Designing a party invitation

This chapter will explain how to:

Type in text
Make corrections to the text you have entered
Create bold and underlined text
Alter the layout of text
Save the document
Print the document

Starting PipeDream

This example shows how PipeDream can be used in a typical word-processing application. To enter PipeDream from the Index starting with a blank document, select PipeDream from the Index, and press the

key.

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Typing text

Type the following:

You are invited to a beano.

Notice that the cursor moves to the right as you type. The next character you type will always be typed at the position indicated by the cursor.

A short time after you stop typing, you will see the page map, on the right-hand side of the screen, change to show the new layout of text on your page.

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Deleting

Press the

key at the top right-hand side of the keyboard, until the word beano disappears.

backspaces the cursor over the text you have typed, removing it from the page.

Word wrap

Type the word party and then continue to type the paragraph shown below. If you make a mistake, use the

key to correct it.

When your typing reaches the right-hand margin, indicated by the symbol on the top border, just keep typing and PipeDream will automatically carry words over to the start of the next line.

You are invited to a party to celebrate the creation of my first document with the Cambridge Z88 computer. Champagne will be provided.

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Adding text

PipeDream starts in Insert mode, although you also have the option of working in another mode called Overtype mode. You can change modes with the Insert/Overtype command.

In Insert mode, text is always added at the position indicated by the cursor. You can add text simply by moving the cursor to the point where you want the text added, and then typing. The cursor is moved around on your document using the four arrow keys,

,

at the bottom right-hand side of the keyboard.

Position the cursor after the word champagne, on the second line of the text you have just entered, press the space bar, and add the phrase:

and smoked salmon

The original text will move apart to make room for the new text, and words will wrap around to the next line at the right-hand margin to ensure that the altered text is correctly formatted.

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Starting a new paragraph

After adding the new text press the

key.

moves the cursor to the beginning of the next line.

Press

twice more to leave a blank line and move the cursor down to row 5 on the page. Type the following:

Sunday 28th February at 12 o'clock.

You can use the

key to end paragraphs, insert blank lines, and separate items in a list.

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Columns

The page you are working on is divided into six columns, each 12 characters wide, shown by the rows of dots and the letters A to F on the top border of the screen. These provide the equivalent to tab positions on a typewriter.

With the cursor still on row 5, press the

key exactly five times. The cursor will move to the left-hand edge of each column in turn until it reaches the left-hand side of the column labelled 'F'. Notice that as the cursor moves into each blank slot, text overlapping the slot is hidden. Now type in the text:

RSVP

The text will be positioned near the right-hand side of the sheet, opposite the text already on row 5.

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You can move to the previous tab position by holding down the

key and pressing

Try doing this to move the cursor back into column A, at the left- hand side of the screen.

Replacing text

You can remove characters from the middle of a line by using the Delete Character command which you can give either using the EDIT menu, or by holding down the

key and pressing

Now you decide to change the day of the party to Saturday 28th February. Move the cursor across to the S of Sunday with the cursor keys. Then, hold down the

key and press

the S will be deleted. Keep pressing

until the word Sunday is removed. Then, type in the word Saturday to replace it.

Inserting a line

Now add a heading to the invitation. To do this, you first need to insert two blank lines at the top of the page.

Move the cursor up to the first line of your document, row 1, by pressing

.

Now give the Insert Row command. You can do this either using the EDIT menu, or by typing

N. A blank line will be added where the cursor was, and the remaining lines of the document will be moved down on the page.

Type

N again to give two blank lines at the top of the page. Then type in the following text:

A Once-in-a-lifetime Party