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                                 ProWrite

                                Contents

Introduction                                               1

    If You're New to Word Processing            2
    ProWrite's Special Features                3
    How to Use This Manual                    4
    About the Amiga                        5
    Getting Started                        6

Learning ProWrite                        9

    Loading ProWrite and Opening a Document            10
        Using the Mouse
        Controlling the Window
        About the Menus
        Gadgets in Requesters
    Manipulating Text in a Document                15
        Entering Text
        Inserting Text
        Selecting Text
        Deleting Text
        Cutting and Pasting Text (Moving Text)
        Copying Text
        Finding Text
        Finding and Changing Text
        Checking the Spelling
        Pictures
    Saving and Printing a Document                22
        Saving a Document
        Printing a Document
    Closing a Document and Quitting ProWrite        24

Using ProWrite                            25

    Editing Text                        26
        About the Mouse, Windows, Menus, and Gadgets
        Entering
        Inserting
        Selecting
        Deleting
        Cutting, Copying, and Pasting
        Finding and Changing
    Formatting Characters                    34
        Changing Character Styles
        Changing Character Fonts
        Affecting New Text
        Adjusting Screen Colors
    Formatting Paragraphs                    37
        Setting Paragraph Style
        Using the Ruler
        Sorting Paragraphs
        Copying and Pasting Paragraph Formats
    Formatting and Spell Checking a Document        41
        Headers and Footers
        Page Numbering
        Page Breaks
        Document Information
        Spell Checking
    Pictures in a Document                    46
        Getting Pictures
        Re-sizing Pictures
    Printing a Document                    53
        Setting the Page Format
        Printing
        Printing Merged Documents
    Setting ProWrite Preferences                58
    Shortcuts                        59

ProWrite Reference                        63

    The Menus                        64
        The Project Menu
        The Edit Menu
        The Search Menu
        The Character Menu
        The Paragraph Menu
        The Document Menu
    The Ruler                        78
    Keyboard Shortcuts                    79
        Menu Key Commands
        Function Key Commands
        Cursor Key Commands
        Others

Appendix                            83

    Appendix A - Installation                84
    Appendix B - Printer Information            88
    Appendix C - Memory Considerations            93
    Appendix D - Error Messages                95
    Appendix E - Problems                    98

Glossary                            101

Index                                107


Introduction

Welcome to word processing with ProWrite.  This introductory chapter will
outline the general capabilities of word processing and the special
features of ProWrite.  You will see how to use the contents of this manual
best to fit your needs and, if you are new to the Amiga, basic instructions
for its operation.   And finally, you will begin learning ProWrite.

The sections in the Introduction are:

     * If You're New To Word Processing

     * ProWrite's Special Features

     * How To Use This Manual

     * About the Amiga

     * Getting Started

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If You're New to Word Processing

The keyboard of a word processor is very similar to that of a typewriter,
but its capabilities extend far beyond those of a typewriter.  For example,
you don't have to press the Return key at the end of every line - in word
processing, the line "wraps around" when it reaches the margin you've set
and allows you to continue typing without stopping, you only press the
return key when you want to start on a new paragraph or insert blank lines.
If you make a mistake, you simply backspace to erase it.

Editing functions such as inserting, deleting, moving, and copying words,
lines, and even blocks of text are fast and easy with only a few keystrokes
or clicks of the mouse.  Advanced programs, like ProWrite, will number
pages, repeat material in the same place on every page automatically.  You
print your document only after it looks exactly the way you want it to.
Finally, copies of all your documents are stored on a disk, enabling you to
retrieve, edit, and print them at any time.

Word processing lets you forget the technical aspects of writing documents
and concentrate on the creative.  It is really that easy!

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ProWrite's Special Features

ProWrite has all of the standard capabilities of advanced word processing
and much more.  You use the mouse to select text and choose what you want
to do from a menu with a pointer.  There are no special codes to remember.
The menu commands are logical - when you are ready to print you choose
"Print".  And when you print, you get exactly what you see on the screen.

With ProWrite, you can get proportionally spaced characters simply by using
a proportionally spaced font.  You can  format characters in not only many
different fonts, styles, and sizes, but also seven colors.

ProWrite supports the multi-tasking capability of the Amiga, which means
you can use more than one program at the same time; for instance, you can
edit a document in ProWrite and an outline in Flow simultaneously.  With
ProWrite, you can also open several documents at the same time in different
"windows" on  your screen and "cut" text from one document and "paste" it
into another between these windows.

ProWrite can also read picture files created by paint programs for the
Amiga, so you can paste pictures into ProWrite documents.  If your picture
was created with DeluxePaint or DeluxePaint II, you can even type in the
empty space in a picture and wrap the text around your actual graphic.

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How to Use This Manual

This manual is divided into four parts:  Introduction, Learning ProWrite,
Using ProWrite, and ProWrite Reference.  In the back of the manual is an
Appendix, Glossary, and Index. If you are new to the Amiga computer,  be
sure to read the next section in this Introduction entitled "About the
Amiga" and refer to the Introduction to Amiga manual supplied by Commodore
if necessary.

If you are familiar with the Amiga but have no experience with word
processing in general, you will need to study the Learning ProWrite chapter
and do the practice exercises.  If you have used other word processing
programs, you may wish skip Using ProWrite for a description and
explanation of the menus and program functions.  Learning ProWrite will
teach you how to load ProWrite, open a sample document, type and edit text,
and then save, print, and close the document, with practice exercises for
you to complete.

Using ProWrite is a function-by-function guide divided into six parts:
"Editing Text,"  "Formatting Characters," "Formatting Paragraphs,"
"Formatting and Spell Checking a Document," "Pictures in a Document,"
"Paragraphs, and Documents," "Loading and Saving a Document," "Printing a
Document," "Setting ProWrite Preferences," and "Shortcuts,".  This chapter
does not guide you through a series of exercises, it simply presents
information about each feature and how to use it.

ProWrite Reference is designed for quick reference for those that are
already familiar with the basic operations of ProWrite.  It contains
summaries of the menu commands, a discussion how to use the ruler, and a
list of keyboard shortcuts.

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About The Amiga

To use ProWrite, you will need to know how to use the Amiga Computer.  You
should already know how to:

     * use icons on the Workbench
     * move windows from front to back and back to front using the
       front and back gadgets
     * re-position and re-size windows using the title bar and sizing
       gadget
     * scroll you document by using the scroll bars and scroll arrow
     * pull down menus and choose commands
     * select and drag with the mouse
     * close windows with the close box

Refer to the Introduction to Amiga manual if you are unfamiliar with these
items and actions.

The Amiga has two types of vertical screen resolution:  high resolution (or
interlaced), which has 400 vertical lines (512 on PAL systems), and medium
resolution (or non-interlaced), which has 200 vertical lines (256 on PAL
systems). Since ProWrite's standard mode of printing is a high resolution
graphics print, in order to display text and pictures on the screen in
exactly the same proportions as they will be printed you must use a high
resolution display.  Unfortunately, on the Amiga, unless you use a long
persistence monitor, the high resolution display has a noticeable
"flicker".  For this reason there are two versions of ProWrite on your
program disk: "ProWrite" which operates in the high resolution mode, and
"ProWrite MR" which operates in medium resolution.  Regardless of which
version you use, both will print in high resolution.  If you use the high
resolution version on ProWrite without a long persistence monitor, you can
decrease the flickering by reducing the contrast of the screen colors,
either with ProWrite itself (using the Adjust Colors menu option) or by
simply turning down the brightness and contrast controls of your monitor.
You can also purchase a screen to place in front of your monitor that
reduces the flicker.

ProWrite requires Kickstart version 1.2 or later to function, if you are
using an earlier version of Kickstart you must purchase Commodore's
AmigaDOS version 1.2 Enhancer package (note that Kickstart 1.2 is built
into both the Amiga 500 and Amiga 2000 computers). ProWrite can be run from
either the command line interface (CLI) or the Workbench level, and will
create icons when it saves files.  For information about the CLI, refer the
the AmigaDOS User's Manual.

Commodore's Introduction to Amiga and the Version 1.2 Update manual contain
a list of the printers you can use with the Amiga.  Although ProWrite will
support several different letter quality and dot matrix printers, it is
necessary to have a printer with graphics and color capabilities to fully
utilize all of ProWrite's features.  In addition, with 18 and 24 pin
printers, you can get professional quality output by using the "smoothing"
option of the printer drivers included with ProWrite.

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Getting Started

The minimum requirements for using ProWrite are an Amiga computer with 512K
memory and the Kickstart 1.2 version of the Amiga operating system.  A
second disk drive (or hard disk) and printer are highly recommended.
ProWrite comes on two disks: a "System" disk and a "Program" disk.  The
System disk contains the fonts, printer drivers, and other Amiga system
files that ProWrite needs for operation; the Program disk contains both the
high resolution and medium resolution versions of ProWrite, ProWrite's
spelling dictionary, and several utilities and sample documents.

You should make a copy of your ProWrite System and Program disks to use
while working; see Commodore's Introduction to Amiga manual for
instructions on how to copy a disk.  ProWrite is not copy protected. If you
are using only one disk drive, or you wish to put ProWrite on your hard
disk, refer to Appendix A - Installation.

Although you can save your documents on the ProWrite program disk, it is
best to store your documents on another blank disk reserved for that
purpose.  It's also a good idea to make and keep backup copies of these
document disks in case of mishap.

You are now ready to use two items on the ProWrite disk - the ProWrite
application and the sample document "Memo" - to begin learning ProWrite.
First start your computer (inserting the Kickstart 1.2 if you are using an
Amiga 1000), when asked for a Workbench disk insert the ProWrite System
disk into the internal drive.  If you have a second disk drive, insert the
Program disk into it; if you have only one disk drive, then when Workbench
has loaded remove the System disk from the drive and insert the Program
disk.

Before loading ProWrite, make sure you have set up your Amiga's Preferences
to the printer you have. Refer to Introduction to Amiga and to Appendix B -
Printer Information for instructions and information about specific
printers.

To load ProWrite and create a new document:

     * From the Workbench, double-click on the ProWrite program icon.

or

     * From the CLI, type, "ProWrite" and press RETURN.

To load ProWrite and open an existing document:

     * From the Workbench, double-click on the document icon.

or

     * From the CLI, type, "ProWrite", a space, and then the document
       name and press RETURN.

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To load ProWrite and open several documents:

     * From the Workbench, click on the first document icon, SHIFT-CLICK
       on the second document icon, and so forth, and finally double-click
       on the ProWrite program icon.

or:

     * From the CLI, type "ProWrite", a space, the first document name, a
       space, the second document name, and so forth, and finally press
       RETURN.

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Learning ProWrite

The first step in learning ProWrite is to load the application and open a
document.  This chapter will continue with step-by-step instructions for
typing, deleting, and editing text in a sample document provided on the
ProWrite disk.  You will then learn how to save and print the document, and
how to close the document and leave the program.

If you have never used the Amiga or do not have any word processing
experience, it may take a few hours to carefully read and study this
chapter and complete all the practice exercises.  Refer to the section at
the end of the chapter entitled "Closing a Document and Quitting ProWrite"
if you cannot finish the tutorial in one sitting.

     The sections in this chapter are:

     * Loading ProWrite and Opening a Document

     * Manipulating Text in a Document

     * Saving and Printing a Document

     * Closing a Document and Quitting ProWrite

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Loading ProWrite and Opening a Document

Starting ProWrite and opening a document is easy.  First follow these
instructions:

1.  Turn on the Amiga computer. If you are using an Amiga 1000, insert your
    Kickstart version 1.2 disk.

2.  When you  see the picture of the Workbench disk, insert copies of the
    ProWrite System disk into the internal disk drive and the ProWrite
    Program disk into the external disk drive (If you only have a single
    disk drive, refer to Appendix A - Single Drive Setup for information on
    setting up a single disk containing both the system files and ProWrite
    application). After a few seconds, an icon representing the ProWrite
    disk will appear on the Workbench screen.

Making this copy of ProWrite disk for personal use is especially important
because you will be altering a sample document on the disk in the course of
completing the practice exercises in this chapter, and you will want to
leave the document unchanged on the original ProWrite disk.

3.  Use the mouse to place the pointer on the ProWrite disk icon and double
    click the left mouse button, the Selection Button.  Icons representing
    the contents of the ProWrite disk will appear on the Workbench screen
    in a window entitled "ProWrite".  Notice the ProWrite application icon
    and a drawer icon entitled "Sample Documents".

The easiest and fastest way to load ProWrite and open a document is to
double click on the document icon.  For now, you will open an existing
document called "Memo" which is stored in the "Sample Documents" drawer.

4.  Double click on the drawer icon "Sample Documents".  The contents of
    the "Sample Documents" drawer will appear on the Workbench screen in a
    window entitled "Sample Documents".  Notice the document icon entitled
    "Memo".

5.  Double click on the document icon "Memo" to load ProWrite and open the
    memo document.  The first part of the memo document will appear in a
    window entitled "Memo" on the screen.

Using the Mouse:

Take a few minutes to get used to moving the pointer in the window with the
mouse.

The right mouse button, the Menu Button, is for choosing commands from the
menu only.  Any other kind of selecting, such as selecting icons, text, or
gadgets, is done with the left mouse button, the Selection Button.  The
only exception is if you are choosing more than one command at a time from
a menu - because you are holding the menu down with the Menu Button, you
must use the Selection Button to choose all the menu items.

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Controlling the Window:

You can scroll in the window in order to see the portions of the document
which are currently hidden.  If you wish to scroll a little bit at a time,
place the  pointer on one of the scroll arrows on either side of the scroll
bars on the right side of the bottom of the window and click with the left
mouse button.  For continuous scrolling, click and hold the left mouse
button.  To move quickly to another part of the document, place the
pointer on the rectangular scroll box in the scroll bar, click and hold the
left mouse button, and drag the box in the scroll bar.  The size of the box
in the scroll bar is indicated of the percentage of the document that is
visible.

The window can be re-sized by placing the pointer on the sizing gadget in
the lower right had corner of the window, clicking and holding the left
mouse button, and dragging the box.  As you drag the sizing gadget, lines
will follow your movements, indicating what the window will look like when
you release the mouse button.  Also, after making the window smaller, you
can reposition it on the screen by placing the pointer, or pointing, on the
title bar at the top of the window, clicking and holding the left mouse
button, and dragging the window.

Practice scrolling in the document and resizing and repositioning the
window now.

It is necessary to click in a window with the left mouse button to place an
insertion point before typing any new text or editing any old text.  If you
forget to do this and begin typing, nothing will happen.  Click somewhere
in the "Memo" document window now.

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About the Menus:

To give a command to ProWrite, you first click and hold the right mouse
button, the Menu Button, to show the menu bar above the window. Then you
point on a menu title to pull down the menu.  Finally, point on a command
name and release the mouse button.  If you want to choose more than one
command at a time, keep holding the right mouse button, point on each
command, and click the left mouse button.

A few menu commands may appear in lighter print, or dimmed.  These are menu
items that are not currently available because they are contingent on some
other action and thus cannot be chosen until that other action is
completed.  For instance, the "Erase" command in the "Edit" menu is dimmed
because you cannot erase text until text is selected.  Once you have
selected text, the "Erase" command will show in dark print and then can be
chosen.

A menu command may have a check mark by it.  This indicated a chosen
option.  For example, in the "Paragraph" menu of a new document ProWrite
chooses single spacing for you by putting a check mark by the "Single
Space" command, and it will remain in effect until you turn it off by
pointing and clicking on it or make another choice by pointing and clicking
on something else.

Some menu commands have a submenu.  Submenus list options for you to choose
that are related to the menu item.

     1.  To see an example of a submenu, click and hold the right
         mouse button to view the menu bar.  Point on the "Edit"
         menu title to pull down the menu, and point on the "Ruler"
         command to pull down its submenu.

Many commands have an Amiga symbol and character beside them on the menu.
These are keyboard equivalents for the commands.  By pressing the right
Amiga key on the keyboard with the appropriate character, you can give
ProWrite a command without using the mouse and the menu (See Shortcuts in
the Using ProWrite chapter). Other commands can be performed form the
keyboard by pressing a function key.  These commands do not show any symbol
next to the menu item, you will need to refer to the Shortcuts section for
a list of these commands.

Some of the menu commands have an ellipsis (...) after them.  Choosing
these commands will cause a requester to appear in the window.  A requester
allows you to supply additional information and/or select options before
confirming the command.

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Gadgets in Requesters:

There are several types of gadgets in requesters.  The left mouse button is
used to select them all.

A button is a small rectangular box with a red and blue border containing
an option.  Most requesters have "OK" and "Cancel" buttons to confirm or
cancel the command, and some have additional buttons as well.  Select these
options by pointing and clicking on the button.  Also, pressing the Return
or Enter key will activate a highlighted button (usually the "OK" button),
and pressing the Escape key will select the "Cancel" button.

A radio button is a small circle with an option beside it.  You select this
option either by pointing and clicking on the circle or directly on the
option itself (it is called a radio button because it behaves like a car
radio button - there are always a group of two or more, and when you turn
one on the others are turned off).

A list box contains a list of several options from which you may select
one.  If the list is too long to fit inside the list box, the box will have
a scroll bar for you to use to see the rest of the items on the list.  To
see the other items in the list, either click on the scroll arrows or drag
the scroll box.  To select an option, point and click on the "OK" button.

A text box is a long rectangular box in which text is typed.  A cursor in
the text box (displayed as a red rectangle) indicates where a typed
character will appear.  You use the cursor keys on the keyboard to move
within the text box, and the BACKSPACE and DEL keys to delete text.

     1.  Choose the "Save As" command in the "Project" menu.  The "Save As"
         requester, which contains buttons, radio buttons, a list box, and
         a text box, will appear (this may take several seconds).

     2.  Click on the "Cancel" button to close the requester.

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A check box is a small square box with an option beside it.  As with radio
buttons, you may select or remove an option either by pointing and clicking
on the box or directly on the option itself.

     1.  Choose the "Find" command from the "Search" menu.  The "Find"
         requester, which contains boxes, as well as a text box and buttons
         will appear.

     2.  Click on the "Cancel" button to close the requester.

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Manipulating Text in a Document:

You will use the sample document "Memo" to learn about manipulating text in
a document.  Manipulating text involves entering (typing), inserting,
deleting, editing (changing), moving, and copying operations.

Entering Text:

The sample document "Memo" is not quite finished.  Practice entering text
by adding a concluding paragraph according to the following instructions.

     1.  Scroll down through the memo by pointing on the down arrow
         beneath the scroll bar on the right side of the window and
         either clicking for step-by-step movement or clicking and
         holding for continuous movement.  Stop when the last
         paragraph of the memo is near the top of the window.

     2.  Point at the left margin of the memo just below the last
         paragraph and click the left mouse button.  This places an
         insertion point on the next line beneath the paragraph to
         indicate where the next action or command will take place.

