Format Menu
Friday, January 15, 2010
The Format menu allows you to select one of the following menu items
Character...
This option lets you to specify character formatting attributes for selected text. Character format dialog is displayed with following items
Size: Enter the desired font size in either points, millimeters, centimeters, or inches. Font size can also be chosen from the drop down list.
Style: Choose one of following styles for the selected text.
Single Underline
Double Underline
Overline
Box
Amikake
Reverse
Color: Color of The Text. You can choose from one of the document defined Colors.
Bold/Italics: Selected text can be made Bold or Italics with this option.
Latin Font Name: Choose the roman font for the selected text, InPage will apply this font to all roman text in the selected text.
Arabic Font Name: Choose the Arabic font for the selected text, InPage will apply this font to all Arabic text in the selected text.
Urdu Font Name: Choose the Arabic font for the selected text, InPage will apply this font to all Urdu text in the selected text.
Language: You can change the language to English to facilitate entry of upper ASCII characters i.e. characters entered using Alt and Numeric keypad. Thus you can enter bullet marks, typographic dash etc.
Spacing: Enter the spacing in percentage. Extra spacing will be introduced between the selected characters. The extra spacing amount can be specified in any of the standard distance units or as percent of font size.
Scaling: Enter the percentage by which to scale the selected characters. 100% is default which implies no scaling. 200% scaling will double the character width and 50% will half the character width.
BaseLine Shift: Enter Shift distance of the Selected Text from the baseline. This shift can be specified in any one of the standard distance units or as percent of font size.
Paragraph
This option lets you to specify paragraph formatting attributes for selected text. Paragraph Format dialog is displayed with following items.
Alignment: Choose Left, Centered, Right ,Justified and Forced Justify Alignment styles for selected paragraphs.
Indents:
Beginning: This option sets the Indent amount at beginning of line for lines after the first line of selected paragraphs.
End: This option sets the Indent amount at end of line for all lines in the selected paragraphs.
First line: This option sets the Indent value for first lines of selected paragraph.
Line Spacing:
Line Height: This option decides height of each line in the selected paragraph. The value specified is the distance between the top of the line and bottom of the line. Text is drawn centered within this Spacing. If Auto is specified for this option then InPage automatically finds out the text height in the line and adds some percentage to the text height. This value is then used for Line Spacing. The extra percentage can be changed from the Preference option.
Interline Gap: This option sets the gap between lines of the selected paragraphs.
Tab:
Default Stop: This option chooses the gap between default tab stops in the document. A tab character tabs to the next default tab position if no tabs are specified after the tab character.
Breaks: Selecting Page Break from the Breaks combo box takes the current paragraph to the beginning of the next page.
Selecting Column Break inserts a column break for the current paragraph. This takes the current paragraph to the beginning of the next column.
Keep Together: Check this option to disallow splitting of selected paragraphs across columns or frames.
Keep With Next: Check this option to disallow next paragraph to be in different frame of column.
Window: Enter number of lines at top of paragraph after which the selected paragraphs can break across columns and frames
Orphan: Select number of lines at end of paragraph where the paragraph is not allowed to break.
Paragraph Spacing:
Before: This option sets the space before the paragraph. This spacing will not be applied to paragraphs at top of Box.
After: This option sets the space after the paragraph. This spacing will not be applied for paragraphs ending at Box bottom.
Character Alignment: You can align the Latin/Arabic text either on the baseline in which case you should select the baseline character alignment option. If you wish to center align the text by choosing the Center Align option.
Add To Table of Contents: You can add the selected paragraph as a table of content entry.
Hyphenation
This menu item enables you to control hyphenation in Roman Text.
These options are
You can specify as to the hyphenation being light or heavy.
The maximum number of consecutive hyphenated lines.
Menu Format:Borders
This option allows you to specify Border attributes for Selected Paragraphs. Options allow you to specify Border Before or After, Border Type, Border Thickness and Color.
In the Border Type combo box choose from None, Indents and text options. Indents option will create a border from beginning indent to end indent of the paragraph. Text option will create a border from beginning of first character of the line to last character of the line.
