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W ordSmith Man ual 2.2 W ordSmith Man ual © Handmark, Inc. 2002 © Blue Nomad LLC, 2002[...]

Intr oduction Thank you for choosing WordSmith! WordSmith is the most revolutionary, intuitive and full-fe atured word processor, doc viewer and enhanced memo pad available for the Palm organizer. WordSm ith synchronize s and integrates seamlessly with Microsoft Word so that your desktop documents can easily be transferred to your organi zer and vi[...]

T able of Contents I NTRODUCTIO N ............................................................................................................................... ....................................................................................................................... I FEATURES AND REQUIREM ENTS .......................................[...]

Memo Record M enu ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 32 Memo Edit Menu ..........................................................................................[...]

Chapter 1 F ea tur es and R equir ements New F ea tur es in W or dSmith 2.2 • Support for Palm OS 5 implemented. Wo rdSmith for OS 5 is actually 3k smaller than before! • New High Resolution applicati on icons for FineType and WordSmith for Palm O S 5 devices. • Extend Selection: Allows you to se lect large blocks of text easily. Similar to u[...]

New F ea tur es in W or dSmith 2.1 • Virtual File System (VFS) Support. This enables users of the Palm m500/m505, Sony Clie, Handspring Treo 90 and Handera 330 to read and write to and from the Secure Di gital (SD) card, MultiMediaCard (MMC) card or Sony Memory Stick®. Yo u can also compress documents on the expansion c ard. • Spell Checker. T[...]

• Ability to preserve page setup (such as paper sizes, page orientation and margin s), default language and tables. • Greatly enhanced find/replace feature is signific antl y faster and includes a new search progress meter, replace all option and the ability to can cel search and replace all operations. • Improved support for the o nscreen ke[...]

• Fast compression of documents during HotSyncs and on demand. • Auto-scrolling, pen scrolling and special teleprompter style scrolling for easy viewing of documents. • Ability to synchronize document s to multiple computers! • Word count and Font styles, sizes and color – preserved and adjustable on the organizer! Even supports backgroun[...]

Chapter 2 Getting Star ted Installing W or dSmith Once you have installed WordSmith, you should have a WordSmith icon on your desktop (if that is where you saved it), WordSmith added as a menu in Microsof t Word (to the right of the Help menu but only if you are using Word 97 or better and is not supported with Windows XP ) and a WordSmith and Fine[...]

Really Getting Started… Now that you have successfully ins talled WordSmith, let’s start editin g docs and memos and reading (or “viewing,” as they say). This section steps you through: • How to create a new document in WordSmith • How to sync a new document to your desktop • How to sync a Word document or RTF file to WordSmith • Ho[...]

WordSmith or in WordSmith Preferences (accessible on your desktop – please see Chapter 3 for more information on the desktop application). You can open the document by doing any of the following: • Open WordSmith on your desktop, select the document and double-click on it. • Open Microsoft Word and then click on the File menu and choose Open.[...]

Action and Backup Copies for important information regarding synchronization of documents on your organizer with your desktop computer. Open and Edit the Document in Wo r d S m i t h To open and edit the synced document on your organizer, follow these steps: Step 1 Tap on the WordSmith icon on your organizer to launch the application. Step 2 Tap on[...]

Step 2 Tap on the Memo Title Tab in the upper left ha nd corner (“Memo” should now be highlighted). Step 3 Tap on the New button in the lower left hand corner to create a new memo or select from an existing memo to revise or view it. Step 4 Edit your memo by using Graffiti, the onscreen keyboard or an external keyboard, such as the Palm Portabl[...]

fuller text) or Heavy (sharper text) depending on y our preference. Please note: if you are using high resolution FineType fonts, you will not be able to view color fonts and back grounds (other than the highlight color) on your device. Step 3 Open a document or memo (or create a new one) in Edit mode, open the Format menu and select Font…or tap [...]

Bold , Under line , Italics , Super script , Subscript , Strik ethr ough , Color F onts & Color Bac kg r ounds To add rich text to your memos and docs, simply follow these steps: Step 1 Launch WordSmith and select a doc or memo to edit. Step 2 You can enter new rich text o r select* old text to be format ted. To turn bold, underline or italics*[...]

