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MY-GNOME-APPLICATION Manual V&manrevision;&date;Documentation Writer 2 docwriter2@gnome.org GNOME Documentation ProjectFull title of previous manual.Release date of previous manual.Documentation Writer 1 docwriter1@gnome.org GNOME Documentation Project This manual describes version &appversion; of AbiWord. To report a bug or make a suggestion regarding the &app; application or this manual, follow the directions in the Report a Bug page. &app; abiword Abiword &app; is a word processor which is fast, small in size and easy to use. It is able to save and open documents in a large variety of file formats. &app; is similar to most other modern word processors. To allow older systems to run &app;, a plugin system is used to keep the size of a basic installation of &app; small and to reduce the amount of resources necessary to run &app;. NOTE: consult style guide on usage of verbs in chapter names, more work on introduction necessary? You can start &app; in the following ways: Applications menu Choose OfficeAbiWord Word Processor. Command line To start &app; from a command line, type the following command, then press Return: abiword When you open a document in the file manager and &app; is associated with that type of document, &app; will be started automatically. When you start &app;, the following window is displayed:

The &app; window contains the following elements: Menubar The menus on the menubar contain all of the commands you need to work with documents in &app;. Toolbar The toolbar contains icons which give acess to a subset of the commands that you can access from the menubar. Rulers Beneath the toolbar and above the document area, the horizontal ruler is located. The vertical ruler is located to the left of the document area. How the rulers are used is explained in the section *link to section explaining rulers here*. Document area The large empty white area in the middle of the window represents the physical paper document. With the exception of the part which is designated as the page margin, this area is used to create the document. Statusbar The statusbar gives information about which page out of all pages of the document is currently being viewed, and... When you right-click in the &app; window, the application displays a popup menu. The popup menu contains the most common text and layout editing commands. Actions in &app; can be performed in several ways: with the menu, with the toolbar, or with shortcut keys. Shortcuts keys common to all applications are listed in the *link to GNOME User Guide, like done in gedit help file*. The basic installation of &app; includes support for the most frequently used document file formats. The plugins include support for more file formats. Format Extension Note &app; .abw This is the native file format of &app;, use this unless you have good reasons to use another file format. &app; Templates .awt This format is identical to normal &app; documents, except for being marked as a template and using a different filename extension. Encoded Text .txt .text HTML/XHTML .html .htm .xhtml Microsoft Word .doc Plain Text .txt .text Rich Text Format .rtf GZipped &app; .zabw These are normal &app; documents using compression. Compression can be useful for reducing the file size of large documents. Format Extension Note Applix Word .aw BZipped &app; .bzabw Similar to GZipped &app;, but uses bzip2 for greater compression. ClarisWorks/AppleWorks 5 .cwk Saving not supported, only opening. DocBook .dbk .xml Hancom Word .hwp Saving not supported, only opening. ISCII Text .isc .iscii KWord .kwd LaTeX .latex Microsoft Write .wri Saving not supported, only opening. MIF .mif Newsgroup Formatted Text .nws OpenDocument .odt OpenOffice.org Writer .sxw Outlook Express Email .eml Palm Document .pdb Portable Document Format .pdf In the &app; version for Unix and Linux, writing PDF files is already supported in\ the basic installation. Basic support for opening PDF files is available. T602 .602 .txt Saving not supported, only opening. StarWriter up to 5.x .sdw Saving not supported, only opening. WML .wml WordPerfect(tm) .wpd .wp Saving not supported, only opening. All versions are supported. XSL-FO .fo It is possible that data is lost if open or save documents in file formats other than the &app; document file format. While the &app; developers do their best to prevent this from happening, you can only be completely certain that there will be no data loss if you use the &app; document file format. If you open &app; without opening an already existing document, a new document will automatically be created. To create a new document while you already have a document opened in &app;, choose FileNew. To open a document choose FileOpen... or click the Open button in the toolbar to display the Open File dialog. Select the file that you want to open, then click Open. If you open a document in the file manager and &app; is associated with that type of document, &app; will be started automatically. &app; records the paths and filenames of the five most recent files that you edited and displays the files as menu items on the File menu. You can also click on the arrow pointing downward near the Open icon on the toolbar to display the list of recent files. There are three options for saving a document: Save, Save As... and Save Copy... If you want to save a document for the first time, choose FileSave As... to display the Save File As dialog. Even if you choose another option to save the document from the File menu, you will always be given the Save File As dialog if you save the document for the