GeoPublish Tutorial Part 11 – Document Renaming

Back in the third installment of this series (Planning and Preparation) I suggested that a great time saver while working with geoPublish (gP) is to have a couple of Dummy articles prepared that you can import if you need to fill some space. This practice saves time as you can remain working in gP as opposed to having to exit and create a new article in geoWrite (gW).

This time we are going to import one of our Dummy articles into gP and then rename it to more accurately reflect the content. Of course, there is no Rename option in any menu in gP so this means we will use a different GEOS program to handle this part of the process.

The instructions on the web site told you to download this installment, create the regions, import the file and then open it in Editor Mode. The file that you downloaded and imported was called Dummy3 so as not to cause problems with the Dummy1 and Dummy2 articles you created in accordance with the previous instructions.

You should have downloaded the file GETITWV2.CVT as well and converted it back to GEOS format with Convert V2.5. This is a great tool to use if you get a gP file from someone else or if you are loading in a file that you haven't used for a while. If a gP document is opened and a required gW file is not on the disk gP can crash.

The process to rename a gW file that has been imported into a gP document is quite simple. Run GetItWrite V2.0 (do not use the earlier version) and a dialog box will appear listing the gP documents on the current disk. There are Disk and Drive Icons if you need to check files on other disks. The program supports 3 Drives under GEOS and 4 Drives under Wheels if run from Drive A or Drive B.

Choose the gP file you want to work with (in this case TutorialPart2) and press the Open button. A listing appears showing the gW files referenced in the gP document. If the gW file is on the disk it reports `OK'. If you see `Not on Disk' you need to locate that gW file before opening gP.

To rename Dummy3 click the rename menu, click geoWrite file, click Dummy3 in the list and then OK. Delete the name Dummy3 and press Return after typing geoPub11. The gW file will be renamed and the gP file will be updated.

Next time we will look at proofreading.

Until then, enGEOy your Commodore!

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