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In the exercise "To create a variable from an input-text field," step 9 should be deleted. Without it, the exercise will work as intended.
In the sidebar, "The Pitfalls of Conditional Actions," the last sentence is incomplete. It should read:The Basic Action set contains no branching actions: you must use the if, else, and else if actions, which you can find in the Actions category in the Toolbox List.
In the sidebar, "Tell Target Versus with Action," the second subhead should read Using with, not Using Tell with.