5
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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Opening a document
When you open a document, it looks like it did when you last saved it. For
information about opening and using stationery, see “Saving document
formatting as templates (stationery)” on page 2-12.
Note To open a document using drag and drop, click the document icon and
drag it on top of the AppleWorks program icon.
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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.
To Do this
Open an AppleWorks document
from within AppleWorks
Click on the Default button bar or choose Open from the
File menu, choose the document, and then click Open. If
you’re asked for a password, type the password, and then
click OK. (For more information about passwords, see
“Protecting documents with passwords” on page 2-17.)
Open an AppleWorks document
from the Finder software
Double-click the document icon. AppleWorks starts up (if
it’s not already running) and opens the document. If you’re
asked for a password, type the password, and then click OK.
(For more information about passwords, see “Protecting
documents with passwords” on page 2-17.)
Open a document created by
AppleWorks for Windows 95
Choose Open from the File menu, choose the document,
and then click Open. If you’re asked for a password, type
the password, and then click OK.
If you don’t see the document, cancel the Open File dialog
box, choose Control Panels from the 4 menu, and then
choose PC Exchange. (PC Exchange is a Control Panels
extension included with Macintosh System 7.5 and
available for System 7 and higher from Apple Computer,
Inc.). Click On, and then click Add. For DOS Suffix, type
.CWK, select AppleWorks in the list of applications, and
then click OK. Repeat for DOS suffix .CWS.
For more information about PC Exchange and formatting
disks so they can be read by both Mac OS and PC
computers, see the documentation that comes with your
computer.
In the Help index,* see:
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