first time. Give the document you want to save a name, and optionally specify where you want to save it and in which file format, then click OK. You can also use Save As... to save an existing document under a different name. FileSave is used to save the changes you made to an existing document. FileSave Copy... is used to save a copy of an existing document under the same name. If you choose to use Save Copy..., you will probably have to change the location where you want the file to be saved, because you can't save two documents with the same name in one directory. Templates are documents with missing information which are used to produce a finished document. Templates can be useful because they allow you to produce a finished document faster than if you were creating a new document from scratch. Templates already contain a modified layout and placeholder text, so you fill in your own text in the template and save it as a normal document. A few templates are already included in &app;, you can access them by choosing FileNew using Template.... You can create your own templates by creating a document and then saving it as an &app; Template. To make your own templates appear in the New using Template... dialog, you can place your templates in the templates directory. The location of this directory is %USERPROFILE%\AbiSuite\templates on Windows, /usr/share/AbiSuite-2.4/templates on Unix and Linux and /Users/*your_user_name*/Library/Application Support/AbiSuite/templates on Mac OS X. Choose FileProperties... to open the Document Properties dialog. Here you can enter various information about the document. The information you enter here can be used by the EditField... function. Choose FileRevert to revert the document to the last saved version. This will undo all the changes made to the document since it was saved for the last time. Choose EditUndo to undo changes made to a document step by step. Once you have used Undo, you can choose EditRedo to reverse the changes made by Undo. *Text has yet to come* *Text has yet to come* When you start &app;, you will see a blinking black vertical stripe within the page margins, in the area where you create your document. This is the insertion cursor. If you type on your keyboard the letters will appear on the left side of the cursor, and the cursor will move to the right (under the condition that you are using a language which is read from left to right). The Space Bar is used to create empty spaces between words, and Return is used to start a new paragraph when the end of the current paragraph is reached. You can change the location of the cursor with the Arrow Keys or you can click with the mouse. These methods cannot be used to place the cursor in areas of the document which do not have any content yet. NOTE: isn't this knowledge so basic that we could expect our public to know this already? Isn't this already covered in the GNOME user guide? To cut text from the document, select text in the document and choose Edit Cut. The text will then be memorized and removed from the document, and you can use EditPaste to place the text you just cut somewhere else in the document. The function EditCopy works the same as Cut, with the exception that it will not remove the selected text. You can also cut and copy text from other applications and then paste it in &app;, and the other way around. With EditPaste Unformatted the original layout (for example font type, size or color) the text had will be forgotten when you paste it in a document in &app;, and the layout for that document will be applied to the pasted text. NOTE: isn't this knowledge so basic that we could expect our public to know this already? Isn't this already covered in the GNOME user guide? To find text, choose the option EditFind... and enter a search term in the Find what field, then click Find . If &app; finds a match for the search term you entered, the view will be moved to the location of the text, and the text will be highlighted. EditReplace... works similar to Find..., but will also allow you to replace the text which is found, if a match was found for the search term you entered. In addition EditGo To... allows you to navigate to a specific line or page number. It can also navigate to bookmarks in the document if you have defined bookmarks with InsertBookmark... . &app; can automatically check the spelling of the words in your document. If you type a word which is not found in the dictionary by &app;, a jagged red line will be shown under that word. You can then check the spelling with ToolsCheck Spelling.... A faster way to do this is to right click an underlined word. By default the spelling checker uses the English dictionary. If you are typing a document in a different language, you can have to change the language of the document by choosing ToolsSet Language... in order for the spelling checker to work correctly with the different language. This will open the Set Language... dialog. Double click on the language you wish to use in the document, and click Close . By default only an English dictionary for the spelling checker is delivered with &app;. If you want the spelling checker to work with other languages you might need to install dictionaries for the GNU Aspell spelling checker which are designed for those languages. NOTE: it's that way in my case, when I use Ubuntu installed with English as language, investigate this, and the bug with setting the language. Unfortunately the dictionaries used by &app; are not 100% complete. It might happen that the spelling checker claims a word to be misspelled even if you are sure that the word is