User manual LEXMARK IBM DISPLAYWRITER SYSTEM OPERATOR TRAINING BOOK

[. . . ] IBM Displaywriter System Operator Training Book 1 -- Basic Topics Textpack ­ 4 Contents. Topic 12: Changing Margins, Tabs, and Line Space for Parts of a Document. Topic 16: Working on Your Own with the Displaywriter. Topic 1: 1 Topic 1. The Displaywriter is a "word processor" -- a sort of supertypewriter. [. . . ] USING THE CURSOR MOVEMENT KEYS, POSITION THE CURSOR AT THE WORD IF, AT THE BEGINNING OF THE THIRD PARAGRAPH. If you make a mistake, use CODE + CANCL and start the deletion over. TYPE THE LAST WORD OF THE PARAGRAPH AND THE FINAL PERIOD: necessary. The entire paragraph is now highlighted. If you made a mistake, use CODE + CANCL and start the deletion over. PRESS ENTER. The paragraph disappears. When you type something in response to the deletion prompt, the Displaywriter deletes everything from the current cursor position through the first occurrence of whatever you typed. Topic 6: 2 DELETING BLANK LINES The Displaywriter stores blank lines as carrier return CHARACTERS. USE TO POSITION THE CURSOR AT THE BEGINNING OF THE SECOND LINE OF THE FIRST PARAGRAPH OF Smith Letter. PRESS CARRIER RETURN ONCE. You have inserted a blank line in the paragraph. USE TO POSITION THE CURSOR AT THE BEGINNING OF THE BLACK LINE -- ALL THE WAY AT THE LEFT. As you can see, a special highlighted carrier return character appears. This is the special character that was inserted when you originally pressed CARRIER RETURN. PRESS THE DEL KEY. WHEN THE DISPLAYWRITER PROMPTS YOU: Delete What?, PRESS ENTER. The blank line disappears. ON YOUR OWN You can use these techniques to insert and then delete underlined and centered material. When you are finished, END the Smith Letter document, and then print it out. Topic 7: 1 Topic 7. Displaywriter allows you to "cut and paste" pieces of your document as you revise it. If you turned off the power at the workstation between Topic 6 and Topic 7, turn it back on and re-insert the program diskettes. Note: MOVING TEXT Instead of deleting an entire paragraph, or even a sentence, a word, or a single character and then re-typing it, you can use the MOVE key to move the text from one place to another. DISPLAY THE DOCUMENT Promotions, WHICH IS STORED ON THE TRAIN DISKETTE. USING THE CURSOR KEY, POSITION THE CURSOR AT THE LEFT MARGIN ON THE FIRST LINE OF THE CIRCLED PIECE OF TEXT, AS SHOWN BELOW. Another special character -- the TAB -- becomes visible at the left margin. Topic 7: 2 PRESS THE MOVE KEY. The MOVE key is located to the right of the DEL key. The Displaywriter prompts you: Move what? USE THE AND KEYS TO MOVE THE CURSOR TO THE END OF THE CIRCLED PIECE OF TEXT. MOVE THE CURSOR THREE SPACES PAST THE FINAL PERIOD IN ORDER TO INCLUDE THE CARRIER RETURN SYMBOL (WHICH BECOMES VISIBLE ONLY WHEN THE CURSOR IS POSITIONED UNDER IT). The text to be moved is now highlighted. If you made a mistake, use CODE + CANCL and start the move again. PRESS ENTER. The Displaywriter prompts you: To where? POSITION THE CURSOR AT THE LEFT MARGIN ON THE FIRST LINE OF THE LAST PARAGRAPH. The special TAB character appears. PRESS ENTER. The highlighted paragraph is now moved. If you made a mistake, you can move things around some more in order to correct it. ON YOUR OWN Additional corrections are marked in red for the Promotions document. Using deletion, insertion, and replacement, try making these corrections. When you are finished END the document, and print it out on paper. Topic 8: 1 Topic 8. Displaywriter allows you to move the cursor around immediately, if you don't want to wait to move it space by space. If you turned off the power at the workstation between Topic 7 and Topic 8, turn it back on and re-insert the program diskettes. Note: DISPLAY ONE OF YOUR STORED DOCUMENTS (First Letter, Smith Letter, Winners, or Promotions). CODED CURSOR KEYS Topic 4 discussed the arrow cursor keys. If you hold down the CODE key, pressing the various cursor keys has a different meaning: CODE + immediately positions the cursor at the bottom of the page. [. . . ] Use this card to experiment with menu bypass. Topic 15: 1 Topic 15. As you type or revise a document, you may want to repeat sequences of keystrokes -- insertions, deletions, etc. If you turned off the power at the workstation between Topic 14 and Topic 15, turn it back on and re-insert the program diskettes. Note: KEY SAVE MODE DISPLAY THE DOCUMENT Volunteers, STORED ON TRAIN. Try using MENU BYPASS to do this. WHILE HOLDING DOWN CODE, PRESS THE KEY SAVE KEY. KEY SAVE is on the same key as KEY PLAYBACK. (Check the keyboard diagram in the vinyl pocket in the back of this book. ) The Displaywriter responds: When finished saving keys, press the KEY SAVE key again. PRESS FIND. The Displaywriter prompts you: Find what? PRESS TAB SIX TIMES, THEN PRESS ENTER. The cursor has moved to the first tab character on the date line. [. . . ]