Once you have processed a few documents, even short ones, you will find yourself discovering new ways of doing your work. For example, there may be many pieces of text which you find yourself typing time and time again as parts of longer documents. Why not record these as files? Then when you need them, you can just READ them into the text you are composing and move them to wherever you want them at the time. The methods suggested in chapter 10 for macros can be developed a good deal further too.
To change the delay: *FX11,X RETURN
where X is the delay in hundredths of a second.
To change the auto-repeat rate: *FX12,X RETURN
where X is the number of characters per second.
To reset both rates to the default values: *FX12,0 RETURN
Both text and background colours can be changed. The colours available are:
0 - black
1 - red
2 - green
3 - yellow
4 - blue
5 - magenta
6 - cyan
7 - white
Try the following examples in MODE 3.
For a green screen effect:
Hold down CTRL and press S
Press: 1 2 0 0 0
For white text on blue background:
Hold down CTRL and press S
Press: 0 4 0 0 0
For black text on white background
Hold down CTRL and press S
Press: 0 7 0 0 0
Hold down CTRL and press S
Press 1 0 0 0 0
The first digit indicates whether it is text or background colour that is to be changed. 0 means background and 1 means text. The second digit indicates the colour, as in the table above.
Changing modes resets colours to white on black.
The purpose of this book is to help you become aware of the opportunities which VIEW offers, but using them effectively is a matter of practice. As you work with VIEW, place the VIEW Guide beside your computer for quick reference. It is fully indexed and groups the facilities so as to minimise page turning. Above all remember that word processing is a partnership between you and the system, but that the system depends on you for judgement and control. The more you understand about VIEW and about your computer the more effective you will be in using both.