Detailed Instructions of the Menu Bar using Tex-Edit Plus
Apple Menu:
About Tex-Edit Plus... this is where you’ll find the Help guide in Tex-Edit Plus.
File Menu:
New N to create a new file using the text editor.
Open... O to open a file using the text editor.
Insert... to insert a file where your cursor is located.
Close W to close the currently open window.
Save S to save changes you’ve made to the file.
Revert to revert your actions to the current file.
Page Setup... to customize your printer or fax settings.
Print or Fax Options... P to set margins before printing/faxing.
Print/Fax... to print the currently open window or send a fax.
Preferences... to set functions of Tex-Edit Plus to your liking. Use the popup menu to choose different preferences functions.
Edit menu:
Undo Z will undo your last action.
Select All A will select all text, sound and graphics.
Insert Page Break \ will insert a page break for printing or faxing.
Special Menu:
Find/Replace F will find/replace a word in the currently open window.
Find Again G this is helpful when writing code or html.
Change Case allows you to select a word or sentence and change it to upper or lower case letters, etc.
Quick Modify use this if you know what your doing.
Modify Document... this is used when copying from a BBS or a page from the Internet and repasting to a document. It gets rid of all those unneeded spaces and goofy looking characters.
Modify Selection M is the same as above only you modify the selected text.
Go to Line # L will find the line number your looking for.
Word Count Y will give you a count of all words, sentences and paragraphs in the currently open window.
Font Menu:
will select a font that is available to you in your System Folder. Many fonts may be found on the Internet. One place to look is at http://www.apple.com (Apple Computer Inc.). The fonts in Mac’s Talkin’ Dictionary are mostly Bookman and Chicago. The Bookman font is available through System 7.5.
Size Menu:
will change the text size of the selected text.
Style Menu:
Tab Options is actually in the Preferences...
Sound Menu:
Read Entire Document R does not seem to work on my Mac. You may Select All A then use 6 to have the entire document read to you.
Read Selection 6 will read the selected text for you.
Stop . stops reading the text.
Turn Speech On/Off J this will turn on or off the speech. Check this if your speech is not working correctly.
Speech Options... here you may choose a voice that is present in your Voices Folder (located in the Extensions Folder). Also you may change the Speech Rate, Voice Pitch and Modulation.
Auto-Highlighting allows the selected text to be highlighted while your computer reads the selected text, so that you may follow along with the Speech Manager.
Record Sound... this opens the sound recorder so you may add your own voice to the document.
Insert Sound... allows you to insert a sound file to your document.
Windows Menu:
Switch / allows you to switch currently open windows. If you have chapters A, B and C open at once, you may switch to either chapter, for example.
Separator Line below this line shows the currently open windows (documents). You may use these command keys to quickly switch between open document 1, 2, 3, 4, etc.
Required items to run the Macintosh for system 7.5 are:
Apple CD-ROM
Apple Photo Access
Foreign File Access
High Sierra file access
ISO 9660 file access (these 5 extensions are needed to enable the CD-ROM player).
Audio Volume Extension
Chooser (optional) switch to what you need before disabling the Chooser.
Finder
QuickTime
System Enabler or Serial Update
Apple Menu Options (if you want your Apple Menu to display sub-folders).
General Controls (control panel)
Memory (control panel)
System
Required items to run the Macintosh for system 6.xx are:
System
Finder
Many control panels, system extensions and printer descriptions that you don’t use can be trashed to free up disk space. The more extensions and control panels you have installed and running the slower your Macintosh will run. Another solution besides trashing these items is to disable them, by putting unused items in the Disabled folder/by using the Extensions Manager to load your choice of items at start-up. Here you can create different startup sets, like one for Multimedia applications, another for Programming, another for Network and so on. Controlling these items at startup also prevents your computer from crashing when incompatible system extensions are present. I have found that the UMAX scanner’s system extensions are incompatible with many Macintosh system extensions, therefore if you have this problem, open the Extensions Manager in the control panels folder and set the popup menu to “System 7.5 only” or whatever popup menu you have that has the least number extensions that will load at startup. Then go through and uncheck (disable) the other extensions that are not needed or are causing your Macintosh not to startup or run functionally. Here are 5 pictures showing all the extensions that load at startup on my Macintosh Performa 6290 PPC for the UMAX scanner to function effectively:
The items (extensions) that are unchecked do not load at startup.