     3.  Begin typing the memo's concluding paragraph as it appears
         below.  You do not have to press Return at the end of a line -
         ProWrite wraps the text around for you automatically within the
         set margins. Press the Return key only if you want to start a new
         paragraph.  If you make a mistake while you are typing, use the
         Backspace key to erase it. Every time you press the Backspace key,
         the insertion point moves backwards one character, erasing it as
         it goes.

Finally, be sure to visit the lobby of the Vice President's office February
15 through March 2 to see the grand prize on display.  Sorry, no test
driving allowed!

Inserting Text:

When you insert text, the ends of the lines will re-wrap, pushing the old
text down the page to make room for the inserted text.  Practice inserting
text in the following exercise

     1.  Point at the beginning of the fourth paragraph of the memo
         and click to place an insertion point.

     2.  Type the paragraph below and end it with a return.

The Vice President's office welcomes inquiries from sale associates about
the incentive program and will have someone available to answer questions.
For aid in compilation of individual achievement outlines, the Resources
office is open from 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.  weekdays and 10:00 a.m. to
3:00 p.m. on Saturdays.

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The new paragraph is now positioned between the original third and fourth
paragraphs of the memo.

Selecting Text:

Now suppose after finishing the paragraph you find that you made a mistake
in the very first line.  Instead of backspacing to the error, which would
erase the rest of the paragraph, you have several other options.  Many of
these options, and many other commands we well, require that you select
text.

Selected text will appear highlighted in white print on a black background.
You may select characters, words, and even whole lines in this way.  After
selecting text, the next command or action will affect only the selected
text.  You may un-select text by clicking anywhere else in the window.

Complete the following practice exercises and then spend a few additional
minutes experimenting with the selecting text.

     1.  Select any two- or three-word phrases in the sample document
         "Memo" by pointing just to the left of it, clicking and
         holding the left mouse button, dragging the pointer across
         the text, and releasing the mouse button.

     2.  Select any word by double clicking anywhere in the word with the
         left mouse button; continue to hold the left mouse button and drag
         the pointer to select words at a time.

     3.  Select any line by triple clicking anywhere in the line with the
         left mouse button; continue to hold the left mouse button and drag
         the pointer to select lines at a time.

     4.  Select the first two paragraphs of the memo by clicking at
         the beginning of the first paragraph, holding down the Shift
         key, and clicking at the end of the second paragraph.

     5.  Click anywhere in the window to un-select the text.

Deleting Text:

Now, you can go back to any part of your document to fix a mistake by
deleting or changing what you typed.  There are several ways to delete
text; with experience, you will find that each is appropriate in a
particular circumstance.  Note that as you delete or replace text, ProWrite
automatically re-wraps the line endings, closing up empty spaces or moving
words forward to make room.

Practice deleting and replacing text by completing the following exercises.

     1.  Select the phrase "new and exciting" in the first line of the
         first paragraph of the memo.  Press the Backspace key to
         delete it.

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     2.  Select the word "packet" in the second line of the third
         paragraph.  Type the word "folder" to replace it.

     3.  Point just to the right of the word "marketing" in the last
         line of the fifth paragraph and click to place an insertion
         point.  Backspace to remove the "ing".

Cutting and Pasting text (Moving Text):

Moving text involves two operations:  first you cut the text to be moved,
and then you paste it back into the document.  The "Cut" and "Paste"
commands in the "Edit" menu are used to move text from one part of a
document to another.

When you select and cut a portion of a document, the selected text is
deleted from the document and stored in an internal clipboard, replacing
text that may already be stored there from a previous "Cut" (or "copy"; see
Copying Text) command.  You may then place an insertion point, or select
text to be replaced, to tell Prowrite where to paste the cut text back into
the document.  A copy of the cut text will remain in the clipboard, even
after you paste it back into a document, until you have cut (or copy) other
text from a document.

In the following exercise you will move the paragraph that you just
inserted in the previous exercise to a new position in the memo.

     1.  Select the paragraph beginning with "The Vice President's
         office...".  Be sure to select the entire paragraph, including the
         Return at its end.

     2.  Choose the "Cut" command from the "Edit" menu.  The selected
         text will disappear from the document and be stored in the
         clipboard.

     3.  Click just to the left of the first word of the paragraph
         beginning with "Finally, be sure to..." to place an insertion
         point.

     4.  Choose the "Paste" command from the "Edit" menu; the cut text
         will appear after the insertion point.

Copying Text:

The procedure for copying text from one part of a document to another is
very similar to moving text.  When you choose the "Copy" command from the
"Edit" menu, a copy of the selected text is stored in the clipboard until
you copy or cut other text to replace it.  The only difference from the
"Cut" command is that the portion of text being copied to the clipboard
remains in its original position in the document as well.

Practice copying text in the following exercise, which will instruct you to
copy and paste the date at the top of the memo so it will appear again at
the bottom of the memo.

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     1.  Select the phrase "January 31, 1987" at the beginning of the
         memo.

     2.  Choose the "Copy" command from the "Edit" menu.  The selected
         text will remain in the document unchanged but a copy of it is
         stored in the clipboard.

     3.  Click at the left margin beneath the last paragraph of the
         memo to place an insertion point.  Press the Return key to
         move the insertion point down one more line.

     4.  Choose the "Paste" command from the "Edit" menu.  The copied
         text will appear after the insertion point.

Finding Text:

ProWrite will find specific text for you.   This is especially useful in
long documents, saving a lot of time and effort.  You use the "Find"
command in the "Search" menu.  A requestor will appear for you to supply
additional information before confirming the command.

The search will begin from wherever the insertion point is, so if you want
to search from the beginning of a document, you must place the insertion
point at the beginning of the document before choosing the "Find" command.

The first item in the "Find" requester is a text box containing an orange
cursor where you type in the text you will want ProWrite to find - it will
hold up to 255 characters.  As you type and fill up the box, the text will
scroll from right to left so that you always see what you are typing.

The cursor will move along after the text when you type.  If you need to go
back in the text to correct an error or make a change, use the left cursor
key to move the cursor back through the text.  Press the Shift key with the
left or right cursor key to move quickly to the beginning or end of text in
a text box.

If you ask ProWrite to find the word "can", it will find these three
letters even if they are part of another word such as "cannot", "candle",
or "incantation".  You may specify that you want ProWrite to find "can"
only where it appears as a whole word by clicking on the "Whole Word" check
box.

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ProWrite also will not distinguish between capital and lower case
characters in its search unless you select the "Match Upper/Lower Case"
option.

After typing the text to be found in the text box and selecting any options
you wish, you then click on the "Find" button to begin the search.  The
requester will disappear.

ProWrite will find the first occurrence of the text and select in it the
document.  If ProWrite did not find the text, a requester will display the
message "Text Not Found".

If you want ProWrite to find the next occurrence of the text, choose the
"Find Next" command from the "Search" menu.

To find the phrase "market and sales research" in the memo in order to
change it, using the "Find" command would be much easier and faster than
scrolling through the document.  Find this phrase now by completing the
following exercise.

     1.  Go to the beginning of the memo and place the insertion point at
         the top.

     2.  Choose the "Find" command from the "Search" menu.  A
         requester will appear.

     3.  Type the phrase "market and sales research".

     4.  Click on the "Find" button.  The located text will appear
         highlighted in the document.

Finding and Changing Text:

Not only will ProWrite find text for you, it will also change it.  The
procedure for finding and changing text is similar to that of simply
finding text.  You will use the "Change" command in the "Search" menu to
bring up a requester for additional information before confirming the
command.

The "Change" requester contains two text boxes, one for you to type in the
text you want to find and one for you to type in what you want to change it
to.  The red cursor will be in the "Find" text box.  As in the "Find"
requester, you may instruct ProWrite to find only whole words or to match
upper and lower case by selecting those options.  You then click on the
"Find" button.

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After ProWrite finds and selects the text, the "Change to" text box will be
selected for you to type in the new information.  Then you have several
options.  You can click on the "Change" button to change the located text.
Or you may instruct ProWrite to change the text and then find the next
occurrence in the document by clicking on the "Change, Then Find" button.
If you click on the "Change All" button, ProWrite will find and change all
the occurrences of the text in the document without stopping.

If you leave the "Changes to" text box empty and select one of the change
buttons, ProWrite will delete the located text.

For practice in instructing ProWrite to change text, change every
occurrence of the phrase "Vice President" in the memo to "Chairman".

     1.  Place the insertion point at the top of the memo.

     2.  Choose the "Change" command from the "Search" menu.  A
         requester will appear.

     3.  Type the phrase "vice president".  It will appear in the
         "Find" text box.  It doesn't matter if you capitalize the
         initial character or not because ProWrite will find the
         phrase anyway unless you select the option to match upper
         and lower case characters.

     4.  Click on the "Find" button.

     5.  When the text is located and selected in the document and
         and the "Change to" text box is selected, type the phrase
         "Chairman".  Do capitalize the word here because you do want
         ProWrite to capitalize it in the memo.

     6.  Click on the "Change All" button.

     7.  After changing all occurrences, ProWrite will tell you how many
         changes were made.

Checking the Spelling:

Once you have typed the entire document, ProWrite can check the spelling of
every word in it with its built-in 95,000 word spelling checker.  If
misspellings are found, you can choose to ignore them, save them to your
own custom dictionary (for words that are correctly spelled but not in
ProWrite's dictionary), change them directly, or have ProWrite give you a
list of possible alternatives.

Like the "Find" and "Change" operations, the spelling check will start from
wherever the insertion point is and go to the end of the document.
Therefore, to check the spelling of the entire document, you must place the
insertion point at the beginning of the document before starting the
spelling checker.

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To check the spelling of a document, choose "Check Spelling" from the
"Document" menu.  A requester will appear.  To begin the spelling check,
click on "Start."  If a word is found that ProWrite doesn't recognize, it
will be highlighted in the document and shown in the requester.  To skip
this word click on "Skip".  To save the word to your own custom dictionary
click on "Save."  To change the word first type the replacement in the text
box, then click on "Change" (if you click on "Change" without typing
anything in the text box the word will be deleted).  If you want ProWrite
to give you a list of suggested alternative words, click on "Suggest," the
list of suggestions will be shown in the list box.  If you see the correct
word in the list box you can click on the word and click on "Change," or
simply double-click on the word.

You can cancel the spelling check at any time (even when in the middle of
checking the document) by clicking on "Cancel."

Practice using the spelling checker by performing the following exercise:

    1.  Place the insertion point at the top of the memo.

    2.  Choose the "Check Spelling" command from the "Document" menu.
        A requester will appear.

    3.  Click on "Start" to begin the spelling check.  It may take a
            few minutes to complete the spelling check.

    4.  If any misspelled words were found (for example, if you
        mis-typed a word) the word will be highlighted in the memo and
            shown in the requester.  If you know the correct spelling,
            type the correct word and click on "Change".  If you want a
            list of suggestions, click on "Suggest."

    5.  ProWrite will tell you when it has finished checking the memo.

Pictures:

As you can see in the sample document "Memo", ProWrite allows you to put
pictures as well as text in a document.  A picture, or graphic file must be
created in another Amiga application specifically designed for drawing and
painting, but ProWrite can read these files.  ProWrite lets you move a
picture around in a window and control the degree of color shading in a
picture.  You can even type in the background color of pictures created
with Deluxe Paint or Deluxe Paint II.

Manipulating pictures in a document is discussed in the Using ProWrite
chapter.  For now, we will continue with how to save and print a document.

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Saving and Printing a Document:

As you are working on a document, it is very important to save you work
periodically.  This way if there is power failure or other mishap you will
only lose the work you have done since the last time you saved the
document.

Saving a Document:

To save a document choose the "Save" command from the "Project" menu.  If
the document has been saved before, ProWrite will replace the old version
of the document with the new version.  The document will remain on the
screen.  It takes a few seconds for ProWrite to save document, and during
this time the pointer image in the window will change to a clockface image
indicating that you must wait.

If the document is a new document a "Save As" requester will appear in the
window.  Refer to the discussion of the "Save As" command in the chapter
Using ProWrite for instructions on how to save a new document.

     1.  Choose the "Save" command from the "Project" menu to save the
         sample document "Memo" that you have been working with.
         Because it is a previously saved document, no requester will
         appear and the document will remain on the screen.

Printing a Document:

After perfecting and saving a document, you will want to print it by using
the "Print" command in the "Project" menu.  This command will bring up a
requester where you may indicate several printing options before confirming
the command, such as the print quality, how many copies, and which pages of
the document you want to print.

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The print quality will initially be set to "Standard" (unless you are using
a letter quality printer), which signifies a graphics print.  This is the
option that you must use if you want to get the fonts, pictures, and format
exactly as shown in the window.  You can also select "NLQ" (Near Letter
Quality) or "Draft" printing, however with these two options you will not
get a printout using the fonts on the screen, nor will you get pictures.
Also, if you are using either of these two qualities you must use the font
Topaz-11 for the entire document or the word and line spacing may be off.

The "Copies" text box in the requester is preselected (containing an orange
cursor) and a suggested number of copies (1) is already typed in.  If you
want to change the number of copies to be printed, press the DEL key and
type the number of copies you want and the number will appear in the
"Copies" text box.

For which pages to print, the "All" radio button will be preselected - most
of the time you will want to print all of a document.  You can select to
print only certain pages by selecting the "From" option.  The orange cursor
will move to the first text box beside the "From" option so you may type in
a beginning page number.  Then press the Return key to move the cursor to
the second text box and type in an ending page number.  If you simply want
to print a single page from a multi-page document, type the same page
number in both boxes.

Finally, the paper type is initially set to "Continuous."  If you are using
single sheets that you must manually feed into your printer you should
select "Cut Sheet."

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Closing a Document and Quitting ProWrite:

Print a copy of the sample document "Memo" following these instructions:

1.  Choose the "Print" command from the "Project" menu.  A requester will
    appear.

2.  Change the options to reflect your printing preferences.

3.  Click on the "OK" button.

After finishing a work session in ProWrite, you may close a document window
and exit, or quit the ProWrite program.  There are two ways to close a
window:  choose the "Close" command from the "Project" menu or click in the
close box at the top left corner of the window.

If you tell ProWrite to close a window before saving any changes you may
have made to the document in that window, ProWrite will ask if you want to
save the changes before closing the window.  Otherwise, if you haven't made
any changes, or if you have already saved the document, the window will
immediately close.

     1.  Click in the close box to close the window containing the sample
         document  "Memo".

When you close the window, it will disappear and you will see an empty blue
screen.  If you click and hold the right mouse button, you will see only a
"Project" menu in the menu bar.  The Project menu now only contains the
commands "New", "Open", and "Quit".

     2.  Choose the "Quit" command from the "Project" menu to quit
         ProWrite.

     After quitting ProWrite, you will return to the Workbench.

You may quit ProWrite without first closing a document window by choosing
the "Quit" command from the "Project" menu.  As with closing a window,
ProWrite will prompt you to save a document if you try to quit without
saving any changes you may have made to that document.

This chapter has taught you the basics of loading ProWrite and opening a
document, entering and editing text, and saving and printing your document.
You have also learned how to close a document and quit ProWrite.

The Using ProWrite chapter that follows gives more information about
ProWrite functions.  It is organized on a feature-by-feature basis and does
not use a sample document with exercises.  You may still use your sample
document "Memo" to explore the additional features discussed in the next
chapter.

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Using ProWrite

This chapter reviews the operations outlines in Learning ProWrite and
describes many of them in more detail, discussing the additional
capabilities of ProWrite for editing text, manipulating pictures, and
formatting characters, paragraphs, and documents.  Advanced features of
saving, loading, and printing documents are also explained.  The
"Shortcuts" section of this chapter illustrates the use of keyboard
equivalents, function keys, and cursor keys as alternatives for giving
commands and selecting text from the keyboard.

The sections in this chapter are:

    * Editing Text

    * Formatting Characters

    * Formatting Paragraphs

    * Formatting and Spell Checking a Document

    * Pictures in a Document

    * Loading and Saving a Document

    * Printing a Document

    * Setting ProWrite Preferences

    * Shortcuts

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Editing Text

Some of the operations involved in editing a document are entering,
inserting, and deleting text.  Text may be moved or copied within a
document or between different documents.  ProWrite will also find and
change not only text but also non-text items such as spaces, non-breaking
spaces, and tabs.  All of these functions are applicable in headers and
footers as well.

About the Mouse, Windows, Menus, and Gadgets

You need to be familiar with the mouse, the window, the menus, and the
types of gadgets in order to use ProWrite.  The following are summaries of
the characteristics and functions of these items; a more detailed
description is contained in the previous chapter, Learning ProWrite.

* The mouse is used to move the pointer in the window.

* The right mouse button, the Menu Button, is for choosing commands from
  the menu only.  Click and hold the right mouse button to show the menu
  bar above the window.  Then point on a menu title to pull down the menu.
  Finally, point on a command name and release the mouse button.

* You can choose more than one menu command at a time by holding the menu
  down with the Menu Button, and clicking the left mouse button to choose
  each command.

* The left mouse button, the Selection button, is primarily for selecting
  items such as icons, text, gadgets, and options, and for placing the
  insertion point.

The window:

* You must click in the window of an existing document to place an
  insertion point before you begin typing.  The window of a new document
  will already contain an insertion point indicating where typed characters
  will appear.  When using the high resolution version of ProWrite almost
  half a page of text vertically will be visible in the window, when using
  the medium resolution version you will see about one quarter of the page.

* To scroll through a document in a window, click (with the left mouse
  button), and hold on the scroll arrows on either side of the scroll bars
  on the right side and bottom of the window.

* To scroll more quickly, click and drag the scroll boxes in the scroll
  bars.  The size of the box in the scroll bar represents the fraction of
  the entire document that is currently visible in the window.

* Re-size the window by clicking and dragging the sizing gadget in the
  lower right corner of the window.

* Re-position the window on the screen by clicking and dragging the title
  bar at the top of the window.

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* Click on the front and back gadgets in the top right corner of the window
  to move the window behind or in front of other windows.

The menus:

* The menu commands that are dimmed are not currently available because
  they are contingent upon some other action and cannot be chosen until
  that action is completed.

* A check-marked command indicates a chosen option; you may turn it off
  either by choosing it again or choosing something else.

* Some menu commands access a submenu instead of a list of commands.  These
  submenus list options that affect that menu item only.

* Certain commands have an ellipsis (three dots: "...") after them, which
  indicates that choosing that command will bring up a requester for
  additional information before you confirm the command.

* Many menu commands have a keyboard equivalent listed beside them.  These
  will be discussed more fully in the Shortcuts section at the end of this
  chapter.

Other gadgets:

* A button is a rectangle that is clicked (with the left mouse button0 to
  confirm or cancel a command.  You may press the Return or Enter key to
  activate the "OK" button (or the highlighted button) or the ESC key to
  select the "Cancel" button.

