Practice 2
Creating a puzzle from a text

- Activate the File - New... - Puzzle menu. If the programme asks if you wish to save the activity created in the previous exercise, say NO.
The working directory will be the same as in the previous exercise: C:\Clic\Course\Module1\Practice

- Click on the Text field and note that the expression NEW TEXT appears in the drop list.

- Activate the Edit contents menu. The programme will ask what name you want to give the text file that we are going to create. Write PLANETS.

- The Notepad programme will start up, this is the most simple text editor incorporated in Windows. Write the names of the planets, one on each line:

MERCURY
VENUS
EARTH
MARS
JUPITER
SATURN
URANUS
NEPTUNE
PLUTO

- Close Notepad and when it asks whether you want to save the changes, answer YES.

Note that the PLANETS.TXT file is already selected in the list of activity contents. If this is not the case, drop the list and select it manually.

- As there are 9 planets we have three options for the distribution of the cells:: 3x3, 9x1 or 1x9. We will try with 3 rows and 3 columns for a start. Select Double mode as well.

- In Welcome message write the text:

Put the planets in order of proximity to the sun

- ...and in Good bye message:

Fantastic!

Confirm the activity and test it. Although the activity seems to work well, it does not seem very logical to order a list of words in a two-dimensional grid. It would be more understandable to organize the words in a single row or column:

- Edit the activity and change it to 1 column and 9 rows.

- Check how it works.

To finish, save the activity as PLANET1.PUZ