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        STARTING
  Here's how to use the world's most popular word processor, Word
Perfect. It's been published by Word Perfect Corporation (1555
North Technology Way, Orem, UT 84057, phone [phone]). In
1994, Word Perfect Corporation became part of a bigger company,
Novell.
  Word Perfect has gradually improved. Word Perfect version 4.0
for MS-DOS led to versions 4.1, 4.2, 5.0, and 5.1. Most
businesses use version 5.1.
  This chapter explains Word Perfect version 5.1 for DOS. It also
explains how earlier versions differed.
  After inventing version 5.1 for DOS, Word Perfect Corporation
developed fancier versions (such as version 6 for DOS and version
6 for Windows), but they're controversial because they consume
more RAM, run more slowly, and require you to learn different
keystrokes.
  Discount dealers charge about $250 for the various versions.
  To use version 5.1 for DOS, you need 512K of RAM. You'll also
want a hard disk. If you don't own a hard disk yet, buy one! If
you don't, you must have two floppy drives ___ and making Word
Perfect use them is very awkward. If you try using version 5.1
with two floppy drives, they must be modern enough to hold at
least 720K each.
  I'll assume you have a hard disk whose CONFIG.SYS file mentions
``files'' and ``buffers'' (as I recommended in my MS-DOS
chapter). Version 5.1 consumes 4½ megabytes of your hard disk;
earlier versions consume less.
  When you buy version 5.1, you get a dozen 5¼-inch floppy disks.
(You also get 3½-inch disks containing the same info as the
5¼-inch disks. You get just a few 3½-inch disks, because each
3½-inch disk holds twice as many bytes as a 5¼-inch disk.)
                                  Copy Word Perfect to the hard disk
                             Here's how to copy Word Perfect to
the hard disk.
                             Version 5.1 Turn on the computer
without any floppy in drive A. When you see the C prompt, put
Word Perfect's ``Install/Learn/Utilities 1'' disk into drive A
and type ``a:''.
                             The computer will display an A
prompt. Type ``install''.
                             Here's what happens next, if your
Word Perfect 5.1 disks are 5¼-inch. (The procedure for 3½-inch
disks is similar.) I'll assume your disks were manufactured on or
after May 31, 1991. (Disks manufactured before then don't work
quite as nicely.)
                             The computer will say ``Word Perfect
Installation''. Press ENTER.
                             The computer will ask, ``Do you see
red, green, and blue colored boxes?'' If you see all three colors
(because you have a color monitor), press ENTER; if you don't,
press N.
                             The computer will ask, ``Install to
a hard disk?'' Press ENTER.
                             Press C (which tells the computer
you want to customize Word Perfect). Press T then W, then type
``wp'' (and press ENTER). That tells the computer you want to put
Word Perfect into a hard-disk subdirectory called ``WP''. The
computer will ask, ``Create?'' Press ENTER then E. Press ENTER
twice.
                             Next, you perform an exercise in
computerized calisthenics, called shove and press. When the
computer tells you, shove a floppy disk into drive A and press
ENTER several times. Here are the details:
What the computer will say                             How you
should respond
Insert the Install/Learn/Utilities 2 disk              insert it
and press ENTER 7 times
Insert the Program 1 disk                              insert it
and press ENTER
Insert the Program 2 disk                              insert it
and press ENTER twice
Insert the Spell/Thesaurus 1 disk                      insert it
and press ENTER twice
Insert the Spell/Thesaurus 2 disk                      insert it
and press ENTER twice
Insert the PTR Program/Graphics 1 disk                 insert it
and press ENTER twice
Insert the PTR Program/Graphics 2 disk                 insert it
and press ENTER
                             Then the computer will ask, ``Do you
want to install the Small .DRS File?'' Press N. Press ENTER 5
times.
                             The computer will say ``Insert the
Printer disk''. Insert the Printer 1 disk and press ENTER. Press
the PAGE DOWN (or PgDn) key repeatedly, until you see the name of
your printer. In front of that name, you'll see a number. Type
that number and press ENTER. (If you see two numbers, choose the
number that does not have an asterisk.) Press ENTER again.
                             The computer will say to insert
another Printer disk. Insert it and press ENTER twice.
                             The computer will say ``Enter
license number''. Type that number (which is on the Customer
Registration card that came in the Word Perfect package) and
press ENTER. Press ENTER again.
                             You'll see an A prompt. Turn off the
computer, so you can start fresh.
                             Old versions Turn on the computer
without any floppy in drive A. After the C prompt, type ``md wp''
(so you're making a subdirectory called WP). After the next C
prompt, type ``cd wp'' (so you're changing to the WP
subdirectory).
                             Put one of Word Perfect's floppy
disks into drive A, and type ``copy a:*.*'' (which copies all the
floppy's files onto the hard disk). Follow the same procedure for
the other Word Perfect disks.
                             Then turn off the computer, so you
can start fresh.
          Run Word Perfect
  To run Word Perfect, turn on the computer without any floppy in
drive A.
  If you've put the DO.BAT file onto your hard disk (as I
recommended in the MS-DOS chapter) and put Word Perfect into the
WP subdirectory (as I recommended above), your life is easy! Just
type ``do wp''.
  If you have not put DO.BAT onto your hard disk, do this
instead: type ``cd wp'' and then ``wp''.
  You'll eventually see ``Doc 1 Pg 1'', which means you can begin
typing your document.

          Type the document
  Begin typing whatever document you wish to create. For example,
try typing a novel that begins like this:
Once upon a time, a man was walking down the street, when lo and
behold, his house was gone. As he gaped into the hole, a burning
sensation in his shoes warned him that . . .
I'll let you complete that paragraph yourself! Be creative!
  Shift keys To capitalize a letter, type the letter while
holding down a Shift key. (One Shift key is next to the Z key;
the other Shift key is next to the ? key. Each Shift key has an
up-arrow on it.)
  BACKSPACE key If you make a mistake, erase it by pressing the
BACKSPACE key, which erases the character you just typed. (The
BACKSPACE key is in the upper-right corner of the keyboard's main
section. It's to the right of the + key, and it has a left-arrow
on it.)
  ENTER key As you type that paragraph and get near the right
margin, do not press the ENTER key. Just keep on typing! The
computer will press the ENTER key for you automatically.
  If you try to type a long word near the right margin, and the
word's too long to fit before the margin, the computer will
automatically move the entire word to the line below. The
computer's ability to automatically move an entire word to the
line below is called word wrap.
  Since the computer automatically presses the ENTER key for you,
never press the ENTER key yourself until you reach the end of a
paragraph. Pressing the ENTER key there makes the computer return
to the left margin, so that you can begin a new paragraph.
Pressing the ENTER key means: begin a new paragraph.
  If you want to double-space between paragraphs, press the ENTER
key twice.
  TAB key If you want to indent the new paragraph's first word,
press the TAB key before typing that word. (The TAB key is next
to the Q key and has arrows on it.) To indent that word even
farther, press the TAB key several times. Each time you press the
TAB key, the computer indents a half inch farther.
                                         Lists To type a list of
short lines, such as this recipe for White Death Cookies ___
3 cups of powdered milk
2 cups of water
1 pound of sugar
1 pound of cocaine
mix & shape
bake at 350 degrees for 15 minutes
serves 7 ghosts
press the ENTER key at the end of each line.
                                         Try typing this
English-French dictionary:
ENGLISH                                        FRENCH
love                                           amour
pain                                           peine
tenderness                                     tendresse
Here's how. Type the first column's heading (ENGLISH), press the
TAB key several times (to move far to the right), type the second
column's heading (FRENCH), and press ENTER. Type ``love'', press
the TAB key repeatedly until you're under FRENCH, type ``amour'',
and press ENTER. Use the same technique for the table's other
lines.
                                         Version 4.0 If you're
using version 4.0 (instead of a newer version), the computer will
occasionally say ``Position hyphen''. To reply, tap the F1 key.

                                                     CAPS LOCK
                                         If you press the CAPS
LOCK key, the letters of the alphabet will be automatically
capitalized (and you'll be in caps mode), until you press the
CAPS LOCK key again. When you're in caps mode, the screen's
bottom right corner says ``POS'' instead of ``Pos''.
                                         If your keyboard is
modern, its top right corner has a Caps Lock light. When you're
in caps mode, that light glows.

                                                     NUM LOCK
                                         On the keyboard's right
side, you'll see a group of keys containing numbers. That group
of keys is called the numeric keypad.
                                         Try this experiment: on
the numeric keypad, press the 5 key. If that made a ``5'' appear
on your screen, you're in number mode. If that did not make a
``5'' appear on your screen, you're not in number mode. To switch
to or from number mode, press the NUM LOCK key.
                                         If your keyboard is
modern, its top right corner has a Num Lock light. When you're in
number mode, that light glows.
                                         In this chapter, we'll
use the numeric keypad for purposes more advanced than typing
numbers. So to follow the instructions in this chapter, do not
use those keys to type numbers: do NOT be in number mode. (Do not
let the Num Lock light glow. Do not let the 5 key put a ``5'' on
the screen.)
                                         Press the NUM LOCK key
if necessary, so that you're not in number mode.
           Move the cursor
  After you've typed a few paragraphs (and pressed the ENTER key
at the end of each paragraph), you can move around the screen and
edit your document.
  Arrow keys On your screen the short, blinking underline is
called the cursor. To move the cursor up, press the key that has
an up-arrow on it. You can move the cursor in all four
directions, by pressing the up-arrow, down-arrow, left-arrow, and
right-arrow keys. Each of those keys automatically repeats: so to
move the cursor up several lines, just keep your finger on the
up-arrow key a while.
  (If the arrow keys don't work, that's because you're in number
mode. Get out of number mode by pressing the NUM LOCK key.)
  HOME key Pressing the HOME key means ``very''. For example, if
you press the HOME key and then the left-arrow key, the cursor
will move ``very left'', to the beginning of the line. You can
move very far in all four directions:
Keys you pressWhere the cursor will move
HOME then  the beginning of the line
HOME then ■ the end of the line
HOME then  the top of the screen
HOME then  the bottom of the screen
  Another way to move to the end of the line is to press the END
key.
  If you press HOME then , and the cursor is already at the top
of the screen, the cursor will move to the top of the previous
screen. If you press HOME then , and the cursor is already at
the bottom of the screen, the cursor will move to the bottom of
the next screen.
  Instead of pressing HOME then , try this short cut: press the
special ``-'' key that's on the keyboard's far right side (at the
far right side of the numeric keypad). Similarly, instead of
pressing HOME then , press the numeric keypad's ``+'' key. (To
use those short cuts, make sure you're not in number mode.)
  Pressing HOME twice means ``very very''. If you press HOME
twice and then , the cursor will move ``very very up'', to the
top of the whole document. If you press HOME twice and then ,
the cursor will move ``very very down'', to the bottom of the
whole document.
  Pages A sheet of paper is called a page. The typical page is
tall enough to hold 54 lines of your document. The page is taller
than your screen, which holds just 24 lines.
  If your document is longer than a page, your screen shows a
horizontal dotted line at the bottom of each page. (That line is
called a page break.)
  If you press the PAGE DOWN key (PgDn), the cursor moves down to
the next page. If you press the PAGE UP key (PgUp), the cursor
moves up to the previous page.
  Try this experiment: while holding down the CONTROL key (which
says ``Ctrl'' on it), tap the HOME key. Then press   (to move to
the top of the current page) or  (to move to the page's bottom)
or type a number (for example, type 3 and then ENTER, to move to
page 3).
  When you finish typing a paragraph, you normally press the
ENTER key, which tells the computer to end the paragraph. If you
press the ENTER key while holding down the CONTROL key, the
computer will end the paragraph and insert a page break, so that
the next paragraph will appear at the top of the next page.
                                                    DELETE key
                                         To delete the character
you just typed, press the BACKSPACE key. To delete a character
you typed long ago, move the cursor to that character, then press
the DELETE key (which says ``Del'' on it). To delete a passage
typed long ago, move the cursor to passage's beginning, then tap
the DELETE key several times (or hold down the DELETE key a
while), until the passage disappears.

                                                      Insert
                                         Here's how to insert
extra characters anywhere in your document. Move the cursor to
where you want the extra characters to begin. Then type the
characters you want to insert.
                                         To make room for
characters you're inserting, other characters on that line will
automatically move to the right. They might move past the
screen's right edge, so you can't see them; but they'll come back
onto the screen again when you move the cursor.
                                         Replace characters If
your document contains incorrect characters, you can replace them
by using two methods.
                                         Method 1. Move the
cursor to the beginning of the incorrect characters. Press the
DELETE key several times, until the incorrect characters
disappear. Then type the characters you want instead.
                                         Method 2. Move the
cursor to the beginning of the incorrect characters. Press the
INSERT key (which says ``Ins'' on it); it makes the screen's
bottom left corner say ``Typeover''. Type the correct characters;
they'll cover up the bad characters. When you finish, press the
INSERT key again (to make the screen stop saying ``Typeover'').
                                         Split a paragraph Here's
how to split a paragraph into two shorter paragraphs.
                                         What word should begin
the second short paragraph? Move the cursor to that word's first
letter. Press ENTER. Now you've split the long paragraph into
two!
                                         If you want to
double-space between the two short paragraphs, press ENTER again.
If you want to indent the second paragraph, press the TAB key.
                                         Combine paragraphs After
typing two paragraphs, here's how to combine them to form a
single paragraph that's longer.
                                         By pressing the up-arrow
key, move the cursor to the first paragraph's bottom line. Move
to the end of that line, by pressing the END key. Delete the
end-of-paragraph mark, by tapping the DELETE key.
                                         Tap the DELETE key one
or two more times (to delete unwanted TABs and ENTERs). Press the
SPACE bar (to insert a space between the two sentences).

