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H E L P Please select the item you would like help with: 1. General editing 2. Cursor movement 3. Directory 4. Load file 5. Save file 6. Block move 7. Find 8. New page 9. Redisplay 10. Print 11. Quit 12. Color of screen 13. Typewriter 14. User Supported Software ESC Return to main menu { B L O C K The Block command has three options. Each requires that the cursor be positioned at the start of the text you wish to handle prior to exercising the command (ALT & B keys). Then use the Down arrow key to highlight the portion of text you wish to handle. 1. The "Copy" option makes a copy of (but does not delete) the blocked (highlighted) area and stores it on the disk. You can give the block a filename if you plan to use the text in a later editing session, or just press the ENTER key to make it a temporary file. You can use the "Load" command (ALT & L keys) to recall the block. If you gave the block a name, use that name to reference it. If you did not give it a name (you just pressed the ENTER key when you saved the block), just press the ENTER key to load it. 2. The "Delete" option deletes the blocked (highlighted) area. 3. The "Move" option deletes the blocked material from the original document. As with the "Copy" option, you can give the block a name, or press the ENTER key to make the block a tempo- rary file on your disk. Move your cursor to the spot where you want the block to go and use the Load command to retrieve the block from your disk. { C O L O R If you have a color monitor and a color card in your computer you can change the color of the text that appears on the screen and the color of the border that is around the screen. Find the file called COLOR.EXE on the disk. Type in the word "color" to start the program. You will be asked what you want to change and will be shown the available colors. You may have a monochrome (not a color) monitor, but find the images are indistinct because you have a color circuit board in your computer. To make these images more clear, boot the DOS disk and, after you get the "A>" prompt, put in the FreeWrite disk and type the following: "copy no-color.fil color.fil". Press the ENTER key. Now at the "A>" prompt, type the word "fw". NOTE: This option will work only if you have a color card on your system. { C U R S O R M O V E M E N T Move around in your document by using the following keys: UP - Move to the line above the current line DOWN - Move to the line below the current line LEFT - Move one character to the left RIGHT - Move one character to the right END - Move to the end of the current line CTRL & RIGHT - Move to the start of the next word CTRL & LEFT - Move to the end of the previous word PGUP - Move to the start of the page PGDN - Move to the start of the next page HOME & UP - Move to the top of the screen HOME & DOWN - Move to the bottom of the screen HOME & LEFT - Move to the start of the current line HOME & RIGHT - Move to the end of the current line HOME & HOME & UP - Move to the start of the document HOME & HOME & DOWN - Move to the end of the document { D I R E C T O R Y The directory lists all filenames on a disk. To obtain a directory, simultaneously press the ALT and the D keys. Next, enter the drive letter and a colon, e.g., type "b:" if you want a directory of the disk in drive B. You then type "*.*" to list all filenames on the disk or "*.ltr" to list only those file- names that have "ltr" as their extensions. The directory will display the current date and time, free space (in bytes) left on your disk, and free memory left in the computer. It will also list the filenames, number of bytes each file occupies, and the date and time they were created or last revised. You can move the cursor around on the screen using UP, DOWN, LEFT, and the RIGHT arrow keys, as well as the HOME, END, PGUP, and PGDN. Two options are available - load and delete. First move the cursor so that the desired filename is highlighted. (NOTE: Be sure it is a word processing file.) To load, press the "1" key; to delete, press the "2" key. Delete is used to remove old files from the disk to make room for new ones. { F I N D The "Find" command (ALT & F keys) is used to find a particular word or words in your text. There are three options. 1. The "Forward" option allows you to search from your present location towards the end of the document. Type "1", the word you seek, and the ENTER key. The program will go to the word and highlight it. 2. The "Reverse" option allows you to search from your present location toward the beginning of the document. Type "2", the word you seek, and the ENTER key. The program will locate and highlight the word. 3. The "Find and Replace" option moves only in the forward direction. (If you need to search the entire document, press the HOME key twice and the Up arrow to get to the beginning of the document.) This option gives you a choice: "With confirm (Y/N)?" "Y" (Yes) to this choice means you must stop at each "Find" word and confirm that it is to be replaced with the "Replace" word. "N" (No) means the program will automatically change every case. The program will ask you to specify a word to find and another to replace. { G E N E R A L E D I T I N G ESC KEY - Return to main menu from submenu BACKSPACE - Delete text to left of cursor DEL KEY - Delete character at the cursor's location CTRL & END - Delete from cursor to end of line ENTER KEY - New line INS KEY - Used to toggle back and forth from insert to replace mode. TAB KEY - Double-arrow key used to move cursor five spaces to the right. INSERTING - Move cursor using arrow keys to position in text where you want to insert. Check to see that you are in insert mode. Start typing. Press ALT & R to redisplay (reformat) text. REPLACING - Move cursor using arrow keys to position in text where you want to replace. Check to see that you are in the replace mode. Start typing. Press ALT & R to redisplay (reformat) text. HYPHENATION - When warning sounds, move LEFT and RIGHT ARROW keys to move to appropriate place for hyphen; then press ESC. FREE MEMORY - Number of bytes (characters) left in memory is displayed on the bottom line of main menu. { L O A D The Load command (ALT & L keys) will find a file on your disk (either program disk or data disk) and load it into the computer's memory. If you have two disk drives, be sure to use the drive letter and a