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Exercise six Formatting a document

In this part of the tutorial you will learn how to:

You are going to make some changes to the chapter heading. First you need to select it so that EasiWriter knows what it is you want to change.

  1. Press Ctrl-Up arrow to move the caret to the beginning of the document.
  2. Choose Chapter heading from the Select menu (press F11 twice).

Changing the font size

First you will change the size of the heading to 24 points.

The heading size will change to 24 points.

Alignment and borders


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Next you are going to centre the heading and add borders above and below.

  1. With the heading still selected click the Centre alignment icon.
  2. Click on the Borders button. The Border dialogue box will appear.

  3. Click on the Double line icon and the Top and Bottom Border option icons.
  4. Click OK to confirm the choice and return to the document.

A double line will be drawn above and below the heading.

The Initial caps command

EasiWriter has commands that allow you to change the case of text from UPPERCASE to lowercase and vice versa. It can also capitalise the first letter of each word - Initial Capitals.

  1. Check that the heading is still selected.
  2. Choose Initial Caps from the Case submenu in the Text menu.

The first letter of each word in the heading will be capitalised.

Editing tables

Next you will learn how to change the appearance of the table by altering its width, adding a border, separating the rows with lines and adding a title.

Changing the width

To change the width of a table you first need to select it and then move its left and right margin markers.

  1. Click Select anywhere inside the table so that the caret is in it.
  2. Choose Table from the Select menu.

The entire table will be selected.

Margin markers can be moved by dragging or by double-clicking on them to open a dialogue box where you can edit the position. You will use both methods.

  1. If the Ruler isn't showing, press F10.
  2. Drag the left margin marker to the 1" position on the ruler. (If you hold down Shift as you drag, movement will be constrained to the minor divisions.)
  3. Double-click on the right hand margin marker to open the Margin dialogue box.
  4. Edit the value to 5.75" and click OK.

The table margins will move to their new positions and the entire table will be reformatted automatically.

Table rules

The final change to be made to the table is to add rules between the rows and to surround it with a border.

  1. Select the first row of the table.
  2. Click on the Borders button to open the Border dialogue.
  3. Click on the Double line icon and Bottom Border option icons.
  4. Click OK.

A double line will be drawn under the column headings.

Next you are going to draw lines under the next two rows.

  1. Click Select in the word 'Youthful'.
  2. Click Adjust in the number '33'.

The middle two rows of the table will be selected.

Next you can use the Borders command to draw a line under them both.

  1. Click on the Borders button.
  2. Click on the Bottom Border option icon to turn it on '3'.

Lines will be drawn under the selected rows.

Table border

Finally you are going to put a shadowed box around the whole table.

  1. Choose Table from the Select menu.
  2. Click on the Borders button.
  3. Click on the Shadow box Radio button.
  4. Click OK.

A shadowed box will be drawn round the table. In some screen modes the vertical and horizontal lines may not appear to be of equal thickness.

The document is now finished and can be printed if you have a printer connected.

Printing

Before printing you must load the RISC OS compatible printer driver that is suitable for your printer by double-clicking on its icon.

When a printer driver is loaded its icon will appear in the icon bar. If a printer driver is not loaded, the Print command will be disabled.

Because some printers use different paper sizes EasiWriter will check to see if the page margins need adjusting. If they do, a dialogue box will warn you; click OK to reformat the document.

The print dialogue box will appear where you can choose:

In this case you can accept the default choices.

The document will be printed.

Summary

In this part of the tutorial you have learnt how to:

That concludes this part of the tutorial. You won't need this document for the last two exercises.


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