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Finally press the
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key key to return to the document.
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Press the
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key until 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
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to to select it. In reply to the prompt
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and press
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to 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
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keykey, 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 typing
W.
Continue until you have set each of the columns A to F to a width of 24 characters. Notice that when you press the
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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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Type the following headings, pressing the
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key key between each heading to move the cursor to the beginning of the next column.
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keykey, 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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key key to move the cursor to row 2.
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Bell , A
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key when you have finished typing the name to move the cursor across to the address column, column B. Type in the address, remembering to press the
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Enter the other names and addresses given below on lines 3, 4, 5, and 6 of your document in exactly the same way. Of course, if you prefer, you can compile your own list. If part of an address is too long to fit within one column, just keep typing; although you will not be able to see all the information in that column, it will be retained and you will be able to refer to it later.
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Name Address Town County Postcode Info
Bell, A 2 Ringway TringTring 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
Saving the document
Since by now you may have spent some time entering information into your document, it is a good idea to save a copy to the Cambridge Z88 filing system in case you accidentally lose the information during the next experiments. You save a copy of the document by using the same procedure as the one used for the party invitation.
Select the Save command by pressing the
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key a number of times until the
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key to highlight
Save. Then press
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to give the
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Type addresses as the name of file to save, ignoring the other options since you want to save the whole document, and press
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. A copy of the document will now be saved to the filing system.
Sorting the information
Now that you have entered a table of names and addresses, it would be useful to have them sorted into alphabetical order so that you can look up a particular name more easily.
First you need to specify which part of your document you want to sort. Move the cursor to slot A2, the top left-hand comer of the table of names and addresses, using theandkeys to move up and down the document and the
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commands to move across the document between columns to the left and right.
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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 the
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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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key until the
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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
Sort on column A
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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You could, of course, have sorted the information on a different heading by specifying another column, rather than column A, when you gave the Sort command. For example, you may like to experiment with sorting the same names and addresses on the Town column, or on the column containing the peoples' ages.
Finding information
You could have entered many more names and addresses than the few you have already stored without running out of space in the document.
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 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.
Select the Search command from the BLOCKS menu in the usual way: display the BLOCKS menu with the
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keykey, and use the cursor keys to highlight
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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.
Incidentally, if the name you chose to search for found someone else with the same name first, you could use the Next Match command on the BLOCKS Menu to move on and find the next item that contained the same name.
Help with searching
It is a peculiarity of the way we remember information that we can often only remember part of what we are trying to recall. For example, we may know that the person we are trying to find lives in a town called something like Caxton - or perhaps it was Croxton? Or then again, perhaps it was Foxton. The PipeDream Search command has two facilities which help in just this type of situation.
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and you would be sure to find it.
Printing information
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
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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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Print only range of columns Yes A C
Then press the
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key to start printing. Once this is finished, give the
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Alternatively, some printers will print up to 132 characters across; in this case you may be able to fit the whole table onto a single sheet of paper by first reducing the width of some of the columns using the Width command on the LAYOUT menu.
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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 give the
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