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HINTS& TIPS
FOR THE
MACINTOSH
Compiled and Edited by
Erica Litsky, Tracy Hines,
and the MacUser Staff
MacU ser
1001
HINTS& TIPS
FOR THE
MACINTOSH
Compiled and Edited by
Erica Litsky, Tracy Hines,
and the MacUser StaH
MacU ser
1001 Hints & Tips for the
Macintosh
©1990 Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, a division of Ziff Communications
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Compiled and Edited by Erica Litsky, Tracy Hines, and the MacUser Staff
CONTENTS
ANIMATION Flight Simulator ................................... 27
Infocom Text Adventures ................... 27
VideoW orks ........................................... 1
Klondike .............................................. 28
MacGolf ............................................... 28
DATABASES
Moebius ............................................... 29
File ......................................................... 1 Rogue ................................................... 30
FileMaker Plus ....................................... 4 Sargon III ............................................. 30
Filevision ............................................... 4 Shadowg ate ......................................... 31
Helix ...................................................... 5 Shanghai .............................................. 31
Jazz ........................................................ 6 SimCity 1.0 .......................................... 31
OverVUE ............................................... 7 Smash Hit Raquetball ......................... 32
Reflex Plus ............................................. 8 Spell breaker ........................................ 32
Strategic Conquest Plus ...................... 33
Through The Looking Glass .............. 33
DESKTOP PUBLISHING
Uninvited ............................................. 33
Adobe Type Manager ........................... 8
Universe II ........................................... 34
General .................................................. 9
Wizardry .............................................. 35
LaserW riter ............................................. 9
OmniPage ............................................ 10
GRAPHICS
PageMaker ........................................... 10
PageMaker 2.0 ..................................... 12 Adobe Illustrator ................................. 36
Pagemaker 3.0 ..................................... 13 Adobe Illustrator 88 ............................ 37
PageMaker 3.02 ................................... 17 Canvas ................................................. 40
QuarkXPress 2.0 ................................. 18 Canvas 2.0 ........................................... 40
Ready, Set, Go! 2.1 ............................. 19 Cricket Draw ...................................... .41
Ready, Set, Go! 3.0 ............................. 19 Cricket Draw 1.1 ................................ .42
Ready, Set, Go! 4.0 ............................. 21 FreeHand ............................................. 42
Ready, Set, Go! 4.5 ............................. 22 Freehand 2.0 ...................................... .45
Full Paint ............................................... 49
MacDraft .............................................. 49
GAMES
MacDraw ............................................. 50
Airborne .............................................. 23
MacDraw II .......................................... 53
The Ancient Art of War ...................... 23
MacPaint .............................................. 54
Arkanoid .............................................. 24
MacPaint 2.0 ........................................ 58
The Bard's Tale ................................... 24
Mac 3D ................................................ 58
Cyborg ................................................. 25
Mac 3D 2.0 .......................................... 58
Dark Castle .......................................... 26
Pixel Paint ........................................... 59
Deja Vu ................................................ 26
Microsoft Chart .................................... 60
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CONTENTS .
Sn1art Art 1.01 ...................................... 62 PRESENTATION
SuperPaint ........................................... 63
MORE ................................................... 87
MORE 1.1 ............................................ 89
HARDWARE
Audio Output ...................................... 66 SPREADSHEETS
Disks .................................................... 66
Excel .................................................... 89
Hard Disks ........................................... 66
Excel 1.5 .............................................. 94
High Density Drives ........................... 67
Mtlltiplan ............................................. 95
ImageW riter ......................................... 67
Wingz ................................................... 97
ImageW riter II ..................................... 68
ImageWriter LQ .................................. 69
SYSTEM ENHANCEMENTS
Keyboard ............................................. 69
Alarm Clock DA ................................ 100
LaserWriter .......................................... 71
Apple File Exchange ......................... 100
LaserWriter II ....................................... 71
AppleTalk .......................................... 101
Mouse .................................................. 72
Desktop Manager .............................. 101
Mac Plus .............................................. 72
Dialog Box Shortcuts ........................ 102
RAM ..................................................... 72
Directory Dialog Box ........................ 102
SCSI ...................................................... 73
Easy Access ....................................... 102
Sound jack .......................................... 74
Finder ................................................ 104
ThunderScan ....................................... 75
FKeys ................................................. 108
Video ................................................... 76
Font/DA Mover ................................. 109
Fonts .................................................. 109
HYPERCARD
Hard Disks ......................................... 110
HyperCard ........................................... 76 INITs .................................................. 110
Large Files ......................................... 111
LaserP rep ........................................... 111
INTEGRATED
LaserW riter ........................................ 112
