Welcome - Introduction

     Ÿ The askSam Manuals

     Ÿ askSam and askSam Professional

     Ÿ What is The Purpose Of askSam?

Chapter 1 - Overview  

     Ÿ Terminology Used In This Guide

     Ÿ How Your Information is Stored

Chapter 2 - Getting To Know askSam

     Ÿ The Menus

     Ÿ The Screen

     Ÿ Getting Help

Chapter 3 - Working with Files

     Ÿ Starting askSam

     Ÿ The File Menu

     Ÿ Creating A File

     Ÿ Opening A File

     Ÿ Saving A File

     Ÿ Packing A File

     Ÿ Indexing A File

     Ÿ Closing A File

     Ÿ Creating New Files

     Ÿ File Templates

     Ÿ Exiting askSam

Chapter 4 - Working With Entry Forms

     Ÿ Designing an Entry Form

     Ÿ Creating an Entry Form

     Ÿ Inserting Text and Graphics in an Entry Form

     Ÿ Multiple Line Fields

     Ÿ Editing an Entry Form

     Ÿ Deleting an Entry Form

Chapter 5 - Working With Documents

     Ÿ Adding Documents

     Ÿ Using Data Entry Mode  

     Ÿ Using Stop Codes To Add Information

     Ÿ Editing Documents

     Ÿ Moving Through Your Documents

     Ÿ Working with the Tagged Document

     Ÿ Moving to a Specific Document Number

     Ÿ Using Bookmarks

     Ÿ Pick Lists

     Ÿ Deleting and Undeleting Documents

Chapter 6 - The askSam Word Processor

     Ÿ Working with Text

     Ÿ Moving Within a Single Document

     Ÿ Deleting and Undeleting Text

     Ÿ Selecting Text

     Ÿ Cut, Copy, and Paste Functions

     Ÿ Drag and Drop Editing

     Ÿ Date and Time Stamps

     Ÿ Using Fonts and Font Styles

     Ÿ Alignment and Spacing

     Ÿ Setting Tabs

     Ÿ Margins and Indents

     Ÿ Pagination - Breaking a Document into Pages

     Ÿ Using Headers & Footers

     Ÿ The Zoom Functions

     Ÿ Creating HTML Documents in askSam

     Ÿ Creating HTML Documents in askSam Continued

Chapter 7 - Working With Graphics and Other Objects

     Ÿ Using Graphics in askSam

     Ÿ Object Linking And Embedding

     Ÿ Working With Linked Objects

     Ÿ Working with Embedded Objects

Chapter 8 - Searching Documents with askSam

     Ÿ Searching Basics

     Ÿ Wildcard Searches

     Ÿ Case Sensitive Searches

     Ÿ Fuzzy Searches

     Ÿ Index Searches

     Ÿ The Word List

     Ÿ Saving a Search Request

     Ÿ Using The Retrieval Dialog Box

     Ÿ Searching from the Command Line

     Ÿ Searching in Fields

     Ÿ Numeric Searching

     Ÿ Proximity Searching

     Ÿ Date Searching

     Ÿ Boolean Searches

     Ÿ Multiple Search Requests

     Ÿ Counting Selected Documents

     Ÿ Searching Through Multiple Files

     Ÿ Hypertext Searching

     Ÿ Local Searching (The FIND Command)

     Ÿ Search and Replace

Chapter 9 - Sorting and Simple Outputting

     Ÿ Sorting

     Ÿ Outputting the Contents of a Field

     Ÿ Outputting with the SHOW Command

     Ÿ Totaling a Field

     Ÿ Counting Words or Phrases

Chapter 10 - Printing

     Ÿ Preparing To Print

     Ÿ Printing A Single Document

     Ÿ Printing All The Documents In A File

     Ÿ Printing Selected Documents

     Ÿ Printing Reports

     Ÿ Changing Printers

Chapter 11 - The askSam Report Writer

     Ÿ What Is A Report?

     Ÿ Creating A New Report

     Ÿ Running A Report

     Ÿ Report Links

     Ÿ Editing A Report

     Ÿ Deleting A Report

     Ÿ Report Layouts

     Ÿ Using the Show Command in Reports

     Ÿ Totaling and Grouping Fields

     Ÿ Grouping Fields Continued

     Ÿ Report Settings

     Ÿ Formatting Reports

     Ÿ Printing Reports

     Ÿ Exporting Reports

     Ÿ Mailing Labels

     Ÿ Troubleshooting Reports

Chapter 12 - Mail Merge

     Ÿ What Is Mail Merge?

     Ÿ Creating A Mail Merge Letter

     Ÿ Previewing A Mail Merge Letter

     Ÿ Printing A Mail Merge Letter

     Ÿ Editing A Mail Merge Letter

     Ÿ Deleting A Mail Merge Letter

Chapter 13 - Importing & Exporting Information

     Ÿ File Formats For Import And Export

     Ÿ Importing A Single File As A Single askSam Document

     Ÿ Importing A Single File As Multiple Documents

     Ÿ Importing Multiple Files

     Ÿ Importing Files onto the end of an Entry Form

     Ÿ Importing dBASE Files

     Ÿ Importing Comma or Tab Delimited Data

     Ÿ Importing Fixed Position Data

     Ÿ Importing Data into an Entry Form

     Ÿ Importing CompuServe Information Manager Files

     Ÿ Importing Eudora E-Mail Files

     Ÿ Importing Nexis/Lexis Files

     Ÿ Importing HTML Files

     Ÿ Exporting

     Ÿ Exporting A Comma or Tab Delimited File

     Ÿ Exporting HTML Documents

     Ÿ Exchanging Information Between askSam Files

     Ÿ Exporting A Subset Of Documents

Chapter 14 - Organizing Information with Hypertext

     Ÿ What is Hypertext?

     Ÿ Setting Hypertext Links

     Ÿ Deleting Hypertext Links

     Ÿ Viewing or Executing Hypertext Links

     Ÿ Returning to Previous Links (Backtrack & History)

     Ÿ Creating Hypertext Menus

     Ÿ Creating Hypertext Documents

Chapter 15 - Customization, Options, and Tools

     Ÿ Changing The askSam Screen

     Ÿ File Preferences

     Ÿ Passwords And Encryption

     Ÿ File Recovery

     Ÿ Date and Time Formats

     Ÿ Output Separator

     Ÿ Global Preferences

     Ÿ HTML Options  

     Ÿ Customizing the Button Bars

     Ÿ The Spell Checker

     Ÿ The askSam Phone Dialer Option

     Ÿ Automatic Field Recognition

     Ÿ Creating and Modifying Templates

     Ÿ Templates included with askSam