spelled correctly. If you need to insert special characters which are not located on your keyboard, you can choose EditSymbol... to find and insert them in the document. The Insert Symbol dialog will then appear. In the top left corner of the dialog you can select the font you will be using for the characters you insert. This is important because it is possible that certain fonts miss certain characters. In list on the left side of the dialog, titled Unicode Block, you can select groups of related characters. This makes it easier to search through the huge amount of special characters. On the right side of the dialog you will see a list with two tabs, Character Table and Character Details. With the Character Table tab you can see which characters you can insert. You can select a character by clicking them. You can insert them in the document by double clicking them. You can use the Character Details tab to see details of the character which you have currently selected. If you frequently need to input special characters, it might be more effective to use U.S. English international keyboard layout depending on the keyboard you use. This keyboard layout uses dead keys, which allows you to input some of the most common diacritical marks, currency symbols and special characters much quicker than with the Insert Symbol dialog. Fields are variabeles, which are calculated automatically. An example of a field is the number of pages in the document. As the amount of pages of the document changes, the value of the field changes as well. Choose InsertField... to insert a field. NOTE: needs more explanation, what do the "Extra Parameters" do, what use are the fields in the "Application" category? You can insert page numbers by choosing InsertPage Numbers... . This will open the Page Numbers dialog. Here you can choose to insert the page numbers in either a header or a footer, and how they should be aligned. If a header or a footer has already been inserted, the page number will be inserted in that header or footer. If no header or footer exists in the document, it will be inserted for the page number. When you have made a choice, click Insert to insert page numbers. Page numbers will be inserted on all pages of your document, and if you create new pages after inserting page numbers, page numbers will be inserted in those pages as well. If you organise your document in sections, you can decide which pages display page numbers, and which pages do not. For example, if you do not want to display page numbers on the first two pages, position the insertion cursor on the second page and choose InsertBreak... and choose Next page to start a new section with a new page. Then position the insertion cursor on the third page, after the section break, and insert page numbers as usual. You will notice that only this section of the document, which is the third page in this case, will display a page number. By choosing FormatHeader/Footers... , you can restart page numbering with a specified page number on new sections. You can also access a field for displaying the current page number and the total number of pages of the document by choosing InsertField.... Unlike the Page Numbers dialog, the Insert Field dialog allows you to place the page numbers anywhere in the document, not merely the footer or header. Headers and footers contain text which is repeated automatically on every page of the document, and are placed respectively above the top margin and below the bottom margin of the page. Headers and footers are frequently used for page numbers, and when you insert page numbers in the document, a header or a footer is automatically inserted if none is present in the document yet, depending on your preference. You can insert a header or a footer by choosing InsertHeader or InsertFooter. You can enable different headers or footers for the first, last and facing pages by choosing FormatHeader/Footers.... If you want more control over which pages of your document display the same or different headers or footers, or no headers or footers at all, you can do so by using section breaks. Every section in your document can have different properties with regard to headers and footers. Choose InsertBreak... and choose Next page to start a new section with a new page. Footnotes and endnotes can be used for comments on or citing references for the main body of text. They are marked by a number in superscript to identify where in the main body of text which footnote is referenced. Footnotes are placed above the bottom margin of the page and endnotes are placed at the end of the document or at the end of the section. You can insert a footnote by choosing InsertFootnote and you can insert an endnote by choosing Insert Endnote. You can specify detailed options for footnotes and endnotes by choosing FormatFootnotes and Endnotes... . Breaks can be used to manually start a new page or column instead of automatically starting a new page or column once the current page or column has been filled with text. You can insert a break by choosing InsertBreak.... A special kind of break is a section break, which can be used to divide the document in sections. You can choose Next page to start the new section on the next page, Continuous to start the new section on the next line, Even page to start the new section on the next even page, or Odd page to start the new section on the next odd page. Both the Even page and Odd page section breaks will insert an empty page if the next page is not the desired even or odd page. So, for example, inserting an Even page section break on page 6 will insert a blank page 7, and