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Manual TextMaker © 1987-2012 SoftM
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Simple formatting .................
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The paragraph style Normal ........
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Object mode .......................
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Creating a new database ...........
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Starting a fax transmission .......
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Installing additional dictionaries
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Additional features in SoftMaker Of
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The Enter key is represented by (¢
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Installing under Windows Mobile or
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The title bar indicates the name of
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Indentations and tab stops are not
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and most of the toolbars are hidden
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Altogether the following direction
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Deleting large sections of text: Th
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Using document templates Apart from
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Using Quick Paths With the Quick Pa
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The TextMaker Tour Welcome to the T
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The finished text Next, we need to
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control panel, or by pressing (Esc)
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Now it is time once again to save t
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32 is not present in the list of fo
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Note: Paragraph format actions - in
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2. Choose the desired tab type in t
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Of course, what is still missing is
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This time we will select the MicroS
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Since we only want to change the to
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Working with selections This chapte
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Canceling the selection When you wa
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Pasting with special formatting In
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Modifying character formatting Ther
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Superscript (e.g. r 2 ) and subscri
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Letter spacing and character pitch
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Hiding text You can hide sections o
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Important note: If you select a ran
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Paragraph styles (for the advanced
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To change the line spacing, do the
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To change these settings, invoke th
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Setting the default language Import
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Deactivating hyphenation for a docu
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desired character format (see chapt
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Centered Decimal The text after the
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Creating bulleted lists is an easy
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Default and Custom Here you can sel
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Note: Drop caps can be used only in
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Borders and lines With the command
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Thickness Determines the width of t
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Application example: If you enable
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performed, and the text is continue
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Paper bins Available only under Win
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Insert the page count (as a field)
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Page width: This is the default set
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Deleting headers and footers You ca
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Locking master page objects in norm
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Paper format, orientation and margi
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Borders and shading of master pages
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Styles Styles are very useful aides
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Creating character styles To create
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Applying character styles To apply
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Deleting or renaming styles To dele
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1. First, create a character style
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Paragraph styles You can save a fre
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Proceed as follows: 1. Set up the p
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Important: Changing a paragraph sty
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The paragraph style Normal A paragr
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A little menu with commands for man
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Delete button To delete styles, sel
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1. Invoke File > New. 2. A dialog a
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Multi-column page layouts In TextMa
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Presets group box Here you can sele
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What are sections? The term “sect
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Searching You can search a document
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Hint: A search operation can also b
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Any number (^#) - if you specify, f
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To continue searching, click on the
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1. Invoke the Edit > Go to ... comm
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Objects Footnotes Footnote referenc
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Select the type of field to be inse
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graph style “Heading 1”) in the
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ddd weekday abbreviated to three le
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Inserting special characters Some c
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Automatic numbering TextMaker has s
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5. As required, set the desired opt
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Before and After As required, you c
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2. 3. etc. In the above example, th
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Preview The Preview field shows how
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Character button (custom bullets on
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4. Select the desired numbered list
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Numbering with Auto numbers You can
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First line number is the number wit
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Insert a table (into the current ce
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Mouse: With the left mouse button p
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If you did not select complete rows
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4. Confirm with OK. The cell is now
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Height Here you can modify the heig
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Size Here you can change the Width
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in the Sample field (click on the c
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The options at the bottom of the di
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4. Next, specify the number of rows
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4. Confirm with OK. The table rows
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The specification of a column as th
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Pictures You can insert pictures in
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Copy to document’s folder If this
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Changing position and size of a pic
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When you activate the Mix with colo
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The Object > New OLE Object command
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2. Open the Edit menu. At the botto
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The property sheets listed below ar
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3. Select the entry SoftMaker Equat
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Text frames (page 254) contain boxe
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When you switch to Object mode, you
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Changing the position, size and mar
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Changing the size and margins of ob
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Distribute Horizontally Distribute