Cmd L, Cmd R, Cmd E and Cmd H) and keyboard shortcuts (e.g., Ctrl+l, Ctrl+r, Ctrl+e and Ctrl+p). Please note that although you ca n select Full justification in a doc, it will not display on your organizer (only on y our desktop when the doc is synce d). * Please see Cut, Copy & Paste above fo r instructions on how to select text. Ho w T o Do O[...]

the location. To access this option, open the F ile menu and select Go To Previous or tap on when viewing a document. Pop-Up Menus In addition to WordSmith’s many pull-down menus, WordSmith has some very handy pop-up menus for stylus users. For exampl e, if you are viewing a list of your docs, you can access a pop- up menu that lists the followin[...]

S C Chapter 3 ync hr onization and on v er sion Intr oduction WordSmith’s synchronization technology is based upon the same tech nology that has made BackupBuddy & InstallBuddy such popular and easy to use products (available from www.bluenomad.com ). WordSmith comes with a Windows and Macintosh conduit that allows you to synchronize your Mic[...]

Please note that since WordSmith works directly with RTF files, you don’t actually need Microsoft Word to use it. You can use an y RTF editor on your comp uter, including W o r d P a d , W o r d P e r f e c t , e t c . S i m p l y s a v e y o u r d o c u m e n t a s a n R T F f i l e a n d a d d i t t o t h e WordSmith desktop application per the[...]

U ser Select your Palm username by using the a rrow to the right of the User name box. Document Name Clicking on the document name will cause it s properties to appear in the Document Properties box (described below, Windows only) and will select the document. Double-clicking on the document name will open the document on your desktop. Lastly, if y[...]

First, the Preferences screen allows you to change the default directory into which documents created on your organizer are saved when they are synchronized to your desktop computer. By default thes e documents are synchronized to your My Documents fold er (for Windows) or in the WordSmith folder in the Palm user folder inside the Palm desktop fold[...]

N o t e regarding WordSmith Menu in Microsoft Word (Windows only) The WordSmith menu is added to Micros oft Word during the installation of WordSmith. If would like to remove the add-on from Word, select the following: Tools -> Templates and Add-Ins and uncheck the box in front of Word Smith.dot. To add the WordSmith add-on, simply check the box[...]

Basic FineType F ea tur es Before you select the fonts you want to install, conf irm that your device’s user name appears in the user window! To select a font for installation, click on the font name and then click on the Install button. To select multiple fonts for installation use the ctrl and/or shift keys like you would in any other Windows a[...]

We do not have a FineTy pe Converter for Macintosh Users. If you have access to a PC, we suggest installing fonts from there or getting a PC friend to send you fonts. Alternatively, please run Virtual PC on your Macintosh and install the fonts from there. We have a link on our WordSmith download page for some free converted display fonts. Advanced [...]

FineT ype Mana ger on the Handheld WordSmith includes an optional FineType Manager ap plication that you can install to your handheld device (please note that this i s installed by default). The FineType Manager lets you preview your display fonts in three sizes at once. You can also beam or delete fonts by using the manager. To preview a display f[...]

• Using the WordSmith add-on menu in Microsoft W ord (Windows only), select WordSmith -> Open to open t he WordSmith list of documents. Simply double click on the document name and it will open. • Open the document like you would any other d o cument on your desktop. For example, if you chose to have docs created on your Palm go to My Docume[...]

• Poetic License-or ig.doc (or with the .rtf extension if you are a Ma cintosh user or depending upon how you have set WordSmith Preferences (Windows users)) – this is a copy of your unedited, original of Poetic License. In the event of a “collision,” a situation where you have not only edited Poetic License on your organizer but also on th[...]

For information about the Synchronize the files option, please see above . Desktop overwrites handheld copies all files from your WordSmith desktop’s file list to your organizer (this action will replace the files on your organizer with the ones from your desktop). Handheld overwrites desktop causes all documents on your organizer to be placed in[...]

W or dSmith on Linux/Intel Since Linux does not support a standard HotSync conduit API, such as the one available under Windows and MacOS, we are not currentl y able to offer conduit support for Linux. Nonetheless, we have provided a shell-based conversion application called wsconv for converting to and from RTF documents. If you are looking fo r a[...]

