WORDSTAR CP/WT EDITION Release 4 Ill COPYRIGHT 1979,1987 MICROPRO INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION* MeraPra. 33 SAN PABLO AVENUE • SAN RAFAEL, CALIFORNIA 94903 • USA 4019 Copyright Notice Copyright 1979, 1987 by MicroPro International Corporation. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be copied or distributed, transmitted, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, or translated into any human or computer language, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, magnetic, manual, or otherwise, or disclosed to third parties without the express written permission of MicroPro International Corporation, 33 San Pablo Avenue, San Rafael, California 94903 U.S.A. Trademarks MicroPro, MicroPro International Corporation, Starlndex, and WordStar are registered trademarks of MicroPro International Corporation. CP/M is a registered trademark of Digital Research Inc. The WORD Plus is a registered trademark of Software Heaven/Oasis Systems. ZCPR3 is a trademark of Richard L Conn. Table of Contents Starting Welcome xi Starting WordStar xix A Few Important Notes xx First, Copy Your Disks xiii Special Installation Options Installing WordStar xiv for Your Two Floppy Starting WINSTALL xv Disk Computer xxi Learning Learning WordStar 1 Saving Your File-Backup Files 26 If You're New to Computers 4 Lessons Formatting Your Training Guide g Document 29 Lesson 1 Learning the Basics 11 Starting Up 30 The Onscreen Format Menu 30 Getting Ready 11 Centering Text 31 Starting WordStar 13 The Ruler Line 31 The Opening Menu 13 Clearing Tab Stops 32 Getting Onscreen Help 15 Setting Tab Stops with Creating a File 15 Menu Commands 32 Typing Text 16 Typing the Column Headings Saving a File 17 and Text 33 Printing 18 Setting Margins 34 Reviewing the Basics 18 Dot Commands 34 Setting Margins with Lesson 2 Editing 19 Dot Commands 35 Changing Justified Text to Opening a File 20 Ragged Right 36 The Editing Screen 20 Printing the Itinerary 37 Moving Around in Your Document 21 Lesson 4 Working with Erasing and Inserting 23 Blocks of Text 39 Using Unerase 25 Correcting with Overtype 25 Starting Up 40 Erasing with the Del and The Block & Save Menu 40 Backspace Keys 26 Marking a Block 41 Aligning Paragraphs 26 Moving a Block 41 Table of Contents Turning Block Display Off 42 What's Next? 58 Column Mode 42 Block Math 43 Lesson? More Features 61 Saving or Abandoning a Document 43 Changing the Help Level 62 More Quick Commands 63 Lessons Finding Words 45 Shorthand (Keyboard Macros) 65 Column Blocks 71 The Finding Commands 46 Using the Calculator 73 The Quick Menu 46 Finding a Word 46 Lesson 8 Advanced Formatting75 Finding the Next Occurrence 47 Finding and Replacing 47 More Onscreen Format Automatic Replacing 48 Commands 75 Footers and Headers 77 Lessons Printing 51 The Ruler Line 78 Automatic Indentation 80 Starting Up 52 Printing and Interrupting Lesson 9 Chain Printing and Printing 52 Nested Printing 83 Reopening DIARY.DOC 52 The Print Controls Menu 53 What You'll Need 84 Boldfacing Text 53 Chaining Files 84 Deleting a Print Control Symbol 54 Nesting Files 87 Underlining Text 54 Review 90 Turning Display On and Off 55 Inserting Page Breaks 55 Lesson 10 Merge Printing 91 Omitting Page Numbers 56 Resetting Page Offset 56 Creating a Mailing List 92 Saving the Document 57 Creating a Master Document 95 Taking Advantage of Merge Printing 102 Print Options 57 Creating Different Comparing Printouts 58 Versions of a Form Letter 107 Reference Reference Guide 117 A Accent marks 117 Alternate type 118 Aligning a paragraph 117 ASCII 119 Alpha lock 118 Auto indent 119 iv Table of Contents B D Backspace key 120 Data files 145 Backup files 120 Decimal tabs 147 Bidirectional printing 121 Defaults 147 Binding space 121 Delays 148 Blank lines 121 Delete key 148 Block & Save Menu 122 Deleting text 149 Block math 123 Directory 150 Blocks 123 Documents and Boldface 126 nondocuments 151 Dot commands 152 Double strike 160 E c Editing 160 Calculator 127 Edit Menu 161 Canceling a command 129 Embedded ruler 162 Caps Lock key 129 Enter key 162 Carriage return 129 Erasing 162 Case conversion 129 Error messages 163 Centering text 129 Exiting 163 Chaining files 130 Character count 130 Character width 130 F Clearing the screen 131 Files 163 Color 131 File operations 164 Column blocks 132 Finding and replacing 165 Columns 134 Finding your place 168 Command files 135 Flag column 169 Comment lines 137 Footers and headers 170 Control key 137 Formatting 172 Copying 138 Form feeds 173 Creating a document Form letters 173 or nondocument 139 Function keys 174 Cursor 139 Cursor diamond 139 Cursor keys 140 H Cursor movement and Headers 174 scrolling 141 Help levels 174 Customizing WordStar 143 Help messages 175 Custom print controls 143 Hyphenation 176 Table of Contents I N Incremental