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              STARTING
  To do fancy word processing and desktop publishing easily, get
Ami Pro. It's a word processor that includes lots of tools for
desktop publishing. It's easy, powerful, and so pretty that I
nicknamed it ``the strawberry''.
  It lists for $495. Discount dealers sell it for $249.
  The original version was called just Ami (which is the French
word for ``friend''). Then came an improved version, called Ami
Professional (or Ami Pro).
  Ami and Ami Pro were published by Samna. In 1991, Lotus bought
Samna, so Samna's become a division of Lotus.
  Here's how to use Ami Pro version 3. It requires 2M of RAM and
Windows 3 or 3.1.
  To find out how to use Windows, read my Windows chapter. That
chapter also explains how to use Windows Write, which is the word
processor that comes free with Windows. Practice using Windows
Write before you use Ami Pro.

    Copy Ami Pro to the hard disk
  Ami Pro comes on floppy disks. To use Ami Pro, you must copy it
from those floppy disks to your hard disk. Here's how.
  Turn on the computer without any floppy in drive A. Start
Windows (by typing ``win'' after the C prompt). You'll see the
Program Manager Window.
  Choose Run from the File menu. The computer will say ``Command
Line''.
  When you buy Ami Pro version 3, you get a big box that contains
the main manual, several booklets, eight 1.2M floppies, seven
1.44M floppies, and sheet of paper called a Media Conversion Card
(which you can mail to Lotus to get 720K floppies instead).
Here's how to copy Ami Pro from the 1.2M floppies to your hard
disk. (Copying from 1.44M floppies or 720K floppies is similar).
  Using Ami Pro version 3's 1.2M floppies, put Disk 1 in drive A.
Type ``a:install'' (and press ENTER).
  If your Ami Pro floppy disks were never used before, the
computer asks you to type the name of your company and your own
name; to reply, type the name of your company, press ENTER, type
your own name, and press ENTER again. (If you don't have a
company, type ``Ami Pro Lovers Association''.)
  Press ENTER four more times. The computer says, ``Please insert
Disk 2''. Put Disk 2 in drive A and press ENTER. When the
computer tells you, do the same for Disks 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7.
  Press ENTER two more times.
  The computer says, ``Main Menu''. Click the ``Exit Install''
button (by using the mouse).
  You see the Lotus Applications window. Close it (by
double-clicking its control box).
  Exit from Windows (by choosing ``Exit Windows'' from the File
menu, then clicking ``OK''). Turn off the computer, so you can
start fresh.
                                                  Launch Ami Pro
                                         Here's how to start
using Ami Pro version 3.
                                         Turn on the computer
without any floppy in drive A. Start Windows (by typing ``win''
after the C prompt). The computer will say ``Program Manager''.
                                         Double-click the Lotus
Applications icon. Double-click the Ami Pro 3.0 icon.
                                         The top of the screen
shows this menu bar:
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│File Edit View Text Style Page Frame Tools Window Help    │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
                                         First time The first
time Ami Pro 3 is used on your computer, the computer says,
``Welcome to the Ami Pro QuickStart Tutorial''. To reply, click
the ``Exit Tutorial'' button. Then the computer says ``Ami Pro
SwitchKit Loading Options''; to reply, click the ``Add menu
item'' box, then click ``OK''.

