{S:X;X;0;1;Before you start, if this window is not wide enough to display all of the text in the paragraphs below, click on the Spectacles icon at the top-left of this window, click on Fit and click on OK. This will change the window size so that a whole page width appears on the screen.}
{S:X;X;0;2;If you are using one of modes 12 or 15 on a low resolution screen you may find that the text is a little small and hard to read. You can improve this by changing to screen mode 16 (try mode 35 if you have RISC OS 3) and repeating the action in the previous paragraph.}
{S:X;X;0;3;Welcome}
{S:X;X;0;4;Welcome to Wordz, the new word processor from Colton Software. This demonstration disc will give you a browse around Wordz, and a feel for its user interface and features. You won't be able to save or print any documents that you create in the demonstration version\\\; you have to have the real thing to do that! You also cannot use the spelling checker in the demonstration version.}
{S:X;X;0;5;The other thing you don't have is the Wordz User Guide which is a rich source of both tutorial and reference material about Wordz. So bear in mind that if you don't understand something in the demonstration version of Wordz, it may be that a glance at the User Guide would make it easy.}
{S:X;X;0;6;This document is an introductory tutorial to using Wordz. If you wish you can simply read through the text. But to get the best out of the Wordz Demonstration disc you should also do the tasks as you come across them. You should not find them hard, but they will teach you a great deal. }
{S:X;X;0;7;That's enough welcome, let's get going.}
{S:X;X;0;8;The button bar{ITR-X}By now, you will have noticed that at the top of the Wordz window is the button bar. The button bar has icons for little operations that you will be using a lot. Immediately beneath the button bar is the status line. This gives you lots of useful information about Wordz and the document that you are working on. }
{S:X;X;0;9;Task 1{ITT-X}Move the pointer over the buttons in the button bar and see how much you learn from the status line. }
{S:X;X;0;10;You probably now have some idea of what each button does. Let's try some of them out. The four buttons in a group to the right of the specs are the justification buttons. We will use them to change the justification of this paragraph. }
{S:X;X;0;11;Task 2{ITT-X}Point at the paragraph above and click the left button of the mouse. This will place the caret in the paragraph. Now point at the centre justify button in the button bar and click on it. Try clicking on the other buttons and see what effect each button has on the paragraph. Notice the difference between the actions of the left justify button and the full justify button.}
{S:X;X;0;12;Now you can see how to change the justification of a single paragraph. To change the justification of several paragraphs at once you can select the paragraphs and click on the buttons. To select several paragraphs, point at the first paragraph, press the left button on the mouse and drag the mouse down to the last paragraph you want in the selection. To clear a selection, simply click anywhere in the text.}
{S:X;X;0;13;Moving along the button bar, ignore the S and E buttons for the time being and investigate the Bold and Italic buttons. }
{S:X;X;0;14;Task 3{ITT-X}In the previous sentence, select the words "button bar". To do this, point at the first b, press the left button on the mouse and drag to the r of bar. The two words will appear as white letters on a black background. Click on the italic button in the button bar. Try making different selections and clicking on the bold and italic buttons.}
{S:X;X;0;15;Moving on further, ignore the tab-stop markers (the up-arrows) and look at the copy, cut and paste buttons. They are probably a faint grey. Buttons and menu entries are greyed out when they can't be used. Copy makes a copy of the selection inside Wordz in an area called the clipboard. Cut removes the selection from the text and puts it on the clipboard. When there is something on the clipboard, the paste button lights up. Paste inserts whatever is on the clipboard at the caret position. }
{S:X;X;0;16;Task 4{ITT-X}In the paragraph above, select the words "greyed out". Notice that the Copy and Cut buttons light up when there is a selection. Click on the Copy button. Click somewhere else in the paragraph and click on Paste. The words will be pasted back into the text at the new position. Try using Cut and Paste to move some words from one place to another.}
{S:X;X;0;17;The last two buttons are for saving and printing. Clicking with the left mouse button on either save or print will bring up the save or print dialogue boxes. If your document has been saved once and you click with the right mouse button on save, Wordz will immediately save the file back to the disc without prompting you with the dialogue box.}
{S:X;X;0;18;The ruler}
{S:X;X;0;19;Beneath the status line is the ruler. The ruler shows the position of the left margin, paragraph margin, any tab stops, the right margin and the column width. By dragging any of these markers in the ruler, you can change the settings.}
