1. Open an Article Set if necessary: If the Default Article Set window is not open, open it with the File > Open Default Article Table (⇧⌘O) command. An Article Set is shown below:
2. Change an attribute of an article: If the Edit Table checkbox is not selected, click on it. Double-click on an attribute, say the Title, and change it.
3. Display your data by Difficulty: Click in the header (Dif) and toggle between ascending and descending order. Do the same to display the data by its Length, Title, Author, or Genre. Now go ahead and click in the heading for the index column (which is untitled) to restore the original ordering.
4. Add more RTF articles from your disk to the Article Set. Select the Add Articles from Files (⇧⌘F) command from the popup menu as shown below. Go ahead and select a few RTF or DOC files from the file dialog box (multi-selections are allowed).
>>> Probably the easiest way to add files to the Article Set Table is to simply drag them from the Finder into the table.
5. Reorder articles by dragging them. Note that the indexing has changed appropriately; if the physical ordering doesn't correspond to the indexing, just click the headings area for the index column.
6. Insert an article: Select an article midway in the table. Insert Articles using the Insert Articles From File (⌃⌘F) command from the Article Table Commands popup. Note that the new articles were inserted at the selection point rather than added.
7. Delete some articles by delete them with the Delete Articles (⌘D) command from the Article Table Commands popup menu.
8. Save your modified Article Set with the File > Save (⌘S) command. Note that the extension is ".iSpdRd".
9. Compile an Article Set by drag and drop: Create an new article set with the File > New Article Set (⇧⌘N) command. Drag a few articles from one of the open Article Set windows to the new window.
10. Insert an article via an iSpeedRead Document: Open an RTF file in an iSpeedRead Document window with the File > Open (⌘O) command. Select a few paragraphs of your new article and give the Read > Insert to Table (⌃⌘T) command. Note that the Read > Add to Table (⌥⌘T) command would add the text to the end of the table instead of inserting it at the point of selection. Repeat the command without any text being selected. Note that the entire article is inserted.
11. Insert an article via the clipboard: Go to Safari and find some web page of interest and select an article with plenty of text and copy it to the clipboard. Go back to iSpeedRead and give the Edit > Paste as Article Added to Table (⌥⌘P) command. Note that an article is added to the bottom of the table. Go ahead and give it a title. (Make sure the Edit Table Mode checkbox is selected so you can edit the table fields). Go ahead and save your newly created Article Set.
Note the similarities in the Shortcut Keys for adding and inserting articles to a table:
| Command | Shortcut | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Edit > Paste as Article Added to Table | ⌥⌘P | Copy text form anywhere to the pasteboard (clipboard), paste in iSpeedRead so the text is added as an article in the top-most Article Set Window |
| Edit > Paste as Article Insert in Table | ⌃⌘P | Like the above command, except the text is inserted as an article at the selected row |
| Read > Add to Table | ⌥⌘T | Invoked from iSpeedRead Document window; selected text (or entire text if nothing is selected) is added as an article in the top-most Article Set Window |
| Read > Insert in Table | ⌃⌘T | Like the above command, except the text is inserted as an article at the selected row |
| Articles > Add Articles from Files | ⌥⌘F | Invoked from Article Set window; RTF / DOC documents selected from the file dialog are added as articles |
| Articles > Insert Articles from Files | ⌃⌘F | Like the above command, except the text is inserted as an article at the selected row |