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- CHAPTER 7: USING MULTIPLE WINDOWS
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- One of the useful features of FREE & EASY is the ability to open more
- than one window at one time. This, combined with the ability to use
- more than one sheet (file) at a time, provides a great deal of
- versatility in setting up sheets and doing calculations. When you
- first start up FREE & EASY, only one window is open. This window fills
- the whole screen except for the menu bar, the cell bar (at the top of
- the screen) and the prompt bar (at the bottom of the screen).
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- Up to five windows may be opened at one time. (You will see how to add
- windows as well as change window size and move windows around the
- screen later in this chapter) Each window has a border and at the top
- of the window is the name of the sheet (file) contained within the
- window. The number of the sheet in the evaluation order is in front of
- the name of the sheet. The active window (the one with the cursor in
- it) has a double border.
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- You change the active window by pressing F6. Press F5 to change the
- sheet which is in the active window. Remember also that the make file
- saves the configuration of windows on the screen as well as the sheet
- that is in each window. All features used to manipulate the windows
- are found in the "View" pull-down menu.
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- Why Use Multiple Windows
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- Often when working with FREE & easy you can be working with a very
- large sheet. Usually you cannot see the whole sheet on the screen at
- one time. If you make a change in one part of the sheet, it can affect
- another part of the sheet. For example, changing a variable value in
- the top of the sheet could affect the value of a cell at the bottom of
- the sheet. Rather than making the change, recalculating and jumping to
- another part of the sheet to see the result of the sheet, you could use
- two windows to see different parts of the sheet at the same time.
- You might also want to use multiple windows if you have more than one
- sheet loaded at a time so thay you can put each sheet into its own
- window.
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- Change Window Size
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- The "change window Size ..." menu item is used to modify the size of
- the active window. When you select this menu item, the cursor
- disappears. The arrow keys are then used to change the active window
- (the window with the double border) size. The up and down arrows
- change the window's height, and the left and right arrows change the
- window's width. During the adjustment, the top left corner of the
- window stays anchored. It is not possible to make the window bigger
- than the screen or overlap another window. Press Enter or Escape to
- leave this mode. This operation does not affect the sheet within this
- window.
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- Move Window
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- The "Move window ..." menu item is used to move the active window
- around the screen. When you select this menu item, the cursor
- disappears.
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- The up, down, left and right arrow keys are used to move the window.
- The window cannot be moved off the screen or overlap with another
- window. Press Enter or Escape to leave this mode. This operation does
- not affect the sheet within this menu.
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- Open Window
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- The "Open window ..." menu item is used to start a new window on the
- screen. A maximum of five windows can be opened at one time. If you
- attempt to use this menu item and five windows are already opened, you
- get a "maximum number of windows are already opened" error message.
- Also, in order to use this menu item there must be room on the screen
- for a new window. (You must have previously closed a window or made
- one of the windows smaller). When you choose this menu item, the
- cursor will appear outside of all the open windows on the screen. Move
- the cursor with the arrow keys to the location on the screen where you
- wish to start the new window and press Enter. A new window will appear
- with the active sheet in it. The window will fill all the available
- free area without overlapping another window. It is possible to move
- the cursor to an area of the screen in which there is not room to start
- a new window. If this is the case, the error message "not enough room
- to start window" will appear. At any time during this operation, you
- can press Escape to cancel.
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- Close Window
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- The "Close window" menu item is used to remove the active window from
- the screen. When this menu item is chosen, the area of the screen
- with the active window becomes blank and another window on the screen
- becomes the active window. There must always be at least one window
- open. If you choose this menu item and only one window is open,
- nothing will happen. (No error message is given.) With this operation,
- all sheets remain loaded and no data is lost.
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- Maximize and Minimize a Window's Size
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- The "mAximize window size" and "mInimize window size" menu items are
- used to make a window as large as possible or as small as possible
- respectively.
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- If the "mAximize window size" menu item is chosen, the active window
- expands to the largest size possible without overlapping another window
- or expanding off the edge of the screen. If the "mInimize window size"
- menu item is chosen, the active window is reduced to a size of one row
- by fourteen columns.
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- If one of these menu items is chosen and the active window is already
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- at maximum or minimum size, nothing happens and no error message is
- given. With this operation, all sheets remain loaded and no data is
- lost.
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- Short-Cut to Open 1, 2, 3 or 4 Windows
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- The menu items "1 window", "2 windows", "3 windows" and "4 windows" are
- used to set up the screen with the indicated number of windows. The
- windows set up in these menu items are of equal size with no area of
- the screen left without a window in it. These commands are not
- affected by which windows are presently opened on the screen. If more
- than one file is loaded, a different file will be put into each window.
- With these menu items, all files remain loaded and no data is lost.
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