* A radio button is a circle with an option beside it; click either in the
  circle or on the text of the option itself to select it.

* A check box is a square with an option beside it; click either in the
  square or on the text of the option itself to select it.

* A list box contains several options (with a scroll bar for viewing them
  all) from which you choose one by clicking on it.  You can also use the
  cursor up/down keys to select an option(if there are two list boxes, hold
  down the Shift key while pressing the cursor up/down keys to select an
  item from the second list box).

* A text box is a long rectangle in which text is typed; use the cursor
  keys to move within the box.  To move to the beginning of the text, press
  Shift-left cursor; to move to the end press Shift-right cursor.  To
  completely erase the contents of the text box, hold down the right Amiga
  key and press "X".

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Entering

As you type the characters will be placed in the document at the insertion
point, and the text will automatically wrap around at the right margin.  If
you have a range of text selected, the typed text will replace the
selection.

To enter text:

* Simply begin typing.  Entered text will appear after the insertion point.
  Press the Return key only when you want to begin a new paragraph.

* To keep words from being separated when ProWrite wraps text at the end of
  line, insert a non-breaking space between them by pressing the ALT key
  and the space bar.  (Note that not all fonts actually have a non-breaking
  space character).

* If you make a mistake while typing, press the Backspace key to erase it.

ProWrite automatically creates new pages as you type.  Page breaks are
marked by a dotted line across the window.

Accents to be placed above characters are not shown on the keyboard but may
be created by using the ALT key with certain character keys ("dead keys")
immediately followed by the character carrying the accent.  The accents
will only appear over the appropriate characters.  The following table
shows the accents produced by the standard USA keymap.

* Alt-f        /    acute accent
* Alt-g        `    grave accent
* Alt-h        ^    circumflex
* Alt-j        ~    tilde
* Alt-k        "    umlaut

Inserting

To insert text, simply use the mouse to position the pointer in the window
and click with the left mouse button to place an insertion point where you
want the text to be inserted.  Then begin typing.  You may also use the
cursor keys to move the insertion point in the window to where you want new
text to appear.  The ends of the lines will re-wrap and push the old text
down the page to make room for the inserted text.

Selecting

All editing operations require you to first select the text you wish to do
something to.  Selected text will appear white on a black background if the
character color was black; if the character color was other than black, the
text will appear in a different color on a black background.  After
selecting text, the next command or action will affect only the selected
text.  You un-select text by clicking somewhere else in the window.

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To select text:

There are several ways to select text; a summary is listed below.

* Click (with the left mouse button) just to the left of the text to be
  selected and drag the pointer across the text.  Then release the mouse
  button.

* To select a complete word at once double click anywhere on the word; then
  drag to select complete words at a time.

* To select a while line at once triple click anywhere on the line; then
  drag to select lines at a time.

* To select a large block of text, click at the beginning of the block,
  hold down the Shift key, and click at the end of the block; continuing to
  press the Shift key and double click will extend the selection by a word
  on either end, and triple clicking will extend the selection by a line on
  either end.

* To select the entire document, choose Select All from the Edit menu.

* Use the CTRL (control) key with the cursor keys to select text that the
  insertion point passes over (see Shortcuts in this chapter for additional
  information on selecting text from the keyboard.

Deleting

After entering text, you may want to correct an error or make a change by
deleting text.  There are several ways to do this to allow for personal
preferences, and each is suited to a certain type of deletion.

To delete text:

* Select the text to be deleted. Then choose Erase from the Edit menu.

* Select the text to be deleted.  Then choose Cut from the Edit menu.  The
  selected text will be erased from the document but will be stored in an
  internal clipboard (See Cutting, Copying, and Pasting in this chapter).

* Select the text to be deleted.  Then press the Backspace key or the DEL
  key.

* Select the text to be deleted.  Then simply begin typing new text - it
  will replace the selected text.

* Place the insertion point just to the right of the error and Backspace
  over it.

* Place the insertion point just to the left of the error, and press the
  DEL key.  The insertion point will erase one character at a time as the
  text in front of it moves backwards.

* Place the insertion point to the right of a word you want removed and
  press Shift-Backspace.  This will delete to the beginning of the previous
  word.

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* Place the insertion point at the beginning of a word you want removed and
  press Shift-Del.  This will delete to the beginning of the next word.

* Place the insertion point at the end of a line you want removed and press
  Alt-Backspace.  This will delete to the beginning of the line.

* Place the insertion point at the beginning of the line you want removed
  and press Alt-Del.  This will delete to the beginning of the next line.

Cutting, Copying, and Pasting

To move text within a document you select it and cut it from one place and
paste it into another.  To copy text you select it, make a copy of it, and
then paste it back into the document.  Both cut and copied text are stored
in an internal clipboard, replacing text that may already be stored there
from a previous "Cut" or "Copy" command and remaining there until it is
displaced by the next "Cut" or "Copy" command.  Below is the sequence of
procedures involved in moving or copying text within a document.

To move or copy text:

* Select the text to be moved or copied.

    * To move the selected text, choose Cut from the Edit menu.  The
          selected text will disappear from the document and be stored in
          the clipboard.

    * To copy the selected text, choose Copy from the Edit menu.  The
      selected text will remain in the document unchanged but a copy of
      it is stored in the clipboard.

* Place an insertion point or select text to be replaced where you want the
  cut or copied text to be placed.

* Choose Paste from the Edit menu.  The cut or copied text will appear
  after the insertion point, or in place of the selected text.

This technique is also used to move or copy text between documents.  Open
both of the documents into separate windows on the screen, then use the
"Cut," "Copy," and "Paste" commands to move or copy text between the
document windows just as you would within a document.

Finding and Changing

ProWrite will find and change text for you automatically, beginning at the
insertion point.  A requester will appear when you choose either Find or
Change from the Search menu.  The "Find" requester contains a text box for
you to type in the text you want ProWrite to locate; the "Change" requester
has two text boxes, one for the text you want ProWrite to locate and one
for the new text.

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The text boxes will hold up to 255 characters and will scroll as you type
in text.  Use the left and right cursor keys to move within a text box, and
press the Shift key with the left or right cursor keys to move quickly to
the beginning or end of the text in the text box.  To erase the contents of
the text box, hold down the right Amiga key and press "X".

In both the "Find" and "Change" requesters you may indicate for ProWrite to
find the text only where it appears as a complete word and/or to match
upper and lower case characters.

ProWrite will search for certain non-text characters.  To find a space,
press the space bar to type a space in the "Find" text box.  Locate a tab
by pressing the Tab key.

To find text:

To simply find text, follow the procedures outlined below.

* Place the insertion point in the document where you want the search to
start.

* Choose Find from the Search menu.  A requester will appear.

* Type the text you want ProWrite to find (the text box is preselected; you
  don't have to click in it.)

* Select the "Whole Word" and/or "Match Upper/Lower Case" options if
  applicable.

* Click on the "Find" button, or press the Return or Enter key to start the
  search.

After confirming the "Find" operation, the "Find" requester will disappear
from the window and the located text will appear highlighted in the
document.  Choose Find Next from the Search menu if you want ProWrite to
find the next occurrence of the text in the document.

If the text was not found, ProWrite will display the message "Text Not
Found."

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To find and change text:

To find and change text, follow these procedures:

* Place the insertion point in the document where you want the search to
  start.

* Choose Change from the Search menu. A requester will appear.

* Type the text you want ProWrite to find.  It will appear in the "Find"
  text box, which is preselected (you don't have to click in it).

* Select the "Whole Word" and/or "Match Upper/Lower Case" options if
  applicable.

* Click on the "Find" button, or press the Return or Enter key to start the
  search.

* When the text is located and selected in the document, the "Change to"
  text box will be selected.  Type what you want ProWrite to change the
  located text to.  If you leave the "Change to" text box empty and select
  one of the change buttons, ProWrite will delete the located text.

Now you have several options.  You can click on the "Change" button to
change the located text.  Or you may instruct ProWrite to change the text
and then find the next occurrence in the document by clicking on the
"Change, Then Find" button. If you click on the "Change All" button,
ProWrite will find and change all the occurrences of the text in the
document automatically.

* Click on the appropriate button to begin the change.

If you click on "Change All" you can stop the change operation by clicking
on the "Cancel" button; the change operation will be immediately stopped.

After the find and change operation is completed, click on the "Cancel"
button to remove the requester.

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To go to a specific page:

In addition to finding and changing text in the document, you can also go
directly to a specific page.  For example, if you want to start working on
a section of your document that is on page three, rather than scrolling
around the document hunting for that page you can go directly to that page.

* Choose Go To from the Search menu.  A requester will appear with a text
  box where you can type in the number of the page you want to go to.

* Type the page number and press Return or Enter, or click the "OK" button.

The page number indicator in the bottom left corner of the window indicates
which page is currently being displayed in the window.

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Formatting Characters

Formatting involves character type, style, size and color, paragraph
alignment and spacing, margins, first line indent, tab settings, headers
and footers, and page numbering, which are organized into three levels in
the menu - "Character," "Paragraph," and "Document."  The format options
may be set before typing or chosen to affect selected text when editing.
This section describes how to format individual characters.

Changing Character Styles

The Character menu controls style, position (superscript or subscript),
font (type), size, and color of characters.  These commands can be used to
either change text you have already typed, or to affect how the text you
are currently typing is to be displayed.

To change character style:

There are several different character styles that you can use with
ProWrite.  You can have your characters appear in Bold, Italic, and
Underlined style, or any combination of the three.  You can also have
characters appear in superscript or subscript locations on the line.
Finally, you can give characters one of seven different colors.

* Select the text whose style you want to change.

* Choose the character style or styles you want (Bold, Italic, or
  Underline) from the Character menu.  If the selected text already has the
  style you choose, then choosing that style again will turn off the style
  (for example, if the selected text is already bold, choosing Bold again
  will remove the bold style).

* If you want the selected text to be in superscript or subscript
  positions, choose Superscript or Subscript from the Character menu.  As
  with other style options, if the selected text is already in a
  superscript or subscript position, choosing the command again will turn
  the style off.  For the best appearance, you should decrease the font
  size of superscripts and subscripts; for example if your text is in the
  font Topaz-11 then you should have all superscripts and subscripts in the
  font Topaz-8.

* If you want to remove all character styles from the selected text, choose
  Plain from the Character menu.

* Point to the Color item on the Character menu to see a submenu containing
  the seven color options; these colors are the ones available on most
  color printers.  Choose a color for the selected text from this submenu.
  The Plain command will not affect the color of the text.

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Changing Character Fonts

To change character font:

Changing the font of a range of text is just as easy as changing its style
and color.

* Select the text whose font you want to change.

* Choose Font from the Character menu.  A requester will appear.

* The font requester has two list boxes, one for the font name, one for the
  size.  Select a font form the first box by clicking on it (or using the
  cursor up/down keys), and a list of the sizes available for that font
  will be displayed in the second box; the size is measured in pixels.
  Select a size from the second box by clicking on it (or using the
  shift-cursor up/down keys) and then click on the "OK" button, or press
  the Return or Enter key to confirm the command.

Affecting New Text

If you don't first select a range of text before you choose the style,
font, or color, then the chosen attributes will be used only for newly
typed text.  For example, if instead of selecting text you place an
insertion point, then choose Bold and start typing, the text you type will
be in bold.

Adjusting Screen Colors

To change screen colors:

If you are using the high resolution version of ProWrite without a long
persistance monitor, the standard screen colors will probably flicker too
much to be usable.  However, you can change the screen colors to greatly
reduce this flicker.

* Choose Adjust Colors from the Character menu.  A requester will appear
  showing the eight colors ProWrite uses and sliding controls for setting
  the color and brightness.

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* Click on the color you wish to change.  The positions of the color and
  brightness sliders will be adjusted to reflect the selected color.

* Either click to the left or right of the slider knob or drag the slider
  knob to the desired positions for both the color and brightness.

* If you wish to cancel all changes and return to the normal settings,
  click on the "Reset" button.

* When you are satisfied with the changes, click the "OK" button.

The color settings will only be used during your current work session
unless you save them by choosing Save Prefs from the Project menu (see
Setting ProWrite Preferences).

The best setting to use in order to reduce the flicker of the high
resolution version of ProWrite is simply to reduce the brightness of the
white color until the flicker nearly disappears.

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Formatting Paragraphs

In ProWrite, a paragraph is defined as any combination of characters you
type and any formatting you choose before pressing the Return key, which
will insert an invisible paragraph mark.  These paragraph marks may be
displayed in a document by choosing Show ¶ from the Edit menu; a check mark
by the command will indicate that it has been chosen.  Choose Show ¶ again
to turn the option off.  To join paragraphs simply delete the paragraph
symbol (and the extra line, if there is one) between them.  When you join
two paragraphs, the formatting of the upper paragraph becomes the format
for the new joined paragraph.

Setting Paragraph Style

The Paragraph menu controls paragraph justification, spacing, and tab type.
The formatting is paragraph-based; that is, each paragraph has its own
justification, spacing, and tab settings.  You can also sort selected
paragraphs into ascending or descending order.

To change paragraph styles:

To set paragraph styles, first place the insertion point in the paragraph
you wish to change, or select a range of paragraphs that you wish to
change.  Then choose the formatting options or set the ruler to the desired
settings.

* There are four types of text alignment to choose from: left aligned,
  centered, right aligned, and justified (aligned on both left and right
  margins).  Choosing a particular alignment will automatically turn the
  previous alignment off.

* Normally you would want the line height to automatically increase or
  decrease in size in order to fit the largest font on the line without
  overlapping the previous or next lines.  However, there may be times when
  you want a fixed line height, for example when printing in NLQ or Draft
  mode.  To specify a fixed line height of six lines per inch, choose 6 LPI
  from the submenu of the Line Height menu item of the Paragraph menu.  To
  return to automatic line heights, choose Auto.

* Lines of the selected paragraphs may be set to single spaced, 1 1/2
  spaced, or double spaced by choosing the appropriate menu command from
  the Paragraph menu.. As with alignment, choosing one will turn the others
  off.

* If you want an extra blank line automatically placed before the beginning
  of the paragraph, choose Space Before from the Paragraph menu.  This will
  save you from pressing Return twice when starting a new paragraph (and
  takes less memory).

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Using the Ruler

To change the ruler display:

The ruler is used to place markers for paragraph margins, first line
indent, and tab stops. In addition, the ruler can be displayed in several
different forms, including inches and centimeters.  As with the commands in
the Paragraph menu, the changes you make to the ruler affect only the
selected paragraphs.

* Pull down the Edit menu and highlight the Ruler menu item.  A submenu
  will appear listing various ruler display options.

* Choose the ruler type you wish to work with.  The choices are: Inch, CM
  (centimeter), P 10 (10 pitch), Picas (6 picas per inch), and Points (72
  points per inch.

Note that no matter what type of ruler display you are using, you can only
set ruler settings to the nearest 1/16 of an inch (about 1.6 mm, or 4.5
points).

To set paragraph indent and margins:

* To change the paragraph first line indent setting, click and drag the
  indent marker (a vertical bar with an arrow pointing to the right) along
  the rules.  The position of the first line indent is indicated by the
  vertical bar of the marker.  If you want to create a block-style
  paragraph (with no first line indention), simply place the first line
  indent marker on top of the left margin marker.

* To change the paragraph left and right margins, click and drag the left
  and right margin markers (triangles pointing right and left,
  respectively) along the ruler.

You can create a "hanging indent" (like the bulleted items above) by
placing the first line indent to the left of the left margin.  When you
create a hanging indent, the left margin marker position is treated like a
left aligned tab stop, so pressing the Tab key will advance to the left
margin position.

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Note that when dragging the indent or margin markers you must click exactly
on the marker, otherwise you will create tab stops (which look like upward
pointing arrows) on the ruler.

If you do not create tab stops, then ProWrite will default to having one
left-aligned tab stop at every half-inch position on the ruler.  For most
purposes these default tab stops will be sufficient, however you can easily
create your own specific tab stops at any position on the ruler.  Each
paragraph can have up to eight tab stops set by you.  These tab stops can
be left-aligned, right-aligned, or decimal-aligned.  Right-aligned and
decimal-aligned tab stops are useful for creating tables, where each entry
is aligned on the right for textural entries, and on the decimal point for
numeric entries.

To set tab stops:

* Choose the type of tab stop you would like to create by choosing Left,
  Right, or Decimal from the Tab Type submenu in the Paragraph menu.  Left
  creates left aligned tab stops (the normal type of tab), Right creates
  tab stops that align text on the right, and Decimal creates tab stops
  that align on the decimal point.

* Click on the ruler where you want to place a tab stop; a tab marker will
  appear.  The three different tab stop markers look slightly different so
  you can tell them apart.

* To move an existing tab stop along the ruler, click and drag the tab
  marker along the ruler.

* Remove a tab stop by clicking and dragging the tab marker down until it
  is off of the ruler, then release the mouse button.

Sorting Paragraphs

You can sort a selected range of paragraphs into ascending or descending
alphabetical order.  This is useful if you are making a table of items that
must be sorted - simply enter the items in any particular order and sort
them later.  You can also use this to add or remove new words from your
personal spelling checker dictionary, since words in your personal
dictionary must always be in sorted order, after you make changes you
simply sort them before saving (see Formatting and Spell Checking a
Document).

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To sort paragraphs:

* Select the paragraph you wish to sort.  The Sort command will be dimmed
  (and therefore unavailable) unless at least two paragraphs are selected.

* Choose Sort from the Paragraph menu.  A requester will appear.

* Click on the "A to Z" radio button for an ascending sort, "Z to A" for a
  descending one.

* Click on the "OK" button, or press Return or Enter to begin the sort.

Copying and Pasting Paragraph Formats

Once you have set up a particular paragraph format, it is easy to copy that
format to another paragraph or range of paragraphs.  The format of the
paragraph consists of its justification (left, center, right, or full
justified), spacing (one, one and a half, or double), line height (auto or
six lpi), space before, first line indentation, left and right margins, and
all tab settings.

To copy paragraph formats:

* Place the insertion point in the paragraph that has the format you wish
  to copy.  If the paragraph does not yet have the format you want, then
  set the format with the Paragraph menu commands and the rules.

* Choose Copy Format from the Edit menu.

* Place the insertion point in the paragraph you wish to copy the format
  to, or select the range of paragraphs that you wish to copy the format
  to.

* Choose Paste Format from the Edit menu.  The selected paragraphs will now
  have the format of the paragraph you copied from.

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Formatting and Spell Checking a Document

The Document menu contains commands pertaining to headers and footers, page
breaks, and page numbering, as well as spell checking the document.
Editing headers and footers was discussed in a previous section of this
chapter (see Editing Text).

Headers and Footers

Any of the editing operations may be performed within a header or footer as
well as in the main document.  A header and footer are stored in a part of
the document which is not usually accessible; they are created and edited
using the Document menu.  You may also choose to have them displayed in the
main document, and if you do, whether or not you want them to appear on the
first page of the document.

