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@po 0 @OP E Z X - W O R D XWW30 Special Release (WORDPROCESS-EZX) Reference Manual (C) Copyright, 1993 All Rights Reserved by EZX Corporation. Distributed by EZX Publishing Publishers of the EZ-Series PO BOX 58177 WSC/XRS, Webster, TX 77598 USA LICENSE/REGISTRATION STATEMENT: The EZX-Word Program and its utilities are protected by United States Copyright Law and International Treaty provisions. All rights are reserved. You may use this program as indicated in the serial number, license/registration agreement, and purchase receipt, on a single machine. EZX Corp. hereby grants a "book" license to the original individual user (even if purchased by a company or other organization) of this copy of EZX-Word. You may use the program on your computer and make one backup copy, as long as there is no possibility of use or residence on more than one machine at any time, or use by more than one person at a time. Just like two people cannot read the same book in different locations at the same time. Every copy of EZX-Word has a unique serial number embedded within it, for traceability. You may not make, sell, or give copies of this program and documentation to anyone. No exceptions. EZX Corp. makes no warranty of any kind, expressed or implied, including without limitation, any warranties of merchantability and/or fitness for a particular purpose. EZX Corp. shall not be liable for any damages, whether direct, indirect, special or consequential, arising from a failure of this program to operate in the manner desired by the user. EZX Corp. shall not be liable for any damage to data or property, which may be caused directly or indirectly by use of the program. EZX Corp. makes no claims, offers no warranties, and assumes no responsibility for any sort of damage (mental or physical) resulting from the apparent or actual use of our products. Any text files, printer control files, or forms provided with this product are not guaranteed as to merchantability or fitness for its ultimate use. User accepts all responsibility for use and may not resell any supplied text file, printer control file or form. A person, business, corporation, government organization, or any other entity is strictly forbidden to use unregistered copies of this program, and to do so is in violation of this license agreement. EZX-Word may not be distributed in conjunction with any other product, without written permission from EZX Corporation. The License Agreement and statement shall be construed, interpreted and governed by the laws of the state of Texas. All pricing, terms and conditions are subject to change without notice. Some of the terms used in this document are trademarks of the following firms: International Business Machines, Microsoft, Intel Corporation. EZX-WORD is a trademark of EZX Corporation. Rev. 4/5/93 @HE (C)opyright 1990, EZX Corp., All rights reserved. Page # ╔═══════╗ ║PREFACE║ ╚═══════╝ WHAT IS EZX-WORD? ───────────────── EZX-WORD is a fast and powerful word processor, easy to learn and ideal for a laptop computer. You have the option of using the pull-down menu system or the full set of keyboard commands for extensive editing and printing features. You can use either method at any time. Even if you are new to computer word processing, you should be able to create and produce a finished document within an hour. You do not need to learn all of the commands before EZX-WORD can work for you. FEATURES OF EZX-WORD ──────────────────── EZX-WORD creates an ASCII character only document that can be loaded and processed by all of the major word processor programs as well as by countless text editors. EZX-WORD can also edit Wordstar (tm) documents. Document size is limited only by the computer's available memory! This manual was made with EZX-WORD. Help is available by pressing the F1 key at any time. The help screen will display information for the task you are in when you ask for help. This lets you learn EZX-WORD quickly without spending time looking up each command in the manual. Options include choosing your colors for text, background, highlighted items, marked blocks, colors of the menu and help screens, and different letter fonts within the document. EZX-WORD can manage up to six open text windows at once. You can choose multiple views of the same document, six different documents, or any combination. You can move or copy text between windows at the press of a key and you can change the window size to all or part of the screen. EZX-WORD can display on screen how your document will look when it is printed with the margins, paragraph formats, page breaks, margins, and font characters identified. The built-in spelling checker can correct the spelling of any words it does not recognize and can be called up at any time. You can also create your own "user" dictionary for those special terms not found in a desk top dictionary. The built-in macro system lets you create a string of text or commands that can be called up with a key stroke. An example is an address or a letter header that is frequently used. You can also reconfigure the keyboard to use the command keys of your favorite word processor. For a laptop computer, or any other limited disk storage system, the minimum requirement is the EZXW.EXE file. If space permits, add the dictionary and the help files. @PA ╔═════════════════╗ ║Table of Contents║ ╚═════════════════╝ Page INSTALLING EZX-WORD...................................... 4 GETTING STARTED.......................................... 5 GETTING ON-LINE HELP..................................... 6 ENTERING AND EDITING TEXT ............................... 6 MOVING THE CURSOR AND SCROLLING.......................... 6 THE MENU SYSTEM.......................................... 7 FILE ............................................ 8 WINDOWS ......................................... 11 TEXT ............................................ 12 BLOCK MOVEMENTS ................................. 15 GO TO ........................................... 16 SEARCH .......................................... 18 OPTIONS ......................................... 19 EZX-WORD ........................................ 24 COMMAND KEY SUMMARY...................................... 27 PAGE BREAKS.............................................. 33 CONFIGURING EZX-WORD..................................... 33 THE STATUS LINE.......................................... 33 RECONFIGURING COMMAND KEYS............................... 35 ADVANCED FEATURES........................................ 37 ORDERING INFORMATION..................................... 39 TUTORIAL ................................................ 39 @PA ╔═══════════════════╗ ║INSTALLING EZX-WORD║ ╚═══════════════════╝ Place #1 Distribution Disk in A: drive (substitute other drive letter as necessary), and type: A:README followed by ENTER Read the instructions on your screen. All the details of installation will be listed there. IMPORTANT INSTALLATION NOTES: 1. If EZX-WORD does not run properly: A. Delete the EZXW.CNF file and try to run again. B. Your machine may not be totally IBM PC operating system compatible. This is not always disastrous and a quick call to our phone support staff may solve your problem. C. You may have a slightly incompatible "EGA" card with auto switch features. Usually, turning off autoswitch and forcing the system into the EGA mode solves the problem. D. If you have any memory resident programs or system drivers, try running without them loaded in your computer. On some computers, ANSI.SYS is suspect. 2. If your monitor appears to be losing certain characters or features, you may have a "color" system with a composite monochrome (green, amber, LCD, etc.) monitor. Adjust the contrast and brightness of the monitor until the screen is readable. In some cases, you may have to go to the OPTIONS Menu to choose acceptable colors. 3. This Manual is designed to give you a general overview and familiarity with the program. More complete, up to date information is available to you through the context sensitive help (F1) and the online manual. When using the more advanced features of the program, the help screens will guide you through the toughest questions with ease. As EZX-WORD continues to add more features, you can be sure that the online manual and context sensitive help will give you the guidance needed. This way everybody wins. We don't spend money continually revising manuals and charging you higher prices, and you get what you want and deserve: accurate up to date information. So fire up the computer, dig in, and welcome to EZX-WORD! @CP 5 ╔═══════════════╗ ║GETTING STARTED║ ╚═══════════════╝ The commands to run EZX-WORD are found in two places. One is the easy pull down menu system, and the other is the keyboard command set summarized toward the end of this manual under COMMAND KEY SUMMARY. Since both methods are always active, you can choose to use either one, at any time. You can start the program in one of three ways: 1. You can enter EZXW at the DOS prompt, and EZX-WORD will create the document NONAME for you to edit. You can rename it later on. 2. You can specify one to three file names at one time. For example, EZXW A:ONE.TXT will open the file (or document) called one.txt located on drive A. EZXW ONE.TXT TWO.LTR D:\DATA\THREE.TXT will open three files (each in a text window). Notice that the example file THREE.TXT is located in subdirectory \DATA on D: drive and the others are located in the current directory. You configure EZX-WORD from the OPTIONS and the EZX-WORD main menu selections. Configuring lets you have the same margins, colors, and other options appear each time you start EZX-WORD. If you don't configure, EZX-WORD will use the default options built into EZX-WORD.EXE. You can change the options any time you wish, even while in the middle of editing a document. See the CONFIGURING EZX-WORD section, for additional information, such as how to use different configurations for your special documents. 