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This chapter will show how you can use the Cambridge Z88 Diary application to organise your engagements, and plan your time. It demonstrates how to:
- Enter engagements into the Diary
- Search for and list out all engagements relating a particular thing
- Use the Diary with the Calendar popdown to find any date very quickly
Entering the Diary
Before using the Diary, make sure you have set the correct time and date on the Clock popdown, as described in Section One.
You can enter the Diary in either of two equivalent ways, whichever you find most convenient:
Either: go into the Index, by pressing the
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Or: type D. You can do this from anywhere, even another application.
Once you have made entries in the Diary, it will appear on the list of SUSPENDED ACTIVITIES in the Index, but there can only be one copy of the Diary.
Type CT to go to today's date, and the Diary screen display similar to the diagram shown below will appear:
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All commands can be typed directly from the keyboard, as well as chosen from the appropriate menu. The keyboard equivalent for each command is shown to the right of the command name in the menu. For example, the Replicate command on the BLOCKS menu appears as
Replicate 
BRE
This means that you can give the Replicate command by typing the key key followed by the keys
B R E. Note that the letters do not need to be in capitals:
b r e has the same effect. Also, you can hold down the key key while typing the letter keys if you prefer.
When, as in this example, the command equivalent is a sequence of two or three letters, the first letter will usually be the first letter of the menu name. For frequently-used commands, the key equivalent is a single letter with the key key (in a very few cases the
key). For example, the Mark Block command on the BLOCKS menu has the equivalent Z.
Note that in the following screen diagrams the highlighting bar has been omitted for clarity.
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Many of the options have only two possible alternatives: Yes and No. You can change the value shown either by typing Y or N as appropriate, or by using the Next Option command, J, which alternates between the available values. In the case of options which take specific values, such as Page Length, Next Option restores the default value.
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You identify which block of slots you want to operate on by giving the Mark Block command at the top left-hand corner and bottom right-hand corner of the block. After giving the two Mark Block commands, all the selected slots in the block will be shown highlighted on the screen.
Mark Block - 
Z
Marks a single slot, or the top left-hand corner and bottom right-hand corner of a rectangular block of slots, to identify the slots to be operated on by subsequent block commands.
Clear Marks - Q
Clears any marked block previously set up with the Mark Block command.
Replicating slots
Replicate - BRE
Reproduces the contents of a slot, or block of slots, in any part of the document. The following options are displayed:
Range to copy fromRange to copy to
Each range is a block of slots identified by specifying the coordinates of its top left-hand corner and bottom right-hand corner. If necessary, extra rows and/or columns are created in the document to accommodate the new slots.
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Copy, Move, and Delete
Copy - BC
Copies a marked block of slots to the position in the document indicated by the cursor. Slots in the document will be moved apart to make space for the block being copied, in contrast with the Replicate command which overwrites the target area.
Slot references in the new block are updated as for the Replicate command, but references to slots within the block are not altered.
Move - BM
Moves a marked block of slots from its original position to the position indicated by the cursor. All slot references are updated as appropriate.
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Delete - BD
Deletes a marked block of slots from the document. Since you will lose the information previously in those slots, it is a good idea to save a copy of your document before deleting a large area, so that you can revert to this if you accidentally delete valuable information.
Sorting
Sort - BSO
Sorts a marked block of slots. Text slots are sorted into alphabetical order, expression slots into numeric order, and date slots into date order. The following options are displayed:
Sort on columnSort in reverse order NoDon't update references No
Sort on column: set to a column label (A, B, C etc) to specify which column within the marked block should be used to determine the ordering of the slots.
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Don't update references: setting this option to Yes inhibits the updating of slot references within the block being sorted. This gives a faster sort operation, and can be used provided no slots within the sorted block are referred to either from within or from outside the sorted block.
Searching and replacing
Search - BSE
Search is for a specified string within a single document, or a multi-file document. The following options are available:
String to search forSearch only range of columns NoEquate upper and lower case YesSearch only marked block NoSearch from current file NoSearch all files in list No
The string to be searched for is specified in the same way as for the Replace command, and the equivalent options have the same effect; see below.
When the search is completed, a message such as
27 found
will be displayed where 27 is the number of matches since the last Search command.
Next Match - BNM
Following a Search command, the Next match command can be used to find the next occurrence of the specified string starting at the current cursor position.
Replace - BRP
Searches for and replaces occurrences of one specified string by another. The following options are displayed:
String to search forReplace withSearch only range of columns NoEquate upper and lower case YesAsk for confirmation YesSearch only marked block NoSearch all files in list No
By default, the Replace command replaces all occurrences of the first specified string with the second specified string throughout the current document, equating upper- and lower-case letters and prompting for confirmation before each replacement. For example
String to search for CatReplace with Dog
will replace Cat with Dog, cat with dog, and CAT with DOG.
On each occurrence of the search string, the prompt
Replace: N, Y?
will be displayed at the top of the screen. Answer Y to perform the replacement, N to proceed to the next occurrence of the search string, or press the ESC key to cancel the command. When the command is completed, the message
27 found
(or as appropriate) will be displayed to show the total number of replacements that have been made.
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Certain special sequences of characters can be used in the search string to represent characters which cannot be typed at the keyboard, or classes of search string:
| Sequence | Matches |
| ^1..^8 ^^ ^? ^# ^S ^Rref ^R# space ^B | Highlight character ^ |
| ^? | A single character – not space |
| ^# | Any number of non-space characters (ie a word) |
| ^S | A space |
| ^Rref | Slot reference ref |
| ^R# | Any slot reference |
| space | One or more spaces, or across slots |
| ^B | Beginning of a slot (or line) |
Replace with: specifies the string to replace each occurrence of the search string. The following special sequences of characters can be used:
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