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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
Database 8-9
Radio Buttons Choose among options
Check Box Select or deselect the field
Serial Number Have AppleWorks assign a unique,
sequential number to the field in each
record
Value List Choose from a scrolling list of preset
values, or enter a different value
Multimedia Display a picture, movie, or library object.
A picture in a multimedia field is stored
with the database document. A movie in a
multimedia field is a reference to a movie
file, which is stored separate from the
database document.
Record Info Display the time and date that the record
was created or modified, or the name of
the creator or modifier
Calculation Produce the result of a formula that
calculates values from the current record
in the database. For more information, see
“Defining calculation and summary
fields” on page 8-11.
Summary Produce the result of a formula that
summarizes values from one or more
records in the database. The field appears
only in the summary part of a layout. For
more information, see “Creating a layout”
on page 8-30.
Use this
field type To
Example
(in Browse mode)