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# If you turn on the console when WORDWRITER module is inserted the main menu screen will list WORDWRITER as an option. If "WORDWRITER" does not appear on the main menu you cannot begin. Either the module is inserted wrong or it is broken. Before assuming your module is broken try using any other module. Obviously, if none of the other modules work, the fault lies with the console.
# When you select WORDWRITER from the main menu by keying in the number beside it a title page screen appears; it tells you to enter any key to continue. When you do so, the title screen disappears and the phrase "End of Document Version 1.00" will appear at the top of the screen. You can now begin using WORDWRITER.
===Using Wordwriter===
You are now in a new, empty file. It is as though WORDWRITER opened a metal filing cabinet and handed you a manilla folder (the file) filled with several sheets of blank paper. The sheets within the file are blank and the file is unnamed. Once you begin typing you begin filling the sheets within the file. When you are done typing and wish to "put away" the file filled with your work, it is as though you are handing the file back to WORDWRITER to put in the file cabinet.
The hollow (non-wordwrap) cursor appears on the blank line over the End of Document phrase. You can begin typing. As you type, the cursor travels along, preceeding the last letter by a space.
====Function and Control Keys====
Each side of the space bar has keys which probably intimidate you a little bit. The right FCTN key has a gray dot and the left CTRL key has a red dot. ENTER has a yellow dot. For all practical purposes they all do the same thing: react to your commands when you key them correctly.
I recommend holding down CTRL with your left thumb and FCTN with your right thumb. CTRL and FCTN are never keyed in alone. You use them the same way you use the upper case shift key on a typewriter: in conjunction with some other key. Cursor movement is a good illustration of how to use the FCTN key:
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