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Shortcut Keys Effect Ctrl+Shift+Space Inserts a non-breaking space (not used for hyphenation and not expanded if text is justified). Shift+Enter Inserts a line break without paragraph change. Ctrl+Enter Inserts a page break. Ctrl+Shift+Enter Inserts a column break in multi-column texts. Alt+Enter Inserts a new paragraph without numbering. Alt+Enter Inserts a new paragraph directly before or after a section or a table. Arrow Left Moves cursor to left. Shift+Arrow Left Moves cursor with selection to the left. Ctrl+Arrow Left Goes to beginning of word. Ctrl+Shift+Arrow Left Selects to the left word by word. Arrow Right Moves cursor to right. Shift+Arrow Right Moves cursor with selection to the right. Ctrl+Arrow Right Goes to start of next word. Ctrl+Shift+Arrow Right Selects to the right word by word. Arrow Up Moves up one line. Shift+Arrow Up Selects lines in an upwards direction. Arrow Down Moves cursor down one line. Shift+Arrow Down Selects lines in a downward direction. Home Goes to beginning of line. Shift+Home Goes and selects to the beginning of a line. End Goes to end of line. Shift+End Goes and selects to end of line. Ctrl+Home Goes to start of document. Ctrl+Shift+Home Goes and selects text to start of document. Ctrl+End Goes to end of document. Ctrl+Shift+End Goes and selects text to end of document. Ctrl+PageUp Switches cursor between text and header. Ctrl+PageDown Switches cursor between text and footer. Insert Turns Insert mode on or off. 454 LibreOffice 4.0 Writer Guide
Shortcut Keys Effect PageUp Moves up one screen page. Shift+PageUp Moves up one screen page with selection. PageDown Moves down one screen page. Shift+PageDown Moves down one screen page with selection. Ctrl+Del Deletes text to end of word. Ctrl+Backspace Deletes text to beginning of word. Ctrl+Shift+Del Deletes text to end of sentence. Ctrl+Shift+Backspace Deletes text to beginning of sentence. Ctrl+Tab Uses next suggestion with automatic word completion. Ctrl+Shift+Tab Use previous suggestion with automatic word completion. Alt+W In the spelling checker dialog: Calls back the original unknown word into the text box. Ctrl+double-click or Ctrl+Shift+F10 Shortcut keys for tables Shortcut Keys Effect Docks or un-docks the Navigator, Styles and Formatting window, or other windows. Ctrl+A If the active cell is empty, Ctrl+A selects the whole table; otherwise, it selects the contents of the active cell. Press Ctrl+A a second time to select the entire table. Ctrl+Home If the active cell is empty, Ctrl+Home moves the cursor to the beginning of the table. Press Ctrl+Home again to move the cursor to the beginning of document. If the active cell is not empty, Ctrl+Home moves the cursor to the beginning of the active cell. A second press of Ctrl+Home moves the cursor to the beginning of the current table. A third press moves the cursor to the beginning of the document. Ctrl+End If the active cell is empty, Ctrl+End moves the cursor to the end of the table. Press Ctrl+End again to move the cursor to the end of document. If the active cell is not empty, Ctrl+End moves the cursor to the end of the active cell. A second press of Ctrl+End moves the cursor to the end of the current table. A third press moves the cursor to the end of the document. Ctrl+Tab Inserts a tab stop (only in tables). Depending on the Window Manager in use, Alt+Tab may be used instead. Appendix A Keyboard Shortcuts 455
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LibreOffice 4.0 Writer Guide Word P
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Contents Copyright.................
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Chapter 6 Introduction to Styles...
