Macintosh. MacWrite Manual 1983
Macintosh. MacWrite Manual 1983
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137 Index
About This Manual This manual is about MacWrite, a word processing application for the
Macintosh . Chapter 1, "Learning MacWrite," gets you started creating, editing,
and printing a document . This chapter is for someone who isn't familiar with
computers or word processing . It's a self-paced series of exercises designed to
help you learn the basics, so you can feel confident about working with
MacWrite .
Once you begin to create your own documents, you may want to turn to "Using
MacWrite," Chapter 2 . It's a series of step-by-step instructions for most of the
word processing tasks you'll do with MacWrite . If you're an old hand at word
processing and familiar with basic Macintosh techniques, you could skip
Chapter 1, and read this chapter .
Chapter 3, "MacWrite Reference," begins with a conceptual overview of the
elements of the MacWrite word processor . A summary of the commands
follows, and the chapter ends with tables of MacWrite's "vital statistics" and a
glossary of special terms .
Before you read any farther in this manual, if terms such as desktop, Finder, or
click are unfamiliar, you may first want to read Macintosh, the owner's guide .
It's a conceptual and practical road map for finding your way around
Macintosh . The owner's guide introduces you to the system that manages your
documents (the Finder) and the basic methods for working in any Macintosh
application .
Learning
MacWrite
Contents 7 Introduction
9 Getting Started
11 Typing Text
11 Typing Text at the Insertion Point
11 Word Wraparound
13 The Return Key
13 The Undo Command
14 Other Keys on the Keyboard
16 Setting the Format
18 Changing Margins
20 Changing Line Spacing
20 Using the Scroll Bar
22 Changing Alignment
24 Using Tabs
26 Editing Text
26 Selecting Text
27 Changing Text Style
27 Replacing a Selection
28 The Insertion Point
29 Closing Your Document
30 Editing a Memo
31 Getting an Existing Document From MacWrite
31 Inserting Text
31 Removing Text
32 The Clipboard
32 Moving Text in Your Document
33 Copying Text
33 Replacing Text
34 Removing Selected Text With Backspace
34 Removing Unwanted Returns
36 Changing the Memo's Format
36 Using the Indentation Marker
38 Inserting a Column in a Table
39 Hiding Rulers
41 What Now?
When you finish the chapter and begin to create your own documents, you
may still need some reminders about procedures covered in the first
chapter . And you'll discover procedures you need to know about that aren't
covered there . Refer to Chapter 2, "Using MacWrite," for quick procedural
summaries of most of the word processing tasks you can do with MacWrite .
Macintosh, the owner's guide, orients you to the Macintosh and the Finder .
In addition, the guide teaches the basic mouse techniques that you need in
order to use all Macintosh applications . Although mouse techniques will be
covered briefly the first time you use them in this chapter, you should
already know how to ;
a click to select places and actions
o drag to select text and move things around
o choose from a menu to choose commands from the menus in the
menu bar
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Getting Started First, you'll open MacWrite from the Finder .
• Turn the Macintosh on and insert the disk, metal end first, into the
disk drive .
To choose from a menu : Position the pointer on the menu title-File, in this
case-drag to the command, and release .
The Write/Paint disk window is opened, and you can see icons representing
what's stored on the disk you inserted .
You'll select the MacWrite icon to open a new document .
• Click the MacWrite icon to select it .
File
Open
Duplicate
Get Info
Put Back
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The desktop clears, and a wristwatch tells you to wait a bit while the
Macintosh opens MacWrite on the desktop . Then a nearly empty document
appears in a document window .
GETTING STARTED
A MacWrite document window has a title bar, a close box, a scroll bar, and a
size box . Inside the document window are two items that are part of the
document, a ruler and a blinking vertical bar . (If the word window brings to
mind buckets of water and squeegees, you really need to read Macintosh,
the owner's guide, to learn about electronic windows .)
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1 Typing Text at Notice the blinking bar, marking the insertion point, at the top left under
the Insertion the ruler .
Point
• Type this sentence :
• Press and hold the Backspace key until the insertion point is back at the
beginning of the line.
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I love pizza smothered in tomato sauce, onions, olives, chilies,
mushrooms, and bell peppers, topped with cheese and anchovies, then
followed by something light for dessert--chocolate cake, perhaps .I
Always let MacWrite wrap words at the right margin . Use Return when
you're ending paragraphs or skipping a line .
Word wraparound is more than just a convenient feature to speed typing .
/acWrite uses it to readjust spacing in paragraphs when you make a
change-for instance, when you delete a sentence or reset the margins or
when you add a phrase, as you'll do now .
You can add text only at the insertion point, so you'll select the insertion
point first and then add something to what you just typed .
∎ Position the pointer at the beginning of the paragraph you just typed and
click the mouse button .
Notice that the pointer changes shape when you move it into the document .
The blinking bar marks the insertion point at the beginning of the
paragraph . You can select the insertion point anywhere within text you've
typed and then type there .
∎ Type the following text and put a space after it :
Look at the paragraph . MacWrite has readjusted it to make room for the
added text . That's how MacWrite uses word wraparound ; in fact, if you end
each line of a paragraph with Return, it won't be readjusted when you add or
remove text from the paragraph .
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Remember, Return is a key that repeats if you hold it down . If you have too
many lines after hitting Return, just backspace to remove them and try a
lighter touch next time .
• Now type the following list (or any other four-item list currently on your
mind) . Use the Return key to start each new line . Backspace and retype
if you make a mistake.
Pizza
Anchovies
More pizza
Dessert
Using Return actually inserts an invisible character into the text . Press Return
once to move the insertion point to the beginning of the next line ; press it
twice to skip a line . Backspace to remove the effects of Return by removing
the invisible Return character .
4 The Undo If you don't like what you just typed (you're beginning to loathe pizza,
Command perhaps), you can undo it by using the Undo command . Here's how it
works .
• Choose Undo Typing from the Edit menu .
Remember how to choose from a menu? Position the pointer on the menu
title, drag to the command, and release the mouse button .
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The list is gone . Undo undoes typing you've just done (including
backspacing) back to the last click of the mouse .
If you change your mind, you can get your typing back by undoing the Undo
command, now named Redo .
∎ Choose Redo Typing from the Edit menu .
The text is back in your document . You'll learn to know and love the Undo
command (and its alternate, Redo) as you work with MacWrite .
5 Other Keys on There are keys on the keyboard that aren't character keys ; they perform
the Keyboard another function . Here's a brief explanation of what they do .
The Caps Lock key capitalizes letters and is convenient when you want to
capitalize a word or more . The key works onlywith letters . You still can type
the lower symbols on keys, like the period, and you must use the Shift key to
type the upper symbols, such as the exclamation point .
The Command key, next to the left Option key, works with character keys to
edit a document . It's an extra feature that you can use but really don't need
because you'll use the menus to edit your document. The Command key is
covered in the introduction to "Editing Tasks" in Chapter 2 .
The Option key works with many character keys to give a different character
set-foreign-language character sets, for instance . See "Apple Menu" in
Chapter 3 .
The Enter key can be used instead of the mouse to confirm certain
commands . You'll use it later in this chapter .
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Setting the Format Setting the format of text means setting the margins, tabs, line spacing, and
text alignment .
With MacWrite, you'll use the following elements of a ruler to set the format
for the text that follows it :
Indentation Marker II
At the top of a new document, MacWrite provides a ruler with a preset format
that you can keep or change . The preset format is as follows :
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the ruler becomes highlighted when you make any ruler changes, you've
elected it accidentally . Just position the pointer in the margin of your
ocument and click . Selecting is covered later in this chapter .
∎ Try to drag the right margin marker past the tab that's at the 51/2-inch
mark.
Foiled! You can't move a margin marker past a tab marker, because you can't
have a tab outside a margin .
∎ Drag the right margin marker back to the 6 1/2 -inch mark .
Notice that the left margin marker looks different from the right . It's actually
two markers stacked together-the left margin marker and the indentation
marker . When you want to change the left margin of a document, you'll
move both of these markers, one at a time .
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)nce you position the pointer and press the mouse button, MacWrite's
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the pointer on either of the bottom angles of the triangle, you can drag the
left margin marker first . It takes a little practice .
If you begin to drag and see an outline of an empty triangle, you've
inadvertently picked up a tab . Just drag down until the outline becomes
bold, release the mouse button, and try dragging the margin markers again .
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the first lines of paragraphs, or each line of a list . You'll use the indentation
marker later in this chanter .
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Double-Space Box
1½-Space Box
Single-Space Box
• Set 1 1/z spacing by positioning the pointer on that box and clicking the
mouse button .
Using the When you double-spaced your document, the bottom of the document
Scroll Bar moved out of view . To move it back into view, you scroll the document by
using the scroll bar .
The scroll box shows you the relative position, in the entire document, of
the part of the document that's now in the window . You can drag the scroll
box to go quickly to another place in the document . For instance, to go to
the middle of your document, drag the scroll box to the middle of the
scroll bar .
If you drag the scroll box to the end of the scroll bar, MacWrite scrolls to the
end of the last page in your document . (It may appear empty if you haven't
typed there .) Just scroll up a bit to where your text ends .
Practice scrolling if you like . Or see Chapter 2 of this manual for a review of
all scrolling techniques .
• Press the up arrow on the scroll bar until you see the top of the ruler.
To press : Position the pointer and hold down the mouse button until
MacWrite completes the action you want .
• Now, click the single-space box so you can see the whole document .