3. You can also specify a group of files, like this: EZXW A:*.DOC This tells EZX-Word to display a list of file names in drive A matching the file name *.DOC. You can then pick one file to edit from a directory listing showing all files with the extension of .DOC. @CP 5 ╔════════════════════╗ ║GETTING ON-LINE HELP║ ╚════════════════════╝ EZX-WORD provides online, context-sensitive help covering virtually all of its features when you press the help key, F1. The term context-sensitive simply means that, when you request help, the text shown on screen will correspond to the command or feature you are using. ╔═════════════════════════╗ ║ENTERING AND EDITING TEXT║ ╚═════════════════════════╝ You enter text like on a typewriter, but you can correct errors, move words or paragraphs and edit your document until satisfied. Then, you save it and send it to the printer for a paper copy. You enter text at the location of the cursor. The cursor is either in INSERT or OVERWRITE status. In INSERT, any entries push the text to the right of the cursor to make room for the new material. In OVERWRITE, the new text writes over any existing material it finds. You change from one to the other with the INS key. You create paragraph breaks by pressing the ENTER key when in INS status. Editing lets you correct mistakes, break apart or combine paragraphs, copy and move text blocks, find and replace text strings and insert predefined commands or text called "macros". This powerful tool has made the typewriter obsolete. ╔═══════════════════════════════╗ ║MOVING THE CURSOR AND SCROLLING║ ╚═══════════════════════════════╝ You are able to move the cursor around the document without altering the text. The cursor can be moved with a key on the cursor pad or with a "command key" from the key board. For example, to move the cursor one character to the right, press the Right arrow key or Ctrl-D from the keyboard. The cursor movement choices are: WHERE TO GO WHAT KEY TO PRESS ─────────── ───────────────── Top of form............................ Ctrl-Home Bottom of form......................... Ctrl-End Character left......................... Left arrow Character right........................ Right arrow Word left.............................. Ctrl-Left arrow Word right............................. Ctrl-Right arrow Line up................................ Up arrow Line down.............................. Down arrow Scroll up.............................. Ctrl-W Scroll down............................ Ctrl-Z Page up................................ PgUp Page down.............................. PgDn Beginning of line...................... Home End of line............................ End Tab.................................... Tab Backward tab........................... SHIFT-Tab ╔═══════════════╗ ║THE MENU SYSTEM║ ╚═══════════════╝ You can access most of EZX-WORD's features through the main menu system. To activate the main menu bar press F10 or ESC. You can then select a menu item either by using the arrow keys to move the selection bar to your choice or by pressing the highlighted capital letter of your choice. The main menu looks like this at the top of your screen: ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ File Window Text Block Goto Search Options EZX-Word │ └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ Once you've selected an item by pressing the ENTER key, a pull-down menu will be displayed. To exit or back out from any of the pull-downs, or the main menu itself, press the ESC key. You will notice that several of the option names in the pull-downs end with two periods (..), which means one of two things. It means that there is either another pull-down menu with more choices, or it may mean that you will be prompted for more information (usually the name of a file). You will also notice in the lower left of the screen a command that changes as you move the selection bar from item to item. This is the the COMMAND KEY. You may enter a command from the keyboard instead of using the menu selection system even if the command is not shown in the lower left corner. For a complete listing of these commands, see the "COMMAND KEY SUMMARY" section. @CP 12 ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ FILE Window Text Block Goto Search Options EZX-Word │ ├─────────────┬──────────────────────────────────────────────┘ │ Open.. │ │ Close │ │ Save │ │ Write to.. │ │ Print │ │ Get info │ │ Quit │ └─────────────┘ FILE lets you open, close, save, or write to another file name, print the file, get information on the file or quit the file. * When you are prompted for a file name, you will see the name of the last file entered. You can accept it by pressing ENTER, or you can enter a new file name. You can specify any legal file name, including a drive and/or path. If you enter a wild card ( * ), *.DOC for example, you will see a listing of all the files ending with DOC. Wild cards are described in your DOS manual. Pressing ESC will cancel the command. * When existing files are saved, EZX-WORD automatically creates a backup copy of the file. The old file becomes the backup and the file on the screen becomes the working copy. Backup files are given a .BAK extension. Don't specify file names with the .BAK extension to edit since they are not used for editing. If you wish to edit a BAK file, it is a good idea to copy it to another name first. For example, copy the BAK file as a TXT file from the DOS prompt: COPY YEARPLAN.BAK YEARPLAN.TXT ──── OPEN ──── Opens an additional text window. You will be asked for a file to edit; if you do not enter one, NONAME is the default name. You should SAVE it with a file name of your choice using the WRITE TO menu choice. If you don't name it, additional windows can not be opened. ───── CLOSE ───── Closes the current window. If the file has been edited, you are asked whether you want to abandon the changes or save the file with changes you have made. ──── SAVE ──── Saves the file. If you opened with a "master" file, be sure to WRITE TO a new file name as soon as possible or you will change your master file, which may not be what you intended to do. ──────── Write to ──────── Asks you for a file name, then saves the file to the name you just chose. This becomes the new name for the file in the window (or windows). This command is particularly useful when using master files you want to use again. ───── PRINT ───── EZX-WORD has a wide range of printing options. This menu choice gives your most common printing options. The section "ADVANCED FEATURES" has additional printer commands. The EZX-WORD distribution disk contains printer files with the extension ".PDF" (for Printer Definition File). These files store information about commands for a specific printer manufacturer and model. There are too many different printers on the market to include all of them with this program, so only a couple of the most common ones are included. If your printer is not among those supplied on the program disk, you may wish to create your own printer definition file. See the section ADVANCED FEATURES to build a custom printer definition file. EZX-WORD will normally print a document as a background task (printing while you are performing other EZX-WORD tasks), but can also print a document as a foreground task. If there is no activity at the keyboard, EZX-WORD moves printing out of the background and into the foreground. It then prints the file at a higher speed until you enter something on the keyboard. You can stop a print job by going to the PRINT option found under FILE and then answer "Y" to the "Abort Printing?" prompt. The PRINT option gives you a pull-down menu with the following choices: * PRINT FILE NOW: Start printing the document. * NAME OF FILE: The document to be printed. * AUTO FORMATTING: Ignore any special formatting commands entered with an @ symbol and a two letter code for all margins, headers, footers, and font commands if this option is OFF. * FIRST PAGE: Enter the number of the first page to be printed. * LAST PAGE: Enter the number of the last page to be printed. file (The maximum number of pages allowed in a document is 4,095). * WHICH PRINTER: Select the printer definition file (.PDF). * DEVICE: Select where the output should go. Your choices are File, LPT1, or LPT2. If your printer is attached to a parallel port, enter LPT1 or LPT2, whichever one is in use. If you have a serial printer, use the DOS "MODE" command to redirect output. For example, you would type, MODE LPT1=COM1 or: MODE LPT1=COM2 (if COM1 already in use) Consult your DOS manual for more details on MODE commands. If you select FILE as the output device, you must specify the name of a file and the output will appear as a file with that name. * MANUAL PAPER FEED: When OFF, output goes to the printer continuously. When ON, you insert a new sheet of paper each time the end of page is reached. This is handy when using letter head stationary or if you want to print close to the bottom of the paper. * USE FORM FEEDS: When ON, a form feed is sent to the printer when it reaches the end and a blank page is added to the end of the document. When OFF, blank lines fill out the remainder of the last page. * EDIT PRINTER CODES: You edit the strings of characters sent to the printer for each print job, changing fonts, margins, headers, etc. For example, If you need to insert a control character (Ctrl-M, the the ENTER key, for example), you press SCROLL LOCK to turn literal interpretation ON, ENTER to insert the ENTER character, and SCROLL LOCK to turn literal interpretation OFF again. * SAVE PRINTER SETUP: Saves the printer codes you just entered to a separate file name so you can use them again. The settings for FORMFEED mode and PAPER PAUSE are also saved. When you have finished selecting your print options, go to the "PRINT FILE NOW" option and press ENTER. To cancel the print request press ESC. @CP 3 ──────── GET INFO ──────── Shows you statistics about the document being edited, as well as