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Help: Appendix B

Upgrading or Changing Your Word Processor or WWW Browser

Windows Users

  1. Be sure that your new software (word processor or browser) has been installed.
  2. Reinstall the Mayfield Handbook, using the original setup disks, starting at Step 1 of the Installation Procedures.
  3. During re-installation, this program will search your hard disk and locate any and all word processors and WWW browsers that are compatible.
  4. In the first Handbook window, choose Modify Settings.
  5. In the windows that follow, be sure to make the appropriate selections based on your new software.
  6. Complete the installation.

Macintosh Users

  1. Be sure that your new software (word processor or browser) has been installed.
  2. Open the Mayfield Handbooks folder (installed by default at the root of the startup hard drive.)
  3. Double-click on Configure Mayfield.
  4. Select your new word processor or browser by the following method:
  5. Click the Browse button in the right of the appropriate pane of the Configure Mayfield window.
    Navigate to the appropriate word processor or browser.
    Highlight the word processor or browser's name and click Open. Notice that the appropriate icon is shown in the Configure Mayfield window.
  6. Click the box in the upper left-hand corner, or choose Quit.
  7. Click Save.

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