Clicking on Style Button displays the Border formatting dialog. Through this dialog you can specify the Thickness of the border line and the color of the border. Save as default button in Border Style Dialog saves the current settings of the border as application defaults.
Tabs
This option allows you to set tab positions and tab attributes for the selected paragraphs. By choosing Tabs option from Format menu you enter into Tabs Setting mode of InPage. In this mode the selected text will be hilighted as a box
To Create a new Tab position click on the highlited text. This will create a tab stop at the position you clicked and this will be displayed as a vertical bar.
To Modify a existing Tab drag the vertical bar.
To Delete an existing Tab drag the vertical bar out of highlited text.
To change Tab attributes like alignment select the Tab by clicking on the vertical bar. From the Tab Ribbon you can also set Indents for the selected text.
Then choose the attribute from the ribbon. All attributes are explained below.
1. Current position of vertical bar.
2. Choose the Tab Leader.
3. Set the default tab position.
4. Set the first line indent.
5. Set the right tab position.
6. Switch back to text edit mode. Or press Escape
7. Click any one of the tab.
8. Remove all tabs.
9. Set the left tab.
Text Wrap
This option enables or disables the text wrap feature for the currently selected text chain. If the text wrap is off for a text chain then the text in that chain will not wrap around overlapping objects. If the option is on then the text in that chain will wrap around overlapping objects with Text Runaround attribute checked.
Sort Text
This option enables or disables the text wrap feature for the currently selected text chain. If the text wrap is off for a text chain then the text in that chain will not wrap around overlapping objects. If the option is on then the text in that chain will wrap around overlapping objects with Text Runaround attribute checked.
Table Format
This dialog enables you to format the table in terms of Cell Width, Cell Fill Color, Cell Border and Indents within the Cell.
Cell:
Fill Color: You can select the cells of the table and specify their fill color. The fill color gets applied to the selected cells.
Border: You can specify the border of all cells in the currently selected table as follows.
Color: Allows you to select the color of the border from the list of colors combobox.
Style: Style of the border in terms of document wide line patterns Solid, Dotted, Dashed, etc.
Width: Thickness of the border line.
Cell Order:
Left To Right: Click this option if you wish to keep the flow of text from Left To Right.
Right to Left: Click this option if you wish to keep the flow of text from Right To Left.
Column:
Width and Gap: This allows you to modify column widths of the selected columns.
Table:
Indents: You can specify the amount of indent within the Cell.
Alignment: Choose the text alignment within the cell is on the Left, Right or Centred.
Table Layout
The Table Layout dialog allows you to carry out the following operations
Row: Allows you to insert/delete a row before or after the current row.
Column: Allows you to insert/delete a column before or after the currently selected column.
Split or Merge Cells: Merges the currently selected cells of the table. For cells merged with the previous merge command, this command enables you to split the cell.
Object
Lets you to format the selected objected. On clicking this a Dialog will be displayed with following options
Bounds:
Across/Down: Contains the Object Origin Across and Origin Down. To move the object, modify these values. To do this, click with mouse on the Origin Across field and enter new value. Now either press the Tab Key or again click the Origin Down field with the mouse. Press enter/return after entering the new value. The Object will now shift to the new origin. If more than one object is selected then these fields get grayed and you cannot enter into these fields.
Width/Height: Displays the object's width and height. To resize the Object, edit these values by clicking the mouse on Width field and entering the new width, and/or by clicking the Height field and entering the new height. The Object will now be resized.
These following four attributes is for only Picture and Graphic Boxes.
Picture:
Origin: Specify the Left/Top position of picture in Across/Down Section.
Scaling: Scales the picture.
Across: If you want to increase/decrease the width of picture, then enter the no. more than 100 or less than 100 respectively.
Down: If you want to increase/decrease the height of picture, then enter the no. more than 100 or less than 100 respectively.
Shape:
Fill: Usually the object is filled with white color. This is the background against which the text/picture appears. To apply some other background color, choose from the list in the Fill Color Combo Box.
