<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <!-- Copyright 2001 David Chart Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License" //--> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> <title>AbiWord Insert Menu Documentation</title> <link href="../style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> </head> <body> <div class="banner"> <a href="../index.html" class="bars">Home</a> > <a href="index.html" class="bars">Interface</a> > Insert Menu </div> <div class="main"> <h1>Insert Menu</h1> <p>This menu allows you to insert various kinds of entity into your document.</p> <h2><a href="dialogbreak.html">Break...</a></h2> <p>This command opens the Break dialog, which allows you to insert page, column, and section breaks.</p> <h2><a href="dialogpagenumbers.html">Page Numbers...</a></h2> <p>This command opens the Page Numbers dialog, allowing you to insert automatically calculated page numbers into your document's header or footer.</p> <h2><a href="dialogdateandtime.html">Date and Time...</a></h2> <p>This opens the Date and Time dialog, which allows you to insert fields showing the current date and time into your document.</p> <h2><a href="dialogfield.html">Field...</a></h2> <p>The Field dialog allows you to insert any field defined in AbiWord into your document. Fields are entities which automatically update their values.</p> <h2><a href="dialogsymbol.html">Symbol...</a></h2> <p>This command opens the Insert Symbol dialog, which enables you to insert non-standard symbols from various character sets into your document.</p> <h2>Autotext</h2> <p>The Autotext sub-menu gives access to various kinds of text which can be inserted into your document. Each of the commands on the sub-menu has its own sub-menu. The text listed for each command on the lowest-level menus is inserted into the document when you select that command.</p> <p>For example, if you select Autotext > Reference: > In reply to:, the text 'In reply to:' is inserted into your document at the insertion point.</p> <h2><span style="text-position: ; color:#000000" class="Heading2">Insert File...</span></h2> <p class="Normal NormalClean" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 0.0000in; margin-top: 0.0000in; margin-right: 0.0000in"><span style="text-position: ; color:#000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12,000000pt" class="Heading2">Inserts the contents of a file into the open document. This command opens the Insert File dialog, which is the same as the normal Open File dialog.</span></p> <h2 style="margin-right: 0.0000in"><a href="dialogbookmark.html"><span style="text-position: ; color:#000000" class="Heading2">Bookmark...</span></a></h2> <p class="Normal NormalClean" style="margin-right: 0.0000in"><span style="text-position: ; color:#000000" class="NormalClean">Opens the Insert Bookmark dialog, which allows you to insert a named, invisible marker into your document. You can create hyperlinks to bookmarks, and go to them from the Go To dialog.</span></p> <h2 style="margin-right: 0.0000in"><a href="dialoghyperlink.html"><span style="text-position: ; color:#000000" class="Heading2">Hyperlink...</span></a></h2> <p class="Normal NormalClean" style="margin-right: 0.0000in"><span style="text-position: ; color:#000000" class="NormalClean">Opens the Insert Hyperlink dialog. If you click on a hyperlink, you are taken to either another part of the document, or to another document or website. Hyperlinks are displayed in blue, underlined text.</span></p> <h2 style="margin-right: 0.0000in"><span style="text-position: ; color:#000000" class="Heading2">Picture...</span></h2> <p>This command opens an 'Insert Picture' dialog, which works like an Open dialog. You can open any png or bmp files you have, and insert them in your document at the insertion point. You may be able to open other image formats, depending on your operating system and the plug-ins you have installed.</p> </div> <div class="index"> <a href="../index.html" class="bars">Top Page</a> <a href="../tutorial/index.html" class="bars">Tutorial</a> <a href="../howto/index.html" class="bars">How To</a> <a href="../info/index.html" class="bars">Information</a> <a href="index.html" class="bars">Interface</a> <a href="../problems/index.html" class="bars">Problems</a> <a href="../credits.html" class="bars">Credits</a> <a href="../azindex.html" class="bars">Index</a> <a href="../fdl.html" class="bars">GNU FDL</a> </div> </body> </html>