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 +====== Your Friendly Amstrad - Word Processing on the Amstrad PCW 8256 & PCW 8512 ======
  
 +===== File =====
 +
 +
 +{{:libros:presentacion:Your_Friendly_Amstrad_p1.JPG?340|}} {{:libros:presentacion:Your_Friendly_Amstrad_p2.JPG?340|}} 
 +^ Editorial | [[..:compañias:pandor_house|Pandor House Publications]]       |
 +^ Dimensions | Width: 14,90 cm x High: 21,10 cm x Width: 0,80 cm                               |
 +^ Year |1990                               |
 +^ Author |Daphne Macara                                |
 +^ Pages |96                               |
 +^ ISBN-10|1-871248-00-0  |
 +^ ISBN-13|978-1871248005                              |
 +^ Language | English                            |
 +^ Price | England: £9,95                            |
 +^ State | [[preserved|Preserved]] |
 +
 +===== Description =====
 +
 +Another new book dedicated to the prestigious LocoScript word processor for the PCW 8256 and PCW 8512 range. It perfectly details how to create perfect letters, reports, articles, emails, invoices and labels without having to spend hours trying to figure out how to do them.
 +
 +It informs, among others, the correction of writing errors or spelling errors; establish new margins and tabs, the justification if we prefer from a margin to the right, move paragraphs or pages from one place to another. Printing pica, elite or double size, with single or double line spacing, page numbering automatically. How to show the name of our company or the title of a book or report on each page after the first page. Renumber or renumber paragraphs that have already been written or indent them. Hiding files so that no one else can see them using your machine, as well as recovering lost files from Limbo.
 +
 +A very technical book that helps both the professional and the inexperienced in the use of LocoScript. Recommended for initiation to LocoScript and its many utilities.
 +
 +===== Images =====
 +
 +This book is a metal ringed type with soft colored cardboard covers and inner sheets of fine white paper and black and white printing.
 +
 +{{:libros:portadas:Your_Friendly_Amstrad_cover.jpg?900 }} 
 +
 +===== Content =====
 +
 +<file>
 +
 +                     FINDING YOUR WAY AROUND LOCOSCRIPT
 +
 +Your Friendly Amstrad
 +
 +Drives
 +Discs
 +
 +First Things First
 +Starting Up 
 +
 +Keyboard
 +
 +Alternative Keyboards
 +
 +Commands Keys
 +
 +Working with LocoScript
 +The Changing Screen
 +
 +Highlighted Headers and the f keys
 +
 +Copying Discs
 +
 +Formatting Discs
 +Verifying Discs
 +
 +Hints : Tips : Wrinkles
 +
 +
 +                     MAKING A TEMPLATE
 +
 +Template STD 
 +Show Menu
 +Line Spacing
 +Special Character
 +
 +Editing the Header
 +
 +Headers and Footers
 +Tabs
 +Page Breaks
 +
 +Page Numbering
 +
 +Different First Page Wanted
 +Different Last Page Wanted
 +Different Odd and Even Pages
 +
 +Paper Margins
 +Different Margins
 +
 +Changing Paper Size
 +Changing Length of Page
 +
 +Labels
 +Database : Mailing List
 +
 +Forms
 +
 +Newsletters
 +
 +
 +                     CREATING OR EDITING DOCUMENTS
 +
 +Creating a Document
 +WYSIWYG
 +
 +Editing a Document
 +
 +Cut and Paste
 +Copy and Paste
 +Multiple Copies Wanted
 +
 +Emphasis
 +Pitch
 +Subscript and Superscript
 +
 +Hyphens and Spaces
 +Verticals
