[193c]As explained in Chapter 6, Documents and Views, topics are the heart of Concurrence, and are the application's unit of information. Use the commands in this menu to create and manipulate them.
[176c]Except where otherwise noted, the commands in this chapter work identically in outlines and slide sorters. Remember that every slide is a topic, and every topic can be a slide.
[208c]The Topic commands, particularly Expand and Collapse, are very powerful when combined with the commands in the Select submenu, which you'll find in the Edit menu. Read about the Select commands in Chapter 18.
[146c]While working in an outline, choose this command to create a new topic, which will appear on the line below the first selected (or target) topic.
[74c]This item will appear as New Slide when you are working in a slide sorter.
[198c]Pressing the Return key when working in an outline or a slide sorter is always the same as choosing New Topic or New Slide. (If you really want a Return character in a topic, type Alternate-Return.)
[22c]New Topic/New Slide(N)
[139c]Creates an identical, tracking copy of the currently selected topic or slide. Cloned topics can be identified by their distinctive handles:
[264c]When a cloned topic or slide is edited or modified, all of its clones will be updated to reflect these changes. A clone can have children and further descendants. When these are added, all other clones will reflect the addition of children and children's children.
Clone (k)
[200c]Choose this command to force the selected topics to adopt exactly their default formats. Their text will abandon any other formatting in favor of the font, justification and color set for their level.
[87c]See Chapter 8 to learn about default formats. This command is not applicable to slides.
[20c]Adopt Default Format
[196c]Choose Don't Wrap Text to force the currently selected topics, if they exceed one line of text, to display only their first lines. Nonwrapping topics feature an ellipse (
) at their right margins.
[147c]If you have selected a nonwrapping topic, this command will be displayed as Wrap Text. Choosing it will cause the topic to display all of its text.
[192c]During editing, a nonwrapping topic will be displayed in its entirety. When editing is finished (when you press Enter, or select another topic), text below the first line will again be hidden.
[84c]You can toggle a topic's collapsed or expanded status by double-clicking its handle.
[27c]Expand (E) and Collapse (C)
[213c]Choose focus to hide all the topics in the current view, except the first selected (target) topic and its descendants. You may find this a useful way to concentrate, or focus, your attention on a particular topic.
[68c]Double-clicking the focus indicator is the same as choosing Unfocus.
[136c]This command does not apply to slides and slide views. You may also want to read about the New Outline Here command in Chapter 20, View.
Focus (J) and Unfocus (K)
[327c]Promote takes the currently selected topics (or slides) and all of their descendants, and moves them to the left, or up a level in the outline's hierarchy, to become a siblings of their former parents. Demote has the opposite effect, taking a selected topic (and its descendants), and making it the child of its former sibling.
[113c]Pressing the Tab key while a topic or slide is selected is the same as choosing Demote, and Shift-tab as Promote.
[26c]Promote ([) and Demote (])
[244c]Move Up swaps the currently selected topic (along with its descendants) with the sibling directly above it. Move Down has the opposite effect, and swaps the currently selected topic (and its descendants) and with the nearest sibling beneath it.
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