4 Changing
Alignment Alignment
Left-Alignment Box
Center-Alignment Box
Right-Alignment Box
Full-Justification Box
As you can see, everything lines up at the right margin . You'll think of some
Remember the Undo command? Undo undoes two types of actions : typing
cep in mina that you can reverse only your last action . ~o choose unao
Text is evenly spaced across each line and aligned at both margins except
where you ended lines with Return . You can fully justify only word-wrapped
lines . If you can't see the difference between fully justified and left-aligned
text, click back and forth between the full-justification box and the left-
alignment box .
sere are two more items on the ruler to be introduced-the tab markers and
b wells . But first . you may want to save your work and take a break .
Saving Your Work Every 15 minutes or so, you should stop what you're working on and save
your work . Rarely (but once is enough), you might lose your current work
in the Macintosh because of a power failure or power interruption . If you
save your work often, you'll always have a recent version of the document on
the disk .
• Choose Save from the File menu .
A dialog box appears when you choose a command that can't be completed
without more information .
• Type your own name as the name for this document .
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A second or two later, when your document is safely stored on the disk with
the name you gave it, the dialog box disappears and you can work on your
document again . Once you've saved a new document, you're always
working on a copy of the most recent version of that document on the disk .
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If you'd like to take a long break and turn the Macintosh off, quit MacWrite
by choosing Quit from the File menu to return to the Finder, and choose
Eject from the Finder's File menu to eject the disk . To open this document
again, reinsert the disk, open the Write/Paint disk icon as you did at the
beginning of the chapter, click the document icon with your name on it, and
choose Open from the File menu .
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To drag a tab from the tab well : Position the pointer on the tab well . Press and
hold the mouse button, and drag an outline of a tab up to the inch scale of the
ruler the 5-inch mark, in this case then release the mouse button .
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• Select the insertion point, if it's not there already, at the end of the list,
after "Dessert" .
Remember that Return and Tab are character keys and repeat if you hold
them down . So press them lightly ; although, you can always backspace
if you repeated them inadvertently .
• Press Tab and type
. . . . . . . . Business
. . . . . . . . . . . Lunch
. .. .. . ..........................................
$55 .98
What's on the left of the decimal point moves to the left ; what's on the right
moves to the right.
• Press Return .
Always use Return to end a line of a table . You can use Tab to go to the next
tab on the next line, but you may get a strange-looking table if you have to
edit it later .
• Press Tab and type :
. . . . . . . . . Personal
. . . . . . . . . . . . . Lunch
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . .
∎ Press Tab and type :
$4 .98
Like Return, Tab is an invisible character that you can insert and remove . If
you backspace after you've removed the first character at the tab, you'll
remove the Tab character and move the insertion point to the end of the text
at the previous tab .
Try it and see what happens .
• Press Backspace six times-five times to remove $4 .98 and once more
to move the insertion point back to the end of the word "Lunch" .
$6 .98
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Editing Text Editing means changing the text . It can be anything from correcting a few
typos to drastically altering the content of the document . In this section,
you'll edit text in a way that's typical on the Macintosh . You'llfirst make a
selection and then act on it, either by typing or by choosing a command
from a menu .
Selecting Text Making a selection is how you tell the Macintosh what you want to work on
or where you want to work . With MacWrite, you'll select text to work on by
dragging the pointer across it . MacWrite distinguishes a selection from its
surroundings by highlighting it . A text selection is highlighted by reversing
the black-on-white text to white-on-black .
To select text : Position the pointer just in front of the text "love", in this
case-press and hold the mouse button, drag the pointer across the text,
and then release the mouse button .
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"Love" is now underlined and still selected, so you can still change it . (It
becomes unselected only when you select something else .) In the Style
menu, Underline is checked .
Since you can combine styles, go ahead and choose another one .
• Choose Bold from the Style menu .
The text is bold, and you could add the rest of the styles or return the
selection to Plain Text . But instead, change the font size to see another effect
you can create with this menu .
• Choose 24 Point from the Style menu .
Replacing a You can make one selection at a time in a N_acWrite document . When you
Selection make a selection, you unselect the previous one .
• Select the sentence at the beginning of the document.
Position the pointer at the beginning of the text, drag across the lines to the
end of it, then release the mouse button .
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You can also select text by dragging from the end of it to the beginning .
Now, again, you'll do something to the selection . This time, you'll act on it
by typing .
∎ Type your name .
When you select text and start typing, what you type replaces the text you
selected . This is a great feature when that's what you intend to do, but it's
disconcerting when it isn't . However, like anything you do and instantly
regret, you can undo it from the Edit menu .
∎ Choose Undo Typing from the Edit menu .
The Insertion Remember the blinking vertical bar that's been marking the insertion point
Point where you've added text or where you've removed text with Backspace?
Since a selection is the place that receives the next action, the insertion point
is a selection, too . And that's why when you select the insertion point, you
unselect the previous selection .
How do you remove one style while keeping another? How do you select a
whole document quickly? Chapter 2, "Using MacWrite," answers these
kinds of questions . All the Mac Write word processing procedures, from basic
skills to advanced tasks, are presented there with explanations . In the next
part of this chapter, you'll build on these basic skills as you edit the text of a
memo and and vary its basic format .
Closing Your When you've finished experimenting, you'll close this document and clear
Document the desktop to begin the second part of this chapter, "Editing a Memo ."
• Choose Close from the File menu .
A dialog box appears that lets you save the changes you've made since you
last saved .
• Click the Yes button .
The document closes and the desktop clears . Now you can open another
document .
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IacWrite replaces the old version with the updated version under the same
ame . If you instead want to keep the old version, you change the name of the
arrent version of the document with the Save As command from the
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Editing a Memo What follows is a hand-corrected copy of the memo that you're about to
open on the desktop . You're going to edit text and alter the format by
making the indicated changes . Read the memo, note these changes, and
then read the instructions for opening the document . When you're finished,
you'll save the corrected memo as a separate document and keep the
original for another person to practice on . (The original memo has been
protected so you can't replace it when you save . Macintosh, your owner's
guide, tells you more about protected documents .)
Getting an ∎ Choose Open from the File menu .
Existing
Document From Adialog box appears with a list of all MacWrite documents on the MacWrite
Mac Write disk . Notice that you can scroll the directory .
• Click "Sample Memo" .
∎ Click Open .
Inserting Text In the first part of the chapter, you inserted a phrase in a sentence . Once
you've created a document, you can insert characters-including spaces,
Tabs, and Returns-at the insertion point . Practice again by making the
following correction .
• Press the down arrow on the scroll bar until you can see paragraphs
land 2 .
You've inserted a line break, and the whole document has moved down to
accommodate it .
Removing Text You've been removing text (including Returns and Tabs) by backspacing
over it . However, for text that you've already typed, it's faster to select what
you want to remove and then use one of two methods to remove the whole
selection . One method is to use the Cut command in the Edit menu ; the
second method is to use the Backspace key. You'll be shown the second
method a little later .
• Scroll to the next windowful by clicking once in the gray area below the
scroll box .
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The Clipboard When you cut text, MacWrite moves it to a "holding place" called the
Clipboard . Because you can put the contents of the Clipboard back into your
document, cutting is the first step in moving text .
You can seethe contents of the Clipboard by choosing Show Clipboard from
the Edit menu . Then you can close it by choosing Hide Clipboard, the
alternate of Show Clipboard . Or you can keep it on the desktop like any
window .
Moving Text in You move text by selecting and cutting it from one place (automatically
Your Document placing it on the Clipboard) and then pasting it (from the Clipboard) into
another place that you select .
• Scroll the document up to see paragraph 1 again .
• Choose Hide Clipboard from the Edit menu or click the close box .
• Select the insertion point at the end of the same paragraph, and type a
space with the space bar.
Since MacWrite pastes only a copy of the Clipboard contents, you can paste
the same thing again, any time and anywhere in your document . Just select
the insertion point and choose Paste . Only another Cut or Copy will change
the contents of the Clipboard .
Copying Text Copying text works like cutting it, except the text isn't removed from the
document . You select what you want to copy-for instance, a hard-to-spell
name-then choose Copy from the Edit menu (placing it on the
Clipboard), select the insertion point, and choose Paste from the Edit
menu .
You can paste copied text repeatedly until you change the contents of the
Clipboard with another Copy or Cut .
Replacing Text Now you're going to replace "Technical", the first word in the second
numbered paragraph, with "Manufacturing" . Although you can use what
you've learned to cut "Technical" and then insert "Manufacturing", you've
already learned a faster way to replace text : simply select it and type its
replacement .
• Select the word "Technical" by double clicking .
To double-click : Position the pointer anywhere on the word and press and
release the mouse button twice in quick succession .
Double clicking is a quick way to select a whole word .
• Type:
Manufacturing
"Technical" disappears and "Manufacturing" takes its place . Just as you can
replace a selection by typing, you can replace it by pasting and thus move or
copy text to replace other text .
EDITING A MEMO
Removing Cutting is one way to remove selected text . Using Backspace is the second .
Selected Text Cutting saves text for later use, but removing it with Backspace does not .
With Backspace
When you do this exercise, the paragraph won't readjust as it did before .
You'll see why in a minute .
Here's another selection technique .
• Select "He's been out lately, and" in the same paragraph of the memo by
using Shift-click .
To select with Shift-click ; Select the insertion point in this case, in front of
"He's"-by positioning the pointer and clicking . Next, position the pointer
where you want to end the selection-in this case, after "and" then while
you hold down the Shift key, click the mouse button .
You can use this technique for making long selections by scrolling before
you Shift-click . Seethe section "Selecting" in Chapter 2 for a summaryof all
selecting methods .
Now remove the selection .