 +Horizontals
 +Keep
 +
 +Tabulation
 +Indent a Paragraph
 +
 +Blocks
 +
 +Phrases
 +
 +Sub-Layouts
 +Tables
 +
 +Scrolling
 +Edit Options
 +
 +Exit Options
 +Line Pitch
 +Printing Options
 +
 +
 +                     PAPER AND PRINTING
 +
 +Printing
 +
 +Paper Weights
 +Changing Quality of Print
 +Screen Dump
 +Continuous Paper Sizes
 +
 +Continuous Stationery 
 +
 +Direct Printing 
 +
 +Printing Labels
 +
 +More Words per Page
 +Printing Envelopes 
 +Rolls of Labels
 +
 +Letterheads
 +
 +Hints : Tips : Wrinkles
 +
 +
 +                     ORGANISING YOUR DISCS
 +
 +Managing Your Filing System
 +Naming or Renaming a Document 
 +
 +Find
 +Exchange
 +Checking Page Numbers
 +Copy
 +
 +Move
 +
 +Limbo
 +Hidden Files
 +Identifying Documents
 +
 +Inserting Text
 +Mail-Merging 
 +
 +ASCII
 +
 +PCW 8512
 +
 +Hints : Tips : Wrinkles 
 +
 +
 +                     CONTENTS OF LOCOSCRIPT ONE COURSE
 +
 +Summaries of Sessions One to Twelve
 +The Y Syndrome
 +
 +       SESSION
 +
 +1. Creating a Document
 +2. Moving blocks of type from one page to another
 +3. Changing margins, Tabs, Pitch, Line Spacing
 +4. Indenting paragraphs and adding para numbers
 +5. Setting up standard Phrases
 +6. Exchanging names, dates or prices
 +7. Identifying documents from Disc Management
 +8. Keeping old files in Limbo and retrieving them
 +9. Inserting numbers and headings on every page
 +10. Merging names and addresses with standard Letters
 +11. Copying files to another disc via Drive M
 +12. Printing
 +
 +Additional Programes & PCW Publications
 +
 +
 +                     H E L P
 +
 +DISC FULL
 +FILE DOES NOT EXISTS
 +
 +DIRECTORY FULL
 +NOT A LOCOSCRIPT DOCUMENT
 +Can't Move
 +Words Vanish
 +
 +Words are Spaced Out
 +UNEXPECTED END OF FILE
 +Can't Get Brand New Layout
 +Using Tabs and Everything Comes Apart
 +
 +Drafts are Printing Out in High Quality
 +Running Out of Ks
 +INVALID GROUP NAME
 +INVALID FILE NAME
 +DISC IS UNSUITABLE FOR DRIVE
 +Page Ends Suddenly
 +
 +Switched On, Put Disc in Drive, Computer Bleeps
 +Screen Won't Light Up
 +Text Slides off Screen to Left
 +PRINTER IS ACTIVE
 +You Have Spilled Your Drink on the Keyboard
 +
 +Can't Para
 +Can't Remember the Phrases
 +Can't Paste a Phrase in
 +Can't Complete a Line
 +Pages Wrongly Numbered in Printout
 +ADDRESS MARK MISSING
 +DRIVE IS NOT READY
 +
 +Line Breaks in Two
 +Setting Tabs - Computer Bleeps
 +Printing Won't Start
 +Reformatting
 +Moving a Table - Everything Comes Apart
 +
 +Everything on the Screen is Underlined
 +Everything in Print-out is Underlined
 +Can't Centre Accurately
 +Decimal Tab Isn't Functioning
 +Program won't load
 +
 +Can't Get Out of Italics
 +Can't Get Out of Bold
 +Can't Get Out of Capitals
 +Can't Get Out of Numerals
 +Text on Screen Goes Haywire
 +Haven't Got a Disc
 +
 +DISC SECTOR NOT FOUND
 +Editing Whilst Printing a Long Document
 +EDIT CANNOT FINISH
 +DISC DATA ERROR
 +
 +Can't Finish a Letter
 +Splitting a Long Document
 +You've Spelled a Name Wrong
 +
 +Lock Up
 +
 +</file>
 +
 +===== Presentation =====
 +
 +{{:libros:portadas:Your_Friendly_Amstrad_box_1.JPG?450|}} {{:libros:portadas:Your_Friendly_Amstrad_box_2.JPG?450|}}
 +
 +===== Downloads =====
 +
 +  * {{libros:descargas:Your_Friendly_Amstrad.pdf|Your Friendly Amstrad Book}}
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