HP 3000 Manuals

HP DeskManager User Reference Guide

Writing Text Documents 

An HP Deskmessage or item will always contain some text.  When you type a
message after the Text:  prompt inside an item or message, you are
creating a Text document.  If your terminal does not support the normal
editing facilities, HP Desk provides TDP/3000 editing functions, or, if
TDP is not available, Edit/3000.

You can also create Text documents in the Work Area, or as an additional
part of a message.

To create a text item: 

   *   At the Workarea > or MESSAGE > prompt, type:

            CREATE TEXT Return 

       You can write your messages with a different text editor.  See
       "Choosing an Editor" .

   *   At the Workarea > or MESSAGE > prompts, use the CONVERT command to
       turn an HP Word or HP Slate document into a Text document.  You
       might do this if your terminal does not support HP Word, but you
       need to edit an HP Word document you have received.

   *   At the Workarea > or MESSAGE > prompt, include text from a file
       outside HP Desk by typing COPY TEXT FROM followed by the file
       name.  See "Copying Items into and out of HP Desk"  for
       details.

   *   At the Workarea > or MESSAGE > prompts, include a text item from
       the Filing Cabinet using the COPY FROM command.

   *   Open a message in your In Tray or Out Tray, and use the COPY
       command to place the text from the message in the Work Area.

Spell-Checking Text Documents 

If you have HP Spell on your system you can check that your Text
documents contain no spelling mistakes.

To spell-check a Text document: 

   *   At an area prompt type SPELL followed by the subject or number of
       the Text document, and press Return.  For example:

            Workarea > SPELL 1 Return 

   *   At the MESSAGE > prompt type SPELL followed by the part number of
       the Text document, then press Return.  For example:

            MESSAGE > SPELL 2 Return 

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