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Show Undated Disnlavwritpr k old friend with new 'undo' key, on-screen helpers DAMAmkAH rmii- ri . ..... Park Record Thursday, May 1, 1986 Page A9 Remember IBM's Displaywriter dedicated word processor? Many pioneering secretaries bested the beast learning its lingo and confronting confron-ting its commands. Smart companies com-panies replaced those old dragons with computers that also do math, graphics, and telecommunication. For folks now coping with these wizards, it's comforting to meet an old friend. IBM's $450 Displaywrite 3 word processing program for IBM PCs and compatibles is a streamlined, chrome-covered new version of that friend. It does all the old dedicated word processor did and much more. It sets lengthy headers and footers, repairs too-hasty deletions with an undo key and offers oodles of onscreen on-screen help. Like most good programs, this one handles sub-directories and converts con-verts files to and from ASCII (for moving between incompatible programs). pro-grams). It has good menus that can be bypassed once you learn the program, pro-gram, which is fortunate since its function-key template is unclear and its manual too big. There are easy-to-change default responses to speed you along, and you can store several personal typing and format profiles. You can center just part of a line. You can draw lines and boxes. You can search for three words, sets of words andor format codes all in one pass (although the program only finds exact upper- and lower-case matches). You can merge documents or just specific pages. And there's a one-word-underline key (but no double-underline). Its math not only multiplies and divides, it finds averages and percentages. You can set how many UThe M Business Computer by Frankl.vnn Peterson anf Jud.v K.Turkcl decimal places you want and it rounds off correctly. Enter how many columns you need and how wide each should be and the program sets correct tabs. At a command, it displays labels at top or left as you type columnar data. Many programs let you insert, delete, move and copy columns; here you can center, right-justify or decimal-tab them, too. Footnoting is automatic and you can store footnotes to use in several chapters. The program has five alternate keyboards for scientific and foreign-languages. Displaywrite hyphenates correctly the newest fancy feature in many programsand pro-gramsand hyphenates columnar text, too. For the spelling checker, you can buy legal and medical user dictionaries from IBM. But, ah, the problems! Displaywrite is stuck with disabling hangovers from life as a dedicated word processor. It paginates as a separate task after you store a file. Then it stores pages one at a time so if you insert words that lengthen page 2 after after you've written page 3, it's called page 2.1! No page endings show on-screen, although you do hear a beep as you scroll past one. After revising a paragraph, you must correct margins with a "line adjust" key a very primitive holdover ! Another old-timer, Samna Word, is in Release 3.0 for IBM PC and compatibles. The same release comes in a network version and (as AdvanceWrite) customized for the keyboard of Hewlett Packard's Vec-tra Vec-tra Office. Like its predecessors, 3.0 comes in I ($295), II ($450), III ($550) and Plus ($695 including integrated spreadsheet and text search programs). pro-grams). This new release is good, easy to learn, feature-packed and corrects the slowness of old versions. Even the cheapest package draws lines, double-underlines, prints newspaper-style columns on a page, footnotes, windows, handles hard-disk hard-disk subdirectories and changes easily between 12 preprogrammed keyboards including math, science and foreign languages. Samna doesn't use menus, and we feel more comfortable using a menu-driver menu-driver program. But most commands com-mands are easy to remember once you understand the programmer's logic, and there are many easy-to-get-at help screens, if you don't need the features it's missing, and don't mind a sloppy manual with an incomplete in-complete index, try out Samna I. Samna II is for folks who also need spelling checker, automatic hyphenator and alphabetical list sorting; sor-ting; III adds boilerplate storage (a must for attorneys' offices), index- Deadline for co-op area ad is May 2 The commitment deadline for participation par-ticipation in the Chamber Bureau's Wasatch Front and regional co-op advertising program is Friday, May 2. May 2 is also the dealine for participation par-ticipation in the winter out-of-state advertising program. Staff changes: Connie Arnold, ChamberBureau