then create the new section on page 8. &app; can automatically create a table of contents for your document on the condition that you have already applied the Heading styles to the names of the chapters and sections in the document. The table of contents will be updated automatically as you apply more Heading styles. You can insert a table of contents by choosing Insert Table of Contents.... It is not possible to change the contents or layout of the table of contents manually. Click the table of contents to select it, and then choose FormatTable of Contents... if you wish to make any changes. This opens the Format Table of Contents dialog. In the General tab of the dialog you can choose if a heading for the table of contents is displayed, what text it contains, and which style it uses. The options listed under Define Main Properties allow you to select the Level of the contents of the table of contents of which you want to modify the properties. The Fill style is the style used as the source for the table of contents, The Display style is the style used for the contents in the table of contents, and with the Has label the display of labels - by default the numbers for the contents of the table of contents - can be enabled or disabled. By default Level 1 uses Heading 1 as the Fill style, Level 2 uses Heading 2, and so on. Every level and heading style with a higher number represents a smaller division of text. By default the higher levels are given more indent to represent this in the table of contents. So for example the Heading 1 style would be used for chapter titles while Heading 2 would be used for section titles. The Layout Details tab of the dialog contains options under Label Definitions for the numbering, the starting point of the numbering and the numbering type of the labels, and also allows you to insert text before and after the labels. Under Tabs and Page Numbering you can select the Tab leader, which is a dotted line between the contents of the table of contents and the page number by default. You can also select a method for the Page numbering and the lengt of the Indent. NOTE: give a link to the section covering styles in &app;, mention what inherit label does, possibly this explanation is way too complex and we shouldn't explain the details in the third and fourth paragraph? Choose FormatFont... to open the Font dialog. Here you can change the font type, style, size and effects, or the font color or highlight color. The text in the white square in the bottom of the dialog serves as a preview showing what your text will look like with the currently selected options. If you want to apply the changes to existing text, you have to select that text first before opening the Font dialog. If you select nothing and make any changes in Font dialog, the changes will only be applied to the new text. If the insertion cursor is placed inside text with different font layout, that font layout will be adopted. You have quicker access to a few of these commands by choosing FormatText Formatting. Choose FormatParagraph... to open the Paragraph dialog. Here you can change the alignment, indentation, line spacing and pagination of the paragraph. It is also possible to insert tabs into the paragraph. The text in the white square in the bottom of the dialog serves as a preview showing what your text will look like with the currently selected options. In the Indents and Spacing tab of the dialog you can select the Alignment of the paragraph. Under Indentation you can set the distances of the indentation left and right. You can also use special indentation for the first line of the paragraph, and hanging indentation for every line of the paragraph after the first line. Under Spacing the size blank space between the previous and the next paragraph can be set, as well as the size of the space between every line of the paragraph. In the Line and Page Breaks tab of the dialog, several options are available under Pagination. The Keep lines together option will prevent the paragraph from being split when the end of the page or column is reached, for example. The paragraph would then be placed on the next page. The Tabs... button inside the Paragraph dialog will open the Tabs dialog. Here it is possible to change the distances between the default tab stops and insert tabs which you can define yourself. Use the Add button to add a new tab, and use the Remove to remove a selected tab. You have quicker access to the functionality for setting tab stops by choosing FormatTabs.... NOTE: explain alignment in more detail? What does right-to-left dominant do? What do the other options in pagination do, for example when I try the "page break before" option it doesn't insert a a page break at all? &app; doesn't remember if I enable the "don't hyphenate" option? Link to chapter covering tabs? If you want to insert bullet lists or numbered lists in a document, you can do so by choosing FormatBullets and Numbering... to open the Lists dialog. Lists can contain multiple levels, higher levels are given indentation. Once you have created a list, starting at the second line of the list, you can take the list to a higher level by pressing the Tab key. In the List Properties tab you can select the Type of list, bullet or numbered. You can also select a different Style of bullets or numbers for the list. You have the options to specify the Label Align, the distance of the bullet or number from the left margin, and the Text Align, the distance of the text from the bullet or number. Finally you the option to apply the settings you specified to a new list, the current lists or the