• Press Backspace once.
Removing Occasionally, you'll add or remove text, and a paragraph won't readjust . In
Unwanted the paragraph you're editing, a Return (used on purpose to show you the
Returns
effect) is stopping MacWrite from filling in the remaining text to form a
proper-looking paragraph . When you remove the Return, the paragraph
readjusts .
• Select the insertion point at the beginning of the next line, which starts
with "Frank" .
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Sample Memo
group meeting next week .
Using the When you changed ruler settings in the first part of the chapter, you saw
Indentation those changes affect the entire document . Now, you'll indent only the three
Marker
numbered paragraphs . To avoid indenting the rest of the memo, you'll
insert two rulers, one at the beginning and one at the end of the text to be
changed . Then, you'll change the margin settings only on the first . As you'll
see, the changes will affect text only up to the next ruler .
• Select the insertion point at the beginning of paragraph 1 .
You get a copy of the preceding ruler, the one that's setting the format for
text at the insertion point .
• Press the down arrow on the scroll bar, and scroll to see the last two
paragraphs in the memo .
• Select the insertion point at the beginning of the last paragraph, which
starts with "The rest" .
Try to keep the ruler you just inserted in view at the bottom of the page .
• Drag the indentation marker to the 2-inch mark .
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1. loving Date : Discussing the moving date seems
:emature, since there are so many unknowns . Let's
waitt awhile .
The paragraphs are in a new format . The numbers are indented and aligned
under the indentation marker, and the rest of the paragraph is indented
farther and aligned under the left margin marker . By inserting a second
ruler, you made sure that you kept the regular margins for the rest of the
memo .
Next, you'll insert a newnumbered paragraph into the memo, using the new
format .
• Select the insertion point after the period at the end of paragraph 3 .
When you press Return, the insertion point moves to a position designated
by the indentation marker .
• Type the following paragraph . Press Tab after you type "4,". Remember,
continue typing at the margin, and don't use Return until you finish
typing the paragraph .
Inserting a Insert some dates into the itinerary table at the bottom of the memo .
Column in a
Table • Scroll to the itinerary at the end of the memo, keeping the ruler just
above it in view.
• Drag a regular tab from the first tab well to the 4-inch mark on the ruler
above the itinerary .
The last column moves back under the new tab marker . MacWrite puts
tabular text in the first sequence of tabs it finds . So when you insert a tab
marker between two tabs, it moves each column on the right one tab
position to the left . Here's how to insert a new column under the new tab
marker and move the other column back where it was .
• Select the insertion point just after "New York" .
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he rest of the agenda is fine . As always, in the interest of
brevity, keep Joe from straying off the subject . You can reach me
as follows if you have questions :
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∎ Select the insertion point just after "Washington" . Press Tab and type :
7118
∎ Select the insertion point just after "Cleveland" . Press Tab and type:
7119-7123
Hiding Rulers You've finished editing the memo . However, too many rulers can clutter
your view of a document and its appearance when you print it .
∎ Choose Hide Rulers from the Format menu .
The rulers are now invisible, but they're still setting text format . You can see
how your document will look when it's printed .
If you want to see the rulers again, choose Show Rulers from the Format
menu . Like Show Clipboard and Hide Clipboard, Show Rulers and Hide
Rulers alternate in the menu .
Inserting a ruler makes all rulers appear in the document .
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novel, removed, or replaced . You can also copy or move a ruler along with
he text that follows it . For instance, after you've gone to the trouble of
~tting up a complicated table, you can move it and the ruler that's
)rmatting it to a new location in your document . Look in Chapter 2 for step-
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want . Then read on about saving and printing this memo .
If you have a printer, set it up with the instructions in Macintosh, the owner's
guide .
• Choose Print from the File menu .
File
There's a relationship between the printing speed and the quality of type on
the printed page . High quality prints the slowest and Draft quality prints the
fastest .
Since your document is one page long, you'll leave Page Range as it is and
print all of it . If you wanted to print a portion of a longer document, you'd
designate the pages to be printed .
Leave the number of copies to be printed as it is, preset to 1, unless you want
more .
• Click the Continuous check box or the Cut Sheet check box, depending
on the type of paper you're using .
What Now? Play around with MacWrite . Open another document by choosing New from
the File menu . Write a letter to a friend, type a memo telling your boss what
you've always wanted to say but haven't dared, or write us at Apple telling us
how much you like MacWrite and the Macintosh . When you're finished, quit
MacWrite with the Quit command in the File menu, and eject your disk .
When you start using MacWrite, you'll probably have questions . How do you
copy or move a ruler? How do you get a top and bottom margin for
documents longer than a page? Look in Chapter 2, "Using MacWrite ." The
Contents will direct you to summaries of basic skills as well as guides for
doing most of the tasks you'll want to do with MacWrite .
Using
MacWrite
Contents 45 Introduction
46 Summary of Mouse Techniques
48 Scrolling
50 Working With Windows
51 Editing Tasks
52 Selecting
55 Inserting
56 Removing
57 Replacing
58 Moving or Copying Within a Document
60 Moving or Copying Between MacWrite Documents
62 Finding Text
64 Finding and Replacing Text
66 Changing the Style or Size of Text
68 Changing the Font
69 Resizing or Shifting a Picture Horizontally
70 Moving or Copying Pictures From MacPaint to VacWrite
72 Storing Text or Pictures in the Scrapbook
74 Copying Text or Pictures From the Scrapbook
MacWrite word processing tasks fall into three general categories : editing, setting a
format, and working with documents,The main sections of this chapter reflect
those categories,To refresh your memory, it starts with a short review of basic
Macintosh skills .
Summary of To Click To Press To Drag
Mouse Techniques
You'll use the following Position the pointer on Position the pointer on Position the pointer on
mouse techniques to do just what you want to select or something . something .
about every task in this activate .
Without moving the mouse, Press and hold down the
chapter :
Press and quickly release press and hold the mouse mouse button, and move the
clickto select or activate the mouse button . button . mouse .
something
u t: ulic S Ul prcssi11 Release the mouse button .
press to cause a ontinue as long as yo
continuous action [own the mouse butt
drag in progress by moving
pressing on a scroll are
drag toselect, choose from the pointer back where it
esults in continuous
a menu, or move started . Cancel a drag through
trolling . Pressing on
something a menu by moving the pointer
ide pulls down the m
0 double-click to select or eeps it down until yc
activate something
quickly
CI Shift-click to select or to
extend or shorten a
selection
To Double-Click To Shift-Click
Press and release the mouse Hold down the Shift key
button twice in quick and click where you want the
succession . selection to end (including
extending or shortening a
completed selection) .
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To Scroll Text One Line To Scroll Text To Scroll by the
Scrolling
Up or Down Continuously Line Windowful
by Line
Scrolling is a technique for Click the appropriate arrow Press the appropriate arrow Click in the gray area above
moving your document up or at the top or the bottom of the at the top or the bottom of the or below the scroll box .
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Working With To Move a Window To Change the Size To Close a Window
of a Window
Windows
A window frames and Position the pointer Activate the window by Activate the window .
displays its contents . There anywhere on the title bar, clicking inside it .
Choose Close from the File
are six windows in MacWrite : except on the close box .
If necessary, move the menu or click the close box, if
the document window, the
Drag an outline of the window so that the size box in any.
Header window, the Footer
window to the new location . the lower-right corner is
window, the Find window, You can also close the Header
visible .
the Change window, and the The window itself moves and Footer windows with the
Clipboard window . There are when you release the mouse Drag the size box until the Hide Header and Hide
also windows for desk button . window's outline is the size Footer commands in the
accessories . you want . Format menu . You can close
After you release the mouse
the Clipboard with the Hide
A window always has a title button, the window is Dragging horizontally
Clipboard command in the
bar, and may have a close activated if it wasn't already . changes the width, dragging
Edit menu . See "Creating
box, a scroll bar, or a size box . vertically changes the height,
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You can move a window, and dragging diagonally
ctivating it, hold down ti this chapter .
change its size, or close it . changes both .
;ommand key while
To close a window, work in it, .ragging the window .
or change its size, you must
activate the window first by
clicking anywhere inside it .
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This section begins with a summary of how you select the elements of a
document and continues with instructions that tell you the various ways to edit
the selection . When an instruction uses a command from the Edit menu (Undo,
Cut, Copy, or Paste), you can hold down the Command key and type the letter
designated for that command in the Edit menu rather than choose the command
from the menu . (The Command key is to the left of the space baron the
keyboard .)
You can undo any of the operations that follow with the Undo command from the
Edit menu . Undo allows you to restore your document to the state it was in
immediately before the last operation .You can undo typing and most mouse
operations, such as choosing a command from the menu (or using the Command
key) and changing the settings on a ruler . When you cannot undo an operation,
Undo is dimmed in the menu .
Selecting To Select the Insertion To Select a Word
Point
Selecting means using the mouse to make something the Click where you want to Double-click the word .
"active" place in the document, the place that receives the next insert, remove, or paste
You can extend this selection
action . MacWrite denotes a selection by highlighting it in some something .
by the word using Shift-click.
way that distinguishes it from its surroundings . For example,
selected text, rulers, and page breaks appear white on a black
background ; the insertion point is marked by a blinking vertical
bar; a picture appears with a black border .
In this manual, text refers to what you put into the document with
character keys . Character keys include the usual letter, number,
symbol, and punctuation keys, as well as the Tab key, the Return
key, and the space bar .
