LetterWorks
Letters with ease and style

- Quick Start Guide -

10/2002
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Introduction

This quick start guide gives you a quick overview of the most common tasks, i.e. writing letters and providing your own letter stationery.

LetterWorks Letters

LetterWorks letter documents are based on stationeries. Stationeries provide letter heads and text frames (probably with predefined text or text templates (see below)) for your letters. You only add the text that is unique to the letter you are currently writing.

Creating a new Letter

LetterWorks starts up with a new, empty letter (based on the default stationery). You can start typing immediately. All the common formatting options are available, plus spell checking, hyphenation and tab rulers.
When a new document is created via the New with stationery menu command you can choose the look and predefined content of your new document by selecting one of the available stationeries. You need to create one first, though. You should open some of the Example letters if you haven't done already to get some ideas.

Creating a Stationery

Open a new document with a letter format you like to use from the New submenu. Now switch to layout mode using the Layout Mode command form the Format menu. Now modify the stationery to show your personal or corporate letter head and text templates as needed (see below).
After that, save the stationery using the Save as Statioanary menu entry. If you save the stationery to the default location, it will be available in the New with stationery submenu for easy access.

Providing a Letter Head

You may specify a letter head/background by dragging and dropping a PDF file to the document. 
If the PDF used in a stationery has more than one page, the last page is repeated as needed for the letter document. This is useful for creating stationeries containing 'first' and 'second' pages.

Adding Text Frames

You create new frames by clicking and dragging with the mouse. Frames are modified by moving the frame border or pulling the little handle knobs that show thenever a frame is selected. A selected frame can be removed by using the backspace key. 

Adding Template Variables & Previewing

Templates can be inserted into a stationery using the inspector (available from the Format Menu) by double clicking a template variable.
You can preview a letter by switching back from layout mode and using the Revert to Stationery menu entry. This makes all texts look like they were just created from your current stationery layout and texts. You can now drag in a vCard (e.g. from the Address Book) to see some real example. Use the undo function to try out different people with your new stationery.

Finishing up

While in layout mode you can make your new stationery available in the New submenu for easy access, choose Save As Stationery from the file menu.