PC Answers 1995 March/PC Answers CD-ROM 5 (Future Publishing) (March 1995).iso/educ/author/pworks/help/minnie.hlp

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Overview

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Minnie is simple word processor with a
facility to insert words from word
banks on the screen directly into the
text. Up to four separate groups of
words or phrases, each identified with
a different colour, can be used at any
one time.

Word lists can be created by the user.

There is a selection of print fonts.
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Write

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Several changes to the writing screen
can be made. For example the screen
text can be large or small.
For further details use the Options
help.

Text can be entered either directly
through the use of the keys on the
keyboard or by 'clicking on a
highlighted word in the word bank.
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The following keys allow movement of
the cursor from the keyboard.

Left arrow      left one character
Right arrow     Right one character
Up arrow        Up one line
Down arrow      Down one line

Home            Start of line
End             End of line
PgUp            Up 14 lines
PgDn            Down 14 lines
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Ctrl Left arrow     Left one word
Ctrl right arrow    Right one word
Ctrl Home           Top left of text
Ctrl PgUp           Start of text
Ctrl PgDn           End of text

Clicking on the extreme bottom left of
the writing area acts in the same way
as the PgUp and PgDn keys: the left
button will move the text up 14 lines,
and the right button down 14 lines.
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Access
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Clicking on the key icon at the bottom
of the writing screen gives access to
an additional range of options.

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Save
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This saves the text. The current word
file is saved with it.

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Load
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This loads a text file alongside the
word file which it was saved with.

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Print
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This prints out the text in draft or
the chosen font. Draft must be set to
OFF if a graphic font is required.

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Clear
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This will clear the text area.

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Edit word file
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This allows alterations to the current
word file. It is not possible to save
any changes from this option. If the
changes are to be made permanent go
via the Main menu to Toolkit.
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Options

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Before using WRITE you may wish to set
up the writing screen.
Several features can be altered.


The writing mode can be in either
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Insert or Overwrite
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The screen text height may be either
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Large or Small
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Options - continued (p2)

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The function keys can be set to return
various characters from the keyboard.
There are six options:
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None     Borders
Maths    French
German   Spanish
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Draft print can be set to
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on or off
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NB Draft print needs to be set to off
before it is possible to print out in
any of the graphic fonts.
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Write - continued (p3)

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 The writing area can be either:-
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black text on a white background

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 or
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white text on a black background
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Word Files

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A Minnie word file can contain four
colour coded sets of words or phrases.
Each colour can have up to ten groups.
The group consists of five lines split
into four columns.

Colour sets may be linked together to
follow a given sequence. For instance,
it is possible that after a word from
the red set has been selected, a group
of words from the green set may be
displayed straight away.
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Creating word files
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To create a word set select
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Toolkit  and  Create a new word file.

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This takes you to a sub-menu which
allows the four different colour sets
to be created.

At the top of the screen is a
rectangular area for one group. By
clicking over an empty column a small
cursor appears. Type a word or phrase
in that position and Press Enter to
complete the entry.
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Create your word sets, choose your
colours for the group plus any
linkages.


Then return to the Toolkit menu.
From here you can save your work.
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File Management

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The File Management menu can be
accessed from the toolkit menu.
The File Management area allows you
to have a great deal of control over
where a program keeps its files,
where it looks for its files, and
allows files used by the program to
be shared between Primary WORKS
programs.

It also allows files to be deleted.

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It is important to become familiar
with the use of Pathnames before
delving into the file management area.

Pathnames provide a way of organising
files. A pathname represents a full
description of where a program is
'looking' for a file. Normally, the
program will look after this aspect of
file management. Primary WORKS has
been designed to allow the user a
great deal of control over where work
is kept and how group work may be
organised.
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Minnie has two types of files:
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Word files   Text files

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Both Word files and Text files are
kept in sub-directories of Minnie.
These are the default directories
which the program will always revert
to whenever it is first loaded.

The default Word file sub-directory is
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\PWORKS\MINNIE\WORDBANK\

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The default Text file sub-directory is
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\PWORKS\MINNIE\DOCUMENT\
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Minnie offers the facility to move
Word files and Text files to and
from other areas of the hard disk or
on to a floppy disk.


The key to moving files and to using
files you may have stored elsewhere,
is the Change path option.
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Once the Change path option has been
selected, Minnie wants to know which
path you wish to change.

There is a choice of two:

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Word files
Text files
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When one of these has been chosen, the
program will show you the present path
description in full.
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If you continue, a list of all the
possible places you might want to
change the pathname to, is given.

The current path will be indicated
by two large red arrow heads.

A change of path description will mean
resources in that area can be accessed.
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Once the pathname has been changed,
the program will carry out a little
housekeeping exercise. If it finds
any files in the new pathname that it
does not recognise, it will display a
message indicating as much and asking
if you require the detected files to
be included in the pathname file
directory.

When transferring or deleting files,
the new pathname will be used as the
source directory.
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Transfer
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Select the type of files you wish to
transfer; either Word or Text files.
The screen will indicate the directory
from which the files will be
transferred.
The files available for transfer will
be listed. The ALL icon will select
all the files on that screen. Once
the selection has been made click on
the icon at the bottom right.
As each file is transferred a prompt
will appear on the screen for
confirmation that it is to be
transferred.
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Delete
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Select the type of files you wish to
delete; either Word or Text files.
The screen will indicate the directory
from which the files will be deleted.
The files available for deleting will
be listed. The ALL icon will select
all the files on that screen. Once
the selection has been made click on
the icon at the bottom right.
As each files is deleted a prompt will
appear on the screen for confirmation
that it is to be deleted.
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Mouse

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Mouse sensitivity

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Selecting this option from the settings
menu allows the speed at which the
mouse moves across the screen to be
controlled.

Moving the mouse pointer over a number
and pressing a mouse button will make
a selection.  To choose a mouse
sensitivity that is comfortable, try
different numbers and move the mouse
across the screen.
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To return to the settings menu select:-

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Back to the setting menu

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The program will remember what mouse
sensitivity number was chosen, and
next time that Minnie is used, the
mouse sensitivity will be as it was
left in the previous session.

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Delete word from mouse
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When this is switched to ON pressing
the right mouse button will allow
whole words to be deleted.
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Printing

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Printer setup

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Printer

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This option allows you to change the
current printer driver. Select from
the list of available drivers, the
one that matches your printer.

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Orientation

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Select the orientation which you
require for the print out, either
landscape or portrait.

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Intensity

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Select the intensity of the print
out you require. Choose either full
or half.

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Print out size

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Print outs can be full size or half
size. The size selected is indicated
by the small picture to the left of
this option.
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Printer port

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Printing can be routed through one of
a number of ports at the rear of the
computer.

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LPT1 - for parallel printing

COM1 - for serial printing
from communications port 1

COM2 - for serial printing
from communications port 2
(if fitted to the computer)
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To start printing

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Printing can be started AT ANY TIME
from within the program by holding
downthe Ctrl key and then pressing
the letter P. The present screen will
then be sent to the printer.

Printing can be halted by pressing the
ESCAPE key at any time. If printing is
interrupted in this way there may be
some time to wait before printing
stops and control is returned to the
program.
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Text files can be printed by choosing
the print icon from the access bar
when using the Write option. The text
will be printed in the current font
unless the draft print option is set.
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