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                           <td bgcolor="#DD0000" valign="middle" align="center"><font size="2"><font color="#FFFFFF"><font face="arial, helvetica"><b>VERSION 2</b></font></td>  
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                     <font color="#FFBB00">Welcome!</font><br>
                            <img src="images/blk.gif" height=1 width=15><a href="#unpack"><b>Unpacking</b></a><br>
                            <img src="images/blk.gif" height=1 width=15><a href="#install"><b>Instalation</b></a><br>
                            <img src="images/blk.gif" height=1 width=15><a href="#defs"><b>The defaults</b></a><p>
                     <font color="#FFBB00">The shortcut bar<br>
                            <img src="images/blk.gif" height=1 width=15><a href="#run"><b>Running apps</b></a><br>
                            <img src="images/blk.gif" height=1 width=15><a href="#add"><b>Adding apps</b></a><br>
                            <img src="images/blk.gif" height=1 width=15><a href="#saving"><b>Saving changes</b></a><p>
                     <font color="#FFBB00">Multiple users<br>
                            <img src="images/blk.gif" height=1 width=15><a href="#setup"><b>Setting up</b></a><br>
                            <img src="images/blk.gif" height=1 width=15><a href="#swapping"><b>Swapping files</b></a><p>
                     <font color="#FFBB00">Getting help<br>
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                     <font color="#FFBB00">The author<br>
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  <font color="#FFBB00"><b>Unpacking...</b></font><br>
  <font color="#004499">The Acorn Office archive that you have downloaded contains a single program to start with, called <i>!Welcome</i>. You will only find you are missing something later on... <small>(Well that paragraph was a lot of help then...)</small><p>
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  <font color="#FFBB00"><b>Instillation...</b></font><br>
  <font color="#004499">This couldn't be simpler if you use the <i>!Welcome</i> program. Just follow the on screen prompts to install a new copy or upgrade an earlier copy of Office onto your hard disc. You could even, if you're feeling adventurous, install it into your boot sequence (RPC users only). Then it will be loaded upon startup of your computer. (Note that !Welcome places !Office in the <i>!Boot.Choices.Tasks</i> directory within your boot application.)<p>
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  <font color="#FFBB00"><b>The defaults...</b></font><br>
  <font color="#004499">When you first load Office you will be greeted with a small shortcut bar in the top right hand corner of the screen.<br>All that there is at the moment are buttons directing you to things to do with the Office application. You may like to drag some applications or files to the bar and see what happens or you may like to open the directory (the button with a directory icon, strangely enough) containing the configuration files. If you then drag one of these files to the <i>icon bar icon</i>, you'll find out what happens... Wow!<p>
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<font color="DD0000"><font size="4"><b><i>The shortcut bar</i></b></font>
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  <font color="#FFBB00"><b>Running apps...</b></font><br>
  <font color="#004499">Now this is a difficult one! All you have to do is point and click with <b>Select</b> to run the application of you choice. Don't forget to reread this section if, at first, it seems unclear :)<p>
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  <font color="#FFBB00"><b>Adding apps...</b></font><br>
  <font color="#004499">Now this one couldn't be simpler. Just drag an application, directory or file to the shortcut bar to add another button.<p>
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  <font color="#FFBB00"><b>Saving changes...</b></font><br>
  <font color="#004499">When you click <b>Menu</b> on the shortcut bar there is a submenu leading to the <b>Save as</b> window. When you get there the current path of the configuration file that you are currently using is in the writable icon. So, if you just want to update that file, just press <b>Save</b>. Otherwise change the pathname and drag the icon to a directory viewer.<p>
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<font color="#DD0000"><font size="4"><b><i>Multiple users...</i></b></font>
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  <font color="#FFBB00"><b>Setting up</b></font><br>
  <font color="#004499">Because you can change the name of the file in the Save window <a href="#saving">(see above)</a> making Office a multiple user affair is easy.<p>
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  <font color="#FFBB00"><b>Swaping files...</b></font><br>
  <font color="#004499">The logical offshot of being able to save multiple files is to have the ability of <i>loading</i> multiple files. To do this just drag an Office file to the icon bar icon and the bar will automaticaly change to the new configuration. To swap back again, or to a different (you can load up to 10 at any one time) config file select the <b>Swap to</b> submenu on the <b>Icon bar menu</b>.<p>
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<font color="#DD0000"><font size="4"><b><i>Getting help</i></b></font>
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  <font color="#FFBB00"><b>Interactive help...</b></font><br>
  <font color="#004499">Context sensitive help is avalible on any aspect of Acorn Office via Acorn's excellent and supreme !Help utility. It can be found in the ROM Apps folder on any Risc OS computer. Personally, I have it as the last button on my vertical shortcut bar.<p>
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  <font color="#FFBB00"><b>The Internet...</b></font><br>
  <font color="#004499">The Acorn Office website is always open and is constently beeing updated at <a href="http://www.everymans.com/acornoffice/">http://www.everymans.com/acornoffice/</a> thanks mainly to my father and Everymans Wine for the use of their webspace. 
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