                                                 Customize Ami Pro
                                         Ami Pro can act in
different ways, to meet the needs of different people. When you
use Ami Pro, it begins by acting however the previous user told
it to. If the previous user was a jerk, Ami Pro will act jerky.
                                         The following procedure
makes Ami Pro act as a professional desktop publisher. The first
time you use Ami Pro, do this procedure. The next time you use
Ami Pro, you can skip the procedure ___ unless a colleague has
used your copy of Ami Pro and given different commands instead.
                                         Here's the procedure. .
. .
                                         Ruler Click ``View''.
You'll see the View menu. If one of the View menu's choices is
Show Ruler, choose it. That makes the computer put a ruler across
the top of the screen. The ruler is numbered in inches: 1", 2",
3", etc.
                                         Preferences From the
View menu, choose View Preferences. Make sure the boxes next to
``Vertical ruler'' and ``Display as printed'' each contain an X.
(To put an X in a box, click the box.)
                                         Make sure box next to
``Custom view'' contains 91. If it contains a different number,
raise or lower that number (by clicking the nearby arrows) until
that number becomes 91.
                                         The other boxes don't
matter.
                                         When you've finished,
click ``OK''.
         Type your document
  Start typing your document.
  Ami Pro uses the mouse and fundamental keys the same way as
Windows Write. For details, read these sections on page 152:
``Use the keyboard''
``Scroll through documents''
``Insert characters''

            Movement keys
  To move to different parts of your document, you can use your
mouse. To move faster, press these movement keys instead:
Keys you pressWhere the pointer will move
right-arrow   right to the next character
left-arrow    left to the previous character

down-arrow    down to the line below
up-arrow      up to the line above

END           right to the end of the line
HOME          left to the beginning of the line

PAGE DOWN     down to the next screenful
PAGE UP       up to the previous screenful

Ctrl with right-arrowright (to next word or punctuation symbol)
Ctrl with left-arrowleft (to beginning of a word or punctuation)

Ctrl with a periodright to the next sentence
Ctrl with a commaleft to the beginning of a sentence

Ctrl with down-arrowdown to the end of a paragraph
Ctrl with up-arrowup to the beginning of a paragraph

Ctrl with PAGE DOWNdown to the next page
Ctrl with PAGE UPup to the previous page

Ctrl with END down to the end of the document
Ctrl with HOMEup to the beginning of the document