To create and edit headers and footers:

* To create a header or footer, or edit an existing one, choose Edit Header
  or Edit Footer from the Document menu.  Then simply type and format your
  header or footer exactly as you want it to appear.  You can have several
  lines in the header and footer, and you can use any character or
  paragraph formatting you want.

* To move back to the main document, choose Edit Document from the Document
  menu.  The Show Header or Show Footer menu option will be automatically
  turned on.

* To keep the header and/or footer from being displayed or printed, choose
  Show Header and/or Show Footer from the Document menu to turn off the
  header or footer display.

* Choose Title Page from the Document menu if the Show Header and/or Show
  Footer options are turned on but you do not want the header and/or footer
  to appear on the first page of the document (this is useful for documents
  that have a title page).

ProWrite sets minimum top and bottom margins at half an inch.  You can make
these margins larger by inserting extra, empty lines in headers or footers
using the Return key.

Page Numbering

You can have page numbers automatically show up in your headers and
footers, and these page numbers can be one of several different styles such
as Arabic, upper or lower case roman, and upper or lower case alphabetic.
Page numbers can be shown in any font or character style, and are treated
just like a single character for editing purposes.  You can also have the
page numbering start from a number other than one.  This is useful if you
have a title page and you want the second page to be page number one, or if
you are writing a long article or book and you have each chapter in a
different file.

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To insert page numbers:

* Choose Edit Header or Edit Footer from the Document menu.

* Place the insertion point at the location in the header or footer where
  you want the page number to appear.

* Choose Page Number from the Insert menu item of the Document menu, or
  press the Enter key.  A page number indicator (two zeros) will appear in
  the header or footer.  This indicator is treated like a single character
  for editing purposes, and thus you may move it, select it, or change its
  type, size, style, or color just as you would a single character.
  Although it appears as two zeros in the header or footer, it will be
  displayed as the actual page number when you are editing the document,
  and when the document is printed.

To change numbering style:

* Choose Numbering Style from the Document menu.  A requester will appear.

* Click on the page number style you wish to have, and type a starting page
  number.  If your document has a title page and you want page number one
  to be the second page of the document, making the starting page number
  zero.

* When you have set the page numbering style and starting page number,
  click the "OK" button or press the Return or Enter key.

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Page Breaks

ProWrite automatically creates new pages as you type, the locations of the
page breaks is displayed in the window as a dotted line running across the
window.  Sometimes you might want to force a page break at a specific
location in the document, such as when you want to begin a new section of
the document.  You can do this by using the Insert Page Break command.

To insert page breaks:

* Make sure you are currently editing the document, not a header or footer,
  by choosing Edit Document from the Document menu.

* Position the insertion point at the location you want the page break to
  appear.

* Choose Page Break from the Insert menu item of the document menu.  The
  insertion point will move to the beginning of the next page.

* To remove a page break, first select it by clicking anywhere in it, then
  press the Backspace or Del key.

Document Information

At any time ProWrite can give you information about the number of
characters, words, lines, paragraphs, pages, and pictures in a document.
This is useful if you need to create a document of a particular size or
number of words, or if you simply want to get an estimate of how large the
document will be when you save it to your disk.

To show document information:

* Choose Document Info from the Document menu.  A requester giving the
  document counts will be displayed.

* When you have noted the numbers of interest to you simply click on the
  "OK" button or press the Return or Enter key.

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Spell Checking

ProWrite has a built-in spelling checker with a dictionary of 95,000 words.
You can also add your own words to a "User Dictionary" for words that are
not in ProWrite's main dictionary, words such as last names and highly
technical terms.  You can either create this yourself or have ProWrite
create it for you automatically when it comes across words it does not
know.

Since ProWrite's dictionary is very large, checking the spelling of a
document may take some time, especially if you are using the main
dictionary on the floppy disk.  However, ProWrite will automatically use
the main dictionary from the RAM disk if you put it there first.  Although
this does use up about 250K of memory, it speeds up spell checking by six
times or more.  Having the main dictionary on the RAM disk makes spell
checking even faster than having it on a hard disk (about twice as fast).

To put the dictionary on the RAM disk:

* If the RAM disk does not appear on your Workbench screen, double click on
  the "RAMStart" icon to start the RAM disk. It may take a few seconds for
  the Workbench to recognize the presence of the RAM disk and put its icon
  on the screen.

* Drag the "Main Dictionary" icon from the Program disk to the RAM disk.

To spell check a document:

ProWrite's spelling checker starts checking the document from the location
of the insertion point, and proceeds to the end of the document.  Therefore
if you want to check the entire document you should first place the
insertion point at the beginning of the document before you start the
spelling checker.

* Place the insertion point at the location you want the spelling check to
  begin.

* Choose Check Spelling from the Document menu.  A requester will appear.

* Click on the "Start" button, or press the Return or Enter key, to start
  the spelling check.

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* If ProWrite comes across a word it doesn't understand, it will highlight
  it in the document and display it in the requester.  You now have several
  options:

    * If the word is spelled correctly and you don't want to save it
      to your user dictionary, click on the "Skip" button.

    * If the word is spelled correctly and you do want to save it to
         your user dictionary, click on the "Save" button.

    * If the word is not spelled correctly, you can type the correctly
      spelled word in the text box and then click on the "Change"
      button.  The word will be replaced by the word you type.

    * To see a list of possible alternatives, click on the "Suggest"
      button.  After a few seconds ProWrite will display all similar
      words in the list box.  If you see the correct word in the list
      box, either click on the word and click on the "Change" button,
      or simply double click on the word.  The word will be replaced
      by the word you selected.

* When ProWrite has reached the end of the document, it will tell you that
  no more spelling errors were found.

At any time during the spelling check you can click on the "Cancel" button
of the requester to stop the spell checking operation.

As it checks the document, ProWrite remembers the 1000 most recently
checked words and checks these almost immediately.  Thus while the spell
checking may start out slow (particularly on a floppy based system), it
will generally speed up as it checks more and more of the document.

The user dictionary is saved as a text file on the same disk and drawer as
the ProWrite program and is automatically kept in alphabetical order.  If
you want to edit the user dictionary directly (either to add or remove
words), you should make sure you add words in the correct alphabetical
place, and you must be sure to save it in "Text Only" form.  An easy way to
sort the words is by choosing Select All from the Edit menu, then choosing
Sort from the Paragraph menu.

Note: ProWrite considers all words of a single character to be valid words.
It also considers any word that contains numbers to be a valid word.
Although contractions are checked (words like don't, isn't, and so on), all
possessives ('s) are removed before checking the word, as are all initial
trailing apostrophes.

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Pictures in a Document

Getting Pictures

ProWrite is capable of reading picture files created in other paint
programs for the Amiga, allowing you to place pictures in your document
along with the text.  ProWrite can read normal IFF pictures, such as those
created with DeluxePaint, as well as HAM (Hold and Modify) pictures, such
as those created by DigiPaint.

Although the Amiga is capable of producing up to 4,096 different colors on
the screen, nearly all printers can only produce seven colors (plus white).
 When you print a picture from a program such as DeluxePaint II, your
computer automatically converts from the 4,096 colors that the Amiga's
capable of producing to a mixture of the seven colors the printer is
capable of.  This is usually done with a dithering technique - dark red is
converted to alternating red and black dots for example.  Because of this
conversion, it often turns out that the printed result is not at all when
you expected.

ProWrite takes a different approach.  ProWrite uses the same seven colors
(red, green, blue, yellow, magenta, and cyan) that a printer is capable of
producing.  When ProWrite loads a picture, it does the dithering conversion
when it loads the picture, not when it is printed.  Therefore, what you see
on the screen is exactly what the printer will produce, not an
approximation.

ProWrite gives you further control by letting you specify how much of the
dithering (or "shading") you want done to the picture during this
conversion.  If you choose "None," the picture will have no shading; that
is, there will be distinct lines of demarcation between areas of color.
Choosing the "Partial" option will produce a picture shading of four levels
of color intensity.  There is also an option to have the picture converted
to black and white shades; you should turn on this option if you are using
a black and white printer.

More levels of shading tends to make a "blurry" image, which is more
appropriate for some types of pictures than others (flesh tones in
particular tend to come out better with full shading).  "Partial" shading
generally produces the best results for most pictures, while "None" can
produce stark contrasting effects which in some contexts may be more
appealing.

To load a picture:

* Open the ProWrite document in a window on the screen.

* Choose Get Pict from the Project menu.  The "Open" requester will appear
  allowing you to pick the picture you want to load.  Refer to the Loading
  and Saving Documents section of this chapter for information about using
  the "Open" requester.

* When you have chosen the picture you wish to load, a requester will
  appear listing the possible types of shading.  Select the desired shading
  type and whether or not you want it converted to black and white only.

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* Click on the "OK" button or press the Return or Enter key.

* After the picture has been converted, it will appear in the upper left
  corner of the document window.  Note that for large pictures the
  conversion may take a minute or more.

You may move a picture around in the ProWrite document by clicking directly
on the picture (not the background color around it) and dragging it.  If
you drag the picture above or below the window borders the document will
automatically scroll in the desired direction.

You can also move pictures to other documents by clicking on the picture,
choosing Cut or Copy from the Edit menu, activating the window you want to
move it to, and choosing Paste from the Edit menu.  You cannot paste
pictures while editing headers or footers - you must be in "Edit Document"
mode.  However, while in this mode you can click and drag the picture into
a displayed header or footer manually on every page.

Re-sizing Pictures

You can also change the size of pictures you have placed in your document.
Generally, re-sizing works best with pictures that were converted with the
"None" shading option; the patterns used for dithering conversion consists
of small dots closely spaced, and these patterns do not re-size very well
(unless you re-size by an exact multiple of two in size).

To re-size a picture:

* Click on the picture to select it.  A "frame" will be drawn around the
  picture that has three small "handles" located on the right side, bottom
  side, and bottom right corner of the frame.

* To re-size a picture horizontally only, click and drag on the right
  side's handle.

* To re-size a picture vertically only, click and drag on the bottom side's
  handle.

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* To re-size a picture both vertically and horizontally at the same time,
  click and drag on the bottom right corner's handle.  If you want to keep
  the picture in the same proportions while you re-size it, hold down the
  Shift key before you click and drag the corner's handle.

* When you release the handle the picture will be re-sized to the new size
  you have indicated.

Pictures created by DeluxePaint and DeluxePaint II automatically have a
transparent region wherever the background color of the picture is (refer
to the DeluxePaint manual for information on how to specify the background
color).  You can type text in the background color of the picture by
setting the margins of the paragraphs to be inside the transparent portions
of the picture (see Using the Ruler in this chapter, and the examples
included on the ProWrite Program disk).

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Loading and Saving a Document

You may work in more than one window at a time, moving or copying text
between documents or just referencing between documents.  Each document
will appear in its own window on the screen.  You can have up to eight
documents open at the same time with ProWrite, depending upon how much
memory you have in your system.

Loading a Document

When you load a ProWrite document (or create a new document), existing
windows are not automatically closed.  This makes it easy to copy material
from one document to another.  Remember, however, that the more windows you
have open, the less memory you will have available in your computer for
editing.  Thus you should try to keep as few windows open as necessary.

To load a document:

* To open an empty, untitled document, choose New from the Project menu.  A
  new, empty document window will be displayed.  Any existing windows will
  not be closed.

* To open an existing document, choose Open from the Project menu.  A
  requester will appear.

The "Open" requester contains two list boxes showing the contents of the
disk; the upper box contains a list of drawers and the lower box a list of
documents.  Use the scroll arrows and scroll boxes to see all of each list.

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* To select a document to open, click on the name of the document and click
  on the "Open" button, or simply double click on the name of the document.

* To view the contents of a drawer in order to select a document to open,
  click on the name of the drawer and click on the "Enter" button, or
  simply double click on the name of the drawer.  This will list the
  documents contained in that drawer.

* To exit from a drawer and back up one level in the directory hierarchy,
  click on the "Back" button.  Note that the icon in the upper right of the
  requester indicates whether you are currently looking at the contents of
  a drawer on the disk or the contents of the disk itself.

* To view the contents of a disk in another drive, click on the "Drive"
  button.  The contents of a different drive will be displayed, the name of
  the disk itself is shown in the top of the requester.  If you have
  several different drives attached (such as a Hard disk, or RAM disk) you
  can keep clicking on the "Disk" button until the contents of the drive
  you want are displayed.

If you only have one disk drive, you can still open a document on a
different disk by following these steps:

* Choose Open from the Project menu.  A requester will appear.

* Wait until the list of files is displayed and the disk drive light goes
  out.

* Eject the disk in the drive and insert the disk you want to access.

* Wait until the disk drive light goes on then off.  Then click on the
  "Disk" button in the requester.  A list of files on that disk will be
  displayed.

* Use the "Enter" and "Back" buttons as described above to find the
  document you want to load.

Normally ProWrite will only list fines in its "Open" requester that it
knows how to load.  This is to avoid listing files such as CLI commands and
system libraries in the file list.  There may be times however, when you
want to list all files in ProWrite's "Open" requester.  You can do this by
holding down the Alt key when you choose Open.  Make sure that you only
load ProWrite or Flow documents or Text files, no other file formats are
recognized by ProWrite.

Saving a Document

The procedure for saving a document is similar to that for opening one.

To save a document:

* Activate the window that contains the document you wish to save by
  clicking on it.

* Choose Save from the Project menu.

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* If the document has been saved before, ProWrite will replace the old
  version of the document with the new version (the document will be saved
  in the "Normal" format; see below).

* If the document is a new, untitled document, the "Save As" requester will
  appear.

    * Type a name for the document in the text box.

    * Select the "Text Only" option if you want the document saved
      without any formatting; the "Normal" option for saving is
      preselected.

Use the "Text Only" format when you want to transfer your document to
another program that cannot read ProWrite's "Normal" format.  Saving in
"Text Only" format will lose all formatting information (such as headers
and footers,m character and paragraph formats) that the document contains.

* Use the "Enter", "Back", and "Drive" buttons as described previously to
  specify the disk and drawer where you want the document saved.  If you
  only have one disk drive, then follow the directions for using one disk
  drive as described above.

* Click on the "Save" button or press the Return or Enter key to save the
  document.

It is a good idea to save your document(s) frequently while working so that
you will not accidentally lose your document.

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To save a revised existing document under a new name, choose Save As from
the Project menu.  The "Save As" requester will be displayed for you to
type in a new name.  If you give the document a name that is already being
used, ProWrite will ask you if you want to replace the existing file.  Even
though you save the document with a new name, the old version of the
document will remain saved under the old name.

If you have made revisions to a document that you decide you don't want to
save, choose Revert from the Project menu.  After confirming your command,
ProWrite will re-load the document in the last version you saved.

Closing and Quitting

You may close a window or windows and/or quit the ProWrite program at any
time. If you have made changes to any documents, ProWrite will ask if you
want to save those changes before closing the window or quitting.

* To close a document, either choose Close from the Project menu or click
  on the close box at the top left corner of the window.

* To quit ProWrite, either before or after closing a document window,
  choose Quit from the Project menu.  After quitting, you will return to
  the Workbench.

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Printing a Document

ProWrite gives you several options when it comes to printing your
documents.  You can specify one of several different page sizes and
orientations (even printing sideways), and you can print in Standard mode,
which is a graphics output, or Near-Letter-Quality (NLQ) or Draft mode,
which are character outputs. You can also "Merge" information from a text
file into a form letter and automatically print the results - this feature
is called "Print Merge" or "Mail Merge".

ProWrite will read the current Amiga Preferences settings for all printer
values, however you can change most of them from within ProWrite before you
begin printing.  The settings you cannot change are the printer name and
printer port, graphic threshold, graphic shading, and graphic density.
Make sure you have Preferences set up properly before printing your
document.

Setting the Page Format

Before you begin printing you must specify the page format.  This
information includes the paper size and orientation.  You need to do this
only once for each document.  If you do not specify a page format, ProWrite
will use its current default settings.

To specify the page format:

* Choose Page Setup from the Project menu. A requester will appear.

* Select the paper size from the list presented.  The possibilities are "US
  Letter", "US Legal", "A4 Letter" (an international letter size), and
  "Computer Paper" (a wide paper size).

* Choose the orientation you want.  The possibilities are "Tall Adjusted",
  "Tall", and "Wide".  Both "Tall Adjusted" and "Tall" print normally
  across the page, they differ in how they scale the printout to the
  printer's resolution.  The "Wide" option produces sideways printing.

* Click the "OK" button or press Return or Enter to set the page format.

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The "Tall Adjusted" orientation always produces a printout scaled to 80 by
72 dots per inch (dpi).  This produces a printout that matches the aspect
ratio of the display, so something that is a circle on the screen will
print out as a circle, not an oval (the word "Adjusted" means that this
orientation is adjusted for proper aspect ratio).  However, not all
printers produce a resolution that matches 80 by 72 dpi.  The "Tall" mode
prints using a resolution that is a multiple of the printer's capabilities
- on Epson printers this will be 120 by 72 dpi.  The "Tall" orientation
will in general produce better looking text output, but may distort any
pictures you have in your document (sometimes severely distorting them).

The values used for the resolution when "Tall" orientation is chosen will
depend upon the value of the print density you have set in Amiga
Preferences.  ProWrite will use a resolution that is as close as it can get
to 80 by 72 dpi while still being a multiple of the printer's resolution
you have set in Preferences.  The actual resolution each density setting in
Preferences produces depends upon the printer you are using.

Printing

ProWrite can print either in graphics based output mode (called "Standard"
mode), or character based ones (NLQ and Draft modes).  The advantages of
the graphics mode is a full reproduction of the document, including
multiple fonts and pictures, exactly as they appear in the document window.
In addition, if you have a high resolution printer (an 18 or 24 pin printer
or a laser printer), you can turn on a "Smoothing" option to produce much
better looking result.  The advantage of the character mode is somewhat
faster printing.  However, you do not get the multiple fonts and pictures
when printing in character modes.

Since ProWrite gets its information about line spacing and word positions
from the dimension of the fonts used in the document, if you print in NLQ
or Draft mode (where you are using the printer's own internal font for the
final output) you must use a font in the document that matches the
printer's font dimensions.  The font that does this is Topaz-11.  You must
set the font of the entire document to Topaz-11 if you are printing in NLQ
or Draft, otherwise you may ge extra blank lines and uneven word spacing.
A simple way to change the font of the entire document is to choose Select
All from the Edit menu, choose Font from the Character menu, select
Topaz-11, and click on the "OK" button.  You must also set the orientation
(in the "Page Setup" requester) to "Tall Adjusted".

Before printing a document, position the paper in the printer so that the
first line of print will be half an inch from the top edge of the paper.
This will make the top and bottom margins print correctly.

To print a document:

* Make sure your printer is properly hooked up to your computer and that it
  is on.