• select the insertion point R r lie trill se~rcn File Edit Search
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• select a word
• select text
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mushrooms, and bell peF pus irc:.: r(js i bell pej
• extend or shorten a selection
followed by something ii iething ii
• select a ruler
Pizza Pizza
CI select a picture Anchovies Anchovies
More pizza More pizza
• select a page break
Dessert
C1 select any combination of text, ruler, picture, and page break
Drag along a line of text in Select the insertion point at Position the pointer where Click anywhere on the inch
either direction . one end of the text you want you want the extended or scale of the ruler .
to select . shortened selection to end .
OR To select text and a ruler,
Position the pointer at the Holding down the Shift key, drag from the inch scale of
Drag across lines of text in
other end of the text you want click or drag to complete the the ruler across the text .
any direction . selection .
to select, using the scroll bar
You can still change a
If you drag beyond the to move there if necessary .
Think of Shift-click as selected ruler's setting .
bottom or top edge of the
Holding down the Shift key, continuing to drag in any
document window, the
click or drag to complete the direction from the end of a
document scrolls as you
selection . completed selection .
continue to select text .
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mushro` nd bell pe g brooms, and bell pi astir s. and bell pe mushrooms, and bell pep
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To Select a Picture To Select a Page Break To Select any
Combination of Text,
Ruler, Picture, and
Page Break
Click anywhere on the Click anywhere in the Drag across the material
picture . empty space created when past the bottom (or top) of
you inserted the page break . the ruler, picture, or page
A black rectangular border
break .
appears around the picture,
unless it's selected (by
dragging) with other text,
rulers, pictures, or page
breaks, in which case it
appears white on a black
background with no border
around it .
.. ...... ............. .. ..... ... .. ... .......... ... ... .. ... .. ..... ... ..........
You can insert text, rulers, Select the insertion point . Select the insertion point Select the insertion point
and page breaks . Usually you where you want a blank line . where you want to put the
Type the new text .
insert these at the insertion ruler.
Press Return once if the
point . However, you can Any text following the
insertion point is at the Or, you can select anything
replace any selection (other insertion point moves to
beginning or end of a (except the first ruler) to be
than the first ruler) with the accommodate the new text .
paragraph . If it's elsewhere in replaced .
insertion . See "Replacing"
The insertion point for a new the paragraph, press Return
and "Inserting a Page Break" Choose Insert Ruler from
document is at the upper-left twice (once to end the
in this chapter . the File menu .
corner of the document . previous paragraph, and
again to insert a blank line) . The ruler is inserted at the
insertion point (or replaces
any other selection except
the first ruler) . The insertion
point and anything following
it move below the ruler . If the
inserted ruler is the last item
in the document, no insertion
point appears below it until
you begin to type .
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Removing To Remove With Cut To Remove With the To Remove a Return
From the Edit Menu Backspace Key Character
You can remove anything in Select what's to be Select the insertion point Select the insertion point at
the document that you can removed . and press the Backspace key the beginning of the line
select except the first ruler . to remove characters one at a below the one ending with
See "Selecting" in this
time . Return.
chapter .
OR Press Backspace once .
Choose Cut from the Edit
menu . Select what's to be removed Unintended Returns may
and press the Backspace key affect how a paragraph looks
MacWrite places anything
once . when you edit it or change its
removed with the Cut
format . (MacWrite doesn't
command on the Clipboard . Removing with Backspace
full justify a line ended with a
It remains on the Clipboard does not place the selection
Return .) Text doesn't fill the
until the next Cut (or Copy) . on the Clipboard ; however,
empty space following the
(You can put a copy of the you can undo backspacing
Return, so the end of that line
contents of the Clipboard with the Undo command
remains blank . When you
into your document with the from the Edit menu .
remove the Return, the
Paste command in the Edit
paragraph readjusts properly .
menu .)
Replacing Select what's to be Replace the selection
replaced . by doing any of the
following:
Anything that can be selected in the document (except the first See "Selecting" in this Type new text .
ruler) can be replaced . Usually, you'll replace a selection by chapter .
Paste the contents of the
typing (including backspacing), but you can also replace it with
Clipboard by choosing Paste
a copy of the contents of the Clipboard or with an inserted ruler
from the Edit menu .
or page break .
Insert a ruler by choosing
Insert Ruler from the Format
menu .
You can move or copy almost anything in a document that can be Text that you move or copy MacWrite places the selection
selected : text, a ruler (except the first one), a picture, a page will have the same format as (or a copy of it) on the
break, or any combination of these . the text where you paste it but Clipboard, where it remains
retains its font, style, and size . until the next Cut or Copy.
You can move or copy text among the document window, the
Header and Footer windows, the Find and Change windows, and If you want to keep the old
many of the desk accessories . You can move or copy pictures format in the new location,
among the document window, the Header and Footer windows, insert a ruler and select it
and some desk accessories . You can move or copy rulers among along with the text you're
the document window and the Header and Footer windows . moving or copying .
When you want to move or See "Selecting" in this MacWrite places the selection See "Opening a New
copy a selection from one chapter . (or a copy of it) on the Document From MacWrite"
document to another in Clipboard, where it remains or "Opening an Existing
MacWrite, you'll cut or copy it until the next Cut or Copy. Document From MacWrite"
to the Clipboard, close the in this chapter for
current document, open the instructions .
other document, and paste
the contents of the Clipboard
where you want the material
to go .
Select the insertion Choose Paste from the
point where you want to Edit menu .
put the contents of the
Clipboard .
. worn or warning : i He
combined contents of the
Clipboard and the newly
expanded document can't be
larger than the Macintosh
memory allows . A message
will warn you if what you're
about to do will exceed the
Finding Text Select the insertion Choose Find from the
point where you want Search menu .
the search to start .
You can use the Find command in the Search menu to locate and The Find window appears on
select any series of characters (usually a word, phrase, or the desktop . You can move
number) . You can also go to a place in your document where this window, and you must
you'd like to work by using the Find command to search for a reactivate it to work in it after
word or phrase that you think might be at or near that place . activating another window .
You can enter up to 44 The first occurrence of the To find more occurrences Activate it and click its close
characters, either by typing or text that's found is selected . of the specified characters, box .
by moving or copying text activate the Find window and
If at any point MacWrite can't OR
from the document or a desk click Find Next .
find the specified characters,
accessory. You can move or Activate it and choose Close
a message appears . Click OK
copy text between most from the File menu .
or press Enter or Return to
windows and the Find
reactivate the Find window . The Find window is closed
window. Activate whichever
and removed from the
window you want to work in You can undo the effect of
desktop . You can also keep
by clicking anywhere in it . Find Next with the Undo
this window on the desktop
command in the Edit menu,
To see all of the text in the like any other window, See
selecting the previous
document window, move the "Working With Windows" in
occurrence .
window below the Find this chapter .
window .
.
.
Find
S
Find Nent
63 FINDING TEXT
Finding and Replacing Text Select the insertion Choose Change from
point where you want the Search menu .
the search to start .
You can replace any series of characters usually a word, The Change window appears
phrase, or number-with any other series by choosing the on the desktop . You can
Change command in the Search menu to find what you want and move this window, and you
then replace it with something else . must reactivate it to work in it
if you've activated another
When MacWrite searches for the specified characters in the
window.
document, it ignores capitalization, accents on characters, fonts,
font sizes, and styles . Otherwise, it searches for exactly what you
specify.
replace. Change To .
You can enter up to 44 The Tab key moves you back Find Next to find the next Activate it and click its close
characters, either by typing or and forth between the two occurrence of the text (or box .
by moving or copying text text rectangles . If you don't press Enter or Return) . You
OR
from the document or a desk type anything after Change can edit the text that
accessory . You can move or To, MacWrite replaces the MacWrite finds or click the Activate it and choose Close
copy text between most designated text with nothing ; Change button . (If you edit from the File menu .
windows and the Change use this to eliminate the text, see "Finding Text"
The Change window is
window . Activate whichever unwanted text . for instructions on working in
closed and removed from the
window you want to work in both windows .)
desktop . You can also keep
by clicking anywhere in it .
Change Then Find to this window on the desktop
To see all of the text in the change this occurrence and like any other window . See
"Working With Windows" in
document window, move the then find the next one (used
window .
Change to change one If at any point MacWrite
occurrence only (used cannot find the specified
S after Find Next) . text, a message appears . Click
confirmation by clicking OK
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e
Find What olives
Change To pepperoni
.
Change Change All
[Change Then Find
S[Find Neat
I love pizza smothered in tomato sauce, onior .ies,
The Style menu gives you a choice of several styles and sizes that You may choose a style from
vary the appearance of the font . You can use styles singly or in the keyboard as well as with
combination, although you can choose only one at time . the Style menu . This is the
fastest way to change styles as
Unless you change style or size before typing, text added at the
you type . Hold the Command
insertion point is in the style and size of the character
key down while you type the
immediately preceding it . In MacWrite, a character is anything
first letter of the style name .
typed with character keys, including Return, Tab, and the space
For example, press
bar . A space, then, may be in a different style from the letter
Command and B to choose
before it .
Bold . The equivalent keys to
When you begin a new document, the style and size of the font press are to the right of the
are preset to Plain Text and 12 Point . When you select text, the name in the Style menu .
style(s) common to every character of the selection (if any) and
A check appears to the left of
the size of the text will be checked in the Style menu .
the style or size that you've
chosen . The selected text
changes and remains
highlighted .
To Return Text to the To Remove a Text Style
Preset Style
Style ...
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Bold B
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9 Point
the Mentor V12 Point
P~}f'v~l dfk1.l ,'t• 1C 14 Point
18 Point
"4 Point
The Font menu gives you a choice of several fonts . Unless you A check appears in the menu
change the font before typing, text added at the insertion point is to the left of the font you've
in the font of the character immediately preceding it . In chosen . The selected text
MacWrite, a character is anything typed with character keys, changes and remains
including Return, Tab, and the space bar . highlighted .
