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Welcome to Perfect Authority Corel® Perfect Authority offers the perfect way to cite the sources in your Corel® WordPerfect® documents — automatically. Gone are the days of marking citations for inclusion in your table of authorities (or manually creating your table of authorities from scratch). With Perfect Authority, the work of creating a table of authorities is done for you — literally, at the click of a button. Perfect Authority takes mere seconds to create a table of authorities such as this.
Understanding Perfect Authority Perfect Authority is a program that integrates with WordPerfect to create a table of authorities (or “TOA”) for you, based on the citations found in your document. You can access Perfect Authority from directly within WordPerfect — just click the Perfect Authority button on the WordPerfect toolbar. How does Perfect Authority work? Perfect Authority scans your document for citations of cases, statutes, and constitutions.
Creating a table of authorities with Perfect Authority You can use Perfect Authority to create a table of authorities in either the current WordPerfect document or a new (separate) WordPerfect document. From the main Perfect Authority window, you can choose where to insert a table of authorities: into the current document (“Create Table at Cursor”), or into a new document (“Create Table to File”). You may want to get started with Perfect Authority by testing out a few of your own documents.
To insert a table of authorities into the current document 1 Click where you want to insert the table of authorities into your document. 2 Click the Perfect Authority button on the WordPerfect toolbar. The main Perfect Authority window appears. 3 Choose an option set from the list box in the Option Set area. If you want to create a customized option set, see page 7. 4 Click Create Table at Cursor.
To send a table of authorities to a new document 1 With the document open, click the Perfect Authority button WordPerfect toolbar. The main Perfect Authority window appears. on the 2 Choose an option set from the list box in the Option Set area. If you want to create a customized option set, see page 7. 3 Click Create Table to File. Perfect Authority searches your document for citations and creates a table of authorities from them (in a new, unnamed document).
An option set defines three types of settings for a table of authorities: its content, formatting, and sorting method. You can configure these settings by using the Editing Option Set dialog box. Content-related options define the citation form for a table of authorities and any automatic changes to be applied to its content. The Content page in the Editing Option Set dialog box Formatting-related options include the page margins, spacing, and font settings used in a table of authorities.
Sorting-related options specify the ordering of the cases and statutes in a table of authorities. The Sorting page in the Editing Option Set dialog box You can create, edit, and delete option sets. You can also share your customizations with other users if you are both using the same version of Perfect Authority. For detailed help, see the procedures that follow. To create an option set 1 Click the Perfect Authority button on the WordPerfect toolbar. The main Perfect Authority window appears.
Give it a try! Let’s practice creating an option set. 1 Click the Perfect Authority button on the WordPerfect toolbar. The main Perfect Authority window appears. 2 Click the + button in the Option Set area. The Input dialog box appears. 3 Type Tutorial, and then click OK. The Tutorial option set appears in the list box in the Option Set area of the main Perfect Authority window. To edit an option set 1 Click the Perfect Authority button on the WordPerfect toolbar. The main Perfect Authority window appears.
• If you want to list all cases and statues in the order they appear, enable the By Order of Appearance (all citation types mixed) check box. • If you want to ignore the leading phrase “In Re”, “Ex parte”, “People v.”, “United States v.”, and “State v.” when sorting cases alphabetically, enable the Ignore check box. When this check box is disabled, those leading phrases will remain in alphabetical order.
To delete an option set 1 Click the Perfect Authority button on the WordPerfect toolbar. The main Perfect Authority window appears. 2 In the Option Set area, choose the option set from the list box, and then click the button. The option set disappears from the list box in the Option Set area. To share customizations Note: Both users must be using the same version of Perfect Authority (1.2, 1.3, or 1.4) 1 Ensure that Perfect Authority is installed.
5 Click the Citations tab, and click Import. 6 Navigate to the the desktop, select ctoatph3.db, and click Open. Entries that were added to the first user’s dictionary are added to the Perfect Authority 1.4 dictionary. For information about importing dictionary additions from a previous dictionary, see “To import citation-type entries from a previous dictionary” on page 14.
Note: Additions that you’ve made to a dictionary in a previous version of Perfect Authority are not automatically added to the Perfect Authority 1.4 dictionary, but you can import them from a backup file that is automatically created when you upgrade. For more information, see “To import citation-type entries from a previous dictionary” on page 14. For detailed help with editing the Perfect Authority dictionary by customizing its citation-type entries or its abbreviations, see the procedures that follow.
4 Click Apply to commit your changes and keep working in the Dictionary Editor dialog box, or click OK to both commit your changes and close the dialog box. The Perfect Authority dictionary displays customized citation-type entries in bold formatting, to help you distinguish them from the default entries.
To import citation-type entries from a previous dictionary 1 Click the Perfect Authority button on the WordPerfect toolbar. The main Perfect Authority window appears. 2 Click Dictionary Editor. The Dictionary Editor dialog box appears. 3 Click the Citations tab, and click Import. 4 Navigate to the folder C:\ProgramData\Corel\PerfectAuthority\1.0, select ctoatph3.db.bak, and click Open. Entries that you added to the previous dictionary are added to the Perfect Authority 1.4 dictionary.
4 Click Apply to commit your changes and keep working in the Dictionary Editor dialog box, or click OK to both commit your changes and close the dialog box. The Perfect Authority dictionary displays customized abbreviations in bold formatting, to help you distinguish them from the default entries.
