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Typing equations, Selecting text – Apple AppleWorks 5 : Mac OS User Manual

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Text (word processing)

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Typing equations

You can use Equation Editor to add equations to an AppleWorks word
processing document or frame. (Equation Editor, an application by Design
Science, Inc., is installed on your hard disk with AppleWorks.)

To add an equation at the insertion point of a text document or frame, choose
Insert Equation from the Edit menu. You see the equation editor, which you can
use to add the mathematical components to build the equation. To edit an
equation you’ve already created, double-click the equation, and then make
your changes in the equation editor. For more information, choose Equation
Editor Help from the

or Help menu).

Note When you finish adding an equation, you can format (move, resize,
rotate, and so on) the equation as you can with a draw object. See Chapter 5,
“Drawing” for more information about working with draw objects.

Selecting text

Before you can change text, you must select it. To select text, move the
pointer to the beginning of the text you want to select, and then drag to the
end of the text.

Insert a non-breaking space to keep two
words on the same line

Hold down the Option key and press the
Space bar.

Delete the character to the left of the
insertion point

Press Delete.

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Choose Index from the

or Help menu and scroll to the entry. Then choose a topic from

the list and click Go To Topic.

To

Do this

In the Help index,

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see:

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Equation Editor

In the Help index,

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see:

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selecting text

Selected text