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HyperCard Users Guide 1987

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The Macintosh HyperCard User's Guide is Apple Computer's 1987 manual for HyperCard.[1] Its cover shows the Home card with the stacks supplied: Intro, Phone, Help, To Do, Address, Weekly, Documents, Calendar, File Index, Slide Show, Book Shelf, HyperCalc, Art Ideas, Clip Art, Card Ideas, Button Ideas, Stack Ideas, Quotations and Plots.[1]

The printed text runs to p. 221 after the front matter; the scan has 255 PDF pages, including Apple's reader comment cards and the quick reference card.[1]

Contents

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From the guide's contents pages:[1]

  • Preface, Before You Begin (p. xv): what you need, system software, installing HyperCard on a hard disk, on-line help, where to get stacks.
  1. Browsing and Editing (p. 1)
  2. Customizing (p. 19)
  3. Home (p. 47)
  4. Text in HyperCard (p. 53)
  5. Graphics in HyperCard (p. 73)
  6. Menu Commands (p. 83)
  7. Keyboard Commands (p. 185)
  • Appendix A: Common HyperCard Messages (p. 195); Appendix B: HyperCard Disks (p. 203); Glossary (p. 207); Index (p. 211).

It is a software manual, with no hardware information. For the HyperTalk scripting language see HyperTalk Bible 1989.

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Download: HyperCard_Users_Guide_1987.pdf

References

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Apple Computer, Macintosh HyperCard User's Guide, ©1987: cover, copyright page, contents (pp. iii–ix) and preface. Hosted as File:HyperCard Users Guide 1987.pdf.