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Resizing or Select the picture by Drag any of the three Drag the left or right
Shifting a Picture clicking anywhere on it . black boxes to resize edge to move the
the picture . picture horizontally.
Horizontally
After moving a picture to a A black border appears The middle box moves the
document in MacWrite, you around the picture . Three bottom border vertically to
can resize it or shift it black boxes are on the lengthen or shorten the
horizontally. The scale of the bottom edge of the border . picture .
picture changes when you
The left and right boxes
change its size .
move the bottom and the
See "Moving or Copying corresponding edge to
Within a Document" in this change the width and/or the
chapter for instructions on length of the picture .
moving a picture to another
place in the document . See
"Moving or Copying
Between MacWrite
Documents" for instructions ..
on moving a picture to .
another MacWrite document .
Present
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. .
You can create a picture in The picture is placed on the The Finder appears . Click an existing MacWrite
MacPaint and move it to a Clipboard . document, or to open a new
document in MacWrite . document, click the
MacWrite icon .
You can use the Scrapbook desk accessory to store frequently Select either : This copies the selected text
used pictures or passages of text, and later paste them into any or picture onto the Clipboard .
a single picture, or
MacWrite document .
text between pictures,
This is a good way to keep a repertoire of paragraphs,
rulers, or page breaks
illustrations, symbols, or titles that you'll use in many
documents . It's also a good way to carry a number of these from
one document to another : while the Clipboard holds only one
item at a time, the Scrapbook can hold many .
If the Scrapbook desk Paste in the Scrapbook acts Reactivate the document
accessory is already on the slightly differently than window to make another
desktop, just activate it by usual : it just inserts a copy of selection .
clicking in it . the contents of the Clipboard
It maybe helpful to move the
at the end of the Scrapbook . It
Scrapbook window to a
doesn't replace what's
corner of the desktop, so you
selected in the Scrapbook .
can reactivate it more easily .
You can copy any picture or passage of text that you've saved in If the Scrapbook desk The Scrapbook shows you
the Scrapbook . You can put pictures and text into the Scrapbook accessory is already on the one picture or passage of text
from any application, and retrieve them from any application . desktop, just activate it by at a time . Click the scroll
See "Storing Text or Pictures in the Scrapbook" in this chapter . clicking in it . arrows to go from one picture
or passage of text to the next .
This is a good way to keep a repertoire of paragraphs,
illustrations, symbols, or titles that you'll use in many l u UUII l ilaVC lU JC1Cl.l we
documents . It's also a good way to carry a number of these from picture or text : the one you
one document to another : while the Clipboard holds only one see is automatically selected
item at a time, the Scrapbook can hold many, and copied with the next step,
even though it's not
The Scrapbook can store a large number of pictures and passages
highlighted . You can't select
of text . Text, however, loses its font, size, and style when you put
just a part of a passage of text ;
it into the Scrapbook . Text in the Scrapbook is always 1 ? point
the whole passage is selected .
New York, plain text .
The Scrapbook places the Or, you can select anything A copy of the contents of the Reactivate the Scrapbook
selection on the Clipboard, (except the first ruler) to be Clipboard appears at the window to make another
where it remains until the replaced . insertion point (or replaces selection .
next Cut or Copy . any other selection, except
When you've finished
the first ruler) and the
It maybe helpful to move the copying things from the
insertion point moves to the
Scrapbook window to a Scrapbook, close it by
end of the newly inserted
corner of the desktop, so you clicking its close box or by
material . You can make
can reactivate it more easily . choosing Close from the File
another selection and paste
menu .
again .
Changing You use rulers to set the format for the following text up to the next ruler or, if
the Format there isn't one, to the end of the document .The first ruler at the top of a new
document has a preset format, which you can change . Since the first ruler is easy
to locate and can't be removed or replaced, you may want to use this ruler to set
up a standard format for your document, and then insert more rulers elsewhere to
vary the basic format .
You set the top and bottom margins for an entire document by creating headers
and footers in a separate window and displaying them in your document .You can
also end a page by inserting a page break .
Changing the Settings on a Ruler To Change a Margin To Change the
Indentation
When you change the settings on a ruler, you change the format Drag the left or right margin Move the indentation
of new or existing text between that ruler and the one following marker to the desired marker onto the left margin
it . If there's no following ruler, that format remains in effect to position . marker (no indentation) .
the end of the document .
OR
OR
To move a tab, drag it under Click the appropriate line Click the appropriate
the inch scale of the ruler . spacing box . alignment box .
Li Full-Justification Box
Right-Alignment Box
Center-Alignment Box
Left-Alignment Box
Double-Space Box
1' -Space Box
Single-Space Box
To change the format while you're typing text, insert a ruler, Or, you can select anything A ruler is inserted at the
change any of the format settings you want, and continue typing . (except the first ruler) to be insertion point (or replaces
This ruler will alter the format of text following it up to the next replaced . any other selection, except
ruler (if there is one) or the end of the document . the first ruler) . The insertion
point and anything following
it moves below the ruler .
.
.
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To change the format of some text while preserving the format of Or, you can select anything A ruler is inserted at the
the text that follows it, insert two rulers, one at the top and (except the first ruler) to be insertion point (or replaces
another one at the bottom of the text to be changed . Then change replaced . any other selection, except
the settings on the first ruler only . the first ruler) . The insertion
point and anything following
it moves below the ruler .
point at the end of the from the Format menu . settings on the first
changed .
instructions on how to :
change margins or
indentation
format .
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Creating and Drag a tab marker Create each row of the Edit the text at a tab .
under the inch scale of table .
Editing Tables the ruler to where you
want the table's
columns to align .
You create tables using the A decimal tab marker lines up Press the Tab key to move to Select text and remove or
tab markers and the Tab key . text (usually a number) at the the next column and type any :replace it .
With MacWrite, you can add decimal point position . desired text (or leave
or delete text at one tab empty) . . 0R
If you want the table to have .
without disturbing text at the
different margins from the Press Return to move to the . • S elect the insertion point
next tab as long as your
editing doesn't affect the tab
text above it, see "Changing beginning of the next line, .:and add text .
itself or run into the next
the Format While You Type" and start the next row of the . If text inserted at the first tab
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or "Changing the Format of table . • runs into the second tab,
column .
Existing Text" in this chapter . MacWrite moves text at the
Press Tab twice to leave a ..
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blank in the table .
. . the third to the fourth, and so
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. • the next line .
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between two columns in a
row of the table, text at each
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You remove a column from a If you wish to remove the text A word of warning : Don't try
table by removing the text of a column and keep an to remove a column by
and the tab on each row of the empty column in your table, removing its tab marker .
column . select only the text in each Mac Write will redistribute
row of the column . Then the text to align at the
backspace or choose Cut remaining tab markers,
.. from the Edit menu . moving each line of the last
column down a line to align
.. with the first tab on the next
line . Each tab marker that you
.
remove results in another
redistribution .
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Tables
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You can add a column of text Move the tab markers as If you want to insert a new The insertion point moves to
to a table by adding each item necessary to make room for first column, select the the spot designated by the
one row at a time . the new column . insertion point at the new tab marker, and the text
beginning of the line . at the new marker and at each
Drag a tab from a tab well to
of the following tabs moves
where you want a new
right one tab to its former
column .
position .
The column to the right of the
new marker moves left to
align under the new marker .
Each succeeding column
moves left one tab, if it can fit .
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With MacWrite, top and The Header or Footer Use the line spacing boxes on Select the insertion point on
bottom margins are called window displays the preset the ruler to increase line any empty line you've
headers and footers . You'll ruler and the insertion point . spacing and thus further created with Return .
create them separately in You can manipulate this increase margin height .
You can edit the header or
their own windows and then window like any other
The maximum margin footer text, but only in the
display them in your window .
height is approximately a Header or Footer window. If
document .
third of a page . you attempt to edit either of
Besides blank lines, you can them in the document
put information such as window, you'll be warned
chapter titles, pictures, the not to . Activate the Header or
date and time, and page Footer window by clicking in
numbers in the header or it to edit its contents .
footer ; the margin and the
information will appear on
every page of your
document . If you choose
Title Page from the Format .
menu, the header and footer .
won't appear on the first page .
of a document .
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See "Moving or Copying Drag the page number icon A message appears alerting You can close the Header or
Within a Document" in this to where you want the page you if the headcr or footer is Footer window by choosing
chapter . number to appear . too long. Click OK and Hide Header or Hide Footer
remove some of the lines from the Format menu or, if it
Drag the clock icon to
from the header or footer . is the active window, by
where you want the time to
Reactivate the document choosing Close from the File
appear .
window. menu .
Drag the date icon to where
Your document appears with If you don't want the header
you want the date to appear .
the header and footer on each and footer to appear on the
In the document, the first page, both on the screen and first page, choose Title Page
character of the time, date, or in the printed copy . from the Format menu .
page number appears at the
If you close the Header or
icon position . If necessary,
Footer window, the window
maneuver the icon so this
disappears from the desktop,
information stays within the
and the header or footer is no
margins .
longer displayed in your
The font, style, and font size document or the printed copy .
of the time, date, and page
The Header or Footer
number will be the same as
window moves behind the
the first character in the
document window and
header or footer . ,
remains barely visible at the
. bottom of the desktop unless
you've moved it .
