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Apple IIe Card User Manual

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To change the character set, follow these steps:

1. Press Control-Command-Esc.

The Option Panel appears, with the General Controls panel displayed. The

pointer changes to a crosshair when you place it in the General Controls

panel.

2. Click the button for the character set you want.

After you close the Option Panel, your choice remains in effect until you

change the setting again.

By the way: Regardless of which character set you choose, flashing text

appears as black characters on a red background on a color monitor, or dark

characters on a light background on a monochrome monitor.

Changing or adding an Option Panel key

You can always open the Option Panel by pressing the combination keystroke

Control-Command-Esc. If you like, you can add a second key or combination of

keys to open the Option Panel.

To add a second way of opening the Option Panel, follow these steps:

1. Open the Option Panel by pressing Control-Command-Esc.

The Option Panel appears, with the General Controls panel displayed. The

pointer changes to a crosshair when you place it in the General Controls

panel.

2. Click the Change button.

A dialog box appears.

3. Press the key or combination of keys you want to use to open the Option

Panel.

If instead you want to remove the second Option Panel key, click the None

button.

4. Click OK.

Changing the mouse tracking rate

You can adjust the correlation between mouse and pointer movement, called

mouse tracking, so that the pointer moves the same distance on the screen as

the mouse moves, or so that the pointer moves up to two times as far on the

screen as the mouse moves, depending on how fast you move the mouse.

The mouse tracking rate you choose in the Apple IIe Option Panel is in effect

only while the computer is in the Apple IIe environment. When you switch to

the Macintosh environment, the mouse tracking rate is determined by the rate

setting in the Macintosh Mouse control panel.

The mouse tracking rate in the Apple IIe Option Panel is preset to the rate

setting in the Macintosh Mouse control panel.