________________________________________________________________________ PART 1: USING HYPERPAD If you want to learn how to get the most out of the applications, or pads, that come with HyperPAD, this first portion of the HyperPAD User's pads, that come with HyperPAD, this first portion of the HyperPAD User's Guide is where you should be. Part 1 is set up to make it easy for you to master the fundamentals and get right down to working with the pads. Should you read everything in Part 1? Not necessarily. Instead, it might be more productive for you to look through the following overview of the chapters in Part 1 to see which ones address your particular needs and interests as a HyperPAD user. Let's begin with the chapter that all HyperPAD users must go through. 0 Chapter 1, "Getting Started," tells how to install HyperPAD (if your computer has a hard disk), how to start it, how to set it up for your system, and how to get technical support. Once you've got HyperPAD running, you can begin using the appropriate printed and on-line resources to learn how to use it. Chapters 2-8 explain how to operate HyperPAD and discuss the major pads that come with it. These chapters are especially recommended if you're using HyperPAD for the first time or if you need a review of HyperPAD. 0 Chapter 2, "Fundamentals of Using HyperPAD," explains the basic terminology, concepts, features, and procedures involved in working with HyperPAD. Chapter 2 is critical, because this is the only place where the basics are explained in detail. In later chapters, it will be assumed that you've mastered the material covered in Chapter 2. 0 Chapter 3, "The Home Pad," presents the pad that serves as your gateway to HyperPAD's major functions. Chapter 3 is another critical chapter, because you need to know how to operate the Home pad in order to be able to access all the other pads that come with HyperPAD. 0 Chapter 4, "Managing Files," will be of interest if you want to learn how to use HyperPAD's DOS Shell to greatly simplify your file-management chores. By mastering the DOS Shell, you can eliminate practically forever the need to work from the DOS prompt. ________________________________________________________________________ Part 1: Using HyperPAD 4 ________________________________________________________________________ 0 Chapter 5, "The On-Line Tutorial," shows you how to use HyperPAD's interactive Tutorial most effectively. If you're the type of person who learns best from hands-on experience, you might want to finish Chapter 1, then skip ahead to this chapter and start your journey through HyperPAD by browsing around in the Tutorial to get a feel for how the program works. After that, you could return to the earlier chapters and deepen your understanding of HyperPAD. 0 Chapter 6, "The Help System," explains HyperPAD's network of on-line resources, which can provide fast, specific answers to your questions about how particular pads work or about how HyperPAD works in general. If you're new to HyperPAD and think you might need a helping hand as you learn the program, this chapter is for you. 0 Chapter 7, "The Phone Pad System," presents the key procedures required to work with the Phone pad, the Phone Dialer pad, the Track Call pad, and the Take Message pad. If you use the phone frequently in your work and want to learn how HyperPAD can help you organize and manage your phone records, print labels, dial calls, record call histories, take phone messages on-line, and much more, this chapter is for you. 0 Chapter 8, "The Daily Planner Pad," shows you how HyperPAD can put the capacity of a giant stack of daily planners right at your fingertips. If you want to manage your time more effectively, check out this chapter. In Chapters 9 and 10, we move beyond the basics and discuss some relatively specialized HyperPAD features. If you're interested in learning how to perform the functions described there, you should first become comfortable using HyperPAD. 0 Chapter 9, "Adding and Manipulating Information," expands considerably upon the rather rudimentary instructions for adding and deleting information that were presented back in Chapter 2. Here you will find more sophisticated techniques for entering information into your pads as well as instructions for using HyperPAD's editing commands (Cut, Copy, Paste, and Delete) and database capabilities to work with that information. You'll also learn how to use the Import command to bring data created or stored in other programs into HyperPAD fields and how to use the Export command to send data created or stored in HyperPAD to files in a number of other programs. If you plan to use HyperPAD as a flat-file database program, this chapter is a must. ________________________________________________________________________ Part 1: Using HyperPAD 5 ________________________________________________________________________ 0 Chapter 10, "Printing," tells you how to set up your printer, how to give HyperPAD instructions regarding the dimensions and orientation of your printed page, and how to print out information in a variety of formats. After reading the preceding overview of "Using HyperPAD," you should know which of the chapters here will be of immediate interest in helping you learn about the HyperPAD features you especially want to use. If this overview has whetted your curiosity about other HyperPAD features, you may want to check out additional chapters once you've mastered the features you're most concerned with. And you've probably determined that you can safely skip one or more of the chapters in Part 1 because they describe features you don't plan to use. Let's turn to Chapter 1 so you can get HyperPAD installed, started, and set up on your system. After that, you can proceed to the portions of "Using HyperPAD" that you want to concentrate on.