FIGURE A

A row of icons appears at the bottom of the QED screen. You can also see the Commands menu here.

New documents by default are named "untitled1," "untitled2," and so on. With any document, however, you can select Rename from the Commands menu and give the document a descriptive name. The author says that future versions might allow users to name files as they are created. A word of caution: Document names of eight characters or fewer are best if you plan to use MakeDoc to convert your documents back to text files for use on your PC (more about this later). The DOS-based utility will choke on long filenames.

When you click the Open icon, you're presented with a list of available documents from which to choose. The first time I used QED, I was momentarily stumped by the large checkmark and the large X at the bottom of the "open" dialog box, mostly because their use is a departure from the standard interface of Pilot applications. Obviously, however, the checkmark is the equivalent of "OK," and the X means "Cancel." Unfortunately, the symbols don't respond to the GoType! keyboard's shortcuts for "Done" and "Cancel."

The author has cleverly made five of the icons serve dual functions. Pressing the third icon will search for text, but pressing the icon above the dividing line will initiate a new search, whereas pressing it below the line will search again for the string that was originally entered. Hint: QED will perform this function downward only, so go to the top of the document before initiating a search.

Similarly, pressing the "scroll up" icon above the divider will scroll the text by one line; pressing it below the divider will scroll the text by one page. The equivalent is true of the "scroll down," "scroll left," and "scroll right" icons. Vertical scrolling can also be effected with the hardware buttons.

The rectangular bar contains a "slider" and is a graphical representation of the length of your document. To jump to the top of your file, tap the left end of the bar or drag the slider all the way to the left. To jump to the approximate middle of your file, drag the slider to the center. To move to the end of your file, drag the slider all the way to the right.

The paper-clip icon brings up a small window from which you can manage bookmarks, as shown in Figure B. For example, if you frequently need to return to a specified point in a document, first navigate to that point, then tap the paper clip, then choose Add Bookmark. You're presented with a dialog box in which to enter the name of the bookmark. Thereafter, pressing the paper clip will show you the bookmark you named along with the default options Add Bookmark, Delete Bookmark, and Scan Bookmarks. Selecting the name of the bookmark you created will take you directly to that point in the file. There's more about bookmarks below.

FIGURE B

You can manage Bookmarks with QED.