How do you create overlays with MS-Word?

Before you can create an overlay you must create an Advanced Function Printer for your PC. Click on the Add printer ICON, Make it a local printer and use IBM Facimile Support 400, It should be there because of a full load of CA/400, it must write to a FILE not a port. Go to the properties window and press the SETUP KEY. On the AS/400 Using Wrkflr create a folder called forms.

Press the Options key , to check every time you intend to change a overlay under CLIP LIMITS make sure your unprintable area margins are all ZEROES. Click on the Modify Key and then under IMAGES modify to use Diagonal Dither.
Press OK on every thing!!!

Before you go into WORD make sure you are connected to the AS400 or Map the AS400 to a Drive on Your PC.

On the overlays we have created we only used Text , Frames.>br> After your overlay is finished you must print to this printer file.

Since this is the printer for the AS400 Pc Fax, put a one in the telephone number and use the Select All button.

Save to I:\ QDLS\ FORMS\ document name.

After the file is printed, Return to your AS400 session to create the *OVL object.

Because this was created by WORD type in the AS400 command WRKFLR. Type &5 8 by FORMS folder and press enter.
You will find your Overlay named with a +.PRN, if necessary delete the folder with the name you need to use and then rename the +.PRN , with that name. So keep your document name short! Then type in these commands or write a Cl with these commands.

CRTPF      FILE(QTEMP/&DOC) RCDLEN(2019) LVLCHK(*NO)

CPYFRMPCD  FROMFLR(&FLR) TOFILE(QTEMP/&DOC) +
             FROMDOC(&DOC) TRNTBL(*NONE) TRNFMT(*NOTEXT)

CRTOVL     OVL(&@LIB/&DOC) FILE(QTEMP/&DOC) +
             TEXT('Overlay Form ' *BCAT &DOC *TCAT ' +
             /' *BCAT &CDATE *TCAT ' / ' *BCAT &SYSTIME)

Look for an object type *OVL in the library you defined.
If you get error messages you can DFU the file in QTEMP if you see |&DOC|8 you did not create an overlay.
Recheck you printer properties. To test the overlay enter command OVRPRTF FILE(QSYSPRT) PAGRTT(0) FRONTOVL(LIBRARY/OVERLAY) the do a HOST PRINT of any screen and move the spool file to an appropriate printer.

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How do you create overlays with MS-Word?