<:#1136,9748>We at Mercury Sports have selected a new word processor
Ami Pro. An evaluation group has been studying the alternatives for the last few months and has unanimously chosen Ami Pro for its power and extreme ease of use.
<:f>Ami Pro offers an excellent tutorial for learning the basics. And the on-line help feature is so detailed, you will never be left in the dark.
<:#852,9748>Most word processors force you to think in words alone, while most people think in pictures, symbols, and colors too. Finally there's a word processor that works and thinks the same way you do
visually.
@Heading@<:#422,9748>Preview
@Subhead@<:#284,9748>Style sheets
<:#852,9748>The only word processor that lets you preview your style sheets before you choose. Need to see the differences between several memo style sheets? Just click on preview and know exactly what your memo is going to look like.
@Subhead@<:#284,9748>Ami Pro files
<:#852,9748>Preview any file
Ami Pro or any supported file. Change the view of any document in the view windows to see exactly what you need to see. Scroll the file and even copy text from the preview and paste it in a working file.
@Heading@<:#422,9748>Drag and Drop
@Numbered List@<:#568,9748><-!>Copy & Move - Just hold down the Ctrl key when you drag and you'll copy the shaded text to the new location. Without the Ctrl key you are moving the data.<-!><-!>
@Numbered List@<:#568,9748>SmartIcons - Drag and Drop your favorite SmartIcons directly on the screen to group related icons together.
@Numbered List@<:#284,9748>Tables - Just shade the column or row and move to the new location.
@Heading@<:#422,9748>Fast Format
@Indent@<:#568,9748>Attributes You've never seen anything like it. Fast Format is the best thing since Ami Pro. Want to change some text? Just do it once then paint the format to the rest. of the text.
@Indent@<:#568,9748>Styles With Fast format, you'll be finished with your table data before the other guys get started. Ami Pro Fast Format is the best way to format data in tables or forms.
@Heading@<:#422,9748>SmartIcons
@Subhead@<:#284,9748>Direct Manipulation
<:#1136,9748>SmartIcons are in many Lotus products including Ami Pro, 1-2-3 for Windows and OS/2, Freelance graphics for Windows and OS/2, Lotus Notes, cc:Mail, Lotus Write, SmarText and the Organizer. SmartIcons are designed with one thing in mind
to help you get your work completed faster. Each SmartIcon represents a feature in Ami Pro. Just Click and let Ami Pro do the rest.
@Subhead@<:#284,9748>SmartIcon Sets
You can create as many SmartIcon sets as you want. Ami Pro comes with sets for Basic editing, Long documents, Graphics, Tables and more. Customize your own set for the type of work you do every day. You can customize your own set within the SmartIcon dialog
box or directly on the screen. So rearranging your set to meet your current needs is as direct and easy as clicking and dragging.
@Subhead@Edit Icons
With Ami Pro's powerful macro language you can program Ami Pro to do whatever you want. Then draw your own icon and your one click away from anything Ami Pro can do.
@Heading@SmartMerge
@Subhead@Step by Step Merge
Select a letter style sheet. Then choose merge from the file menu. Ami Pro's merge feature will lead you through the merge process. When asked for a data file, choose MERCDATA.SAM. This file contains sports heroes and their respective sports. You can also m
erge with 1-2-3 files as well as dBase<+&>
Paradox<+&>
and other database files.
@Subhead@Card-Style Merge Data Maintenance
What can be simpler? View and edit your Merge data through a familiar card-file view. When you're on step 2 of SmartMerge, choose to edit the data file and take a tour of the Card-Style Data manger.
@Heading@Envelope Printing
@Subhead@Envelopes are Only a Click Away
Now just choose Print Envelope and Ami Pro will locate the address in your document, display a list of envelope types automatically configured, and then click OK. It's done. If you use Avery<+&>
labels, run LABEL.SMM macro. Ami Pro will print or merge to many popular Avery label styles.
