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PART 1: USING HYPERPAD
If you want to learn how to get the most out of the applications, or
pads, that come with HyperPAD, this first portion of the HyperPAD User's pads, that come with HyperPAD, this first portion of the HyperPAD User's
Guide is where you should be. Part 1 is set up to make it easy for you
to master the fundamentals and get right down to working with the pads.
Should you read everything in Part 1? Not necessarily. Instead, it
might be more productive for you to look through the following overview
of the chapters in Part 1 to see which ones address your particular
needs and interests as a HyperPAD user.
Let's begin with the chapter that all HyperPAD users must go through.
0 Chapter 1, "Getting Started," tells how to install HyperPAD (if
your computer has a hard disk), how to start it, how to set it up
for your system, and how to get technical support. Once you've
got HyperPAD running, you can begin using the appropriate printed
and on-line resources to learn how to use it.
Chapters 2-8 explain how to operate HyperPAD and discuss the major pads
that come with it. These chapters are especially recommended if you're
using HyperPAD for the first time or if you need a review of HyperPAD.
0 Chapter 2, "Fundamentals of Using HyperPAD," explains the basic
terminology, concepts, features, and procedures involved in
working with HyperPAD. Chapter 2 is critical, because this is the
only place where the basics are explained in detail. In later
chapters, it will be assumed that you've mastered the material
covered in Chapter 2.
0 Chapter 3, "The Home Pad," presents the pad that serves as your
gateway to HyperPAD's major functions. Chapter 3 is another
critical chapter, because you need to know how to operate the
Home pad in order to be able to access all the other pads that
come with HyperPAD.
0 Chapter 4, "Managing Files," will be of interest if you want to
learn how to use HyperPAD's DOS Shell to greatly simplify your
file-management chores. By mastering the DOS Shell, you can
eliminate practically forever the need to work from the DOS
prompt.
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0 Chapter 5, "The On-Line Tutorial," shows you how to use
HyperPAD's interactive Tutorial most effectively. If you're the
type of person who learns best from hands-on experience, you
might want to finish Chapter 1, then skip ahead to this chapter
and start your journey through HyperPAD by browsing around in the
Tutorial to get a feel for how the program works. After that, you
could return to the earlier chapters and deepen your
understanding of HyperPAD.
0 Chapter 6, "The Help System," explains HyperPAD's network of
on-line resources, which can provide fast, specific answers to
your questions about how particular pads work or about how
HyperPAD works in general. If you're new to HyperPAD and think
you might need a helping hand as you learn the program, this
chapter is for you.
0 Chapter 7, "The Phone Pad System," presents the key procedures
required to work with the Phone pad, the Phone Dialer pad, the
Track Call pad, and the Take Message pad. If you use the phone
frequently in your work and want to learn how HyperPAD can help
you organize and manage your phone records, print labels, dial
calls, record call histories, take phone messages on-line, and
much more, this chapter is for you.
0 Chapter 8, "The Daily Planner Pad," shows you how HyperPAD can
put the capacity of a giant stack of daily planners right at your
fingertips. If you want to manage your time more effectively,
check out this chapter.
In Chapters 9 and 10, we move beyond the basics and discuss some
relatively specialized HyperPAD features. If you're interested in
learning how to perform the functions described there, you should first
become comfortable using HyperPAD.
0 Chapter 9, "Adding and Manipulating Information," expands
considerably upon the rather rudimentary instructions for adding
and deleting information that were presented back in Chapter 2.
Here you will find more sophisticated techniques for entering
information into your pads as well as instructions for using
HyperPAD's editing commands (Cut, Copy, Paste, and Delete) and
database capabilities to work with that information. You'll also
learn how to use the Import command to bring data created or
stored in other programs into HyperPAD fields and how to use the
Export command to send data created or stored in HyperPAD to
files in a number of other programs. If you plan to use HyperPAD
as a flat-file database program, this chapter is a must.
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0 Chapter 10, "Printing," tells you how to set up your printer, how
to give HyperPAD instructions regarding the dimensions and
orientation of your printed page, and how to print out
information in a variety of formats.
After reading the preceding overview of "Using HyperPAD," you should
know which of the chapters here will be of immediate interest in helping
you learn about the HyperPAD features you especially want to use. If
this overview has whetted your curiosity about other HyperPAD features,
you may want to check out additional chapters once you've mastered the
features you're most concerned with. And you've probably determined that
you can safely skip one or more of the chapters in Part 1 because they
describe features you don't plan to use.
Let's turn to Chapter 1 so you can get HyperPAD installed, started, and
set up on your system. After that, you can proceed to the portions of
"Using HyperPAD" that you want to concentrate on.