keyboard prompt displays and he runs the name and address macro, the merge works fine. Solutions: The merge wasn't actually locking the computer, he just couldn't see what was happening on the screen, so it appeared to be locked. A work around for the problem is to remove the {DISPLAY OFF} command in the macro. See memo WP51_5553F for another work around. Status: Sent to Development ***|sent to dev|*** Press Enter on link token.

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