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- THIS OUTLINE SHOWS HOW THE MENUS WORK. THERE ARE
- SEVERAL WAYS TO USE THE MENUS. THEY ARE AS FOLLOWS:
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- 1. PRESS THE INS KEY. This will start the FILE menu. You can make a
- choice in the FILE menu several ways:
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- a) You can point to the option you want in the FILE menu with the up and
- down arrow keys and then press return.
- b) You can press the first letter of the option you want and it will
- immediately be selected.
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- To use menus other than the FILE menu, press the left and right arrow
- keys after the INS key to point to a different menu. This is also a
- good way to familiarize yourself with all the different menu choices
- available.
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- It is good to remember that YOU CAN ALWAYS PRESS THE ESC KEY TO
- CANCEL WHAT YOU WERE CURRENTLY DOING. If you were in a menu, then
- pressing the ESC key will cancel that menu.
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- 2. PRESS THE "/" KEY FOLLOWED BY THE FIRST LETTER OF THE MENU YOU WANT.
- For example, to enter the PRINT menu, you would press "/P". This
- saves having to press a number of arrow keys after INS to get over to
- the PRINT menu. For those of you who are used to 1-2-3, this method
- works very similar to 1-2-3. To use the "/" key itself in typing,
- just press it twice in a row.
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- 3. PRESS THE ALT KEY AND THE FIRST LETTER OF THE MENU YOU WANT. For
- example, to enter the PRINT menu, press ALT-P, to enter the DISPLAY
- menu, press ALT-D.
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- 4. PRESS THE APPROPRIATE SHORTCUT KEYSTROKE AND BYPASS THE MENUS
- ENTIRELY. Alongside many menu options is listed a single keystroke.
- For example, in the EDIT menu, the first option FIND STRING lists
- (^F). This means that you can press ^F (control-F) to immediately
- execute the FIND STRING option without using the menus at all.
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- This is mostly for advanced users who wish to speed up the operation
- of PC-OUTLINE. You will notice that every menu option does not have
- a shortcut keystroke listed. This is because there are only so many
- shortcut keystroke combinations. If you want some menu options to
- have shortcut keystrokes that don't already have them, or you want to
- change some of the existing shortcut ones, you can define your own
- shortcut keystrokes with the KEY DEFINITION facility in the ADVANCED
- menu. There is more about this option in the printed manual.