{S:X;X;0;20;Task 5{ITT-X}Put the caret in the paragraph above and identify in the ruler the left margin, the paragraph margin, the right margin and a left tab marker. Drag the paragraph margin to the right of the left margin and watch what happens when you release it. Experiment with each of the markers.}
{S:X;X;0;21;The left margin is the main control and determines the position of the left edge of the paragraph. The paragraph margin determines the indent of the first line of the paragraph. The right margin determines the position of the right-hand edge of the paragraph.}
{S:X;X;0;22;Page display}
{S:X;X;0;23;The Wordz window is completely wysiwyg. This horrible acronym stands for "What You See Is What You Get". Wordz shows you on the screen what will be printed out. You will already have noticed that there is a faint grey border around the edge of the page area. This is the paper margin and represents the part of the paper that the printer cannot print on. At the top and bottom of the page you will see a faint grey line indicating the boundary between the work area and the header and footer margins. To the left of these grey lines you will see little markers in the side ruler. }
{S:X;X;0;24;Task 6{ITT-X}At the top of this page identify the header margin marker in the side ruler and drag it up and down. Identify also the header offset marker in the side ruler and drag it up and down. Observe the effects these actions have on the header and and the text display. Click in the header and type your name. Move to a header on a different page and see what it is now set to. }
{S:X;X;0;25;If you would like more of your screen for editing your document you may like to switch out of the Full page display into the Work area display. You can select this in the View control dialogue box which is what you get when you click on the specs at the top-left.}
{S:X;X;0;26;Styles{ITR-X}Styles are your friends. They help you to provide a consistent look to your document. A style is a collection of information about how you want your text to appear. An example of a style is the layout of the tasks in this document. Each task is in red text, is indented at both left and right and has a hanging paragraph margin containing the task number. Another example of style usage is the font that the subheadings are in. The subheadings "Styles" and "Tables" and "Miscellaneous" all have the same look. }
{S:X;X;0;27;The great advantage of styles is that if you want your document to look different you can change your style definitions and everything in the style is changed.}
{S:X;X;0;28;Task 7{ITT-X}Put the caret in this paragraph. In the ruler, find the left tab. Notice that when you are pointing at the tab position the status line tells you that it is in the style called Task. Drag the left tab 2cm to the right. When you let go, notice that the first line of this paragraph changes so that the gap between "7" and "Put" has grown. There is a tab character between the two and Wordz places the word "Put" at the tab position.{ITR-X}{ITR-X}{ITT-X}Move back up the document to Task 6 and notice that the first line of that has changed as well. Confirm that the first line of every task instruction has changed. Move back to task 7, click in this paragraph again and drag the tab back so that it is in the same place as the left margin. Notice that the first line of text now lines up with the rest of the paragraph.}
{S:X;X;0;29;When you dragged the tab in task 7, you were changing the style called Task. When you made the change all of the text in that style changed. Let's try another example.}
{S:X;X;0;30;Task 8{ITT-X}The previous sentence is underlined. In the sentence before that make a selection of the words "all of the text". Now click on the Style button in the button bar. You will see a dialogue box containing a list of styles. The last one is Underline. Click on Underline and click on Apply. The style is applied to the selection and the phrase becomes underlined. }
{S:X;X;0;31;There are many different things that you can set in styles although styles should usually be kept as simple as possible. When changing styles, margins and tab stops can be changed directly in the ruler, but most things need to be changed in the style editor. The style editor is a very large dialogue box which is divided into sections. We are just about to investigate the style editor and we will be working in the Text section. }
{S:X;X;0;32;Task 9{ITT-X}Arrange your window so that this paragraph is at the bottom of the screen. The style editor box is large and you will need to read this paragraph while it is on the screen. {ITR-X}Click on the style button again, click on Underline and this time click Change. The style editor will appear. Keep it at the top of the screen and follow this text at the bottom. You should be able to scroll the window with the mouse on the scroll bar whilst keeping the style editor on the screen. {ITR-X}In the style editor, there are six sections listed at the left. One of them has a red diamond by it indicating that it is the current one. If this is not Text, click on Text to make it current.{ITR-X} In the middle of the style editor you will see a red square next to u . This indicates that underlining is switched on. Click on the greyed square immediately above. This will switch on italics. Click OK. Everything in the Underline style, including the following sentence becomes italicised.}