W In Chapter 4 or dSmith Ov er view tr oduction As mentioned above, WordSmith is not only a document editor but also an enhanced memo pad and document viewer. This section briefly covers the differences between the WordSmith memos and docs a n d t h e E d i t M o d e a n d V i e w M o d e o f W o r d S m i t h . I n a d d i t i o n , i t c o v e r [...]

justification and centering and the Palm Portable and Stowaway keyboard like no other application! Take a few minutes to check it out (see below for basic menu items and for additional menu items see Chapter 6 . N o t e Regarding Remapping Memo Pad Button as WordSmith Button During the installation of WordSmith, you ar e given the opportunity to re[...]

Memo/Doc List Vie w Screen Features Pop-Up Menus In addition to WordSmith’s many pull-down menus, WordSmith also has some very handy pop-up menus for stylus users. For example, if you are viewing a list of your docs, you can access a pop-up menu that lists the following: Edit, Beam, Dele te, Duplicate, Rename, Category, Print and Details (a sligh[...]

Delete To delete an existing category, simply select the category name you wish to delete, tap the Delete button and then tap OK to exit the Ed it Categories dialog box. Memo or Doc Name To open the memo or doc, simply tap on its name. Doc Type To the left of each document that contains ri ch text (i.e., a WordSmith doc), you will see a small W, or[...]

To view these menus, launch WordSmith, tap on the Memo Title Tab and t hen tap on your organizer’s Menu icon. Memo Record Menu The Record menu for WordSmith memos has the following options: Beam Category… This option will allow you to beam the ca tegory of memos (e.g., All, Business, Personal, etc.) that you have selected on your Memo Li st Vie[...]

Undo, Cut, Copy, Past e and Select All These standard Edit options allow you to edit text for use in the Filter only. For example, if you copy a name from a document or another application, you can simply paste it into the Filter and quickly view the memo s that have the selected name in the title. Keyboard Tapping on Keyboard will bring up the ons[...]

* The following table descri bes how the Display Size works. 34[...]

For example, if your display size is set to 1, Wo rdSmith will use its medium display font to display text that is 14 to 19 points. Please no te that depending upon what Display Siz e and font size you are working with it is possible that you will not see a di fference in the actual display size (e.g, under Display Size 3, font sizes 9 and up are a[...]

better. Nevertheless, users of devices running Palm OS 3.0 or better will be able to mask records within WordSmith with this feature! Register… This option allows you register WordSmith. Simply tap on Register and input your registration code in the Register dialog box. For mo re information on registering, please see Chapter 10. About… Select [...]

Category Shows the category the doc is saved under and allows you to change the category by tapping on the arrow to the left of the categ ory name. Sync Enabling Sync will make sure that your docu ment is synchronized with your desktop computer during Hotsyncs. Please see Chap ter 3 on the conduit for more information o n syncing. Read-Only Enablin[...]

Doc Edit Menu The Edit menu for WordSmith docs is identical to the Memo Edit Menu described above. Please see above for assistance. Doc Options Menu The Options menu for Word Smith docs is identical to the Memo Options Menu described above. Please see above for assistance. 38[...]

D Th is e Chapter 5 ocument Editing is section describes the features and menu opti ons that are available when one diting a doc. To see these features and menus, you need to launch WordSmith on your organizer, select the Doc Title Tab and open a doc or create a new doc. You can ope n a doc by tapping on the doc name in the Doc List View Screen or [...]

category to get the ca tegory pop-up menu. You ca n change the categorization of the doc by tapping on one of the list ed categories or by selecting Ed it Categories and creating a new category, deleting categories you no longer n eed, etc. For information on m oving a doc to and from the expansion c ard, please read Chapter 8 on VFS support. Done [...]

Once you are inside of a doc, tap on your organizer’s M enu icon (or FN+Phone for Palm Portable and Stowaway keyboard users) and you will see the following menus: • File • Edit • Format • Options Note on Special Keybo ard Support and Shortcuts for Me nu Items Please note that you may use a Palm Portable or Stowaway keyboard t o jump betwe[...]