                  FUNCTION KEYS
  On the keyboard, you'll see function keys labeled F1, F2, F3,
F4, F5, F6, F7, F8, F9, and F10. If your keyboard is modern,
those function keys are on the top of the keyboard, along with
two extra keys (F11 and F12).
  By pressing the function keys, you can give 40 commands, which
are explained on the following pages:
Command What the computer will doKeys to pressPage
Block   define a block        F12 (or Alt F4)187
Bold    start (or stop) making text be boldfaceF6187

Cancel  cancel a command, or restore deleted textF1189
Center  center a title or column heading or blockShift F6187
Columns/tablemake columns for newspapers, tables, mathAlt F7192

Date/outlinetype the date, or create an outlineShift F5199

End fieldmark the end of a field, in a merge fileF9201
Exit    exit from a menu or document or subsectionF7188

Flush righttype next to the right marginAlt F6190
Font    change to a different fontCtrl F8193
Footnotecreate a footnote or endnoteCtrl F7200
Format  margins, tab stops, page & document layoutShift F8190

Graphicsinsert graphics with captionsAlt F9205

Help    help you remember what keys to pressF3202

Indent  indent the entire paragraphF4   190
Indent bothindent and center the entire paragraphShift F4190

List filesdisplay a disk's directory & analyze its filesF5189

Macro   use a macro           Alt F10   198
Macro defineinvent a macro    Ctrl F10  198
Mark texttable of contents, index, cross-reference, listAlt F5200
Merge codesinsert special codes, to control the mergingShift
F9201
Merge/sorthandle form letters, mailing lists, sortingCtrl F9200
Move    move a sentence, paragraph, page, or blockCtrl F4202

Print   print on paper, or show a preview on screenShift F7188

Replace search for a phrase & replace it by anotherAlt F2196
Retrievecopy a document from the disk to the screenShift F10188
Reveal codesshow (or stop showing) hidden codesF11 (or Alt F3)187

Save    copy the document to a diskF10  188
Screen  create lines, boxes, windows, rewritesCtrl F3204
Search  search ahead through text, to find a phraseF2196
Search backsearch back through text, to find a phraseShift F2196
Setup   change the way Word Perfect behavesShift F1202
Shell   leave Word Perfect temporarily & do DOSCtrl F1203
Spell   check spelling, count words, find repetitionsCtrl F2196
Style   invent or use a style Alt F8    198
Switch  switch documents, or switch to & from capsShift F3203

Tab alignin a column of numbers, align decimal pointsCtrl F6190
Text in/outuse other programs, passwords, commentsCtrl F5203
Thesaurusfind synonyms & antonymsAlt F1 197

Underlinestart (or stop) underlining the textF8187
  Put that chart (or a photocopy of it) next to the computer.
  Old versions (such as 4.0) lack the fanciest features (such as
``Shell'' and ``Thesaurus''). Those old versions give the
following keystrokes different meanings:
KeystrokeNew meaningOld meaningWhen the new meaning began
Ctrl F1 Shell     Do nothingversion 4.1
Alt F1  Thesaurus Hard spaceversion 4.1
Alt F8  Style     Page formatversion 5.0
Ctrl F8 Font      Print formatversion 5.0
Shift F1Setup     Super/subscriptversion 5.0
Alt F9  Graphics  Merge codesversion 5.0
Shift F9Merge codesMerge endversion 5.0
F9      End field Merge returnversion 5.1
Alt F7  Columns/tableMath/columnsversion 5.1
  Notice that Word Perfect makes heavy use of the Shift, Alt, and
Ctrl keys. To help you find those keys, Word Perfect comes with
decals to put on those keys. Stick the green decal on the left
Shift key, the red decal on the Ctrl key, and the blue decal on
the Alt key. Since they're decals for keys, they're called
keycals.
                                                     Word Perfect
also comes with a plastic template that you put next to the
function keys. The template contains a chart giving each function
key's purpose. The chart is color-coded. Commands written in
green require that you hold down the green key (the Shift key).
Commands written in blue require that you hold down the blue key
(the Alt key). Commands written in red require that you hold down
the red key (the Ctrl key). Commands written in black are simple:
they don't require any colored keys.
                                                     The template
and keycals are extremely helpful. They makes Word Perfect become
easy. Without them, Word Perfect is a nightmare. If you lose the
template and keycals, buy another set by phoning Word Perfect
Corporation at 800-321-4566.
                                                     Here's how
to use the function keys. . . .
          Center (Shift F6)
  Suppose you've finished typing a paragraph (and pressed the
ENTER key afterwards). Here's how to make the next line be a
centered title.
  Say ``Center'' (by pressing Shift with F6). Type the title,
then press ENTER.

              Bold (F6)
  Here's how to make a phrase be bold (like this).
  Say ``Bold'' (by pressing F6). Type the phrase, then press the
right-arrow key.
  If the phrase you said to make ``bold'' doesn't look bolder
than the rest of your document, adjust your screen's contrast and
brightness knobs.

           Underline (F8)
  Here's how to underline a phrase (like this).
  Say ``Underline'' (by pressing F8). Type the phrase, then press
the right-arrow key.
  If your screen makes the phrase look shaded instead of
underlined, don't worry: regardless of how the phrase looks on
the screen, the printer will underline the phrase on paper.

    Reveal codes (F11 or Alt F3)
  When you tell the computer that you wish to center, make bold,
underline, or do something else special, the computer turns your
wish into a code and inserts that code in your document.
  For example, suppose you type this document in Word Perfect:
We kissed at every moment we could.
Wow!
  To remember that you want ``every moment'' to be UNDerlined and
``Wow!'' to be below, Word Perfect stores your document like
this:
We kissed at [UND]every moment[und] we could.[HRt]Wow!
  The [UND] code means ``start UNDerlining''. The [und] code
means ``end underlining''. The [HRt] code means ``press the Hard
ReTurn key'' so that the next word (Wow!) appears on the line
below.
  The screen normally shows just this:
We kissed at every moment we could.
Wow!
The [UND], [und], and [HRt] are hidden codes that don't appear on
the screen.
  If you WANT the hidden codes to appear on the screen, say
``Reveal codes'' by pressing F11. (If your keyboard doesn't have
an F11 key or you're using a Word Perfect version older than 5.1,
press Alt with F3.) You'll see this at the bottom of the screen:
We kissed at [UND]every moment[und] we could.[HRt]
Wow!
  While you're looking at the [UND], [und], and [HRt] codes, you
can edit them.
  For example, if you change your mind and want ``every moment''
not to be underlined, move the cursor to the [UND] and then press
the DELETE key. The [UND] will disappear. When the [UND]
disappears, the computer automatically makes the [und] disappear
also.
  When you finish looking at codes and editing them, hide them by
pressing F11 (or Alt F3) again.
                                         Whenever Word Perfect
confuses you, say ``Reveal codes'' (by pressing F11 or Alt F3)
and then stare at the codes, to find out what's really going on.
                                         Here are Word Perfect's
popular codes:
Code                                         Meaning
[UND]                                        start underlining
[und]                                        end  underlining

[BOLD]                                       start boldfacing
[bold]                                       end  boldfacing

[Tab]                                        indent (because the
human pressed the TAB key)

[HRt]                                        hard return (the
human pressed the RETURN key)
[SRt]                                        soft return
(computer pressed RETURN because at margin)

[HPg]                                        hard page break
(human pressed CONTROL with RETURN)
[SPg]                                        soft page break
(computer pressed because previous page full)

[Center]                                     start centering (end
centering when reach RETURN or TAB)
                                         Versions older than 5.1
say [Cntr] instead of [Center]. At the end of the centered text,
those old versions say [C/A/Flrt].

                                               Block (F12 or Alt F4)
                                         You can manipulate a
large portion of your document with a single keystroke! The
portion you're manipulating is called the block. It can consist
of several words, several sentences, several paragraphs, or even
several pages.
                                         Here's how to manipulate
a block. . . .
                                         Move the cursor to the
beginning of the block. (For example, to manipulate a whole
paragraph, move the cursor to the beginning of the paragraph.)
                                         Then say ``Block'' by
pressing F12. (If your keyboard doesn't have an F12 key or you're
using a Word Perfect version older than 5.1, press Alt with F4.)
                                         Move the cursor to the
end of the block.
                                         Then say what to do to
the block. For example, choose one of these activities:
To make the block be bold, say ``Bold'' (by pressing F6).

To underline all the words in the block, say ``Underline'' (by
pressing F8).

To center all the lines in the block, say ``Center'' (Shift with
F6) then press Y. Give this command only if each of the block's
lines is brief. For example, give this command to center a poem
or a multi-line headline.

To delete the block, press the Del key then the Y key.

To move the block (so it vanishes from its current location and
reappears elsewhere), press Ctrl with Del. Then move the cursor
where you want the block's new position to be, and press ENTER.

To copy the block (so the block appears twice in your document),
press Ctrl with Ins. Then put the cursor where you want the
block's copy to be, and press ENTER.
                                         Inferior versions If
you're using an old version of Word Perfect (before 5.1) or an
old-fashioned keyboard (lacking an F12 key), your computer won't
understand ``Ctrl with Del'' or ``Ctrl with Ins''. Here's what to
do.
                                         Versions 5.0 and 5.1.
Instead of pressing ``Ctrl with Del'', press Ctrl with F4 and
then type BM. Instead of pressing ``Ctrl with Ins'', press Ctrl
with F4 and then type BC.
                                         Versions 4.0, 4.1, and
4.2. Instead of pressing ``Ctrl with Del'' or ``Ctrl with Ins'',
do the following. Say ``Move'' (Ctrl with F4). Press either the 1
key (to move the block) or the 2 key (to copy the block). Put the
cursor where you want the block to appear. Say ``Move'' again
(Ctrl with F4). Tap the 5 key. You've finished the procedure: the
block has been moved or copied.

               ENDING
  After you've edited your document, you'll want to undo any
mistakes, copy the document onto the hard disk and paper, and
move on to a different document or task. Here's how. . . .

             Save (F10)
  While you're typing and editing a document, the document's in
the computer's RAM chips. It's not on a disk. If the computer's
electricity goes off (because of a thunderstorm or because your
cat pulled the plug), the RAM chips will be erased ___ and so
will your document!
  Another way to accidentally erase your document is to hit a
wrong key. For example, if your cat jumps onto your keyboard and
then sits on your DELETE key for several minutes, your document
will be deleted. Other accidents can be caused by dogs, babies,
novices, and you!
  To protect against accidents, copy your document onto a disk.
Copying a document onto a disk is called saving.
  To save, just say ``Save'' (by pressing F10).
  Then the computer will ask you to invent a name for your
document. The name must be short: no more than 8 letters. For
example, the name can be ``jennifer'' or ``al''. Type the name
you wish and press ENTER.
  The computer will copy the document onto the hard disk (drive
C) and put that document into the WP subdirectory.
  Afterwards, if you improve the document by editing it further,
the improved version will be in the RAM chips, but the disk will
still contain the old version. To copy the improved version onto
the disk, say ``Save'' again (by pressing F10) and press ENTER.
The computer will ask, ``Replace?'' Press Y. The computer will
replace the disk's old version by the new version.
  Save often If you're typing a long document, say ``Save'' every
10 minutes. Then if an accident happens, you'll lose at most 10
minutes of work!

              Exit (F7)
  When you finish editing your document, say ``Exit'' (by
pressing F7).
  The computer will ask, ``Save document?'' Press Y.
  If the document's name appears at the bottom of the screen,
press ENTER. (If no name appears, invent a name for the document
___ and when you finish typing the name, press ENTER.)
  If the computer asks ``Replace?'', press Y.
  The computer will ask, ``Exit WP?'' If you want to exit from
Word Perfect and make the screen show a C prompt, press Y. (If
you do not want to exit from Word Perfect, press N; then the
screen will go blank, so you can create another document.)

        Retrieve (Shift F10)
  Here's how to copy a document from your hard disk to your
screen.
  First, make the screen be blank. (To do that, say ``Exit'' by
pressing F7, then press N twice.)
  Then say ``Retrieve'' (by pressing Shift with F10). Type the
name of the document you want to retrieve from the hard disk
(such as ``jennifer''), and press ENTER.
  Combine documents Normally, you should make
the screen be blank before you say ``Retrieve''. If the screen is
not blank, the computer inserts the retrieved document in the
middle of the document that was on the screen.
                                         So here's how to combine
two documents. First, get one of the documents onto the screen.
Then put the cursor where you want the second document to be
inserted. (For example, if you want the second document to be
inserted at the end of the first document, put the cursor at the
end of the first document.) Say ``Retrieve'', type the name of
the second document, and press ENTER.
                                         Create a document
template Create a document called LETTER. At the top of the
document, type your return address and any other information you
want as your letterhead. Further down the document, say ``Dear'',
but leave the letter's details blank: just create blank lines, by
pressing the ENTER key a few times. At the end of the document,
say ``Sincerely'' or ``Very truly yours'' or whatever other oily
cliché you want to close the letter with. Leave a few more blank
lines (so you can sign the letter), then type your name. Save the
document. Such a document ___ which contains generalities but no
details ___ is called a document template.
                                         Then whenever you want
to write a letter, just retrieve that LETTER document, edit it
(by inserting lines of text after ``Dear''), and save the edited
version under a different name. For example, if the edited
version is a letter to Susan, name the edited version ``SUSAN''.
                                         Besides LETTER, you
should create several other document templates. For example,
create a document template called MEMO, which begins with phrases
such as ``Memo to'', ``From'', ``Regarding'', and ``Date''.
                                         By saving document
templates such as LETTER and MEMO, you'll be saving and
automating all the stupid, tedious, repetitive parts of the
typing task. Then just fill in the blanks ___ creatively!

