ThinkTank Manual

If you give the FILES/NEW command (or start up ThinkTank and choose NEW) and you have a floppy disk system with three or more drives, ThinkTank displays the NEW FILE Menu which allows you to select the drive number for your new outline.

This is the equivalent of FILES/EXISTS/ENTER for FILES/NEW.

If you have a hard disk system, see the parallel command

ENTER.

START

 

Begin new selection at flashing cursor

Command

key:

CTRL—S

Command

prefix:

No

Location:

SELECTION Command Menu (Paragraph

 

 

Editor)

See also:

SELECT

Enters SELECT mode and begins a new selection at the flashing cursor. Once you start a selection, you define it by moving the cursor to another position. START does not appear on the SELECTION Command Menu if you have already started a selection. You can also give the START command by pressing CTRL—Sfrom the Top Level of the paragraph editor.

Once you’ve started a selection, any flashing cursor movement redefines it. You can move by character, by line, by word, by page, or to the top or bottom. Pressing ESC, or giving any command that changes the text, cancels the selec- tion. In other words, once you’ve started a selection, Think—

Tank wants you to do something with it before you do anything

else. You should avoid inserting text or using INSERT,

BACKSPACE, TYPEOVER, or XCHANGE while in SELECT mode.

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