some information about your computer system. You can stop this at any time by pressing any key as the word count could take several seconds when you are in a large document. ──── QUIT ──── If the file has not been edited, the window is closed. If the file has been edited, you can abandon or save the changes before leaving EZX-WORD. @CP 12 ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ File WINDOW Text Block Goto Search Options EZX-Word │ └────┬───────────┬───────────────────────────────────────────┘ │ Go to.. │ │ Zoom │ │ Previous │ │ Next │ │ Resize │ └───────────┘ A WINDOW is a view of part of a document, usually 25 lines of text. You can open a second window using another file or it can be another part of the file you are currently editing. For example, you could open a window to show the table of contents so you could keep track of major topics and page numbers as you jump from one window to another and move words or paragraphs back and forth. EZX-WORD's WINDOW has the following features: * up to six open windows at a time. * a WINDOW occupying fewer than seven screen lines (counting the status and tab lines) cannot be split. * You can open a window on another part of the same file by going to the FILE OPEN command and specifying the same name as the currently open file. ──── GOTO ──── A list of the open windows. You choose the one you want. ──── ZOOM ──── Fills either the screen with one window when you toggle ZOOM ON or multiple windows at the same time if you toggle ZOOM OFF. The " Z " symbol appears in the top left corner of the status line if you are in ZOOM ON. @CP 3 ──────── PREVIOUS ──────── Moves back to the previous window. ──── NEXT ──── Moves to the next window. ────── RESIZE ────── Changes the size of the window. You can adjust the vertical size by the Up and Down arrow keys. ENTER or ESC returns you to editing. @CP 12 ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ File Window TEXT Block Goto Search Options EZX-Word │ └──────────┬──────────────────┬──────────────────────────────┘ │ Format paragraph │ │ Temporary margin │ │ Margin release │ │ Attribute │ │ Center line │ │ Set marker.. │ │ Restore line │ │ Undelete │ └──────────────────┘ The TEXT menu is for formatting your text. ──────────────── FORMAT PARAGRAPH ──────────────── Rearranges words from the current line to the end of the paragraph within the left and right margins. The left margin is determined by the location of the first character in the line. For example, if the first character is in column 20, the paragraph will assume column 20 as the left margin. If you chose a line in the middle of a paragraph, the lines above are ignored and you format from the cursor to the end of the paragraph. The margins are indicated by the default margin shown on the status line above. If you want to use your default left margin, be sure to move the text on the current line over to left margin or you will end up with some unusual left margins in the paragraph. This feature was designed to let you rapidly reformat paragraphs and lines with varied first columns. RIGHT-JUSTIFICATION ON evenly pads the spaces in the lines until the last character on the line touches the right margin. This is commonly seen in newspapers and magazines. The end of a paragraph is defined by a blank line below the last character or by a line containing the print formatting command ( @ ) in column 1 of the line below. ──────────────── TEMPORARY MARGIN ──────────────── Moves the left margin one TAB stop to the right. This temporary margin is only for the current paragraph. The TEMPORARY MARGIN works only if WORDWRAP and FIXED TABS are ON. When the TAB LINE is ON, the TEMPORARY MARGIN is indicated by an arrow located to the left of column 1 pointing to the right. ────────────── MARGIN RELEASE ────────────── Temporarily lets you type beyond the default right margin. It works only for the line you are currently in. ───────── ATTRIBUTE ───────── Is a pull-down menu to select the font or fonts you wish to use. You select fonts by inserting special control characters recognized by your printer into a document. For example, you can mix BOLD, SUBSCRIPT, ITALICS, COMPRESSED and other fonts within the same document, if you printer will support it. If TOGGLE FONT DISPLAY is ON, the screen display shows each font chosen by a specific color for that font. To change the font, first mark the section as a block. Go to the TEXT option, then to ATTRIBUTE option and select your choice. You can assign a different color to each font displayed by going to OPTIONS on the main menu and then to COLORS for your choices. When you exit back to the edit mode by pressing ESC three times, you will see the highlighted block in a different color. If no block is marked or if it is hidden, EZX-WORD inserts a pair of control characters at the cursor's position, and then places the cursor between them. As long as the cursor remains between the two control characters, text entered will be displayed in the selected font. The font characters are still there, so when the cursor happens to be below one of these characters, a special symbol is shown at the right edge of the STATUS LINE. For example, if the cursor is within a block marked as BOLD, Ctrl-B is shown. When TOGGLE FONT DISPLAY is OFF, these characters are shown as highlighted uppercase characters, although they will not appear when the document is printed. When you want to remove, copy or delete font choices, they are treated in the same way as any other character. You can not edit font choices if TOGGLE FONT DISPLAY is ON. The fonts are as follows: * BOLD.................................... ALT-B * DOUBLE.................................. ALT-D * UNDERSCORE.............................. ALT-S * SUPERSCRIPT............................. ALT-H * SUBSCRIPT............................... ALT-L * COMPRESSED.............................. ALT-C * ITALICS................................. ALT-I * WHICH FONT?............................. Ctrl-OC (Shows the font in effect at the cursor's position) ─────────── CENTER LINE ─────────── Centers the current line within the left and right margins. ────────── SET MARKER ────────── Sets one of the ten text markers at the current position of the cursor. Ctrl-K1 sets marker 1, Ctrl-K2 sets marker 2, etc. Go to any previously set marker with Ctrl-Qm where m is the number of the marker. ──────────── RESTORE LINE ──────────── Undo all changes made to a line of text as long as you have not left the line. ──────── UNDELETE ──────── Restores lines deleted with the DELETE LINE command or the DELETE BLOCK command. It will not restore single characters or words. @CP 12 ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ File Window Text BLOCK Goto Search Options EZX-Word │ └─────────────────────┬─────────┬────────────────────────────┘ │ Begin │ │ End │ │ Hide │ │ Copy │ │ Move │ │ Delete │ │ Write.. │ │ Read.. │ │ Format │ └─────────┘ The BLOCK menu manipulates marked blocks of text. A block is any arbitrarily defined unit of text you choose. A block can be as small as a single character or as large as an entire file. Mark a block by placing a BEGIN BLOCK marker at the first character in the desired block, and an END BLOCK marker just beyond the last character. Once marked, the block can be copied, moved, deleted, or written to another file. The HIDE BLOCK command removes the block color so that it looks like the rest of the document. The block is still marked and the color can be restored by entering HIDE BLOCK again. ───── BEGIN ───── Marks the beginning of a block. The block becomes visible only when the END BLOCK marker is entered. ─── END ─── Marks the end of a block. ──── HIDE ──── Toggles the MARKED BLOCK colors OFF and ON. Some block options work only when the block is visible, but the block related cursor movement commands work anytime. ──── COPY ──── Copy a block to the current cursor position. The new block will push the remaining text to the right or down to make room. The original block is left unchanged. ──── MOVE ──── Moves a block from its current position to the cursor position. The gap in the former position is filled up by the text that followed. Add or delete spaces to align the moved block within the new location. @CP 4 ────── DELETE ────── Deletes a block. Although UNDO LAST DELETION can usually restore portions of an accidentally deleted block, you can not restore a complete block, so USE DELETE WITH CARE! ───── WRITE ───── Copy a block to another file. If the file already exists, you can either overwrite it or add the block to the end of it. If the file does not exist, a new file is created. ──── READ ──── Reads another file into the document at the cursor's current position exactly as if it were a COPY or MOVE BLOCK command. ────── FORMAT ────── Reformats all paragraphs within the currently marked block to fit within the default left and right margins. ───────────── TOP OF SCREEN ───────────── Moves the cursor up to the first line in the window. ──────────────── MARK SINGLE WORD ──────────────── Marks a single word as a block. If the cursor is within a word, that word will be marked. If it is not within a word, then the word to the right of the cursor will be marked. The left word will be marked if there is no word to the right of the cursor. @CP 12 ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ File Window Text Block GOTO Search Options EZX-Word │ └─────────────────────────┬─────────────────┬────────────────┘ │ Page number.. │ │ Line number.. │ │ Column number.. │ │ Top of file │ │ Marker.. │ │ Start of block │ │ End of block │ └─────────────────┘ The GOTO menu is for cursor movement. ─────────── PAGE NUMBER ─────────── If PAGINATION is ON, you go to the first line of the chosen page. @CP 4 ─────────── LINE NUMBER ─────────── Moves the cursor to the specified line. Line numbers are counted from the first line of the file. Lines can number from 1 to 32,767. If the value is preceded by a plus (+) or minus (-) sign, the line number will be calculated