executive secretary, has accepted a position with the U.S. Ski Team, and Mark Menlove, director of communications, communica-tions, will move to Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., where he will' 'be marketing director for M.D. Medical Center. "We wish both Connie and Mark the best of luck in their new posi-tions," posi-tions," said Bill Clinger, ChamberBureau executive director. direc-tor. The ChamberBureau is now accepting ac-cepting applications for these positions. posi-tions. . Discount river trips: Colorado River & Trail Expeditions has invited in-vited all Park City Chamber Bureau I Park City Area Update ( ham tor of CommerceConvention and Vlfiilor Bureau members and their immediate families to participate in a three-day rafting familiarization trip. Two trips will be offered on Memorial Day weekend, May 24-26. First, a trip through Desolation Canyon Ca-nyon on the Green River for $225. Second, Se-cond, a raft trip on the Colorado River through Canyonlands National Na-tional Park for $275. Price includes everything except personal belongings, and waterproof containers will be provided to protect pro-tect them. Also included is transportation transpor-tation between Park City and the river, with at least one scenic flight. Space is limited, so sign up soon. To reserve space, call 261-1789. Tempt your Taste! 2 Check out the Park City Restaurant Guide Located in the the T.V. section of the paper Car Trouble? We'll fix it on the double! Miners Automotive is your full service automotive business. Call us for professional tune-ups, tire service and expert engine rebuilding. Our mechanics are trained to work on all makes of cars and trucks, toreign ana domestic . And don't forget our towing service for that car that just won't start. Complete Auto Detailing by appointment Stop in for an estimate Need Shocks or Muffler Work? ac( r,,lrti Rrvid. Park Citv U47 A-VJX XtyU IT A UIlWivi , It G3359 "mi vm "r'" . . . .. inMtiwBiiiiiyitgnwftt nm,nMnjiu.ijifa(W-i..,ifliajMi,MjwW "7 " tiiliTiw.J rr "it rmjTiift-" ifawMeffi (mm ing and table-of -contents generation, five-function math and macros. Both are priced pretty steep, so compare them with comparable programs from other makers. Tandy's souped-up Scripsit Pc (for Tandy's and other makers' "IBM-compatibles") "IBM-compatibles") sells at Radio Shack for $300. It's a basic word processor with spelling checker and automatic hyphenator, and it claims easy customization for running on a network. net-work. Though it doesn't have alternate alter-nate keyboards, it does do romance-language romance-language accent marks. But it won't window print newspaper-type columns, do footnotes foot-notes or indexes or keep selected words (like "MS DOS") together at the end of a line. In addition, the only printers its manual lists are the ones sold by Radio Shack! And not one of three programs pro-grams Scripsit, Samna Word or Displaywrite supports several bins in a cut-sheet feeder so you can print out the first page on letterhead and following pages on plain paper. This is becoming a must for most of today's to-day's automated offices, and our inexpensive in-expensive Microsoft Word does it without a hitch The columnists answer questions and send a checklist of back issues if you enclose a stamped, self-addressed self-addressed envelope. Comparative facts about features are included in a 4,000-word special report, "Word Processor Buyer's and User's Guide." For your copy, send a $3 check for Report FP94 to The Business Computer, 4343 W. Beltline Hwy., Madison, Wis. 53711. (c) 1986 PK Associates, Inc. Distributed by Tribune Media Services, Ser-vices, Inc. P.C Chamber director joins national group William H. Clinger, executive director of the Park City Area Chamber of CommerceConvention & Visitors Bureau, wps approved for. membership in the International Association of Convention & Visitor Bureaus (IACVB). Board approval of Clinger was announced by president George D. Kirkland following IACVB's board of directors meeting April 10 in Washington, D.C. IACVB was founded in 1914 to promote sound professional practices in travel marketing and in the solicitation and servicing of meetings and conventions. The group's membership is comprised of 257 convention and visitor bureaus in 18 countries. 'J, THE COMEDY WITHOUT BRAKES. liyli III AT 6:30 KX. SI N.) "'Wildcats' Is a laugh-getter.' Nwswtek. 0vld AnMfl SIMMS tHIIIM 's- GOLDIE HAWN 0S"K". AT8:30(i:X. M'N. S "sAtaktS I iCiDiClQMil C I AT 6:30 (KX. SI N.) PO 13 , ALL SEATS! EACH MOVIE! STARTS FRIDAY THE COW MUST BE DAILY AT 8:30 (KX. 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