                                                 Print (Shift F7)
                                         To copy your writing
onto paper, make sure the printer is turned on. Make sure you've
saved your document (to protect yourself in case the printer
doesn't work). Then say ``Print'' (by pressing Shift with F7).
                                         You'll see the print
menu. In version 5.1, the print menu's first two items look like
this:
1 - Full
2 - Page
                                         If you want to print the
entire, full document, choose the print menu's first item by
pressing 1 or F. (Notice that the 1 and F are in boldface. If you
don't see the boldface on your screen, adjust the screen's
contrast and brightness knobs.) If you want to print just the
page that contains the cursor, choose the print menu's second
item by pressing 2 or P.
                                         To become a Word Perfect
expert, get in the habit of choosing menu items by pressing
letters (such as F and P) instead of numbers (such as 1 and 2).
The letters are easier to memorize. For example, to print just a
page, it's easier to get in the habit of pressing P than pressing
2.
                                         Old versions If you're
stuck with an ancient version (4.0, 4.1, or 4.2), you can't
choose by letter: you must type numbers instead.
                                         Selecting a printer
driver A printer driver is software that handles your printer's
peculiarities. For example, a Panasonic 1124 printer driver for
Word Perfect is software that helps Word Perfect handles the
peculiarities of
the Panasonic 1124 printer. Word Perfect comes with 437 printer
drivers.
  When you buy Word Perfect, you must tell it which printer you
bought. That process is called selecting a printer driver. If
you're using version 5.1, you selected a printer driver during
the process of copying Word Perfect to the hard disk.
  If you're using version 5.0 instead, here's how to select a
printer driver. After you turn on the computer and start using
Word Perfect, say ``Print'' (by pressing Shift with F7). From the
menus, choose Select Additional (by pressing S then A). You'll
see an alphabetical list of printers. Press PgDn several times,
until you see your printer. Move the cursor to your printer's
name (by pressing the down-arrow), and press ENTER twice. When
the bottom of the screen says ``Press Exit to quit'', press F7
four times.
  Simple choices The print menu offers you many choices. You've
seen that to print the full document, choose Full (by pressing
F); to print just the page containing the cursor, choose Page (by
pressing P). Here are some other choices. . . .
  To print several pages, choose Multiple (by pressing M), then
say which pages to print. For example, to print pages 2, 5, and 7
through 11, type ``2,5,7-11'' and press ENTER. To print just the
document's last part ___ from page 15 to the end ___ type ``15-''
and press ENTER.
  Suppose JENNIFER is a document you've saved on the hard disk.
If you want to print the JENNIFER document instead of the
screen's document, choose Document, then type ``jennifer'' and
ENTER.
  Preview While you're experimenting with editing and printing
your document, you'll make many mistakes that can waste lots of
paper. To avoid wasting paper, tell the computer to print to your
screen instead of to paper. Printing to the screen is called
previewing. Here's how to do it. . . .
  Choose View from the print menu. (That choice works only if
your computer contains a graphics card.) The screen shows a
picture of a sheet of paper. That picture, called the preview,
shows how the current page will look on paper.
  If your graphics card is VGA, the preview is pretty.
  Underneath the preview, you'll see this menu:
1 100%  2 200%  3 Full-page  4 Facing-pages
That menu lets you modify the preview. Press 1 for a view that's
the actual size, 2 for a magnified view (in which the characters
appear larger than on paper), 3 for a miniaturized view (so that
the entire, full page fits on your screen), 4 for a miniaturized
view that includes not just the cursor's page but also the facing
page. You can also press the arrow keys (to move around the
page), and PgUp & PgDn (to move to different pages).
  When you finish looking at the preview, say ``Exit'' (by
pressing F7).
  Multiple copies The printer assumes you want to print just one
copy of each page. To change that assumption ___ and make the
printer print 10 copies of each page ___ choose Number, then type
10 (and ENTER).
  If you'll print many copies of each page, you can speed up the
printing by choosing mUltiple Printer. (To do that, type U then
P.) That will make the printer print the copies faster ___
especially if you have a laser printer. When doing that
high-speed copying, the printer doesn't bother to collate the
pages. If you want to switch back to regular-speed printing (and
have automatic collating), choose mUltiple
Wordperfect.
                                         Extra fonts If you buy
extra fonts and insert them into your printer (by inserting a
font cartridge or soft font or font wheel), tell the computer
which fonts you've bought. To do so, choose Select Edit
Cartridges from the print menu (by typing SEC). Then follow the
menus on the screen. For example, if you've bought a font
cartridge for a Hewlett-Packard laser printer, move the cursor to
the word ``Cartridges'' (by pressing the down-arrow key), press S
(for Select), move the cursor to the cartridge's name (by
pressing the down-arrow and PgDn keys), press ENTER (so an
asterisk appears), and press F7 five times.

                                                    Cancel (F1)
                                         If you make a mistake,
undo it by saying ``Cancel'' (F1).
                                         For example, suppose you
say ``Print'' (because you plan to print something) but then
change your mind. Just say ``Cancel'': that makes the print menu
disappear, so the screen shows your document again.
                                         Suppose you delete some
text (by pressing DELETE or BACKSPACE or using Typeover mode or
telling the computer to delete a block) but then change your
mind. Just say ``Cancel''. The text you recently deleted will
reappear! If that text doesn't interest you, choose Previous (by
pressing P), and you'll see other text you deleted previously. If
that's still not the text you want, choose Previous again. When
you finally see text that interests you, choose Restore, and that
text will be kept in your document.

                                                  List files (F5)
                                         To find out what
documents are on your hard disk, say ``List files'' (by pressing
F5), then press ENTER.
                                         The computer will create
an alphabetical list of all the files in the hard disk's WP
subdirectory. You'll see the top part of that list; to see the
rest of the list, press the PgDn key several times. In that list,
some of the files are documents you created; the other files are
part of Word Perfect itself.
                                         To manipulate a
document, move the cursor to the document's name (by using the
PgDn key and arrow keys). Then choose one of the following
activities. . . .
                                         To peek at the document,
choose Look (by pressing L). You'll see the beginning of the
document; to see the rest of it, press the PgDn key several
times. When you finish looking at the document, press F7.
                                         To print the document
onto paper, choose Print (by pressing P) then press ENTER.
                                         To change the document's
name, choose Move (by pressing M), then type a new name (and
press ENTER).
                                         To delete the document
from the disk, choose Delete (by pressing D) then press Y.
                                         When you finish using
the list-files menu, say ``Exit'' (by pressing F7).
                                         Two ways to retrieve
Suppose JENNIFER is a document in the hard disk's WP
subdirectory. Here's how to retrieve JENNIFER, so that the screen
shows all the words in the JENNIFER document and you can edit
them.
                                         Method 1 (which you
learned before): make the screen be blank (by pressing F7 then
pressing N twice), say ``Retrieve'' (Shift F10), then type
``jennifer'' (and press ENTER).
                                         Method 2 (which requires
less typing): make the screen be blank (by pressing F7 then
pressing N twice), say ``List files'' (F5), move the cursor to
JENNIFER (by using the arrow keys), then choose Retrieve (by
pressing R).

           TRICKY SPACING
  Here are tricks to control how your document is spaced.

             Indent (F4)
  Before typing a paragraph, you can press the TAB key. That
makes the computer indent the paragraph's first line.
  Instead of pressing the TAB key, try saying ``Indent'' (by
pressing F4). That makes the computer indent all lines in the
paragraph.

       Indent both (Shift F4)
  If you say ``Indent both'' (by pressing Shift with F4) instead
of just ``Indent'', the computer will indent both of the
paragraph's edges ___ the left edge and the right edge ___ so
that the paragraph is centered.

     Margin release (Shift TAB)
  At the beginning of a paragraph, you can press the TAB key
while holding down the Shift key. That makes the paragraph's
first line begin abnormally far to the left: in the left margin.
The paragraph's other lines will be normal.
  Since the Shift TAB command lets you write in the left margin,
it's called the margin release command.
  For an interesting effect, try this: at the beginning of a
paragraph, say ``Indent'' (by pressing F4) and then press Shift
TAB. That makes all the lines of the paragraph be indented except
the first line. That technique ___ in which the first line is
normal and the other lines hang under it indented ___ is called a
hanging indent.

        Flush right (Alt F6)
  If a line of text is short, you can make the line be flush left
or centered or flush right.
This line is flush left.
       This line is centered.
           This line is flush right.
  To make the line be flush left (so it's at the left margin),
just type the line and then press ENTER. To make the line be
centered, say ``Center'' (Shift F6) before typing the line. To
make the line be flush right (so it's at the right margin), say
``Flush right'' (Alt F6) before typing the line.
  You can make part of a line be flush left and part be flush
right, like this:
This part is flush left.This part is flush right.
To do that, begin by typing the part you want flush left. Then
say ``Flush right'' (Alt F6), type the part you want flush right,
and press ENTER.

         Tab align (Ctrl F6)
  When you type a column of numbers, you want their decimal
points to line up, like this:
        74.9
 5,382,931.726
         -.82
  Those decimal points are aligned with each other. Here's how to
type that column of numbers with aligned decimal points. . . .
                                         Say ``Tab align'' (Ctrl
F6) several times, until the cursor's where you want the decimal
point to be. (Each time you say ``Tab align'', the cursor moves
to the right a half inch.)
                                         Type the first number
(74.9). As you type it, the computer automatically shifts it
towards the left, so its decimal point winds up where you
requested. Press ENTER.
                                         Now you're ready to type
the second line. To do so, say ``Tab align'' several times, until
the cursor's where you want the decimal point (underneath the
first number's decimal point). Then type the second number (which
is 5,382,931.726) and press ENTER.
                                         For the third line, say
``Tab align'' repeatedly until the cursor's where you want the
decimal point, then type the third number and press ENTER.

                                           Format page (Shift F8 then P)
                                         Here's how to control
the general appearance of each page if you're using version 5.0
or 5.1. (Earlier versions are quite different and awkward.)
                                         Move the cursor to the
document's beginning. Say ``Format'' (by pressing Shift F8).
Choose Page (by pressing P). You'll see the format page menu.
                                         Page size The typical
sheet of paper ___ like the paper in this book ___ is 8½ inches
wide and 11 inches tall. Computerists say that the page width is
8½ inches and the page length is 11 inches.
                                         The computer assumes you
want that width and length. Here's how to change that assumption.
. . .
                                         In version 5.1, choose
Size Other Select Other (by typing S then PgDn then SO). In
version 5.0, choose ``Size Other'' (by typing SO).
                                         Type the page width in
inches (and ENTER) and the page length in inches (and ENTER).
Then press F7.
                                         Top & bottom margins The
computer assumes you want 1-inch margins at the top and bottom of
each page. To change that assumption, choose Margins (by typing
M), type the top margin in inches (and ENTER) and the bottom
margin in inches (and ENTER).
                                         In this Secret Guide, I
made the margins smaller, so I could squeeze more words onto each
page. I made the top and bottom margins be .3 inches.
                                         Page numbers Here's how
to make the computer print page numbers on all the pages.
                                         Choose Numbering
Position (by typing NP).
                                         On a page, where do you
want the page number to be printed? Type 1 for top left corner, 2
for top center, 3 for top right corner, 4 for top outer corner
(left corner on even pages, right corner on odd pages), 5 for
bottom left corner, 6 for bottom center, 7 for bottom right
corner, or 8 for bottom outer corner. Press ENTER.
                                         Before printing a page
number, do you want the computer to print some words? On page 7,
for example, instead of just printing ``7'' would you rather
print ``Great American Novel - Page 7''? To print words before
each page number, choose Style (by typing S), type the words you
want before each page number (``Great American Novel - Page''),
press the SPACE bar (to leave a blank space after the word
``Page''), and press ENTER.
                                         When you finish telling
the computer about page numbers, press ENTER again.
  That makes the computer number all the pages. The computer
prints ``Great American Novel - Page 1'' on the first page,
``Great American Novel - Page 2'' on the second page, etc. Each
of those messages appears near (but not in) the margins. Each
message is separated from your document by a blank line.
  The messages appear when you print the document on paper (or
look at a page preview). They do not appear on the screen while
you're editing the document.
  Exit When you finish using the format page menu, say ``Exit''
(by pressing F7).

