A window is a part of the screen that displays a part of a document. When you invoke the Word Processor, the screen normally shows one window.
However, the screen can be divided into more than one window, so that you can view another part of the same document or a different document.
Up to seven windows can be on the screen at one
Multiple windows are especially useful for comparing text and for edit operations involving copying or moving text from one part of a document to another.
Since you can have more than one window on the same document, you can minimize the need to scroll back and forth from one point to another by working with multiple windows on the screen.
One advantage to this procedure is that one window can be used to search for something while the other can remain at the point where you are entering or editing text.
CREATING MULTIPLE WINDOWS ON DIFFERENT DOCUMENTS You can create a new window to display an additional document by giving the Open Document command. (The Open Document command appears as an option on the Documents menu, and you can also give i t by pressing CODE-a). When you open a second document, a new document status line appears, indicating the document name, the page number shown on the display, and the line number where you have your cursor positioned. The original window shrinks to allow space for the new one.
Figure 6-1 shows primary windows, document.
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CREATING MULTIPLE WINDOWS ON THE SAME DOCUMENT To create multiple windows on the same document, use the Divide Window command (CODE-D). Di vide Window divides the window where you have your cursor positioned exactly in half, horizontally.
The new window is called a secondary window.
Secondary windows are separated from the primary window and from each other, if there is more than one, by an index tab, a shortened version of the document status line: The index tab displays the page number of the window below i t and the number of the line in which the cursor is positioned.
You can see an index tab in Figure 6-2, where a second window has been opened on the second document.
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If you have multiple windows on a document and you make a change to i t through one of the windows, you can see that change through any other window by displaying the changed part of the document.
CLOSING A WINDOW
All windows are closed in the same way, using the Close Window command (CODE-C).
(Remember that although you have closed the windows on a document so that it is no longer shown on the screen at all, the changes you have made are not transferred to the disk until you give the Save command (CODE-S) or the Finish command.)
MOVING THE CURSOR FROM ONE WINDOW TO ANOTHER
You can use the cursor control keys to move the cursor around a multiple-window screen in the same way as in a single-window screen.
CODE-up arrow and CODE-down arrow move the cursor to the border of the current window ( the window where the cursor is positioned.)
If the cursor is already on the border (index tab or document status line), when you press CODE-up arrow or CODE-down arrow, the cursor is moved to the border of the next window.
EXPANDING A WINDOW
When the cursor is positioned on a document status line or index tab, SCROLL UP and SCROLL DOWN change the size of a window by expanding it upward or downward. The window expands by "borrowing"
lines from adjoining windows. The expansion occurs only in the window containing the cursor.
However, the window below or above the expanded window grows smaller, depending on whether the expansion is downward or upward.
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Copy frequently from one place to another known character string
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Use the Go to Page Command (CODE-f6).
Use SHIFT-right arrow or SHIFT-left arrow.
Open Multiple windows.
(Divide Window (CODE-D) or Open Document
(CODE-O) • )
Open multiple windows on the document(s) and use Go to Last Edit
(CODE-f6) to move back quickly.
Move cursor to void space below paragraph, then start typing.
7 EDITING TEXT
Once you have entered some or all of your text, you will usually want to alter and edit i t to improve wording and punctuation.
The Word Processor offers several sophisticated commands that make this process easier. The com-mands are described briefly here and in detail in Section 18, "Commands and Options. II Formatting, which is often a part of editing, is discussed in Section 8, "Structuring Document Format."
Insertion of text and overtype are discussed in Section 3, "Creating a Document. II
THE VISIBLE COMMAND
The Visible command (CODE-V) is used to make formatting symbols, such as those that indicate spaces, paragraphs, line breaks, and tabs, visible on the screen. Pressing CODE-V once puts the screen in half-visible mode, and pressing i t again shows you full-visible mode.
Using visible mode is
"Getting Started, II and and Options."
discussed in Section 2, in Section 18, II Commands If you you work with the screen in half- or full-visible mode when editing, you can see formatting more easily.
REARRANGING TEXT
Editing frequently involves rearranging text. The Move command (MOVE) is used for this function.
Move removes text from its original position and places i t elsewhere. Examples of editing opera-tions where you might want to use Move include o moving a misplaced character within a word to
its proper position
o moving larger blocks of text, such as a para-graph, from one place in a document to another
To use the Move command, you must make a selection. You can select text first, then move the cursor to the place where you want the text and press MOVE: or you can press MOVE first, and then make your selection.
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