previous lists. With Set Default Values you revert your changes to the settings in this dialog to the default settings. If you choose to create a numbered list, you also have the option to specify the Font of the numbers, and the Start At option allows you to specify at which number the numbering should start. With the Format option you can specify the exact text of the numbers. The text specified in the Level Delimiter option is text which is inserted between the first number and the number behind the decimal which is added for higher levels in the list. The Text Folding tab contains options for hiding text below certain list levels. Styles are used to define the layout for characters or paragraphs. They can be much more useful for easily making changes to the layout of a document than changing the layout manually, especially if the document is very large. If you apply styles, you can later change the layout of all the characters or paragraphs a style is applied to by simply changing the style itself. &app; already comes with a lot of existing styles, but it is possible to modify them. To apply or modify styles, choose FormatCreate and Modify Styles... to open the Styles dialog. Here the Available Styles list is displayed. Under List the styles which are displayed in this list can be switched by the options In Use, All and User-defined Styles. With the New you can create a completely new style, with Modify... you can change an existing style and with Delete you can delete the selected style. Apply will apply the currently selected style to the paragraph where the insertion cursor is located, or the (selected) character(s). The Paragraph Preview and Character Preview boxes serve to preview the currently selected style. If you click New or Modify..., the New Style or Modify Styles dialog will be opened. Under Style Name you can give a name to the style. The Style Type can be either Character or Paragraph, which makes the style apply to respectively at least a single character or an entire paragraph. Under Based On you can select an existing style on which the (new) style will be based. The new or modified style will then take the properties of the style it is based on, but it is still possible to modify the style completely. By default None is selected for new styles. Under Style for the following paragraph you can select a different style to be used for the next paragraph, but you can also continue to use the current style if you select Current Settings. Under Remove Property from Style you can remove properties from the style, which means that a default will be used for that property then. Click Format in New Style or Modify Styles dialog for access to options which allow for detailed modification of the style. The options which are accessible under this button are Paragraph, Font , Tabs, Numbering and Language the dialogs for these options are identical to the dialogs discussed in the previous chapters covering paragraphs, fonts, tabs and numbering. The option Language is the only exception, it allows you to mark certain paragraphs as using a different language, so that they will be properly checked by the spelling checker. NOTE: inlcude links to previous chapters covering fonts, paragraphs, tabs and numbering. The ruler displays the physical dimensions of your document. The ruler can use several different units of measurement: inches, centimeters, points and pica's. To change the unit of measurement used by the ruler, choose EditPreferences... and change the unit of measurement with the Units drop down box. The ruler has more functions. With the ruler you can change the page margins and the indents of paragraphs. You can also set tab stops on the ruler to align text.

# Name 1 Left indent 2 First line indent 3 Right indent 4 Left margin 5 Right margin 6 Top margin 7 Bottom margin (not visible on screenshot) 8 Tab stop selector The margins of the page are indicated by grey areas on the left and right ends of the ruler. You can see two small squares near the top of the ruler, near the ends of the margins. To change the margins, drag the the squares to the left or right. You can change the indentation of paragraphs with the three triangles located on the horizontal ruler. The triangle near the top left on the ruler is used for setting the indentation of the first line of a paragraph only. The triangle near the bottom left on the ruler is used for setting the indentation of all the lines in the paragraph, except for the first line. The triangle near the bottom right on the ruler is used to set the indentation to the right side of the paragraph, for all lines of the paragraph. If you want to be able to define the page margins and the dimensions of your document more precisely, you can do so with Page Setup which is accessible through File Page Setup.... You can also change the indentation and tab stops for paragraphs by choosing FormatParagraph.... With tab stops you can change the alignment of text. There are five different types of tab stops, by default the left tab stop is visible in the tab stop selector. You can select different tab stops by clicking on the tab stop selector. Once you have selected the tab stop which you want to use, click on a place in the horizontal ruler to place the tab stop there. To move a tab stop which was already placed, click and drag it. To remove a tab stop, right click it. When you have placed a tab stop in the ruler, you can jump to that tab stop by pressing the Tab key on your keyboard. If you do not use the Tab key to jump to the tab stops and simply type paragraphs as you would normally, the tab stops will not work.

