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      by Arnold V. Urbonas
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    So you just bought the ADAM Home Computer System and would like to know how to use the word processor. This series of articles is for the beginner who would like to know how to use the system.
     Most of this information will not be new to most of you. The beginner may have the joy of learning about the word processing capabilites by him/herself just exploring and poking around. I know that doing this series of articles has made me more aware of all the different features. All of this information should be somewhere in all your manuals.
    When you turn on the ADAM, you have an electronic typewriter until you press the top left hand corner key which activates the word processing unit. Hence the key is labelled ESCAPE/WP. The obvious advantage of the word processor over the electronic typewriter is that you can alter your text before you print it out.
    What is that vertical bar on the screen?  The bar represents the space on the page on which your text shall be printed. The 11 refers to 11 inches which is the length of your standard letter size paper. By pressing SmartKEY [I], you can generate different options pertaining to Margin, Tab. etc.
     By pressing [I] again (Type of Paper), you can change from the standard 11 inch length of paper to the 14 inch length of legal paper. Your bar will change in length, and the number will change to 14 on the top. ADAM was designed so that you can print on whatever paper you have available. Once you have chosen your size of paper, press [VI] (Done).
     Perhaps you would like to use an odd sized sheet of paper. Even a postcard. Place your postcard along the left hand side of the printer through the roller. Make sure you will not print on the nice picture. Turning off the ADAM and turning it on will activate your Electronic Typewriter. Next, press the space bar and notice that the printer head moves right a space at a time. Press the space bar until the printer head reaches an imaginary margin you would like the postcard to have. 
    Press (1) WP, (2) [I] Margin etc., (3) [II] Horizontal Margin, (4) [III] for Left, or [IV] for Right margin. The white marker on the screen will tell you at what position you are at. Next, move the margin (dark line along the top markings) until it underlaps the white marker. You have just set your horizontal margins. If you wish to set your vertical margins as well, press [V] (To Vertical Margins).  Press [IV] (Bottom Margin). Then use the arrow keys to bring up the bottom margin. Your bar will stay the same length, but your bottom marker will move up as you use the arrow keys. (I found that I get approximately 18 typed lines in 3 inches.) Space according to your needs. Then press [IV] (Done). You have before you the markings along the top to mark your width and the side bar with its markings to tell you the length you have available.
    You can write as many postcards as you want now. Your settings will return to their preset values when you turn your ADAM off. So, before you turn your ADAM off, you can record your postcards --using the Store/Get key and the SmartKEYs and your datapack or disk-- and print them out later. When you print them out, don't worry about setting margins. All the previous planning will come out in printed copy.  s. If you
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