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Setting Page Choose Set Page # Type the number for Click OK or press Enter
Numbering from the Format menu . the first page that or Return .
displays the header or
footer.
If you display the header or A box appears with the page The numbers appear in your
footer in your document and number preset at 1 . document in the header or
set the page number icon, footer at the position of the
MacWrite numbers the pages page number icon .
of the document
automatically . The first page
will be numbered page 1
unless you set the initial page
number to something else or
choose Title Page from the
Format menu .
Format
You can start a new page Or, you can select anything The page break is inserted at
while you're typing, or except the first ruler to be the insertion point (or
anywhere you'd like in an replaced . replaces any other selection,
existing document, by except the first ruler) . The
inserting a page break . The insertion point and anything
rest of the text on the page that follows it moves to the
moves to the top of the next first line of the next page . The
page and all subsequent text header or footer is not
moves down accordingly . affected by the page break .
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Most of the procedures in this section can be done from the Finder, although the
steps may be different . Macintosh, the owner's guide, thoroughly covers how to
work with documents from the Finder.
Saving Your Work Choose Save from the Type the name of the Click Save .
File menu . document if you're
saving it for the first
time.
You should save your work Unless you're saving for the You cannot use a colon as part See "Save" under "File
often to keep a current first time, no dialog box of a document name . Menu" in Chapter 3 for
version of your document on appears . information about the Text
If you give the name of an
the disk in case you lose Only button .
existing MacWrite document,
information on the
a message asks if you want to On the disk, MacWrite saves
Macintosh .
replace the document with the current version of the
The Close and Quit the one you're saving . document by replacing the
commands in the File menu Confirm or cancel the old version that has the same
also give you the opportunity command . name . If you want to keep the
to save changes to a old version, give the current
document that's been version a different name .
named . When you're
Clicking the Cancel button
changing the name of a
retracts the Save command .
document or saving to
another disk, you'll use the Clicking the Eject button
Save As command in the File ejects the disk from the disk
menu . drive so that you can remove
it and insert another disk . See
"Saving to a Different Name
or Disk ."
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You can open a new If there are no unsaved A new untitled document
document without returning changes to your document, opens on the desktop . You
to the Finder by using the File MacWrite closes your name this document the first
menu . document window and clears time you save it .
the desktop .
In the Finder, you'll open a
new document by clicking Otherwise, a dialog box
the MacWrite icon . appears that lets you save any
unsaved changes ;
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document without returning changes to your document, list of all the MacWrite
to the Finder by using the File MacWrite closes your documents that are on the
menu . docu ment window and clears disk .
the desktop .
In the Finder, you'll open an
existing MacWrite document Otherwise, a dialog box
by clicking the document's appears that lets you save any
icon and choosing Open unsaved changes :
from the File menu .
Clicking Yes saves the
changes and closes the
document window .
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If the document you want to If there are no unsaved A dialog box appears with a
open is on another disk, you changes to your document, list of MacWrite documents
can eject the current disk if MacWrite closes your that are on the disk .
necessary, insert another, document window and clears
and open one of its MacWrite the desktop .
documents .
Otherwise, a dialog box
appears that lets you save any
unsaved changes :
File
File
You can change the name of a A dialog box appears with the To change to another disk : When the document is saved,
document or save it on current name of your if you've ejected the disk with
Click Eject in the dialog box
another disk using the File document . the MacWrite application
and insert the other disk .
menu . program, a message will ask
OR you to reinsert that disk .
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103 PRINTING
Creating and Printing a Long Document Open the first Set the page number
document to be you want to assign to
printed. the first numbered
page of the document .
A MacWrite document has a maximum length of approximately From a MacWrite document : Choose Set Page # from the
ten single-spaced pages . This varies according to the font, font Format menu .
Choose Open from the File
size, and style that you use and the number and complexity of
menu . In the dialog box, type the
pictures in your document . To make a longer printed document,
page number and click OK .
you create several shorter documents with the page number icon Click the document name
positioned in the header or footer, and then print them in the list . The numbers appear in your
sequentially . Each new document begins on a new page, so it's document where you
important that each document stand alone as a section or Click the Open button .
positioned the page number
chapter . From the Finder : icon in the header or footer .
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Chapter 3 :
MacWrite
Reference
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Contents 109 Introduction
129 Memory
129 During Paste
129 During Cut or Copy
129 During Typing or Inserting
131 Glossary
109 INTRODUCTION
A MacWrite A MacWrite document can consist of paragraphs of text, pictures or text from
Document other applications or desk accessories, and rulers that set text format . A new
document has a preset format that you can keep or change ; its settings are listed
at the end of this chapter .
Paragraphs and A MacWrite paragraph is defined as text between any of the following :
the Return Key
• presses of the Return key
rulers
III pictures
• page breaks
the beginning or end of the document
Note that this definition includes a lot of things not normally considered
paragraphs (like lines of a table) .
For a paragraph, the following is always true :
A Page The page size is specified with the Page Setup command in the File menu . In
the document window, the end of each page is marked by a nonprinting gray
line across the document . You can define the top or bottom margin for all pages
in the document with the header or footer . The header and footer appear below
and above the gray line . You can end a page and start a new one anywhere in
your document by inserting a page break .
When you print the document on continuous-feed paper (computer paper),
printing automatically skips across the perforation . When you print on single
sheets, the printing stops at the end of each page so you can insert the next
sheet .
Editing Editing involves inserting at the insertion point and removing, moving,
copying, or replacing a selection . Any item or sequential group of items in a
document can be selected . The insertion point can be selected anywhere
except between adjacent rulers . Anything that can be selected can be edited,
although not all editing procedures work with every selection . For example,
you can't remove or replace the first ruler in the document .
You can replace the selection by typing, pasting, inserting a ruler, or inserting a
page break . With the Edit menu or equivalent keyboard commands, the
selection can be removed, moved, or copied . When moving or copying, you
can paste into another place in the document, in another window in MacWrite,
or in another document altogether .
Undo restores the previous selection or ruler setting .
Rulers Rulers in your document set all paragraph formats : margins, paragraph
indentation, regular and decimal tabs, text alignment, and line spacing
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Headers and The header and footer define top and bottom margins for every page of your
Footers document . In addition to blank lines, a header or footer can contain lines of
text, pictures, page numbers, the time, or the date . Each document can contain
one header, or one footer, or both .
The header and footer are created separately in the corresponding Header or
Footer window. Reactivating the document window displays them on each
page of the document . Hiding or closing the Header or Footer window
removes the header or footer from view in the document window and the
printed copy.
The Title Page command in the Format menu lets you control whether the
header and footer appear on the first page of the document .
Drag the clock icon to
position the current time .
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Drag the date icon to titled
position the current date .
Footer
Change the preset format v
of the ruler if you wish .
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the insertion point .
The clock, date, and page number icons can be placed anywhere in text or even
inside a picture that's been pasted into a header or footer . They may extend
outside the margins or even obscure text and pictures in the header or footer .
The page number, time, and date appear in the same font, size, and style as the
first character in the text of the header or footer . If there is no text, they appear
in the preset font, size, and style unless you've changed the preset options .
About MacWrite . ..
This command shows you information about MacWrite and the document
you're working on . It shows the size of the document as a percentage of total
memory, as well as the percentage of memory still available .
Desk Accessories
Choosing any of the desk accessories causes that accessory to appear on the
desktop . You can use the Edit menu to cut, paste, and copy the information in
most desk accessories . Activating the document window lets you continue
working with your document . The desk accessory stays on the desktop until
you close it, either with its close box or the Close command in the File menu .
Some desk accessories particularly useful with MacWrite are :
• Scrapbook, to keep and use a repertoire of frequently used pictures or
passages of text, or to move many pictures or passages of text between
documents or applications
• Calculator, to do quick calculations and paste the results into a document .
You don't have to select the results, just copy and paste them .
• Key Caps, to see the complete set of foreign and special characters available
with the Option key . Note that not all characters are available in every font .
Close
Saue . . .
Sue As . . .
Page Setup
Print . . .
Quit
New
This command opens a new, untitled document . The New command is
dimmed when a document is already open .
Open . .
This command opens a specified document on the disk . A list of current
MacWrite documents appears in a box . Select a document from this list .
The Eject button (or the Drive button, if you have an external disk drive)
allows you to open a document on another disk .
The Open command is dimmed when a document is already open .
Save
This command stores the current document on the disk and replaces the old
copy of the document with the same name . A dialog box appears the first time
you save an untitled document . When you name a document, and the name
is that of an existing document, you're asked to confirm that you want the
document you're saving to replace the existing one . See "Save As,"
immediately following, for an explanation of the other items in this box .
Once you've named the document, use this command to save changes
to the same document stored on the disk .
You can use any character except a colon, Return, or Tab to name a document .
The Tall Adjust option should be used when printing a document with
geometric figures or pictures that must be printed in exactly the correct
proportions .
Note that even with wide orientation or international paper, MacWrite is still
limited to a 1-inch minimum left margin and a 1%8-inch minimum right
margin . Most printers are also limited in the width of the page they can use : the
Apple Imagewriter can use only an 8½-inch page width .
The Page Setup command is dimmed if no document is open .
Print...
This command produces a printed copy of the current document using the
specified settings . It first stores a "printed" copy on the disk, and then prints
from that copy. MacWrite can complete the Print command faster if you save
your document first .
If there's no printing resource in the System folder, a warning appears when
you choose this command . Refer to Macintosh, your owner's guide, or your
printer manual .
Choosing this command presents the following dialog box with options about
how you want your document to be printed .
Screen-quality printin g ;
faster than High qualit y.