Rectangular/Rounded Rectangular/Elliptical : Three Icons/radio buttons representing the three different kinds of boxes(
Rectangular, Rounded Rectangular, Elliptical) are displayed. The selected icon/radio button represents the type of the selected picture or graphic box. To change the box type, click on one of the other two Icons/radio buttons.
Roundness: For the Rounded Rectangular Box, the amount of roundness can be specified horizontally and vertically.
When you select the text box then the following two attributes will be shown.
Columns and Gutter : This attribute is applicable only for a Text Box. A Text box is usually created with one column. To change number of columns, enter the number of columns in the columns field. The gap between two columns (Gutter Size) can also be modified.
Background:
Color: Usually the object is filled with white color. This is the background against which the text/picture appears. To apply some other background color, choose from the list in the Fill Color Combo Box.
Hatch: if you want background with some hatch pattern then select the appropriate pattern. By Default no Hatch Pattern will be selected.
Border :
Color/Width/Pattern: To apply a border to the Object Box, enter the border width in points. You can also change the color by selecting the color from the Border color combo box (Default is Black). the Pattern can be one of the Document wide Patterns like Solid, Dotted, Dashed etc.
Inside/Outside: If Object Box border is drawn inside the object, the actual bounds for the text/picture will become smaller on all four sides. To keep the text/picture bounds constant, you will have to select the Border Outside Icon.
Runaround: You can disable or enable Runaround for the selected objects by unchecking or checking this check box.
Template: You can mark an object as a template object, in which case, when you drag the object then a copy of the template object is peeled off. This option enables you to make precise copies of template objects and place them as per your requirements.
Lock: If the object is marked locked, then the object can neither be deleted nor modified by using the mouse. To delete the object, you will first have to unlock it. Copies of Master objects appear as locked by default.
Don’t Print: This check box enables you to disable printing for the selected objects by checking this check box on for these objects.
Runaround
In this dialog you can set the Runaround values along the four sides of the selected objects. Whenever this object overlaps a texbox, the text will flow around this object and will appear at the specified distances from this object's boundary.
Run Around: if you require Runaround around box, then check this option.
Inset
This dialog allows you to specify the inset values for Text box. The text in the selected Textbox will always be inset by the specified values.
Inset With Only With Graphic Frame: Check this option if you want to apply the inset value with only graphic frame.
Master Page Objects...
Allows you to format all master page objects on the specified range of pages.
From Page/To Page: Enter the Page range to be formatted.
Hide Objects of Master Page: If you choose option then all master page objects on the page range will be hidden.
Show Objects of Master Page: will show the master page objects on the range of pages if they were previously hidden or deleted.
Restore Objects from Master Page: will remove any modifications made to the master page objects and make them exactly same as they are on Master Page. As mentioned previously the objects of master page on a Page can be modified on the page.
Master Page Objects...
Allows you to format all master page objects on the specified range of pages.
From Page/To Page: Enter the Page range to be formatted.
Hide Objects of Master Page: If you choose option then all master page objects on the page range will be hidden.
Show Objects of Master Page: will show the master page objects on the range of pages if they were previously hidden or deleted.
Restore Objects from Master Page: will remove any modifications made to the master page objects and make them exactly same as they are on Master Page. As mentioned previously the objects of master page on a Page can be modified on the page.
Document Setup...
Similar to the New menu item in the File menu. It allows for setting up of document pages in terms of their sizes, orientations and margins.
See New menu Item from File Menu.
Displays a dialog where you can enter values for your new document. The attributes that can be set in this dialog are-
Page: You can select one of the standard pages sizes from the Page Size combo box.
Width/Height: If a custom size is desired, then you need to enter the Page Width and Page Height.
Orientation:
Portrait/Landscape: The pages in the document can either be in a Portrait mode or in a Landscape mode. In Portrait mode, the width and height that you specify are taken as such. Whereas in the Landscape mode, the widths and heights are interchanged.
Pages: Specify here number of pages in the document with which you want to start your new document. If the Automatic Text Box check box is checked then the Text Boxes will appear on all these pages. You can later on choose Insert Pages menu option to add more pages.
Margins: Specify the page margins as distances from the respective page boundary. At these positions page margin guides will be drawn and if a automatic Text Box check box (described later in this dialog) is checked on, then the new Text Box will lie along the margins.
