It is recommended that you not put more than 3-5 animated GIFs in any asset page in the Asset Manager.
You can click on the Left, Center, or Right alignment toolbar button to align the contents of a table cell.
A rectangular selection dragged and dropped from a spreadsheet into the HoTMetaL PRO document window will be automatically converted to a table.
Choose 'HTML Reference' in the Help menu to browse a comprehensive reference on HTML tags.
You can make your HTML code more human-readable by setting options in the Source Layout tab of the Tools->Options dialog.
Double-click on HTML FORM objects in Tags On or WYSIWYG view to edit their most commonly-used properties.
HoTMetaL PRO can edit documents containing tags in the Miva programming language.
In WYSIWYG-Frames view, you can press 'Tab' or 'Shift+Tab' to move to the next or previous frame.
You can add your own tips to the file 'hmtips.txt' in the HoTMetaL PRO 5 folder. Each tip must be on a single line.
In HTML Source mode, you can indent or outdent a block of code by highlighting it and pressing 'Tab' or 'Shift-Tab'.
You can drag and drop from the Thumbnail View to add a link or an image to your page, or to open a document.
You can open a document by dragging it from Windows Explorer to the HoTMetaL PRO work area.
You can display the toolbar menu by right-clicking on the background of the toolbar area.
You can change the layout of the Web view by turning off 'Right align' in its pop-up menu.
You can start up HoTMetaL without the splash screen by creating a shortcut and adding the -nosplash command line argument.
You can set the default editing view (HTML Source, Tags On, or WYSIWYG) for new and opened files in the View tab of the Tools->Options dialog.
You can modify or create toolbars by choosing 'Toolbars...' from the View menu.
If some text is highlighted, you can press 'Ctrl+F3' to find the next occurrence of that text.
You can choose 'Check Accessibility' in the 'Tools' menu to help make your pages accessible to users with physical impairments and users with limited software and hardware configurations.
In Tags On and WYSIWYG mode, you can convert one or more paragraphs to list items by highlighting them and pressing 'Tab'.
If you have files that you frequently edit, open them and save the workspace using the Workspace command in the File menu. Then when you open the workspace, your files will be reopened.
You can open a project by using the 'Open...' command under the File menu, and choosing a file with a .hpp extension.
You can add the 'Full Screen View' toolbar button to your menu bar by customizing it using Toolbars in the View menu.
You can dock the menu bar in Full Screen mode by double clicking on its title bar.
If the Element List dialog is floating, you can press 'Ctrl+Shift+Enter' to insert the selected element and dismiss the dialog.
To move a window without docking it, hold down the 'Ctrl' key while dragging the window.
You can set the size, font, and color for tag icons from the 'View' tab of the Tools->Options dialog.
The topic 'Shortcut keys' in the online help has a complete list of shortcut keys supported in HoTMetaL PRO.
Highlight a word and choose 'Thesaurus...' from the Tools menu to consult an online thesaurus.
To print a formatted view of your document, choose 'Page Preview' from the View menu, then right-click and choose Print from the pop-up menu.
After editing the contents of a frame, choose 'Refresh' from the Frameset menu to update the WYSIWYG-Frames view.
'Replace in Files...' in the Edit menu enables you to perform project-wide replacement of text, tags, meta data, and URLs.
You can undo the actions of the HTML wizard by editing the file 'Rules\hmpro5.ux' in the HoTMetaL PRO 5 folder.
You can drag and drop frame properties--including the URL of the default file--between frames in WYSIWYG-Frames view. See 'Copying frame properties' in the online help for details.
You can restore the default toolbars and window layout by holding down the 'Ctrl' key while HoTMetaL is starting.
You can avoid the delay of HM5 opening a project on startup by turning off the option 'Restore last open project' in the General tab of the Tools->Options... dialog.
The Open dialog lets you open multiple files. Hold down 'Shift' or 'Ctrl' when selecting to highlight multiple files.
You can configure HoTMetaL PRO to auto-save your document from the 'File' tab of the Tools->Options dialog.
You can place a separator to the left of a toolbar button by dragging it to the right while the Customize dialog is up.
HoTMetaL PRO has 16 available toolbars. You can turn on the ones you want by right-clicking on the toolbar area background and choosing from the pop-up menu.
You can create your own shortcut keys for a series of commands that you use often, by choosing 'Macros...' in the Tools menu.
You can create one or more of your own user dictionaries or supplementary dictionaries using 'Edit Dictionary...' in the Tools menu.
You can open files that are linked to with relative URLs by right-clicking on the link and choosing 'Edit Linked Item' from the pop-up menu.
The 'Find and Replace' dialog supports sophisticated UNIX-style pattern matching. See the help file for details.
You can save your file with Windows, UNIX, or Macintosh line endings in the Source Layout tab in the Tools->Options dialog.
HoTMetaL PRO has a Visual Dynamic Keyboard that enables users with mobility impairments to use the product via alternative selection methods.
You can contract spanned table cells from the 'Table Advanced' toolbar.
You can add your own asset files to the 'myassets' folder in the HoTMetaL Resource Manager; see 'Creating your own assets' in the online help for details.
Customize your toolbars quickly by holding down the 'Alt' key and dragging buttons between toolbars. Holding down 'Ctrl+Alt' copies the dragged button.
In WYSIWYG-Frames view, you can drag and drop a file to any frame to make it the frame's default document.
In WYSIWYG-Frames view, you can double-click on a frame to open the document displayed in the frame.
Docked windows and toolbars can be floated by double-clicking on the double grey lines at the top or left of the window. Redock these objects by double-clicking on the title bar.
In WYSIWYG-Frames view, you can hover over the outermost edge of the document to reveal a double-ended cursor with a '+' sign. At this point you can click and drag to insert a new frame at the top-level of the frameset document.
Click in a frame in WYSIWYG-Frames view and press F6 to edit any FRAME or FRAMESET attributes, including FRAMEMARGINWIDTH and FRAMEMARGINHEIGHT.
In Fullscreen mode and with keyboard focus in a document, press the 'Esc' key to return to normal mode.
Fullscreen mode will save its own workspace containing the current window and toolbar states and positions.
To change the default display styles in the Tags On and WYSIWYG views, edit the file 'Display\hmpro5.css' with the CSS Editor.
To convert a file in plain text, Word, RTF, and other formats to HTML, simply open it with 'Open...' in the File menu.
You can open a file by dragging and dropping it on the square at which the scrollbars intersect in any HoTMetaL PRO document window.
You have now seen all the tips. To learn more about HoTMetaL PRO 5.0, choose Contents from the Help menu.