printers 177 Naming a file 213 Indenting 177 Near letter quality printing 213 Indexing 178 Nesting and chaining 213 Inserting 181 Nondocuments 215 Installing WordStar 182 Italics 182 o J On/off commands 215 Justification 183 Onscreen Format Menu 215 Opening a file 216 Opening Menu 217 K Overprinting 217 Keyboard 183 L P Layout 185 Page breaks 218 Linefeeds 186 Page length 219 Line height 186 Page numbers 220 Line spacing 187 Paragraph margins 221 Logged drive and user number 187 Pause printing 221 Phantom space and rubout 222 Pitch 222 M Place markers 223 Margins 188 Previewing 224 Markers 191 Print Controls Menu 224 Math 191 Printer drivers 225 Maximum document size 191 Printing a file 227 Memory usage 191 Printing multiple copies 229 Menus 192 Printing to disk 229 Merge printing 192 Print options 231 Merge printing conditional Prompts 232 commands 200 Proportional spacing 232 Merge printing variable Protecting a file 233 formatting 207 Merge printing variable number formatting 209 Messages while printing 211 Q Microjustification 212 Quick Menu 234 VI Table of Contents T Reforming a paragraph 236 Tab key 251 Renaming a file 236 Tab stops 251 Repeating 236 Table of contents 252 Replacing 236 Temporary files 253 Return key 237 Temporary indenting 254 Ruler lines 237 Toggles 254 Running a program 239 TurboDOS 255 u Underlining 255 Undo and unerase 255 s User numbers 257 Saving a file 240 Scrolling 241 V Shift key 242 Variables 257 Shorthand 242 Soft spaces and carriage returns 245 w Starting WordStar 246 Word wrap 258 Status line 247 Storing a file 249 Strikeout 249 z Subscript and superscript 250 ZCPR 259 Appendices A Error Messages 263 E Making the Best Use of B WordStar Examples User Numbers 327 and Tips 281 F ASCII Character Codes 331 C Customizing WordStar 305 G Command Summary 333 D Files on Your WordStar Disks 323 VII Table of Contents The WORD Plus Introducing the WORD Plus 365 ANAGRAM 394 The spelling dilemma 367 WORD COUNT 395 Spelling checking (a guide Homonym help 396 for first time use) 369 The dictionary 398 SPELL 376 Custom dictionaries 400 USING SPELL 379 DICTSORT 400 MARKFIX 383 WORDFREQ 404 HYPHEN 386 Advanced options 406 LOOKUP 389 Quick reference guide 408 FIND 391 Error messages 410 Index 413 VIII STARTING Welcome Welcome to WordStar, the most respected name in word processing. If you're new to word processing, you're about to be introduced to a whole new world of word technology. If you're new to WordStar, you'll be amazed at the speed and versatility of this program. And if you're a WordStar user who's upgrading, you'll love the new features. This section of the book contains all the information you need to install WordStar on your computer. Installation instructions begin on page xiv. For WordStar Users Who Are Upgrading If you don't want to go through the step-by-step installation instructions, just copy your original disks, then run WINSTALL Be advised though that WINSTALL has been changed. Keep these important points in mind: • WordStar comes with two installation programs, WINSTALL and WSCHANGE. WINSTALL provides for a basic installation of WordStar. WSCHANGE, a more detailed installation program, includes all of the WINSTALL options but also allows for extensive customization of WordStar. XI Welcome This version of WordStar comes with an extensive patching program, WSCHANGE. Any patches you made to previous releases of WordStar won't work with Release 4. See Appendix C, "Customizing WordStar." For hard disk users, WordStar is set up to look for its files in User 0 (zero) on the A drive. If you copy WordStar into a different drive and/or user number, you need to change the default drive and file search user number with either WINSTALL or WSCHANGE. Also, it's important to remove the following files from previous versions of WordStar to avoid confusion with the new WordStar files. Keep a copy of these files on floppy disks. WS.COM WSMSGS.OVR WSU.COM WSOVLY1.OVR WS.INS SPELSTAR.OVR MAILMRGE.OVR WINSTALLCOM To get the most out of WordStar on a two floppy disk computer, you might want to refer to the section on special program disk configurations. (See pp. xxi.) This version of WordStar has many new features and requires more disk space and more memory. For two floppy disk systems, you can boot with your WordStar program disk by putting system tracks on your copy of that disk. Be sure to read What's New for new features and changes in WordStar. XII Welcome First, Copy Your Disks Before you install WordStar you need to copy your WordStar disks. Follow the instructions for your type of computer. IF YOU HAVE A TWO FLOPPY DISK COMPUTER You'll need Your CP/M Boot/Utilities disk The disks in your WordStar package The extra set of disk labels in your WordStar package Four blank formatted disks Follow these steps to copy your disks.