# Type Function 1 Left Aligns the left edge of the text to the right side of the tab stop. 2 Center Aligns the text to the center of the tab stop. 3 Right Aligns the right edge of the text to the left side of the tab stop. 4 Decimal Aligns the decimals of numbers to the center of the tab stop (only recognizes dots as decimals) 5 Bar Identical to the left tab stop, but also places a vertical line to the left side of the tab stop While the page margins apply to the whole document, you can define different settings for indentation and tab stops for every separate paragraph. NOTE: is the explanation for tab stops clear enough? NOTE: perhaps use sect3's here because this page might become a bit large, and so that we can give separate titles for the ruler, indents and tab stops. You can change the number of columns in the document by choosing FormatColumns.... This will open the Columns dialog. Here you can choose how much columns you want to add. With the Max Column Size you can specify the maximum vertical length of the columns. By default it is zero, which means that the column will end at the bottom margin of the page. If a value higher than zero is specified, you can change the lenght of the vertical gaps between the columns with the Space after Column setting. The Line between option can be enabled to display a vertical line between the horizontal gaps of the columns, and the Use RTL Order option can be used to display the columns from right to left. The width of the horizontal gaps between the columns can only be changed with the ruler. The horizontal ruler will display a grey line in the margin of the first gap, if you click and drag this line you can make the gap wider or smaller. Before deciding to print a document, it might be necessary to change the paper size if you are not satisfied with the default paper size used by &app;. You might also want to change the margins of the text on the paper. To do this choose FilePage Setup.... This will open the Page Setup dialog. In the Paper tab you can select a standard paper size or define a custom paper size. You can choose between portrait or landscape, in other words vertical and horizontal, orientation of the paper. Finally, you can scale the paper size to a percentage of the original size. In the Margins tab, you can define the margins of used for the page. Before giving the command to print the document, you can see a preview of what the printed document will look like by choosing FilePrint Preview.... This will open the Print Preview dialog. To print the document, choose FilePrint.... This will open the Print dialog. Click Print to print the document. Alongside &app;, a set of so-called "plugins" is provided. A plugin provides an extension to &app; to enhance it's functionality. Support for the OpenDocument file format is for example provided by a plugin. Another example is &app;'s grammar checking functionality, which is also provided by a plugin. None of the plugins are required to be installed on the system. This means that the availability of functionality that is provided by a plugin depends on the particular installation of &app; you are using. If you installed &app; yourself, then make sure you installed all the plugins you want to use. Otherwise please ask your system administrator to customize your &app; installation to your liking. Text has yet to come The AbiCommand plugin provides a powerful command line interface to &app; (the so-called AbiCommand Interface). This interface can be directly accessed from a terminal, but also for example from a web-application. It can be used to control various aspects of &app;, such as converting a file from one file format to another, or opening, editing and printing documents. To access the AbiCommand Interface, type the following command on the command line, then press Return: abiword --plugin AbiCommand The following commands are provided by the AbiCommand Interface: Command Arguments Description Foo Bar This command does something TODO: show a tiny popen() snippet here Text has yet to come If you still have questions after reading this manual, then there are other sources available that you can reference. One source to check before any others is the Web. A good place to start is the &app; FAQ. This site lists the most common questions that come up about &app;, so it's worthwhile to see if your question has been answered there. Another great place to check is your favorite search engine. Chances are good that you are not the first person to have that problem, so a search result may point you in the right direction. Finally, you should search the &app; Bug Database. There might be a patch or workaround to your problem listed there. Another source available is the &app; User's Mailing List, which will usually provide you with an answer within the day. Simply send an e-mail to abiword-user-request@abisource.com with "subscribe" in the message body to join the list. To ask a question, write to abiword-user@abisource.com. Archives of the list are kept and can be viewed here. Please only send plain text e-mails to the mailing list, not HTML or rich text e-mails. When asking questions, please include the name and version of your operating system, the version of &app; that you are using, and where you got &app;. Lastly, if you are still stuck, you can join &app;'s Internet Relay Chat (IRC) channel. Many &app; users and developers hang out in this channel and can usually provide you with immediate answers. To join, simply connect to irc.gnome.org and join the #abiword channel. Text has yet to come Text has yet to come Text has yet to come Text has yet to come The following keyboard shortcuts are used in &app;. They are mostly identical to the keyboard shortcuts used in other word processors. You can use keyboard shortcuts to acess commands faster. Key Combination Function Ctrl + N Create a new document. Ctrl + O Open a document. Shift + Ctrl + S Save the current document with a new filename. Ctrl + S Save the current document. Shift + Ctrl + P Display the print preview of the current document. Ctrl + P Print the current document. Key Combination Function Ctrl + B Make the selected text bold. Ctrl + I Make the selected text display in italics. Ctrl + U Make the selected text display underlined. Ctrl + Shift + P Make the selected text display in superscript. Ctrl + Shift + B Make the selected text display in subscript. Ctrl + Shift + P Make the selected text display in superscript. Ctrl + L Align the selected paragraph to the left. Ctrl + R Align the selected paragraph to the right. Ctrl + E Align the selected paragraph to the center. Ctrl + J Align the selected paragraph to the left. Key Combination Function Tab Move the cursor to the next tab stop. Insert ? Key Combination Function Home ? End ? Page Up ? Page Down ? NOTE: link to the common keyboard shortcuts listed in the GNOME user guide here as well?