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Using Windows

EasiWriter presents information in windows.

Documents appear in a document window, which has a Title bar, Button bar, Scroll bars, Back icon, Close icon, Toggle size icon and an Adjust size icon.

Other EasiWriter windows that can appear on the desktop are dialogue boxes.

More than one document window may be open at the same time; only one window will be the active window, and will have its title bar highlighted in yellow. You can make a window active by clicking in it. Any editing always takes place in the active window even though it may not be at the front.

If the contents of a window have been changed, and the changes have not been saved, a '*' will appear to the right of the document title.

Closing

1 Click in the window's Close icon.

or

1 Activate the window by clicking inside it.

2 Press Ctrl-F2.

If any changes have been made to the document you will be prompted either to save or discard the changes.

Note: If you click adjust on the Close icon of a document that has changes which have not been saved, its directory viewer will come to the front.

Resizing

Drag in a window's Adjust size icon until it is the required size.

Moving

  1. Position the pointer on the window's title bar.
  2. Drag the window to the required position.
  3. Release the mouse button to complete the move.

The window will move to the front but won't become the active window. Click in it to make it active.

Enlarging

To change windows

  1. Make sure a part of the new window is in view on the desktop; if necessary resize the front window or send it to the back the other windows.
  2. Click in the new window to make it active.

or to change from one EasiWriter window to another:

  1. Click Menu on the EasiWriter icon in the icon bar.
  2. Choose the new document from the Documents submenu.

Scrolling

EasiWriter documents are viewed through a window. If the document is larger than the window, then you can scroll through it to see parts not currently in view.

Note: Clicking Adjust instead of Select reverses the direction.

Drag scrolling

Go to a specific page

You can move to a specific page in a document using the Go to page... command.

  1. Choose Go to page... from the View menu or press F5.
  2. Edit the writable icon to show the page number you want or scroll to display the page number you want using the Arrow icons.
  3. Click OK or press Return.

Zooming

EasiWriter windows can also be zoomed in and out so you can easily reduce or enlarge your view of a document. Zooming out is a convenient way to preview pages if your screen is not large enough to display an entire page. Zooming in can be convenient to work with smaller font sizes.

Windows can be zoomed in and out, from a magnification of 10% where you can see more than one page of a document, up to 999% where you will see a small part of the text.

Zoom out

Zoom in

Choosing the scale

Click Select on the Percentage magnification indicator icon to open a dialogue box where you can:

Note: If you choose Scale to fit, EasiWriter will fit a page of the document in the window even if you subsequently resize it.

Click Adjust on the Percentage magnification indicator icon to resize the document so that its width fits the window.

Zoom selector

The Zoom selector enables you to magnify a specific part of the document.

  1. Click the Zoom selector icon - the pointer changes to a '+'.
  2. Move the pointer to one corner of the part of the document you want to magnify.
  3. Press Select and drag to the other corner.
  4. Release the button and the document will adjust to show the selected area.

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