    Format line (Shift F8 then L)
  Here's how to control the general appearance of each line if
you're using version 5.0 or 5.1. (Earlier versions are quite
different and awkward.)
  Move the cursor to the document's beginning. Say ``Format'' (by
pressing Shift F8). Choose Line (by pressing L). You'll see the
format line menu.
  Left & right margins The computer assumes you want 1-inch
margins at the left and right of each page. To change that
assumption, choose Margins (by typing M), type the left margin in
inches (and ENTER) and the right margin in inches (and ENTER).
  In this Secret Guide, I made the margins smaller to squeeze
more words on each page. I made the left and right margins on
this page be .5 inches; but the left and right margins on the
table-of-contents page are just .3 inches.
  Changing the margins can be very handy. If you're a student who
wrote an eight-page paper, and your teacher requires it to be ten
pages long instead, just enlarge the margins and ___ presto! ___
you suddenly have a ten-page paper.
  Justification In a newspaper, each column's right edge is
perfectly straight, like this:

  Notice that the right edge of this paragraph is perfectly
straight. Notice that the right edge of this paragraph is
perfectly straight. Notice that the right edge of this paragraph
is perfectly straight.

In documents that are less formal, each column's right edge
wavers slightly, like this:

  Notice that the right edge of this paragraph wavers slightly.
Notice that the right edge of this paragraph wavers slightly.
Notice that the right edge of this paragraph wavers slightly.
  If the right edge is perfectly straight, the text is said to be
justified. If the right edge wavers slightly, the text is said to
be unjustified or ragged-right.
  To make the right edge be perfectly straight (justified), the
computer slightly increases the space between words. The smartest
word processors (such as Word Perfect) combine three techniques
to make the right edge straight: they increase the space between
some words, decrease the space between other words, and increase
the space between letters in a word.
  Justified (straight) text looks formal, professional, and
distinguished. Unjustified (wavering) text looks informal,
friendly, and cheery.
  Look at ads in newspapers. Notice which ads are right-justified
(to give a ``professional'' image) and which ads are
ragged-right (to give a more ``friendly'' image).
                                         Most of the Secret
Guide's text is justified. That's why, at first glance, this book
looks professional, formal, and distinguished. (Only when you
actually read it do you realize that the Guide's author is a nut,
gone totally bonkers.)
                                         Telling the computer to
``justify'' does not affect the document's appearance on the
screen. It affects just the document's appearance on paper.
                                         The computer assumes you
want to justify. To change that assumption, choose Justification
Left (JL) in version 5.1; choose ``Justification No'' (JN) in
version 5.0.
                                         Double spacing Usually,
the computer prints text on every line. If you're going to print
on paper to hand to your teacher, boss, or publisher, you might
wish to put a blank line between each line of text, so your
reader can scribble comments in those blanks. Having those blank
lines is called double spacing.
                                         The Secret Guide is not
double spaced, because double spacing would require twice as much
paper and double the book's cost. The Guide is single spaced.
                                         The computer assumes you
want single spacing. To double space instead, choose Spacing (by
pressing S) and type 2 (then ENTER). If you type 1.75 instead of
2, the text will look double spaced on the screen but will look
slightly less than double spaced on the printer.
                                         Tab stops You press the
TAB key to indent a paragraph's top line or hop to the next
column in a table.
                                         Whenever you press the
TAB key, the cursor moves toward the right, until it reaches the
next tab stop. You can change the positions of the tab stops.
                                         Traditional typists put
tab stops at half-inch intervals, so that paragraphs are indented
a half-inch, and so each column in a table is a half-inch wide.
The computer assumes those tab stops please you. If they don't,
choose Tab (by pressing T).
                                         You'll see a ruler with
an L at each tab stop. To erase a tab stop, move the cursor to
that L and press DELETE. To create a new tab stop, move the
cursor across to where you want the tab stop and type L (for a
simple tab stop) or D (for a decimal tab stop); when you finish
editing the tab stops, press F7.
                                         To align decimal points
in a column of numbers, you can use two methods. Method 1: create
a decimal tab stop where you want the decimal points to be;
before typing each number, move to that tab stop by pressing the
TAB key. Method 2: create a simple tab stop where you want the
decimal points to be; before typing each number, move to that tab
stop by saying ``Tab align'' (Ctrl F6).
                                         Exit When you finish
using the format line menu, exit by pressing F7.

                                          Format other (Shift F8 then O)
                                         Here's how to leave a
gap in your document, so that you can insert a big handwritten
diagram.
                                         Type the line that you
want above the gap (and press ENTER). Say ``Format'' (by pressing
Shift F8). Choose Other Advance Down (by typing OAD).
                                         Say how tall you want
the gap. For example, if you want the gap to be 3¼ inches tall,
type 3.25 (and ENTER).
                                         Say ``Exit'' (F7). Then
type the line you want below the gap.
                                         The gap appears when you
print the document on paper (or look at a page preview). It does
not appear on the screen while you're editing the document.
             Columns/table (Alt F7)
  You can create newspaper columns and tables.
  Newspaper columns In a newspaper, text is printed in many
narrow columns. In a business letter, text is printed in a single
wide column.
  The computer assumes you want a single wide column. Here's how
to tell the computer you want many narrow columns. . . .
  In version 5.1, say ``Columns/table'' (Alt F7), then choose
Columns Define (CD); in version 5.0, say ``Math/columns'' (Alt
F7), then choose ``Define'' (D).
  You'll see the column definition menu.
  Now the computer assumes you want 2 columns. If you want more,
choose Number (N) then type the number of columns (and ENTER).
  The computer assumes you want the gap between columns to be .5
inches. If you want a different size gap, choose Distance (D)
then type the distance across the gap (and ENTER).
  When you finish using the column definition menu, exit by
pressing F7 just once. Then in version 5.1, choose On (by
pressing O); in version 5.0, choose ``Column-on'' (by pressing
C).
  In the Secret Guide, text is usually printed in 2 columns, but
the table-of-contents page is printed in 5 columns. In the Secret
Guide, the gap between columns is usually .3 inches, but on the
table-of-contents page the gap between columns is less.
  Column jump If you divided the page into several columns,
here's how to jump the cursor from column to column. While
holding down the CONTROL key, tap the HOME key. Then press ■ to
jump right, or press  to jump left.
  Column break Suppose you divided the page into several columns.
If you press the ENTER key while holding down the CONTROL key,
the computer will end the paragraph and insert a column break, so
that the next paragraph will begin at the top of the next column.
  Table In the middle of a document, you can type a table of
numbers. Here's how.
  Put the cursor where you want the table to begin. Say
``Columns/table'' (Alt F7). Choose Tables Create (TC). Say how
many columns you want in the table (for example, 4) and press
ENTER. Say how many rows you want in the table (for example, 7)
and press ENTER. The computer will create a table having 4
columns and 7 rows, so you see this:
╔═══════════════╤═══════════════╤═══════════════╤═══════════════╗
║               │               │               │               ║
╟───────────────┼───────────────┼───────────────┼───────────────╢
║               │               │               │               ║
╟───────────────┼───────────────┼───────────────┼───────────────╢
║               │               │               │               ║
╟───────────────┼───────────────┼───────────────┼───────────────╢
║               │               │               │               ║
╟───────────────┼───────────────┼───────────────┼───────────────╢
║               │               │               │               ║
╟───────────────┼───────────────┼───────────────┼───────────────╢
║               │               │               │               ║
╟───────────────┼───────────────┼───────────────┼───────────────╢
║               │               │               │               ║
╚═══════════════╧═══════════════╧═══════════════╧═══════════════╝
Say ``Exit'' (F7).
  Then fill in those 28 blank cells. Here's how. Type what you
want in the first cell. Press the TAB key; it moves the cursor to
the right, to the next cell. Type what you want in that cell.
Continue the process (pressing the TAB key after each cell),
until you've filled all the cells.
  In each cell, you can type numbers or words or sentences or
paragraphs. If you what you type is too long to fit in the cell,
the computer automatically makes the cell taller (and all the
other cells in the row also), so that the cell can hold several
lines of information.
  When you've typed the last cell (in the bottom right corner),
press the down-arrow key (instead of TAB). Then type the rest of
your document.
  Conflict If you've divided a page into newspaper columns, the
computer refuses to create tables on that page.


          FANCY CHARACTERS
  To make your document more interesting, create fancy
characters. Here's how.

           Font (Ctrl F8)
  Here are samples of popular fonts. . . .
This is a sample of 8-point Times Roman.
This is a sample of 10-point Times Roman.
This is a sample of 12-point Times Roman.
This is a sample of 12-point Times Roman bold.
This is a sample of 8-point Helvetica.
This is a sample of 10-point Helvetica.
This is a sample of 12-point Helvetica.
This is a sample of 12-point Helvetica bold.
This is a sample of Courier.
This is a sample of Courier bold.
This is a sample of Lineprinter.
  In Courier, each character is 1/10 of an inch wide; so
Courier's a 10-characters-per-inch font. In Lineprinter, each
character is 1/17 of an inch wide. In Times Roman and Helvetica,
each letter of the alphabet has its own width: for example, the
letter ``m'' is wider than the letter ``i''.
  Since Courier's characters all have the same width as each
other, they're called monospaced. Lineprinter's characters are
monospaced also. Times Roman and Helvetica are not monospaced;
they're proportionally spaced instead.
  A point is 1/72 of an inch. The first sample is called 8-point
Times Roman because it's 8 points high: the top of the capital T
is 8 points higher than the bottom of the small p.
  In The Secret Guide to Computers, most of the text is 10-point
Times Roman, and most of the headings are 12-point Helvetica (or
14-point Helvetica, which is even larger). In the chapters on DOS
and programming, most of the examples are Lineprinter.
  The computer assumes you want a 10-characters-per-inch font
(such as Courier). To print the document in a different font, you
must say ``Font''. In Word Perfect 5.0 and 5.1, the ``Font''
command is delightfully simple and powerful. That's why I chose
Word Perfect for writing The Secret Guide to Computers.
  To switch fonts, move the cursor to the beginning of the
document (or wherever you want the font switch to begin). Say
``Font'' (Ctrl F8). Then choose Font (by pressing F).
  You'll see a menu of fonts. Move the cursor to the font you
want, then say ``Select'' (by pressing S).
  The font you selected will be used on paper but not on your
screen, which will remain monospaced (except when you preview).
  Spaces after a sentence When you use a monospaced font, put 2
spaces after a sentence or colon. For example. . . .

2 spaces follow this sentence.  Nice!

  When you use a proportionally spaced font, put just 1 space
after a sentence or colon. For example. . . .

1 space follows this sentence. Nice!
                                         Quotation marks When you
use a monospaced font, type a quotation mark by using this
symbol: ". For example. . . .

I saw "Hamlet" last night.

                                         When you use a
proportionally spaced font, use the following trick. . . . To
form an opening quotation mark (``), press the accent key (`)
twice. To form a closing quotation mark (''), press the
apostrophe key (') twice. Although your screen will look ugly ___
I saw ``Hamlet'' last night.
your paper will look beautiful:

I saw ``Hamlet'' last night.

                                         Enhancements After
choosing a font, you can enhance it.
                                         For example, to
underline the font (like this), say ``Underline'' (by pressing
F8). To make the font be bolder (so the characters are made of
thicker strokes, like this), say ``Bold'' (by pressing F6).
                                         To italicize the font
(so the characters are slanted, like this), say ``Font'' (Ctrl
F8) then choose Appearance Italic (AI). To redline the font (so
the background is shaded, like this), say ``Font'' (Ctrl F8) then
choose Appearance Redline (AR).  To strike out the font (so the
characters are crossed out, like this), say ``Font'' (Ctrl F8)
then choose Appearance Strikeout (AS).
                                         To change the font's
size, say ``Font'' (Ctrl F8), and choose Size (S). Then say which
size you want. . . .

To make the font be 20% larger, choose Large.
To make the font be 50% larger, choose Very-large.
To make the font be twice as large, choose Extra-large.
To make the font be 20% smaller, choose Small.
To make the font be 40% smaller, choose Fine.
To make it small & lowered (like this), choose suBscript.
To make it small & raised (like this), choose suPerscript.