colon before the filename. If you are loading the file from the FreeWrite disk in drive A (left-hand drive), for instance, you would specify "a:demo". If you are loading the file WATSON from your data disk in drive B, you would specify "b:watson". If you have only one disk drive, there is no need to specify the drive letter and colon before the filename. If a file is not found, you are given the option to cancel the request or enter a different filename. The load command is used as part of the "Copy" or "Move" option during the "Block" command (see Block submenu). When you are beginning a word processing session, you can load a file at the same time you load FreeWrite. If you want to load WATSON, for example, at the "A>" prompt type "fw b:watson". { N E W P A G E FreeWrite automatically pages the document as you work on it. However, if you wish to start a new page, you may use the "New Page" (ALT & N keys) command to indicate the place in the document where the new page is to begin. Move the cursor to the place in the text where you wish to start a new page and press the ALT and N keys. A dashed line will appear on your screen display to indicate where the page will end when you print. The dashed line will not appear on the printed document. To delete a new page location that you entered using this feature you will need to do the following: (1) Locate the cursor at the first position of the first line for the page following the dashed line. (2) Press the backspace key to remove the new page. { P R I N T The Print command (ALT & P keys) has four options: 1. The "Full Text" option prints out the entire document. 2. The "Page" options prints out only the page on which the cursor is currently on. 3. The "Change" option produces a Print Options submenu. By pressing different keys you can change text from justified right margins (evened up) to unjustified; specify the number of copies you want to print out (from one to nine); choose among four places for positioning of the page numbers or choose not to have page numbers displayed; specify line spacing as single - or double - space; and indicate which page number you wish to start with. If no changes in print options are specified, FreeWrite will print your document single-spaced, right-justified, no page numbers, only one copy (these are FreeWrite's default values). 4. The "Cancel" option will cancel a Print command already issued. FreeWrite will do "background printing" - that is, allow you to print a document while simultaneously writing or editing another (or the same) document. { Q U I T If you are working on a document when you select this option you will be asked whether you want to save the current document before you quit. Prompts will ask you to specify a filename if you opt to save the document. You can press the ESC key if you decide you do not want to quit and would like to return to the present document. You will also be asked whether you want to work on another document. Answer Yes if you want to load another document and work on it, or if you want to start working on something new. The current document will be removed from the computer's memory (but will still remain on the disk if you saved it). { R E D I S P L A Y The Redisplay command (ALT & R keys) reformats text and allows you to see on the screen the form of your document as it will look when printed (except that it will print with justifica- tion - even right margin-, unless you specify otherwise in your print format). This option is useful after you have been deleting and inserting words in a previously written paragraph. Only the part of the screen that is to the right and below the cursor will be reformatted. The part to the left and above the cursor will remain as is. Thus, if you have made several changes in a paragraph, you may wish to return the cursor to the first line of that document before giving the Redisplay command. This command will affect lines only as they appear on your screen. All text is reformatted before printing, so it is unnecessary to reformat your entire document before printing. { S A V E You will first be asked for the filename for the document you want to save. If that document already exists, you will be asked if you want to replace it. If you enter Yes, the newer version will replace the older version. If you respond with a No, you will be asked for another name for which to label the new file. You can save your document as often as you like. FreeWrite will remember where you were when you selected this option and will return you to that point as soon as the document is saved. { T Y P E W R I T E R The "Typewriter" option has two major uses. First, you can use it to send special print characters to your printer. This will change how your printer prints, if supported by your printer. You will need to check with your printer manual to see the numeric values of the special codes since most printers handle this feature a bit differently. The second use is as a typewriter. You can type a line of text, edit that line, and then send it directly to the printer. You might want to do this to print envelopes, for example. Press the ENTER key when you have entered the line and are ready for it to print. Press the ESC key when you are ready to return to the main menu. { U S E R S U P P O R T E D S O F T W A R E FreeWord is a "user supported" program. What is meant by that is, FreeWord is available to anyone who wants to use it at a no cost (if you get the program from Stilwell Software Products we charge $10 to help cover the cost of postage and handling). This method of distributing computer software allows you to try the program without having to pay for it in advance. It also allows you to freely share the program with other users without the fear of prosecution by the owner of the program. If you find FreeWord of use, you are asked to send a contrib- ution of $49 to its author: Stilwell Software Products 16403 North 43rd Drive Glendale, AZ 85306 By sending a contribution you will become a register owner of FreeWord. You will received a printed copy of the manual and will be eligible for support from us. You will also receive a program called SSP's SPELL at no extra cost. The SPELL program is a spelling checker. SPELL will search through the document you wrote with FreeWord looking for misspelled words. SPELL will also work with any standard ASCII text file you created.