Apple Productivity Software AppleWorks 5 User's Manual Works User\'s Manual: For Mac OS Appleworks5Mac User

2005-03-20

• Contents
• Chapter 1: Introduction
  • Registration and customer support
  • How to start
  • Using Help and the User’s Manual together
  • Using AppleWorks Help
    • Opening and closing AppleWorks Help
    • Using the Help window
    • Using the AppleWorks onscreen Help index
    • Learning more about onscreen Help
  • Getting additional help
  • Working with AppleWorks
  • What’s a document?
  • Document types
    • Text (word processing) documents
    • Draw documents
    • Paint documents
    • Spreadsheet documents
    • Database documents
    • Communications documents
  • Where to go from here
• Chapter 2: Creating, opening, and printing documents
  • Starting AppleWorks
  • Creating a document
    • Creating a blank document
    • Using an Assistant
    • Using stationery
  • Saving a document
  • Opening a document
  • Finding documents
  • Linking to other documents
  • Saving document formatting as templates (stationery)
    • Setting up regular stationery
    • Setting up default stationery
    • Creating stationery
    • Opening 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
  • Working with windows
    • Viewing windows
    • Arranging windows
    • Going to a page
  • Using the tool panel
  • Using the button bar
    • Switching button bars
    • Showing, hiding, and positioning the button bar
    • Customizing the button bar
    • Adding and removing buttons
    • Creating your own button bar
  • Using palettes
  • Working with frames
  • Working in an AppleWorks document
    • Cutting, copying, and pasting
    • Copying objects using the drag and drop feature
    • Changing your mind
    • Previewing pages for printing
    • Using rulers
    • Creating headers and footers
    • Adding a date or time
    • Numbering pages
    • Setting margins
    • Changing the page orientation and size
  • Using libraries
    • Creating, opening, and saving libraries
    • Working with the library palette
    • Duplicating, deleting, and moving library items
    • Viewing library items
  • Setting preferences
• Chapter 4: Text (word processing)
  • When to use a word processing document
  • Text basics
    • Creating a word processing document or frame
    • About the word processing window
    • Working with text frames
    • Typing text
    • Typing equations
    • Selecting text
    • Cutting, copying, and pasting text
    • Showing formatting characters
  • Changing text appearance
  • Changing paragraph formats
    • Setting and changing tabs
    • Indenting paragraphs
    • Adding bullets, numbers, and checkboxes to paragraphs
    • Aligning paragraph text
    • Changing line and paragraph spacing
    • Copying text ruler settings
  • Sorting paragraphs
  • Outlining
    • Creating an outline
    • Modifying and removing outline labels
    • Rearranging outline topics
    • Collapsing and expanding outline topics
    • Modifying an outline style
  • Creating tables
  • Working with pages
    • Creating a title page
    • Creating and changing columns
    • Breaking a page or column
    • Scrolling pages
  • Dividing a document into sections
    • Inserting and deleting a section
    • Formatting sections
    • Varying the number of columns on a page
    • Numbering sections
  • Adding footnotes and endnotes
  • Finding and changing text
    • Finding special characters
  • Using writing tools
    • Checking your spelling
    • Hyphenating words
    • Finding synonyms
    • Changing dictionaries
    • Editing dictionaries
    • Counting words
  • Adding pictures and frames to text
    • Wrapping text around pictures
  • Creating links in word processing documents
• Chapter 5: Drawing
  • When to use a drawing
  • Drawing basics
    • Creating a drawing
    • About the draw window
    • What are objects?