Works .................................................. 84
MacroMaker ....................................... 113
Macros ............................................... 114
Mus1c
Map CDEV ......................................... 115
MultiFinder ........................................ 115
ConcertWare ....................................... 85
MultiFinder 1.0 .................................. 116
Deluxe Music Construction Set .......... 85
Parameter RAM ................................. 116
Professional Composer ....................... 86
Partitioning Software ........................ 117
QuarterStaff ......................................... 87
Public Folder ..................................... 117
Studio Session ..................................... 87
QuicKeys ........................................... 118
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CONTENTS
ResEdit ............................................... 118
Sound Converter ............................... 119
Stepping Out II ................................. 119
Stufflt ................................................. 120
Suitecase ............................................ 120
System ................................................ 120
System Errors ..................................... 122
Thunder II ......................................... 122
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
CompuServe ...................................... 123
General Information ......................... 123
Inbox ................................................. 124
MacTerminal ...................................... 124
Modem ............................................... 125
QuickMail .......................................... l26
Red Ryder .......................................... 127
Smartc om II ....................................... 127
WORD PROCESSING
FullWrite Professional ....................... 129
MacWrite 4.5 ..................................... 129
Mac Write 4.6 ..................................... 130
MacWrite 5.0 ..................................... 132
MacWrite II ........................................ 132
Teach Text. ........................................ 133
Word .................................................. 133
Word 3.0 ............................................ 138
Word 3.0X ......................................... 139
Word 3.01 .......................................... 145
Word 3.02 .......................................... 146
Word 4.0 ............................................ 148
Write Now .......................................... 155
INDEX BY APPLICATION ................ 156
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ANIMATION
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Creating Self-Running
Animations
Take a self-running animation from your
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VideoWorks files. Put your animation
files on a disk with the VideoWorks
player and set the Player to run as soon as
VIDEO WORKS the disk is inserted. Copy the System
folder and the Vic.leoWorks player from
the MacroMind Utilities Disk to your blank
disk, then copy the Demo List document
from VideoWorks, and finally, transfer
Each Animated Sprite
your animation files over. Select the Vid
Consumes Memory
eoWorks Player icon on the new disk and
Each animated sprite takes up memo1y choose Set Startup from the Special menu.
space and slows down the program. When ow, when the disk is inserted, it imme
choosing how many objects you'll ani diately launches into your animation.
mate during each sequence, keep it simple
for the best results.
DATABASES
..
Quickly Select
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... The Entire Field
Shift-Click to select the entire field so that
.... you don't have to scroll to highlight it.
Generating Exportable
FILE
Tab Characters
Hitting the Tab key usually moves the
cursor to the next field. However, you can
generate Tab characters by holding clown
Generating Line Fields Option while pressing Tab. If data with
embeclclecl tabs is exported to a word
At Insertion Points
processor, for example, the tabs will
To Create Lists
respond to the settings in the word proc
Type Option-Return in a field to generate essor, making it easy to format tables.
a line feed at the insertion point, which Take care when using the same data in
allows you to create lists. This embedded another database program, though, since
character acts like a normal carriage re the receiving database may confuse the
turn when copied and pasted into a word Tab characters with field delineators,
processing or spreadsheet application. ruining the transfer's format.
DATABASES
The Display Box Is This only works if the database contains
Bigger Than It Looks no pictures. Graphics are lost during this
reformatting.
If the display box you've chosen for a
field in your form design isn't large enough
Enter Data Fastest In The
for the data you've entered, don't wony
Smallest Database Window
-while the box only displays the first
part of the data, File saves the rest. You To enter data quickly, don't leave the
can see what's in the rest of the field by database window open to the default
clicking a few characters before the end screen size setting. Close it as far as it will
of the box and dragging off its end. This allow, to display only two lines. Since File
scrolls the text through the box for view redraws the screen after cotnpleting an
ing. This only works horizontally in single entry, keeping the window stnall requires
line fields, and won't work vertically with the progran1 to draw less. Hit the Enter
multiple line fields. key to go to the first field of the next entry.
Changing Field Formats
If Your Select Bar
Whlle Preserving Your Data
Pushes Your Form Aside
There's a way to preserve data and still
The width of the select bar on the far left
change the format of a field. First, open
side of the screen in the data file display
your form design and move the hide line
varies to accomtnodate the nun1her of
so that all your fields are showing.
digits in the record numbers. If the bar
Remember to show even hidden fields,
gets so wide that it pushes your form
since if you don't you'll lose their data.
partly off the page, fix it by opening the
Form window, picking up the line, and
Now, return to the data entry window and
then moving it back to the left. This n1ay
Shift-Click to select all the record'i in your
obscure some of your record numbers,
database and copy them to the Clipboard.
and you'll have to reset it every time you
Then, use clear from the Edit tnenu to
start a new work session.
empty all your records and quit. When the
dialog appears asking how to save the Keyboard Cursor Movement
Clipboard, choose "Unfonnatted."