Direction: Specify the direction of text entered.
Left To Right: Check this option if you wish to have the text direction from Left to Right.
Right To Left: Check this option if you wish to have the text direction from Right to Left.
Columns: Specifies numbers of columns in the document. The number of columns in the document can later on be modified using Format Document menu option.
Gutter: Specify the gap between columns.
Automatic Text Box: If this option is checked then an automatic text chain appears on all the pages of your document. Thus you do not need to draw and link Text Boxes afresh. These Text Boxes are all linked in a text chain, so that text flows from one Text Box on a page to another Text Box on next page.
Double Sided: If this option is checked, then your document will be double sided. You thus get two master pages, left master page and right master page. In a single sided document, you get only one master page which is applied to all the pages in the document.
Facing Pages: If this option is checked then you can view the pages in your document in Facing Pages Mode. In facing pages, two pages are displayed at a time, with both pages displayed side by side. Whereas in non Facing pages, one page is displayed at a time.
Save As Default: The Save As Default button saves the current values in the New dialog as application preferences so that the next time you make a new document, it automatically takes on these values.
Guides...
You can view all the guides in the currently selected page. Vertical and Horizontal guides are displayed separately as lists.
Vertical and Horizontal guides:
Add: You can edit the guide positions by selecting the guide from the list and after modifying its value, clicking on the Add button.
Modify: You can edit the guide positions by selecting the guide from the list and after modifying its value, clicking on the Modify button.
Remove: You can remove a guide by first selecting it from the list and clicking on the Remove button.
Grid: You can construct Grid of Guides by clicking on the Grid button. You will be prompted with the Grid dialog box. See Also Format:Grid....
Define Grid
You can construct Grid of Guides by entering the gap between the Vertical guides and also between the Horizontal guides. By default, the guides are created out. This Grid dialog will overwrite the existing guides if any in the vertical and the horizontal guides list. If you don't want this to happen, click on the Remove Existing Guides check button.
Now click on the OK button. The newly made guides appear on the current page in the document.
Style Sheets
You can define your custom StyleSheets by selecting this menu item. A Define StyleSheets dialog is displayed. A list of StyleSheets with their names is displayed. You can now edit this list by either adding, removing or modifying an item from the list.
New: To add a new StyleSheet, click on the New button. This prompts you to enter the name of the StyleSheet and brings up the StyleSheet modification dialog. In the based on field you can define which the base StyleSheet for the new StyleSheet. What ever attributes are not defined for this style will be picked from the base StyleSheet. The Paragraph, Character, Borders and Hyphenation definition buttons enable you to define or modify Paragraph, Character, Border and Hyphenation attributes for the StyleSheet.
Remove: To remove a StyleSheet, select the StyleSheet to be deleted from the List of StyleSheets and click on the remove button.
Modify: To modify a StyleSheet, select a StyleSheet from the List of StyleSheets. On clicking the modify button, the StyleSheet modification dialog is displayed. You can now modify the character and paragraph settings of the StyleSheet. The Paragraph, Character, Borders and Hyphenation definition buttons enable you to define or modify paragraph, character , border and Hyphenation attributes for the StyleSheet.
Define Colors...
You can define your custom colors by selecting this menu item. A Define Colors dialog is displayed. A list of colors with their names is displayed. You can now edit this list by either adding, removing or modifying an item from the list.
Add: To add a new color, click on the New button. This displays another dialog called Color Settings. Here you can define a new color by specifying the Red Green Blue (RGB) values. Each of these values range between 0-255. After having specified the RGB values, enter the color name under which you want this color referenced for your use. Now click OK button. This newly defined color gets inserted into the List of Colors dialog. This color also appears in all the combo boxes in all the ribbon.
Remove: To remove a color, select the color to be deleted from the List of Colors dialog and click on the Remove button.
Modify: To modify a color, select a color from the List of Colors dialog. On clicking the modify button, the Color Settings dialog is displayed. You can now modify the earlier RGB values along with the color name. On clicking the OK button, the modified color name and its value get updated in the List of Colors dialog.
