Business Basics - VTech PreComputer Prestige Course Manual

BUSINESS BASICS

WORD PROCESSING
This activity offers a word processor for many types of documents. See Chapter 5 of this
manual.
TYPING GAME
This activity helps to improve your keyboarding skills through this exciting typing game. The
game will drop words from the top of the screen. The objective of this game is to type
these words before they hit the bottom of the screen. When a word hits the bottom of
the screen, you lose one of the three chances.
Type in the words that appear and press the Space Bar or the Enter to confirm. You
will receive a score for each word that you enter correctly.
BASIC TUTOR
This activity will acquaint you with the fundamental BASIC commands through a series of
simple practice programs. These programs have already been entered into the
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PRECOMPUTER PRESTIGE unit so you do not need to do any extra typing. However,
you can alter the programs after they are loaded to experiment with the language. Don't
worry about messing up the programs! The original version will always be available to
start over again. These simple practice programs are listed in the APPENDIX of Chapter
6 of this manual.
BASIC
This is an intensive programming activity. Full instructions are provided in Chapter 6 of
this manual.
200 YEAR CALENDAR
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The PRECOMPUTER PRESTIGE learning toy has a built-in 200 year calendar. The activity
will start by showing you the calendar January, 1996. You can change the day by clicking
on the arrows on the right or left of the icon. You can change the month by clicking
on the arrows on the right or left of the icon. You can change the year by clicking
on the arrows on the right or left of the icon.
You can also mark important holiday or celebration dates. Choose the date you want to
mark and then choose the icon. You will see a black box on the date. You can
remove the mark by choosing the date and then selecting the icon.
DAILY PLANNER
The Daily Planner lets you record important notes, dates, appointments, etc. so that you
can reference them later. The first time you enter the activity you will have to choose
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