This guide is about EasiWriter professional, a powerful yet easy to use Word processor for the Acorn Computer.
It introduces the concepts behind EasiWriter. It is written as a series of short exercises and is designed to get you using EasiWriter effectively in the minimum amount of time.
A complete printed manual is available from Icon Technology Limited for £10.00 plus £2.00 Post & Packing.
Throughout this guide where you are asked to carry out a single action, or a series of actions that are not in any particular order, a bullet list is used.
Where a sequence of actions should be carried out in order, a numbered list is used.
Lists of information that don't require an action are shown with a bullet.
Where you are required to type text it is shown like this:
Text (which you should type).
Mouse buttons and keys are shown in italic - Select, Home.
Menu commands are shown in bold - Select, Save.
Where 'click' is used on its own it means click Select.
Copyright © Icon Technology Limited 1998.
Neither the whole or part of the information contained in, or the product described in this Guide may be adapted or reproduced in any material form except with the prior written approval of Icon Technology Limited.
The products described in this Guide are subject to continuous development and improvement. All information of a technical nature and particulars of the products and their use (including the information and particulars in this manual) are given by Icon Technology Limited in good faith. However, Icon Technology cannot accept any liability for any loss or damage arising from the use of any information or particulars in this manual.
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ACORN, ARCHIMEDES, ECONET are trademarks of Acorn Computers Limited, 1st Word plus is a trademark of GST Holdings plc., LaserWriter is a trademark of Apple Computer Inc. ImageFS2 is copyright Alternative Publishing, Word is copyright Microsoft Corporation.
PostScript is a trademark of Adobe Systems Inc.
This guide was written and typeset on an Acorn Risc PC 600 using EasiWriter Professional version 5 and then saved by EasiWriter as an HTML document.
The project used in the first six sections of the tutorial was written by Barry Smith, author of 'Fieldwork - First hand' which he wrote under the name of Peter Glynn. The illustrations are by Quentin Drew.
The text used in exercise eight was written by Douglas Adams and is an abridged version of a letter that first appeared in the tutorial for MacAuthor.
EasiWriter was written by Keith Lander, Bob Pollard and Keith McAlpine. This guide was written by Mike Glover.
Published December 1998 by Icon Technology Ltd.
EasiWriter was developed in association with Acorn Computers Ltd.