@Heading@Styles
@Subhead@Bullets
Do you use bullets? Would you like to use bullets? Ami Pro makes bullets simple. Just shade the text, choose a bullet style and presto you have bullets. Choose from several different bullet and numbered list styles. Make your memos look great and your rep
orts stand out.
@Subhead@Numbered Lists
Ami Pro numbered lists automatically renumber when new items are entered into the list. That's because Ami Pro uses styles to create its numbered lists. Numbered lists can also be right aligned. Or manually setup a custom numbering style. With nine levels o
f numbering you have full freedom to customize.
@Sports@<:I0,360,360,0>Baseball
@Sports@Football
@Sports@Basketball
@Sports@Hockey
@Sports@Cricket
@Sports@Tennis
@Sports@Archery
@Sports@Polo
@Sports@<:#283,9748>Horseshoes
@Sports@Bicycling
@Sports@Skiing
@Sports@Track and Field
@Subhead@Use the Status Bar
Ami Pro's unique status bar not only provides status information on style, font, point size and other pertinent information, but also provides a means of modifying these attributes by simply clicking on the section of the status bar that is displaying what
you want to change
@Heading@Outliner
@Subhead@Collapsible Outliner
Ami Pro's collapsible outliner is an indispensable tool for anyone who uses a word processor. For writing outlines, reports, or any document with hierarchical format, the collapsible outliner is the way to go.
@Heading@OLE/DDE
@Subhead@A Technology Advantage
With Dynamic Data Exchange and Object Linking and Embedding available, Ami Pro can display and update data created in any application supporting DDE or OLE.
@Subhead@TOOLS
Technology for Object Oriented Linking and Sharing. In place editing of objects within Ami Pro. OLE is great, but if you need to see your document as you edit the OLE object, it doesn't quite work. That's where TOOLS comes in. Just edit an Ami Pro drawing a
nd you'll see how great in-place editing of graphics really is.
@Heading@Charting
@Subhead@Dozens of Chart Types
By now you have probably seen that Ami Pro likes to make things quick and easy without sacrificing quality. Charting is no different. Ami Pro's charting feature allows dozens of chart types with a visual interface that let's you see how your chart looks. Ju
st copy the data to the clipboard, create a frame, and select charting. It's that simple!
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@Subhead@Edit Charts with Drawing Tools
After creating your chart, you probably want to make a few changes to it just to add a little personal touch. Well, since Ami Pro creates charts using its own drawing tools, all you have to do is start drawing. You can then add text, bezier curves, ellipses
, rectangles, lines and arrows and much more.
@Heading@Drawing
Use Ami Pro's Drawing to create freehand drawings. Use on-screen editing to create interesting effects with Ami Pro Drawing. Accent your document with over 100 clip art images or import Freelance clip art that you can edit completely with Ami Pro Drawing.
@Heading@Graphics
@Subhead@Special Effects
With Drawing and Charting, Graphics import filters and Image processing capabilities, Ami Pro stands alone as Word Processor with the most graphical power. Using TOOLS Ami Pro couples form with functionality. Just give it a try, and see what
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@Heading@Mail Enabled
@Subhead@cc:Mail & Lotus Notes
How easy can EMail be? With Ami Pro EMail is just a click away. That's right, just click on the mail icon and Ami Pro asks to whom you want to send the document. Just fill in the blanks and off it goes.
Using cc:Mail or Lotus Notes two of the greatest communications programs on the market, you can send mail to anyone connected to your network (local or wide area).
@Subhead@Macros for other e-mail
Ami Pro offers macros and filters to help you send documents if you happen to be using any other e-mail program. With the Ami Pro SmartIcon editor any macro is just a click away.
@Heading@Tables
@Subhead@Great for Forms
Ami Pro tables have always been the easiest way to create forms. Just look at the table below. Created in just a few minutes, this table looks great and better yet makes the information contained in the table easy to read and understand.
@Subhead@Calculations
Ami Pro has built-in math functions in Tables. Basic four-function math and a Sum function. Great for doing Expense reports and documents with basic math needs.
