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[239c]This chapter explains how to create and manipulate outlines in Concurrence. The material covered here applies directly to outline view windows, but is also used in various parts of slide view windows. See Chapter 9 for more on slide views.
[63c]An outline is a text view of the topic hierarchy of a document.
[260c]As described in more depth in Chapter 6, a Concurrence document is a collection of topics. A topic is a piece of text, usually one or two sentences. A topic can have subtopics, or children. Each child is a topic in its own right, and can have children in turn.
[137c]In an outline view, these topics are displayed as lines of text, indented to different levels to show their depth in the topic hierarchy.
[19c]What is an Outline?
[227c]Creating an outline view is usually as simple as choosing New from the Document menu. Normally, two windows will appear: a view browser and an outline view. The outline view is a tall white window, with a gray box near its top.
[73c]By default, new documents appear with a view browser and an outline view.
[152c](If a different set of windows appear, or if you want to create a new outline view of an existing document, choose New Outline View from the View menu.)
[125c]The gray box indicates a selected topic. At the left of the topic you'll see a downward pointing gray triangle , its handle.
[72c]A topic's handle is what you'll usually use to select and manipulate it.
[191c]For more detail on creating documents and outline views of them, see Chapter 5, Getting Started, and Chapter 6, Documents and Views. The commands of the View menu are described in Chapter 20.
[257c]When you start typing, text will appear in the first selected topic. Pressing the Return key is the easiest way to finish entering text into one topic and to create a new topic below it. (Typing Return is the same as choosing New Topic from the Topic menu.)
[189c]Edit the text of a topic as you'd edit text anywhere else: click between two characters to place the insertion marker, drag to select a range of characters to be replaced or modified, etc.
[28c] Creating and Editing Topics
[175c]Many operations require that you select a specific topic. To do this, click the topic's handle. You can tell that a topic is selected when it is surrounded by a dark gray box.
[300c]It is possible to select multiple topics, although some operations can only be performed on one. Where an operation can be performed on one topic at a time, it will be performed only on the first selected, or target topic. To help you distinguish it, the target topic's handle is highlighted in gray.
[121c]One way to select multiple topics is to hold down the Shift key and click on the handle of each topic you wish to select.
[214c]You can also select multiple topics by clicking and dragging. Click on the "white space" to the left of topics you want to select and then drag. A box is drawn by the mouse cursor, and selects any topic it touches.
[16c]Selecting Topics
[180c]Pressing the Tab key will indent, or demote a selected topic, if possible. Demoting a topic makes it the child of the topic above it, moving it down a level in the topic hierarchy.
Similarly, typing Shift-Tab promotes a selected topic, moving it to the left, and thus up one level in the topic hierarchy. That is, promoting a topic makes it a sibling of its former parent.
[199c]Typing Tab or Shift-Tab is exactly the same as choosing Demote or Promote, respectively, from the Topic menu. To actually insert a tab into a topic, hold the Alternate key while pressing the Tab key.
[70c]Note that promoting or demoting a topic moves its descendants with it.
[29c]Promoting and Demoting Topics
[326c]You can move a topic within an outline simply by dragging its handle. The topic and its descendants will be "torn out" of the outline, leaving a gray hole behind. As you drag, you'll see the destination marker jump from place to place, showing where the topic you are dragging will be placed when you release the mouse button.
[54c]You can drag topics from place to place in an outline.
[14c]Moving Topics
[186c]Looking at all of the information in an outline can sometimes be overwhelming. By expanding and collapsing its topics, you can view an outline in as much or as little detail as you wish.
[272c]When an outline is fully expanded all of its topics are visible. To collapse a selected topic, choose Collapse from the Topic menu. All of a collapsed topic's descendants disappear from view. Also, the collapsed topic's handle changes to indicate that it is now collapsed:
[105c]To make the children of a collapsed topic visible again, select it and choose Expand from the Topic menu.
You can also expand or collapse a topic by double-clicking its handle.
[25c] Collapsing and Expanding
When you work with long or detailed outlines, it may become difficult to single out a topic and work on it without being distracted by the points around it. Use the Focus command (under the Topic menu) to concentrate on a single topic, hiding all others. Read about this command in Chapter 21, Topic.
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