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QUICK FORMS HELP MENU PAGE Page of File Extensions indicate type of Form .FMS - A Form that already has been made and may or may not be filled in. .FM_ - A Master Form .FM@ - A Form that has been saved by Quick Forms in an Ascii format. These forms do not have any formatting (such as bold, italics, etc.) Fill In a Form - Open any Form in FILL IN Mode. Once a form has been made in the MASTER Mode, it may be filled in in this mode. All characters of the Master Form are Protected and cannot be written over except the Underline Character. New Master Form - Start a New Master Form. Edit Master Form - Edits a Master Form. If a .FMS or .FM@ form is opened and saved in this mode it will become a Master Form with the .FM_ extension (the old files will still exist). All characters of the .FM@ (or an Ascii File) will become protected. However, when a .FMS form is loaded in this Mode, the unprotected characters (if any) will remain unprotected. It is not recommended to load .FMS forms in Master Mode (see the manual). Delete a Form - Deletes a Form or File. .COM and .EXE Files cannot be deleted. Exit - Exits to DOS Pressing CTRL X will also exit to DOS The bottom of the Page shows the Files in Alaphabetical Order. There are two pages for a total of 100 Files. If there are more than 100 the count will show >100 in light red. Only 100 files can be shown. Use the cursor keys to select a File. ALT H - Is always available for Help. Help is context sensitive. That is it will be given for whatever area of the program that you are in. ALT C - Will allow you to change the path or drive so that you can load and save files from different paths and drives. ALT F - Toggles back and forth between Quick Form Files and All Files (only 100 can be shown). When All Files are shown you can load any Ascii file as long as it fits the parameters of 63 rows by 136 columns maximum. ALT P - Use to select the Printer you are using. If you can't find yours, experiment to find the one closest to it. Selecting PLAIN PRINTER will work on almost any printer but will only print the Ascii characters and will not support Bold, Italics, etc. ESC - Will cancel any activity that you are doing. When saving a MASTER FORM a .BAK file will be made if the form already exists. When saving a form in FILL IN mode or saving as an Ascii file a .BAK file will not be made. QUICK FORMS HELP FILL IN MODE Page of ALT 0 (on the keyboard) - Opens the window for the IBM extended character set. ALT + and ALT - (on the keyboard) - Steps through the IBM extended character set. Characters in grey are not supported by the currently selected Printer. F1 to F10 - Print the corresponding IBM character in the current window. CTRL F1 - MOVE ALT B - Bold CTRL F2 - COPY ALT C - Condensed CTRL F3 - ERASE ALT I - Italics CTRL F4 - N/A ALT L - Subscript CTRL F5 - DRAW LINES ALT S - Superscript CTRL F6 - DUPLICATE ALT U - Underlined CTRL F7 - FILL ALT T - Double Height CTRL F8 - N/A ALT W - Double Width CTRL SHIFT F9 - N/A ALT X _ D-Width D-Height CTRL SHIFT F10 - N/A Many of these may be combined. Moves cursor SHIFT Moves screen up one row SHIFT Moves screen down one row SHIFT Moves screen right one column (if more than 80 columns) SHIFT Moves screen left one column (if more than 80 columns) CTRL Moves screen to far right (if more than 80 columns) CTRL Moves screen to far left (if more than 80 columns) PAGE UP Moves screen up 20 lines PAGE DOWN Moves screen down 20 lines SHIFT PAGE UP Moves screen to Home position and cursor to upper left corner SHIFT PAGE DOWN Moves screen and cursor to last line in use ESC Exit current activity and show options TAB Moves cursor to next Tab Stop (SHIFT TAB - Back Tab) ENTER Moves cursor to first Tab Stop after the current line HOME Moves cursor to first position on line END Moves cursor to last character on line SHIFT HOME Moves cursor to upper left corner SHIFT END Moves cursor to lower left corner SHIFT ENTER Places character that the cursor is under in the Duplicate Buffer A click will be heard to confirm this INSERT N/A DELETE N/A SHIFT INSERT N/A SHIFT DELETE N/A ALT P Toggles the cursor location between Row & Column and Inches CTRL C N/A CTRL E Erases Non-Protected text from cursor to end of line CTRL A Erases Non-Protected text from cursor to end of form CTRL F Disables Form Feed (see manual: Making Labels) CTRL M Toggles screen back and forth between full color and monochrome CTRL T Prints current time