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| Learning To Use PERFECT WRITER |
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Welcome...
This begins a series of short lessons to acquaint you with
Perfect Writer. These lessons are designed to be read at your
own pace and convenience while sitting at your computer. You
should be able to teach yourself Perfect Writer by simply reading
through them and performing the exercises they present.
The first thing you should learn is the command to scroll
the text of this lesson forward:
Escape...Forward...This window
Press the Escape key. From the menu that appears, select
"Forward," by typing `f'. From the next menu that appears, select
"This window," by pressing `t':
...Esc...f...t
A second command that scrolls the text backward is:
Escape...Backward...This window
Take a moment to practice these commands, scrolling the text
of this lesson several screens forward and backward. When you feel
comfortable with them, return to this point.
Did you notice that when scrolling the text, Perfect Writer
overlaps the screen by one or two lines? This provides a
continuous point of reference when moving through a document.
OVERVIEW
What Is Perfect Writer?
Perfect Writer is a `word processor' designed for people who
write things -- notes, memorandums, letters, reports, term
papers, theses, articles, books. It doesn't matter how short or
how long, how trivial or how important the work is. If your job
is writing, then Perfect Writer is for you.
What does Perfect Writer do?
To put it simply, Perfect Writer makes writing EASY.
Writing with a typewriter, or even with a pencil and paper, would
be satisfactory if we never made mistakes and never needed to
revise or change what we had written. Unfortunately, most of us
must write and rewrite our work, typing and retyping our
documents until they are `perfect' (or as close to it as possible).
With Perfect Writer, we leave all of this behind and begin
to experience an unprecedented ease of composition.
In these lessons, you will learn how easy it is to enter
text, cut and paste lines and paragraphs, search and replace
words, move sentences, work with two documents simultaneously,
print, check spelling . . .and much more!
How Does Perfect Writer Work?
Using Perfect Writer, you create what might be called `soft
copy', a representation of your document stored within your
computer. This soft copy is displayed to the screen where you
can alter or revise it in any fashion you desire...and at any
time. When you have finished composing or making changes,
Perfect Writer undertakes the task of printing a new and
`perfect' version on paper.
The LESSONS
The computer-based lessons you will be practicing are:
Lesson1 Creating and Printing a Document
Lesson2 Moving Forward and Backward
Lesson3 Cutting and Pasting
Lesson4 Moving and Copying Text
Lesson5 Document Appearance
Lesson6 Searching
Lesson7 Manipulating Documents
Lesson8 Operation
Lesson9 Layout
Lesson10 Perfect Speller
These lessons approximate the organization of the Perfect
Writer User's Guide. Although they attempt to illustrate every
major command procedure, you will nevertheless want to consult
the User's Guide for more detailed explanations and examples.
Let us begin by discussing those preliminaries you will
find useful in understanding Perfect Writer.
. . .The CURSOR
The screen always contains within it the Cursor, a blinking
underline that indicates where you are in the text. Characters
are entered and deleted at the position of the cursor. As you
will see, Perfect Writer provides numerous commands for moving
the cursor about quickly and easily.
. . .The COMMAND MENUS
Perfect Writer uses a system of `pop-up' command menus to
execute all of its word processing functions. These command
menus are simply lists of tasks which Perfect Writer can perform,
such as cutting a word, filling and justifying a paragraph, or
switching you from one document to another.
Rather than force you to memorize numerous command
sequences, one keystroke calls a `Top menu' into view. This Top
menu is your guide to using Perfect Writer. From it, you select
the activity you desire. An appropriate submenu will appear,
listing further options related to the command you have chosen.
. . .The ESCAPE Key
The Escape key displays the Top menu on the screen. During
editing, when you wish to give a command to Perfect Writer,
simply press the Escape key. The Top menu will appear,
temporarily overwriting whatever is on the screen. To erase the
Top menu, press the Escape key again. Perfect Writer will return
you to your place in the document.
Already, just by scrolling this lesson, you have gained
considerable experience with the Escape key and Top menu.
However, let us practice using them a little more. Press the
Escape key now, several times. Notice how the Top menu appears
and disappears. The Escape key both displays and cancels menu
commands.
You have two ways of selecting a menu option:
1. By typing the first letter of the command word (`f' for
Forward, `b' for Backward, etc.).
2. By moving the highlighted markers at the side of the menu to
your selection using the up or down arrow keys and pressing the
Return key.
In these lessons, we shall always list the full words of the
menu options you are to select. How you select an option from the
menu is up to you. Take a few moments now to use the menus to
see which method you prefer. Move the cursor forward a paragraph
and then backward a paragraph by selecting:
Escape. . .Forward. . .Paragraph
Escape. . .Backward.. .Paragraph
If you get stuck in a command operation that is either
confusing or appears to be in error, you have two ways of
starting over:
ESCAPE: Any command that Perfect Writer HAS NOT YET BEGUN
EXECUTING can be canceled by pressing the Escape key.
Thus, if you are half-way into a command and change your
mind, pressing the Escape key will cancel your command
and return you to your place in the document.
QUIT: All submenus contain a `Quit' option. Unlike the Escape
key which erases a menu entirely and returns you to your
place in the document, Quit returns you to the previous
menu to reselect a command.
SUMMARY
The commands we focused on in this introduction were:
Escape...Forward...This window --- Scrolls to NEXT page.
Escape...Backward...This window --- Scrolls to PREVIOUS page.
Menu commands can be selected in two ways:
1. By pressing the first letter of the command.
2. By moving the highlighted markers to the command you
want and pressing the Return key.
To cancel any command that has not yet begun to execute,
press ESCAPE.
To return to a previous menu, select QUIT.
EXITING PERFECT WRITER
If at this time you wish to begin the first lesson on
"Creating a Document," select:
Escape...Documents...Read
Perfect Writer will ask: "Document to read." Type
"lesson1," followed by the Return key. Perfect Writer will read
the first lesson into memory and switch you to it.
If you do not wish to continue, select:
Escape...Exit PW
Perfect Writer may respond with the message "Document(s)
not saved! Do you still wish to exit?" Answer `y' for Yes.
Perfect Writer will return you to the PSI menu.
End of Introductory Lesson