* Choose Print from the Project menu.  A requester will appear.

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* If you want more than one copy of your document, type the number of
  copies in the "Copies" text box.

* To print only certain pages of the document, select the "From" option and
  type a beginning page number.  The press the Return key to move the
  cursor to the second text box and type an ending page number.  To print a
  single page from a multi-page document, type the same page number in both
  boxes.

* Specify whether you will be using either "Continuous" or "Cut Sheet"
  paper.  If you select "Cut Sheet" you will be prompted for the next sheet
  of paper whenever each page finishes printing.

* Select the print quality you want, either "Standard", "NLQ", or "Draft".
  That the "NLQ" and "Draft" settings cannot be selected if you don't have
  "Tall Adjusted" set in the "Page Setup" requester.  If you have a high
  resolution printer (and you have set it for a high resolution print
  density in Amiga Preferences), you can also click in the "Smooth" check
  box to turn on the smoothing option.  This option will make the printing
  take about twice as long, but produces better looking results.

* Click on the "OK" button or press the Return or Enter key to begin
  printing.

When printing begins, a requester will appear allowing you to cancel the
printing at any time.  While ProWrite is printing, the page number
indicator on the bottom left of the window will indicate which page is
currently being printed.

Printing Merged Documents

With ProWrite you have the capability to create a template document (such
as a form letter) and automatically merge it with several entries from a
text file (either one created in a data base system or with ProWrite) and
print the results.  A common example of this is producing customized
letters from a form letter and a data base of names and addresses.

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To use the print merge feature, you must first create a merge data file.
This file contains the individual entries that must be merged with the
document.  In the description below, the term "record" refers to each entry
for which a separate document is to be generated, and the term "field"
refers to the specific portions of the record.  For example, if the file
consists of names and addresses, a record would be an entire name/address
entry, and the fields of a record would be the name, the address, the city,
the state, and so on.

The file must have the following format:

1. Single line entries for record.

2. The fields of each record are separated by a single Tab character.

3. The first record is simply the names of the specific fields.  No merged
   document will be printed for this record.

An example merge data file would look like this:

Name        Address            City        State    Zip
Jane Doe    123 Anywhere St.    Anytown        TX    78745
John Pancreas    555 Livermore Ln.    Lungstown    CA    90001

and so on, where each new line is a separate entry (a paragraph from
ProWrite's point of view) and each field is separated from the previous one
by a single tab character.

This file must be saved in "Text Only" format (also called "ASCII" format
by other programs).  If you are creating the file with ProWrite, be sure to
click on "Text Only" in the "Save As" requester when saving the file.

Once you have created and saved the merge data file, you need to create the
merge document (or form letter).  You do this by creating a document just
as you normally would, but where ever you want the fields from the merge
data file to go, you instead put the field names surrounded by double angle
bracket characters (which are obtained by pressing Alt-9 and Alt-0 on the
Amiga keyboard).  For example, you might start out a letter like this:

«Name»
«Address»
«City»,«State» «Zip»

Dear «Name»,

and so on.  Remember that the double angle bracket characters are not the
same as pressing the single angle bracket characters twice!  You must use
the Alt-9 and Alt-0 characters to create the double angle brackets.

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Once you have created your merge document, you now start the print merge
operation.

To perform a print merge:

* Create a merge data file and merge document (form letter) as described
  above.  The merge data file must be saved in "Text Only" form.

* With the merge document active, choose Print Merge from the Project menu.
  The "Open" requester will appear.

ProWrite will list in this requester only those files that identify
themselves as being Text files.  If you use a different program to create
this file and that program does not properly set the file type as Text, the
file will not show up in this requester.  However, if you hold down the Alt
key when you choose Print Merge, the "Open" requester will show a list of
all files.  If you do this, make sure the file you select is the correct
text file that contains your merge data.

* Choose the merge data file that contains the information you want merged
  into this document and click on the "OK" button or press the Return or
  Enter key.  For more information on using the "Open" requester, see
  Loading and Saving a Document in this chapter.

* Once a merge data file has been chosen, the "Print" requester will
  appear.  Choose the print options you want and click on the "OK" button
  or press the Return or Enter key.

ProWrite will print one complete document for each entry in the merge data
file.  When the first merge document begins printing, a requester will
appear allowing you to cancel the print merge at any time.

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Setting ProWrite Preferences

You can customize ProWrite's default settings to your own personal
preferences.  The settings you can change are just about all of ProWrite's
settings - the default font, paragraph format, margin settings, screen
colors, page format, and so on.  You can even set up multiple preferences
files and start with different preferences settings at different times.

To set ProWrite preferences:

* Set the font, paragraph formats, margins, tab settings, ruler type, page
  format, page numbering style, and screen colors that you wish to have as
  the default values.

* Choose Save Prefs from the Project menu.  The preferences settings will
  be saved in a file called "ProWrite Prefs" in the same disk and drawer as
  the ProWrite program.

To set up multiple ProWrite preferences files, return to the Workbench and
rename the "ProWrite Prefs" file to the name you want to give these
settings (you may need to close then re-open the Workbench window that
contains the "ProWrite Prefs" file in order to have Workbench display it).
Then, whenever you want to start up ProWrite with these settings, simply
double click on the appropriate preferences file icon instead of the
ProWRite program icon.  ProWrite will start up and use the preferences in
the file you selected.

There are several examples of multiple ProWrite preferences files on the
ProWrite Program disk.  One in particular should be of interest to those
who wish to use NLQ or Draft as their usual mode of printing - it sets the
default font to Topaz-11 and sets the line height to six lines per inch
(when printing in NLQ or Draft mode, the font of the entire document must
be set to Topaz-11 in order to get proper line spacing and word
positioning, see Printing a Document in this chapter for more information).

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Shortcuts

ProWrite offers some shortcuts to make your work easier and faster once you
have mastered the techniques of using the mouse and the menus.  These
shortcuts utilize the keyboard instead of the mouse and the menus to choose
commands, move the insertion point, and select text.

One type of shortcut is the keyboard equivalent for a menu command
mentioned in Learning ProWrite.  These menu key commands consist of
pressing and holding down the right Amiga key and then pressing a specific
character key to choose a menu command.

Note that many of the commands have a key command in which the character
key used is the first letter of the menu command to make them easy to
remember.  Other menu key commands are structured so that they use adjacent
characters on the keyboard for commands which are most often used together,
such as "Cut," "Copy," and "Paste" (X, C, and V under the fourth, third,
and second fingers of the left hand), and "Left Aligned," "Centered," and
"Right Aligned" (W, E, and R).  You may remember the menu key commands for
superscript and subscript by noticing that H stands for high and L for low,
and the menu key command for font by noticing that T stands for typestyle.

The menu key commands are grouped below by menu functions; they are also
listed beside the commands in the menus and in alphabetical order in
ProWrite Reference.

    Save        Amiga-S
    Quit        Amiga-Q

    Cut        Amiga-X
    Copy        Amiga-C
    Paste        Amiga-V
    Select All    Amiga-A

    Find        Amiga-F
    Find Next    Amiga-N
    Go To        Amiga-G

    Plain        Amiga-P
    Bold        Amiga-B
    Italic        Amiga-I
    Underline    Amiga-U
    Superscript    Amiga-H
    Subscript    Amiga-L
    Font        Amiga-T

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    Left Aligned    Amiga-W
    Centered    Amiga-E
    Right Aligned    Amiga-R
    Justified    Amiga-J
    Single Space    Amiga-1
    Double Space    Amiga-2

For some menu commands which do not have key commands, ProWrite uses the
function keys as keyboard equivalents.  Simply press the appropriate
function key to choose the command.  These function key commands are
grouped below by function; they are also listed in ProWrite Reference.

    F1        New
    F2        Open
    F3        Close

    F4        Save As
    F5        Print

    F6        Edit Document
    F7        Edit Header

    F8        Edit Footer
    F9        Show Header
    F10        Show Footer

Another type of shortcut uses the cursor keys instead of the mouse to move
the insertion point and select text.  In the chart below, pressing the
cursor key listed in the left column will cause the insertion point to move
in the direction and amount in the right column.

    Left cursor    left a character
    Right cursor    right a character
    Up cursor    up a line
    Down cursor    down a line

Holding down the Shift key with the cursor keys allows you to move the
insertion point faster and farther at a time.

    Shift + left cursor    left a word
    Shift + right cursor    right a word
    Shift +    up cursor    up a window
    Shift + down cursor    down a window

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To move the insertion point to the beginning or end of lines or a document,
use these combinations of the Alt key with the cursor keys.

    ALT + left cursor    to the beginning of a line
    ALT + right cursor    to the end of a line
    ALT + up cursor        to the beginning of the document
    ALT + down cursor    to the end of the document

If you hold down the Control key with any of the above cursor key
combinations, ProWrite will select text as the insertion point moves.

There are several shortcuts for deleting sections of the document, they
operate similarly to the cursor keys.

    Backspace        delete previous character
    Del            delete next character
    Shift + backspace    delete to beginning of previous word
    Shift + Del        delete to beginning of next word
    Alt + backspace        delete to beginning of current (or
                previous) line
    Alt + Del        delete to beginning of next line

There are a few additional shortcuts:

    Enter        insert page break/insert page number
    Help        show available memory and function key reminder
    Shift + help    adjust colors

As a shortcut for selecting certain requester buttons, use the Return,
Enter, and Esc keys.  Press the Return or Enter key to activate the buttons
in a requester that have a heavy border.  Pressing the Esc key activates
the "Cancel" button except when there is a text box in the requester.

You can use the up and down cursor keys to scroll through items in a
requester's list box.  If there is more than one list box, then shift-up
and shift-down will scroll through the second one.

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ProWrite Reference

Congratulations!  You have explored and mastered the exciting possibilities
of word processing with ProWrite.

This reference chapter is organized to help you locate information quickly
and easily.  The first and second sections are a summary of the menu items
and using the ruler.  Following this is a list of keyboard shortcuts and a
summary of preset options.

The sections in this chapter are:

    * The Menus
    * The Ruler
    * Keyboard Shortcuts

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The Menus

ProWrite has six menus: Project, Edit, Search, Character, Paragraph, and
Document.

The Project menu contains commands which control file and print operations:
opening and closing documents, saving and printing documents, and quitting
the program.

The Edit menu commands are for moving, copying, and erasing text and
pictures in documents. This menu also lets you choose to see paragraph
symbols and set your ruler to be displayed in different units.

The Search menu is used to find and change specific text and to go to a
particular page in a document.

The Character menu has commands which change the character format, such as
type, style, size, position, and color of characters.

The Paragraph menu commands determine paragraph formats, such as
justification, spacing, and tab type.

The Document menu allows you to set the overall format of your document.
You use these commands to set up headers and footers, forced page breaks,
automatic page numbering, and spell checking.

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The Project Menu

New                Keyboard Equivalent: F1
Creates a new, empty, untitled document.  Existing windows will not be
closed.  You can have up to eight document windows open at the same time
(depending upon available memory).

Open                Keyboard Equivalent: F2
Opens a previously saved document.

After choosing Open, a requester will appear in the window.  This requester
contains two list boxes showing the contents of the disk, the upper box for
drawers and the lower box for documents.  To select a document to open,
click on the name of the document and click on the "Open" button, or simply
double click on the name of the document.

To view the contents of a drawer in order to select a document to open,
click on the name of the drawer and click on the "Enter" button, or simply
double click on the name of the drawer.  To back up to the previous
directory level, click on the "Back" button.  To view the contents of a
different disk click on the "Disk" button.  If you have several disk drives
attached, continue to click on the "Disk" button until the name of the disk
you wish to view is shown on the top of the requester.

Normally, ProWrite will list only files in this requester that it knows how
to load.  However, if you hold down the ALT key when choosing Open,
ProWrite will list all files on the disk.  If you do this, make sure you
load only ProWrite, Flow, or Text files.

Close                Keyboard Equivalent: F3
Closes the active window.  You can also close the active window by clicking
in the close box of the window.

ProWrite will ask if you want to save any changes you may have made to the
document if you try to close the window without saving those changes.

If the active window was the only window on the screen, after closing it
you will see an empty screen.

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Get Pict
Brings a picture into the document.

When you choose this command, the "Open" requester is displayed with a list
of all IFF picture files (see Open above for the operation of the "Open"
requester).  Once you have selected a file to bring in, the picture shading
requester will be displayed.  You can specify a shading of "Full",
"Partial", or "None" and optionally specify that the shading should be done
in color or black and white only.

Once you have selected the type and amount of shading you want, the picture
will be converted.  For full pictures this could take some time - up to two
minutes for a full sized high resolution picture - and considerable amounts
of memory.  Brushes from DeluxePaint will take less time to convert and
will also take up less memory.  When the conversion is complete, the
picture will appear in the upper left of the document window.  From there
you can drag it to the location in the document you want, or use the "Cut,"
"Copy," or "Paste" commands.

You can also re-size a picture by grabbing on one of the three "handles"
that appear on the right side, bottom side, and bottom right corner.  If
you hold down the Shift key when dragging the corner handle the picture
will be re-sized in proper proportions.  Re-sizing will generally produce
strange results unless the picture is converted with the shading set to
"None."

Save                Keyboard Equivalent: Amiga-S
Saves a copy of the document ot the disk.  The document will be saved in
"Normal" format.

If you choose this command to save an untitled document (one that has never
been saved), you will see a "Save As" requester.  See Save As.

If you choose this command from the menu to save a document that has been
saved before, you will not see a requester.  Instead, ProWrite will save
the document using the name it was last saved under, replacing any version
previously stored.  If you wish to keep the previous version, you must use
the Save As command.

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Save As                Keyboard Equivalent: F4
Saves a document under a new file name.

This command brings up a requester with a text box for you to type in a
name for the document.  Select the "Text Only" option if you want the
document saved without formatting; the "Normal" option is preselected.

The "Save As" requester is similar to the "Open" requester in that it has a
list box displaying the contents of the disk.  As with opening a document,
you may select a drawer from the list to save your document into by
clicking on the drawer name and clicking on the "Enter" button, or by
simply double clicking on the drawer name.  Click on the "Back" button to
back up to the previous directory level, and on the "Disk" button to switch
to a disk in another drive.  When you have entered a name for your document
and specified the disk and directory you want it saved to, click on the
"Save" button, or press Return or Enter, to save the document.

Revert
Loads a document in the version in which it was last saved.

With this command, you lose any editing you may have done since you last
saved the document.  You will be asked to verify that this is really what
you want to do.

Page Setup
Allows you to set up the page format of your document.

When you choose this command, a requester will appear where you can specify
the paper size and orientation that you want for the document.  Possible
paper sizes are: "US Letter," "US Legal," "A4 Letter" (an international
letter size), and "Computer Paper" (wide paper).  Possible orientations
are: "Tall Adjusted," "Tall," and "Wide."

"Tall Adjusted" orientation uses a printed resolution of 80 by 72 dpi; this
produces printouts that have the same aspect ratio as the screen (circles
will be printed as circles, not ovals).  If your printer does not directly
support an output resolution of 80 by 72 dpi then the printout will be
scaled to fit.  On some printers this scaling can produce odd effects,
especially with thin-lined fonts.

"Tall" orientation uses a printed resolution that matches your printer's
capabilities (for example, with Epson printers in low resolution it will
use a resolution of 120 by 72 dpi).  In general this will produce better
looking text output, but the aspect ratio may suffer - circles may print
out as ovals and so on.

"Wide" orientation prints sideways on the page.

If you will be printing NLQ or Draft mode you must set the orientation to
"Tall Adjusted" (and use the Topaz-11 font for the entire document).

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Print                Keyboard Equivalent: F5
Instructs ProWrite to print a document.

When you choose this command, a requester will appear where you can choose
from several print options.  You can have ProWrite print all pages of the
document, or just a specific range of pages, you can have multiple copies
printed, and choose to use "Continuous" or "Cut Sheet" paper.  If you
choose "Cut Sheet," ProWrite will stop at the end of each page and wait for
you to insert the next sheet of paper.

You can also specify the type of printing you want - "Standard" (a graphics
printout), "NLQ" (Near Letter Quality mode), or "Draft."  If you choose
"Standard" and have a high resolution printer (such as an 18 or 24 pin dot
matrix printer, or a laser printer) and have set up Amiga Preferences for
high resolution graphics printing, you can turn on a "Smoothing" option to
produce high quality results while still getting multiple fonts and
pictures.  Note however that printing with the smoothing option turned on
will slow down printing by about a factor or two.

If you choose "NLQ" or "Draft" mode for printing, you will not get multiple
fonts or pictures printed, and you must use the Topaz-11 font in your
entire document in order to get the proper line and word positions.

Print Merge
Instructs ProWrite to print multiple copies of the document merged with a
data file.

When you choose this command, the "Open" requester will appear for you to
choose the file that contains the merge data for this document.  This
document must be in the correct format, and must be saved in "Text Only"
format.  See Printing Merged Documents in the Using ProWrite chapter for a
complete discussion of the format that this data file must have.  See Open
above for the operation of the "Open" requester.

After you have chosen a merge data file, you will see the "Print" requester
where you can specify various printing options.  See Print above for a
description of its operation.

The document itself must have the fields that are to be substituted
indicated by placing them in double angle brackets « ».  The double angle
brackets are obtained on the Amiga keyboard by pressing Alt-9 and Alt-0.
These are not the same as pressing the single angle bracket character
twice.  See Printing Merged Documents in the Using ProWrite chapter for a
complete discussion of the document format.

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Save Prefs
Causes a file with the name "ProWrite Prefs" containing the preferred
default values for ProWrite parameters to be written to the same location
(disk and drawer) as the ProWrite program.

The parameters that are saved in this file are: Font, Style, Paragraph
format (justification, spacing, margins, and tab settings), Ruler type,
Page format (page size and orientation), Page numbering style, and Screen
colors.

You can create multiple preferences files by renaming the "ProWrite Prefs"
file to another name, and then double clicking on this file when you want
to start working with ProWrite.  If you do this ProWrite will use these
preferences settings instead of the ones contained in the "ProWrite Prefs"
file.

Quit                Keyboard Equivalent: Amiga-Q
Closes all open documents, exits the ProWrite program, and returns to the
Workbench.

ProWrite will ask if you want to save any changes you may have made to
documents if you try to quit without saving those changes.

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The Edit Menu

Cut                Keyboard Equivalent: Amiga-X
Cuts selected text or picture and keeps it in an internal clipboard.  The
selected item is removed from the document.

Copy                Keyboard Equivalent: Amiga-C
Copies selected text or picture and keeps it in an internal clipboard.  The
selected item is not removed from the document.

Paste                Keyboard Equivalent: Amiga-V
Inserts text (that was previously cut or copied) into the document at the
location of the insertion point.  Inserts pictures in the upper left corner
of a document window.

Erase
Permanently removes the selected text or picture from the document.

