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Apple IIe Card User Manual

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this time choose IIe Startup.

4. Click Continue to resume your work.

Getting Help

If you need help while using the Option Panel, use the Help button. Clicking

the Help button displays a window that explains the purpose of the active

panel and tells you how to choose the settings in that panel.

To get help while using the Apple IIe Option Panel, follow these steps:

1. From the Option Panel, click the Help button.

The Help window for the active panel appears.

2. Click OK when you've finished reading the Help message.

You return to the active panel.

By the way: You can also get help while using the Option Panel by pressing

Command-?

If you still need help after using the Help button, see the "Troubleshooting"

appendix for more suggestions.

Saving, Printing, and Displaying Apple IIe Screens

Sometimes you may wish to have a "snapshot" of something that's on your Apple

IIe screen. You might want to save an image to use in a Macintosh program, to

illustrate an instructional manual you are writing, or to show someone a

problem you're having with an Apple II program.

The Option Panel has several commands in the File and Edit menus that allow

you take snapshots of your Apple II screens, as explained in the next three

sections.

Saving a picture of an Apple IIe screen

To save a snapshot of what's currently on your Apple IIe screen, follow these

steps:

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

2. Choose the Save IIe Screen command from the File menu.

3. Type a name for the file.

You can also use the usual ways to specify which disk and folder the file

should be saved in.

4. Click Save.

The file is saved on your disk. The files can be opened by any program that

can understand PICT files. Most Macintosh drawing programs can understand

PICT files. (Most painting programs cannot.)

5. Click Continue to return to your Apple IIe work, or click Quit IIe to