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Word Processing Concepts with WordStar
These exercises and assignments assume a basic familiarity with
DOS. The student should know how to run a program, format a
disk, copy a file, and should be familiar with the distinc-
tion between files containing programs and the data files
created by programs.
The following files are included:
I. WordStar exercise documents (*.ws)
II. Handouts (*.HDT)
III. Assignments (*.AST)
IV. Documents for use in assignments (*.DOC)
I. WordStar Exercises
There are six exercises (EX1.WS, EX2.WS, ... , EX6.WS):
EX1: CURSOR MOVEMENT AND SCROLLING
Cursor movement: Scrolling:
Up arrow PgUp
Down arrow PgDn
Left arrow Ctrl-q-c (or FN10)
right arrow Ctrl-q-r (or FN9)
ctrl-f
ctrl-a
Home
End
EX2: INSERTION AND DELETION
Del
Ctrl-g
Ctrl-t
Ctrl-y
Ins
Ctrl-b
EX3: CHANGING THE FORMAT OF A DOCUMENT
Ctrl-b
Ctrl-o-s
Ctrl-o-j
Ctrl-o-l (or FN3)
Ctrl-o-r (or FN4)
Ctrl-o-c
EX4: BLOCK OPERATIONS
Ctrl-k-b (or FN7)
Ctrl-k-k (or FN8)
Ctrl-k-v
Ctrl-k-c
Ctrl-k-y
Ctrl-k-w
EX5: CHANGING CHARACTER APPEARANCE
Ctrl-p-b (or FN6)
Ctrl-p-s (or FN5)
EX6: SEARCHING AND REPLACING
Ctrl-q-f
Ctrl-q-a
Ctrl-l
The exercises are WordStar documents. To use them, the student
loads WordStar and opens the appropriate *.WS file. The text of
the exercise directs them in editing drills.
Questions are scattered throughout the text of the exercise
files. The questions are numbered (n) and the answers are found
in the file ANS.HDT. When I teach this material, I pass the
answers out to the students, so they can check their work as they
do the exercises. Alternatively, the students could be assigned
to write the answers to the questions, giving them the answers
afterward.
To run the exercises the WordStar help level must be set at 2 and
justification and hyphenation turned off. To save the students
confusion, I have those set as defaults.
I have the students run these exercises as homework assignments,
after they complete the FIRST.AST (below).
II. Handouts
MENUS.HDT A diagram of WordStar menus (arrows and boxes must be
drawn by hand). I pass out this diagram along with a screen
shot of each sub-menu, and a copy of a reference card.
Together they constitute a mini-manual, which is all the
student needs to create and edit vanilla documents.
ASCIIVS.HDT This handout makes the point that non-ascii charac-
ters in WordStar files, making it impossible to use them
with other programs. Later in the course, I have them
transfer information from 123 to WordStar.
ANS.HDT Answers to the questions asked in the exercises (*.WS).
HOWTO.HDT Instructions for running the exercises (*.WS).
REFSHEET.HDT A blank, do-it-yourself reference sheet.
III. Assignemnts
FIRST.AST This is the first word processing assignment. It takes
the student through the entire cycle of creating and print-
ing a file. I give one lecture prior to this assignment, in
which I describe word processing and have them create and
print a paragraph in class.
EX1-3.AST This is the second word processing assignment. Stu-
dents run it on their own outside of class, and I discuss it
and answer questions in the following session.
EX5-6.AST This is the third processing assignment. Students run
it on their own outside of class, and I discuss it and
answer questions in the following session.
EX-4.AST This is the fourth word processing assignment. Students
run it on their own outside of class, and I discuss it and
answer questions in the following session.
EVAL.AST This is a software evaluation assignment, illustrating a
few quantitative measurements. I use it after the exer-
cises.
COMPARE.AST I have shown a few classes PFS Write after WordStar
to give them some perspective. (It takes less than one
class period). This assignment compares the two.
REFSHEET.AST Assignment to fill in the blank reference sheet.
IV. Documents
MESS.DOC Used in EX1-3.AST.
SEARCH.DOC Used in EX5-6.AST.