Re: Special chars in Appleworks GS

[David.Empson@bbs.actrix.gen.nz]

In article <1993Feb13.012046.11972@vpnet.chi.il.us> vagrant@vpnet.chi.il.us (Guy Umbright) writes:
> 
> OK...I give up!   For example, I want to type a 'bullet' character in
> Appleworks GS.  Pointless says it is Option-"8".  I type option-"8" and
> I get an "8" not the bullet character that I want.  I assume it is
> possible to get the special characters (seeing as how half the font is
> cluttered with them).  Go ahead and call me stupid and flame me if you 
> must, just tell me how to get the special characters into my document.

If you're running System 6, open the 'General' Control Panel.  At the
bottom is an pop-up menu called 'Translation'.  This should be set to
'Standard' (rather than 'None').  This will enable the option-key
combinations.  I think it has its own control panel under System 5.0.4.

> And another thing, in the word processor, what is the function of the
> left-most button? (the one with rectangles on either end of a few lines)
> and the round tab-thingy?  Someone gave me disks (right after I bought
> a pirate copy from someone, aarrrg) but they had lost their copy of the 
> doc...so I am without.

Contact Claris.  If you can prove that you own the software (have the
master disks), they might be nice enough to sell you a replacement manual.

The leftmost icon in the ruler is used to group lines together so that
they don't cross a page break.  It is called the 'paragraph locking'
icon.

The 'round' tab is a decimal tab (numbers will line up on the decimal
point).
-- 
David Empson

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