Overview
The Book View supports a great deal of rich text editing. Many of these editing feature are available in theWord via the Formatting Toolbar. However, there are some other formatting features that are not yet included in the toolbar. These features will eventually be available from within theWord. Until then, if there is other formatting that you would like to use, you can copy and paste from Wordpad, Microsoft Word, or other text editor.
Formatting Toolbar
The Book View has a formatting toolbar to use to format the content of entries in the Book View. This toolbar usually resides just under and to the right of the main menu.
Book View Formatting Toolbar
This toolbar contains very familiar formatting tools for anyone who is familiar with a rich text editor. In case of a non-user module, the toolbar has less options, please see the User Formatting section for details on non-user module formatting. The hyperlink button (bottom row, second from the end) will display the Hyperlink Dialog.
Insert Manager
The Insert Manager dialog allows you you to insert snippets of information that you might frequently reuse. You can access it by right-click on the book view reader and selecting the Insert menu from the popup.
Examples
To make a snippet for "system time am/pm"
| • | Enter in the Description what the snippet is about |
| • | Click on the button, Symbols and navigate to, Symbols ->clock -> system time am/pm, and click. This will input placeholders (Indicated by a % at each end) into the Insert Value area. |
| • | Now click the Add button, and you will see your first snippet has been saved. |
By pressing the Insert button the selected snippet will be inserted at your present cursor position.
The Help button will show some other useful placeholders that you can manually input as an Insert Value to construct snippets, that have amongst other things Tabs, and New lines, allowing the use of plain text data as well, where you have fixed values like a list of names etc. It is up to you how creative you are with this feature.
You can access more formatting tools for the current Paragraph, Border, and Bullets/Numbering by right-clicking on the content area of the Book view and selecting the menu items Paragraph..., Paragraphs Borders and Background..., and Bullets and Numbering...:
Tables Tables are easily inserted and manipulated.
Saving Content
As you type content into the topic content area, theWord saves the content in real time. There is no need to save the content. If you make a mistake, the well-known ctrl+z (undo) option is always available.
Setting the Default Font
To set the default font and font-size used for new topics do this: create a new topic and immediately (before typing anything) change the font and font-size to the one you want to be the default for all other new topics. theWord will remember this selection and use this font and font-size for new topics.
Hyper linking
theWord features Automatic Verse Recognition and advanced, manual hyper linking. See these related sections.
You can perform a Find and Find & Replace in the current topic by right-clicking on a word and selecting from the popup menu:
The following dialog appears:
This dialog allows you to find a word in the current topic, or find and replace it with another.
Image support
theWord supports the most common types of images. You can embed an image in any module topic either by selecting the Insert a picture from a file... button from the formatting toolbar (
), or by drag-n-dropping an image in the content area of the Book view. The supported image types are bmp, jpg, gif, png, wmf including transparency. The viewer supports smooth image resizing as well as auto-resizing of images for non-user modules.
When moving the mouse over an image, a button appears at the top-left area of the image that provides access to a number of image-related functions.
Specifically:
| • | Display in Graphics Viewer opens the image in the Graphics Viewer |
| • | Original size restores the image to it's original size (notice that you can resize an image by dragging one of the size handles -black squares- at the edge of an image). |
| • | Fit to page resizes the image so it fits in the visible area of the viewer |
| • | Auto resizing allowance controls how this specific image behaves when the module is viewed in non-user mode. By default, when you view a non-user module, the images contained within are resized to fit the viewer available area. You can control whether image resizing is allowed on the module level from the Module Properties dialog, Settings/Actions tab, Allow auto-resizing of images option. This option allows you to override the default behavior of the module on a per-image basis. |
| • | Always allow auto-resizing this image will cause the specific image to be resizable, even if the module level property above is not set |
| • | Never allow auto-resizing this image will cause the specific image to not be resizable, even if the module level property above is set. |
Remember that whether images are actually resized and how on the view level is controlled from the 
icon on the book view toolbar.
TIP: In order for an image to be auto-resizable, it must not have any text before or after it and should not reside within a table. Even a single space before or after the image will cause it to not be resized. Keep this in mind in case you don't get the behavior you expect! |