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Move the cursor down to the wrap option by pressinguntil the cursor is opposite the word Wrap. Then type N to change the option value from Y (Yes) to N (No) to stop wrapping altogether:

Finally press the ESC key

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 key to return to the document.

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When you start a new sheet in PipeDream you are given six columns, each 12 characters wide. Although you can enter lines of text much wider than this in each column, it will make working with the name and address information simpler if, at this point, you make each of the columns in the document wider. You do this with the Width command in the LAYOUT menu.

Press the MENU key until

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 key until the LAYOUT menu is displayed. The Width command may already be highlighted as it is the first item on the menu; otherwise use the cursor keys to highlight it. Then press ENTER to press 

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 to select it. In reply to the prompt

New width

type

24

and press 

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 to carry out the change. (You can ignore the other prompt - Specify column.)

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Now move the cursor into column B by pressing the TAB keythe 

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 key, and repeat the procedure to set the width of column B to 24 also. You can, if you wish, select the Width command directly without going through the LAYOUT menu, by typingW.

Continue until you have set each of the columns A to F to a width of 24 characters. Notice that when you press thethe 

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key  key to get from column C to column D, the document moves to the left on the screen so that columns D and E come into view without the cursor position changing.

Then move the cursor back to the left-hand side of column A by typing  

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TAB

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Type the following headings, pressing thethe 

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TAB

key  key between each heading to move the cursor to the beginning of the next column.

Notice that when you type the word Town and press thethe 

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key key, the document scrolls to the left so that the column headed 'D' comes clearly into view:

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Move the cursor back to the left-hand side of column A by typing  

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TAB

. Press the 

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key  key to move the cursor to row 2.

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Select the Save command by pressing the 

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key a number of times until the FILES menu is displayed. Press the  key to highlight Save. Then press 

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ENTER

to give the Save command.

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Now mark the bottom right-hand corner of the table of names and addresses. Move the cursor down to row 6 and across to column F with the   key and thethe 

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command. Then give the Mark Block command again. When you have completed the second Mark Block command, the entire table of names and addresses will be selected and shown highlighted on the screen. 

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Move back to the left-hand side of the sheet with  

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TAB

. To sort the block of slots, use the Sort command from the BLOCKS menu. Press the 

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key until the BLOCKS menu is displayed. Then press the  key until the Sort command is highlighted on the menu, and press 

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to  to select the command.

We wish to sort the names and addresses into alphabetical order of the names, which are in column A, so type A to the prompt

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and press the 

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key  key to perform the sort. (You can ignore the other prompts for the moment.

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Select the Search command from the BLOCKS menu in the usual way: display the BLOCKS menu with thethe 

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key key, and use the cursor keys to highlight Search; then presspress 

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to  to give the Search command.

The Search command displays a number of options which allow you to specify exactly what you want to search for, and whether you want to restrict the search to a particular part of your table of information. For example, you might want to search for the address of someone whose surname you had forgotten, but whose Christian name you knew to be Max. You would then enter Max against the first option:

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Then press 

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to  to begin the search. The cursor will instantly find the name Hill, Max, allowing you to read off his address.

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