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DON'T OVERLOOK THIS FEATURE . XDetractors will say that PowerPoint is best suited to present ah ԭations that use a lot of text and clip art (where have you heard that before?), but stop and think about the last fifty or so presentations you've either sat through or created, and what they were made up of. PowerPoint earns its keep, and ah  its check rating.  $ Guide ă  Owl International, Inc.ă XGuide belongs to a breed of program with roots in both the ah  simplest and most esoteric recesses of PC usage. The primary idea is to provide a medium in which large amounts of information are made (readily) available to even the least computerliterate in a way that makes them forget they're "using the oneeyed monster". Owl International calls it "hypermedia", others call a subset of it "hypertext"; the phrase most commonly applied lately has been "multimedia". y!a yjddPROFILEy U 1  1 :!A(0 ""Addq>( 3t> XA  Product Name  3 [ PA,  :=  Guide 3.0 $495 Owl International 2800 156th Avenue SE Bellevue WA 98007 (206)7473203:XUsing such a term invites controversy. What we've seen recently is that the idea of bringing together text, pictures, and sound is sufficiently arcane to prevent a standard methodology from emerging. Guide takes an approach that ah  allows for great flexibility in all regards, but only if you possess a strong background in structured programming. In spite of running under Windows and affording the means to ah  link text and pictures from the menu driven structure that Microsoft's environment provides, taking full advantage requires that you leave the friendly graphical confines and $88 ! 7$ write code . Those with ex! 7perience in a language such ! 7as Pascal will do well; if ! 7"function MAIN(), begin, ! 7end" means something to ! 7!0 7you (or someone(s) working ! 7!0 7for you) and you want to ! 7!0 7develop hypermedia under ! 7!0 7Windows, look no farther; ah  ! 7!0 7Guide makes the job easy. If ah  ! 7!0 7you want your company's ! 7!0 7employee handbook com! 7puterized and plan on giv! 7ing the job to even the ! 7smartest employee hired ! 7into an administrative or ! 7sales position, hold up.  *88XThe culprit is Guide's documentation. While it makes a ah  terrific reference guide, providing quick, well organized access to information on any command available from the Windows ah  interface or Guide's LOGiiX programming language, no ah  attempt is made to provide detailed instructions for producing Guide documents. Further, the sample documents distributed ah  with the package are not well utilized. So, although a short but lucid chapter explains how to create links between5 :0! 7T+!0 "7'!5 "objects" (passages of text, pictures, etc.), the objects' need to pre-exist in a readily assimilated form is not mentioned at all. It's a lot like expecting an inexperienced programmer to produce useful work without the benefit of some systems analysis experience. JLIf all of the above has left you undaunted and you decide to try Guide, you're in for a treat. Occupying under 1.5 mega ah ԭbytes of disk space, Guide works by providing links between ah  objects with action attributes determined by your choice among the four available link types. You represent the links by creating "buttons" or defining areas of your documents that, when the cursor passes through them, cause it to change shape. The environment can be customized either for all documents or particular ones by altering colors (chosen from the basic palette provided under Windows), disabling Win ah ԭdows's menus, and assigning behavior/appearance attributes to ah  objects; whether a chosen object continues to appear on screen after you select it, its location, when (if) it blinks, and font changes are all easily customized, so that once you create supporting documents and miscellaneous objects, linking them consists of little more then picking the type of button to use. JLYour four choices in that regard are "note" (temporarily providing expanded explanations for an object), "reference" (a more permanent and usually more quantitative note), "expansion" (typically used to provide two way links between objects), and "command", which pass instructions externally from Guide. For the last type, interpreters for launching other ah  programs, manipulating other documents, and controlling serial ports are included with Guide, so if you want to have ah  Beethoven's Fifth Symphony played back by software controlling a sound board when you choose a particular button, you can. You have the choice of making objects such as graphics (Windows bitmaps and metafiles, plus .PCX, .TIF, and .PCC ah  ! 7formats supported) part of Guide documents or accessing ah  ! 7them externally. The former provides for better response ! 7times at the expense of disk space, the latter allows you to ! 7reference an object that might change from time to time, and ! 7have the changes automatically reflected by Guide. ah  ! 7JLThere are various tools included to simplify use of the ! 7!0 7product. Manual navigation among "frames" of a document is ! 7!0 7made easy by a slew of hot key combinations and Windows' ah  ! 7!0 7menubased commands, simple or complex (multiconditional) ! 7!0 7user customizable searches can be conducted to locate words, ! 7!0 7letter combinations, wildcard characters, links and objects, and ! 7!0 7Guide includes a glossary feature that enables you to store ah  ! 7!0 7often used command sequences for fast retrieval. You can ! 7print documents as pure text or to mimic on screen format! 7ting, and both password and document protection may be ! 7imposed. ! 7JLTo their credit, officials at Owl International acknowledge ! 7the documentation problems, and we're satisfied with their intent to revise Guide's accompanying manuscript; this could ah  happen as soon as November. Meanwhile, if you have the expertise outlined above to make you productive now, and see a need in your organization to computerize documentation used internally, look at Guide. If you think it sounds difficult, ah  though, it almost certainly will be, and for the time being, you should limit yourself to reading documents created by others.