Note for example that the page range "from 4 to 5" means the fourth and fifth
pages in the document . If you've used the Set Page # command in the Format
menu, those pages may not necessarily be numbered 4 and 5 .
Clicking OK accepts all the settings and begins printing accordingly . Clicking
Cancel retracts the Print command altogether . Holding down the Command
key while pressing the period key ( .) stops printing in progress .
The Print command is dimmed if no document is open .
Close
This command closes the active window . If the document window is the active
window, and ,you've made changes without saving, you're given the
opportunity to save the changes . If there have been no changes since you last
saved the document, the document window is simply removed from the
desktop .
Choosing Close is the same as clicking the close box of the active window, if it
has one . Choosing Hide Clipboard, Hide Header, or Hide Footer also closes
these windows . Closing the Header or Footer window removes the window
from the desktop and the header or footer from the document .
Paste
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Show Clipboard
Search Menu
Find . . .
This command locates and selects, in the most recently active window, the
next occurrence of specified text . It opens the Find window, where you enter
the text you want to find . You can move and activate the Find window just like
any other window .
a Find
Find What
The Find What rectangle can hold up to 44 characters of text . You can enter any
characters except Return and Tab . You can move or copy text between the
document window and the Find window . The text in the rectangle can be
selected and edited .
Clicking the Find Next button begins the search . The search starts at the
selection, goes to the end of the document, wraps back to the beginning, and
ends where it began . If the specified text is found in the document, the
occurrence is selected . The found text can be edited once the document
window is activated . You can undo Find Next and restore the previous selection
before activating another window .
The Find command searches for an exact character-for-character match, but it
ignores capitalization, accents on characters, fonts, sizes, and styles . If the text
you're searching for isn't found, a message informs you of this .
The close box in the title bar, or the Close command in the File menu, closes
the active Find window .
Change.. .
This command allows you to search for text in the most recently active window
and optionally replace the found text . It opens the Change window, where you
enter the text you want to find and the text to replace it with . You can move and
activate the Change window just like any other window .
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Find What
Change To
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Insert Ruler
Hide Rulers
Show Header
Show Footer
Set Page # . . .
Insert Page Break
Title Page
Insert Ruler
This command replaces the selection (usually the insertion point) with a ruler
and moves the insertion point and the following text below the inserted ruler .
The ruler is a copy of the preceding ruler . If rulers are hidden, Insert Ruler
shows all rulers before inserting the new one (see "Rulers" in this chapter) .
Hide Rulers/Show Rulers
The Hide Rulers command makes all rulers invisible but maintains their
effects . Show Rulers causes all rulers to appear in the document (see
"Rulers") . Choosing Insert Rulers automatically shows all rulers .
Show Header/Hide Header
The Show Header command opens the Header window . Hide Header both
removes the header from view in the document and closes the Header window
(see "Headers and Footers") .
Show Footer/Hide Footer
The Show Footer command opens the Footer window . Hide Footer both
removes the footer from view in the document and closes the Footer window .
The preset font is New York . You can choose any available font for currently
selected text or text yet to be typed at the insertion point . The font you choose is
checked in the menu . If you have not changed the font at the insertion point,
typed text appears in the font of the immediately preceding character, which
may be a Return, Tab, or space . If there is no preceding character, text you
insert appears in the preset font or the font of the character following it . Text
typed to replace selected text appears in the font of the first character of the
selection .
Style Menu
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14 Point
18 Point
24 Point
This menu has choices for the style and size of text . The preset style is Plain
Text and the preset size is 12 Point . There are equivalent keyboard commands
for the Style menu : the Command key and the first letter of the style .
You can choose one or more styles or any size for currently selected text or text
yet to be typed at the insertion point . The styles and size you choose are
checked in the menu . If you have not changed the style or size at the insertion
point, typed text appears in the style and size of the immediately preceding
character, which maybe a Return, Tab, or space . If there is no preceding
character, the text appears in the preset size and style or the size and style of the
character that follows it . Text typed to replace selected text appears in the style
and size of the first character of the selection .
The styles and size of the current selection are checked in the menu . A style
or size is checked only if all characters in the selection have it in common .
If the selection is the insertion point, the checks in the Style menu show you
the size and style of the text you will type there . Text retains its style and size
when moved or copied .
Plain Text (the preset style) cannot be mixed with other styles : choosing it
removes all other checked styles . The other styles, however, can be combined
for a variety of effects . Horizontal and vertical line spacing is automatically
adjusted to accommodate the largest character in the line .
Fonts, styles, and sizes can be mixed at your aesthetic discretion . Some
combinations may appear jagged or chunky, either on the screen or on the
printed copy.
129 MEMORY
Preset Options Font style : Plain Text
and Format Font size : 12 Point
Font: New York
Header : none
Footer : none
Paragraph indentation : at 1118 inches
Left margin : at 1 118 inches
Right margin : at 7 inches
Regular tab : one at S ll2 inches
Decimal tab : none
Spacing : single
Alignment : left
Page Break : at 8 ll2 inches
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Caps Lock key
A key on the Macintosh keyboard that, when pressed, causes subsequently
typed letters to appear in uppercase . It works like a Shift key except that it
doesn't affect numbers or symbols .
character keys
The following keys on the Macintosh keyboard-letters, numbers, symbols,
punctuation, Return, Tab, and the space bar . Character keys repeat when you
press and hold them .
check box
A small box associated with an option in a dialog box that, when clicked, may
reverse the option's current state or affect other related options .
choose
To pick a command from a menu by dragging .
click
To position the pointer on something and then press and quickly release the
mouse button .
Clipboard
A holding place for what you last cut or copied .
close
To turn a document window back into the icon that represents the document .
close box
A small box on the left side of the title bar of an active window . You click it to
close the window .
131 GLOSSARY
command
A word, usually in a menu, that describes an action for MacWrite to perform .
Also, a combination of the Command key and a letter on the keyboard that
accomplishes the same action .
Command key
A key on the Macintosh keyboard that, when held down while another key is
pressed, causes a command to take effect, or when held down while dragging,
causes a specified action to take place .
cut
To remove something by selecting it and choosing Cut from the Edit menu .
What is cut is placed on the Clipboard .
decimal tab
A tab, represented by a decimal tab marker, that aligns columns of numbers at
the decimal point position (or columns of words to the left of the tab) .
decimal tab marker
An unfilled triangle with a dot in it that you drag from the decimal tab well to a
position under the inch scale of a ruler . It marks the position of the insertion
point when you press Tab .
desk accessories
"V_ini-applications" that are available on the desktop from the Apple menu
regardless of which application you're using . Examples are the Calculator and
Scrapbook .
desktop
MacWrite's working environment the menu bar and the gray area on the
screen .
dialog box
A box that requests more information from you when needed by MacWrite to
complete a command .
dimmed
A dimmed command or menu title appears gray rather than black . A dimmed
item cannot be chosen .
disk
The magnetic medium on which the Macintosh stores information .
disk drive
The mechanism that holds a disk, retrieves information from it, and saves
information on it .
133 GLOSSARY
indentation marker
i An arrow-shaped marker that marks the position of the first word in a
paragraph, to the left or the right of the left margin marker . In a new document,
the indentation marker is stacked with the left margin marker .
insertion point
The spot in a document where something will be added . The insertion point is
selected by clicking and is represented by a blinking vertical bar .
Key Caps
A desk accessory that shows you the optional character set .
margin marker
A black triangle on each side of a ruler that you can move to mark the left or
right margin of text . In a new document, the left margin marker is stacked with
the indentation marker .
memory
The place in the Macintosh main unit that stores information the Macintosh is
working with .
menu
A list of commands that appears when you point to and press a menu title in the
menu bar .
menu bar
The horizontal strip at the top of the screen that contains menu titles .
menu title
Aword or phrase in the menu bar that designates one menu .
optional character set
An alternate character set that includes special symbols, and foreign characters
and accents . You view it with the Key Caps desk accessory.
IVIUI I
Return key
LI A key on the Macintosh keyboard that causes the insertion point to move to the
beginning of the next line . It's also used in some cases to confirm a command
or an entry.
ruler
In MacWrite, a graphic representation of a ruler on which you set the format of
the text that follows . Rulers can be added as needed .
save
To stole information on a disk .
Scrapbook
A desk accessory in which you can save frequently used pictures or text .
scroll
To move a document in its window so that a different part of it is visible .
scroll arrow
An arrow on either end of the scroll bar . When you press a scroll arrow, the
document scrolls continuously; when you click it, the document scrolls line by
line .
scroll bar
In MacWrite, a rectangular bar along the right edge of a document window.
scroll box
The white box in the scroll bar . The position of the scroll box in the scroll bar
indicates the position of the text in the window, relative to the length of an
entire document .
select
To designate where the next action will take place . In MacWrite, you use the
mouse techniques of clicking and dragging to select something .
selection
The insertion point or the information that will be affected by the next action .
The selection is highlighted .
Shift-click
To make a selection, then position the pointer at the end of what you want to
select, and hold down the Shift key while clicking the mouse button .
Shift Shift key
A key on the Macintosh keyboard that, when held down while another key is
pressed, causes letters to appear in uppercase, and causes the upper symbol to
appear when a numeric or symbolic key is pressed .
size box
A box in the lower-right corner of a window . Dragging the size box resizes the
window .
space bar
The long, unlabeled bar on the Macintosh keyboard that you press to type a
space .
style
A stylistic variation of a font . N acWrite has six font styles : plain text, bold, italic,
underline, outline, and shadow .
