File menu

Menu item
Key
What it does
New F4 Opens a new file. The caption is New File. On the first Save, the file is named and placed on the Recently opened list.
Open F5 Gets the File Open dialog. One or more (contiguous) files from a disk may be opened.
Template Shift+F5 Gets the File open dialog with .tpt files in eWriter’s directory listed. One of these files may be opened as a New File. The file receives a name and is placed in the Open and Recently opened list. To work on the .tpt (template) file, use the regular Open procedure.
Add Direct Open File (5) - Opens an Input box. you may add up to five files to be listed on this menu. You may open these without their being added to the Recently opened list. You may also edit this list in the Tools/Lists Editor box.
Remove Direct Open file - You may remove a Direct Open file from a drop-down list.
[ Up to five Direct Open pathnames may be menu items in this location. ] Alt+F5, Ctrl+F5 The first two of the (up to) five direct open files may be key accessed by the two keys listed.
Close Ctrl+F4 This closes the topmost writing window.
Reload - This reloads the file in the topmost writing window in the same window. Useful for getting rid of unwanted chenges.
Save F2
Save As... Shift+F2
Print Ctrl+F2 Theis prints a straight-forward proof dump. It will be black on white 10 point Courier New no matter what screen formatting you have. (See the Text menu.) The file name will be in the upper left corner. If you have two or more pages, the page number will be there. If you have a line of more than 84 characters, you are given options about printing that line.
Printer Setup -
Export as .rtf file - eWriter works on plain text files, but in an .rtf environment so that you can color tags in html and xml files and do screen marking, visual aids and other things. If you want to print, say, an html file with the tag content colored blue, export as an .rtf file and print from WordPad, MS Word, or another program that reads and prints rtf.
Exit Alt+F4 Closes eWriter.
[ Up to five Recently Opened files will have their pathnames added at the bottom of the menu. These may be directly opened. ] Shift+F4 The first of the five Recently Opened files may be key-accessed by Shift+F4. The list may be edited in Tools/Liss Editor.