Alphasmart NEO, User Manual

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All About AlphaWord Plus 25
Understanding workspaces and files
Understanding workspaces and files
AlphaWord Plus makes use of workspaces—eight of them—one for
each
file
key along the top of keyboard.
In AlphaWord Plus, you’re always in one of the eight workspaces,
which you use for your work in progress. When you press one of the
file
keys in AlphaWord Plus, the associated file immediately opens. If
there is no file associated with the file key you pressed, then you have
a blank space in which to create a new file.
These workspaces give you instant access to your text—either text
you’ve just typed, or a file you worked on before that you’ve named.
By simply pressing the
file
keys, you switch instantly between
whatever files or text are loaded into the workspaces.
Just because you have eight workspaces doesn’t mean you’re limited
to eight files only. You can name your files, move them out of a
workspace, then swap them back in when you’re ready to work on
them again.
Creating files
The first time you start up AlphaWord Plus, it places you in File 1 (the
workspace associated with the
file 1
key). After that first time, the last
file that you used opens whenever you start AlphaWord Plus.
To create a file:
In AlphaWord Plus, press the
file
keys until you find an empty
workspace and begin typing.
There is no need to save your work, because Neo saves each
character as you type it. (You can, however, “save” your file in order to
give it a name. See “Formatting text” on page 28 for more
information.)