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Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: Creating, opening, and printing documents
- Starting AppleWorks
- Creating a document
- Saving a document
- Opening a document
- Finding documents
- Linking to other documents
- Saving document formatting as templates (stationery)
- Identifying your documents
- Protecting documents with passwords
- Importing and exporting documents
- Converting documents
- Closing a document and leaving AppleWorks
- Printing a document or Help topic
- Chapter 3: Basics
- Chapter 4: Text (word processing)
- When to use a word processing document
- Text basics
- Changing text appearance
- Changing paragraph formats
- Sorting paragraphs
- Outlining
- Creating tables
- Working with pages
- Dividing a document into sections
- Adding footnotes and endnotes
- Finding and changing text
- Using writing tools
- Adding pictures and frames to text
- Creating links in word processing documents
- Chapter 5: Drawing
- When to use a drawing
- Drawing basics
- Changing the appearance of objects
- Connecting objects
- Arranging objects
- Locking objects to prevent changes
- Creating a master page
- Adding pages to a draw document
- Creating custom colors, patterns, gradients, and textures
- Adding clip art
- Adding text, spreadsheet, or paint frames
- Creating links in draw documents
- Chapter 6: Painting
- Chapter 7: Spreadsheet
- When to use a spreadsheet
- Spreadsheet basics
- Modifying cell data
- Naming cells and ranges
- Changing cells, rows, and columns
- Adding and removing page breaks
- Changing the display
- Printing a spreadsheet document
- Working with formulas
- Cell references in formulas
- Working with functions
- Displaying data in charts (graphs)
- Adding pictures or a text frame
- Creating links in spreadsheet documents
- Chapter 8: Database
- When to use a database
- Database basics
- Example: Creating a simple database
- Designing a database
- Entering data in fields
- Duplicating, deleting, and moving records
- Moving through records
- Viewing records
- Playing movies in multimedia fields
- Working with rows and columns in List mode
- Selecting and hiding records
- Sorting records
- Finding information
- Working with layouts
- Changing the appearance of data
- Presenting and summarizing data with parts
- Creating reports
- Importing data from other documents
- Printing a database document
- Chapter 9: Beyond the basics
- Chapter 10: Communications
- Chapter 11: AppleWorks and the Internet
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Editing dictionaries
To edit words in your user or hyphenation dictionaries, choose Writing Tools
from the Edit menu, and then choose Edit User Dictionary or Edit Hyphenation
Dictionary. In the dialog box, you can edit dictionary entries, import dictionary
entries from a text file, or export the contents of a dictionary to a text file.
For more information, see onscreen Help.
Counting words
You can count words, paragraphs, and other text elements in any type of
document except communications. To count words, choose Writing Tools from
the Edit menu, and then choose Word Count. A dialog box appears that displays
the number of characters, words, lines, paragraphs, pages, and sections in the
current document.
Note If you select Count Selection in the Word Count dialog box, you get a word
count for the current selection only.
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Choose Index from the or Help menu and scroll to the entry. Then choose a topic from
the list and click Go To Topic.
In the Help index,* see:
E modifying dictionaries
E selecting dictionaries
Click to add the entry to
the dictionary
Click to remove an entry
selected in the scrolling list
from the dictionary
Click to expand or collapse
the dialog box
Type a new entry, or edit a
selected entry here
Click a button to import or export
dictionary entries
In the Help index,* see:
E counting words