Tab
The space between the place where you press the Tab key and the position of
the tab marker .
n tab marker
An unfilled triangle under the inch scale of a ruler that marks the position to
which the Tab key will move the insertion point . You get additional tabs by
dragging them from the tab well .
tab well
n Either of two boxes on the lower-left side of a ruler that hold regular and
decimal tabs .
title bar
The horizontal bar at the top of a window that contains the name of the
window's contents and lets you move the window .
window
Windows display information on the desktop . You view a document through a
window that you can open or close, resize, and move around on the desktop .
word wraparound
A feature of MacWrite that, at the right margin, moves the last whole word
you're typing and the insertion point to the beginning of the next line .
B
Backspace key 11, 34, 56, 57
Returns 13
tabs 25
undoing 56
backup copy
see saving
blank lines, inserting 31, 55
blinking vertical bar 10, 28
bottom margin
see footer
C
Calculator 117
Caps Lock key 14
center alignment 22, 79,113
Change All button 65,124
Change command 64, 65,123-124
Change Then Find button 65,123
Change To rectangle 65,123
Change window 64, 121, 122, 123, 124, 128
changing cursor
alignment 22 see pointer
document name 118 Cut command 31, 32, 56, 58-S9,121,129
font 67, 68 cutting text
font size 27, 66-67, 68 see removing
font style 27, 66-67, 68
format 36-39, 77, 80-83
indentation 78 D
line spacing 20, 79 date 89,114
margins 18-19, 78 decimal tab 24, 79,111,112-113
ruler settings 17, 36, 78-79 decimal tab marker 24, 84,112-113
text alignment 79
deleting
character keys 11, 52, 66 see removing
checked command 66, 68,125,126 desk accessories 72, 74,116-117
clicking 9, 46 dialog box 23, 40, 93,129
Clipboard 32, 56, 57, 58, S9, 60, 61,112,121 dimmed command 51, 117,119,120
window 128
disk
clock 89,114 ejecting 23, 94, 97, 98, 99,100,117-118
close box 10, 50, 121, 123, 124, 128 inserting 9, 23
Close command 94, 120, 123, 124, 128 disk icon 9, 23
closing disk window 9
documents 29, 95, 96, 98 document 110-115
windows 50, 120, 123, 124, 128 automatic page numbering 90,125
column changing name 40,100,118
inserting in table 38-39, 86 .87 closing 29, 95, 96, 98,120
removing in table 85 copying between 60
Command key 14, 50, 51, 66,120,121 copying within 48-49
Copy command 33, 58, 60, 72, 75,121,129 definition 11,110
length 41, 49,104,118
copying 51,111
moving between 60
between documents 60-61
moving within 48-49
page break 58,121
naming 23, 40, 94,100,117-118
picture 58, 70-71, 72-73, 74-75,121
opening 23, 31, 95-99,117
ruler 58,112,121
printing 102 .105,111,118,119-120
text 33, 58, 63, 64, 72-73, 74-75,121
saving 23, 40, 94, 100, 117, 118
within document 58-59
size 116,118
creating text-only 118
document 110
untitled 95,117
footer 88-89
header 88-89
document window 10, 48, 63, 64, 96,116,120,
tables 84 128
double-clicking 33, 46, 47, 52 font style 125-127
dragging 46, 53 changing 27,66-67,68
canceling 46 changing from keyboard 66
margin markers 18-19, 78 combining 27
scroll box 21,49 preset 66, 68, 125, 126, 130
tabs 24, 79 Footer window 88, 89, 114, 121, 124, 128
to select 26, 27-28, 53 footer 77,110,114-115
windows 50 creating 88-89
displaying 89, 90
E hiding 89, 121, 124, 125
printing 104,105
Edit menu 13,31-33,51,111, 116,121-122
editing 111 format
changing 36-39, 77, 80-83
footer 88
preserving 36, 58, 82
header 88
memo 30-35 reinstating 81, 83
setting 16-22, 77,111-114
tables 84
tabs 113 Format menu 36, 77,116,124-125
editing text 26-29 full justification 22, 79,113
see also text
Eject command 23 G
ejecting a disk 23, 94, 97, 98, 99,100,118 global search and replace
Enter key 14, 93,116 see Search menu
extending a selection 47, 52,53
H
F hanging indentation 36, 78,112
file Header window 88, 89, 114, 121, 124, 128
see document header 77,110,114-115
File menu 9, 23, 31, 40, 93,116,117-121 creating 88-89
Find command 62,122-123 displaying 89, 90
hiding 89, 121, 124, 125
Find Next button 63, 65,122,123 printing 104,105
Find What rectangle 62, 64,122,123
Hide Clipboard command 32, 50,121
Find window 62, 63,121,122,123,128
Hide Footer command 50, 89,121,124
Finder 3, 9, 93,118
Hide Header command 50, 89,121,124
opening document 95, 96
returning to 23,101,121 Hide Rulers command 39,124
finding text 62-65 highlighted ruler 18, 52
Font menu 29, 68,116,125-126 highlighted selection 26, 31, 52
font size 126-127
changing 27, 66-67, 68
changing from keyboard 66
preset 66,126,130
L 0
left alignment 22, 79,113 Open command 9, 23, 31,95-99, 117,124,128
left margin marker 18, 78 Option key 14,116
line spacing 110,111, 113
changing 20, 79 P
preset 16 page break 77, 91,110
copying 58,121
inserting 77, 91,125
moving 58
removing 56, 5 . 121
selecting 54
page numbering 89, 90,104-105,114,125
Page Range 102,120
140 INDEX
Page Setup command 102,110,118-119 Q
pagination Quit command 23, 94,101,121
see page numbering
paper 111,118,119 R
paragraph readjusting a paragraph 12, 32, 34, 56,110
definition 110
Redo command 14
format 111
indenting 36-38,112 regular tab 24, 79,111,112-113
readjusting 12, 32, 34, 56,110 removing 51,111
Paste command 32, 33, 56, 59, 61, 71, 73, 75,111, page break 56,121
picture 56,121
121,129
Returns 13, 34-35, 56
picture ruler 56,121
copying 58, 70-71, 72-73, 74-75,121 selection 33
moving 58, 69, 70-71 table column 85
removing 56, 57,121 table text 84,113
resizing 69 tabs 25, 85,113
selecting 54 text 31-32, 34, 56,121
shifting 69
replacing 57
storing 72-73
document 40-41, 94,117
pointer selection 27-28, 57,111
changing shape 12 text 28, 33, 57, 64-65,123,125,126
preserving format 36, 58, 82 resizing a picture 69
presetfont size 66,126,130 Return key 11-12,13,110
preset font style 66, 68, 125, 126, 130 confirming command 93,116
preset ruler 16, 110, 113, 130 in tables 25
pressing 21, 46 Returns
Print command 102-103,119-120 removing 13, 34-35, 56
printing unwanted 34-35
document 102-105,111,119-120 right alignment 22, 79,113
options 120 right margin marker 18, 78
paper 111 ruler 10,16,111-112
quality 120 changing settings 17, 36, 78-79
warning 119 copying 58,112,121
printing specifications 40-41,102,103,105,110, deselecting 18
118-119 hiding 39,112,1 4
printing speed 40 highlighted 18
inserting 36-37, 39, 55, 80-81, 82,112,124
program moving 58
see application program
preset 16, 110, 113, 130
removing 56, 57,121
selecting 53, 54
setting format 77,112
showing 39,124
141 INDEX
S Show Rulers command 39,124
Save As command 40,100,118 size box 10, 50, 69,128
Save command 23, 94,118 specifications
saving printing 102,105,118-119
document 23, 31, 40-41, 94,100,117,118 technical 130
Scrapbook 72-75,116 storing a picture 72-73
Scrapbook window 73,75 style
scroll bar 10, 20, 21, 48, 49, 50,128 see font style
scroll box 21,49 Style menu 27, 29, 66,116,126-127
scrolling 20, 21, 48, 49
search and replace T
see Search menu tab character 24,113
Search menu 62, 64,116,122-124 Tab key 24, 25, 38, 65, 84,113
selecting 52-54 tab markers 22, 24, 38, 84, 85,113
mouse techniques 46-47 tab wells 24
text 26, 27-28, 32, 52-53 table text
selection inserting 38, 84, 86-87
backspacing 34, 56, 57 removing 84, 85
copying 58, 60,111 tables
extending 47, 52, 53 creating 84
highlighted 26, 31, 52 editing 84
moving 58, 60,111 inserting column 38-39, 86-87
pasting 111 removing column 85
quick method 33,46 word wraparound in 84
removing 33, 56,111 tabs 16
replacing 27-28, 57,111 bold 79
shortening 47, 53 decimal 24, 79,111,112-113
Set Page # command 90,125 dragging 24, 79
setting inserting 38-39, 86-87,113
alignment 16, 78,113 redistributing text 85
format 16-22, 77, 78,111-114 regular 24, 79,111,112-113
line spacing 16, 78,113 removing 25, 85,113
margins 16, 78,112 setting or clearing 79
page number 90,125 types 24,112
page size 102,110,118-119
printing specifications 102-103,118-119
tabs 16, 78,112
Shift key 14, 53
Shift-clicking 34, 46, 47, 52, 53
shifting a picture 69
shortening a selection 47, 53
Show Clipboard command 32,121
Show Footer command 88-89,124
Show Header command 88-89,124
U
Undo command 13-14, 22, 51, 65,122
untitled document 94,117
unwanted returns 34-35, 56
Utilities
see Finder
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with your Macintosh . When
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tucked inside the back cover
To make it easy to spot the title
when the book's on a shelf.
fold the flap inside the front
cover and set the book on the
shelf with the title visible .
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