Notes and Suggestions

You should type a carriage return, however, if you want to end a line before the right margin. Suppose you want to indent a block of text (like the return address and date in a letter) 20 spaces. At the beginning of each line, type 20 spaces for the indentation. Then type the line and press RETURN at the end to prevent ThinkTank from readjusting it when it displays or prints the paragraph. (Note that when ThinkTank prints a paragraph, it disregards your screen margins and readjusts the text to fit within your printing mar- gins.)

BACKSPACE and DELETE

There are two deletion commands in the paragraph editor. When should you use BACKSPACE and when should you use DELETE? BACKSPACE erases the character directly in front of the flashing cursor, while DELETE erases the character that the flashing cursor points to. Use BACKSPACE to correct typing errors that you notice immediately. If you recognize an error within a few characters of typing it, it is most convenient to backspace over it, correct the error, and retype any correct characters that you erased in the process. On the other hand,

if the error is more than a few characters back, move the flashing cursor directly to the error and erase it with

DELETE.

Selecting Text

An analogy may help you visualize the process of selecting text in the paragraph editor. When you START a selection, you set an anchor point at the flashing cursor. As ~you move the cursor away from the anchor, the selection expands. As long as you remain in SELECT mode, the selection is always defined as the area between the anchor point and the flashing cursor.

If you move the flashing cursor back toward the anchor point, the selection contracts. If you continue to move in that direction, the selection eventually contracts to contain a single character, then expands again as you move the cursor away in the other direction.

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