V1.5.1 Manual

New Tricks v1.1.5 | user's manual Welcome to New Tricks v1.1.5! We're glad you've downloaded the program, and hope you find it useful! 1. What is New Tricks? 2. What's New? 3. Interface 4. Add-ons 5. Troubleshooting 6. Uses for New Tricks 7. Tips 8. Support 9. Registering New Tricks 10. Contact Us 11. User License 12. Version History 1. What is New Tricks? New Tricks is, at its most basic, a simple, cross-platform word processor with add-ons (similar to web browser plug-ins) . It performs mostly basic things that should ship with many computers anyway, but New Tricks can run on pretty much any type of computer, and it saves "styled text" files as HTML files. Also, New Tricks features an easy-to-use help file system, located at the bottom of the screen. Simply type in a question in english, and it will attempt to answer it! As New Tricks matures, a version of it will be available for Mac OS 7.1 and above (including 8, 8.5, 9, and eventually X) , Windows 3.1, 95, NT, and above, Linux (PPC and Intel) , FreeBSD and BSDI UNIX, Solaris, SPARC SunOS, Digital UNIX, and a couple other flavors of UNIX. A complete list is available at http://karlbecker.com/ newtricks/ 2. What's New? New Tricks v1.1 includes a number of enhancements over its previous versions. These include: * Sort That! - add-on that adds a feature previously unseen in word processor - sorting! Sort names, numbers, dates... whatever you can think of! Tell everyone you're "streamlining your productivity ergonomically and comfortably," and sound impressive. * improved spell-check functionality * new Add-on name display... no more short, ugly names displayed inside the program. * match your word processor with your computer color! All of Apple's hues are built right into New Tricks! * All that, and now the New Tricks dog is now keeping a watchful eye over your documents! 3. Interface The interface may be a little different from most programs - but remember, this is to be cross-platform, so a little deviation from the platform standard is, well, to be expected. The text you're reading right now is inside the main document, which is where you type and edit things. At the bottom of the window is the help system. Simply type in any question you may have, hit return (or click on "Ask question") , and New Tricks will try to provide you with an answer. If nothing happens, try to explain your question a little bit better, and make sure you spelled key words correctly. Directly above the place to type in questions is a file path. It's displayed much like a web address, using slashes "/" to separate folders. The file path shows where the current document you're working on resides. If you can only see part of the file path, clicking on it will show you more of the file path. To the left is the main button bar, which mainly provides a big target for your cursor to get to some of the basic functions of the program. "New File" blanks the current open fil…