CTRL SHIFT T N/A (see manual) CTRL D Prints current date CTRL SHIFT D N/A (see manual) Double Width characters will always be followed by a Dot. This is for Printing purposes and also to maintain continuity on the screen. When using Double Height characters you must leave the space above them blank. QUICK FORMS HELP MASTER MODE Page of ALT 0 (on the keyboard) - Opens the window for the IBM extended character set. ALT + and ALT - (on the keyboard) - Steps through the IBM extended character set. Characters in grey are not supported by the currently selected Printer. F1 to F10 - Print the corresponding IBM character in the current window. CTRL F1 - MOVE ALT B - Bold CTRL F2 - COPY ALT C - Condensed CTRL F3 - ERASE ALT I - Italics CTRL F4 - DRAW GRID ALT L - Subscript CTRL F5 - DRAW LINES ALT S - Superscript CTRL F6 - DUPLICATE ALT U - Underlined CTRL F7 - FILL ALT T - Double Height CTRL F8 - SET COLUMNS ALT W - Double Width CTRL SHIFT F9 - INSERT COLUMN ALT X - D-Width D-Height CTRL SHIFT F10 - DELETE COLUMN Many of these may be combined. Moves cursor SHIFT Moves screen up one row SHIFT Moves screen down one row SHIFT Moves screen right one column (if more than 80 columns) SHIFT Moves screen left one column (if more than 80 columns) CTRL Moves screen to far right (if more than 80 columns) CTRL Moves screen to far left (if more than 80 columns) PAGE UP Moves screen up 20 lines PAGE DOWN Moves screen down 20 lines SHIFT PAGE UP Moves screen to Home position and cursor to upper left corner SHIFT PAGE DOWN Moves screen and cursor to last line in use ESC Exit current activity and show options TAB Moves cursor right 8 spaces (SHIFT TAB - Back Tab) ENTER Moves cursor to first position on next line HOME Moves cursor to first position on line END Moves cursor to last character on line SHIFT HOME Moves cursor to upper left corner SHIFT END Moves cursor to lower left corner SHIFT ENTER Places character that the cursor is under in the Duplicate Buffer A click will be heard to confirm this INSERT Inserts text DELETE Deletes text SHIFT INSERT Inserts a new blank row SHIFT DELETE Deletes current row ALT P Toggles the cursor location between Row & Column and Inches CTRL C Center Text (Centers according to column width) CTRL E Erases from cursor to end of line CTRL A Erases from cursor to end of form CTRL F Disables Form Feed (see manual: Making Labels) CTRL M N/A in Master Mode CTRL T Prints current time CTRL SHIFT T Prints 'Time Stamp' (see manual) CTRL D Prints current date CTRL SHIFT D Prints 'Date Stamp' (see manual) Double Width characters will always be followed by a Dot. This is for Printing purposes and also to maintain continuity on the screen. When using Double Height characters you must leave the space above them blank. QUICK FORMS HELP SELECT PRINTER Page of Use the cursor keys to select a Printer. If your printer does not appear then experiment to find the one that will work the best. Selecting PLAIN PRINTER will work on almost any printer but will not support formating (Bold, Italics, etc.) On the right of the screen will appear the Printer that is currently selected. The print styles that are supported will also be shown. The program does not inhibit print styles when you are making a form. So make sure that if you are using styles such as 'Double Height' that your printer will support them. Press ESC when your selection is finished. QUICK FORMS HELP CHANGE PATH Page of Used to change the Path and/or Drive to load and save forms. The Path is limited to 36 characters. If your Path is longer than this the whole Path may not appear. If this is the case use CTRL-E to erase the Path and enter the Drive letter with a ":" (this is the same as the default Path). For example if C:\FIRSTDIR\SECONDDIR\THIRDDIR is the default Path then C: would be the same thing. (see your DOS manual) You must have a valid Path before you can exit. If you get too confused just enter a ? to return to the default Path. Warning - If your computer has only one floppy drive (A:) DO NOT try to change the Path to Drive (B:) Even Microsoft WORD doesn't handle this one. QUICK FORMS HELP OPTIONS LINE Page of S - Save Q - Quit and go back to the Menu. If you have made changes you will be asked if you want to Save them. P - Print Form on your Printer T - Set or Remove Tab Stops in your Form ESC - Resume making or filling your Form QUICK FORMS HELP SAVE FORM Page of TAB - Moves between Name of Form, Path, and Formatted ENTER - Saves Form The Form Name can be any