Manual TextMaker © 1987-2016 SoftMaker Software GmbH Contents Welcome! 15 Technical support .............................................................................................. 16 About this manual ............................................................................................. 17 System requirements ......................................................................................... 18 Installation and program startup 19 Installing under Windows ................................................................................. 19 Installing under Linux....................................................................................... 20 Installing on an Android device ........................................................................ 20 The application screen 23 Title bar ............................................................................................................. 23 Menu bar ........................................................................................................... 24 Standard toolbar ................................................................................................ 25 Formatting toolbar ............................................................................................ 25 Document window ............................................................................................ 26 Status bar .......................................................................................................... 27 Basics 29 Entering text ..................................................................................................... 29 Moving the text cursor ...................................................................................... 29 Deleting text ..................................................................................................... 30 Undoing changes .............................................................................................. 31 Insert or overwrite? ........................................................................................... 32 Beginning a new document .............................................................................. 32 Opening documents .......................................................................................... 33 Printing documents ........................................................................................... 35 Saving documents ............................................................................................. 36 Exiting the application ...................................................................................... 36 The TextMaker Tour 37 A practice letter ................................................................................................. 37 Saving the practice letter .................................................................................. 40 Simple formatting ............................................................................................. 41 When something goes wrong ... ........................................................................ 43 Manual TextMaker Contents iii Opening files..................................................................................................... 44 Setting up a letterhead ...................................................................................... 44 Paragraph alignment ......................................................................................... 46 Tabs ................................................................................................................... 47 Inserting dates and other fields ......................................................................... 50 Page footers ...................................................................................................... 52 Lines and borders .............................................................................................. 53 Printing the practice letter ................................................................................. 55 Finished! ........................................................................................................... 56 Working with selections 57 Selecting text and objects ................................................................................. 57 Selecting in the Windows/Linux version .................................................... 58 Selecting in the Android version ................................................................. 59 Moving, deleting and copying .......................................................................... 60 Pasting with special formatting ........................................................................ 62 Inserting a document ........................................................................................ 62 Character formatting 63 Typeface and font size ...................................................................................... 64 Text styles ......................................................................................................... 65 Text color .......................................................................................................... 66 Superscripts and subscripts ............................................................................... 67 Letter spacing and character pitch .................................................................... 68 Kerning ............................................................................................................. 68 Transferring formatting ..................................................................................... 69 Hiding text ........................................................................................................ 70 Protecting text ................................................................................................... 71 Removing character formatting ........................................................................ 72 Changing the default character format .............................................................. 73 Paragraph formatting 75 Indents .............................................................................................................. 76 Line spacing ...................................................................................................... 78 Spacing above/below a paragraph .................................................................... 80 Paragraph alignment ......................................................................................... 80 Character format for entire paragraphs ............................................................. 81 Tabs ................................................................................................................... 82 Using tabs.................................................................................................... 82 Deleting and moving tab stops .................................................................... 84 Using the horizontal ruler ........................................................................... 85 Bulleted lists ..................................................................................................... 86 iv Contents Manual TextMaker Drop caps .......................................................................................................... 90 Shading ............................................................................................................. 91 Borders and lines .............................................................................................. 92 Outline level ..................................................................................................... 96 Forcing breaks before paragraphs ..................................................................... 97 Paragraph control .............................................................................................. 97 Suppressing line numbers ................................................................................. 98 Page formatting 99 Inserting manual page breaks ......................................................................... 100 Page setup ....................................................................................................... 100 Headers and footers ........................................................................................ 102 Creating and editing headers and footers .................................................. 102 Inserting the page number, date, etc. ......................................................... 104 Changing the properties of headers and footers ........................................ 105 Different headers/footers on the first page ................................................ 106 Different headers/footers on left and right pages ...................................... 107 Deleting headers and footers ..................................................................... 107 Master pages ................................................................................................... 108 Editing the master page ............................................................................. 108 Dividing a document into chapters ................................................................. 110 Inserting and removing chapters ............................................................... 110 Chapters and page formatting ....................................................................111