Close/Aband on This feature will bring up a dialog box that will give you the option to save, abandon or cancel the operation. Details/Rena me… Tap on Details to open the Details dialog box shown below. This dialog box provides (1) certain general informati on on the doc and provides you the opportuni ty to change certain attributes of the doc an[...]

Compress o n HotSync A checkbox next to this box indicates that the selected doc will be compressed during HotSyncs. Compress No w If your document is uncompressed, yo u will see a Compress Now button. Tap on this button to compress your document. Please note t hat you must save the doc before using this option. You can take a shortcut to compress [...]

Places The Places portion of the Go To / Count feature allows you to be pretty specific about where in the document you want to go. You can choose from going to a certain paragrap h of the document, a certain character or percentage through th e document. Don’t waste too much time fretting over which method to use… once you fill in any of the 3[...]

Undo This option lets you undo unlimited edits that you have made to the doc. Redo This option lets you redo the undo that yo u made to the doc. You can also do unlimited redo’s! Cut This option lets you cut or delete selected portions of your doc. To select text, tap and hold your stylus to the left of the text that you would like to select and [...]

Mark Enable this option to insert a bookmark before ever y instance of the search term or string. Count Enable this option to see how many times a particular word or phrase appe ars in the document. Reflow Selecting Reflow will take out every line break that is not followed by a blank line. If you do this with nothing selected, Reflow will remove l[...]

If no text is selected and you enable the Check Spelling option, WordSmith will pop-up box that will le t you check: the Current word, Current paragraph, Modified paragraphs, Cursor to end or Whole document. Due to the limitations of current handheld computin g devices, we suggest that for performance reasons you minimize the text searched by selec[...]

Center This option lets you center text en ter ed i nt o yo ur d oc . Pl ea se see the instructions under Left above for assistance on justifying text. Font… This option will open the Font Se lector dialog box shown below. An alternative way to display the Font Selector dialog box is to tap o n the Fonts button in the lower right ha nd corner of [...]

Strikethrough Enable this option to enter strikethrough text. Color Devices: Te xt and Background Enable this option to choose the color of your font and background color. Please note that this feature is only availab le on color devices . Also, if you have high resolution fonts enabled (ple ase see the discussion of Display Options in Chapter 4 an[...]

Page break opti ons With WordSmith you have 3 page break options. Page break befo re causes a page break before the paragraph. Keep lines tog ether prevents the paragraph from being split across pages. Lastly, Keep with next causes the paragr aph to be kept on the same page as the next paragraph, even if this means that both paragra phs are moved t[...]

Full Screen This option lets you utilize every precious bit of your organizer’s screen for viewing or editing your doc by hiding the Title Bar and toolbar. To leave full screen mode, simply tap on the small icon in the upper right hand corner. To stay in full screen mode but retrieve the Toolbar, ta p on the small arrow in the lower right hand co[...]

M Th edi on me Vie Ch Chapter 6 emo Editing is chapter describes the features and menu options th at are available once one is ting a memo. To see these features an d menus, you need to launch WordSmith your organizer, select the Memo Title Tab and open a memo or create a new mo. You can open a memo by tapping on the memo name in the Memo List w Sc[...]

have FineType turned on (FineType is the default option for WordSmith; you may turn FineType on or off from the Options menu/Display Options). Fonts button This button indicates what the characters will look like. For example, if you have Bold enabled, the word Font will also be bold. Tapping on the button will open the Font Selector dialog box. Pl[...]

New Memo T h i s o p t io n s a v e s y o u a fe w t a p s a nd al l o w s y ou to o p e n a ne w m e m o f r o m w i t hi n a n o t h e r memo. It will automatically close (and save) the memo that you are in and open a blank memo. Save as Doc… As many of you are aware, the memos that you type on your organizers are subject to a 4,000-character c[...]

This feature allows you to be pretty specific about where in the me mo you want to go. You ca n choose from going to certain “Places” such as a certain paragraph of the memo, a certain character or percentage through the memo or to certain “Tags” in the memo, such as a bookmark. Places: Paragraph This optio n not only lets you jump to a cer[...]