up or down from the current cursor location. ───────────── COLUMN NUMBER ───────────── Moves the cursor to the specified column of the current line. Columns can number from 1 to 999. If the value is preceded by a plus (+) or minus (-) sign, the column number will be calculated left or right from the current cursor location. ─────────── TOP OF FILE ─────────── Moves the cursor to the first character in the first line. ────────────── BOTTOM OF FILE ────────────── Moves the cursor to the last character in the last line. ────── MARKER ────── A pull-down window shows all the markers, the files they are in, and the number of the line containing the marker. A marker works just like a book marker and is used to move around in a file (or between files and windows) without having to search for the spot each time. You place a marker in a place you want to return to often, such as a table of contents. Markers never appear in the printed document. ────────────── START OF BLOCK ────────────── Moves the cursor to the BLOCK BEGIN mark. This works even if the block is hidden or the BLOCK END marker is not set. ──────────── END OF BLOCK ──────────── Moves the cursor to the BLOCK END mark. @CP 12 ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ File Window Text Block Goto SEARCH Options EZX-Word │ └──────────────────────────────────┬─────────────┬───────────┘ │ Find │ │ Replace.. │ │ Use macro.. │ │ Again │ └─────────────┘ Find and replace character strings with new strings. This allows you to make extensive changes throughout the document with a few key strokes. ──── FIND ──── Search for a string of up to 67 characters. You can search for the previously entered string or you can enter a new one. Cancel a search with ESC. Ctrl-P can be used to enter control characters. For example, to find a period at the end of a line, you would enter Ctrl-P and then Ctrl-M. After the search string is entered, you must chose options. The options you used last are shown. You can enter new options, edit the current options, or select them again. The options are: B - Search backwards from the cursor position toward the beginning of the file. G - Search globally. The entire file is scanned for the search string, regardless of the current position of the cursor. L - Limit search to the currently marked block. n - Find the nth occurrence of the string (overridden by the L option). U - Ignore case, upper or lower W - Search for whole words only; skips matching patterns embedded within words. If the document contains a match to the search string, the match is highlighted and the cursor is positioned just beyond it. ─────── REPLACE ─────── This is the same as FIND except you can replace the string with any other string (up to 67 characters). After entering the SEARCH string, you enter the REPLACE WITH string. The last replacement string entered may be accepted, edited, or a new string entered. The OPTIONS used last are displayed. You may enter new options, edit the current options, or select them. ───────── USE MACRO ───────── Searches for a string, moves the cursor to to the first character of the string and then executes the commands in the macro. After entering the SEARCH string, a menu of your macros is displayed. Select your macro or cancel by pressing ESC. The OPTIONS used last are shown. You may enter new options, edit the current options, or select them. The OPTIONS are the same as for FIND AND REPLACE. Use the ABORT command to cancel. SEARCH AND APPLY commands, for example, can be run from inside a macro so it is possible to create an almost unlimited interacting group of commands. Two examples of such macros are included in the EZXW.MAC file (numbers 8 and 9), and they may give you some ideas for your own macros. See them by pressing F10, then E for EZX-WORD, M for Macros, E for Edit, then 8 or 9. ───── AGAIN ───── Repeats the last SEARCH operation (FIND or FIND AND REPLACE). @CP 12 ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ File Window Text Block Goto Search OPTIONS EZX-Word │ └───────────────────────────────────────┬────────────────────┤ │ Margins.. │ │ Format options.. │ │ Tabs.. │ │ Display options │ │ Load file options..│ │ Colors.. │ │ Save setup │ └────────────────────┘ OPTIONS sets format and screen display features. ─────── MARGINS ─────── Is a pull-down menu to set screen or printing page margins and page length. * LEFT Sets the left margin. * RIGHT Sets the right margin. * TOP Sets the default top margin. * BOTTOM Sets the default bottom margin. * PAGE LENGTH Sets the default numbers of lines per page. ────────────── FORMAT OPTIONS ────────────── A pull-down menu to control the way text is entered and/or formatted on the screen. The ENTER key will change the toggle from one option to the other. When satisfied with the choice, press ESC. * JUSTIFY If ON, the last character in each line touches the right margin with blank spaces inserted in the line. Right-justification ON automatically turns on WORDWRAP. * WORDWRAP If wordwrap is ON, EZX-WORD will insert a line break just before the word you are currently typing over the right margin, and move the word to the next line. WORD WRAP OFF also turns off right-justification. * AUTO INDENT When Autoindent mode is ON, ENTER will move the cursor down to the next row below the first non blank character in the line above. * INSERT MODE Selects INSERT or OVERWRITE mode. In INSERT mode, text to the right of the cursor is moved to the right as new text is entered. In OVERWRITE mode, any text to the right of the cursor is overwritten when new text is entered. Notice that the cursor's size tells you which mode you are in: A blinking line indicates OVERWRITE, while a blinking block indicates INSERT. Display Options/Options disables the Block cursor difference. Use INSERT mode to create new paragraphs and additional blank lines. While editing a document, you can change from one to the other at any time with the INS key. * PAGE BREAKS Turns PAGINATION ON and adds two first columns to the display to show automatic page-break markers ( >> >> ). You may not wish to have a page break in the middle of a paragraph, so you can see where to shift text so that the page break occurs in a blank area. For example, if PAGE LENGTH is 55 lines, you see the page-break markers every 55 lines. Note that the LINE NO. in the status line changes to LINE 1 when the cursor crosses over an automatic page break. You can enter a manual page break by entering the command Ctrl-PL. Hold down the Ctrl key and hit P then L and then release the Ctrl key. You will see the highlighted letter "L" in the first column indicating a page break. Manual page breaks do not affect the page numbering between the automatic page-break markers. * COMPRESS WRAP When Compress wrap is OFF, EZX-WORD will not remove spaces in a line when it is in word wrap. When EZX-WORD normally wraps or reformats text that falls beyond the right margin, excess blanks are compressed from the current line. This will remove one of the two spaces after a period! Previously right-justified text can be reformatted to remove the padding spaces. You may not want to remove some desired spaces, such as two spaces after the end of a sentence or those used for aligning columns of figures in a table. COMPRESS WRAP toggle ON will keep these desired spaces. ──── TABS ──── A pull-down menu for tabulation. EZX-WORD has two kinds of tabs: FIXED TABS and SMART TABS. FIXED TABS ────────── Are like the tab stops on a typewriter: You set them once, and they remain the same until you change them. By default, fixed tabs are ON and smart tabs are OFF. To change the locations of the stops when using fixed tabs, use SET TAB SIZE, EDIT TAB LINE, or SET TAB LINE. SMART TABS ────────── See the first letter in each word on the previous line and consider it a tab stop. Smart tabs are particularly useful when creating tables, columns of numbers or writing source code for computer programs. * SET TABS Sets tab stops at each word on the current line. This is particularly useful when entering information in columns. * PUT TABS Saves the current tab stops and margin settings inside the document itself as a reference. To insure that it will be ignored when printing and reformatting, an @ sign is automatically placed in column 1. You can modify these settings later by moving the cursor to this line and issuing the SET TAB line command. * RESTORE TABS Cancels any special tab settings specified with the SET TAB LINE or EDIT TAB LINE commands, and restores evenly spaced FIXED TABS. * EDIT TABS If FIXED TABS are ON, you can change the location of each tab stop. Pressing the space bar inserts or removes tab stops at the position of the cursor. the new tab stop entries or you can add new stops with the INS key and delete stops with the DEL key. The Left and Right arrow keys move the cursor along the tab line; TAB moves it to the next stop; HOME moves it to the first stop; and END moves it to the last one. When finished, return to normal editing mode by pressing ENTER to keep the changes or ESC to cancel them. * DISPLAY TABS Turns the tab line ON or OFF. The tab line shows you all tab stops and the default left and right margins. Turning ON the tab line turns on FIXED TABS. * TAB SIZE Sets the default tab size for FIXED TABS. ───────────────── LOAD FILE OPTIONS ───────────────── Allow you to customize EZX-WORD to fit your particular needs, or as to take advantage of your computer features. These changes are temporarily. * HOME DIRECTORY Tells EZX-WORD where the optional support files are. * MAIN DICTIONARY Tells EZX-WORD the dictionary currently being used. Registered users will have multiple dictionaries to choose from. * FILE EXTENSION The default file name extension. This extension is automatically added if the file lacks an extension. For example, if you have set the default extension to .DOC and want EZX-WORD to load SAMPLE.DOC when the program starts, you can enter EZXW SAMPLE. * EXPAND TABS Converts TABS to spaces when reading a file created