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Finally press the 

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key to return to the document.

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Press the 

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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 

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to select it. In reply to the prompt

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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 

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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 the 

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

Notice that when you type the word Town and press the 

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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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. Press the 

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key to move the cursor to row 2.

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Press the 

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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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key between each item:

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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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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to give the Save command.

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.

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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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and 

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SHIFT

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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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. 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 select the command.

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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 

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return to your document.

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

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

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to give the Search command.

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Then press 

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

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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 give the command.

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Then press the 

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key to start printing. Once this is finished, give the Print command again, this time specifying the option as

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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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Printing selected rows

If you were going to use the name and address list for a business mail shot, you might want to compile a selective list containing only the names and addresses of people living in one particular area. The PipeDream Print command caters for this by allowing you to specify a test to be performed on each row of the document. Only those rows for which the test succeeds will be printed.

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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 

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

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