Note pad

The note pad is an electronic jotter: it stores what you type into it in its own

area of memory, so you can use it to leave messages to yourself, make shopping

lists and so forth! Moving the cursor onto the note pad part of the menu-bar and

clicking produces a short list of items, the first of which allows you to control

whether the note pad is visible or not. If you select this item the note pad will

appear, showing its first page of text (which is initially blank). The up- and

down-arrow icons, and their equivalent entries in the menu, allow you to turn

the pages of the pad one by one. Each page can store up to 20 lines of 31

characters, and there is a limit of 16 pages in all.

The note pad has one icon we have not encountered before, a sort of inverted 'L'

called a stretch box. This allows you to expand and contract the size of the

window in a similar way to moving a window. Try it out for yourself. The note

pad is moved by selecting on its title at the top of the window.

You can store your note pad on disc or retrieve those you have already saved

with the 'Load Pad' and 'Save Pad' entries in the menu, which will ask you to

enter a filename as usual.

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