with other editors. Tab size is set with the SET TAB SIZE command. * WRITE TABS When WRITE TABS is ON, EZX-WORD converts strings of blanks to tabs when a file is written to disk. This is intended to save disk space. This is handy for indented programming languages like Pascal, C and Assembler. * TOGGLE STRIP HI-BIT Strips high-order bits created by editors which use the eighth (highest) bit in a byte to store information. This option also tells EZX-WORD to convert their "dot" printing commands to EZX-WORD @ commands. Note: this process is irreversible, BE CAREFUL. * UNDO LIMIT Sets the size of the "undo buffer," which stores deleted lines. The default value is 20 lines. ─────────────── DISPLAY OPTIONS ─────────────── A pull-down menu to manage the screen display. Options activate or deactivate features that you may find helpful. None of these commands directly affects the documents you are editing. * SNOW CONTROL EZX-WORD can avoid the annoying screen interference known as SNOW on Color Graphic Adapters (CGA). Enhanced Graphics Adapters (EGA) and many of the newer color adapters do not have this problem. If you don't experience this problem either, then turn snow prevention OFF to improve EZX-WORD's screen display change speed. Monochrome adapters are unaffected by snow. * BLOCK CURSOR Replaces the blinking cursor you normally see with a non blinking block. The appearance of the block cursor can be changed with the SET COLORS command. This change is temporary and is restored to normal when you leave EZX-WORD. * 43 LINE MODE Activates the special 43-line display mode available on an Enhanced Graphics Adapter (EGA) or 50-lines on a VGA system. The display is restored to the normal 25-line mode when you leave EZX-WORD. * FONT DISPLAY Turns the font display ON and OFF. If ON, you see the font choices in color. If it is OFF, you see the control characters themselves. * KEY HELP The primary commands associated with menu choices are displayed on the prompt line as you scroll through the lists of choices. This feature is intended to help you learn the shortcut commands for menu items. You can use these commands instead of the menu choices if you wish. * ZOOM STATE If ON, a windows is zoomed to fill the screen when it is opened. * TOGGLE MARKER DISPLAY Hides or reveals all text markers. ────── COLORS ────── Changes the colors used for text windows, status lines, pull-down menus, etc. Select the color you want by moving the selection bar with the arrow keys, then press ENTER. The items available for color choices are displayed, and the current setting is marked with a snowflake character ( * ). You can change the setting by moving the snowflake with the arrow keys. As it moves, the item name changes color. When satisfied, press ENTER. Press ESC to cancel any changes. ────────── SAVE SETUP ────────── Saves the current configuration settings as the DEFAULT, including items you have not changed. Be sure to specify the drive and directory where EZX-WORD's support files are located (refer to the section on CONFIGURING EZX-WORD for details). @CP 12 ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ File Window Text Block Goto Search Options EZX-WORD │ └───────────────────────────────────────┬────────────────────┤ │ Spelling check │ │ Macros.. │ │ Display Directory..│ │ Change directory.. │ │ Operating system │ │ Help │ └────────────────────┘ EZX-WORD is a menu of miscellaneous commands. ────────────── SPELLING CHECK ────────────── EZX-WORD can spell-check your document using its built-in spelling checker. EZX-WORD checks the document in the current window. By default, spell checking proceeds from the current cursor position to the end of the file. If a block is marked and visible, only that block will be checked. Once spell-check begins, EZX-WORD tracks progress on the status line. The line and column counters and the % marker tell you what part of the document is being checked. When an unrecognized word is found, a pull-down menu shows you your options: * SKIP ONCE Ignores the spelling of this word. * IGNORE FOR THIS DOCUMENT Ignores the spelling of this word throughout the document. * EDIT FROM KEYBOARD Corrects the spelling of the word, displayed in a prompt box. You can edit the word, or press ESC to return to the previous menu. The spelling of the word you enter is rechecked to be correct. * MARK WITH "~" Places a tilde ( ~ ) in front of the word. After the document has been check, you can use the FIND command to locate the marked words. These marks will not appear when the document is printed. * ADD TO DICTIONARY Adds the word to EZX-WORD's auxiliary dictionary. This feature is useful for building a special dictionary for technical or other words not commonly found in a desktop dictionary. * BATCH MARK REST OF DOCUMENT Marks all unrecognized words found when checking spelling. From this point on, all unrecognized words are marked with tildes ( ~ ). You can stop the spell-checking operation at any time by pressing any key. You are then asked if you want to stop or not. Press Y to stop, N to continue. * 0-9 Sound-alike words are listed from EZX-WORD's built in dictionary. You can scroll through the list and if you find a word to replace the current one, replace it by pressing ENTER. If no word is found, press ESC to return to the previous menu. ────── MACROS ────── You could spend a good deal of time performing repetitive tasks when editing a document. For example, Secretaries write look-alike business letters, programmers compose programs with varied margins and repeated subroutines, and so on. The answer to this sort of drudgery is the macro: a single command or keystroke that, when "played back," can simulate the entry of many keystrokes at the keyboard. EZX-WORD allows you to record, edit, save, and restore up to ten macros, each containing up to 255 keystrokes. You can have as many macro files as your disks will hold, but only one file of ten macros can be kept in memory at a time. * LOAD MACROS Load a file of previously saved macros. * STORE MACROS Saves the current macros in a file name you specify. * PLAYBACK Plays back the macro you select. * RECORD Turns macro recording ON or OFF. When macro recording is ON, all subsequent keystrokes (up to the 255-keystroke limit) are saved until macro recording is turned OFF again. Once the macro is recorded, you are asked to select a macro number to store it under. * EDIT Allows you to edit previously saved macros. EZX-WORD has a special editing program designed for working with macros. Some keys are slightly different than the EZX-WORD editing keys. Regular keystrokes are shown as normal characters without highlighting. You are asked to select a macro number and a name for the macro to edit. Then you are in the macro editor. Several keys serve special purposes: * Ctrl-BACKSPACE deletes an entire macro; * ESC restores the macro to its previous state; * the ENTER key takes you out of the macro editor. * The SCROLL LOCK acts as a toggle, turning literal interpretation of keystrokes on and off. For example, if you wanted to assign a macro to the ENTER key or the BACKSPACE key, you would first press SCROLL LOCK. Pressing it again would restore all special keys to their previous functions. * INSERT SCRAP MACRO plays back the scrap macro (macro 0) a prompted number of times (1 to 9). The "scrap macro" is always the same as the last macro that was recorded. * INSERT MACRO plays back the specified macro one time. ALT-1 plays back macro 1, ALT-2 macro 2, and so on. ───────────────── DISPLAY DIRECTORY ───────────────── Shows you a directory listing. At the prompt box you may enter a "wild card" ( * ); for example: C:\LETTERS\*.DOC shows you all the files in subdirectory LETTERS on drive C that have the extension .DOC. If a drive or path is not specified, the default directory is assumed. Once a wild card has been entered, all files matching the search criteria will be displayed in sorted order in a pull-down window. See your DOS manual for additional information on wild cards. If the window is too small for all the file names, you can scroll through the list using PgUp and PgDn keys. HOME scrolls to the first file in the list, and END scrolls to the last file. Pressing an alphabetic key (A through Z) will move the selection bar to the first name that starts with that letter; if none of the names start with that letter, the selection bar moves to the closest match. ──────────────── CHANGE DIRECTORY ──────────────── Changes the active drive and directory. You can enter a drive and path or, if you have a hard disk, you can specify the file wild card and choose a new path from a directory listing. For example: C:\*.* shows you a list of all the sub-directories that branch from the root directory on drive C. ──────────────── OPERATING SYSTEM ──────────────── Gives you access to DOS commands or to other programs from inside EZX-WORD. When EZX-WORD temporarily exits to MS-DOS, the DOS prompt is modified to indicate that a EZX-WORD shell is active. At the prompt, enter a DOS command just as you would at the DOS prompt; for example typing "dir" execute the DOS "dir" command. To return to EZX-WORD, type EXIT at the DOS command line and you will be right back where you started in EZX-WORD. If you've been editing several files at once or one very large file, however, the amount of memory available may not be sufficient for your other program even if you have closed all but a single text window. If you are running EZX-WORD on a floppy based system you should note that there must be a copy of COMMAND.COM on the same drive and directory that DOS was originally loaded from. If you want to execute a program (as opposed to a simple DOS command like DIR), a copy of that program must be available on the currently logged drive and directory. It would probably be easier if you saved the file, exit EZX-WORD, run your program(s) and then load EZX-WORD again. WARNING: Do not load a memory resident program while in the DOS shell. You could create conflicts that could stop the program. ──── HELP ──── General help is available both when you are in the menu system and when you are editing. By selecting E for EZX-WORD and then H for HELP at the main menu, or by pressing F1, you can invoke a menu of topics on which help is available. Move the selection bar to the desired topic and press ENTER to get information. @CP 5 ╔═══════════════════╗ ║COMMAND KEY SUMMARY║ ╚═══════════════════╝ Ctrl, ALT, ESC and SHIFT are keys found on your keyboard. When used in combination with a specific letter or number they are an alternative to using the Menu selections. This is an especially powerful tool for the touch typist as all commands are within easy reach on the keyboard. It is done by holding down the first key and then pressing the second key. In the case of three keys, such as Ctrl-KK, hold down Ctrl and press K; let off of both keys and finish with pressing the final K. SHIFT-F1 means that F1 key should be pressed while you hold down a SHIFT key, and ALT-F1 means to press the F1 key at the same time as ALT. Cursor movement commands are as follows: WHERE TO GO WHAT KEY TO PRESS ─────────── ───────────────── Character left................. Left arrow or Ctrl-S Character right................ Right arrow or Ctrl-D Word left...................... Ctrl-Left arrow or Ctrl-A Word right..................... Ctrl-Right arrow or Ctrl-F Line up........................ Up arrow or Ctrl-E Line down...................... Down arrow or Ctrl-X Scroll up...................... Ctrl-W Scroll down.................... Ctrl-Z Page up........................ PgUp or Ctrl-R Page down...................... PgDn or Ctrl-C Beginning of line.............. Home or Ctrl-QS End of line.................... End or Ctrl-QD Tab............................ Tab or Ctrl-I Backward Tab................... SHIFT-Tab BASIC EDITING COMMANDS: ────────────────────── New line....................... Enter or Ctrl-M Insert line.................... Ctrl-N Delete current character....... Del or Ctrl-G Delete character left.......... Backspace or Ctrl-H Delete word.................... Ctrl-T Delete to end of line.......... Ctrl-QY Delete line.................... Ctrl-Y Activate menus................. F10 or ESC Abort command.................. Ctrl-U MENU COMMANDS: ───────────── FILE/ Open........................... Ctrl-OA Close.......................... F9 Save........................... Ctrl-KS Write to....................... Ctrl-KN or F2 Print.......................... Ctrl-KP Get info....................... Ctrl-JV Quit........................... Ctrl-KQ Edit another file.............. F3 Save/switch files.............. Ctrl-KD Save and exit to DOS........... Ctrl-KX @CP 6 WINDOW/ Goto........................... Ctrl-JW Zoom........................... Ctrl-OZ or F5 Previous....................... Ctrl-OP or SHIFT-F6 Next........................... Ctrl-ON or F6 Resize......................... Ctrl-OS TEXT/ Format paragraph............... Ctrl-B Temporary margin............... Ctrl-OG Margin release................. Ctrl-OX Attribute../ Bold................... ALT-B Double................. ALT-D Underscore............. ALT-S Superscript............ ALT-T Subscript.............. ALT-V Compressed............. ALT-A Italic................. ALT-N Which font?............ Ctrl-JF Center line.................... Ctrl-OC Set marker.. Restore line................... Ctrl-QL Undelete....................... Ctrl-QU Set marker 0..9................ Ctrl-K0..Ctrl-K9 Insert control character....... Ctrl-P Delete line (no undo).......... Ctrl-QT Set temp margin to cursor...... Ctrl-OH or F4 Toggle case.................... Ctrl-OO Lower case..................... Ctrl-OV Upper case..................... Ctrl-OU Insert undo buffer............. Ctrl-QV Flush undo buffer.............. Ctrl-QJ BLOCK/ Begin.......................... Ctrl-KB or F7 End............................ Ctrl-KK or F8 Hide........................... Ctrl-KH Copy........................... Ctrl-KC Move........................... Ctrl-KV Delete......................... Ctrl-KY Write.......................... Ctrl-KW Read........................... Ctrl-KR Format......................... Ctrl-KF Top of screen.................. Ctrl-Home or Ctrl-QE Bottom of screen............... Ctrl-End or Ctrl-QX Mark single word............... Ctrl-KT GOTO/ Page number.................... Ctrl-JP Line number.................... Ctrl-JL Column number.................. Ctrl-JC Top of file.................... Ctrl-PgUp or Ctrl-QR Bottom of file................. Ctrl-PgDn or Ctrl-QC Marker.. Start of block................. Ctrl-QB End of block................... Ctrl-QK Jump to marker 0..9............ Ctrl-Q0...Ctrl-Q9 Previous cursor position....... Ctrl-QP Up to equal indent............. Ctrl-JB Down to equal indent........... Ctrl-JE Next sentence.................. Ctrl-QZ Previous sentence.............. Ctrl-QW SEARCH/ Find........................... Ctrl-QF Replace........................ Ctrl-QA Use macro...................... Ctrl-QM Again.......................... Ctrl-L OPTIONS/ Margin.. Left................... Ctrl-OL Right.................. Ctrl-OR Format options.. Justify................ Ctrl-OJ Word wrap.............. Ctrl-OW Auto indent............ Ctrl-QI Insert mode............ INS or Ctrl-V Page breaks............ Ctrl-PL Tabs.. Set tabs............... Ctrl-OI Edit tabs.............. Ctrl-OE Display tabs........... Ctrl-OT Display options.. Font display........... Ctrl-OD Key help............... Ctrl-JK Zoom state Toggle marker display.. Ctrl-KM EZX-Word 3.0/ Spelling Check................. Ctrl-JS Macros.. Load macros Store macros Playback Record................. Ctrl-JT Edit Insert scrap macro..... Ctrl-JI Insert scrap macro (1..9 times) ........ Ctrl-J1..Ctrl-J9 Insert macro (1 - 9)... ALT-1...ALT-9 Directory Change directory............... Ctrl-JD Operating system............... Ctrl-JO Help........................... F1 Help Summary................... Ctrl-JH Show available memory...........Ctrl-JR COMMAND KEY COMMENTS: ───────────────────── EDIT ANOTHER FILE.......................F3 ───────────────── If the file in the current window has not been modified, the window is cleared, and you are prompted for a new file to edit in the same window. If the file has been modified, you can either abandon it or save it. SAVE/SWITCH FILES...................... CTRL-KD ───────────────── Saves the file in the current window. The window is then cleared, and you are prompted for a new file to edit in the same window. INSERT CONTROL CHARACTER............... Ctrl-P ──────────────────────── Allows control characters to be entered into the text. For example, pressing Ctrl-P and then Ctrl-L would insert a Ctrl-L (page break) into the text. Ordinary control characters are then displayed as a "selected" capital letter in the same colors you chose for a marked block. See the section on PRINT FORMATTING COMMANDS for more details. SET TEMPORARY MARGIN TO CURSOR......... Ctrl-OH or F4 ────────────────────────────── Same as the Set temporary margin command except that the left margin is set to the current position of the cursor instead of the next tab stop. TOGGLE CASE............................ Ctrl-OO ─────────── Changes the case of the character at the cursor. Uppercase letters are changed to lowercase and lower case are changed to uppercase. If the cursor is within a marked block, all characters in the block are changed. LOWER CASE............................. Ctrl-OV ────────── Same as TOGGLE CASE except that it changes the text to lowercase. UPPER CASE............................. Ctrl-OU ────────── Same as TOGGLE CASE except that it changes the text to uppercase. INSERT UNDO BUFFER..................... Ctrl-QV ────────────────── Inserts the entire contents of the undo buffer contents to the current line. FLUSH UNDO BUFFER...................... Ctrl-QJ ───────────────── Empties the undo buffer. JUMP TO MARKER......................... Ctrl-Q0..Ctrl-Q9 ────────────── Moves the cursor to one of the ten text markers created with the SET MARKER command. Ctrl-Q1 jumps to marker 1, Ctrl-Q2 jumps to marker 2, etc. PREVIOUS CURSOR POSITION............... Ctrl-QP ──────────────────────── Moves to the last cursor position. This is used to move back to the previous position after a FIND or FIND AND REPLACE operation. UP TO EQUAL INDENT..................... Ctrl-JB ────────────────── Moves the cursor up to the beginning of the previous line at the same indentation as the current line. For example, if the first non blank character in the current line is at column 10, the cursor is moved up to the next line that also begins at column 10. DOWN TO EQUAL INDENT................... Ctrl-JE ──────────────────── Moves the cursor down to the next line at the same indentation as the current line. NEXT SENTENCE.......................... Ctrl-QZ ───────────── Moves the cursor down to the beginning of the next sentence. A sentence is ended by a period, semicolon, question mark, exclamation mark, or blank line. Any print formatting command is treated as the beginning of a sentence. PREVIOUS SENTENCE...................... Ctrl-QW ───────────────── The cursor is moved up to the beginning of the previous sentence. SHOW AVAILABLE MEMORY.................. Ctrl-JR ───────────────────── Shows you the amount of random access memory (RAM) not used yet. @CP 5 ╔═══════════╗ ║PAGE BREAKS║ ╚═══════════╝ Page break markers are shown at the very left side of the screen as double arrows ( »» ). This helps you see where a page break will occur so you can then either manually insert a page break or add blank lines around the page break. The location of these marks is determined by your choice of PAGE LENGTH. Manual page breaks do not change the number of lines between these page break markers. Enter a manual page break with the command Ctrl-PL. A manual page break will appear in the left margin as a highlighted "L". ╔════════════════════╗ ║CONFIGURING EZX-WORD║ ╚════════════════════╝ EZX-WORD