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     GETTING STARTED WITH T.I.WRITER, Part II
     

     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^by Jack Sughrue
     

          

          Creating a document with the Text Editor of the
     TI-WRITER Word Processor is made easier with the Word
     Wrap feature that automatically moves words that exceed
     the right margin down to a new, automatically inserted
     blank line.  This means you do not have to press a key
     at the end of each line as you would if you were using
     a typewriter.  With Word Wrap, you simply type, and the
     Text Editor keeps your margins for you.  Now, you don't
     have to keep looking back and forth from your text to
     the screen to see if you are running over the right
     margin.  You can immediately see the benefits of having
     Word Wrap once you have used it.  Letter writing is
     made easy.  Your school age children can use TI-WRITER
     Word Processor to prepare reports and themes for school
     work.  A thousand uses will become apparent to you as
     you learn what the TI-WRITER Word Processor Word
     Processor can do for YOU! 

         Create, save, and print your documents
     with the Text Editor, or insert format commands into
     your document and print it using the powerful Text
     Formatter.  With the Text Formatter, such operations as
     overstriking and underlining, and right margin
     justification are made available, as well as setting
     margins and paragraph indentation, inserting blank
     lines, centering, and automatically numbering pages
     consecutively.  The most powerful FORMATting tools,
     as far as I'm concerned, are the IF command and the
     Transliteration Key.  But for our purposes of this
     second part of the intro to the processor we'll leave
     that area of exploration up to you.  (Maybe discovering
     a wordpro freak in your user group might be the ideal
     thing once you have some of the self-discovery under
     your belt.)

 
                     The TI-WRITER Word Processor Word
     Processor has many of the features of the larger word
     processors and lots of features many of them do not
     have.  At school, for example, we use Apples,
     Commodores, Timex/Sinclairs, and TIs.  TIW is,
     unquestionably, the most profound of all the word
     processors I've used with all these computers over the
     past five or six years.

     

     

          What kinds of documents can you create with the
     Text EDITor without FORMATting? Using the Word Wrap
     Mode, you can create reports, themes, theses, recopy
     recipes and print copies for your relatives and
     friends.  In short, any type of document in paragraph
     form can be created using Word Wrap. Suppose your
     document needs a diagram, or a chart or table.  Those
     too can be created using the Fixed Mode of the Text
     Editor.  In Fixed Mode, the Word Wrap feature is not
     activated so that inserting and deleting text will not
     cause Reformat to "readjust" the rest of your
     document!

          

     Included in the TI-WRITER Word Processor Manual are
     special tutorial sections on using the Text Editor and
     the Text Formatter.  These two sections take you step
     by step through the creation, editing, and printing of
     a document, insertion of format commands and printing
     through the Text Formatter.  The Manual also takes each
     option and fully explains the operations, functions,
     and commands for using that option.  At the end of the
     manual is a Quick Reference section that lists the
     Function and Control Key Combinations, the Command Mode
     Commands, and Text Formatter Commands, as well as a
     Glossary section and an Index.

              

     

     

     If all this sounds confusing, it isn't for one simple
     reason: you only do one thing at a time.  When you are
     typing, you type.  When you correct mistakes, you
     correct (mostly by using your arrows to direct your
     cursor over the mistake and make the corrections or by
     using your 1, 2, 3 keys to DELete a CHARacter; INSert a
     CHARacter (which may be paragraphs long - pressing
     CTRL/R will REFORMAT after you have INS CHAR; and
     DELete LINE) easily and directly.  When you do the
     other commands (see Quick Reference Card and the Strip
     above the numbers), you will do the other commands.
     And they are done instantly!
     

     TI's own upgrade of the disk and the numerous versions
     which are available (consult your user group) are
     really worth examining.  The newer versions (such as
     FUNLWRITER/FUNLPLUS!, TK WRITER, and BA WRITER) give
     you some remarkable 
additional to this remarkable
     word processor.

     

     Patience!

     

     And on that note of patience, just a little comment.
     I've heard lots of comments about the TI WRITER and
     its grandchildren.  Among those comments are often
     questions about 
How do you do this? or 
How do you do
     that? to processes which are very basic.  Inevitably,
     I will ask, 
Did you read the manual, yet?  The answer
     is ALWAYS negative.  My suggestion again is to play
     with and experiment with the processor.  Print out
     things.  Use the strip and reference card to try things
     out.  After you are able to use the processor in a
     reasonable way in the EDIT Mode, then start the manual
     and, with your processor on in front of you, go step by
     step through the entire book, even if it takes you two
     or three months.  (It took me six weeks to get through
     it all.)  After that initiation, you'll own your
     processor.  For life.

     

     [Jack Sughrue, Box 459, E.Douglas, MA 01516]

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