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Character...
This option lets you to specify character formatting attributes for selected text. Character format dialog is displayed with following items
Size: Enter the desired font size in either points, millimeters, centimeters, or inches. Font size can also be chosen from the drop down list.
Style: Choose one of following styles for the selected text.
Single Underline
Double Underline
Overline
Box
Amikake
Reverse
Color: Color of The Text. You can choose from one of the document defined Colors.
Bold/Italics: Selected text can be made Bold or Italics with this option.
Latin Font Name: Choose the roman font for the selected text, InPage will apply this font to all roman text in the selected text.
Arabic Font Name: Choose the Arabic font for the selected text, InPage will apply this font to all Arabic text in the selected text.
Urdu Font Name: Choose the Arabic font for the selected text, InPage will apply this font to all Urdu text in the selected text.
Language: You can change the language to English to facilitate entry of upper ASCII characters i.e. characters entered using Alt and Numeric keypad. Thus you can enter bullet marks, typographic dash etc.
Spacing: Enter the spacing in percentage. Extra spacing will be introduced between the selected characters. The extra spacing amount can be specified in any of the standard distance units or as percent of font size.
Scaling: Enter the percentage by which to scale the selected characters. 100% is default which implies no scaling. 200% scaling will double the character width and 50% will half the character width.
BaseLine Shift: Enter Shift distance of the Selected Text from the baseline. This shift can be specified in any one of the standard distance units or as percent of font size.
Paragraph
This option lets you to specify paragraph formatting attributes for selected text. Paragraph Format dialog is displayed with following items.
Alignment: Choose Left, Centered, Right ,Justified and Forced Justify Alignment styles for selected paragraphs.
Indents:
Beginning: This option sets the Indent amount at beginning of line for lines after the first line of selected paragraphs.
End: This option sets the Indent amount at end of line for all lines in the selected paragraphs.
First line: This option sets the Indent value for first lines of selected paragraph.
Line Spacing:
Line Height: This option decides height of each line in the selected paragraph. The value specified is the distance between the top of the line and bottom of the line. Text is drawn centered within this Spacing. If Auto is specified for this option then InPage automatically finds out the text height in the line and adds some percentage to the text height. This value is then used for Line Spacing. The extra percentage can be changed from the Preference option.
Interline Gap: This option sets the gap between lines of the selected paragraphs.
Tab:
Default Stop: This option chooses the gap between default tab stops in the document. A tab character tabs to the next default tab position if no tabs are specified after the tab character.
Breaks: Selecting Page Break from the Breaks combo box takes the current paragraph to the beginning of the next page.
Selecting Column Break inserts a column break for the current paragraph. This takes the current paragraph to the beginning of the next column.
Keep Together: Check this option to disallow splitting of selected paragraphs across columns or frames.
Keep With Next: Check this option to disallow next paragraph to be in different frame of column.
Window: Enter number of lines at top of paragraph after which the selected paragraphs can break across columns and frames
Orphan: Select number of lines at end of paragraph where the paragraph is not allowed to break.
Paragraph Spacing:
Before: This option sets the space before the paragraph. This spacing will not be applied to paragraphs at top of Box.
After: This option sets the space after the paragraph. This spacing will not be applied for paragraphs ending at Box bottom.
Character Alignment: You can align the Latin/Arabic text either on the baseline in which case you should select the baseline character alignment option. If you wish to center align the text by choosing the Center Align option.
Add To Table of Contents: You can add the selected paragraph as a table of content entry.
Hyphenation
This menu item enables you to control hyphenation in Roman Text.
These options are
You can specify as to the hyphenation being light or heavy.
The maximum number of consecutive hyphenated lines.
Menu Format:Borders
This option allows you to specify Border attributes for Selected Paragraphs. Options allow you to specify Border Before or After, Border Type, Border Thickness and Color.
In the Border Type combo box choose from None, Indents and text options. Indents option will create a border from beginning indent to end indent of the paragraph. Text option will create a border from beginning of first character of the line to last character of the line.
