Starting appleworks, Creating a document – Apple AppleWorks 5 : Windows 95/NT 4.0 User Manual

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Chapter 2: Creating, opening, and printing documents

This chapter provides basic information about using AppleWorks that in
general applies to all document types. These topics are covered:

1

starting and stopping AppleWorks

1

creating and saving documents

1

printing documents

For information on working with windows, pages, libraries, and buttons, see
chapter 3, “Basics.” For information unique to a particular type of document
or frame, see the appropriate chapter in this User’s Manual.

All features, including procedures and shortcuts, are described completely in
onscreen Help. See “Using AppleWorks Help” on page 1-3 if you are not
familiar with onscreen Help or how this User’s Manual and Help work
together.

Starting AppleWorks

To start AppleWorks, click the Start menu and choose Programs. Then choose
AppleWorks from the AppleWorks 5 menu.

If you’re new to AppleWorks or unfamiliar with the new features in
AppleWorks, run the onscreen tour. You can run the tour at any time by
choosing Introduction to AppleWorks from the Help menu in the AppleWorks
window.

Creating a document

To create a document, you can:

1

start with a blank document

1

use the AppleWorks Assistants, which help you create specific
documents to meet your home and office needs

1

open custom templates, called stationery

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Choose Index from the Help menu and type the first few letters of the entry. Double-click the
entry and then double-click a topic.

In the Help index,

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see:

E

Help, finding

In the Help index,

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see:

E

documents, creating

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