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- HOW THE MENUS WORK.
-
- THERE ARE SEVERAL WAYS TO USE THE MENUS. THEY ARE AS FOLLOWS:
-
-
- 1. PRESS THE INS KEY. This will start the FILE menu. You can make
- a choice in the FILE menu several ways:
-
- 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.
-
- 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.
-
- 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.
-
- 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.
-
- 3. PRESS THE ALT KEY AND THE FIRST LETTER OF THE MENU YOU WANT.
- For example, to enter the PRINT menu, press ALT-P; Or, to enter
- the DISPLAY menu, press ALT-D.
-
- 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 (Ctrl-F) to
- immediately execute the FIND STRING option without using the
- menus at all.
-
- 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
- shortcuts, 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.
-
- 5. Try these methods now, and remember, if you get stuck press Esc.