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Satisfaction Guaranteed or Your Money Back. The Random House Reference Set 'for MS-DOS computer; $89.95 presents words to you instantly on a pop-up screen. To quote the company's imaginative ad: "You're working on an important cereal proposal and things take a turn for the worse. Crackel is it 'el' or 'le'?" Reference Set to the rescue. You hit Alt-D and you're given a list of correctly spelled words that are close to your spelling.

If you've spelled it wrong, you use the cursor keys and highlight the correctly spelled "crackle." You tap the INS key, and the correct spelling moves to your copy. If you spelled the word correctly in the first place, then just hit the return key and you're back to what you were writing. Brilliantly simple. Need the thesaurus? Hit Alt-T. As an example, take the phrase, "On my way to Poughkeepsie." Please.

You need a new word for "way," so you move the cursor to anywhere within the word. Hit Alt-T, and a window pops up on screen with: WAY: n. manner, fashion, habit, custom, practice, means, course, plan, scheme, respect, particular, direction, passage, progress, distance, space, path, channel, road, track, avenue, highway. Using the cursor keys, you move the highlighting cursor to the word of your choice say, "passage" and then hit the INS key. You are returned to your text, and your sentence now reads, "On my passage to Poughkeepsie." The Reference Set also has a unique feature: press Alt-U, and a utility menu pops up.

From it you can read your MS-DOS directories, look into a file other than the one you're currently working on or look up words in the thesaurus and dictionary. As you see, the dictionary, thesaurus and utilities are only windows away they don't show up on your screen until you call for them. This program works as simply and wonderfully as one can ask. This programs's newest version, version 2.1, can also act as a spelling checker previous versions did not. With a floppy disk system, you have a dictionary, and with a hard-disk system, you have 80,000 words.

The one time I do check for spelling while writing is when using MCI Mail. The Reference Set works well in MCI Mail, though it will not insert words. Hit Alt-D or Alt-T after a word and find a new word or spelling. Then, instead of hitting the INS key, hit the return key, and insert the new word manually by first Call 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM: Chicagoland North (312) 459-4870 (Includes Lake McHenry counties) West (312) 543-7300 South (312) 389-5725 Gary Hammond (219) 845-3222 RacineKenosha Milwaukee Metro Area (414) 481-6900 Metro Area (414) 552-7287 using the delete key. Using the INS key will only freeze your cursor, and you must exit MCI Mail end call back.

I use thesauruses, and the operation of this one works well for me. Here, if I look up a word, and none of the many synonyms has quite the right shade of meaning, I can have The Reference Set Thesaurus give me synonyms for one of the synonyms. Of all the electronic thesauruses I've looked at maybe four, this one works best. Unfortunately, there are not enough words in the present version. The first few words I looked up, such as color, orange, bounce and stormy, were not in the thesaurus's list.

The next 15 were including run, walk, saunter, idea, notion, computer, noise and ramble The Reference Set Thesaurus offers something like 5,000 root words that offer a total of synonyms. If this program sounds like something for you, Donald Emery of Reference Software president and one of the authors has an offer for this column's readers: After you buy the software from your dealer, send in the copyright page from the manual, and he'll send you $10. Or if you want to order directly from Reference, you can get a $10 disccunt directly. P.S.: What's another word for thesaurus? Reference Software, 2363 Boulevard Circle, Walnut Creek, Calif. 94595; 800 826-2222, or 415 947-1000.

A warning: If you use Managing Your Money, TURN OFF THE CLOCK! Run the Install program, and when it asks, "Do you want the clock answer no. A devastating bug has been found in the 2.0 version of Managing Your Money. Free fixes are being sent out from MECA to all registered owners. In the meantime, TURN OFF THE CLOCK. UnhmflJ Ppoos Syncficcf Science A Sleepwalking still much in the dark IVavel New Yort Times News Service Do sleepwalkers dream as they walk? A According to Dr.

Martin Reite, director of the Sleep Disorder Center, University of Colorado School of Medicine, it is impossible for a person to dream while sleepwalking because the process of dreaming involves a different type of sleep than that observed in sleepwalkers. Sleepwalking occurs only in periods of very deep sleep, indi cated by slow brain-wave patterns, in which the body awakes and begins to walk around, but the conscious mind remains asleep, he said. The visual imagery of a dream, however, is associated with the rapid movement of the closed eyes, or REM sleep. Reite said sleepwalking, prevalent among children 10 to 12 years old, is attributed to stages of growth and development. Blood samples taken from children who are in states of deep sleep show increases in the level of growth hormone.

"We still don't understand with any degree of completeness why sleepwalking occurs," he said. People who are sleepwalking should be taken very seriously because they are not alert and can hurt themselves or others, he said. "Be careful when trying to wake them up," he added. "In their state of confusion they may strike out and hit you." How to plan your best stumor vacation ever lJ' mill as mapi twig 917 fell yt iyii S'M mm A COLE NATIONAL COMPANY mm-l mmmm It! tbem.M lhA. man innt.

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In fact, the story was stuck towards the back of a recent Travel Section small, written without fanfare, totally overlookable! The story could have appeared on page 2, but the Tribune was covering Travelgear on that page everything from tents to inflatable boats. Page 3 looked promising, until David Young wrote a hilarious "Murphy's Law" bit on the trials and tribulations of taking kids on a car vacation. Page Fashion writer Genevieve Buck had everyone acting like Parisians with her "when in Europe, dress and act like the Europeans so no one knows you're a tourist" piece! Page 5 offered the latest intricacies in buying travelers checks. Page 6 revealed how Yuppies spend their standard two weeks of R. Page 7 suggested seven great vacations that wouldn't land you in the poorhouse.

Page 8 told how to reduce the risk of health problems spoiling your trip. Students found a Let's Go Guide to eight hot spots abroad on pages 9 and 10. And finally, page ll's Summer Planner highlighted a bunch of newsletters that offered subscribers really up-to-date travel information. So the little story about the Chicago Tribune having the best travel section in the whole country didn't appear until page 12 between all the great articles and ads, it was lucky to receive the small space it did. Well, that's what happens when you're working to be the best.

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