Clicking on Style Button displays the Border formatting dialog. Through this dialog you can specify the Thickness of the border line and the color of the border. Save as default button in Border Style Dialog saves the current settings of the border as application defaults.
Tabs
This option allows you to set tab positions and tab attributes for the selected paragraphs. By choosing Tabs option from Format menu you enter into Tabs Setting mode of InPage. In this mode the selected text will be hilighted as a box
To Create a new Tab position click on the highlited text. This will create a tab stop at the position you clicked and this will be displayed as a vertical bar.
To Modify a existing Tab drag the vertical bar.
To Delete an existing Tab drag the vertical bar out of highlited text.
To change Tab attributes like alignment select the Tab by clicking on the vertical bar. From the Tab Ribbon you can also set Indents for the selected text.
Then choose the attribute from the ribbon. All attributes are explained below.
1. Current position of vertical bar.
2. Choose the Tab Leader.
3. Set the default tab position.
4. Set the first line indent.
5. Set the right tab position.
6. Switch back to text edit mode. Or press Escape
7. Click any one of the tab.
8. Remove all tabs.
9. Set the left tab.
Text Wrap
This option enables or disables the text wrap feature for the currently selected text chain. If the text wrap is off for a text chain then the text in that chain will not wrap around overlapping objects. If the option is on then the text in that chain will wrap around overlapping objects with Text Runaround attribute checked.
Sort Text
This option enables or disables the text wrap feature for the currently selected text chain. If the text wrap is off for a text chain then the text in that chain will not wrap around overlapping objects. If the option is on then the text in that chain will wrap around overlapping objects with Text Runaround attribute checked.
Table Format
This dialog enables you to format the table in terms of Cell Width, Cell Fill Color, Cell Border and Indents within the Cell.
Cell:
Fill Color: You can select the cells of the table and specify their fill color. The fill color gets applied to the selected cells.
Border: You can specify the border of all cells in the currently selected table as follows.
Color: Allows you to select the color of the border from the list of colors combobox.
Style: Style of the border in terms of document wide line patterns Solid, Dotted, Dashed, etc.
Width: Thickness of the border line.
Cell Order:
Left To Right: Click this option if you wish to keep the flow of text from Left To Right.
Right to Left: Click this option if you wish to keep the flow of text from Right To Left.
Column:
Width and Gap: This allows you to modify column widths of the selected columns.
Table:
Indents: You can specify the amount of indent within the Cell.
Alignment: Choose the text alignment within the cell is on the Left, Right or Centred.
Table Layout
The Table Layout dialog allows you to carry out the following operations
Row: Allows you to insert/delete a row before or after the current row.
Column: Allows you to insert/delete a column before or after the currently selected column.
Split or Merge Cells: Merges the currently selected cells of the table. For cells merged with the previous merge command, this command enables you to split the cell.
Object
Lets you to format the selected objected. On clicking this a Dialog will be displayed with following options
Bounds:
Across/Down: Contains the Object Origin Across and Origin Down. To move the object, modify these values. To do this, click with mouse on the Origin Across field and enter new value. Now either press the Tab Key or again click the Origin Down field with the mouse. Press enter/return after entering the new value. The Object will now shift to the new origin. If more than one object is selected then these fields get grayed and you cannot enter into these fields.
Width/Height: Displays the object's width and height. To resize the Object, edit these values by clicking the mouse on Width field and entering the new width, and/or by clicking the Height field and entering the new height. The Object will now be resized.
These following four attributes is for only Picture and Graphic Boxes.
Picture:
Origin: Specify the Left/Top position of picture in Across/Down Section.
Scaling: Scales the picture.
Across: If you want to increase/decrease the width of picture, then enter the no. more than 100 or less than 100 respectively.
Down: If you want to increase/decrease the height of picture, then enter the no. more than 100 or less than 100 respectively.
Shape:
Fill: Usually the object is filled with white color. This is the background against which the text/picture appears. To apply some other background color, choose from the list in the Fill Color Combo Box.
Rectangular/Rounded Rectangular/Elliptical : Three Icons/radio buttons representing the three different kinds of boxes(
Rectangular, Rounded Rectangular, Elliptical) are displayed. The selected icon/radio button represents the type of the selected picture or graphic box. To change the box type, click on one of the other two Icons/radio buttons.