For example, if you've been using 10-point type and choose
``Large'', you'll be switching to 12-point type.
                                         You've learned about
many enhancements: bold, underline, italic, redline, strikeout,
large, very-large, extra-large, small, and fine. After giving one
of those enhancement commands, type the text that you want
enhanced, then press the right-arrow key.
                                         If your printer is fancy
(such as the HP Laserjet 3), all those enhancements work. If your
printer is semi-fancy (such as an HP Laserjet 2 or 2P with a
Microsoft Z font cartridge), only some of those enhancements
work, but Word Perfect tries to approximate.
                                         For example, suppose
you're using 10-point type and choose ``Very-large'' (which
should generate 15-point type), but your printer lacks a 15-point
font. If your printer has a 14-point font or 16-point font
instead, Word Perfect will give you one of those fonts as an
approximation to 15-point.
                                         You'll see the
enhancements on paper but not on your screen (except when you
preview).
                                         Here's how to enhance a
block of text that you typed previously. Move the cursor to the
block's beginning. Say ``Block'' (by pressing F12 or Alt F4).
Move the cursor to the block's end. Say ``Font'' (Ctrl F8). Then
say which enhancement you want (such as ``Appearance Italic'' or
``Size Large'').
                Alt #
  You can type these special characters:
       128 Ç   160 á   192 └   224 α
 1 
   129 ü   161 í   193 ┴   225 ß
 2    130 é   162 ó   194 ┬   226 Γ
 3    131 â   163 ú   195 ├   227 π
 4    132 ä   164 ñ   196 ─   228 Σ
 5    133 à   165 Ñ   197 ┼   229 σ
 6    134 å   166 ª   198 ╞   230 µ
 7    135 ç   167 º   199 ╟   231 τ
 8    136 ê   168 ¿   200 ╚   232 Φ
 9 °   137 ë   169 ⌐   201 ╔   233 Θ
10
   138 è   170 ¬   202 ╩   234 Ω
11    139 ï   171 ½   203 ╦   235 δ
12    140 î   172 ¼   204 ╠   236 ∞
13    141 ì   173 ¡   205 ═   237 φ
14    142 Ä   174 «   206 ╬   238 ε
15    143 Å   175 »   207 ╧   239 ∩
16    144 É   176 ░   208 ╨   240
17    145 æ   177 ▒   209 ╤   241 ±
18    146 Æ   178 ▓   210 ╥   242 ≥
19    147 ô   179 │   211 ╙   243 ≤
20    148 ö   180 ┤   212 ╘   244 ⌠
21    149 ò   181 ╡   213 ╒   245 ⌡
22    150 û   182 ╢   214 ╓   246 ÷
23    151 ù   183 ╖   215 ╫   247 ≈
24    152     184 ╕   216 ╪   248 °
25    153 Ö   185 ╣   217 ┘   249 ∙
26 ■   154 Ü   186 ║   218 ┌   250 ·
27    155 ¢   187 ╗   219 █   251 √
28    156 £   188 ╝   220 ▄   252 ⁿ
29    157 ¥   189 ╜   221 ▌   253 ²
30    158 ₧   190 ╛   222 ▐   254 ■
31    159 ƒ   191 ┐   223 ▀
  For example, here's how to type the symbol ñ, whose code number
is 164. Hold down the Alt key; and while you keep holding down
the Alt key, type 164 by using the numeric keypad (the number
keys on the far right side of the keyboard). When you finish
typing 164, lift your finger from the Alt key, and you'll see ñ
on your screen! When you print the document onto paper, the ñ
will also appear on paper.
  Bad code numbers Do not type code 240. It makes the typical
computer refuse to work until you turn the power off and on
again.
  Do not type code 152. What it prints on the screen doesn't
match what it prints on paper.
  On many dot-matrix printers, codes 1-6, 8-20, 22-31, and 250
don't work. On laser printers (such as the Hewlett-Packard
Laserjet 2), version 5.0 prints codes 249-252 wrong, but version
5.1 prints them fine.
                                                 Compose (Ctrl V)
                                         If you're using version
5.0 or 5.1, try the following experiment. Say ``Compose'' (by
pressing Ctrl with V). Then type this:
Type                                       See       TypeSee
Type
See
a`                                         à         a^  â
ae
æ
e`                                         è         e^  ê
AE
Æ
i`                                         ì         i^  î
ao
å
o`                                         ò         o^  ô
c/
¢
u`                                         ù         u^  û
c,
ç

C,
Ç
a'                                         á         n~  ñ
P|                                                                     
e'                                         é         N~  Ñ
Pt
₧
E'                                         É         ~~  ≈
ss
ß
i'                                         í
o'                                         ó         f-  ƒ
??
¿
u'                                         ú         L-  £
!!
¡
                                                     +-  ±
<<
«
a"                                         ä         --  -
>>
»
A"                                         Ä
e"                                         ë         a=  ª
/2
½
i"                                         ï         o=  º
/4
¼
o"                                         ö         Y=  ¥
O"                                         Ö         <=  ≤
*O
°
u"                                         ü         >=  ≥
*.
∙
U"                                         Ü         ==  ≡
**                                                                     
                                         You'll see the following
symbols on paper but not on the screen:
Type                                       See just on PAPER
co                                         ■
ro                                         ■
xo                                         ■

  This chart shows extra characters you can type:
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
 0  ` ■ ░   - ⌠ A ■ ■ ■
 1  ∙ ■ ▒ °  ± ⌡ α ■ ■ ■
 2  ~ ■ ▓ ■  ≤ ■ B ■ ■ ■
 3  ^ ■ █ ∙  ≥ ■ ß ■ ■ ■
 4  _ ■ ▌ *  ■ √ B ■ ■ ■
 5  / ■ ▀   / ■ ■ ■ ■ ■
 6  ' ■ ▐   / ■ Γ ■ ■ ■
 7  " ■ ▄ ¡ 
 \ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■
 8  - ■ ─ ¿  ÷ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■
 9  ' ■ │ «  | ■ δ ■ ■ ■
10  ' ■ ┌ »  < ■ E ■ ■ ■
11  ' ■ ┐ £  > ■ ε ■ ■ ■
12  , ■ ┘ ¥  ~ ■ Z ■ ■ ■
13  , ■ └ ₧  ≈ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■
14  ° ■ ├ ƒ √ ≡ ■ H ■ ■ ■
15  ∙ ■ ┬ ª  ■ ■ ⁿ ■ ■ ■
16  " ■ ┤ º ⌐ ∩ ■ Θ ■ ■ ■
17  , ■ ┴ ½  ║ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■
18  , ■ ┼ ¼  Σ ■ I ■ ■ ■
19  ■ ■ ═ ¢
 ∞ ■ i ■ ■ ■
20  ■ ■ ║ ²  ¬ ■ K ■ ■ ■
21  - ■ ╔ ⁿ ■ ■ ■ k ■ ■ ■
22  ■ ■ ╗ ■ ■  ■ ■ ■ ■ ■
23  ß ■ ╝ ■ √  ■ ■ ■ ■ ■
24  i ■ ╚ ■ ■  ■ M ■ ■ ■
25  j ■ ╠ ■ ■  ■ µ ■ ■ ■
26  A ■ ╦ 3 ■  ■ N ■ ■ ■
27  á ■ ╣ ' #  ■ ■ ■ ■ ■
28  A   ╩ ' ■  ■ ■ ■ ■ ■
29  â   ╬ ' ■  ■ ■ ■ ■ ■
30  Ä   ╒ " ■  ■ O ■ ■ ■
31  ä   ╕ " ■ ∙ ■ o ■ ■ ■
32  A   ╛ " ■ · ■ ■ ■ ■ ■
33  à   ╘ - ■ ° ■ π ■ ■ ■
34  Å   ╓ - _ ∙ ■ P ■ ■ ■
35  å   ╖ <   A ■ p ■ ■ ■
36  Æ   ╜ >   ° ■ Σ ■ ■ ■
37  æ   ╙ O   µ ■ σ ■ ■ ■
38  Ç   ╞ ■   - ■ Σ ■ ■ ■
39  ç   ╥ ■   x ■ ■ ■ ■ ■
40  É   ╡ ■   ■ ■ T ■ ■ ■
41  é   ╨ ■   ■ ■ τ ■ ■ ■
42  E   ╟ ■   ■ ■ Y ■ ■ ■
43  ê   ╤ ■   ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■
44  E   ╢    ■ ■ Φ   ■ ■
45  ë   ═ °   ' ■ φ   ■ ■
46  E   ╫ ■   " ■ X   ■ ■
47  è   ╪ ■   ■ ■ ■   ■ ■
48  I   ─ ■   e ■ ■   ■ ■
49  í   │ ■   l ■ ■   ■ ■
50  I   ─ -   ■ ■ Ω   ■ ■
                                         In that chart, each
column is called a character set.
Column  1 contains European accents.
Column  2 contains exotic accents.
Column  3 contains characters for drawing boxes.
Column  4 contains typographic symbols.
Column  5 contains icons (cute pictures).
Column  6 contains popular symbols for math and science.
Column  7 contains characters for making extra-tall math symbols.
Column  8 contains Greek.
Column  9 contains Hebrew.
Column 10 contains Russian.
Column 11 contains Japanese.
                                         To type one of those
characters, say ``Compose'' (Ctrl with V), then type the
character's column number, a comma, and the row number, then
press ENTER.
                                         For example, to type a
frowning face (which is in column 5, row 26), say ``Compose''
(Ctrl with V), then type ``5,26'' and press ENTER.
                                         If you type a fancy
character (such as a frowning face), it won't appear on your
screen. It will appear on paper if you're using version 5.1.
                                         Version 5.1 can print
every character in that chart, and on every modern printer!
Version 5.0 prints just the simplest characters.
                                         I've shown the first 50
rows of the chart. The entire chart contains 234 rows. To see
what's in rows 51 through 234, experiment ___ or examine appendix
P at the back of the Word Perfect 5.1 reference manual. (You get
that manual when you buy Word Perfect 5.1).

          SEARCH FOR WORDS
  The computer can search for words in the document, in the
dictionary, and in the thesaurus.

             Search (F2)
  Here's how to make the computer search through your document to
find whether you've used the word ``love''.
  Put the cursor where you want the search to begin. (For
example, if you want to search through the whole document, put
the cursor at the document's beginning. If you want to search
through just part of your document, put the cursor at the
beginning of that part.)
  Say ``Search'' (by pressing F2). Type ___
love
(Type just what you want the computer to search for; do not press
ENTER.) Then press F2 again.
  The computer searches for ``love''. If the computer finds a
``love'' in your document, it moves the cursor immediately after
that ``love''. If you want to find the next ``love'' in your
document, press F2 again twice.
  If the computer can't find any more ``love'' in your document,
it says ``not found''.
  Capitals When you tell the computer what to search for, make
sure you type ``love'', not ``Love''. If you type ``love'', the
computer searches for all loves, regardless of how they're
capitalized. If you type ``Love'', the computer thinks you're
insisting on a capital L, so the computer searches just for loves
that begin with a capital L.
  Embedded words When you tell the computer to search for
``love'', the computer will find any ``love'' in your document
___ even if ``love'' is hidden in another word. For example, the
computer will find the ``love'' in ``loves'', ``lover'',
``lovely'', ``glove'', ``clove'', ``clover'', ``pullover'',
``slovenly'', and ``auriculoventricular''.
  When the computer asks you what to search for, try this
experiment: press the SPACE bar, then type ``love'', then press
the SPACE bar again (and then press F2). That tells the computer
to search for ``love'' surrounded by spaces. That prevents the
computer from stopping at ``loves'', ``lover'', ``lovely'',
``glove'', and other weird words that contain ``love''.
Unfortunately, it also prevents the computer from finding these
kinds of ``love'' . . .
next to a hyphen: ``love-hate relationships'' and ``the
fall-in-love syndrome''
ending a sentence: ``I'm in love!'' and ``Are you in love?'' and
``She's in love.''
in a list: ``to love, dream, despair'' and ``two kinds of love:
great and goopy''
starting a paragraph (since that ``love'' is preceded by ENTER or
TAB)
``love'' in quotation marks or parentheses
  Phrases When the computer asks you what to search for, you can
type a whole phrase. For example, instead of telling the computer
to search for any ``love'', tell the computer to search for
``love to sing''.
  Codes Instead of searching for a word or phrase, you can search
for a code. For example, to search for underlines, do this: say
``Search'' (by pressing F2), say ``Underline'' (by pressing F8),
and the press F2 again.
  Skip ahead Suppose you've written a history of America and want
to find the part where you started talking about Lincoln. If you
forget which page that was, no problem! Just put the cursor at
the beginning of the document and tell the computer to search for
``Lincoln''.
                                              Search back (Shift F2)
                                         If you say ``Search
back'' (Shift F2) instead of ``Search'', the computer will search
through the part of the document that comes before the cursor
(instead of the part that comes after).

                                                 Replace (Alt F2)
                                         You can search for a
word and replace it by a different word. For example, here's how
to change each ``love'' in your document to ``idolize''.
                                         Put the cursor at the
beginning of the document, then say ``Replace'' (by pressing Alt
with F2).
                                         The computer asks,
``Confirm?'' Press Y.
                                         Type ``love'', press F2,
type ``idolize'', and press F2 again.
                                         The computer stops at
the first ``love'' in your document and asks, ``Confirm?'' If you
want to replace that ``love'' by ``idolize'', press Y; otherwise
press N.
                                         The computer stops at
each ``love'' in your document and goes through the same routine
(by asking ``Confirm?'').
                                         The computer does all
that fairly well. For example, consider this document:
I love you. Love you! LOVE YOU! I want to kiss your glove.
If you put the cursor at the beginning of that document and
unthinkingly tell the computer to change each ``love'' to
``idolize'', the computer produces this:
I idolize you. Idolize you! Idolize YOU! I want to kiss your
gidolize.
Notice that the computer correctly changes ``love'' to
``idolize'', and ``Love'' to ``Idolize''. Unfortunately, it
changes ``LOVE'' to ``Idolize'' (which ought to be ``IDOLIZE'')
and ``glove'' to ``gidolize''.
                                         Applications If you
write a letter that talks about Fred, then want to write a
similar letter about Sue, tell the computer to scan through your
document and change each ``Fred'' to ``Sue''. If you write a book
about ``How to be a better salesman'', and then a feminist tells
you to change each ``salesman'' to ``salesperson'', make the
computer change them all automatically.
                                         If you're writing a long
advertisement that mentions ``Calvin Klein's Hot New Flaming Pink
Day-Glo Pajamas'' repeatedly, and you're too lazy to type that
long phrase so often, just type the abbreviation ``CKP''. When
you've finished typing the document, tell the computer to replace
each ``CKP'' by the long phrase it stands for.

