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Name        Address        Town        County   Postcode  Info
Bell, A     2 Ringway      Tring   Tring       Herts    TE1 2LM   24
Long, C     9 Knott Close  Farnham     Surrey   WAY 2G0   27
Rover, A    4 Chase Mews   Kenilworth  Warw.    K9 WUF    12
Bird, J     27 Wood Lane   Bath        Avon     CB1 L23   14
Hill, Max   10 10UpperUpper Street Steep       Hants    UP 21T    43

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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

Sort on column A

and press the 

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

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You can see how much space is available in a document at any time by typing O to display the Options Page. The number of characters of space available is given after the heading Free on the right-hand side of the Options Page display. Press ESC return Press 

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 return to your document.

In a large list of names and addresses, it would be very inconvenient to have to search around in the list for a particular name or address. Fortunately, there is a much faster way, using the automatic search facility built into PipeDream.

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To print out the information in your name and address list as an orderly table, select the Print option from the PRINT menu. Press the 

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key until the PRINT menu is displayed. Select Print using the cursor keys, and then press 
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 to  to give the command.

Since the total width of the table of names and addresses is 144 characters (six columns of 24 characters) it will probably be too wide to fit across the width of the paper on your printer; most printers will only print 80 characters. You will therefore need to print the table in two sections, by selecting a range of columns in each case.

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For example, to print out the names and addresses of all the people living in Hants or Surrey, give the Print command in the usual way by displaying the PRINT menu and then pressing pressing 

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 to  to give the Print command. Then move the cursor to the option

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