Roundness: For the Rounded Rectangular Box, the amount of roundness can be specified horizontally and vertically.
When you select the text box then the following two attributes will be shown.
Columns and Gutter : This attribute is applicable only for a Text Box. A Text box is usually created with one column. To change number of columns, enter the number of columns in the columns field. The gap between two columns (Gutter Size) can also be modified.
Background:
Color: Usually the object is filled with white color. This is the background against which the text/picture appears. To apply some other background color, choose from the list in the Fill Color Combo Box.
Hatch: if you want background with some hatch pattern then select the appropriate pattern. By Default no Hatch Pattern will be selected.
Border :
Color/Width/Pattern: To apply a border to the Object Box, enter the border width in points. You can also change the color by selecting the color from the Border color combo box (Default is Black). the Pattern can be one of the Document wide Patterns like Solid, Dotted, Dashed etc.
Inside/Outside: If Object Box border is drawn inside the object, the actual bounds for the text/picture will become smaller on all four sides. To keep the text/picture bounds constant, you will have to select the Border Outside Icon.
Runaround: You can disable or enable Runaround for the selected objects by unchecking or checking this check box.
Template: You can mark an object as a template object, in which case, when you drag the object then a copy of the template object is peeled off. This option enables you to make precise copies of template objects and place them as per your requirements.
Lock: If the object is marked locked, then the object can neither be deleted nor modified by using the mouse. To delete the object, you will first have to unlock it. Copies of Master objects appear as locked by default.
Don’t Print: This check box enables you to disable printing for the selected objects by checking this check box on for these objects.
Runaround
In this dialog you can set the Runaround values along the four sides of the selected objects. Whenever this object overlaps a texbox, the text will flow around this object and will appear at the specified distances from this object's boundary.
Run Around: if you require Runaround around box, then check this option.
Inset
This dialog allows you to specify the inset values for Text box. The text in the selected Textbox will always be inset by the specified values.
Inset With Only With Graphic Frame: Check this option if you want to apply the inset value with only graphic frame.
Master Page Objects...
Allows you to format all master page objects on the specified range of pages.
From Page/To Page: Enter the Page range to be formatted.
Hide Objects of Master Page: If you choose option then all master page objects on the page range will be hidden.
Show Objects of Master Page: will show the master page objects on the range of pages if they were previously hidden or deleted.
Restore Objects from Master Page: will remove any modifications made to the master page objects and make them exactly same as they are on Master Page. As mentioned previously the objects of master page on a Page can be modified on the page.
Master Page Objects...
Allows you to format all master page objects on the specified range of pages.
From Page/To Page: Enter the Page range to be formatted.
Hide Objects of Master Page: If you choose option then all master page objects on the page range will be hidden.
Show Objects of Master Page: will show the master page objects on the range of pages if they were previously hidden or deleted.
Restore Objects from Master Page: will remove any modifications made to the master page objects and make them exactly same as they are on Master Page. As mentioned previously the objects of master page on a Page can be modified on the page.
Document Setup...
Similar to the New menu item in the File menu. It allows for setting up of document pages in terms of their sizes, orientations and margins.
See New menu Item from File Menu.
Displays a dialog where you can enter values for your new document. The attributes that can be set in this dialog are-
Page: You can select one of the standard pages sizes from the Page Size combo box.
Width/Height: If a custom size is desired, then you need to enter the Page Width and Page Height.
Orientation:
Portrait/Landscape: The pages in the document can either be in a Portrait mode or in a Landscape mode. In Portrait mode, the width and height that you specify are taken as such. Whereas in the Landscape mode, the widths and heights are interchanged.
Pages: Specify here number of pages in the document with which you want to start your new document. If the Automatic Text Box check box is checked then the Text Boxes will appear on all these pages. You can later on choose Insert Pages menu option to add more pages.
Margins: Specify the page margins as distances from the respective page boundary. At these positions page margin guides will be drawn and if a automatic Text Box check box (described later in this dialog) is checked on, then the new Text Box will lie along the margins.