                                                  Spell (Ctrl F2)
                                         Word Perfect comes with
a disk that includes a list of all popular English words. That
list is called a dictionary. Although that ``dictionary'' does
not include definitions of those words, it does include each
word's correct spelling. The dictionary contains 120,000 words.
                                         You can tell the
computer to check each word in your document against the
dictionary, to make sure all the words in your document are
spelled correctly. That's called checking your spelling or doing
a spelling check or doing a spell check or spell checking.
                                         If the computer notices
that a word in your document is not in the dictionary, here's
what the computer does. It highlights the word, tries to guess
what other words you might have meant instead, and displays those
words on the screen. If one of those words is what you meant, you
can choose it, and the computer will put it in the document in
place of the wrong word.
  For example, type a short document that contains just this one
sentence:
Be huppy!
To spell-check the document, say ``Spell'' (by pressing Ctrl with
F2). From the menu, choose Document (by pressing D).
  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:
A. happy                  B. heap                   C. hep
D. hip                    E. hippie                 F. hippo
G. hoop                   H. hop                    I. hope
J. hopi                   K. hype                   L. hypo
M. whoop

1 Skip-once  2 Skip  3 Add  4 Edit
  Press A if you meant ``happy'', B if you meant ``heap'', C if
you meant ``hep'', etc.
  If you really meant ``huppy'' and want to add that new slang
word to the dictionary, choose Add (by pressing 3). If you really
meant ``huppy'' but don't want to add that slang word to the
dictionary, choose Skip (by pressing 2). If you meant some other
word instead, choose Edit (by pressing 4), type the word you
meant, and say ``Exit'' (by pressing F7).
  When the computer finishes checking the entire document, it
will tell you how many words were in the document. Press ENTER.
  Be careful about adding If the computer gripes about a word you
typed, do not add your word to the computer's dictionary unless
you're sure that you've spelled it correctly!
  Capitals Word Perfect doesn't check capitalization much. For
example, if you accidentally type ``america'' instead of
``America'', Word Perfect doesn't notice the error.
  If you type ``fAt'' instead of ``fat'', Word Perfect 5.1
notices that your capitalization is totally crazy. It gripes by
saying:
Irregular Case
Earlier versions of Word Perfect don't notice that ``fAt'' is
wrong.
  Repeated words Suppose your document contains the sentence
``Save our our planet''.
  Word Perfect's spell checker notices that you typed the word
``our'' twice. It suggests that you delete the second ``our''.
  Computers versus humans Even if you're a spelling-bee champion,
you should make the computer spell-check your document because
the computer can spot tiny typographical errors that human
proofreaders overlook.
  But after the computer checks your document, you should make a
human check the document also, because only a human can realize
that the sentence ``I live you'' is wrong and should be ``I love
you'' instead.

         Thesaurus (Alt F1)
  Suppose you're writing a love story and type the word
``caress''. Can you think of a different word instead, that means
roughly the same thing as ``caress'' but is better?
  If you can't, the computer can! Just ask the computer to use
its thesaurus to find synonyms for ``caress''.
  Here's how. In your document, type the word ``caress''. Move
the cursor to that word. Say ``Thesaurus'' (by pressing Alt with
F1).
                                         The computer prints
this:
caress (v)
   A cuddle
   B fondle
   C nuzzle
   D pet
   E stroke

caress (n)
   F embrace
   G hug
   H  massage
   I touch

caress (ant)
   J beat
   K blow

1 Replace-word  2 View-doc  3 Look-up-word  4 Clear-column
                                         That list gives five
synonyms for the verb ``to caress'' (to cuddle, fondle, nuzzle,
pet, and stroke), four synonyms for the noun ``a caress'' (an
embrace, hug, massage, touch), and two antonyms (opposites) of
``caress'': beat and blow.
                                         Most of those words have
a dot before them. (The only word that does not have a dot is
``massage''.) The dot means: go explore! For example, if you want
to explore ``hug'', press hug's code letter (G), and the computer
will display these synonyms for ``hug'': cuddle, embrace,
snuggle, squeeze, clasp, cling to, grasp, hold. If you want to
erase hug's synonyms from the screen, choose Clear-column (by
pressing 4).
                                         If you want to replace
``caress'' by a synonym, choose Replace-word (by pressing 1),
then type the synonym's code letter. If you want to keep
``caress'' in your document, say ``Cancel'' instead (by pressing
F1).
                                         Suffixes Word Perfect's
thesaurus understands suffixes (such as ``-ing''). If you ask
Word Perfect to find synonyms for ``caressing'' or ``caressed''
or ``caresses'', Word Perfect is smart enough to realize that the
root word is ``caress'': it will give you synonyms for
``caress''.
                                         Unfortunately, Word
Perfect doesn't understand which suffixes are appropriate. If you
ask Word Perfect to find synonyms for ``massage'', it makes the
mistake of giving you synonyms for ``mass''. (Gee, I never
realized that getting a massage was anything like going to Mass!)
                                         Should you use a
thesaurus? If you're having trouble finding the exact word to
express an idea, type the closest word that comes to your mind
and then tell the computer to find synonyms. If you're lucky, one
of the synonyms will be an improvement.
                                         If you're writing a
novel, the computer's synonyms can help give you fresh ideas. For
example, if you're writing a bedroom scene and the only word you
can think of is ``caress'', ask the computer to display synonyms,
which will give you wild ideas! Then ask for synonyms of those
synonyms, to lead your novel into new directions that are truly
``novel''! You can write an entire wild-ride-through-the-crazines
s-of-life novel just by following the themes that the thesaurus
suggests!
                                         And why not a movie! I
can see it now ___ at the end of the movie, the credits say,
``based on a story by Word Perfect's thesaurus''.

          AUTOMATIC TYPING
  Tired of typing the same stuff again and again? Here's how to
make the computer do the typing!

            Repeat (Esc)
  Try this experiment. Press the ESCAPE key (which says ``Esc''
on it), then type an ``x''. The computer will type the letter
``x'' 8 times, like this:
xxxxxxxx
  The ESCAPE key means ``repeat''. So if you press the ESCAPE key
and then the x key, the computer will repeatedly press the x key
___ 8 times.
  If you press the ESCAPE key and then the TAB key, the computer
will repeatedly press the TAB key ___ 8 times.
  If you press the ESCAPE key and then the left-arrow key, the
computer will repeatedly press the left-arrow key ___ 8 times.
  After you press the ESCAPE key, you can type a number. For
example, if you press the ESCAPE key, then type 50, then press x,
the computer will press the x key 50 times (instead of 8 times).

       Macro define (Ctrl F10)
  The computer can help you write love letters.
  For example, suppose you want each love letter to end with this
message: ``As always, I love you passionately, forever, my
darling!!!''. Instead of typing that long message at the end of
each love letter, you can make the computer automatically type
the message for you!
  To do that, choose a letter of the alphabet to stand for the
message. For example, you can choose A or B or C. Here's how. . .
.
  Say ``Macro define'' (by pressing Ctrl with F10). The computer
says ``Define macro''. Choose a letter of the alphabet, such as A
or B or C. Type that letter while holding down the Alt key. (If
the computer says ``Already Exists'', you should press ENTER,
then start the whole procedure over and choose a different letter
of the alphabet.)
  The computer will say ``Description''. Press ENTER.
  The computer will say ``Macro Def''. Type the message you want
to record. For example, type:
As always, I love you passionately, forever, my darling!!!
  At the end of the message, say ``Macro define'' again (Ctrl
with F10).
  In the future, whenever you want the computer to automatically
type the passionate message, just press the chosen letter while
holding down the Alt key.
  Jargon The message that you're recording (``As always, I love
you passionately, forever, my darling!!!'') is called the macro.
The macro's name is ``Alt A'' or ``Alt B'' or whatever other name
you choose.
  Why use macros? You should make a macro of anything you type
often. For example, if you're sending lots of love letters, the
macro can be ``As always, I love you passionately, forever, my
darling!!!''. If you're sending lots of hate letters instead, the
macro can be ``Please pay your bill promptly, to avoid losing
your credit rating and being sent a carton of sour milk''.
  If you're sending lots of business letters, the macro can
contain your name followed by the name of your company and
its address and phone number.
                                         The macro can even
contain commands that make the computer underline, boldface,
center, and do other fancy tasks. The macro can be any sequence
of keystrokes you wish!
                                         Creating a macro is like
turning on a tape recorder: yes, the computer will record any
keystrokes you wish! For example, the macro can even be a
recording of the sequence of keystrokes that make the computer
save your document onto the disk and then print your document on
paper.
                                         Macro files Whenever you
invent a macro, the computer puts the macro's definition onto the
hard disk.
                                         The definition of ``Alt
A'' is put into a file called ``ALTA.WPM''. The definition of
``Alt B'' is put into ``ALTB.WPM''.
                                         Unless you erase those
files, the computer remembers your macro definitions forever.

                                                  Macro (Alt F10)
                                         Instead of making a
macro's name be ``Alt A'' or ``Alt B'', you can make a macro's
name be longer, such as ``jennifer''. You can pick any name up to
8 letters long. Here's how.
                                         Say ``Macro define'' (by
pressing Ctrl with F10). The computer says ``Define macro''.
Instead of typing ``Alt A'' or ``Alt B'', type ``jennifer'' and
press ENTER. (If the computer says ``Already Defined'', say
``Cancel'' and try again.)
                                         Press ENTER again. While
the computer says ``Macro Def'', type the message you want to
record. At the end of the message, say ``Macro define'' again
(Ctrl with F10).
                                         The computer puts the
message onto the hard disk, in a file called ``JENNIFER.WPM''.
                                         In the future, whenever
you want the computer to automatically type that message, say
``Macro'' (Alt F10) then type ``jennifer'' and ENTER.

                                                  Style (Alt F8)
                                         The computer understands
typestyles such as ``Bold'' (F6) and ``Underline'' (F8). You can
invent your own typestyles! For example, here's how to teach the
computer that ``Bunder'' is a new typestyle meaning ``bold and
underlined''.
                                         Say ``Style'' (Alt F8).
Choose Create Name (by typing CN). Type the name for the
typestyle you're inventing (``Bunder''), and press ENTER.
                                         Choose Codes (by typing
C). Type the definition of the typestyle: say ``Bold'' (F6) and
say ``Underline'' (F8). At the end of that definition, say
``Exit'' (F7) three times. Congratulations ___ you've defined
``Bunder''!
                                         Whenever you want to
tell the computer to ``Bunder'', say ``Style'' (Alt F8). You'll
see an alphabetized list of styles that have been created. Move
the cursor to ``Bunder'' (by pressing the down-arrow key several
times) and press ENTER.
                                         Now anything you type
will be in the typestyle ``Bunder''. It will be bolded and
underlined automatically.
                                         When you finish typing
what you want bolded and underlined, press the right-arrow key to
shut off the style.
                                         Chapter headings Suppose
your document's divided into chapters, and each chapter has a
heading like this:

                                        Chapter 7: Laughter at Her Funeral
Note the heading begins with the word ``Chapter''. The heading is
centered. It's bold. It has a blank line above it.
                                         Let's create a style
making all that happen automatically! Here's how.
  Say ``Style'' (Alt F8). Choose ``Create Names'' (CN). Type the
name for the style you're inventing (``Chapterhead'') and press
ENTER.
  Choose ``Codes'' (C). Type the definition of Chapterhead: press
the ENTER key (so the computer will leave a blank line above the
heading), say ``Bold'' (F6), say ``Center'' (Shift F6), type the
word ``Chapter'', and press the SPACE bar (so the computer will
leave a blank space after the word ``Chapter'').
  Say ``Exit'' (F7) three times. Congratulations! You've defined
``Chapterhead''!
  Whenever you want to type a chapter heading, say ``Style'' (Alt
F8), move the cursor to ``Chapterhead'', and press ENTER.
  On the screen, you'll see:

              Chapter
Finish the chapter heading, by typing ``7: Laughter at Her
Funeral'' (or ``8: My Life in Prison''). At the end of that
heading, press ENTER. Then end the style (by pressing the
right-arrow key).
  Saving When you save the document, the computer automatically
saves all the styles you invented for it.

