Using the Starting Points window

    The Starting Points window provides a quick way to create new documents, open recently used documents, and access AppleWorks Assistants, templates, and Web content. Each of these areas has a panel in Starting Points. You can also add panels to help you access and organize your own files.

    By default, Starting Points appears when you start AppleWorks or when no AppleWorks document windows are open. (You can change this default.) You can resize the Starting Points window the same way as other "floating" windows in AppleWorks.

    Tip: If you click in the Starting Points window, a colored ring appears around the window's content area. You can then press Command -Left Arrow or Command -Right Arrow to move left or right through the tabbed panels. Quickly select an item in a Starting Points panel using "type-ahead selection": click in the panel and type the beginning of the name of the item.

Showing or hiding Starting Points

    To show the Starting Points window:
    • Choose Show Starting Points from the File menu.

    Starting Points closes when you open a document. You can also hide Starting Points by clicking its close box or choosing Hide Starting Points from the File menu.

Adding panels and documents to Starting Points

    You can add a Starting Points panel that displays thumbnails of documents stored on your computer. When you click a thumbnail, the document opens. You can also add a panel that contains all the images on a Web page.

    To create a Starting Points panel:
    1 Click the Starting Points plus (+) tab.
    2 Type the name that will appear on the panel's tab.
    3 Choose an item from the Location pop-up menu:
    • If the panel will contain thumbnails of documents on your computer, choose My Computer.
    AppleWorks creates a folder in the Starting Points folder (in the AppleWorks 6 folder on your hard disk) with the same name as the panel. If you save documents in this folder, they appear on the panel.
    • If the panel will contain images from a Web page, choose Internet Based and enter the URL (for example, http://www.apple.com).
    Tip: You can also add items to a panel by dragging them from the Finder desktop.

    Tip: You can also add a panel by pressing the Control key while you click the Starting Points window, then choosing Add Tab from the contextual menu, or by creating a folder in the Starting Points folder (in the AppleWorks 6 folder) on your hard disk.

Hiding, deleting, or renaming a panel

    You can temporarily hide a panel from view by disabling it.

    To disable or delete a Starting Points panel:
    1 Press the Control key while you click the panel's tab, then choose Delete Tab from the contextual menu.
    Note: You can't delete the Basic, Assistants, Web, Recent Items, or + panels.
    2 Click Disable Tab or Move To Trash.

    To rename a Starting Points panel:
    • Double-click the panel's tab.
    Note: You can't rename the Basics, Assistants, Web, Recent Items, or + panels.

Adding Internet content to Starting Points

    If you put AppleWorks documents on your Web site, other AppleWorks users can use Starting Points to access the latest versions of the documents on the Web.

    Note: Creating an Internet location file for an AppleWorks document is only supported in Mac OS 8.5 or later.

    To provide other AppleWorks users easy access to a document on your Web site:
    1 Save the AppleWorks document with ".cwk" at the end of the filename.
    2 Put the document on your Web site.
    Note: When you arrange for space on a Web server, you'll be given specific instructions by a Webmaster or other technical advisor on how to prepare your files and how to upload (copy) your files to the Web server.
    3 Create an Internet location file for the document:
    a Type the document's URL in a text document.
    b Select the URL and drag it to the Finder desktop.
    4 Send the Internet location file to others.
    When others put that file in the Web folder in their Starting Points folder (in the AppleWorks folder), they can click the document thumbnail to download the latest version from your Web site.

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