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- CONTENTS
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- This section will tell you how to manipulate text
- and objects using the keyboard or the mouse.
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- CANCELLING A SELECTION
- MOVING AN OBJECT
- SELECTING AND SIZING OBJECTS
- SELECTING TEXT
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- KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS
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- * KEYBOARD AND MOUSE CONTROL
- Cancelling A Selection
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- To de-select an object, press the Selection button
- on the object to be de-selected. To de-select
- one of a number of objects, click on the object
- while pressing the Shift key. This will deselect
- the current object while maintaining the
- selection of any other objects.
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- To cancel the selection of text, depress the
- Selection button anywhere on the page.
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- * KEYBOARD AND MOUSE CONTROL
- Selecting Objects
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- Hold down the Shift key when clicking an object
- to make multiple selections. Clicking a
- previously selected object will de-select it.
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- When an object is selected, four small boxes
- appear around its perimeter. These small boxes,
- or handles, are used to resize the object.
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- To select all the objects in the document, click
- the Pointer icon (Drawing Tools palette) and
- choose "Select All" (Edit menu).
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- Resizing Objects
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- To resize an object, position the mouse pointer
- over one of the object handles, press the Left
- Mouse key and drag the object outline to the new
- size.
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- To cancel the resizing, or moving of an object,
- press the Menu button whilst holding down the
- Selection button.
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- * KEYBOARD AND MOUSE CONTROL
- Selecting Text
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- If you are editing text in your main document,
- (the insertion point is on the page) "Select All"
- (Edit menu) will select all of the text in the
- document.
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- If you are editing a text frame "Select All"
- (Edit menu) will select just the text within that
- frame.
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- To select a part of text, hold down the shift key
- and move the insertion point with the cursor keys
- or mouse. Alternatively, you can drag the cursor
- over any text with the mouse to highlight it.
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- You can also select text by holding down the Shift
- key and clicking elsewhere in the document. The
- text between the cursor and the position where the
- Selection button was depressed will then be selected.
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- Double-click the mouse to select a word, or
- triple-click to select a line.
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- To cancel the selection of any text. Depress
- the Selection button anywhere on the page.
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- * KEYBOARD AND MOUSE CONTROL
- Keyboard Shortcuts
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- Keyboard shortcuts are used to speed up your
- productivity with Wordworth by providing keyboard
- alternatives to using the mouse.
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- There are keyboard shortcuts for:
- COMMANDS
- CURSOR MOVEMENT
- EDITING TEXT
- REQUESTERS
- TABLES
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- * KEYBOARD AND MOUSE CONTROL
- All Keyboard Shortcuts
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- Commands
- KEY DOES
- Right Amiga A Save As
- Right Amiga Shift A Select All
- Right Amiga B Bold text toggle
- Right Amiga C Copy
- Right Amiga Shift C Copy format
- Right Amiga D Duplicate
- Right Amiga E Spell Check
- Right Amiga Shift E Thesaurus
- Right Amiga F Find
- Right Amiga G Find Again
- Right Amiga I Italic text toggle
- Right Amiga J Go To page, bookmark or endnote
- Right Amiga K Close document
- Right Amiga L Plain text
- Right Amiga M Paragraph format
- Right Amiga N New document
- Right Amiga O Open document
- Right Amiga P Print
- Right Amiga Q Quit Wordworth
- Right Amiga R Repeat
- Right Amiga S Save document
- Right Amiga T Font format
- Right Amiga U Underline text toggle
- Right Amiga V Paste
- Right Amiga Shift V Paste format
- Right Amiga X Cut
- Right Amiga Y Show Codes toggle
- Right Amiga Z Undo command
- Right Amiga ? About
- (These commands are not available if the pointer
- is positioned over the horizontal ruler.)
