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1 Manual TextMaker 1987-2018 SoftMaker Software GmbH Manual TextMaker Contents iii Contents Welcome! 15 Technical support .. 17 About this Manual .. 17 System requirements .. 18 Installation and program startup 19 Installing under Windows .. 19 Installing under macOS .. 20 Installing under 21 Installing on an Android device .. 21 The application screen 25 Title bar .. 25 Menu bar .. 26 Standard toolbar .. 27 Formatting toolbar .. 27 Ribbon .. 28 Document tabs .. 29 Horizontal 29 Document .. 30 Sidebar.
2 30 Status bar .. 30 Basics 33 Entering text .. 33 Moving the text cursor .. 33 Deleting text .. 34 Undoing changes .. 35 Insert or overwrite? .. 36 Beginning a new document .. 36 Opening documents .. 37 Printing documents .. 39 Saving documents .. 40 Exiting the application .. 40 iv Contents Manual TextMaker The TextMaker Tour 41 A practice letter .. 41 Saving the practice letter .. 44 Simple formatting .. 45 When something goes wrong .. 47 Opening 47 Setting up a letterhead .. 48 Paragraph alignment .. 50 Tabs.
3 51 Inserting dates and other fields .. 54 Page footers .. 55 Lines and borders .. 57 Printing the practice letter .. 59 Finished! .. 60 Working with selections 61 Selecting text and objects .. 61 Selecting in the Windows, Mac, and Linux version .. 62 Selecting in the Android version .. 63 Moving, deleting and copying .. 63 Pasting with special formatting .. 65 Inserting a document .. 65 Character formatting 67 Typeface and font size .. 68 Text styles .. 69 Text color .. 71 Superscripts and subscripts .. 72 Letter spacing and character pitch.
4 72 Kerning .. 73 Transferring formatting .. 73 Hiding text .. 74 Protecting text .. 75 Removing character formatting .. 76 Changing the default character format .. 77 Paragraph formatting 79 Indents .. 80 Line spacing .. 82 Spacing above/below a paragraph .. 84 Paragraph alignment .. 85 Manual TextMaker Contents v Character format for entire paragraphs .. 86 Tabs .. 86 Using 87 Deleting and moving tab stops .. 89 Using the horizontal ruler .. 89 Bulleted lists .. 90 Drop caps .. 94 Shading .. 95 Borders and lines.
5 96 Outline level .. 100 Forcing breaks before paragraphs .. 100 Paragraph control .. 101 Suppressing line numbers .. 102 Page formatting 103 Inserting Manual page breaks .. 104 Page setup .. 104 Headers and footers .. 106 Creating and editing headers and footers .. 106 Inserting the page number, date, etc.. 108 Using alignment tabs .. 109 Changing the properties of headers and footers .. 110 Different headers/footers on the first page .. 112 Different headers/footers on left and right pages .. 112 Deleting headers and footers.
6 112 Master pages .. 113 Editing the master page .. 113 Dividing a document into chapters .. 115 Inserting and removing chapters .. 116 Navigating among chapters .. 117 Chapters and page formatting .. 117 Chapter formatting .. 117 Changing the page 122 Styles 125 Character 126 Creating character styles .. 127 Applying character styles .. 129 Modifying character styles .. 129 The scope of character styles .. 131 The character style Normal .. 131 Creating linked character styles .. 132 vi Contents Manual TextMaker Character styles and the sidebar.
7 133 Paragraph styles .. 134 Creating paragraph styles .. 135 Applying paragraph styles .. 138 Modifying paragraph 138 The scope of paragraph styles .. 140 The paragraph style Normal .. 140 Creating linked paragraph styles .. 141 Paragraph styles and the sidebar .. 142 Managing styles .. 143 Document templates .. 145 Creating document templates .. 146 Applying document 146 Modifying document templates .. 147 The document template .. 148 Multi-column page layouts 149 Changing the number of columns .. 149 What are sections?
8 153 Searching and replacing 155 Searching .. 156 Replacing .. 157 Repeating a search/replace .. 157 Expanded search options .. 158 Searching/replacing 161 Bookmarks .. 162 The Go to .. Command .. 164 Navigating documents with the sidebar .. 165 Fields 167 Inserting a field .. 167 Inserting the date and time as text .. 173 Inserting special characters 175 Automatic numbering 177 Simple enumerations .. 178 numbered lists .. 182 Creating numbered lists .. 183 Manual TextMaker Contents vii Applying numbered lists .
9 188 Modifying numbered lists .. 190 numbered headings .. 190 Numbering with Auto 191 Adding line numbers .. 192 Tables 195 Inserting a table .. 196 Editing tables .. 196 Selecting table cells and cell contents .. 197 Deleting, copying, moving cell 198 Deleting and inserting table cells .. 198 Deleting cells from a table .. 199 Inserting cells in a table .. 199 Splitting and merging table cells .. 200 Splitting table cells .. 201 Merging table cells .. 202 Splitting tables .. 202 Merging 202 Formatting tables.
10 203 Row properties .. 203 Cell properties .. 205 Changing the overall properties of tables .. 209 AutoFormat .. 211 Converting a table to text .. 212 Converting text into a table .. 213 Sorting tables .. 215 Sorting text .. 217 Tip: Using the Table toolbar .. 219 Pictures 221 Inserting a picture into the text .. 222 Scanning in pictures .. 223 Inserting pictures from the gallery (Android) .. 224 Changing position and size of a picture .. 224 Changing the properties of pictures .. 225 Using the Picture toolbar .. 228 Charts 229 Inserting charts.
