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The Cambridge Z88 applications, and some popdowns, use menus to show you what operations are available at any stage, and to give you a simple way of choosing the one you want from among them. In keeping with the philosophy of the Cambridge Z88, menus free you from having to remember cryptic sequences of commands to be typed from the keyboard, and allow you to do what you want as quickly as possible.

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For example, the menus in PipeDream are given under the heading PIPEDREAM. Each title refers to one type of operation you can perform with PipeDream. For example, the first menu, the BLOCKS menu, contains operations you can perform on a block of text.

Pressing the  HighlightlightgreylightgreyclasskeyMENUthe Image Added key will display this menu, and BLOCKS will be highlighted in bold letters on the Menu List. To look at a menu further down the list, press the  HighlightlightgreylightgreyclasskeyMENUkey the Image Added key until you reach it. If you go past the menu you want, keep pressing the  HighlightlightgreylightgreyclasskeyMENUkey the Image Added key until it circles back around to the top of the list.

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For example, to select the FILES menu, you need to press the  HighlightlightgreylightgreyclasskeyMENUkey the Image Added key three more times. You can always check which menu is displayed by the title in bold on the Menu List.

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To perform the highlighted operation, simply press the  HighlightlightgreylightgreyclasskeyENTERkeythe Image Added key.

For example, on the BLOCKS menu example shown above, press the  HighlightlightgreylightgreyclasskeyENTERthe Image Added key to perform the Mark Block operation.

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Many operations give you a list of options before actually carrying out the command. The Save command, on the FILES menu, is an example; press  to highlight the Save command. When you press the  HighlightlightgreylightgreyclasskeyENTERkey the Image Added key you will see the following prompts:

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Name of file to save           Myfile 

and press the  HighlightlightgreylightgreyclasskeyENTERthe Image Added key to carry out the Save.

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If you decide against performing an operation from the menu, press the  HighlightlightgreylightgreyclasskeyESCthe Image Added key and the menu will disappear from the screen.

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