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- KEY DOES
- F1 New document
- F2 Open document
- F3 Close document
- F4 Save as document
- F5 Print document
- F6 Font
- F7 Paragraph
- F8 Document
- F9 Statistics
- F10 About Wordworth
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- Shift F1 Thesaurus
- Shift F2 Spell Check
- Shift F3 Speech
- Shift F4 Change Settings
- Shift F5 Quick print
- Shift F6 Insert requester
- Shift F7 Librarian
- Shift F8 Auto Correct
- Shift F9 Information
- Shift F10 Colours
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- Right Alt F1 Place Picture
- Right Alt F2 Insert page break
- Right Alt F3 Insert page number
- Right Alt F4 Insert current time
- Right Alt F5 Insert current date
- Right Alt F6 Copy format
- Right Alt F7 Paste format
- Right Alt F8 Repeat
- Right Alt F9 Rulers on or off
- Right Alt F10 Convert case
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- Left Alt F1 Insert Symbol
- Left Alt F2 Insert Column Break
- Left Alt F3 Insert Page Count
- Left Alt F4 Insert Updating Time
- Left Alt F5 Insert Updating Date
- Left Alt F6 Insert Endnote
- Left Alt F7 Insert List Entry
- Left Alt F8 Insert Index Entry
- Left Alt F9 Insert Bookmark
- Left Alt F10 Go To bookmark or endnote
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- Cursor Movement
- KEY DOES
- Home Move to first line on screen
- End Move to last line on screen
- Alt Home Move to first line in document
- Alt End Move to last line in document
- Pg Up Move up a page
- Pg Dn Move down a page
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- Up Arrow Move up a line
- Down Arrow Move down a line
- Left Arrow Move left one character
- Right Arrow Move right one character
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- Ctrl Up Arrow Move to first line in document
- Ctrl Down Arrow Move to last line in document
- Ctrl Left Arrow Move to start of line
- Ctrl Right Arrow Move to end of line
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- Alt Up Arrow Move up a page
- Alt Down Arrow Move down a page
- Alt Left Arrow Move to start of word
- Alt Right Arrow Move to start of next word
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- Del Delete character to right
- Ctrl Del Delete to end of line
- Right Alt Del Delete to end of word
- Backspace Delete character to left
- Ctrl Backspace Delete to start of line
- Alt Backspace Delete to start of word
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- KEY DOES
- Ins or Alt = Insert/Overtype toggle
- Alt NumL or Alt ( Number lock/Command toggle
- Alt \ Swap adjacent characters
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- Alt Space bar Hard space
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- Help Help Contents
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- Editing Text
- You can either use the normal Wordworth 3
- modifier keys for editing text, or use the
- keys used in earlier versions of Wordworth.
- Choose which you would like to use from
- "Text Settings" requester ("Change Settings"
- command, Settings menu).
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- Wordworth 3 Modifiers:
- Shift-Arrow keys Selects text
- Alt-Arrow keys Moves to beginning/end
- of word or page
- Ctrl-Arrow keys Moves to end of line or
- document
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- Old Wordworth Modifiers:
- Ctrl-Arrow keys Selects text
- Shift-Arrow keys Moves to beginning/end
- of word or page
- Alt-Arrow keys Moves to end of line or
- document
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- In A Requester
- Select any gadget in a requester by pressing the
- underlined letter of the gadget title. When
- editing a text gadget, hold down the Ctrl key
- and then press the underlined letter.
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- KEY DOES
- Ctrl-Return Selects default button
- (shown in bold),
- Esc (Escape) Cancels requester,
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- Tab Moves to next text gadget,
- Shift-Tab Moves to previous text gadget,
- Return Accepts text gadget entry.
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- Editable Popups or Active Scrolling Lists
- KEY DOES
- Down Arrow Move to next item in list
- Up Arrow Move to previous item in list
- Shift-Up Arrow Move to previous page in list
- Shift-Down Arrow Move to next page in list
- Alt-Up Arrow Move to first item in list
- Alt-Down Arrow Move to last item in list
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- In A Table
- Tab Move to the next cell
- Shift-Tab Move to previous cell
- Alt-Tab Move to cell below
- Alt Shift-Tab Move to cell above
- Ctrl-Tab Insert a tab
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