Manual TextMaker - softmaker.net

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 .. 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.

2 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 .. 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.

3 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 .. 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.

4 106 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 .. 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.

5 133 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? .. 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.

6 167 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 .. 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 .. 203 Row properties.

7 203 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 .. 229 Inserting charts via PlanMaker .. 230 Inserting charts manually .. 231 viii Contents Manual TextMaker Editing charts .. 233 Entering/editing the data of a chart .. 234 Working with chart 237 Changing common chart properties .. 239 OLE objects 245 Inserting OLE objects.

8 245 Editing OLE objects .. 247 Editing links to OLE objects .. 248 Changing position and size of an OLE object .. 249 Changing the properties of OLE objects .. 250 Using the SoftMaker Equation Editor .. 251 Frames and drawings 255 Frames basic functions .. 256 Inserting frames .. 256 Selecting objects .. 257 Object mode .. 257 Changing the position, size and margins of objects .. 260 Rotating and flipping objects .. 262 Aligning and distributing frames .. 263 Duplicating objects .. 264 Changing the properties of objects .. 264 Frames advanced functions .. 280 Converting between frame and embedded object .. 280 Hiding objects .. 281 Changing the order of frames .. 281 Grouping frames .. 282 Changing the names of objects .. 282 Text frames .. 283 Inserting text 284 Changing the properties of text frames.

9 285 Linking text frames .. 287 Picture frames .. 288 Inserting picture frames .. 288 Changing the properties of picture frames .. 289 OLE object frames .. 291 Inserting OLE object frames .. 292 Changing the properties of OLE object frames .. 293 Drawings .. 294 Inserting drawings .. 295 Adding text to AutoShapes .. 298 Manual TextMaker Contents ix Changing the properties of drawings .. 299 Forms 303 Filling out forms .. 304 Creating forms .. 307 Types of form objects .. 307 Inserting form objects .. 308 Editing form objects .. 309 Preparing an example form .. 310 Form objects in detail .. 312 Text fields .. 313 Text frames .. 315 Checkboxes .. 315 Checkbox 317 Dropdown lists .. 317 Dropdown list frames .. 319 Labels and groupboxes .. 319 Forms advanced functions .. 321 Changing the tab order.

10 321 Protecting contents of form objects .. 322 Protecting forms .. 323 Calculating with form objects .. 324 Language tools 325 Setting the language .. 326 Setting the default language .. 326 Formatting text in another 327 Application examples .. 327 Spell 328 Manual spell checking .. 329 Background spell checking .. 330 Conversion to new German spelling .. 332 Editing user dictionaries .. 335 336 Thesaurus .. 340 Berlitz translation dictionaries .. 341 342 Creating SmartText entries .. 342 Inserting SmartText entries .. 344 Editing SmartText entries .. 344 x Contents Manual TextMaker Database 347 Opening a database .. 348 Using the database module .. 349 The database module s main window .. 349 List and form view .. 351 Browsing through data records .. 352 Calling up a data record by its record number.