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- If you find this program useful, and wish to make a donation to
- the programmer's ever decreasing coffers, please send $15.00 (or more)
- to:
- AC Software ShareWare Dept, Phoenix, AZ 85011-7643, 602-266-9902
-
- Support for this and many other programs can be gotten from:
-
- Cheese Whiz BBS 602-279-0793 24 hours 1200/2400/V32-42BIS
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- This is an entry level word processor. It also can be used as a
- letter processor as it has a very powerful print utility. It writes an
- ascii (text) file i.e. a file with no extra characters in it.
-
- There are several companies using MINIWORD as their only word processor!
-
- It's easy to use... almost like using a typewriter except you have
- many of the advantages of a word processor. It also writes an ascii
- text file.. that is, there are no 'control characters' in the file so
- you can use this to edit BBS text files, batch files or program files.
- (It is recommended, however, that for extensive editing of program
- files, you choose a programming editor like QEDIT).
-
- If you wish to edit a program file, set the width of the file to 120
- or so to effectively disconnect the word wrap.
-
- On the first menu, you either touch ENTER on the first option "NEW
- FILE" or move the lightbar to the second option, "Load a file". You
- can load a file you edited from any directory on your hard drive (or
- on another drive) by changing the PATH option (last option on the
- opening menu). It defaults to a directory called "C:\MINIWORD".
-
- If you are loading a file, you will see a window of the directory you
- have chosen at the PATH prompt showing the files you can load. For
- more files, press the PgDn key or press the PgUp key. Some users have
- 'lost their files' because they didn't know that if the directory is
- larger than can be shown in the window, they must press the PgDn or
- PgUp to see their files.
-
- After you have selected the file you wish to edit either by entering a
- NEW FILENAME or choosing one from the disk, then you move the lightbar
- to "Edit your file" and touch ENTER (or touch the key, "E" and it will
- act as a hotkey i.e. you don't have to touch ENTER). That will put
- you into the editing screen. You can move up and down with the arrow
- keys. You don't have to touch ENTER at the end of a line as the words
- will automatically go to the next line. (unless you are editing a BAT
- file or program and you WANT to touch ENTER at the end of a line).
-
- There are alot of other things you can do. Just press the Function
- KEY, F1 and it will show you a HELP file of all the things you can do
- in the editor.
-
- When you are ready to exit, you can hit F2 (function key) and it will
- save your file to disk for you on the directory specified on the path
- you set on the opening screen. It pops a box which says "Change File
- Name". Generally, you want to say "no" <Enter "N">. But this will
- come in handy for doing lots of letters where you only change a few
- things - you can load in one letter and save it out as another letter.
- YOU MUST SAVE IT in order to print it to the printer.
-
- If you touch ESCape (the Escape key) in the editor, it will ask you if
- you wish to 'SAVE your changes'. If you wish to save the file to disk,
- answer "Y" to this and then it will ask you if you wish to change the
- file name etc. If you answer "N" to this, it will NOT SAVE YOUR FILE
- to the disk! Sometimes you don't wish to save the file.
-
- If you really mess up a previously saved file, you will be glad to
- know that MINIWORD makes a backup file of the old version. So you can
- load in this file and continue. This file has a "BAK" extension.
- That is, if you have a file you edited called "MYTEXT.DOC" and you
- load it in from the disk and really mess it up and want to start your
- editing over but you saved it already, you can load in a file called
- "MYTEXT.BAK" which will be the last version before you started editing
- it (and saved it). These "BAK" files can be erased from DOS but they
- DO come in handy sometimes, I have found. Usually, if you don't need
- them right away, you won't need them. See DOS COMMANDS to find out
- how to erase them. I may put in a DELETE FILE feature in the next
- version of MINIWORD (another great reason to register so you can be
- sure of getting YOUR free copy!).
-
- I put MINIWORD on my DOS directory (I have a path set to DOS) and that
- way I can type in MINIWORD from any place on the hard drive and it
- will load the program.
-
- MINIWORD will automatically detect if you have a color system and set
- the colors accordingly. If you have a laptop computer, however, this
- automatic detection will tell MINIWORD that your computer is in color
- and most laptops require black and white colors to look good. So, if
- you have a laptop, load MINIWORD by typing:
-
- MINIWORD L
-
- at the DOS prompt. the "L" will tell MINIWORD to display the colors
- to look good on a laptop.
-
- MINIWORD for the laptop will default to the A:\ drive. If you have a
- hard drive and want it to default to the MINIWORD directory, load the
- program as follows:
-
- MINIWORD L 1
-
- The second parameter will force it to default to the MINIWORD directory.
-
- There are help files on every screen and with the help files you
- should have no problems in using MINIWORD. I think you will find it
- enjoyable as it's so simple to use. MINIWORD is running in many
- places and it's not unusual to see a person who has never used a word
- processor before, jump into MINIWORD and be word processing in about
- 10 minutes!
-
- PRINTING from MINIWORD is pretty straight forward. You can set the
- length of the page (like it would be about 40-50 lines for
- stationary). The "BACK OF PAGE" option is for when you are doing
- letters and you wish print on the front and back of each page. If you
- set this option on, it will print "Please turn over" on the bottom of
- each ODD Numbered Page (front of page).
-
- You can specify a header by typing in something in the TITLE line.
- Otherwise, MINIWORD will put the date on the first page of your
- document and a page number on each successive page.
-
- DOS 6:
-
- For DOS 6, ADD this on a separate line in your autoexec.bat or type
- in at the DOS prompt:
-
- SET CLIPPER=E0
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- If you wish to register this program, you will receive information on
- many other fine A.C. Software products, many of which are free or
- shareware, and a good feeling in paying the programmer. This program
- will first developed 2 years ago and has been upgraded continuously
- ever since. It is running as the word processor of choice in
- several companies in the Phoenix area and this is the first time it
- has been released as a shareware product! You will also receive free
- upgrades to MINIWORD. (And a printed manual) And all this for a piddly
- $15.00. Such a deal. Hurry your registration to:
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- A.C. Software, registration
- P.O. Box 7643
- Phoenix, AZ, 85011-7643
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