Copy This option lets you copy selected portions of your memo. To select text, tap and hold your stylus to the left of the text that you would like to select and drag it to the right of the end of the text that you want to select. Paste This option lets you paste tex t that has been cut or copied from elsewhere in the memo. To paste, move your curs[...]

Thesaurus… Tapping on Thesaurus will bring up the integrat ed thesaurus. This feature is described in detail in Chapter 5. The Th esaurus was developed by DDH Software, Inc. ( www.ddhsoftware.com ). Check Spelling Tapping on Check Spelling will bring up the integrated spell checker. This featu re is described in detail in Chapter 5. The Spell Che[...]

Show As: Use the arrow to select a display font for yo ur memo if you have Fine Type enabled. You may want to choose a font like Tahoma (e.g . one that was designed especially for small screens (devices)). Display fonts may be added to your organizer by using the FineType Converter ( Windows only ). Please see Chapter 3 for more information on the [...]

Full Screen This option lets you utilize every precious bi t of your organizer’s screen for viewing or editing your memo by hiding the Title Bar and Toolbar. To le ave full screen mode, simply tap on the small icon in the upper left hand corner. To stay in full screen mo de but retrieve the toolbar, tap on the small arrow in the lower right hand [...]

D G Chapter 7 ocument V iewing ener al V iewing Many handheld computer users are familiar with Doc Viewers or E-book readers – these are the programs that let you read a book or document on your organi zer. WordSmith takes these isolated “viewer/reader” applications and boosts their usefulness by coupling the m with a powerful word processor [...]

Document name The left side of the Title Bar indicates the name of the document that you are viewing. ( Note: i n M em o V ie w M o d e, th e le ft si de of th e Title Bar indicates what memo you are in by the memo’s number (e.g., 1 of 4). Category The right side of the Title Bar indicates the category that the doc is in. In the example above, th[...]

Go To Previous button This option brings up a list of the last 50 “Go To” locations (e.g., bookmarks, tables, images, top, bottom, paragraph, etc.) you have visited in a particular document. Arro w Tap on the arrow in the lower right hand corner t o hide the toolbar. Tap on it again to get it back. Scrolling The right side of the screen has a s[...]

Please note that the Doc View Mode File and Options menus are very similar to the Doc Edit Mode File and Options menus covered above. The View Mode Options menu has two men u items that are not available in Edit Mode: Find. This option brings up the Search This Document dialog box covered elsewhere in this manual. Rather than use the Option menu to[...]

V (V Chapter 8 ir tual File System FS) Suppor t De vices with VFS If you have a device with virtual file system (VFS) support, you can move documents to the MultiMediaCard (MMC) card, Secure Digital (SD) card or Memory Stick® (collectively, “expansion cards”) and read or edit directly from the expansion card. Please no te that this feature is [...]

Moving to VFS from the Docum ent List Holding down the stylus on the title of a document will allow you to access the pop-up menu. From here you can select “Category” and then pick your expansion card from the list of categories. Yo u will be prompted to verify that you want to move this document to the expansion card. In the Palm m505 screensh[...]

Please note when “Handheld” is on the t op of the category list, this means that yo u are reading the document from the ha ndheld’s memory or RAM. When you switch to the expansion card, the card will be listed first. W or king with Documents in VFS Reading and editing documents on your expansion card works substantially the same way as it doe[...]

G S Chapter 9 r af fiti and K eyboar d hor tcuts Gr af fiti Shor tcuts The Graffiti shortcuts save you time by reducing th e number of taps you need to make and the number of menus you need to open to get the most out of WordSm ith’s features and menus. To use a shortcut key, enter the shortcut symbol (e.g., the slash with a dot at the end) by ta[...]

Ctrl-s = save/save as Ctrl-z = undo Ctrl-y = redo Ctrl-f = find Ctrl-b = bold Ctrl-u = underline Ctrl-i = italics Ctrl-l = left align Ctrl-e = center Ctrl-r = right align Ctrl-j = full justify (preserved, but only displayed on the desktop) Ctrl-g = go to Ctrl-[ = shrink font Ctrl-] = grow font Ctrl-m = left indent+ Ctrl-M = left indent - Ctrl-t = h[...]