Creating a new page

Creating a new page.

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Opening HTML Assistant
Adding text, adding HTML coding to text
Making Revisions Using the Hold and Recall Buttons

Opening HTML Assistant
To open HTML Assistant, double click on it's yellow pencil icon, or type "htmlasst.exe" at the DOS prompt or with the Run option under File in Program Manager. A title screen will pop up. Click on the OK button, or hit Enter on your keyboard to continue.
Next, to open a new document, click on the the New File button found at the left hand corner, or under File select the "New" option. (Tip: HTML Assistant has a status bar at the bottom of its main window that, when you pass your cursor over a control button, will tell you what the button is for.) A new window will pop up within the main window.
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Adding text, adding HTML coding to text
HTML Assistant can save you the time of typing in the standard document HTML tags. Under "Command" in the top menu bar, select "Display standard document template." This will cause HTML Assistant to place in the new document window the following HTML tags:

Now you are ready to type in a title between the Title tags, type in attributes to the opening Body tag, and, between the set of Body tags, type in your document. If you prefer, you can type in your document title, select text that is to be between the Header tags, select text that is to be between the Body tags, or select text that is to be between the HTML tags, and under the "Command" option, mark selected text as Title, or Body, etc and have HTML Assistant put in the appropriate opening and closing tags. Additionally, selected text can be tagged as Title by using the Title button in the lower tool bar.
These buttons are used to Cut, Copy and Paste. This is highly useful for copying tagged text from one edit window to paste into another edit window. You can also paste text that has been cut as well, highly useful for moving around sections of a document within an edit window or to another edit window. You can use editing options under Edit in the top menu bar. Not only can you cut, copy and paste, but you can also search the text for a word or number, and you can use the "Replace" option to find and replace text or tags in a document, such as replacing all <BR> tags with <P> tags.
The Repeat button is useful for repeating the last markup command. This is a bit of a time saver when repeating a markup command that is an option under a menu: instead of clicking on the menu item, and then clicking on the option repeatedly, you just need to click on the Repeat button.
To add in HTML coded or plain text that will appear in many of your documents that you will create, such as email contact information, company motto or product slogan, create it once, save it as a .htm or .txt file and then, when needed in a document, go to the File menu and select the "Insert file at cursor..." option. Next, select the saved file. Finally, click on the OK button.
Text appearance is controlled by the Bold, Italic, Underline and the Styles buttons in the upper tool bar. The Underline appearance is no longer supported by most browsers to avoid confusion between merely underlined text and text that is a clickable link. To change the appearance of text, highlight the text, then click on the Bold or the Italics button, or click on the Styles button and choose which style from the Styles menu list.
Text font size is controlled by the Heading buttons in the upper tool bar. To change the font size of text, highlight the text, then click on a numbered Heading button. Number 1 gives the largest font size, number 6 gives the smallest. Some of the Style settings also affect font size as well as the appearance of the text.
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Making Revisions Using the Hold and Recall Buttons

Making Revisions Using the Hold and Recall Buttons.
The Hold and Recall buttons are great for experimenting with the text and tags in your document by allowing you to return to a previous version of your document. This is important because to test new revisions on your document you must first save the document. This will, however, write over the previous version of the document. To avoid this, before you make changes, click on the Hold button. Then revise your document, save it, and test it. If you want to go back to your previous version, click on the Recall button and your document will be returned to as it was before. The document is still saved, however, with the revisions, so you will need to save the document again if you want to fully erase the revisions.
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