Copy Format
Copies the format settings of the paragraph containing the insertion point
into an internal buffer.  The format settings consist of the margin and tab
settings, and the justification and spacing of the paragraph.

Paste Format
Sets the formal settings of the selected paragraphs to that saved by the
Copy Format command.

Select All            Keyboard Equivalent: Amiga-A
Selects the entire text of the document.  This is useful for making global
changes to the character font or style, or the paragraph format of the
document.

Show ¶
Displays paragraph symbols in a document.  This is helpful in seeing where
specific paragraphs start and end.

Ruler
Shows a submenu where you may choose the units you want the ruler displayed
in.  The possible units are: "Inch," "CM" (centimeters), "P 10" (10 pitch),
"Pica" (six picas per inch), or "Points" (72 points per inch).

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The Search Menu

Find                Keyboard equivalent: Amiga-F
Searches for specific text in a document.

When you choose this command, a requester is displayed which contains a
text box for you to type in the text you want to find, along with check
boxes where you may indicate whether you want ProWrite to find only whole
words and/or to match upper case and lower case letters exactly as they
appear in the text box.  The search will proceed from the current position
of the insertion point to the end of the document.

Find Next            Keyboard equivalent: Amiga-N
Searches for the next occurrence of specific text that you requested in
your most recent Find command.

Change
Instructs ProWrite not only to find specific text but also to change it.

When you choose this command, a requester is displayed which contains two
text boxes for you to type in both the text you wish to find and what you
want to change it to.  As in the Find command, you may also indicate that
ProWrite is to find only whole words and/or match upper and lower case
letters exactly as they appear in the first text box.

You can control the change operation with selections for ProWrite to find
the next occurrence of the text, to change the text, to change the located
text and then find the next occurrence, or to change all the occurrences in
the document.  You can cancel the "Change All" command before it is
completed by clicking on the "Cancel" button of the requester The search
will proceed from the current position of the insertion point to the end of
the document.

Go To                Keyboard equivalent: Amiga-G
Instructs ProWrite to go directly to a page number that you specify.

When you choose this command, a requester will appear where you can specify
the page you want to go to.

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The Character Menu

Character formatting may be chosen to alter selected text or to apply to
new text that you type.  To affect newly typed text, place an insertion
point and choose the command(s) before typing.  To see what styles are
currently in effect, display the menu and note which styles have check
marks next to them.

Plain                Keyboard equivalent: Amiga-P
Removes all character styles.  The font and color of the text is not
affected.

Bold                Keyboard equivalent: Amiga-B
Set the type style to boldface.  If the selected text is already in
boldface (or the boldface style is already set) then boldfacing is removed.

Italic                Keyboard equivalent: Amiga-I
Set the type style to italics.  If the selected text is already in italics
(or the italic style is already set) then italicizing is removed.

Underline            Keyboard equivalent: Amiga-U
Set the type style to underlined.  If the selected text is already
underlined (or the underline style is already set) then underlining is
removed.

Superscript            Keyboard equivalent: Amiga-H
Makes the text subscripted by raising the characters above the baseline of
the text.  If the selected text is already superscripted (or the
superscript style is already set) then the text is returned to its normal
position.

Subscript            Keyboard equivalent: Amiga-L
Makes the text subscripted by lowering the characters below the baseline of
the text.  If the selected text is already subscripted (or the subscript
style is already set) then the text is returned to its normal position.

Font                Keyboard equivalent: Amiga-T
Allows you to change font types and sizes.

When you choose this command, a requester is displayed that lists all of
the available fonts and their sizes, with the font of the selected text (or
the currently chosen font) already selected.  To choose a different font or
size, either click on the name of the font and then on its size, or use the
up and down cursor keys to select the font, and the SHIFT-up and SHIFT-down
cursor keys to select the size.

Only fonts that are on the Workbench disk that you started your Amiga with
will be displayed in the "Font" requester.  If you have fonts on another
disk that you wish to use, you must copy them to your Workbench disk and
then re-start ProWrite.

Color
Displays a submenu where you can choose a color for text.

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Adjust Colors            Keyboard equivalent: SHIFT-HELP
Allows you to adjust the colors that are used for the screen display.  The
colors that ProWrite prints with are not affected.

When you choose this command, a requester is displayed showing the eight
colors used for the screen along with sliders for setting the color and
brightness.  Click on the color you wish to change and then adjust the
color and brightness using the sliders (the black and white colors can only
have their brightness changed).  To return to ProWrite's printed colors
click on the "Reset" button.

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The Paragraph Menu

Paragraph formatting may be chosen to alter selected paragraphs.  If you do
not have several paragraphs selected (or just have an insertion point set)
then the formatting will apply only to the paragraph containing the
insertion point.

Left Aligned            Keyboard equivalent: Amiga-W
Aligns text flush on the left margin and ragged on the right margin.  The
first line indent location is treated as the left margin for the first line
of the paragraph.

Centered            Keyboard equivalent: Amiga-E
Aligns text in the center between the left and right margins.  The first
line indent location is treated as the left margin for the first line of
the paragraph.

Right Aligned            Keyboard equivalent: Amiga-R
Aligns text flush on the right margin and ragged on the left margin.  The
first line indent location is treated as the left margin for the first line
of the paragraph.

Justified            Keyboard equivalent: Amiga-J
Aligns text flush on both the left and right margins.  The first line
indent location is treated as the left margin for the first line of the
paragraph.

Line Height
Displays a submenu where you can choose either variable (auto) line height
or fixed (six lines per inch) line height.

With variable line height, the height of each line in the paragraph will
automatically adjust to the minimum it must be in order to fit the
different sized fonts, and superscripts and subscripts, that occur on that
line.  With fixed line height, every line will be fixed in size to six
lines per inch.

Fixed line height is useful when you will be printing in NLQ or Draft mode,
and want to keep superscripts and subscripts from changing the line height.

Single Space            Keyboard equivalent: Amiga-1
Sets the paragraph's line spacing to single spacing.

1 1/2 Space
Sets the paragraph's line spacing to one and a half spacing.

Double Space            Keyboard equivalent: Amiga-2
Sets the paragraph's line spacing to double spacing.

Space Before
Causes the paragraph to automatically have a blank line placed before it.

Tab Type
Displays a submenu for choosing whether you want newly created tabs to line
up flush left, flush right, or on a decimal point at the tab marker.

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Sort
Allows you to sort the selected paragraphs into either ascending or
descending alphabetical order.

When you choose this command, a requester is displayed where you can
specify the sort order you want.  When you click on the "OK" button the
sort will be performed.

You must have at least two paragraphs selected in order for this command to
be available on the menu.

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The Document Menu

Edit Document            Keyboard equivalent: F6
Changes from editing the document's header or footer to editing the
document itself.

If you were editing the header then the Show Header option will be
automatically turned on, if you were editing the footer then the Show
Footer option will automatically be turned on.

Edit Header            Keyboard equivalent: F7
Changes from editing the document or its header to editing the document's
footer.

If you were editing the header then the Show Header option will be
automatically turned on.

Edit Footer            Keyboard equivalent: F8
Changes from editing the document or its header to editing the document's
footer.

If you were editing the header then the Show Header option will be
automatically turned on.

Show Header            Keyboard equivalent: F9
Causes the header to be displayed in the document.  If this option was
already turned on then choosing it again will turn it off.

Title Page
Instructs ProWrite not to display the header and/or footer on the first
page of the document.  If this option was already turned on then choosing
it again will turn it off.

Insert
Displays a submenu where you can choose to insert a page break or a page
number indicator.

If you are editing the document itself then you cannot insert a page number
indicator, page number indicators can only be inserted in headers and
footers.

If you are editing the document's header or footer then you cannot insert a
page break, page breaks can only be inserted in the document itself.

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Numbering Style
Allows you to specify the page numbering style and a starting page number
for the document.

When you choose this command, a requester is displayed that lets you select
a page number style and a starting page number.  The minimum starting page
number is zero.

Document Info
Displays information about the document.

When you choose this command, a requester is displayed which shows the
current count of characters, words, lines, paragraphs, pages, and pictures
in the document.

Check Spelling
Checks the spelling of the words in your document.

When you choose this command, a requester is displayed that controls the
spell checking operation.  To begin the spelling check click on the "Start"
button.

When a misspelled word is found it is selected (highlighted) in the
document and displayed in the requester.  If you want to ignore this
misspelling click on the "Skip" button.  If you want to save this word ot
your user dictionary click on the "Save" button.  If you want to change it
to another (properly spelled) word, type the new word in the text box and
click on the "Change" button.  If you want to see a list of possible
alternative words click on the "Suggest" button, a list of alternatives
will be displayed in the list box.  If you see the correctly spelled word
in this list then either click on the word and click on the "Change"
button, or simply double click on the word.

ProWrite's dictionary consists of 95,000 words.  When you first choose
Check Spelling, ProWrite looks for the dictionary on the RAM disk; if it
doesn't find it there then it looks for it in the same location (disk and
drawer) as the ProWrite program.  Having the dictionary on the RAM disk
speeds up spell checking by about six times, therefore if you have enough
memory in your system it is recommended that you copy the dictionary to the
RAM disk.  To start up the RAM disk, double click on the "RAMStart" icon.

ProWrite also remembers the most recently encountered words as it checks
the document.  Therefor, while the initial page of the spelling check may
take a while (due to the size of ProWrite's dictionary), it will gradually
accelerate through the document as it comes across more and more repeated
words.

ProWrite checks the document starting from the current location of the
insertion point and proceeds until it reaches the end of the document.  You
can cancel the operation at any time (even in the middle of checking the
document) by clicking on the "Cancel" button.

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The Ruler

You use the ruler to adjust left and right margins, first line indentation,
and tabs.  Formatting in ProWrite is paragraph based - each paragraph has
its own margins, indentation, and tab settings.

To change settings, first place the insertion point anywhere in the
paragraph you wish to modify.  The ruler will show the current setting for
that paragraph.  You can modify several paragraphs at the same time by
dragging across the paragraphs you wish to change, in this case the ruler
will show the settings for the first paragraph in the selection range.

To change the left or right margins, click and drag the left or right
margin markers (triangles pointing right and left respectively) along the
ruler.  To change the paragraph indentation, click and drag the indentation
marker (a vertical bar with an arrow pointing to the right).  The actual
location on the ruler of the indentation is the position of the vertical
bar of the indentation marker.

You can set up a hanging indentation by placing the indentation marker to
the left of the left margin marker.  When you set up a hanging indent, the
left margin marker is treated like a left tab stop for the first line of
the paragraph.

Each paragraph can have up to eight tab settings.  To create a tab setting,
click on the ruler at the position you want the tab.  A tab marker of the
currently selected type (left aligned, right aligned, or decimal aligned)
will be placed at that position (use the Tab Type command in the Paragraph
menu to specify what tab type you want to set).  To move a currently set
tab, click and drag the tab marker to a new position on the ruler.  To
remove a tab setting, drag the tab marker down off of the ruler and release
the mouse button.

If you have not set any tab settings in a paragraph, the paragraph is
automatically given left tab stops at every half inch location on the
ruler.  These automatic tab settings are not shown on the ruler.

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                       Keyboard Shortcuts

ProWrite lets you use the keyboard instead of the mouse for most of its
commands and operations.  You may find it easier or faster to choose
commands, move the insertion point, and select text from the keyboard
instead of using the mouse and pulling down menus.  There are three types
of keyboard shortcuts: menu key commands, function key commands, and of
course cursor key commands.

Some commands may be chosen by holding down the right Amiga key and a
letter or number key.  These commands are listed below in alphabetical
order for quick reference.

Menu Key Commands

    Press:        To choose:

    Amiga-A        Select All
    Amiga-B        Bold
    Amiga-C        Copy
    Amiga-E        Centered
    Amiga-F        Find
    Amiga-G        Go To
    Amiga-H        Superscript
    Amiga-I        Italic
    Amiga-J        Justified
    Amiga-L        Subscript
    Amiga-N        Find Next
    Amiga-P        Plain
    Amiga-Q        Quit
    Amiga-R        Right Aligned
    Amiga-S        Save
    Amiga-T        Font
    Amiga-U        Underline
    Amiga-V        Paste
    Amiga-W        Left Aligned
    Amiga-X        Cut
    Amiga-1        Single Space
    Amiga-2        Double Space

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Function Key Commands

The function keys can be used to choose commands which do not have menu key
commands.

    Function key    Command

    F1        New
    F2        Open
    F3        Close
    F4        Save As
    F5        Print
    F6        Edit Document
    F7        Edit Header
    F8        Edit Footer
    F9        Show Header
    F10        Show Footer

Cursor Key Commands

You can use the cursor keys in combination with the SHIFT and ALT keys to
move the insertion point in the window.  The following table outlines these
cursor key commands.

    Left cursor        left a character
    Right cursor        right a character
    Up cursor        up a line
    Down cursor        down a line

    SHIFT + left cursor    left a word
    SHIFT + right cursor    right a word
    SHIFT + up cursor    up a window
    SHIFT + down cursor    down a window

    ALT + left cursor    to the beginning of a line
    ALT + right cursor    to the end of a line
    ALT + up cursor        to the beginning of the document
    ALT + down cursor    to the end of the document

Holding down the CTRL key while using the cursor keys (with or without the
SHIFT or ALT keys) will select text the insertion point passes over (just
like dragging with the mouse).

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Others

There are several keys used for deleting a character at a time, a word at a
time, and a line at a time.

    BACKSPACE        delete previous character
    DEL            delete next character
    SHIFT + BACKSPACE    delete to beginning of previous word
    SHIFT + DEL        delete to beginning of next word
    ALT + BACKSPACE        delete to beginning of current (or previous
                line)
    ALT + DEL        delete to beginning of next line

And finally, there are a few miscellaneous shortcuts.

    ENTER            insert page break/insert page number
    HELP            show available memory and function key
                reminder
    SHIFT + HELP        adjust colors

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                             APPENDIX

This section covers material that is not directly related to the operation
of ProWrite.  In this section you will find information that will help you
utilize ProWrite more fully.

The individual appendices in this section are:

    *  Appendix A - Installation
    *  Appendix B - Printer Information
    *  Appendix C - Memory Considerations
    *  Appendix D - Error Messages
    *  Appendix E - Problems

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                    Appendix A Installation

ProWrite comes on two disks - the System disk which contains several system
files necessary for ProWrite's operation, the printer drivers for a number
of different printers, the fonts that are displayed in ProWrite's "Font"
requester, and several Workbench tools; and the Program disk which contains
both the high resolution and medium resolution versions of ProWrite, the
"Main Dictionary" for ProWrite's spelling checker, the "RAMStart" tool for
starting the RAM disk, a few sample ProWrite preferences files, and several
sample documents.

If you have an Amiga system with two disk drives then the recommended
configuration is the two disk setup that ProWrite comes as.  You simply
insert the System disk in the first (internal) drive when your Amiga
requests a Workbench disk, and insert the Program disk in the second disk
drive.  You can save your documents on the Program disk.  If you want more
room on the Program disk for your documents, you can (on a copy of the
Program disk) remove either the high resolution or medium resolution
version of ProWrite, along with all the sample documents in the "Documents"
drawer.  If you want to save your documents on a different disk, you will
have to do some disk swapping; see Loading and Saving Documents in the
Using ProWrite chapter for information about using the "Open" and "Save As"
requesters with single disk drives for information about swapping disks
when opening or saving documents.

If you do not have a hard disk but you have one megabyte or more of memory,
you should copy the "Main Dictionary" to the RAM disk before you start
using ProWrite.  This will speed up ProWrite's spell checking operation by
about six times.  In order to start the RAM disk (if it is not already
started up), double click on the "RAMStart" icon (it may take several
seconds for Workbench to recognize that the RAM disk is present).

If you have only a single disk drive, or if you have a hard disk, then you
should refer to the following sections for specific information regarding
setting ProWrite up for proper operation.

Single Disk Drive

If you have only a single disk drive with your Amiga system, then you will
have two choices regarding installation.  Unfortunately, both choices have
some drawbacks.

*    Use ProWrite as it is provided (i.e. on two disks).  You will have
    all features of ProWrite available, but you will need to do a bit
    of disk swapping, especially when you first start ProWrite.

*    Create a single working disk from both Workbench and ProWrite on
    it.  You will have all features of ProWrite available except the
    spelling checker (unless you copy the "Main Dictionary" to the RAM
    disk before you start ProWrite).  You will not be able to save
    documents to this disk; you will therefore still need to do some
    disk swapping in order to save your documents to a different disk.

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The first option has already been described in the discussion of a two disk
drive setup.  The only change is that after starting your system with the
System disk, you remove that disk and insert the Program disk.  When you
start ProWrite you will be asked at the proper times to re-insert the
System and Program disks.

To put ProWrite on a single disk:

To create a single disk that contains both Workbench and ProWrite on it,
follow these steps:

*    Duplicate the System disk and rename it from "copy of System" to
    "System". Be sure you remove the space before the "S" in "System".
    Re-start your system with this copy.

*    Double click on the System disk icon.

*    Discard the "Utilities" drawer and the "Clock" tool (to discard
    an item, click once on it then choose "Discard" from the
    "Workbench" menu).

*    Open the "System" drawer and discard all of the tools except
    "DiskCopy", "Format", "CLI", and "SetMap".  If you are using an
    Amiga 1000 with the USA keyboard you can also discard the "SetMap"
    tool.

*    When the disk drive light goes out, remove your copy of the System
    disk and insert the Program disk.

*    Double click on the Program disk icon.

*     Drag either the "ProWrite" icon or the "ProWrite.MR" icon over to
    the System disk icon, depending on which version of ProWrite you
    wish to use.  Workbench will ask you to insert the System disk and
    Program disk in turn until it finished copying the program.

You now have a Workbench disk that contains the version of ProWrite you
choose to use.  There may be enough room on this disk for a few small
documents, however you will need to save your documents to a different disk
if you have a large number of them.  Refer to the discussion of the "Open"
and "Save As" requesters in Loading and Saving Documents in the Using
ProWrite chapter for information on using these requesters with a single
drive system.

You will not have enough room on this disk for the "Main Dictionary", hence
you will not be able to use ProWrite's spelling check feature unless you
copy the dictionary to the RAM disk first (you must have at least one
megabyte of memory in order to be able to do this).

If you are familiar with the CLI you may also want to remove any printer
drivers and fonts that you don't need in order to create more room on the
disk.  If you start removing system libraries, be sure to leave the
"icon.library", "diskfont.library", "info.library", and "version.library"
in order for both ProWrite and Workbench to operate properly.

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Hard Disk Drive

If you have a hard disk drive, then installation of ProWrite is simple:

To copy ProWrite to your hard disk:

*    Start your system (and the hard disk drive) in the normal fashion.

*    Insert the Program disk in a disk drive and double click on the
    Program disk icon.

*    Drag the "ProWrite" (or "ProWrite.MR") icon to the location on your
    hard disk that you want.  If you wish, you can place ProWrite in
    any drawer on the hard disk, there is no restriction on where
    ProWrite has to be.