name accepted by DOS. The extension is added automatically. .FMS A form already made and may or may not be already filled in. .FM_ A Master Form .FM@ A form saved in Ascii format by Quick Forms PATH - For Help on Path TAB to Path and do an ALT-H for Help FORMATTED - Selecting N will save the form in an Ascii format so that it can be read by other programs. It will create a new file with the .FM@ extension. All formatting will be lost. But don't worry, the .FMS or FM_ file will still be there unless this is a New Form in which case you should save it again using a Y in this field. QUICK FORMS HELP SAVE CHANGES Page of You have made at least one change to the Form since it was loaded. Enter Y to save it. Enter N to leave the Form as it was before you loaded it. QUICK FORMS HELP OVERWRITE Page of You are attempting to save a Form with a name that already exists. Enter Y to overwrite it. Enter N to discard any changes made and go back to MENU. Press ESC to go back to the Options Line Note: Quick Forms will save a Form that you are editing or filling in under the name that it was loaded with. However if you changed the name, Quick Forms treats it as a New Form. (This is so even if you change the name back to what it originally was) QUICK FORMS HELP NON CONFORMING FILE Page of The limits to a Quick Form are 63 Rows by 136 Columns. Quick Forms will attempt to load any File that is not a .FMS or .FM_ File as if it were an ASCII File. (.COM and .EXE Files will not be loaded) Since the maximum number of characters in a Row is 136, Quick Forms expects to find a Carrige Return and Line Feed by the time that the count reaches 137 in each Row. If this condition is not met then the File is considered to be non conforming and loading stops. However if the ASCII File that you are loading has more than 63 Rows, the File will be loaded but only the first 63 Rows. Be Careful when loading any File other than a Quick Forms File. Make Sure that it is an ASCII file that you want to edit using Quick Forms. QUICK FORMS HELP SET COLUMNS Page of Use the cursor keys to select the number of columns. If you are changing the number of columns make sure that you do not reduce the number to a value less than the text area of your Form. The number of columns will be saved with your Form. When loading an ASCII file the number of columns will be automatically determined. QUICK FORMS HELP TAB STOPS Page of All existing Tab Stops will be highlighted. TABS can only be set on blank spaces or on an Underline Character. To set a TAB press any letter key and the TAB will be set. To remove a TAB place the cursor under the TAB and press any letter key. CTRL-Z Removes all TABS. Press ESC when finished. Tab Stops are saved with the Form. QUICK FORMS HELP PRINT FORM Page of Use the Number keys to select the number of copies. (just like a coping machine) Pressing the letter "C" will clear the counter back to 1 The default values for Printing are Bi-Directional and 10 Characters per inch Use the cursor keys to change this. Changes between Bi-Directional and Uni-Directional Choose Uni-Directional (Prints from left to right only) when your Form has tables and charts to ensure that vertical columns will be in alignment. Changes between Off, 10, 12, 15 characters per inch. (Your printer may not support all of these) Select Off to control this manually from your printer. ESC Cancels printing. Printer width 80 Columns 110 Columns 132 Columns 136 Columns 10 CPI 80 Characters 110 Characters 132 Characters 136 Characters 12 CPI 96 Characters 132 Characters 136 Characters 136 Characters 15 CPI 120 Characters 136 Characters 136 Characters 136 Characters QUICK FORMS HELP MOVE A BLOCK OF TEXT Page of Position the cursor at the top left of the area that you want to MOVE. Then do a CTRL-F1 Use the cursor keys to highlight the area that you want to MOVE. Press the END key. Move the cursor to the top left of the area that you want the text moved to. Press the INSERT key. The old area will be erased and the block of text will be moved to the new area. NOTE: In FILL IN Mode only Unprotected characters will be MOVED and then Only if they are going to an Unprotected area. If you don't like the new position, just move the cursor again to the top left of another area and press the INSERT key again. Do this as many times as you like until you are satisfied. Press the END key when you are finished. Press ESC to cancel or another CTRL-F(key) to do another function. QUICK FORMS HELP COPY A