       Date/outline (Shift F5)
  The computer can automatically type the date ___ and create an
outline.
  Date To make the computer type today's date, say
``Date/outline'' (Shift F5), then choose Text (by typing T).
  Suppose you're writing a long memo, but you're not sure how
many days you'll spend writing it, and you're not sure on which
day you'll print it. Instead of putting today's date in the memo,
you want to put a future date in the memo. But you're not sure
which future date. Here's what to do. . . .
  Put the cursor where you want the date to appear. Say ``Date''
(Shift F5) then choose Code (by typing C). That makes the
computer put a special date code into your document. When you
look at the document today, the screen shows today's date; but if
you save the document onto your disk and then retrieve the same
document tomorrow, the screen will automatically show tomorrow's
date instead! If you retrieve the document two centuries from
now, the screen will automatically show the date two centuries
from now! That's how to make the computer automatically update
your letters, even after you die!
  Outline Let's create this outline:
Symphony of an American workday
I. opening blaring chords: the alarm clock rings
II. overture
  A. pissing in bathroom (New Age music)
  B. dressing & trying to rush (Bolero dance getting faster)
  C. eating breakfast (rhythmic crunch)
III. the first act: morning work (development section)
IV. intermission: fast-food lunch & errands (scherzo)
V. the second act: afternoon work (further development)
VI. finale: eating dinner (yummy chomping chords)
VII. coda: evening goof-off fun (rondo)
VIII. dying strains: reaching out hand to set alarm clock
Here's how. Begin by typing the title (``Symphony of an American
workday''). At the end of that title, say ``Date/outline'' (Shift
F5) and choose Outline On (by typing the letter O twice). That
tells the computer to do something special whenever you press
ENTER or TAB.
  Try it! Press ENTER. The computer says:
I.
Finish that line (by typing `` opening blaring chords: the alarm
clock rings'') and press ENTER. The computer says:
II.
Finish that line (by typing `` overture'') and press ENTER. Since
that line said ``II.'', the computer assumes you want the next
line to be ``III.'', so the computer says:
III.
                                         Since you don't want
``III.'' yet, press TAB. That tells the computer you want to
indent (instead of having ``III.''). The computer changes the
``III.'' to:
                                         A.
                                         Finish that line (by
typing `` pissing'' etc.) and press ENTER. The computer says:
                                         B.
Finish that line (by typing `` dressing'' etc.) and press ENTER.
The computer says:
                                         C.
Finish that line (by typing `` eating'' etc.) and press ENTER.
The computer says:
                                         D.
Correct that line by pressing Shift TAB, which tells the computer
to unindent. The computer changes the ``D.'' to:
III.
                                         Finish that line and the
rest of the outline. At the end of the outline's final line
(``set alarm clock''), say ``Date/outline'' (Shift F5) and choose
Outline oFf (by typing O then F).
                                         Besides using Roman
numerals (such as ``I.'') and capitals (such as ``A.''), the
computer knows how to use Arabic numerals and small letters. For
example, the computer lets you create this outline:
An egotist's outline of the universe
I. dead things
II. living things
                                         A. plants
                                         B. animals
                                           1. subhumans
                                           2. humans
                                             a. dumb humans
                                             b. smart humans
                                               (1) smart asses
                                               (2) me
                                                 (a) my gross
anatomy
                                                 (b) my brain
                                                   i) sane part
of brain
                                                   ii) horniness
                                                     a) printable
                                                     b)
unprintable
                                         Families In an outline,
each line is called a topic. Its subtopics are the lines indented
underneath it. A topic, together with all its subtopics, forms a
family.
                                         To edit an entire
family, put the cursor on the family's top line. Say
``Date/outline'' (Shift F5) and choose Outline (O).
                                         Then choose how you want
to edit the family:
If you want to delete the family, choose Delete Yes (DY).

If you want to move the family instead, choose Move (M), then
move the family (by using the arrow keys) and press ENTER.

If you want to copy the family (so it appears twice), choose Copy
(C), then point where you want the copy to appear (by using the
arrow keys) and press ENTER.
                                         When you finish that
editing, the computer automatically renumbers the entire outline,
so that the outline's new first topic is called ``I'', the next
major topic is called ``II'', etc.
               Footnote (Ctrl F7)
  Suppose you're writing a religious pamphlet in which you want
to say ``Read it in the Bible tonight!'' Suppose you want to add
a footnote saying, ``written by God'', so that the main text
looks like this ___

Read it in the Bible1 tonight!

and the bottom of the page contains this footnote:

  1Written by God.

  To do all that, type ``Read it in the Bible'', say ``Footnote''
(by pressing Ctrl F7), then choose Footnote Create (by typing
FC). Type the footnote (``Written by God.''), say ``Exit'' (by
pressing F7), then finish typing the rest of the main text (``
tonight!'').
  The computer will automatically number the footnote: it will
automatically type 1 after ``Bible'' and type 1 before ``Written
by God.'' If your document contains more footnotes, the computer
will automatically number them 2, 3, 4, etc. On paper, the
computer will put the footnotes at the bottom of the page. It
will put a 2-inch horizontal line above the footnotes to separate
them from the main text. You'll see the footnotes on paper but
not on your screen (except when you preview).
  If you insert extra footnotes, the computer will automatically
renumber the other footnotes, so that the first footnote
appearing in your document is numbered 1, the second footnote is
numbered 2, etc.
  Unfortunately, the computer refuses to create footnotes on a
page that contains newspaper columns.
  To print footnotes, the computer normally uses a font that's
simple but boring: Courier. To make footnotes look better, tell
the computer to print them in a small font. Here's how. . . .
  Move the cursor to near the beginning of the document, just
after where you defined the document's font. Say ``Font'' (by
pressing Ctrl F8) and choose ``Size Small'' (by typing SS). Say
``Footnote'' (Ctrl F7) and choose Footnote Options (FO). Say
``Exit'' (F7), then press the right-arrow key.

               Mark text (Alt F5)
  The computer will create an index to put at the back of the
book you're writing. The index lists all of your document's
important words in alphabetical order, and tells you the page
where each word appears.
  To create an index, move the cursor through your document.
Whenever the cursor comes to a word (such as ``Boston'') that you
want in the index, say ``Mark text'' (by pressing Alt F5), choose
Index (by pressing I), and press ENTER twice.
  (If you want to index a multi-word phrase, such as ``Salt Lake
City'', do this: move the cursor to the beginning of the phrase,
say ``Block'', move the cursor to the end of the phrase, say
``Mark text'' choose Index, and press ENTER twice.)
  When the cursor finally comes to the end of the document, say
``Mark text'', choose Define Index (by typing DI), and press
ENTER. Tell the computer where to put the page numbers in the
index; you have five choices:
Command How page numbers are in indexHow an index entry looks
N       No page numbers in indexBoston
P       Page numbers in index simplyBoston 2
(       (in parentheses)      Boston (2)
F       Flush right           Boston                       2
L       Leaders and flush rightBoston. . . . . . . . . . . .2
Type N, P, a parenthesis, F, or L.
  Finally, say ``Mark text'' again, choose Generate Generate (by
typing GG), and press ENTER. The computer will generate the index
and put it at the end of your document on the screen.
  Later, if you edit your document further, you must generate a
new index, by saying ``Mark text'' and choosing Generate Generate
again.
                                                     Merge/sort (Ctrl F9)
                                                     The computer
can alphabetize. For example, type this document. . . .
Here are the most joyous sensations in America:
pastrami
salami
jelly
belly
rose
toes
How many of them have you licked today?
Here's how to alphabetize that list of sensations.
                                                     Put the
cursor at the beginning of that list: put it at the beginning of
``pastrami''. Say ``Block'' (by pressing F12 or Alt F4). Make the
entire list change color (by putting the cursor underneath the
list, at the beginning of ``How''). Say ``Merge/sort'' (Ctrl F9).
Choose Perform (by pressing P).
                                                     The computer
will alphabetize the list. Your document will become . . .
Here are the most joyous sensations in America:
belly
jelly
pastrami
rose
salami
toes
How many of them have you licked today?
                                                     Alphabetizin
g is called sorting.
                                                     To
alphabetize a list of people, type each person on a separate
line. Begin with each person's last name, like this. . . .
Welcome to the Advertising Hall of Fame!
Presenting America's favorite temptresses:

NAME
FAME
Lee, Sara
bakes
Jemimah, Aunt
pancakes
Piggy, Miss
ingratiates
Madonna, Sheeayntno
fakes

Ah, the power of marketing!
To alphabetize that list, put the cursor at the beginning of the
list (the L of ``Lee''), say ``Block'' (F12 or Alt F4), put the
cursor underneath the list (on the blank line under ``Madonna''),
say ``Merge/sort'' (Ctrl F9), and choose Perform (P). The
computer will alphabetize the document so you see this. . . .
Welcome to the Advertising Hall of Fame!
Presenting America's favorite temptresses:

NAME
FAME
Jemimah, Aunt
pancakes
Lee, Sara
bakes
Madonna, Sheeayntno
fakes
Piggy, Miss
ingratiates

Ah, the power of marketing!

       Merge codes (Shift F9)
  Suppose you want to send letters to gay couples, inviting them
to a party. For example, let's send letters to Peter and Paul
(the ``Almond Joy'' couple), Mary and Kaye (the ``Cosmetics''
couple), and Mickey and Donald (the ``Disney'' couple).
  Let's send Peter a letter saying:
Dear Peter,

Come to the party!
We're having a blast!
So get in gear
And move your a--!
Let's send Paul a similar letter that begins ``Dear Paul'', send
Mary a similar letter that begins ``Dear Mary'', etc.
  First, create this mailing list:
Peter{END RECORD}
========================================
Paul{END RECORD}
========================================
Mary{END RECORD}
========================================
Kaye{END RECORD}
========================================
Mickey{END RECORD}
========================================
Donald{END RECORD}
========================================
  To type that document, begin by typing ``Peter''. Next, say
``Merge codes'' (Shift F9) and choose End (E). That makes the
computer say {END RECORD}. Then the computer automatically types
the ``='' row and presses the ENTER key for you.
  Type the next name (``Paul''). Say ``Merge codes End'' again
(Shift F9 then E).
  Type the next name (``Mary''). Say ``Merge codes End'' again
(Shift F9 then E).
  When you finish typing the entire document, say ``Exit'' (F7)
and press Y. Invent a title for your mailing list (such as
``friends''): type the title and press ENTER. That makes the
computer call your mailing list ``FRIENDS'' and put it on your
hard disk. That document is called the mailing list or secondary
merge file.
  The computer asks, ``Exit WP?'' Press N.
  The screen becomes blank. Type this form letter:
Dear {FIELD}1~,

Come to the party!
We're having a blast!
So get in gear
And move your a--!
When you type that form letter, instead of typing a specific name
(such as Peter or Paul) you must type this symbol: {FIELD}1~.
Here's how to type the symbol {FIELD}1~:   say ``Merge codes''
(Shift F9), choose Field (F), then type 1 (and press ENTER).
  When you finish typing the entire document, say ``Exit'' (F7)
and press Y. Invent a title for your form letter (such as
``invitatn''): type the title and press ENTER. That makes the
computer call your form letter ``INVITATN'' and put it on your
hard disk. That document is called the form letter or primary
merge file.
  The computer asks, ``Exit WP?'' Press N.
  The screen becomes blank. Say ``Merge/sort'' (Ctrl F9) and
choose ``Merge'' (M). Type the name of the primary file
(``invitatn'') and press ENTER. Type the name of the secondary
file (``friends'') and press ENTER.
                                         The computer will write
all the letters to all the people! You'll see some of those
letters on the screen. (To see the rest of them, press the
up-arrow key a while.)
                                         To print all the letters
onto paper, say ``Print'' (Shift F7) and choose ``Full'' (F).
                                         That entire process of
combining a mail list with a form letter is called doing a mail
merge.

                                                  End field (F9)
                                         Let's write
mass-produced letters, like this:
Memo to Sue Johnson in New York

Dear Sue,
                                         Gee, your life is really
a trip! I wish I was as lucky as you! Have a fun, hot time in New
York!


Memo to Tom Jones in the beautiful island paradise of Hawaii

Dear Tom,
                                         Gee, your life is really
a trip! I wish I was as lucky as you! Have a fun, hot time in the
beautiful island paradise of Hawaii!


Memo to Devil Satan in Hell

Dear Devil,
                                         Gee, your life is really
a trip! I wish I was as lucky as you! Have a fun, hot time in
Hell!
                                         First, create this
mailing list:
Sue{END FIELD}
Johnson{END FIELD}
New York{END RECORD}
======================================
Tom{END FIELD}
Jones{END FIELD}
the beautiful island paradise of Hawaii{END RECORD}
======================================
Devil{END FIELD}
Satan{END FIELD}
Hell{END RECORD}
======================================
                                         To type that document,
begin by typing the first field, ``Sue''. Then say ``End field''
(by pressing F9); that makes the computer say {END FIELD} and
automatically press the ENTER key for you.
                                         Type the next field
(``Johnson'') then say ``End field'' (F9). Type the next field
(``New York'') then say ``Merge codes End'' (Shift F9 then E).
                                         Do the same for Tom and
the Devil.
                                         When you finish typing
the entire document, say ``Exit'' (F7) and save the document.
Then type this new document:
Memo to {FIELD}1~ {FIELD}2~ in {FIELD}3~

Dear {FIELD}1~,
                                         Gee, your life is really
a trip! I wish I was as lucky as you! Have a fun, hot time in
{FIELD}3~!
                                         To type the symbol
{FIELD}1~,  say ``Merge codes Field'' (Shift F9 then F) then type
1 and ENTER. To type the symbol {FIELD}2~,  say ``Merge codes
Field'' (Shift F9 then F) then type 2 and ENTER.
                                         When you finish typing
the entire form letter, say ``Exit'' (F7) and save the document.
                                         Let the screen become
blank. Say ``Merge/sort'' (Ctrl F9) and choose ``Merge'' (M).
Type the name of the form letter and press ENTER. Type the name
of the mailing list and press ENTER. The computer will write all
the letters to all the people.

           ADVANCED TRICKS
  These tricks let you use Word Perfect more easily ___ and even
draw pictures!

              Help (F3)
  If you forget how to use Word Perfect, say ``Help'' (by
pressing F3). Then press any key on the keyboard, and see what
happens!
  If you press a letter of the alphabet, the computer will
explain all Word Perfect concepts that begin with that letter.
For example, if you press the letter B several times, the
computer will tell you which keys to press for a Backward search,
Block, Bold, Bottom margin, and every other Word Perfect task
that begins with the letter B.
  If you press keys that are not letters, the computer will
explain what those keys do. For example, if you press the INSERT
key, the computer will explain what the INSERT key does. If you
press the F8 key, the computer will explain what the F8 key does,
and how it means ``Underline''. If you press Shift F7 then V, the
computer will explain that Shift F7 V means ``Print View''.
  If you press the ``Help'' key (F3) twice, the computer's screen
will show a copy of the plastic template, which reminds you what
all the F keys do.
  When you've finished getting all the help you need, press
ENTER.