    • Using the drawing tools
    • Selecting and deselecting objects
    • Using the graphics ruler and grids
    • Moving objects
    • Duplicating, copying, and deleting objects
  • Changing the appearance of objects
    • Changing lines, borders, colors, patterns, and textures
    • Copying an object’s attributes
    • Resizing objects
    • Reshaping and smoothing 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
  • When to use a painting
  • Painting basics
    • Creating a painting 
    • About the paint window
    • Working with paint frames
  • Working with images
    • Using the painting tools
    • Setting lines, colors, patterns, and textures
    • Overlapping colors and patterns
    • Selecting and moving images
    • Deleting, copying, and duplicating images
    • Magnifying an image
  • Transforming a selection
    • Reshaping a selection
    • Resizing or turning a selection
    • Coloring and tinting images
  • Combining images
  • Adding text and spreadsheets
  • Adding clip art
  • Customizing resolution and depth
  • Working with large files
  • Changing the size of a painting
  • Creating a preview of a paint document
  • Creating links in paint documents
• Chapter 7: Spreadsheet
  • When to use a spreadsheet
  • Spreadsheet basics
    • Creating a spreadsheet
    • About the spreadsheet window
    • Working with spreadsheet frames
    • Typing in a spreadsheet
    • Selecting cells and ranges
  • Modifying cell data
    • Editing data
    • Moving data
    • Copying and deleting data
    • Filling a range of cells
    • Formatting cell data
    • Sorting cell data
    • Locking cell data
  • Naming cells and ranges
    • Assigning names to cells
    • Editing and deleting names
    • Using named cells in formulas
    • Replacing cell references with named cells
    • Example 1: Using cell names in a formula
    • Example 2: Replacing named cells with cell references
  • Changing cells, rows, and columns
    • Resizing or hiding rows and columns
    • Inserting and deleting cells, rows, and columns
    • Changing the number of rows and columns
    • Adding borders, colors, and patterns to cells
    • Locking row and column titles
  • Adding and removing page breaks
  • Changing the display
  • Printing a spreadsheet document
  • Working with formulas
    • Understanding formulas
  • Cell references in formulas
    • Entering formulas
    • Calculating formula results
    • Making corrections
    • Examples: Entering formulas
  • Working with functions
    • Entering functions
    • Example: Using the AVERAGE function
  • Displaying data in charts (graphs)
    • Making charts
    • Changing chart options
    • Deleting, copying, or moving a chart
    • Enhancing a chart’s appearance
  • Adding pictures or a text frame
  • Creating links in spreadsheet documents
• Chapter 8: Database
  • When to use a database
  • Database basics
    • What’s a database?
    • Using Browse, List, Find, and Layout modes
    • Creating a database document
  • Example: Creating a simple database
    • Part 1: Start a new database document
    • Part 2: Define two fields
    • Part 3: Enter two values into the fields
    • Part 4: Make new records
    • Part 5: Finish entering data in the new records
    • Part 6: Close the database
  • Designing a database
    • Defining database fields
    • Adding fields to an existing database
    • Assigning field types
    • Checking or entering data automatically
    • Defining calculation and summary fields
    • Adding, changing, and deleting fields
  • Entering data in fields
    • Adding records
    • Changing the tab order
  • Duplicating, deleting, and moving records
  • Moving through records
  • Viewing records
  • Playing movies in multimedia fields
  • Working with rows and columns in List mode
    • Selecting rows and columns
    • Resizing rows and columns
    • Moving columns and formatting data
  • Selecting and hiding records
  • Sorting records
  • Finding information
    • Finding text
    • Finding records with a find request
    • Saving a find request (named search)
    • Matching records
  • Working with layouts
    • Understanding layouts
    • Creating a layout
    • Editing a layout
    • Deleting, duplicating, and renaming a layout
  • Changing the appearance of data
  • Presenting and summarizing data with parts
    • Copying summary data
    • Resizing and deleting parts
  • Creating reports
  • Importing data from other documents
  • Printing a database document
    • Printing labels
    • Closing up space when you print
• Chapter 9: Beyond the basics
  • Creating links
    • Creating book marks
    • Creating document links
    • Editing links
    • Deleting links
    • Going to a specific link
    • Sorting links
  • Using styles
    • About the stylesheet palette
    • Styles in documents and frames
    • Applying a style
    • Creating a style
    • Turning off a style
    • Example: Applying and creating styles
    • Editing styles
    • Copying, pasting, and deleting styles and properties
    • Importing and exporting styles
  • Creating a slide presentation
    • Creating slides
    • Setting up slides
    • Reordering slides
    • Showing the slides using one computer
    • Showing slides remotely over a network
  • Merging data into documents (mail merge)
    • Setting up the database
    • Preparing the merge document
    • Printing the merge documents
    • Merging a FileMaker Pro database
  • Addressing envelopes
    • Using the Envelope Assistant
    • Setting up and creating envelope stationery
    • Addressing envelopes
  • Linking frames
  • Working with movies
    • Adding a movie to a document
    • Setting movie options
    • Playing a movie
    • Editing a movie
  • Creating and editing custom buttons
  • Using macros
  • Using AppleScript with AppleWorks
• Chapter 10: Communications
  • When to use a communications document
  • Communications basics
    • What you need
    • Communications terms and concepts
    • Creating a communications document
    • About the communications window
  • Connecting to another computer
    • Connecting to another computer with a modem
    • Connecting to another computer without a modem
    • Receiving a call from another computer
  • Working with data during a session
    • Using the scrollback pane
    • Capturing incoming data
    • Saving and printing communications documents
    • Copying and pasting a table
    • Sending a file to a remote location
  • Simplifying communications tasks
  • Changing communications settings
• Chapter 11: AppleWorks and the Internet
  • About the Internet and the Web
  • About browsers
    • Selecting a browser
    • Connecting to the Web
  • Creating a Web page
    • Designing your Web page
    • Creating an HTML file
    • Adding pictures
    • Linking Web pages
    • Saving a document in HTML format
    • Opening and editing HTML files
  • Working with electronic mail
• Index