will always look for its support files in this same drive and directory. If no home directory is specified, EZX-WORD will assume that its files are in the current drive and directory. Once you have EZX-WORD and your document loaded, you will need to specify a HOME DIRECTORY location of the dictionary, printer and other support files. EZX-WORD needs to find these files before editing your document. To set the HOME DIRECTORY, press F10 to get to the main menu. Then press O for Options, L for Load file options, and H for Home directory. Enter the name of the drive and directory where the EZX-WORD program and support files are located and press ENTER. To install the SPELLING DICTIONARY press M and then ENTER to choose from available dictionaries. The SMALL.DCT file included with EZXW has over 21,000 words available. Select the dictionary and press ENTER. Now press ESC to return to the Options menu and press S to SAVE your setup. If you want to modify the program keyboard command assignments before running EZX-WORD, run the keyboard configuration program EZXWKCFG.EXE. Because of space limitations, EZXWKCFG is included in the registered version only. ╔═══════════════╗ ║THE STATUS LINE║ ╚═══════════════╝ The bottom line of the editing window in EZX-WORD is set aside as a PROMPT line. Messages and instructions are displayed here. The top line of any editing window in EZX-WORD is always a STATUS line, and looks something like this: Z FILENAME.EXT 23% lINE 7 Col 25 Page 43 Over Wrap Justify [.....!.......!......!....................!........!....!...] The explanation of the items is as follows: Z ─── Indicates that the window has been ZOOMED to fill the screen. FILENAME.EXT ──────────── The name and extension of the file being edited. Although EZX-WORD accepts complete path designations - for example: C:\DOCS\SAMPLE.DOC The drive and path name will not be displayed on the status line. xx% ─── Indicates the position of the cursor relative to the last character in the file. In this example the cursor is at the 23% point. The last character in the file is at 100%. Line n ────── Shows the number of the line containing the cursor, counting from the start of the file. If the PAGE BREAKS option is ON, the line number displayed is relative to the top of the page. Col n ───── Shows the number of the column containing the cursor. Page n ────── Shows the page number for the line containing the cursor only if the PAGE BREAKS option is ON. Toggle pagination ON and OFF with the TOGGLE PAGINATION command. Insert ────── Shows whether INSERT or OVERWRITE mode is in effect. Indent ────── Shows if AUTOINDENT mode is in effect. Wrap ──── Shows if WORDWRAP is in effect. Justify ─────── Shows if RIGHT-JUSTIFICATION is in effect. Margin Release ────────────── Shows if MARGIN RELEASE has been used to temporarily override the left and right margin. This is seen in the location also used by "Wrap" and "Justify." R ─── Shows if the MACRO editor is ON. P ─── Shows if a print job is in progress. This is seen in the same location as the macro editor. When the TOGGLE TAB LINE is ON the second line in the window will show the current tab stops and left and right margins. Margins are [ and ] and the tab locations are ! . These lines show the current settings for EZX-WORD and change only when you change a setting from a menu selection or from the keyboard. ╔══════════════════════════╗ ║RECONFIGURING COMMAND KEYS║ ╚══════════════════════════╝ This function is only available in the registered version of EZX-WORD. To customize EZX-WORD, use the keyboard configuration program EZXWKCFG.EXE. You have the default set of primary commands shown throughout this manual and a secondary set. You can reconfigure EZX-WORD to use the commands of another word processor or editor of your choice. It is recommended that you build these commands in the SECONDARY set and not change the PRIMARY set. The only restriction is to avoid use of the same command in both primary and secondary sets. If you do have two sets, both will be active, so conflicting commands are to be avoided. Resolve the conflict by erasing the conflicting command in the primary set. You may wish to only change some of the provided commands in the primary set. For example, the Zoom window command is by default assigned to Ctrl-OZ. Using the configuration program, you could assign this command to ALT-Z. EZXWKCFG also creates the customized help file EZXW.HLP, which is used by EZX-WORD's context-sensitive help system. EZXW.EXE and EZXW.TXT must be in the same drive and directory as EZXWKCFG.EXE when you run EZXWKCFG. EZXW.HLP need not be present. When the default keystroke commands are changed EZXW.HLP will be created or, if it already exists, corrected to show your modifications. Running EZXWKCFG ──────────────── Enter EZXWKCFG at the DOS cursor. You will be asked: Perform fast entry for fully reconfigured keyboard? If you press Y for Yes, you may reconfigure the command keys using the fast-entry method. NO is given by pressing N or ENTER to reconfigure the command keys using the random access method. Fast Entry ────────── gives the following options: - Press ENTER to accept current entry - Press new keys then ENTER for new command - SCROLL LOCK to toggle ON literal mode - ESC to quit You enter a new key sequence by pressing the keys you wish to use to use for that command and finish with ENTER. You can correct mistakes with the BACKSPACE key, C to clear entry, or R to Restore previous entry. To enter either the Enter key or a Ctrl-M, for example, you must first press the SCROLL LOCK key, to enter keys literally, then press it again when you've finished. ESC exits the fast-entry procedure and takes you to random access entry. Random Access ───────────── The random access option or the fast-entry procedure can alter any or all of the command keys. Move to the key sequence you want to change and press ENTER. LEFT arrow and RIGHT arrow select primary or secondary command key sets. You can scroll through the list of command keys with UP arrow, DOWN arrow, PgUp, and PgDn. HOME takes you to the top, and END to the last. You can correct mistakes with the BACKSPACE key, C to clear entry, or R to Restore previous entry. When you have finished, press Q to QUIT or W to WRITE TO a disk file. If you have accidentally assigned the same key sequence to two different commands, you will see an error message. Correct mistakes by going to the highlighted items and deleting one of the two. Since you are creating a secondary set, deleting the primary command is the logical choice. You will see an error message if the new list of keystrokes is larger than the primary set. Correct this by deleting a few secondary key sequences. After reconfiguring the command keys, EZX-WORD will create a new help file (EZXW.HLP). You may make minor changes to EZXW.HLP if you wish to customize the help system, but be sure to edit only a copy of the file, not the original. ╔═════════════════╗ ║ADVANCED FEATURES║ ╚═════════════════╝ PRINT FORMATTING COMMANDS ───────────────────────── In addition to the font commands discussed under the menu option ATTRIBUTES, EZX-WORD supports a second set of commands entered by using the @ symbol together with a two letter abbreviation. These commands control pagination and layout features such as margins and headers and footers. Issue these commands by creating a new line and placing the @ symbol in column 1. This symbol is followed by a two letter abbreviation and a parameter or argument. You can see these commands on screen when PAGINATION is ON. @POn - Offsets the page to the right by n columns. This sets a left margin for the remainder of the printed document; there is no affect on screen. Default is 0. @PA - Starts a new page. If pagination is on, the effect of this command will be visible on the screen as well as in the printed document. @CPn - Sets a conditional page break. This starts a new page if fewer than n lines remain on the page. @PNn - Sets page number to n. @OP - Omits page numbers. By default, page numbers are printed; there is no effect on screen. @PG - Prints page numbers; there is no effect on screen. @PCn - Prints page numbers in column n. The default is column 33. There is no effect on screen. @PLn - Sets page length to n. The default length is 66 lines. @MTn - Sets top margin to n. The default margin is 3 lines. @MBn - Sets bottom margin to n. The default margin is 8 lines. @HMn - Sets header margin to n lines. The default margin is 1 line. There is no effect on screen. @FMn - Sets footer margin to n lines. The default margin is 3 lines. There is no effect on screen. @HE<line> - Sets page header to <line>. There is no effect on screen. @FO<line> - Sets page footer to <line>. There is no effect on screen. Headers and footer strings can contain any of the control characters used to activate fonts, as well as any of the following special characters: # - This is replaced with the current page number. Ctrl-K ignores following spaces on even-numbered pages; this allows you, for example, to create headers and footers that print flush right on odd-numbered pages, and flush left on even-numbered pages. \ - Interprets the next character literally; for example, \# would print "#" rather than the current page number. Notes: * MT must be greater than HM or header won't be printed. * MB must be greater than FM or footer won't be printed. * PL must be greater than MT + MB. * If MT=0 or MB=0, then no pagination will occur. Default page numbers do not appear when FO is used. Creating a custom printer definition file. ────────────────────────────────────────── 1. Lets assume you have a Diablo printer. The first step is to create a generic driver. You will then modify it for the Diablo command set. From DOS, copy an existing .PDF file to a new file, for example: COPY PLAIN.PDF DIABLO.PDF 2. In EZX-WORD, give the Print command (Ctrl-KP), press W (for Which printer), and enter the name of the new file. EZX-WORD will then read the file into memory. 