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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
Basics 3-11
To use drag and drop to copy items between documents and applications:
1 Select text, objects, images, or spreadsheet cells and then drag them to
another AppleWorks document, or to another application that supports
drag and drop.
1 Select text or spreadsheet cells and drag them to the desktop. You see a
text clipping (a file you can drag to another document or application).
1 Select draw objects or paint images and drag them to the desktop. You see
a picture clipping (a file you can drag to another document or
application).
1 Select text, objects, images, or spreadsheet cells and drag the selection
from another document or application to an AppleWorks document.
1 Drag a text or picture clipping from the desktop to an AppleWorks
document.
Changing your mind
If you make a mistake or change your mind while you’re working in
AppleWorks, you can undo the latest change or go back to the last saved
version of your document.
To Do this
Undo your most recent action Click on the Default button bar, or choose Undo from
the Edit menu.
Remove all the changes you’ve
made since you last saved the
document
Choose Revert from the File menu.