BLOCK OF TEXT Page of Position the cursor at the top left of the area that you want to COPY. Then do a CTRL-F2 Use the cursor keys to highlight the area that you want to COPY. Press the END key. Move the cursor to the top left of the area that you want the text copied to. Press the INSERT key. The block of text will be copied to the new area. The old area 'Will Not Be Erased' but parts of it may be copied over. NOTE: In FILL IN Mode only Unprotected characters will be COPIED and then only if they are going to an Unprotected area. You may copy the block of text as many times as you want in as many places as you want. You can use this to create interesting patterns. Press the END key when you are finished. Press ESC to cancel or another CTRL-F(key) to do another function. QUICK FORMS HELP ERASE A BLOCK OF TEXT Page of Position the cursor at the top left of the area that you want to ERASE. Then do a CTRL-F3 Use the cursor keys to highlight the area that you want to ERASE. Press the END key. NOTE: In FILL IN Mode only Unprotected characters will be ERASED. Press ESC to cancel or another CTRL-F(key) to do another function. QUICK FORMS HELP DRAW GRID Page of Position the cursor at the top left of the GRID location. Then do a CTRL-F4 An Asterisk will appear at the top left position of the GRID. Use the Cursor, Tab, and Enter Keys to position the cursor to the positions along the top and left sides of the GRID area where you want lines to be drawn. Press S for Single Lines Press D for Double Lines Press any other letter key to place an Asterisk at the position. The size and layout of the GRID will be determined by where you place the Asterisks. Press END when finished or ESC to cancel. HINT: If you are making a GRID that will have Column Headings you may want to lay out and position the Column Headings first and then draw the GRID around them. QUICK FORMS HELP DRAW LINES Page of Press S for Single Lines Press D for Double Lines Use the cursor keys to draw lines. SHIFT + (one of the cursor keys) will draw a line in that direction from the cursor up to the first position that is not a Space. Press E to Erase. The cursor keys will now Erase anything in their path. Press P to Pause. You may now move the cursor to a new location. Press R to Resume drawing lines. Press ESC when finished. Press another CTRL-F(key) to select another function. Note: In FILL IN Mode you cannot draw lines or erase over any protected character. QUICK FORMS HELP DUPLICATE CHARACTER Page of Use the cursor keys to DUPLICATE the Character in the Duplicate Buffer. This character is shown on the 25th line. To put a character in the Duplicate Buffer press Pause and put the cursor under the desired character and press SHIFT ENTER. (a click will be heard to confirm this) When not in DUPLICATE Mode, pressing SHIFT ENTER at anytime will do this. You can DUPLICATE all of the IBM Extended Character Set. SHIFT + (one of the cursor keys) will DUPLICATE the character in that direction from the cursor up to the first position that is not a Space. Press E to Erase. The cursor keys will now Erase anything in their path. Press P to Pause. You may now move the cursor to a new location. Press R to Resume DUPLICATING. Press ESC when finished. Press another CTRL-F(key) to select another function. Note: In FILL IN Mode you cannot DUPLICATE or erase over any protected character. QUICK FORMS HELP FILL AREA Page of This function FILLS all Empty Spaces in an area with the character in the Duplicate Buffer. (Anything else is left untouched) Position the cursor at the top left of the area that you want to FILL. Then do a CTRL-F7 Use the cursor keys to highlight the area that you want to FILL. Then Press END to FILL area. Press ESC to Cancel. Press another CTRL-F(key) to select another function. QUICK FORMS HELP PRINT ENTIRE FORM OR FILL IN ONLY Page of This option appears only when you are in FILL IN Mode. You have the choice here to print the entire form, or just the parts you have filled in. If you choose "Entire Form" then everything will be printed. Choose this option if you are printing on blank paper. If you choose "Fill In Only" then only the parts that you have 'filled in' will be printed. Choose this option if you are printing on a 'pre-printed' form. Only the blanks will be filled in (none of the Master Form will be printed). Use the TAB Key to toggle back and forth between the two choices. Your choice here is remembered between sessions. Press ENTER when you are finished.