*    Drag the "Main Dictionary" icon to the same location on the hard
    disk that you dragged the ProWrite icon to.  If you don't drag the
    dictionary icon to the same location as the ProWrite icon then
    ProWrite will not be able to find the dictionary (unless you place
    it in the RAM disk).

ProWrite will now be installed on your hard disk.  However, since ProWrite
comes with Commodore's new Workbench 1.3 printer system software
(printer.device, printer drivers, and Preferences program) you should also
copy these to your hard disk if you don't already have a copy of them.

To copy printing software to your hard disk:

*    If you have a copy of the Amiga Preferences program on your hard
    disk, discard it.

*    Remove the Program disk, insert the ProWrite System disk into your
    first (internal) disk drive, and double click on the System disk
    icon.

*    Drag the Preferences icon to your hard disk to copy the new
    Preferences program to your hard disk.

*    Double click on the "System" drawer icon and then double click on
    the "CLI" icon.

*    Type:

        Delete devs:printer.device devs:printers/#?
        Copy df0:devs/printer.device to devs:
        Copy df0:devs/printers to devs:printers all

    This will copy the new printing system software to your hard disk.

*    Double click on the Preferences icon and setup the printer
    information.  Several printer driver names have been changed, and
    there are several new printer options (most of them in the
    "Graphic 2" section of Preferences).  Refer to the sample documents
    on the Program disk for information about the new Preferences
    features.

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*    If you start your system with a floppy disk instead of booting
    directly from the hard disk, then after setting up Preferences you
    will need to copy these new preferences settings to your startup
    disk.  To do this, remove the System disk from the first (internal)
    disk drive and insert your startup disk in that drive.  Then click
    on the CLI window and type:

        Copy devs:system-configuration to df0:devs

*    Now re-start your system.

Your system is now set up for the Workbench 1.3 printer system software.

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                  Appendix B  Printer Information

ProWrite comes with the Workbench 1.3 version of the printer drivers and
printing system software.  This version provides greatly improved printing
speed, selectable printer resolution, and optional smoothing on high
resolution printouts.  This software also offers a large number of user
adjustable options to control the printout, such as different types of
color conversion (dithering), forced integer scaling, optional screen to
printer color correction, and a number of ways of specifying limits on the
final printout size.  All of these options are controlled by the Amiga
Preferences program.

Since ProWrite needs a great deal of control over the appearance of the
final printout, most of these options are either ignored or overridden by
ProWrite.  For example, when you check the "Smooth" option in ProWrite's
printer requester you are overriding the "Antialiasing" setting in Amiga
Preferences.

There are, however, a few settings in Amiga Preferences that ProWrite does
not control, and you must set them up properly.  They are: Printer name and
port, narrow or wide printer, and print density.  The following sections
describe how to set up these settings.

Printer Name and Port

You need to specify to ProWrite the name of the printer you are using, and
whether to use the parallel or serial port for communicating with this
printer.  When you set the printer name what you are really doing is
selecting a "printer driver" from the ones provided by Commodore.  If you
are using a printer that is not one of the ones listed, and is not
compatible with any of them either, you must obtain a printer driver
specifically written for your printer.

To set the printer name and port:

*    Double click on the Preferences icon in the System disk.

*    When the Preferences window is displayed, click on the "Printer"
    button.  The printer setup window will be displayed.

*    At the top right of the printer setup window is a list of printers.
    Click on the up and down arrows next to this list until the name
    of the printer you are using is in the center of the list (in the
    orange container).  If your printer is not listed, check to see if
    your printer is compatible with any of the printers listed (many
    printers are Epson compatible), if so then use the printer setting.
    See the printer driver listing later in this appendix for a list of
    what printer driver to use for various printers.

*    To the left of the list of printers and icons for using the serial
    or parallel ports.  click on the parallel icon if your printer is
    connected to the Amiga's parallel port, or click on the serial icon
    if your printer is connected to the Amiga's serial port.

*    Click the "OK" button in the lower right corner.  The main
    Preferences window will be displayed.

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*    Click on the "Save" button in the lower right corner to save these
    Preference settings.

Narrow or Wide Printer

Many printers are available in both narrow (eight inch) and wide (13.6
inch) carriage versions, and several of Commodore's printer drivers are
designed to be used with either type of these printers.  However, you must
tell the printer driver what type of printer you are using.

To set the printer width:

*    Double click on the Preferences icon in the System disk.

*    When the Preferences window is displayed, click on the "Printer"
    button.  The printer setup window will be displayed.

*    If you are using a narrow carriage printer, click on either "U.S.
    Letter" or "Narrow Tractor" in the "Paper Size" section.  If you
    are using a wide carriage printer, click on "Wide Tractor" in the
    "Paper Size" section.

*    Click on the "OK" button in the lower right corner.  The main
    Preferences window will be displayed.

*    Click on the "Save" button in the lower right corner to save these
    Preferences settings.

Print Density

Most graphics capable printers can use several different resolutions when
printing graphics.  New with the version 1.3 printer drivers and printing
system software is the ability to control the print density (or print
resolution) of the printout.  Although setting a higher resolution will
slow down the printing, you can potentially obtain much nicer results,
especially when you choose the "Smooth" option in ProWrite's "Print"
requester.  If your printer supports multiple graphics printing resolutions
(and if the printer driver also supports multiple resolutions), you should
try each of the different resolutions to see the efforts, both in quality
and printing speed.  Then choose the one that you prefer as your normal
setting.

To set the print density:

*    Double click on the Preferences icon in the System disk.

*    When the Preferences window is displayed, click on the "Printer"
    button.  The printer setup window will be displayed.

*    Click on the "Graphic 2" button on the right of the window.  The
    version 1.3 printer options window will be displayed.

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*    Most of these options are ignored or overridden by ProWrite, so you
    shouldn't be concerned with them.  Of importance here is the
    "Density" setting in the upper right corner.  Click on the value
    you want to use (one though seven).  The actual resolution used by
    these different settings varies from one printer to another, refer
    to the printer driver descriptions later in this appendix for
    information about what resolutions each setting provides for your
    specific printer.

*    Click on the "OK" button in the lower right corner.  The printer
    setup window will be displayed.

*    Click on the "OK" button in the lower right corner.  The main
    Preferences window will be displayed.

*    Click on the "Save" button in the lower right corner to save these
    Preferences settings.

For the best results, you should choose a resolution that it is at least 80
by 72 dpi.  If you want to use the "Smooth" option in ProWrite's "Print"
requester, you will need to choose a resolution of at least 160 by 144 dpi.
If you choose values less than this, you should use the "Tall" orientation
in ProWrite's "Page Setup" requester, rather than the "Tall Adjusted"
orientation, this will adjust for the specific resolution you have chosen.

Printer Specific Information

Below is a list of the graphics capable printer drivers supplied by
Commodore at the time this manual went to press, along with information
about what printers that driver supports, whether it supports wide carriage
versions of the printer, and what printer resolutions the "Print Density"
option sets.

CalComp ColorMaster
CalComp ColorMaster2
These two drivers are identical except that the ColorMaster2 driver is
approximately twice as fast, and requires considerably more memory (up to
about 1.2 megabytes for a full page printout).  No special features.

CBM MPS1000
For Commodore's MPS1000 printer and IBM compatible printers.  Wide carriage
versions are supported.  Two densities are supported: 120 by 72 dpi, and
240 by 72 dpi.

Diablo C-150
For the Diablo C-150 and compatible printers.  No special features.

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EpsonQ
For both black & white and color versions of the Epson LQ and LQ compatible
printers.  Uses 24 pin graphics mode.  Wide carriage versions are
supported.  Four densities are supported: 90 by 180 dpi, 120 by 180 dpi,
180 by 180 dpi, and 360 by 180 dpi.

EpsonX
For both black & white and color versions of the Epson EX, FX, JX, LX, MX,
RX, and compatible printers.  Wide carriage versions are supported.  Two
densities are supported: 120 by 72 dpi, and 240 by 72 dpi.

HP DeskJet
For the HP DeskJet printer.  Four densities are supported: 75 by 75 dpi,
100 by 100 dpi, 150 by 150 dpi, and 300 by 300 dpi.

HP LaserJet
For the LaserJet Plus, LaserJet II, and compatible printers.  Four
densities are supported: 75 by 75 dpi, 100 by 100 dpi, 150 by 150 dpi, and
300 by 300 dpi.

HP PaintJet
For the HP PaintJet printer.  No special provisions.

ImageWriterII
For the Apple Imagewriter II printer.  Seven densities are supported: 80 by
72 dpi, 96 by 72 dpi, 107 by 72 dpi, 120 by 72 dpi, 136 by 72 dpi, 144 by
72 dpi, and 160 by 72 dpi.

Okidata 283I
For both the Okidata 292 and 293 with IBM interface modules.  Uses 16 pin
graphics mode.  Wide carriage versions are supported.  Two densities are
supported: 120 by 144 dpi, and 240 by 144 dpi.

Okidata 92
For the Okidata 92 printer and Okidata 292 and 293 with Standard interface
module.  No special features.

Okimate 20
For the Okimate 20 printer.  No special features.

Xerox 4020
For the Xerox 4020 and compatible printers.  This driver is identical to
the driver for the Diablo C-150 except it prints all black dots twice in
order to produce much more solid and darker black shades.  If you don't
want this feature then use the Diablo C-150 driver.  No special features.

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Additional Notes

Some Epson and Epson compatible (and IBM compatible) printers have poor
line spacing.  If you notice tiny white lines between each horizontal strip
of eight dots, try selecting a paper type of "Single" (rather than
"Fanfold") in Amiga Preferences.  This tells the printer driver to advance
the paper by 23/216 of an inch instead of the standard 24/216 of an inch.
This option has been implemented on the EpsonX and CBM MPS1000 drivers.

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                 Appendix C  Memory Considerations

The memory installed in your Amiga is used by programs, such as ProWrite,
to hold both the program while it is running and any information the
program is working with (for example, documents that you are editing or
pictures that you are creating).  Since the Amiga is a multitasking
computer, this memory must be shared between all programs that are
currently running.  Obviously in order to run many programs at the same
time you will need a large amount of memory (Note that the memory being
discussed here is not the same as the amount of space available on your
disks, but rather the actual plug-in memory that you have installed in your
computer).

When working with ProWrite, especially when using the high resolution
version on machines with only 512K of memory, you may encounter situations
where ProWrite tells you that there is not enough memory to complete the
operation you have requested.  There are several steps you can take to try
to increase the amount of available memory:

To free memory:

*    Close all Workbench windows, including any CLI windows you may
    have open.

*    Quit from any other programs you are using at the same time as
    ProWrite.

*    Close any ProWrite windows you are not using.  Note that when you
    use the New or Open command, any windows that are already open in
    ProWrite ar not closed.

*    If you use a lot of pictures in your documents, try to use brushes
    rather than full pictures.  Brushes can use considerably less
    memory.

Another reason available memory may be low is that when you cut or copy a
large block of text or a picture, a copy remains in ProWrite's internal
clipboard even though you may have pasted it back into the document (this
is so you may easily paste multiple copies of the same text or pictures).
The contents of this clipboard may take up considerable amounts of memory,
memory usage which is hidden from you.  To clear the contents of the
clipboard, simply select a single character in the text and choose Copy
from the Edit menu, the selected character will replace what was previously
in the clipboard.

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The memory in the Amiga system is actually composed of two parts - Graphics
(or "Chip") memory, and Expansion (or "Fast") memory.  When you add memory
beyond 512K, you are only adding Expansion memory; there is (currently) no
way to add more than 512K of Graphics memory to the Amiga.  Unfortunately,
the special hardware in the Amiga, such as the hardware that controls
graphics operations, can only use Graphics memory, it is not able to use
Expansion memory (only the processor in the Amiga can get to that memory).
Therefore the Amiga operating system uses up Graphics memory quite rapidly,
for example all the memory used by screens and window contents is stored in
Graphics memory.  As a result, it is possible when using several programs
that rely on graphics (such as using ProWrite and DeluxePaint at the same
time) to run out of Graphics memory - even though you may have several
megabytes of Expansion memory available.  To help reduce this problem
ProWrite uses Expansion memory for everything it can, and only uses
Graphics memory for things that must go there.  To see the amount of both
Graphics and Expansion memory that is currently available, press the HELP
key while running ProWrite.

ProWrite is designed to properly recover from all low memory conditions, it
even has an automatic save feature when available memory gets low to
prevent you from losing your documents.  Unfortunately not all programs are
so forgiving; in fact the Amiga system itself often crashes if memory gets
below certain levels.  For this reason, ProWrite starts to warn you, with a
message in the screen's menu bar, when memory gets so low that the system
may start to have problems.  When you see this message you should try to
free some memory and save your document to prevent problems later.

When ProWrite tries to display either the "Save Changes Before Closing?" or
"Save As" requester but is not able to do so due to lack of available
memory, it will automatically try to save the document as a file with the
name "ProWrite.Recover" on the disk in the internal drive.  ProWrite will
display a message while it is doing this so you know what is going on.  If
this save operation fails (because the disk is locked or full), insert an
empty formatted disk in the internal drive and try again.

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                     Appendix D  Error Messages

From time to time you may encounter error messages from ProWrite.  Error
messages will appear either in a requester, or (when there is not enough
memory for a requester) in the screen's menu bar.  These messages usually
indicate ProWrite's inability to perform an operation that you have
requested.  The following is a list of possible error messages, their
cause, and what you can do to correct the problem.

Not Enough Memory
There was not enough memory to complete the requested operation.  Note that
this message has nothing to do with how much space you have on your disk,
but how much memory you have installed in your Amiga system itself.  To
free memory for ProWrite's use, close some Workbench windows, quit from
other programs, and close unused ProWrite windows.  Pressing the help key
will indicate how much memory is available.

Not Enough Memory - Saving as "ProWrite.Recover" on Drive 0
This message occurs when ProWrite tries to display the "Save Changes?" or
"Save As" requester but there is not enough memory to do so. When this
happens, ProWrite will automatically try to save the document to the disk
in the internal drive under the name "ProWrite.Recover" (in order to keep
you from losing the document).  If this save operation fails, you should
try putting a blank formatted disk in the internal drive and try again.

Unable To Open File
ProWrite was unable to open the file you specified.  This message will
usually be accompanied by a reason for the failure, either "Bad File
Contents" or a DOS error number.  Refer to your AmigaDos user's manual for
an explanation of DOS error codes.  Make sure the file you are trying to
load is either a ProWrite file, a Flow file, or a Text file. ProWrite does
not recognize any other file types.

Unable To Save File
ProWrite was unable to save the file using the name and disk/drawer
location you specified.  This message will usually be accompanied by as DOS
error code explaining the reason for the failure.  The usual reason is
"Disk Write Protected" (214) or "Disk Full" (221).  check the write protect
tab on the disk or delete some files on the disk to make some room.  refer
to your AmigaDOS user's manual for an explanation of other DOS error codes.

Improper number Of Copies
You have specified a value for the number of copies to print that is not a
valid number.  Enter a valid number.

Improper Page Number
You have specified a page number that is not a valid number.  Enter a valid
number.

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No Such Page
You have specified a page number that does not exist in the document.  Only
enter existing page numbers, or (in the "Print" requester) click on the
"All" option to print all pages.

Unable To Print
ProWrite is unable to print your document.  Either the printer is being
used by another program, or the printer is not responding to the computer,
or there is not enough memory available to print.  Check that the printer
is properly hooked up and turned on, and that no other programs are using
it.  Also, printing in "Standard" mode takes quite a bit more memory than
printing in either "NLQ" or "Draft" modes, if you are attempting to print
in "Standard" mode try to free some memory by closing all Workbench windows
(including CLI windows), quitting from other programs, and closing unused
ProWrite windows.

Improper Text Entry
You have clicked the "Find" button in the "Find" or "Change" requester
without specifying any text to find.  Enter the text you wish to find
before starting the search.

Text Not Found
The text you specified in the "Find" or "Change" requester was not found.
ProWrite searches only from the current insertion point to the end of the
document.  To search the entire document, move the insertion point to the
top of the document (by clicking at the top, pressing ALT-up arrow) before
choosing Find or Change.

Unable To Change Text
ProWrite was not able to perform the change operation you specified in the
"Change" requester.  This is usually due to ProWrite running out of memory.
Free some memory by closing some Workbench windows, quitting from other
programs, and closing unused ProWrite windows.

Unable To Get Font
ProWrite was not able to load the specified font.  This is caused either by
not having enough memory, or having a corrupt fonts directory.  To free
some memory, close some Workbench windows, quit from other programs, and
close unused ProWrite windows.  Also, check and make sure you have
installed the fonts correctly on your disk.

Unable To Find Dictionary
ProWrite is not able to locate the "Main Dictionary" for its spelling
checker.  The dictionary must be either on the RAM disk, or in the same
disk and drawer as the ProWrite program, and it must be called "Main
Dictionary."

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Unable To Save Dictionary
ProWrite was not able to save the changes to your user dictionary.  The
usual reasons for this are either the disk is full, or it is write
protected.  The user dictionary is written to the same disk and the drawer
that the ProWrite program is in.  Check the write protect tab on this disk,
or delete some files to make room on the disk.

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                       Appendix E  Problems

Here are some suggestions for the most common problems in using ProWrite:

"Unable To Print" is displayed when trying to print
This message usually arises when you are trying to print in "Standard" mode
and there is not enough memory to do so.  Because "Standard" mode is a
graphics output to the printer, it takes considerably more memory to print
in this mode than it does to print in "NLQ" or "Draft" mode.  Refer to
Appendix D - Memory Considerations for suggestions on how to free
additional memory for ProWrite's use.

"Printing in Progress" is displayed, but nothing is being printed
The usual reason for this to occur is when you have not set up Amiga
Preferences properly.  Quit ProWrite and double click on the Preferences
icon.  After Preferences starts up, go to the "Printer" section.  Make sure
the printer you are using is selected in the list of printers, and that the
parallel/serial selection (to the left of the list of printers) is set
correctly - for most printers this should be set for parallel.  If you are
using a serial printer, you must also go to the "Serial" section of
Preferences and make sure the baud rate, parity, stop bits, and handshaking
match what is currently set in your printer.

When printing in NLQ or Draft mode extra blank lines are printed every
twelve lines, or the word spacing is not correct
This is caused by not having the entire document in the Topaz-11 font when
printing in either NLQ or Draft mode (see Printing a Document in the Using
ProWrite chapter for an explanation of why you must do this).  To change
the font of the entire document to Topaz-11, choose Select All from the
Edit menu, then choose Font from the Character menu, and finally choose
Topaz-11 in the "Font" requester and click on the "OK" button.  If you are
using superscripts and/or subscripts you should also choose 6 LPI from the
Line Height submenu of the Paragraph menu.