           Controlled hop
  To make the cursor hop, hold down the CONTROL key. While you
keep holding down the CONTROL key, tap an arrow key.
  The right-arrow key makes the cursor hop right to the next
word.
  The left-arrow key makes the cursor hop left to the beginning
of the current word. If the cursor's there already, it will hop
to the beginning of the previous word.
  The down-arrow key makes the cursor hop down to the next
paragraph.
  The up-arrow key makes the cursor hop up to the beginning of
the current paragraph. If the cursor's there already, it will hop
to the beginning of the previous paragraph.
  For the down-arrow and up-arrow keys to work, you must have
version 5.1 and an enhanced keyboard (a keyboard modern enough to
contain an F12 key).

         Controlled deletion
  To delete a simple block of text quickly, hold down the CONTROL
key.
  While you keep holding down the CONTROL key, tap the DELETE key
or END key or PAGE DOWN key. Tapping the DELETE key makes the
computer delete a whole word. Tapping the END key makes the
computer delete the line's ``end'' (the cursor's character and
all characters afterwards on the line). Tapping the PAGE DOWN key
and then Y makes the computer delete the page's ``bottom'' (the
cursor's character and all characters afterwards on the page).
  Old versions If your version of Word Perfect is old ___ 4.0,
4.1, 4.2, or a copy of 5.0 shipped before 1989 ___ tap BACKSPACE
instead of DELETE.
                                                  Move (Ctrl F4)
                                         Here's a fast way to
edit a block that's a single sentence, paragraph, or page.
                                         Put the cursor anywhere
in the block and then say ``Move'' (Ctrl F4).
                                         How big is the block?
Choose Sentence (by typing S) or Paragraph (by typing P) or pAge
(by typing A).
                                         Then choose one of these
activities. . . . To delete the block, choose Delete (by pressing
D). To move the block (so it vanishes from its current location
and reappears elsewhere), choose Move (by pressing M); then move
the cursor where you want the block's new position to be, and
press ENTER. To copy the block (so the block appears twice in
your document), choose Copy (by pressing C); then move the cursor
where you want the block's copy to be, and press ENTER.

                                                 Setup (Shift F1)
                                         You can change Word
Perfect, so that it runs faster. If you're sharing your computer
with beginners who are intimidated by high speed, do not make
these changes unless your colleagues agree! Ask them first!
                                         After getting your
colleague's permission, say ``Setup'' (Shift F1). You'll see the
setup menu.
                                         No backups In version
5.1, you can choose Environment Backup Timed No (EBTN) then
ENTER. That prevents the disk drive from interrupting you every
half hour to make backup copies of your work.
                                         Fast columns To make
multi-column documents appear on the screen faster, tell the
computer to display just one column at a time. Here's how: if you
have version 5.1, choose Display Edit Side No (DESN) then press
ENTER twice; if you have version 5.0, choose ``Display Side No''
(DSN) then press ENTER.
                                         Fast cursor In version
5.0, you can make the cursor move faster by choosing ``Cursor 5''
(C5) and make the disk save faster by choosing ``Fast Yes'' (FY).
                                         Exit When you finish
playing with the setup menu, say ``Exit'' (F7).
                                         F11 and F12 For
keyboards that have F11 and F12 keys, the F11 key is supposed to
mean ``Reveal codes'' and F12 is supposed to mean ``Block''.
Version 5.1 knows that, but version 5.0 doesn't. If you're using
version 5.0 and your keyboard has F11 and F12 keys, here's how to
teach the computer to use those keys. . . .
                                         Your Word Perfect
Conversion disk contains a file called ``ENHANCED.WPK''. Copy
that file to your hard disk's WP subdirectory (by using DOS's
copy command). Then go into Word Perfect, say ``Setup'' (Shift
F1), and choose ``Keyboard'' (K). Make sure the cursor is on the
same line as the word ENHANCED. Press ENTER, then ``Exit'' (F7).
                                         That makes F11 mean
``Reveal codes'' and F12 mean ``Block''. It also makes Shift F11
mean ``Font Appearance Italic'', Ctrl F11 mean ``Font Size
Large'', and Alt F11 mean ``Font Size Very-large''. It also lets
you use this short cut to move a block: put the cursor at the
block's beginning, press F12, put the cursor at the block's end,
press Ctrl F12, put the cursor where you want the block to
appear, press ENTER.
           Shell (Ctrl F1)
  If you say ``Shell'' (Ctrl F1) and then choose Go (by typing
G), the computer will temporarily stop using Word Perfect, so
that you can give DOS commands instead (such as ``dir'').
  When you finish playing with DOS commands, type the word
``exit'' (and press ENTER). That makes the screen return to Word
Perfect and the document you were editing.

        Text in/out (Ctrl F5)
  Word Perfect documents contain hidden codes. Documents produced
by different word processors contain different hidden codes.
  DOS files (such as AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS) contain no
hidden codes at all. Files containing no hidden codes are called
ASCII files.
  Here's how to make Word Perfect edit an ASCII file. . . .
  Exit from any Word Perfect document you were working on, so the
screen becomes blank.
  Say ``Text in/out'' (Ctrl F5). Choose Text Retrieve (by typing
TR). That warns the computer that the file you want to edit is an
ASCII file instead of a Word Perfect document.
  Type the file's name. (If the file's in the root directory
instead of the WP subdirectory, put a backslash before the file's
name. If the file's in a different subdirectory, type a
backslash, then the subdirectory's name, then another backslash,
then the file's name.) At the end of the file's name, press
ENTER.
  The file will appear on the screen. Edit the file by using the
same commands as if you were editing a Word Perfect document.
  When you finish editing the file, say ``Text in/out'' (Ctrl F5)
and choose Text Save (by typing TS). Press ENTER, then Y. That
saves the document as an ASCII file instead of a file containing
Word Perfect hidden codes. Congratulations!
  To erase the screen (so you can edit another document), say
``Exit'' (F7). But when the computer asks ``Save document?'', say
``No'' (N). If you make the mistake of saying ``Yes'', the
computer will save the document in Word Perfect form (including
Word Perfect's hidden codes), which will destroy the ASCII form
you already saved.
                                                 Switch (Shift F3)
                                         The ``Switch'' command
lets you switch capitalization and documents.
                                         Capitalize Suppose
you've typed some text, then change your mind and want to
capitalize it. Here's how to capitalize the block.
                                         Put the cursor at the
block's beginning. Say ``Block'' (by pressing F12 or Alt F4). Put
the cursor at the block's end (so the entire block changes
color).
                                         Say ``Switch'' (by
pressing Shift F3). Choose Uppercase (by typing U).
                                         Uncapitalize Here's how
to uncapitalize a block.
                                         Put the cursor at the
block's beginning. Say ``Block''. Put the cursor at the block's
end.
                                         Say ``Switch'' (by
pressing Shift F3). Choose Lowercase (by typing L).
                                         The computer will
uncapitalize all the letters in the block ___ except possibly the
first letter in each sentence.
                                         Switch documents Word
Perfect makes the computer's RAM hold two documents at a time.
They're called document 1 and document 2. When you start using
Word Perfect, you're manipulating just document 1. That's the
document you're typing and editing. While you're dealing with
document 1, the screen's lower-right corner says ``Doc 1''.
                                         To switch to document 2,
say ``Switch'' (by pressing Shift F3). Then the screen's
lower-right corner says ``Doc 2'', and you're manipulating
document 2.
                                         At first, document 2 is
blank. You can manipulate document 2 by using all the Word
Perfect commands. For example, you can type some sentences into
document 2, or you can make document 2 be a copy of a saved
document (by saying ``Retrieve'').
                                         To switch back to
document 1, say ``Switch'' again.
                                         Here's how to move or
copy a block from document 2 to document 1. Put the cursor at the
beginning of document 2's block. Say ``Block'' (F12 or Alt F4).
Put the cursor at the end of the block. Tell the computer you
want to move or copy the block. (For example, if you're using
version 5.1 with enhanced keyboard, say ``move'' by pressing Ctrl
DELETE or say ``copy'' by pressing Ctrl INSERT.) Put the cursor
where you want the block to appear in document 1 (by saying
``Switch'' and then pressing the arrow keys). Press ENTER.
                                         When you finish playing
with document 2, put the cursor back in document 2 and then say
``Exit''. When the computer asks, ``Save document?'', answer the
question. When the computer asks, ``Exit doc 2?'', press Y. That
makes document 2 become blank and puts the cursor back in
document 1.
          Screen (Ctrl F3)
  The ``Screen'' command lets you split the screen into windows
and draw lines.
  Split screen Try this experiment: say ``Screen'' (by pressing
Ctrl F3), choose Window (by pressing W), then type 11 (and
ENTER). Now the top 11 lines of your screen show document 1; the
bottom part of your screen shows document 2. Computerists say
that the screen is split into two windows; each window shows a
document.
  The cursor's in document 1. To move the cursor to document 2,
say ``Switch'' (Shift F3). To move the cursor back to document 1,
say ``Switch'' again.
  At first, document 2 is blank. When the cursor is in document
2, you can manipulate document 2 by using all the Word Perfect
commands.
  When you finish playing with document 2, put the cursor back in
document 2 and then say ``Exit''. When the computer asks, ``Save
document?'', answer the question. When the computer asks, ``Exit
doc 2?'', press Y. Document 2 becomes blank. To devote the whole
screen to document 1 (and stop the split-screen windowing), do
this: say ``Screen'' (Ctrl F3), choose ``Window'' (W), then type
24 (and ENTER).
  Draw lines To draw a line easily, put the cursor where you want
the line to begin.
  At that place, make sure you're using a monospaced font (in
which all the characters have the same width as each other). Make
sure you're not in a justified paragraph (move the cursor out of
the paragraph, or change the paragraph to ragged-right).
  Say ``Screen'' (Ctrl F3) and choose Line (L).
  Then draw a line by pressing the arrow keys. For example, to
make the line go to the right a distance of 3 characters, press ■
three times. To make the line go to the right and then down,
press ■ and then .
  To switch to a double line, press 2. To switch to a line made
of asterisks, press 3. To revert back to a simple line, press 1.
  To draw a box of size 5, press ■ five times, then  five times,
then  five times, then  five times.
  When you finish drawing, say ``Exit'' (by pressing F7).

          Graphics (Alt F9)
  Here's a more sophisticated way to draw lines. This
sophisticated way works anywhere in your document (even if you're
using a proportionally spaced font or you're in a justified
paragraph). This sophisticated way will produce beautiful lines
on paper, though not on your screen (except when you preview).
  Horizontal line To draw a horizontal line, put the cursor where
you want the line to begin, say ``Graphics'' (Alt F9), and choose
Line Horizontal (LH).
  The computer assumes you want the horizontal line to go
completely across the column of text (from the column's left edge
to the column's right edge). If you'd rather make the line go
just from the cursor to the column's right edge, choose
Horizontal Right (HR).
  Say ``Exit'' (F7).
  Vertical line To draw a vertical line, put the cursor where you
want the line to begin, say ``Graphics'' (Alt F9), and choose
Line Vertical (LV).
  The computer assumes you want the vertical line to be in the
left margin. If you'd rather put the line at the cursor's
position, choose Horizontal Set (HS) then ENTER.
  The computer assumes you want the line to go completely up and
down the page (from the top margin to the bottom margin). If
you'd rather make the line go just from the cursor to the bottom
margin, choose Vertical Bottom (VB).
  Say ``Exit'' (F7).
  Box Before drawing boxes, tell the computer what kind of boxes
you like. Here's how.
  Put the cursor at the beginning of your document. Say
``Graphics'' (Alt F9), then choose Box Options Border (by typing
BOB).
  You can make the left edge of each box be a Single line (S),
Double line (D), dAshed line (A), dOtted line (O), Thick line
(T), Extra-thick (E), or have No line at all (N). Type one of
those letters. Do the same thing for the box's right edge, top
edge, and bottom edge.
  The computer assumes you want the interior of each box to be
light gray (10% black and 90% white). If you prefer a darker
shade (20% black), choose Gray (G) then type 20 (and ENTER).
  Say ``Exit'' (F7).
  Now that you've told the computer what kind of boxes you like,
create some!
  Here's how to create a box that's 3.8 inches wide and has the
word ``Love'' in the middle. Put the cursor where you want the
box to begin. Press the ENTER key (so you're starting a new
paragraph). Say ``Graphics'' (Alt F9), choose Box Create Size
Width (BCSW), type 3.8 (and ENTER), choose ``Edit'' (E), type
``Love'', and press F7 twice.
  On paper, the box will appear next to the column's right edge.
The box will be at or slightly below where the cursor was.
  After creating the box, try typing several sentences, so that
you've completed a paragraph. That paragraph will appear next to
the box. The computer will make the paragraph narrow, to leave
room for the box.
  Instead of making the box contain just ``Love'', try a longer
phrase! While typing it, try changing fonts, centering, and doing
whatever other tricks you wish! The box can even contain a
multi-paragraph essay!