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WordSmith Manual 2.2
W o rdSmith Man ual
© Handmark, Inc. 2002 © Blue Nomad LLC, 2002
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Introduction Thank you for choosing WordSmith! WordSmith is the most revolutionary, intuitive and full-featured word processor, doc viewer and enhanced memo pad available for the Palm organizer. WordSmith synchronizes and integrates seamlessly with Microsoft Word so that your desktop documents can easily be transferred to your organizer and vice a versa with little or no change in formatting! In keeping with the application’s simple and extremely user-friendly interface, this manual strives
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Table of Contents INTRODUCTION ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... I FEATURES AND REQUIREMENTS........................................................................................................................................................................ 3 NEW FEATURES IN W
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Memo Record Menu............................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 32 Memo Edit Menu .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 32 Memo O
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Chapter 1 Features and Requirements New Features in WordSmith 2.2 • Support for Palm OS 5 implemented. WordSmith for OS 5 is actually 3k smaller than before! • New High Resolution application icons for FineType and WordSmith for Palm OS 5 devices. • Extend Selection: Allows you to select large blocks of text easily. Similar to using shift-arrow keys on keyboard. Just place cursor where you want to begin selection, and then go to the Options menu/Extend Selection and place cursor where
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New Features in WordSmith 2.1 • Virtual File System (VFS) Support. This enables users of the Palm m500/m505, Sony Clie, Handspring Treo 90 and Handera 330 to read and write to and from the Secure Digital (SD) card, MultiMediaCard (MMC) card or Sony Memory Stick®. You can also compress documents on the expansion card. • Spell Checker. The spell checker is integrated with WordSmith and comes with 2 dictionaries, large and small. The Spell Checker was developed by DDH Software, Inc.
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• Ability to preserve page setup (such as paper sizes, page orientation and margins), default language and tables. • Greatly enhanced find/replace feature is significantly faster and includes a new search progress meter, replace all option and the ability to cancel search and replace all operations. • Improved support for the onscreen keyboard, enables users to view rich text in the onscreen keyboard’s window and scroll through the whole document without ever closing the window. • True t
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• Fast compression of documents during HotSyncs and on demand. • Auto-scrolling, pen scrolling and special teleprompter style scrolling for easy viewing of documents. • Ability to synchronize documents to multiple computers! • Word count and Font styles, sizes and color – preserved and adjustable on the organizer! Even supports background colors, superscript, subscript and strikethrough. • Special “go to” feature lets you go to a character, paragraph or certain % of the document! Let
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Chapter 2 Getting Started Installing WordSmith Once you have installed WordSmith, you should have a WordSmith icon on your desktop (if that is where you saved it), WordSmith added as a menu in Microsoft Word (to the right of the Help menu but only if you are using Word 97 or better and is not supported with Windows XP ) and a WordSmith and FineType Manager application on your organizer. If you have trouble installing the application or have forgotten your registration code, please visi
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Really Getting Started… Now that you have successfully installed WordSmith, let’s start editing docs and memos and reading (or “viewing,” as they say). This section steps you through: • How to create a new document in WordSmith • How to sync a new document to your desktop • How to sync a Word document or RTF file to WordSmith • How to open and edit a document in WordSmith • How to sync a revised document to your desktop • How to use the enhanced WordSmith Memo • How to view document
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WordSmith or in WordSmith Preferences (accessible on your desktop – please see Chapter 3 for more information on the desktop application). You can open the document by doing any of the following: • Open WordSmith on your desktop, select the document and double-click on it. • Open Microsoft Word and then click on the File menu and choose Open. Select the directory that your document was saved in earlier (e.g., My Documents, if you are using the default set-up for Windows or the WordSmith
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Action and Backup Copies for important information regarding synchronization of documents on your organizer with your desktop computer. Open and Edit the Document in WordSmith To open and edit the synced document on your organizer, follow these steps: Step 1 Tap on the WordSmith icon on your organizer to launch the application. Step 2 Tap on the Doc Title Tab in the upper left hand corner (if it is not already highlighted) and tap on the name of the synced document to open it. Step 3 E
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Step 2 Tap on the Memo Title Tab in the upper left hand corner (“Memo” should now be highlighted). Step 3 Tap on the New button in the lower left hand corner to create a new memo or select from an existing memo to revise or view it. Step 4 Edit your memo by using Graffiti, the onscreen keyboard or an external keyboard, such as the Palm Portable or Stowaway keyboard. Step 5 To close and save the memo, tap on the Done button in the lower left hand corner. Step 6 Sync it to the desktop
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fuller text) or Heavy (sharper text) depending on your preference. Please note: if you are using high resolution FineType fonts, you will not be able to view color fonts and backgrounds (other than the highlight color) on your device. Step 3 Open a document or memo (or create a new one) in Edit mode, open the Format menu and select Font…or tap on the font selector in the lower right toolbar in an open document. Step 4 From within the Font Selector dialog box; use the pull-down menu n
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Superscript Bold, Underline, Italics, , , Subscript Strikethrough, Color Fonts & Color Backgrounds To add rich text to your memos and docs, simply follow these steps: Step 1 Launch WordSmith and select a doc or memo to edit. Step 2 You can enter new rich text or select* old text to be formatted. To turn bold, underline or italics** on, you can tap on the B, U or I buttons in the Toolbar. Newly entered text will be in that style and selected text will change to that style. Tap on the
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Cmd L, Cmd R, Cmd E and Cmd H) and keyboard shortcuts (e.g., Ctrl+l, Ctrl+r, Ctrl+e and Ctrl+p). Please note that although you can select Full justification in a doc, it will not display on your organizer (only on your desktop when the doc is synced). * Please see Cut, Copy & Paste above for instructions on how to select text. How To Do Other Really Cool Stuff The following are a few examples of cool features that may not be readily apparent: FineType is our new font technology that
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the location. To access this option, open the File menu and select Go To Previous or tap on when viewing a document. Pop-Up Menus In addition to WordSmith’s many pull-down menus, WordSmith has some very handy pop-up menus for stylus users. For example, if you are viewing a list of your docs, you can access a pop- up menu that lists the following: Edit, Beam, Delete, Duplicate, Rename, Category, Print and Details (a slightly different pop-up menu will appear for memos). You can access
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Chapter Synchronization and 3 Conversion Introduction WordSmith’s synchronization technology is based upon the same technology that has made BackupBuddy & InstallBuddy such popular and easy to use products (available from www.bluenomad.com). WordSmith comes with a Windows and Macintosh conduit that allows you to synchronize your Microsoft Word documents and other RTF documents to your organizer, edit them and then send the revised document back to your desktop with little or no loss
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Please note that since WordSmith works directly with RTF files, you don’t actually need Microsoft Word to use it. You can use any RTF editor on your computer, including WordPad, WordPerfect, etc. Simply save your document as an RTF file and add it to the WordSmith desktop application per the instructions below. WordSmith Desktop The WordSmith desktop application is very similar in form to your organizer’s default installation tool. In addition, the Windows and Macintosh versions are
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User Select your Palm username by using the arrow to the right of the User name box. Document Name Clicking on the document name will cause its properties to appear in the Document Properties box (described below, Windows only) and will select the document. Double-clicking on the document name will open the document on your desktop. Lastly, if you right click on the document name, you will see a menu that gives you the following options: Open, Move, Remove, Print, Open Original*, Open