@Heading@Grammar Checker
Now you can checks the grammatical correctness of your document directly from within Ami Pro. Choose the Ami Pro grammar checker and let it alert you to possible grammatical errors. It will step you through your document making suggestions for your writing.
@Heading@Revision Marking
@Subhead@Show all edits
What is revision marking? Revision marking is a way of seeing what changes have been made to a document. For instance let's say you give me a document and want to know what changes I would make. I would simply turn on Revision marking and make my changes. A
nything I add would appear in a different color and attribute as will anything I delete.
@Subhead@Review Revisions
When I give you the document back you can then review my revisions. Ami Pro will go to the first revision and ask you if you want to accept or cancel my revision suggestion. That's all there is to it. The color and attributes that appear on the screen are c
ompletely user customizable.
@Heading@Notes
@Subhead@Color-Coded Notes
Wouldn't it be nice to be able to scan a document and immediately see if there are any notes from your manager, or chief editor?
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Don't forget to mention that each Ami Pro user can have a different color note. An editor could then quickly see who left which note.
With Ami Pro's color notes you can. In fact everyone in your office or on your network can have their own color note.
@Subhead@Print Notes and Authors
Notes can display in color or by the author's initials. Ami Pro can also print the notes as annotations at the end of the document with page number references to each note in the document. The best way to elicit information from a number of people and quick
ly summarize those comments.
@Heading@Presentations
@Subhead@Automatic Presentations with Freelance
Anyone who creates presentations on a regular basis has had to put together a presentation at the last minute or even worse had to ask someone who had never created a presentation before to try. With Ami Pro and Freelance, there is no work involved. Actuall
y there is
copy and paste. That's all there is to it.
Just copy an outline from Ami Pro and paste it into Freelance and Freelance automatically creates a presentation. You can then choose from one of Freelances 60 or so presentation styles and your entire presentation is complete.
@Heading@Clean Screen
@Subhead@Because Your Work is More Important Than Ours
Give me back my document!!! With all these neat controls on-screen, sometimes you end up looking at only a small portion of your document. With Clean Screen, you can claim back all that screen space while still keeping full word processing functionality.
@Heading@QuickStart Tutorial
Ami Pro 3.0 now walks you through basic lessons on Tables, Style sheets, Frames and shows you "What is New in Ami Pro 3.0."
@Heading@<:#422,9748>Transition Help from WordPerfect
@Subhead@<:#284,9748>WordPerfect SwitchKit
<:#852,9748>With the SwitchKit installed, your keystroke knowledge of WordPerfect works for you as you learn Ami Pro. Just type in the WordPerfect keystrokes for the function you want, and the SwitchKit will demonstrate the function you want in Ami Pro.
@Subhead@<:#284,9748>Batch File Conversion
<:#852,9748>A second part of the SwitchKit is the batch conversion utility. Tell Ami Pro what directory of documents or specify particular documents you want converted, and Ami Pro will translate them to Ami Pro format all at once.
@Heading@<:#422,9748>Laptop Installation
<:#852,9748>Now you can install Ami Pro especially for laptops. This installation of Ami Pro reduces the hard disk requirements of the product to under 4MB. The higher-end functionality is not installed, but you will find all the basic word processing features you need
to get your documents completed.
@Heading@<:#422,9748>Programmability
@Subhead@<:#284,9748>The Ami Pro Macro Language
<:#1136,9748>A macro language within a word processor? You mean just record and playback, right? Wrong! Ami Pro certainly has record and playback, but its macro language is far richer. With it, you can customize Ami Pro by adding menus or menu items. Even create dial
og boxes with Ami Pro's dialog box editor. All in a BASIC-like language.
@Subhead@<:#284,9748>The Macro Developer's Kit
<:#852,9748>A great language is one thing, but you need great technical support to put it to work for you. To that end, get the Ami Pro Macro Developer's Kit (MDK). The MDK contains a Dialog editor and full printed documentation of the language.
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