2.Click on "Start"

3.Click on "RUN"

4. "d:/setup.exe" should come up.If not type it in.

5.Click on OK.

6.Follow instructions until CD is installed.

1.Follow the instructions above and double click the Creative Writer icon to start the program.(If you click the right mouse button while on the Creative writer Icon you may make a shortcut. If you do then drag the shortcut to the desktop.Then open Creative Writer by double clicking on the shortcut.)

2. You will see the following screen :

3.Click on the Blank Page.

 C.Open a file

2.Click on "OPEN".

3.This shows files on the hard disc.

If you wanted to load a file from your

Hard disc then you would click on it here.

 4.You want to load a file from

Floppy disc so you click on the arrow.

5.Click on the highlighted….

floppy disc.

6.Now what you see is the floppy disc.

Click on the file " sample1".The file should open.

D.Change Font/Size/Colour/Style of Text.

Before you change font/size/style/colour of a word or group of words you must select the text first. This is done by dragging the cursor across the text you wish to change.

1. Select the first line of the document by dragging the cursor across it. The line of text should change colour to black.
2. Click on the Font Letter (The A on the left). Click on Times New Roman.
3. Click on the Size Letter(the A second from the left) .Pick size 20.
4. Click on the Style letter(the A third from the left.) Click on UNDERLINE.Click
5. Click on the font colour letter. Pick a dark colour.
6. Pick on the background colour letter. Pick a light colour.
7. Click on the ALIGN button.Pick the centred option.
8. Now click on the page outside the highlighted text and see the changes.!!!!!

9.Select all the text except the heading.Drag the cursor from the first line to the second last…..don't include the name.

9. Change the letter size to 16.
10. Pick a font you like and change to it.
11. Click outside your selected text.
12. Now select the last line and change the font perhaps to a cursive font to personalise the signature!

1.Click on the Pages/Ruler Icon

2.Click on the ABC icon.

3. If a proper name shows as an error just click on next word.

4. Where there is a genuine spelling mistake pick the right spelling from the words given. Clicking the up and down arrows will show more choices.

5. The other items on the page menu deal with columns,page numbering etc which we will not deal with here.

1.Click on the Picture(Graphics Icon)

2.Click on the yellow ball at the left.A clipart gallery will come on screen.

4.Where you see the words Animals…

click on the arrow until you come to the category people. Then pick a suitable picture and click it.A red outline will come on the picture.Then click on OK.

5.The picture will appear on your text with handles at the corners. You can drag the picture to where you want it. You may also resize it by dragging from the corner. When it is where you want it click outside the picture and it will be fixed.

6. If you select the picture by clicking on it ,you may cut or copy the picture by going to the edit menu(the scissors icon)

7. Now click on the border icon….beside the yellow ball on the left

8.By clicking on the arrows at the bottom of the page you may se the available borders. Click on your choice. Then click on OK.

9.Then on the page click at the top left hand corner.

10. Now click on the Background icon.Third from the left.

12.Again choose a background.

13.Click on your choice.

14.Click on OK.

Caveat re Backgrounds

(a)Children often pick backgrounds that make the text difficult to see.

(b) Allowing children to use garish backgrounds is very severe on colour printer cartridges !!

1.Click on the Brown Icon(File Menu)

You have by now

Setup a CD,opened a file, changed size,style,font and colour of words, added pictures,borders,backgrounds ,checked spelling,aligned text, saved a file

Etc.

It's time for coffee or perhaps lunch !!!!!