When printing in Standard mode printing is very slow - it takes five
minutes or more to print each page
Either you are not using the Workbench 1.3 printing system software
(printer.device and printer drivers), or the custom printer driver you are
using does not support the new version 1.3 printing mechanism, or you have
your printer set for high resolution and smoothing.

The System disk that comes with ProWrite has the Workbench 1.3 printing
system software, if you are using a different disk to start your computer
you should copy this new software to your startup disk.  Refer to Appendix
A - Installation for information on how to copy the new printing system
software to your startup disk.

If you are using the new printing system software but are also using a
custom printer driver (one that did not come on ProWrite's System disk),
you should contact the company that developed the driver you are using and
ask for a version that supports the faster version 1.3 graphics printing.

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Printing will also be slower if you have set your printer for higher
resolution graphics printing, or if you have checked the "Smooth" option in
ProWrite's "Print" requester.  To lower the resolution setting of your
printer, run Amiga Preferences, go into the "Graphic 2" section of the
"Printer" section, and set the "Density" value to something lower.  Refer
to Appendix B - Printer Information for more information about setting up
your printer.

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                             GLOSSARY

Active        The item to which the next action or command will apply
        (e.g., an active window).

Application    A program; represented by an icon in the Workbench window.
        Also called a Tool.

Back gadget    An icon in the top right corner of a window that is clicked
        with the left mouse button to move the window behind other
        windows.

Background    The empty area surrounding a picture created with
color        DeluxePaint or DeluxePaint II.

Button        A small rectangular box in a requester that is clicked with
        the left mouse button to confirm or cancel an action.

Check box    A small square box in a requester that is clicked with the
        left mouse button to set or remove an option; option may
        also be selected by clicking on the text of the option
        itself.

Choose        To pick a command from a menu with the mouse or from the
        keyboard.

Click        To press and release a mouse button.

Clipboard    An internal, non-visible area where cut or copied text or
        pictures are stored.

Close box    A small square box in the top left corner of a window that
        is clicked with the left mouse button to close the window.

Command        An instruction to ProWrite.

Command Line Interface (CLI)
        A method of issuing commands to the Amiga without using
        icons.

Cursor        The orange square in a text box indicating where the next
        character you type will be placed.

Cursor key    One of the directional keys that is labeled with an arrow.

Dead key    When used with the ALT key, a letter key that inserts an
        accent over the next character you type.

Dimmed command    A command or option that appears in lighter print in a menu
        or requester because it is unavailable.

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Directory    A listing of documents and/or subdirectories on a disk.

Document    A file created by an application.  Also called a Project.

Double click    To press and release a mouse button twice in rapid
        succession.

DPI        Dots per inch.  Used to specify the output resolution of a
        printer.

Dragging    To hold down a mouse button while moving the mouse.

Drawer        Another term for a subdirectory.

Font        A particular design of type.

Footer        Text that appears at the bottom of every page in a
        document.

Format        Refers to the way characters, paragraphs, and entire
        documents are arranged and styled.

Front gadget    An icon in the top right corner of a window that is clicked
        with the left mouse button to move the window in front of
        other windows.

Function key    A key labeled with the letter F and a number that activates
        a specific command.

Gadget        A catch-all term for items in windows and requesters such
        as close boxes, scroll bars, scroll boxes, the front and
        back gadgets, buttons, radio buttons, check boxes, text
        boxes, list boxes, scroll arrows, the sizing gadget, and
        the title bar.

Graphic        A picture.

Hanging indent    An indent of the first line of a paragraph that is smaller
        than the indent of following lines, so that the first line
        "hangs" out to the left by itself.

Header        Text that appears at the top of every page in a document.

Highlight    Text that has been selected with the mouse or cursor keys
        and appears as reversed characters on a black background.

Icon        A picture on the Workbench that represents an application,
        a drawer, or a document.

Indent marker    A horizontal arrow on the ruler indicating paragraph
        indentation.

Info file    A file containing the information needed to display an
        icon.

Insertion point    A blinking vertical bar in a window that indicates where
        typed text will be inserted.

Interlace mode    A vertical screen resolution of 400 lines.

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Justified    Text that is aligned flush at both the left and right
        margins.

Keyboard equivalent
        A key command that activates a specific menu command.

List box    A box in a requester that contains a list of items from
        which one is selected with the left mouse button.

Margin marker    A triangle on the left or right side of the ruler
        indicating a margin.

Marker        A symbol on the ruler; there are markers to indicate left
        and right margins, paragraph indentation, and left, right,
        and decimal tabs.

Menu        A list of commands.

Menu bar    The bar across the top of a window containing the names of
        the menus.

Menu button    The right mouse button.

Menu item    A command on a menu.

Multi-tasking    The capability to run more than one program at a time.

Non-breaking space
        A space between two words that keeps them from being
        separated when a line wraps around at the right margin.

Non-interlace mode
        A vertical screen resolution of 200 lines.

Pica        A unit of measurement used by typesetters and printers.
        There are six picas per inch, 12 points per pica.

Page break    Position where one page ends and another begins.

Paragraph mark    The symbol occurring at the end of a paragraph (¶) which
        is normally invisible but can be displayed.

Point        To place the mouse pointer on an item.

Points        A unit of measurement used by typesetters and printers to
        measure font size.  There are 72 points per inch.

Pointer        A small screen image that follows the movement of the
        mouse; points to items to be selected with the mouse
        buttons.

Project        Another term for a document.

Radio button    A small circle in a requester that is clicked with the left
        mouse button to select one of several options; options may
        also be selected by clicking on the text of the option
        itself.

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Requester    A box that appears in a window after choosing certain menu
        commands requesting additional information needed to
        complete the command.

Resolution    The number of horizontal and vertical lines in the screen.

Ruler        The measurement line appearing at the top of a window where
        markers are displayed.

Scroll        To move a document within a window.

Scroll arrows    A small square box on either side of a scroll bar which
        contains an arrow that is clicked with the left button to
        scroll a document in the indicated direction.

Scroll bars    Long rectangular boxes at the bottom and the right of a
        window containing gadgets used to scroll in the window.

Select        To pick and highlight an icon from the Workbench; to pick
        an option in a requester; to pick and highlight text (or
        pictures) in a document for future action.

Selection Button
        The left mouse button.

Sizing gadget    A small square box in the lower right corner of a window
        containing an image of two boxes; click it with the left
        mouse button and drag it to re-size the window.

Subdirectory    A listing of documents and/or subdirectories in a directory
        or subdirectory; another term for a drawer.

Submenu        A list of choices appearing beside a command in a menu.

Tab marker    A vertical arrow on the ruler indicating tab location;
        there are different tab markers for left and decimal tabs.

Text box    A long rectangular box in a requester in which information
        is typed.  Also called a string gadget.

Title bar    The bar at the top of a window containing the name of the
        document.

Tool        Another term for an application.

Triple click    To press and release a mouse button three times in rapid
        succession.

Un-select    To remove highlighting by clicking somewhere else other
        than on the selected item.

Window        A working space on a screen.

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Word wrap    To create line endings automatically within set margins.

Workbench    The icon-based user interface on the Amiga.

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                               INDEX

A
Accents  28
Active  101
Adjust Colors command  5, 35, 73
Aligning text  37, 74
ALT key  28, 56, 57, 61
Amiga keys  12, 59-60, 79
Application  101

B
Back gadget  5, 11, 27, 101
Background color  48, 101
Bold command  34, 72
Boldfacing characters  34, 72
Buttons  13, 26, 101

C
Centered command  37, 74
Centering text  48, 101
Change command  19-20, 32, 71
Change requester  19, 32
Changing text  19-20, 32, 71
Character menu  34, 64, 72
Check boxes  14, 27, 101
Check Spelling  20-21, 44-45, 77
Check-marked menu items  12, 27
Choosing menu items  12, 101
Clicking  101
Clipboard  17, 30, 70, 101
Close box  5, 11, 24, 52, 101
Close command  24, 52, 65
Closing windows  24, 52, 65
Color command  34, 72
Color of characters  34, 72
Command line interface  6-7, 101
Commands
    1 1/2 Spacing  37, 74
    Adjust Colors  5, 35, 73
    Bold  34, 72
    Centered  37, 74
    Change  19-20, 32, 71
    Check Spelling  20-21, 44-45, 77
    choosing  12, 101
    Close  24, 52, 65
    Color  34, 72
    Copy  17-18, 30, 70
    Copy Format  40, 70
    Cut  17, 29, 30, 70
    definitions of  65-77
    dimmed  12, 27, 101
    Document Info  43, 77
    Double Space  37, 74
    Edit Document  41, 76
    Edit Footer  41, 76
    Edit Header  41, 76
    Erase  29
    Find  18-19, 31, 71
    Find Next  19, 31, 71
    Font  25, 72
    Get pict  21, 46, 66
    Go To  33, 71
    Insert Page Break  43, 61, 76, 103
    Insert Page Number  42, 61, 76
    Italic  34, 72
    Justified  37, 74
    keyboard equivalents for  12, 59-61, 79-81, 103
    Left Aligned  37, 74
    Line Height  37, 74
    New  49, 65
    Numbering Style  42, 77
    Open  49, 65
    Page Setup  53-54, 67
    Paste 17, 18, 30, 70
    Paste Format 40, 70
    Plain  34, 72
    Print  22-23, 54-55, 68
    Quit  24, 52, 69
    Revert  52, 67
    Right Aligned  37, 74
    Ruler  38, 70
    Save  22, 50-51, 66
    Save As  13, 22, 51, 67
    Save Prefs  36, 58, 69
    Select All  29, 45, 70
    Show Footer  41, 76
    Show Header  41, 76
    Show ¶  37, 70

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    Single Space  37, 74
    Sort  39-40, 45, 75
    Space Before  37, 74
    Subscript  34, 74
    Superscript  34, 74
    Tab Type  38, 74, 78
    Title Page  41, 76
    Underline  34, 72
Control key  61, 80
Copy command  17-18, 30, 70
Copy Format command  40, 70
Copying disks  6, 84-87
Copying text  17-18, 30, 70
Correcting mistakes  15, 28
Cursor keys  13, 60-61, 80, 101
Cut command  17, 30, 70
Cutting text  17, 30, 70

D
Dead keys  28
Decimal tab  38-39, 78, 101
DELETE key  29
Deleting tabs  39, 78
Deleting text  16-17, 29-30
Dimmed menu items 12, 27, 101
Directory  50, 101
Document
    editing  28-30, 76
    formatting  37-44
    opening  6-7, 10, 49, 65
    printing  22-23, 54-55, 68
    renaming  51, 67
    saving  22, 50-51, 66
    scrolling  11, 26
Document Info command  43, 77
Document menu  41, 64, 76
Double clicking  10, 16, 102
Double Space command  37, 74
Draft quality printing  22, 54, 68
Dragging  11, 16, 26, 59, 102
Drawers  10, 49-50, 102

E
Edit Document command  41, 76
Edit Footer command  41, 76
Edit Header command 41, 76
Edit menu  64, 70
Editing Footers  41, 76
Editing headers  41, 76
Editing text  15-20, 28-33
Enter key  13, 32, 61, 81
Entering text  15, 28
Erase command  29, 70
Erasing text  29, 70
Error messages  95, 97
ESC key  61

F
Find command  18-19, 31, 71
Find requester 14, 18, 31
Find Next command 19, 31, 71
Finding text 18-20, 31
Font command 35, 72
Font requester 35
Fonts 35, 102
Footer
    definition of 102
    editing  41, 76
    page numbers in 42, 76
    pictures in 47
    showing 41, 76
Formatting characters
    boldfacing 34, 72
    color 34, 72
    font 34, 72
    italicizing 34, 72
    plain 34, 72
    subscript 34, 72
    superscript 34, 72
    underlining 34, 72
Formatting documents
    footers 26, 41, 76
    headers 26, 41, 76
    page breaks 43, 76
    page numbers 41, 76-77
Formatting paragraphs
    aligning 37, 74
    indenting 38, 78
    margins 38-39, 78
    ruler in 38-39
    spacing 37, 74
    tabs  39, 74
Front gadget 5, 11, 27, 102
Function keys  12, 59, 80, 102

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G
Gadgets
    back gadget 5, 11, 27, 101
    buttons 13, 27, 101
    check boxes 14, 27, 101
    close box 5, 11, 24, 101
    front gadget 11, 27, 102
    list boxes 13, 27, 103
    radio buttons 13, 27, 104
    scroll arrows 5, 11, 26, 104
    scroll bars 5, 11, 26, 104
    scroll boxes 11, 26, 104
    selecting of 11, 26
    sizing gadget 11, 26, 104
    text boxes 13, 27, 104
    title bar 11, 26, 66
Get Pict command 21, 46, 66
Go To command 33, 71
Go To requester 33
Graphics
    in headers/footers  47
    inserting 21, 46-47, 66
    moving 21, 47
    re-sizing 47-48
    shading 46-47
    typing in background 21, 48

H
Header
    definition of 102
    editing 41, 76
    page numbers in 42, 76
    pictures in 47
    showing 41, 76
HELP key 61, 81
Highlighting 16, 102

I
Icons 5, 10, 102
Indent marker 38, 78, 102
Indenting text 38, 78
Info file  102
Insert Page Break command 43, 76
Insert Page Number command 42, 76
Inserting pictures 46-47
Inserting text 15-16, 28
Insertion point 11, 15, 28, 102
Interlace mode 5, 102
Italic command 34, 72
Italicizing characters  34

J
Justified command 37, 74
Justifying text 37, 103

K
Keyboard equivalents  12, 59-60, 79-81, 103

L
Left Aligned command 37, 74
Left Tab 39, 78
Line Height command 37, 74
List boxes 13, 27, 103

M
Mail Merge 55-57, 68
Margin
    bottom 41
    left 38, 78
    marker 38, 78, 103
    right 38, 78
    top 41
Markers
    indent 38, 78, 102
    margin 38, 78, 103
    tab  38, 74, 78, 104
Memory 61, 81, 93-94
Menu Button 10, 26, 103
Menu
    bar 12, 103
    check-marked items in 12, 27
    commands 12, 27, 64
    definition of 103
    dimmed items in 12, 27
    pulling down 12
    submenus in  12, 27, 104
Minimum requirements 5-6
Mouse
    clicking 101
    double clicking 10, 102
    Menu Button 10, 26, 103
    Selection Button  10, 26, 104
    triple clicking  16, 104
Moving pictures
    between documents  47
    within a document  47

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Moving tabs 39, 78
Moving text
    between documents 30
    within a document 17, 30
Moving windows  11, 26
Multi-tasking 103

N
Near Letter Quality print quality 22, 54
New command 49, 65
New document 6, 49, 65
Non-breaking space 28, 103
Non-interlace mode  5, 103
Numbering pages  42, 76-77
Numbering Style requester  42

O
Open command  49, 65
Open requester 46, 49
Opening documents 6-7, 49

P
Page breaks  28, 43, 61, 76, 103
Page number
    indicator 42, 61, 76
    starting number 42, 77
    style 42, 77
Page numbering 42, 76-77
Page Setup command 53-54, 67
Paragraph menu 37, 64, 74
Paragraph
    indent 38, 78
    sorting 39-40, 75
    symbol 37, 38, 103
Paste command 17-18, 30, 70
Paste Format command 40, 70
Pasting text 17-18, 30
Picture Shading Type requester 46
Pictures
    in headers/footers  47
    inserting 46-47, 66
    moving 47
    shading 21, 46-47, 66
    typing in background 21, 47
Plain command 34, 72
Point 103
Points 103
Pointer 10, 103
Preferences 5-6, 53, 88-92
Print command 22-23, 54-55, 68
Print Merge command 55-57, 68
Print quality 22, 54, 68
Print requester 22, 55
Printers 5-6, 54, 90-92
Printing documents 22-23, 54-55, 68
Problems 98-99
Project menu 64-65
Pulling down menus 12, 26

Q
Quit command  24, 52, 69

R
Radio buttons 13, 27, 104
Renaming documents 51, 67
Requesters
    Adjust Colors  36
    Change  19, 32
    Check Spelling  44
    definition of  12, 104
    Document Info  43
    Find  14, 18, 31
    Font  35
    gadgets in  13-14
    Go To  33
    Numbering Style  42
    Open  49
    Page Setup  53
    Picture Shading Type  47
    Print  22, 55
    Save As  13, 51
Re-sizing pictures 47-48
Re-sizing windows 5, 11, 26
Resolution 5-6, 104
Revert command 52, 67
Right Aligned command  37, 74
Ruler
    command  38, 70
    description of  38, 70, 104
    markers on  38-39, 78

S
Save As command  51, 67
Save As requester  13, 51
Save command  22, 50-51, 66
Save Prefs command  36, 58, 69

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Saving documents 22, 50-51
Screen 5
Scroll arrows 5, 11, 26, 104
Scroll bars 5, 11, 26, 104
Scroll boxes 11, 26, 104
Scrolling documents 11, 26
Search menu  64, 71
Select All command 29, 45, 70
Selecting
    gadgets 10-11, 26
    icons 10, 104
    text 10, 16, 28
    windows  10, 26, 104
Selection Button 10, 26, 104
Setting tabs 39, 78
Shading pictures 22, 66
SHIFT key 16, 60-61
Shortcuts 59-61, 79-81
Show Footer command  41, 76
Show Header command 41, 76
Show ¶ command  37, 70
Showing footers 41, 76
Showing headers 41, 76
Single Space command 37,74
Sizing gadget 11, 26, 104
Sort command 39-40, 45, 75
Space Before command 37, 74
Spacing, line  37, 74
Spell Checking  20-21, 39, 44-45, 77
Standard print quality  22, 54, 68
Submenus  12, 27, 104
Subscript command 34, 72
Superscript command 34, 72

T
Tab marker  38-39, 78, 104
Tab Type command  39, 74, 78
Tabs
    deleting  39, 78
    moving  39, 78
    setting  39, 78
Text
    aligning  37, 74
    centering  37, 74
    changing  19-20, 30-33, 71
    copying 17-18, 30, 70
    cutting 17, 30, 70
    deleting 16, 29-30
    editing 15-20, 28-33
    entering 15, 28
    erasing 29, 70
    finding 18-19, 30-33
    indenting 38, 78
    inserting 15, 28
    justifying 37, 74
    pasting 17, 30, 70
    selecting  16, 28-29
    un-selecting 16, 28, 105
    wrapping 2, 15, 105
Text boxes  13, 27, 104
Title bar 11, 26, 104
Title Page command  41, 76
Triple clicking  16, 104

U
Underline command  34, 72
Underlining characters  34, 72
Un-selecting text 16, 28, 105

W
Windows
    closing  24, 52, 65
    moving  11, 26
    moving text between  30
    re-sizing  11, 26
    scrolling in  11, 26
    selecting 11, 26
Word wrap  2, 15, 105
Workbench  6-7, 105
Wrapping text  2, 15

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