Brief Tour

Chapter .3

A BRIEF TOUR OF THINKTANK

This chapter Contains a brief tour of the ThinkTank program. Like a ten—day, seven—country European tour, it hits only a few of the highlights. But it also introduces you to the way ThinkTank works and presents essential information about operating it. After reading it, you can readily master the program by experimentation, guided by the ThinkTank tutorial in Chapter 4.

This chapter includes material on:

*the ThinkTank screen

*examining an outline

*using menus

*command keys

*adding and deleting headlines

*correcting mistakes

*inserting and removing disks

*backing up

GETTING SYNCHRONIZED

Start up the ThinkTank program, set the date, and load in the sample outline from the THINKTANK DATA DISK, as described in Chapter 2 of this manual. Your screen should look approximately like Figure 3—1; it may look slightly different depending on your computer system. If you have any trouble, review the startup instructions in Chapter 2.

If you’ve loaded in the sample outline but your screen doesn’t look like Figure 3—1, someone may already have examined it. To restore it to its original condition, follow these three instructions:

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