3. Now press E (for edit printer codes) and, with your printer manual close at hand, edit the printer strings. 4. When you are finished editing all the command strings, press ESC to return to the Print Setup pull-down menu, and S to Save the printer setup. If you wish, you can also return to the main menu; select O for Options and S for Save setup to save your new .PDF file name as the default. EZX-WORD will then save the name of the newly created file as the default .PDF file. Once you make a backup copy of your new .PDF file, you should never have to go through this process again. ╔════════════════════╗ ║ORDERING INFORMATION║ ╚════════════════════╝ For information on this product and others from EZX Publishing, see the files EZXINFO.EXE and SUPPORT.EXE. ╔════════╗ ║TUTORIAL║ ╚════════╝ To help you get acquainted with EZX-WORD, the following instructions will take you through the editing of a sample business letter. If you have not done so already, go to the OPTIONS menu and set the various options, including COLOR. After the changes, be sure to save them with the SAVE SETUP option. To start, load the file TUTOR.TXT into EZX-WORD by typing EZXW TUTOR.TXT. This document also contains a few deliberately mispelled words, which you can correct with the Spell-Checker. 1. EDITING A SENTENCE The first task is to modify the first sentence by adding the word "computer" before the word "Widget". Move the cursor to "W" in Widget and hit the INS key once or twice until "Insert" appears on the top status line. Now, type the word "improved", but don't type the " " marks. Finish with a space by hitting the space bar so "improvedWidget" is separated into "improved Widget". If INSERT is OFF, OVER is ON and you type over any existing text. INSERT pushes existing text to the right. 2. SPLIT A PARAGRAPH IN TWO Next, we will split a paragraph into two paragraphs. Move the cursor to the last sentence in the second paragraph beginning with "We supply....". Place the cursor under the "W" in "We" and hit the INS key to turn INSERT on. Hit the ENTER key and the last sentence has moved down one line. We still need a space between paragraphs, so hit ENTER once again. Now you see a blank line before the sentence "We supply....". If you are in OVER, hitting the ENTER key will only move the cursor down and not change anything. Remember, INSERT or OVERWRITE are different. You will use them a lot when you are editing a document. 3. REFORMAT A PARAGRAPH The new paragraph is uneven, so we will now FORMAT it to fit properly between the margins. Move the cursor to the first letter of the paragraph, which is "W" in "We". Press function key F10 for the main menu. Press "T" for "TEXT" or move the selection bar using the arrow keys on the key pad. Press the ENTER key. Hit F1 to see what the HELP screen can do. This is one of the most powerful tools you have! The help screen you see tells you how to reformat a paragraph. Exit the help screen by hitting the ESC key. Remember to hit F1 anytime you want a quick answer for the task at hand. Now return to your task, formatting a paragraph... FORMAT PARAGRAPH is the first selection, so press the ENTER key if the selection bar is on it. You will see that the paragraph is much more even within the margins, and more like the other paragraphs. Another way to format the paragraph is to move the cursor to the first letter of the paragraph, then hold down the Ctrl key and hit the "B" key. Both methods work and you can use either one. Use the menu, or use the command key. 4. CHANGING A WORD (EDIT A WORD) Let's change a word in the last sentence of this paragraph. Change the word "three" to "four". Move the cursor to the "t" in "three". With INSERT ON, type the word "four". You now see "fourthree". We need to erase the letters "three". Move the cursor to "t" in "three". Hit the DEL key for each letter in "three" and watch them disappear. If you were in OVERWRITE, the word "four" would overwrite "three" and you would see "foure". Move the cursor to the "e" in "foure" and hit the DEL key. The "e" is removed. 5. MOVE A PARAGRAPH Now we will mark a paragraph and move it to another spot in the letter. Let's move the paragraph beginning with "Early Widgets" to just after the paragraph ending with "new colors". We do this by marking the BLOCK we want to move, going to the new location, and then using the MOVE command. So, go to the first word and mark it. Do this by moving the cursor to the first letter "E" in "Early". Hit F10 for the MAIN MENU and then select BLOCK. Select BEGIN to mark the block beginning. Move the cursor to just after "compatibality." to mark the BLOCK end. Hit F10, then BLOCK and then select END. You will see the block a different color than the rest of the document. If it is not, check and see if you set the COLOR option so that a BLOCK is different in color. Go to the exact spot where you want to move the BLOCK. There is only one blank line between the two existing paragraphs, so it is easier if you first add a second blank line between them. Use INSERT and hit ENTER like you did earlier. Carefully move the cursor to the spot where you want the first letter of the marked block to appear. Hit F10, then select BLOCK, then select MOVE. The paragraph has moved, but now sits right above another paragraph. You want a blank line between them, so move the cursor to the first letter of the bottom paragraph, which is "T" in "The commercial.....". Go to INSERT and then hit ENTER. You now have a blank line between the two paragraphs. You will also notice a blank hole where the moved paragraph used to be. The space can be eliminated by moving the cursor to the topmost blank line and then hitting Ctrl-Y, the line delete command. Repeat this until all of the unwanted lines are gone. This will also delete lines full of text, so be careful. The same method is used to COPY a word, line or a paragraph. The only difference is that you select COPY instead of MOVE. The original marked block stays unchanged and unmoved. 6. CHANGING MARGINS You can change the location of the left and right margins any time and the existing text will not change. It will change if you FORMAT a paragraph. It is possible to have a variety of paragraph margins within the same document. Here is one way to do it. Suppose we want to have the paragraph beginning with "Early Widgets" with a left margin of 20 and right margin at 60. Hit F10, then select OPTIONS, then select MARGINS, then select LEFT. The block in the middle of the screen will let you type a new number for the left margin. Type 20 and then hit ENTER. Do the same for the RIGHT margin. The status line now shows the narrower margins. Go to the first letter of the paragraph you want to change ("E" in "Early"). Hit Ctrl-B to reformat the paragraph. Any further format work will use these new margins, so you may want to change them back to the previous settings. You can do the same thing with Ctrl-OL for left and Ctrl-OR for right margin changes. 7. ADDING A PAGE BREAK After doing all of these changes, we now decide to break the letter into two pages. We decide to do it before the paragraph beginning with "Early Widgets...". We can do this two ways. First, is to use the "@PA" characters. You must have "@" in column 1 or it won't work at all. @PA is command understood by the pages counter and the printer. Go to the line above "Early" in column 1 and type @PA without the quote marks. You can also use the MACRO we provided. It is MACRO 1 and you activate it by hitting ALT 1. This will install @PA the same as if you typed it. The MACRO is a little faster, but it does give you an an easier tool and ALT 1 is easier to remember! 8. SPELL CHECKING The spelling needs to be checked and is probably the easiest thing you can do. Move the cursor to the top of the document with the PgUp key. Hit F10 for the main menu, select EZX-Word 3.0, select Spell Check. The Spell Check will highlight the first word it finds incorrect and will give you a menu of possible correct words. Pretty nice. You have the choice to edit the marked word, or to select one of the possible choices, or you can forget and move on. It only checks the document beyond the cursor and not any preceding text. If you want to check the entire document, go to the beginning first. This dictionary is powerful and occupies memory only as long as it is being used. You will also see the word "Widget" is considered an error. This happens often with technical or special words and you can add it to the dictionary, or just move on. 9. PRINTING THE DOCUMENT The final step is to print your document. All of the changes are only in memory, so you must first SAVE the document to a file location. Hit F10, then select FILE, then select SAVE. If the document is big, it may take a minute. When "saved", you are ready to print. Actually, it is a good idea to SAVE your work periodically as you work so you don't lose it all if there is big mistake made somehow. You can also SAVE by hitting Ctrl-KS. This is a lot faster than the menu. To print, hit F10, select FILE, then select PRINT. Select PRINT DOCUMENT NOW if all of the settings you see are correct. You can change them before you print. You may find that your choice of margins does not match the paper width and the results are disappointing. Rather than reformatting the entire document, realignment of the paper in the printer is a lot easier. If your choice of margins exceeds the paper width, you will have to either reformat everything, or choose a smaller font in the printer, if you can. 10. SUMMARY Remember to use the HELP key F1! Move the cursor to where you want to start, before you go to the menu for choices. Use either the menu choices, or type the command keys directly. SAVE your work often; like after each page is done. Don't work with the original EZX-WORD diskette - make a copy! This tutorial certainly doesn't cover all the features of this word processor, so continue by loading up a sample document, open the manual and explore the many options and features at your fingertips.