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Centered Inside Outside The object
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Paragraph The offset is relative to
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You will find additional informatio
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If desired, you can also change the
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Line variants Offers some pre-defin
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Options available: 3D effect varian
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If you wish, you can give the objec
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Options property sheet to make all
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This concludes the general descript
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Format: For changing the size of th
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1. Click on the icon in the Formatt
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Changing the properties of picture
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Export button Available only for pi
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Layout, Format, Filling, etc. prope
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Drawings behave like frames: they a
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Connectors (straight, elbow and cur
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If you want to change the formattin
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Inner margins group box Lets you mo
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Forms Forms are documents to be “
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In the following list, you will lea
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If a form is protected in this mann
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Inserting forms objects To insert a
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Start a new document with File > Ne
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Forms objects in detail In this sec
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Borders property sheet With this pr
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Value Here you can specify the init
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To change the order: Select one of
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Forms Object property sheet On this
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Naturally, you can lock not only th
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Language tools TextMaker offers a s
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3. Select the desired language from
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FreeOffice: SoftMaker FreeOffice do
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Manual spell checking FreeOffice: S
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The background spell checker consta
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Conversion to new German spelling N
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command. This command refers to add
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TextMaker now searches for the word
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SmartText entry a name (e.g., “sd
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Alternatively, you can use a dialog
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Database Writing letters is only on
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dBase/Unicode Database with Unicode
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PHONE FAX REMARK1 REMARK2 REMARK3 T
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Calling up a data record by its rec
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Search only selected records If thi
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Deleting all selected data records
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In the Windows Mobile version, only
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List/Form With the options List and
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You can also enter a new address by
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Insert as Table/Insert as Text If y
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10. Click on Insert to insert the l
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Append to document: Appends the env
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3. Define the first database field.
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Note: Most databases are stored in
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2. Start a new document. 3. With To
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Detaching a database You can detach
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Practice letter Practice makes perf
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Selecting by condition The command
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To select, for example, all data re
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To do this, don’t invoke the usua
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Calculations in the text With TextM
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More information For more detailed
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3. The formula that you have to ent
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Calculating the sum over a range of
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Objects in calculations Certain typ
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Important: In contrast to calculati
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1. When you enter dates in formulas
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Operators The following operators c
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AVG(n1;n2) Returns the average valu
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TRIM(t) TRUNC(n1;n2) UPPER(t) USER(
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Style references A style reference
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The Outline view is suitable not on
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The Text button furthest to the rig
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Hint: There are also two keyboard s
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Note: Normally, you should not chan
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7. You can change other settings to
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Now you can set up headers and foot
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Now you have added the selected ter
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1. Position the text cursor at the
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3. Specify whether a new table of c
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For example, if you have inserted c
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Format Use this option to choose th
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Figure 1...................9 Figure
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Step 2: Next, invoke Tools > Biblio
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Step 2: Assigning the bibliography
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The Parentheses option allows you t
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2. Important: Make sure that the Pl
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Cross-references FreeOffice: This f
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For bookmarks, the number of the pa
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main heading of the text segment wh
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By default, TextMaker automatically
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For example, if you delete the foot
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Type Here you can change the type o
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Document revisions You can add comm
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2. Invoke the command Tools > Comme
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Note: Regular text will be reduced
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Position Allows you to set the posi
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Tip: When the document already cont
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Turns the Show Changes option on or
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Internet functions TextMaker is equ
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The background image file should re
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Width of line The width of horizont
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Tip: You can also follow links by c
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Activating the “Snap to grid” f
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Installing Hunspell dictionaries Ad
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6. Click on the Hunspell dictionari
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Command Edit > Select All Edit > Se
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Keyboard shortcuts for editing text
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Index 3 3D effects (for objects) 24
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D Data record number 320, 321 Datab
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Form fax 345 Form letter 345 assign
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Last edited by 159, 162 LEFT 364, 3
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Page orientation 100, 101 Page Setu
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Smart quotes search 150, 152 use 51
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Two Full Pages (View menu) 534 Type