{S:X;X;0;33;{ITT-X}{ITT-X}This sentence is in the underline style.}
{S:X;X;0;34;There is plenty more in styles but that is quite enough for now! If you would like to investigate styles a little more, work out why the Task text comes up in red and change it to green. (On aesthetic grounds you'll probably want to change it back to red again afterwards!) You might also like to investigate the Region editor on the Style menu. This shows you what styles and effects are set at any point in the document and enables you to remove them.}
{S:X;X;0;35;Tables}
{S:X;X;0;36;One of the most useful parts of Wordz is its facilities for making tables. The following is a simple table which you may have seen before. The grey background has been made by applying a style.{ITR-X}}
{S:X;X;0;42;Task 10{ITT-X}Click after the word "network" and type "is ideal but not necessary". Watch what happens when the text you are typing fills the cell. With the caret still in that cell, point into the ruler and identify the column width marker. Drag the column width marker until the column is 5cm wide. Watch what happens when you release the marker. }
{S:X;X;0;43;Tables in Wordz are very flexible and usually much easier to create than tables in other software. As you have seen cells automatically expand and contract to fit the text inside them, and you can easily change the widths of columns. You can change the height of rows by dragging the row height marker in the side ruler. If you do this the height of the row will stay fixed at that size, no matter what text you put in the row, until you free it. You can free it by double-clicking on the row height marker.}
{S:X;X;0;44;If you would like to investigate tables further, look in the directory called tables on the Demonstration disc. This has some sample tables which you can use as starting points for making your own tables. You might also like to investigate marking just two or three cells in one column, and then dragging the column width marker with the right-hand mouse button. This enables you to change column widths within the table and, together with applying styles, is one of the key techniques you can use when making forms. The Box command on the Styles menu enables you to change the style of grid lines around selected cells and was used to remove the grid lines at the top left of the table above.}
{S:X;X;0;45;More developed tables are in the directories Yearplans and Forms. Yearplans has two year planners, an A4 version and an A2 version. Forms contains the latest (as I write!) Colton Software price list and a separate ordering form which might be useful as a starting point for other forms.}
{S:X;X;0;46;Pictures}
{S:X;X;0;47;You can drag into Wordz draw files and sprite files and so annotate your documents with pictures. As the text moves up and down the document so the picture will move too. Once incorporated in your document you can drag the pictures around and resize them. Pictures can also be used as backdrops to your documents. You can use backdrops to create stationery. }
{S:X;X;0;48;The directory Borders has an example of using Backdrops to create a border around the page.}
{S:X;X;0;49;Miscellaneous}
{S:X;X;0;50;Make a selection and use Case on the Edit menu to make it all upper case, or all lower case or a mixture.}
{S:X;X;0;51;Keystrokes. Wordz has a number of key shortcuts which help you edit your document without having to move your hand from the keyboard to the mouse. These include:}
{S:X;X;0;52;F3:{ITT-X}Save{ITR-X}F4: {ITT-X}Search{ITT-X}{ITR-X}Ctrl A:{ITT-X}Select whole document {ITR-X}Ctrl B:{ITT-X}Bold{ITR-X}Ctrl C:{ITT-X}Copy{ITR-X}Ctrl I:{ITT-X}Italic{ITR-X}Ctrl K:{ITT-X}Check selection or document{ITR-X}Ctrl N:{ITT-X}Next match in Search{ITR-X}Ctrl P: {ITT-X}Select paragraph{ITR-X}Ctrl R: {ITT-X}Start Region editor{ITR-X}Ctrl S: {ITT-X}Swap case{ITR-X}Ctrl V:{ITT-X}Paste{ITR-X}Ctrl W: {ITT-X}Select word, add word to selection{ITR-X}Ctrl X:{ITT-X}Cut{ITR-X}Ctrl Z: {ITT-X}Clear selection}
{S:X;X;0;53;Conclusion}
{S:X;X;0;54;If you have read through most or all of this document and worked through the examples you should now congratulate yourself on learning a considerable amount about Wordz. Hopefully you will have found the tasks straightforward. This is not because we have deliberately made them easy for the purposes of the demonstration. We haven't. You have been learning how to use Wordz and if you were now to sit down in front of the real thing you would be able to start work immediately.}
{S:X;X;0;55;We hope that you have enjoyed this demonstration and that you will soon enjoy using Wordz to create your own documents. }
{S:X;X;0;57;If you have further questions which have not been answered by this demonstration disc or the publicity material for Wordz, please call}