             CONTROL key
  To manipulate your document quickly, use the CONTROL key (which
says Ctrl on it).
  Underline Here's how to underline a phrase (like this). Press
Ctrl with U, then type the phrase, then press Ctrl with U again.
  Word underline Here's how to underline all of a phrase's words
individually (like this), without underlining the spaces between
them. Press Ctrl with W, then type the phrase, then press Ctrl
with W again.
  Bold Here's how to make a phrase be bold (like this). Press
Ctrl with B, then type the phrase, then press Ctrl with B again.
  Italics Here's how to italicize a phrase (like this). Press
Ctrl with I, then type the phrase, then press Ctrl with I again.
(That technique works only if your printer can italicize.)
  Normal You can combine techniques. For example, here's how to
make a phrase be underlined and bold (like this). Press Ctrl with
U (to underline), then press Ctrl with B (to make bold), then
type the phrase, then press Ctrl with N (to make the computer
revert to ``normal'' printing).
                                         Exactly centered Here's
how to make a title be exactly centered. Press Ctrl with E, then
type the title (and press ENTER), then press Ctrl with E again.
                                         Justify Here's how to
justify several paragraphs, so their right margins are perfectly
straight. Press Ctrl with J, then type the paragraphs (pressing
ENTER after each paragraph), then press Ctrl with J again.
                                         Right Here's how to make
a short line of text be flush right, so the text is next to the
right margin. Press Ctrl with R, then type the short line of text
(and press ENTER), then press Ctrl with R again.
                                         Go You can go to page 3
quickly by using this trick: press Ctrl with G, then type the
number 3 and press ENTER. (That technique works only if your
document is at least 3 pages long.)
                                         Find If your document
contains the word ``love'', here's how to make the computer find
that word.
                                         Click at the beginning
of the document. (To search through just part of your document
for ``love'', click at the beginning of that part.)
                                         Press Ctrl with F. Type
``love''.
                                         Press ENTER several
times. Each time you press ENTER, the computer moves to the next
``love'' in your document. When the computer can't find any more
``love'' in your document, the screen's bottom left corner
briefly displays a message saying how often your document says
``love''.
                                         The computer ignores
capitalization. If you tell it to find ``love'', it will also
find ``Love'' and ``LOVE''.
                                         The computer looks for
complete words. If you tell it to find ``love'', it will not find
the ``love'' in ``loves'' or ``glove''.
                                         Save To save the
document (copy it onto the disk), press Ctrl with S. The computer
will say ``Filename''. Invent a short name for your document (no
more than 8 letters). Type the name and press ENTER.
                                         That makes the computer
copy the document onto the hard disk. For example, if you named
the document ``jennifer'', the computer will put onto the hard
disk a file called ``JENNIFER.SAM'', which means ``JENNIFER
created by Samna's AMi program. The file will be in the documents
subdirectory (called ``DOCS''), which is part of the AMIPRO
subdirectory.
                                         Afterwards, if you
change your mind and want to do more editing, go ahead! When you
finish that extra editing, save it by pressing Ctrl with S again.
                                         Print To print the
document onto paper, press Ctrl with P. Then click ``OK''.
          Fonts
  At the screen's bottom, near the right margin, you see the name
of a typeface. (For Windows 3.1, that typeface is normally Times
New Roman.)
  Click that typeface name. You see an alphabetized list of
typefaces, like this:
Arial
Courier New
LotusLineDraw
Modern
Roman
Script
Symbol
Times New Roman
WingDings
  (That's the list created by Windows 3.1. Windows 3.0 creates a
shorter list. You might also see some extra entries contributed
by your printer's manufacturer or by any font packages you
bought.)
  Click the typeface you want.
  At the screen's bottom, to the right of the typeface, you see a
number (which is normally 12). That's the point size. Click that
number. You see a list of point sizes to choose from, like this:
 4
 6
 8
 9
10
11
12
14
16
18
20
22
24
30
36
42
48
60
72
  Click the point size you want. (The bigger the point size you
choose, the bigger the characters will be.)
  After you've chosen a typeface and point size, type some words.
They'll be in the typeface and point size you selected. (Your
document's other words, which you typed earlier, remain
unaffected.)
  You'll be typing in the typeface and point size you chose,
until you switch to a different typeface or point size or hop to
a different part of your document.
                                              Select text
                             Here's how to edit a phrase you
typed.
                             First, make the phrase turn black,
by using one of these methods:
Method 1: to blacken just one word, double-click in the middle of
the word.
Method 2: to blacken a sentence, click in the middle of the
sentence while holding down the Ctrl key.
Method 3: to blacken a paragraph, double-click paragraph's middle
while holding down the Ctrl key.
Method 4: to blacken any phrase, point at the phrase's beginning,
then drag to the phrase's end.
Method 5: click the phrase's beginning; then while holding down
the SHIFT key, click the phrase's end.
Method 6: by using the movement keys, move to the phrase's
beginning; then while holding down the SHIFT key, use the
movement keys to move to the phrase's end.
Turning the phrase black is called selecting the phrase.
                             Then say what to do to the phrase.
For example, choose one of these activities:
To underline the phrase, press Ctrl with U.
To make the phrase be bold, press Ctrl with B.
To italicize the phrase, press Ctrl with I.
To erase the phrase, press the DELETE key.
To replace the phrase, just type whatever words you want the
phrase to become.

To make the phrase be a different typeface,
click the typeface at the bottom of the screen, then click the
typeface you want.

To make the phrase be a different point size,
click the point-size number at the bottom of the screen, then
click the point size you want.
                             Move a phrase To move a phrase to a
new location, just ``select the phrase, and then drag from the
middle of the phrase to the new location.'' Here are the details.
. . .
                             First, select the phrase you want to
move, so the phrase turns black.
                             Then take your finger off the
mouse's button. Move the mouse's pointer to the middle of the
phrase.
                             Finally, hold down the mouse's
button (so you see a vertical blue line); and while you keep
holding down the mouse's button, drag that line to wherever you
want the phrase to move. (Drag the line anywhere you wish in the
document, or drag to the end of the document, but don't try to
drag past the document's end. During the drag, the line turns
red.)
                             At the end of the drag, lift your
finger from the mouse's button. Presto, the phrase moves where
you wished!