File has provisions for using the arrow
keys on the keyboard:
Then, restart File by double-clicking on The right arrow moves the cursor to
your data file's icon and choose Show the next field, replacing Tab or
Form from the Form n1enu. Now refor Return;
mat the fields, clicking OK whenever File
warns you that you'll lose data. After The left atTO\V n1oves the cursor to
changing the field forn1ats, save the the previous field, replacing Shift-Tab
changes and return to the data entry or Shift-Return;
window. Select a New record and Paste in
your data from the Clipboard. Then, The down arrow n1oves the cursor to
choose "By Natne" when the dialog box the san1e field in the next record, re
comes up. placing Cotntnand-Enter;
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DATABASES .
The up arrow n1oves the cursor to the in the san1e order as the fields on your File
same field in the previous record, replac fonn. Follow each field with a Tab char
ing Comn1and-Shift-Enter. acter, and n1ark the final field in each
record with a carriage return.
Printing Solid Rules
On The LaserWriter If you have blank fields in your records,
enter an extra Tab character for each
When you print reports on the Laser
blank. If a blank field is at the end of your
Writer, rules will print as dotted lines. To
record, you don't have to enter Tabs,
print them solid, select Font Substitution
since the carriage return will make the
fron1 the Page Setup dialog. Font Substi
database tnanager ignore any remaining
tution also makes sure that any of your
fields in the current record, instead start
total and subtotal fields, and your headers
ing with the first field of the next record.
and footers, are printed in Helvetica in
stead of in Geneva.
Transfer the data into File by selecting all
of the data. Put the cursor in front of the
Don't Use Embedded
first character of the first record and press
Tabs Within Fields Shift-Click while placing the cursor imme
When Exporting diately after the last carriage return.
To Other Databases
Copy the records to the Clipboard, quit
If you work on a file you want to transfer
the word processor, and enter File by
to another database tnanager, don't use
double-clicking on the file's icon. Go to
embedded (Option-) Tabs and carriage
the end of the database and select the
returns within fields. When you try to
new record by clicking on the selection
transfer the file later, the other database
bar to the left of the data window. Then,
manager could interpret the embedded
Paste your records into position, choos
tabs and returns as regular ones. In most
ing the "by name" option. If anything
cases, this will render the transfer useless,
doesn't look right, Undo the Paste and go
since the importing database manager
back to the word processor file to fix the
will interpret the tabs as field delineators,
problem.
and the returns as record delineators.
This messes up the order of your fields Saving Changes To Page
and records, generating so n1uch extra
Setup
work that you might as well create a new Par~eters
If you change the page setup parameters
database fron1 scratch.
of a report that's already been saved, use
Save As ... instead of Save after you make
Creating Flle Records
the changes. Using the standard Save will
With A Word Processor
save only the changes you've made in the
You can create records in a word proces report design, without saving changes to
sor that will later be transferred into File. page setup. When the Save As ... dialog
Don't type in the names of fields, since asks you if you want to replace the
these will get Pasted in along with the existing report of that natne, click Yes and
data. just type in the contents of the fields the page setup is pern1anently saved.
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DATABASES
Saving Files In Option-Shift while choosing About File
A Sorted Order Maker Plus from the Apple menu.
To save files in a sorted order, use Save
Entering Multi-Word Phrases
Records As ... before closing the file, after
As Search Identifiers
data has been sorted. This saves your
infotmation as a new, sorted data file. If Use Option-Space instead of the space
you want to keep the unsorted file as a bar when you're entering multiple-word
backup, close and save it in the usual phrases to be used as search identifiers.
way. If you don't need the old file, delete That indexes both words as one, allowing
it, since it won't reflect changes made to searches by combinations or portions of
the sorted file while it was open, and this all the words.
keeps you from getting confused about
which is which. Entering Copies Of A Record
To enter a lot of copies of a record using
..
. the Command-M key combination, it helps
... to execute a find on the first record
entered. Thereafter, the number under
Found will increase by 1 each time you
press Command-M. This allows you to
keep track of how many records have
been entered.
ftLEMAKER PLUS
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Solution For Label Peels On
The ImageWriter ll
When printing on the ImageW riter II, you ...
might find it peels labels off pages and
backs up. just prior to printing your label
ftLEVISION
layouts, choose Set Paper Size from the
File menu and set the paper length extra
long. Then, in Page Setup, turn " o Gaps
Between Pages" on and specify Hand Establish Help Files
Feed printing. If you use, say, l-inch, one For Other Users
across labels and set the paper length to
Of Your Database
36, the printer makes 36 labels, skips the
If other people will be using your Filevision
next two labels, and then prints the next
database, establishing Help files in addi
batch of 36.
tion to your drawings will make things
more convenient for them. In the Types
Hidden Credits menu, add a type called Help. Create one
A humorous credit screen is embedded in field in your data form and name it
FileMaker Plus. To see it, hold down Instructions. Then, in the Name field, type
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