ThinkTank Manual

PRINTING AN OUTLINE

Next let’s try printing an outline. As you recall, printing is one of the functions of ThinkTank’s PORT command. Before you start the process, there are two preliminaries:

1.The position of the bar cursor determines what part of an outline will be ported. To print the whole outline, move the bar cursor to the summit. In this case, move it to PRODUCT CONCEPT in the PRODUCT PLAN.

2.Your printer must be ready —— connected and turned on —— when ThinkTank sends the outline to it. There’s no way for ThinkTank to warn you or continue if it’s not ready.

Now you are ready to print your outline. Press “PPFN” for PORT/PRINTER/FORMATTED (don’t review the format settings this time). Then press the space bar to begin printing. You will see your outline “scroll” through a window on the screen as ThinkTank prints it. If you have any trouble, you can ESCAPE at any time during printing. You may wish to look at the formatting options, which are listed under FORMATTED in the reference guide, to see how they are reflected in the printed outline. ThinkTank will signal you when the job is done.

CREATING A NEW OUTLINE

The last task of this tutorial is to create a new outline on a new disk. Before doing so, restore this one to its original condition (Figure 3—1) again. First, with the bar cursor on the (now empty) copy of ADDING AND EDITING, type “/DO” to DELETE it; it will take quite a while. Then DELETE the original ADDING AND EDITING. Finish the process of restoring the outline as described in Chapter 3.

You will need a formatted disk to store your new outline (see Appendix C for instructions).

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