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Overview

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 Slide-it is a sliding block puzzle. 
 A picture is divided into a number 
 of smaller rectangular areas which 
 are rearranged at random. The bottom 
 right hand corner of the picture 
 will be removed and replaced by a 
 blank space. To complete the puzzle 
 all the pieces have to be put back 
 into their original positions.
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Overview continued (p2)
 
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At the start the picture is shown.
To rearrange the picture point to an
area adjacent to the gap and 'click'
a mouse button. This area will then 
slide into the gap. Upon completion 
the blank is automatically filled in
to give the complete picture.

Before Slide-it can be used a picture
needs to chosen from the main menu.

The grid level can be changed from
the Options menu.
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Options

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There are 5 different grids to choose
from. The grid selected will affect 
the number of jumbled pieces which
appear on the Puzzle screen.

To select a grid point and 'click on 
the one you want. Two red triangles 
will appear on  either side of the 
selected options.

Click on Back to the main menu to 
return to the Puzzle.
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File Management

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 The File Management menu can be 
 accessed from the toolkit menu. The 
 File Management area allows you to 
 have a great deal of control over 
 where a program keeps its files,
 where it looks for its files, and 
 allows files used by the program to 
 be shared between Primary WORKS 
 programs. 

 It also allows files to be deleted.
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File Management - continued (p2)

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It is important to become familiar 
with the use of Pathnames before
delving into the file management area.

Pathnames provide a way of organising
files. A pathname represents a full
description of where a program is
'looking' for a file. Normally, the
program will look after this aspect of
file management. Primary WORKS has
been designed to allow the user a
great deal of control over where work
is kept and how group work may be 
organised.
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File management - continued (p3)
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Slide-it picture files are kept in a 
sub-directory of Slide-it. It is the 
default directories which the program 
will always revert to whenever it is 
first loaded. It shares this with 
Move-it.

The default sub-directory is:

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\PWORKS\MOVESLID\PICTURES\
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File Management - continued (p4)

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Slide-it offers the facility to move 
pictures to and from other areas of 
the hard disk or on to a floppy disk.

The key to moving files and to using 
files you may have stored elsewhere, 
is the Change path option.
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File Management - continued (p5)

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Once the Change path option has been 
selected, the program will show you 
the present path description in full.

If you continue, the program will list 
all the possible places you might want 
to change the pathname to. 

The current path will be indicated by 
two large red arrow heads.

A change of path description will mean 
resources in that area can be accessed.
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File Management - continued (p6)

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Once the pathname has been changed,
the program will carry out a little
housekeeping exercise. If it finds
any files in the new pathname that it 
does not recognise, it will display a 
message indicating as much and asking 
if you require the detected files to 
be included in the pathname file 
directory.
When transferring or deleting files,
the new pathname will be used as the
source directory.

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Transfer
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Select the files you wish to transfer. 

The files available for transfer will 
be listed. 

The ALL icon will select all the files 
on that screen. Once the selection has 
been made click on the icon at the 
bottom right.
As each file is transferred a prompt 
will appear on the screen for 
confirmation that it is to be 
transferred.
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File Management - continued (p8)

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Delete
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Select the files you wish to delete. 

The files available for deleting will 
be listed. 

The ALL icon will select all the files 
on that screen. Once the selection has 
been made click on the icon at the 
bottom right.
As each file is deleted a prompt will 
appear on the screen for confirmation 
that it is to be deleted.
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Mouse

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Mouse sensitivity

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Selecting this option from the 
settings menu allows the speed at 
which the mouse moves across the 
screen to be controlled.

Moving the mouse pointer over a number 
and pressing a mouse button will make 
a selection.  To choose a mouse 
sensitivity that is comfortable, try 
different numbers and move the mouse 
across the screen.
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To return to the settings menu select:-

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Back to the setting menu

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The program will remember what mouse
sensitivity number was chosen, and 
next time that Slide-it is used, the 
mouse sensitivity will be as it was 
left in the previous session.
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Printing

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Printer setup

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Printer

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This option allows you to change the 
current printer driver. Select from 
the list of available drivers, the 
one that matches your printer.

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Orientation

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Select the orientation which you 
require for the print out, either 
landscape or portrait.

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Intensity

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Select the intensity of the print
out you require. Choose either full
or half.

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Print out size

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Print outs can be full size or half
size. The size selected is indicated
by the small picture to the left of
this option.
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Printer port

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Printing can be routed through one of
a number of ports at the rear of the
computer.

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LPT1 - for parallel printing

COM1 - for serial printing  
from communications port 1  

COM2 - for serial printing  
from communications port 2  
(if fitted to the computer) 
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Printing- continued (p4)

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To start printing

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Printing can be started AT ANY TIME
from within the program by holding 
downthe Ctrl key and then pressing
the letter P. The present screen will
then be sent to the printer.

Printing can be halted by pressing the
ESCAPE key at any time. If printing is 
interrupted in this way there may be 
some time to wait before printing
stops and control is returned to the
program.
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