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Text

Area

Your

Document

(in

memory)

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fl

The

Screen

Window

The

screen

window

can

be

moved

to

show

any

part

of

the

document.

The

bulk

of

the

screen

is

your

work

area,

a

window

into

your

document.

Although

it

only

shows

a

few

lines

of

79

characters

at

a

time,

if

your

document

is

longer

or

wider,

you

can

move

the

window

up,

down,

left,

and

right.

The

only

part

you

can-

not

use

is

the

"dead

column"

(to

the

left

of

column

0),

which

the

word

processor

reserves

for

the

"format

change"

symbol

t

.

Other

symbols

appear

in

the

text

to

remind

you

of

the

format

functions

that

you

used,

but will

not

be

printed.

(For

a

complete

list,

see

"Symbols

Displayed

in

the

Text"

on

page

272.)

NOTE:

With

the

WP-1700MDS,

the

text

area

can

be

split

in

order

to

display

two

doc-

uments

simultaneously.

For

details,

see

"Dual

Screen

(14

-line

model

only)"

on

page

83.

Text

and

Scale

Cursors

A

lighted

square,

the

text

cursor,

indicates

your

current

position

in

the

text

area.

Another

cursor,

the

scale

cursor,

is

an

underline

that

indicates

your

position

rela-

tive

to

the

left

of

the

scale

and

follows

horizontal

movement

of

the

text

cursor.

Message

Line

This

line

is

reserved

for

guide

messages

(prompts)

that

ask

you

a

question,

give

direction

or

display

error

messages

that

warn

you

when

something

is

wrong.

When

no

prompt

and

no

error

message

are

displayed,

this

line

is

used

for

your

text.

26

NOTE:

For

a

list

of

error

messages,

see

"Error

Messages"

on

page

277.

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