                                               Page menu
                             You can improve how your text is
placed on the page.
                             Page break When you finish typing a
paragraph, you normally press the ENTER key. Instead of pressing
ENTER, try this experiment: choose Breaks from the Page menu,
then click OK. That makes the next paragraph be on the next page.
                             Columns In a newspaper, text is
printed in many narrow columns. Here's how to create such
columns. Choose Modify Page Layout from the Page menu. Underneath
``Number of Columns'', click how many columns you want. (For
example, if you want each page to be divided into 4 columns,
click the ``4''.) Then click ``OK''.

         FRAMES
  You can draw a box and put information inside it. For example,
if you're creating a newspaper, you'll want to draw a big box and
put a big masthead or headline inside it. Underneath, you'll want
to draw a smaller box and put a picture inside it. Yes, Ami Pro
lets you draw a box and put text or a picture inside it!
  A box that contains information (such as text or a picture) is
called a frame. It surrounds the information, just as a picture
frame surrounds a picture.
  Here's how to draw a box (frame).
  Find the Frame icon, which looks like a red picture frame.
(It's near the top of the screen, just under the word
``Window''.)
  Click the Frame icon. Point in your document, where you want
the box's top left corner to be, and drag to where you want the
box's opposite corner. For best results, make the box's top left
corner be in the middle of the page, and make the box's opposite
corner be below that and far to the right, where the page's text
area meets the right margin.
  The box appears. All your document's words and columns move out
of the way to make room for the box.
  To make sure that the box doesn't bump into nearby text, the
computer makes the box slightly smaller than you requested. To
make the box beautiful, the computer gives the box rounded
corners and a shadow.
  The box temporarily has black bumps on it. The bumps are called
handles.
  In the box, you can put text or a drawing (but not both).

          Text
  To put text in the box, double-click in the box and then type
the text.
                                                Drawing
                             If you want the box to contain a
drawing instead of text, make sure the box has handles (if it
doesn't, create them by clicking in the box). Click the Drawing
icon, which looks like a pencil and is near the screen's top
right corner.
                             Near the top of the screen, you see
these icons for drawing: Arrow, Hand, Slanted Line, Zigzag,
Polygon, Rectangle, Rounded Rectangle, Oval, Arc, and Text.
Here's how to use them:
What you want to draw                        How to draw it
slanted line                                 Click the Slanted
Line icon.
                                             Start where you want
the line to begin,
                                             and drag to where
you want the line to end.

horizontal, vertical, or 45° line            It's similar to
drawing a slanted line,
                                             but depress the
SHIFT key during the whole process.

zigzag                                       Click the Zigzag
icon.
                                             Click where you want
the zigzag to begin.
                                             Click where you want
each bend in the zigzag.
                                             Double-click where
you want the zigzag to end.

polygon                                      Click the Polygon
icon.
                                             Click where you want
the polygon's first corner.
                                             Click where you want
each additional corner,
                                             but double-click at
the last corner.

rectangle                                    Click the Rectangle
icon.
                                             Start where you want
the rectangle's top left corner,
                                             and drag to where
you want the rectangle's opposite corner.

square                                       It's similar to
drawing a rectangle,
                                             but depress the
SHIFT key during the whole process.

rectangle with rounded corners               It's similar to
drawing a rectangle,
                                             but click the
Rounded Rectangle icon.

square with rounded corners                  Draw a rounded
rectangle while depressing the SHIFT key.

oval                                         Click the Oval icon.
                                             Imagine a rectangle
big enough to hold your oval:
                                             start where you want
that rectangle's top left corner,
                                             and drag to where
you want that rectangle's opposite corner.

