Removes the bold style from the selected text.

Makes the selected text bold.

Checked because the selected text is already plain (no style attributes).

Removes all style attributes from the selected text.

Displays a dialog allowing text modification.  Unavailable because no text is selected.

Style Menu

Contains commands to set text style, color and justification attributes.

Displays a dialog box allowing you to modify various characters and line endings in the selected text.

Allows adjustment of speech characteristics.  Unavailable because Speech is off.

Allows the speaking voice, pitch and rate to be modified.

To save as a non-stationery (ordinary) document, click here.

Activates (deactivates) the Speech Manager.  (Put Speech Manager in your Extensions folder.)

Pauses/resumes the current reading.  Unavailable because there is no active document reading session.

Pauses/resumes the current reading session.

Cancels speech and sound.  Unavailable because no speech or sound is active.

Immediately cancels speech and sound playback.

Reads the selected text.  Unavailable because Speech is off or no text is selected.

Reads the selected text aloud.

Starts reading the text at the insertion point.  Unavailable because speech is off or text is already being read.

This will cause the Speech Manager to read the text aloud, starting at the current insertion point.

Starts reading of the active document.  Unavailable because Speech is off.

Starts reading of the active document.  Each sentence is spoken aloud, starting with the first line.

To save this document as a stationery pad boiler plate, click here.

Sound Menu

Contains commands used to produce speech and to record sounds.

Displays a character, word, line, sentence and paragraph count for this document.

Selects and scrolls the desired line number into view.

Displays a dialog box allowing you to modify various characters and line endings throughout the active document.

Converts all carriage returns in the document to linefeeds.  This is useful when creating Unix text files.

Converts all linefeeds in the document to carriage returns.  This is useful when reading Unix text files.

Removes all linefeed characters from the active document.  LF's show up as empty boxes at the beginning of each line.

Converts text into a block of indented text.  Unavailable because no text is selected. 

Converts the selected text into a block of indented text.  This is useful for inserting a quotation from received e-mail into your reply.  Set the line length and line header in the Block Options dialog.

Changes the case of the selected text.  Unavailable because no text is selected.

Inserts the selection into the Find dialog.  Unavailable because no text is selected.

Inserts the selected text into the Find string of the Find/Replace dialog box.  Hold down the option key to insert the selection into the Replacement string.

Replaces the found text and resumes searching for the next match.  Unavailable because there is no active replacement session.

Replaces the text you just found (as specified in the "Find/Replace…" dialog box) and searches for the next match.

Searches for the next instance of the "Find…" text.  Unavailable because there is no active search.

Searches for the next instance of the text defined by the last "Find…" session.

Displays a dialog allowing you to search for one text string and replace it with another.

To avoid using offscreen drawing routines, click here.

Special Menu

Contains commands to find, replace and modify the text in various ways.

Displays a dialog box allowing you to adjust various block command features.

Prints one copy of the active document without the Print dialog.

Displays a dialog box allowing you to choose any point size for the selected text.

To specify which character will replace each run of spaces, make a selection from this popup menu.

Increases the point size of the selected text by one.

Enter the minimum number of characters to be recognized as a normal line of text here.  Shorter lines will be ignored by the Strip commands.

Decreases the point size of the selected text by one.

Italicizes the selected text.