Direction: Specify the direction of text entered.
Left To Right: Check this option if you wish to have the text direction from Left to Right.
Right To Left: Check this option if you wish to have the text direction from Right to Left.
Columns: Specifies numbers of columns in the document. The number of columns in the document can later on be modified using Format Document menu option.
Gutter: Specify the gap between columns.
Automatic Text Box: If this option is checked then an automatic text chain appears on all the pages of your document. Thus you do not need to draw and link Text Boxes afresh. These Text Boxes are all linked in a text chain, so that text flows from one Text Box on a page to another Text Box on next page.
Double Sided: If this option is checked, then your document will be double sided. You thus get two master pages, left master page and right master page. In a single sided document, you get only one master page which is applied to all the pages in the document.
Facing Pages: If this option is checked then you can view the pages in your document in Facing Pages Mode. In facing pages, two pages are displayed at a time, with both pages displayed side by side. Whereas in non Facing pages, one page is displayed at a time.
Save As Default: The Save As Default button saves the current values in the New dialog as application preferences so that the next time you make a new document, it automatically takes on these values.
Guides...
You can view all the guides in the currently selected page. Vertical and Horizontal guides are displayed separately as lists.
Vertical and Horizontal guides:
Add: You can edit the guide positions by selecting the guide from the list and after modifying its value, clicking on the Add button.
Modify: You can edit the guide positions by selecting the guide from the list and after modifying its value, clicking on the Modify button.
Remove: You can remove a guide by first selecting it from the list and clicking on the Remove button.
Grid: You can construct Grid of Guides by clicking on the Grid button. You will be prompted with the Grid dialog box. See Also Format:Grid....
Define Grid
You can construct Grid of Guides by entering the gap between the Vertical guides and also between the Horizontal guides. By default, the guides are created out. This Grid dialog will overwrite the existing guides if any in the vertical and the horizontal guides list. If you don't want this to happen, click on the Remove Existing Guides check button.
Now click on the OK button. The newly made guides appear on the current page in the document.
Style Sheets
You can define your custom StyleSheets by selecting this menu item. A Define StyleSheets dialog is displayed. A list of StyleSheets with their names is displayed. You can now edit this list by either adding, removing or modifying an item from the list.
New: To add a new StyleSheet, click on the New button. This prompts you to enter the name of the StyleSheet and brings up the StyleSheet modification dialog. In the based on field you can define which the base StyleSheet for the new StyleSheet. What ever attributes are not defined for this style will be picked from the base StyleSheet. The Paragraph, Character, Borders and Hyphenation definition buttons enable you to define or modify Paragraph, Character, Border and Hyphenation attributes for the StyleSheet.
Remove: To remove a StyleSheet, select the StyleSheet to be deleted from the List of StyleSheets and click on the remove button.
Modify: To modify a StyleSheet, select a StyleSheet from the List of StyleSheets. On clicking the modify button, the StyleSheet modification dialog is displayed. You can now modify the character and paragraph settings of the StyleSheet. The Paragraph, Character, Borders and Hyphenation definition buttons enable you to define or modify paragraph, character , border and Hyphenation attributes for the StyleSheet.
Define Colors...
You can define your custom colors by selecting this menu item. A Define Colors dialog is displayed. A list of colors with their names is displayed. You can now edit this list by either adding, removing or modifying an item from the list.
Add: To add a new color, click on the New button. This displays another dialog called Color Settings. Here you can define a new color by specifying the Red Green Blue (RGB) values. Each of these values range between 0-255. After having specified the RGB values, enter the color name under which you want this color referenced for your use. Now click OK button. This newly defined color gets inserted into the List of Colors dialog. This color also appears in all the combo boxes in all the ribbon.
Remove: To remove a color, select the color to be deleted from the List of Colors dialog and click on the Remove button.
Modify: To modify a color, select a color from the List of Colors dialog. On clicking the modify button, the Color Settings dialog is displayed. You can now modify the earlier RGB values along with the color name. On clicking the OK button, the modified color name and its value get updated in the List of Colors dialog.
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