circle                                       It's similar to
drawing an oval,
                                             but depress the
SHIFT key during the whole process.

arc that's a quarter of an oval              Click the Arc icon.
                                             Imagine the entire
oval:
                                             start at the oval's
leftmost or rightmost point,
                                             and drag to where
you want the arc to end.

title in the middle of the drawing           Click the Text icon
(which says ``abc'').
                                             Click where you want
the title to begin.
                                             Type the title.
                             To nudge the entire drawing slightly
___ but without moving the frame that it's in ___ do the
following: click the Hand icon, then start in the middle of the
drawing and drag in the direction that you want to nudge.
                             Here's how to edit an object that
you drew. Click the Arrow icon. Click the middle of the object,
so that the object gets handles (bumps). Then choose one of these
activities:
Activity                               How to do it
Delete the object                      Press the DELETE key.

Change the object's size               Point at one of the
handles.
                                       Drag the handle in the
direction you want the object to stretch (or shrink).

Move the object                        Point at the object's
center (not at a handle).
                                       Drag in the direction that
you want the object to move.

                                             Edit a frame
                             Here's how to edit an entire frame.
Click outside the frame, then click inside the frame. The frame
gets handles. Then choose one of these activities:
To delete the frame, press the DELETE key.
To change the frame's size, drag a handle.
To move the frame, point at the frame's center and drag.


                   VOCABULARY
  The computer can improve your vocabulary.

                    Spelling
  Here's how to check the document's spelling.
  For example, type a short document that contains just this one
sentence:
Be huppy!
To spell-check the document, click at the document's beginning.
Click the Dictionary icon, which is blue and says ``ABC''. (It's
under the word ``Help''.)
  Click ``OK''.
  The computer looks up each word in the dictionary. The computer
finds ``Be'' in the dictionary but can't find ``huppy''. The
computer highlights the strange word ``huppy'' and prints this
list of suggestions:
hoopoe
happy
guppy
puppy
  Notice that the computer's immense vocabulary even includes
``hoopoe'', which is a European bird that looks like a cross
between a parrot and a zebra!
  You have several choices:
If you meant ``hoopoe'', ``happy'', ``guppy'', or ``puppy'',
click what you meant & then click ``Replace''.
If you meant ``huppy'' and want to add that slang word to the
dictionary, click ``Add To Dictionary''.
If you meant ``huppy'' but don't want to add that slang word to
the dictionary, click ``Skip''.
If you meant some other word instead, type it (without pressing
ENTER) and click ``Replace''.
  When the computer finishes checking the entire document, the
screen's bottom left corner briefly say ``Spell check complete.''

                    Thesaurus
  Suppose your document contains the word ``caress''. To find
synonyms for that word, click it, then click the Thesaurus icon
(which is say ``T'' and is under the word ``Help'').
  You'll see the Thesaurus window. It contains this list of
synonyms for ``caress'':
cosset
cuddle
dandle
fondle
love
pet
  If you want to replace ``caress'' by a synonym, click the
synonym you want then click ``Replace''.
  When you finish using the Thesaurus window, double-click its
control box (or click ``Cancel'').

         FINISH
                                                     When you
finish working on a document, choose Exit or Close from the File
menu.
                                                     If you
choose Exit, the computer will stop using Ami Pro, and you'll see
the Windows Program Manager. If you choose Close instead of Exit,
the computer will let you work on another document, and your next
step is to choose New or Open from the File menu.
If you choose New and then click ``OK'', the computer will let
you start typing a new document.

If you choose Open and then double-click the name of an old
document, the computer will put that document onto the screen and
let you edit it.

                                                         Didn't save?
                                                     If you
didn't save your document before doing those procedures, the
computer asks, ``Save?'' If you click ``Yes'', the computer
copies your document's most recent version to the hard disk; if
you click ``No'' instead, the computer ignores and forgets your
most recent editing.