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Defining your own numbering sequenc
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Preface
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This site provides support for Libr
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Figure 1: Dialog showing common con
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New features in LibreOffice Writer
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What is Writer? Writer is the word
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Moving toolbars To move a docked to
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Figure 9: Selection of visible tool
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Mode Effect Standard selection Clic
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Starting a new document You can sta
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Figure 17. Creating a document from
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Figure 18. Saving a file in Microso
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Closing a document To close a docum
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Header/Footer: Jumps between the te
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Note Setting reminders Users of MS
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Chapter 2 Setting up Writer Choosin
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Help - Tips When Tips is active, on
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Figure 29: Choosing View options fo
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Figure 31: Choosing general printin
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eplace the screen font only and nev
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Personalization Using Personalizati
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Figure 41: Choosing Load and Save o
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Caution VBA Properties Figure 42: S
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General options The choices on the
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Note Grid options Direct cursor let
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• The Print text in black option
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Figure 54: Choosing compatibility o
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Choosing options for HTML documents
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Figure 59: Choosing languages, dict
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Introduction This chapter covers th
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When you paste text, the result dep
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Find and replace specific formattin
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Figure 66: The Special Characters d
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Caution 1 Open Styles and Formattin
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A better strategy is to define tabs
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The Help describes each of these ch
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Figure 77: Modifying a list style 2
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Figure 81: Using the Insert Footnot
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Checking spelling and grammar Spell
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Text language The language to be us
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Using built-in language tools Write
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Note Figure 91: Synonyms on the con
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Figure 95: Setting hyphenation opti
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Figure 97: Customizing word complet
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Line numbering Line numbering puts
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2) To enter a comment on a marked c
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Merging modified documents The proc
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Using cross-references To ensure th
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For an Internet type hyperlink, cho
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Chapter 4 Formatting Pages Using Pa
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Use page styles (with two columns)
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Tip You can also insert a page brea
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Inserting a landscape page into a p
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Figure 114: Moving the margins To c
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Changing the number of columns for
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You also should think about the typ
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Figure 120: Removing the border fro
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Figure 123: Hyperlink page of the F
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Figure 127: Defining the space abov
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Linking sections You can insert the
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Figure 134: Indenting sections Ente
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Figure 137: Edit Sections dialog Ed
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Figure 139: Edit Links dialog Creat
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Caution Do not use the Background a
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8) Because tabs have been removed,
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Figure 147: Variations on the simpl
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Figure 150: Inserting a chapter num
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Figure 152: Set page number format
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Note Do not delete the bookmark at
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Figure 159: Frame dialog: Backgroun
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Chapter 5 Printing, Exporting, Faxi
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Note The options selected on the Pr
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Selecting what to print In addition
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8) Take the printed pages out of th
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3) On the Format page, verify or ed
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3) Select the label stock in the Br
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(GNU/Linux) is sufficient, while fo
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Figure 176: User Interface page of
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Note Exporting to XHTML Figure 179:
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2) On the second page, select E-mai
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Digital signing of documents To sig
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What are styles? Most people are us
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1) Open the Styles and Formatting w
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Click on the From File button if th
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Using the Format Paintbrush You can
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Double-click the Heading 1 entry of
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Applying frame styles Whenever you
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Example: Page with special formatti
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The first two methods are discussed
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Figure 203: Center Heading 1 Now, e
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Note You may have noticed this beha
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Changing the formatting of your sty
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To use custom styles in place of on
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Figure 216: Specifying numbering of
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Figure 221: Indenting Level 2 headi
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Chapter 7 Working with Styles
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Figure 226: The Organizer page disp
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Now, the fonts of all the heading s
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etween the lines of text. The regis
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• Keep with next paragraph is app
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Figure 237: A table with rotated he
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Using the Outline & Numbering page
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Caution If you want to make a style
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• Use the Font page to determine
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Style Comments and Use OLE The defa
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General settings for the page style
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Columns page Use this page to creat
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3) On the Page tab of the Page Styl
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Working with list styles List style
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Figure 256: A numbered list of CD t
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• Width and Height: the dimension
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Chapter 8 Working with Graphics
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Preparing images for black-and-whit
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• Advantage - You can modify the
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View icons. Double-click in the sam
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Table 10: Graphic filters and their
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Resizing an image Figure 265: Resul
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Other settings The Picture dialog (
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1 Line 5 Line Color 9 To Foreground
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Arranging graphics Arranging a grap
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Wrap Through Superimposes the image
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When you are done, click on the App
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Illustration 1. An example Figure 2
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To use the image map editor: 1) In
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For example, entering the sequence
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Introduction Tables are a useful wa
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Figure 284: Nested table example Us
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move the mouse to either the left o
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It is also possible to resize a tab
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Note Figure 288: Table Format dialo
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) You can use the Link option to li
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• Select the vertical alignment o
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To move to the end of the table, pr
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Additional table operations Protect
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4) In the Format pane, choose how t
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To split a table: 1) Place the curs
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1 Table 9 Top 17 Select Column 2 Li
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Chapter 10 Working with Templates
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3) Double-click the folder that con
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The default location is your user t
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3) Find and select the package of t
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Associating a document with a diffe
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Importing a template If the templat
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What is mail merge? LibreOffice Wri
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5) In the next dialog, click Browse
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3) Find the data source that you wi
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c) Now click in the Condition box a
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Figure 318: Select Database, Table,
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9) Click New Document. You now have
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You can edit individual records in
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5) Choose whether or not to add Sen
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For the purposes of this descriptio
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Figure 329: Select address list dia
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Figure 332: Match fields dialog 5)
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You can see that the field takes c
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Step 7: Personalize documents This
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Chapter 12 Tables of Contents, Inde
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This change may leave a gray backgr
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Choosing the scope of the table of
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The Insert Index/Table dialog (Figu
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Adding multiple columns To display
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Filtering records To set up a filte
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4) If Tables (in the Database secti
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1) Select Insert > Indexes and Tabl
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Defining the paragraph style for th
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Creating a master document: scenari
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Step 2. Create a template You can c
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Step 6. Insert the subdocuments int
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Restarting page numbering The examp
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To update the master document (and
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Introduction to fields Fields are e
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Using fields in headers and footers
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Tip If you want to insert this fiel
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Page 463 and 464: toolbars 411 when to use 410 XForms
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