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From: avalon@ssyx (Scott A. McIntyre)
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Subject: Re: Fullwrite Professional Question...
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Date: 14 May 88 18:34:24 GMT
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+-In article <2279@spray.CalComp.COM>, anson@spray.UUCP (Ed Anson) wrote:-
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|This is about the zillionth reference to sidebars on the net. Perhaps I
|blinked, but I haven't seen any description of what sidebars are about.
|I get a vague impression from the various postings, but it seems that such
|an important concept deserves a better description for those of us who
|haven't really seen FullWrite yet.
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Ok, I'll do my best to describe what I feel the purpose and function of side-
bars is.  Sidebars are about 3/16 to 1/4 of an inch wide "bars" on the left
side of your document, column, or columns.  In Sidebars, various icon's appear
signifying various aspects of the document.  For example, say you insert a 
footnote after the 1/4 that I wrote up above, on the left side of the document
where the sidebar resides an icon would appear, about the same line where the
1/4 is and the icon would be a square with a line on the bottom.  I could then
go ahead and enter my footnote reference, etc.  Then say at a later point I
wanted to change something in that footnote.  Instead of hunting it down in
the document, I can double click on the icon in the sidebar, which would
open up my footnote, and viola! I can change it.

Other uses include FWP's option of "Posted Notes" which are a computer version
of 3M's Post-it Note.  You know, those little yellow things that have hit
xerox copies all over the planet...anyway, you can insert a posted note at
some point in the document, and leave a message for the next person who
may read the document and make changes.  Posted note's don't print out, so
you can type whatever you want in them.  To find out what a posted note says,
go to the sidebar, and double click on it's icon.

Oh yes, if you insert certain things that use sidebars for icons, the sidebar
can expand to the left of your document, and to get to the icon then, you just
double click on the elipse (...) that appears in the sidebar.

That is about it!  In essence, they are used to display icon's, change-bars,
postednotes, and other things you can insert in your document, or have 
displayed.  Hope this helps!

Scott

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