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- Lesson 5
-
- DOCUMENT APPEARANCE
-
- While editing a document, you may often want to change the
- characters of a word or words to uppercase or lowercase, or to
- capitalize a word. The Appearance...Word commands allow you to
- do this. Here's how:
-
- Place the cursor at the beginning of this line and select:
-
- Escape...Appearance...Word...ALL CAPS
-
- "Place" is immediately changed to "PLACE," and the cursor is
- moved to the blank space after the word. To continue uppercasing
- words on the line, select:
-
- Escape...Repeat
- Escape...Repeat
- .....etc.
-
- This simple procedure is used for all the commands on the
- WORD submenu which change the appearance of words or characters.
- Try a few more. Scroll back to the previous screen and change
- the words back to lowercase (Escape...Appearance...Word...
- Lowercase). Then, capitalize the first letter of each word
- (Escape...Appearance...Word...Capitalize).
-
- How many times have you typed "beleive" for "believe," or
- "thsi" for "this." TRANSPOSITION of characters is a very common
- typing error. Usually we discover it only after we've gone
- several lines beyond the word. Perfect Writer provides a command
- to correct such errors. To see how it works, let's correct the
- following transposition error, changing "ese" to "see."
-
- ese
-
- Simply place the cursor on the second of the two characters
- to be transposed--"s"--and type the command:
-
- Escape...Appearance...Transpose
-
- Simple!
-
- If you want to CENTER text on a line, Perfect Writer allows
- you to do that, too. Place the cursor anywhere on the command
- line below, and select:
-
- Escape...Appearance...Line...Center
-
- If you want to begin a new page at a particular point in
- your document, you can INSERT a PAGEBREAK. Let's do it. Move
- the cursor to any blank line on the screen and select:
-
- Escape...Appearance...Document...Insert page break
-
-
- Perfect Writer inserts a line across the screen. When the
- document is printed, this line will be interpreted as beginning a
- new page. It will cause the printer to skip to a new page before
- printing whatever text follows.
-
-
- To delete a page break, simply place the cursor on the line
- where the page break begins and select:
-
- Escape...Cut...Entire line
-
- You can also paginate a document by inserting pagebreaks at
- fixed intervals, using:
-
- Escape...Appearance...Document...Paginate
-
-
- Perfect Writer will ask you to specify the number of lines
- you want to print on each page. If you don't specify a
- particular number of lines, Perfect Writer will use a default
- setting of 50 lines per page.
-
-
- SUMMARY
-
- In this short lesson, you learned how to alter the
- appearance of screen text: uppercase, lowercase, capitalize, and
- center words and lines. You saw how to transpose characters,
- paginate a document, and insert page breaks.
-
-
- This completes the lesson on Document Appearance. If you wish
- to proceed to Lesson 6 which discusses "Searching," select:
-
- Escape...Documents...Read
-
- When Perfect Writer asks "Document to read," type "lesson6,"
- followed by the Return key. Perfect Writer will read Lesson 6
- into memory and switch you to it.
-
- If you do not wish to continue, select:
-
- Escape...Exit PW
-
- IMPORTANT: Perfect Writer will respond with the message:
- "Document(s) not saved! Do you still wish to exit?" Answer `y'
- for Yes, since you do not want to save any changes made during
- the lesson.
-
- Perfect Writer will return you to the PSI Menu, from where
- you can return to the operating system.
-
- End of Lesson 5