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1.

Position the Insertion Point insertion point and moves as you press any arrow key. You can also click your mouse within the document to place the insertion point where you next want to type.

KEY TERM

Insertion point
A vertical text cursor that shows where the next character you type will appear.

Text that you type appears at the insertion point. If you make a mistake, press

Backspace and Writer moves the insertion point backwards, erasing as you press

Backspace . When you get to the right edge of a paragraph, Writer automatically wraps your paragraph onto the next line. Do not press

Enter unless you want to end a paragraph and begin a new one. Writer may or may not insert a blank line between paragraphs, depending on how you set up your page (see

14 Set Up Page Formatting ).

If you press

Shift+Enter instead of

Enter , Writer ends the current line and begins at the start of the line below without actually creating a new paragraph. You can easily see where paragraphs begin and end by displaying nonprinting characters (see

5 Edit Text ). If you press

Ctrl+spacebar instead of the normal

spacebar , Writer inserts a

nonbreaking space and will not end a line on that space but, if necessary, will move both the word before and after the nonbreaking space to the next line in a word wrap. If you press

Ctrl+Enter , Writer begins a new page in the document, even if you had not yet filled up the previous page.

KEY TERM

Nonbreaking space
A space that appears between words when you print the document but does not break at the end of a line. When you want to keep two words together without the end of a line causing them to separate, use a nonbreaking space so that Writer will wrap them both to the next line.

For more information about paragraph breaks and using tabs, see

11 About Paragraph Breaks and Tabs .

2.

Type to Add Text in Front of Other Text

When you place the insertion point before existing text on a line, Writer normally inserts the text you type in front of the existing text and moves the existing text over to the right. This is called

insert mode and is normal behavior for most editors and word processors. If your typing replaces text on the screen, you're in

overtype mode instead of insert mode.

KEY TERMS

Insert mode
The state of Writer where new text you type is inserted before existing text. It is indicated by the

INSRT message on the status bar.

Overtype mode
The state of Writer where new text replaces existing text as you type. It is indicated by the

OVER message on the status bar.

Press the

Insert key to switch between overtype and insert modes. If you have a lot of text to replace, you'll find that it's easier to do so in overtype mode because you'll have less text to delete.

3.

Press the Delete Key to Delete Text

Select text and press the

Delete key to delete characters where the insertion point appears. Every time you press

Delete , Writer removes one character (including a space, number, or even a blank line if that's where the insertion point is positioned).

4.

Gain More Editing Space

Select

Full Screen from the

View menu to temporarily hide your toolbars, menu, and the status bar. You will be able to see more of your document at one time. Notice that even when all the other toolbars are hidden in

Full Screen mode, the floating

Full Screen toolbar appears in the editing area.

TIP

Often you'll start typing a word, such as

following , but before you type the fifth letter, Writer finishes the word for you with its word completion feature. You can press

Enter to accept the proposed word, or just keep typing to finish the word yourself. Also, if you type a word incorrectly, such as

windoes , Writer very well might correct it using its automatic spelling checker. You can turn off this AutoComplete feature from the

Tools, AutoCorrect dialog box.

Click the floating

Full Screen toolbar's

Full-Screen On/Off button to return to the normal editing workspace with full menus, toolbars, and the status bar.

5.

See More of Your Document on the Screen

Select the

Zoom option from the

View menu to adjust how much of your document appears on the screen at any one time. In the

Zoom dialog box that opens, select from the given list of percentages or click

Variable and enter another percentage. The default zoom percentage is

100% , which means that what you see on the screen is the same size as what appears when you print your document. If you change to a higher percentage, such as

200% , you'll zoom more into your document, making the characters look larger on the screen. If you change to a lower percentage, such as

75% , you'll zoom away from your document, seeing more of the page, although you won't see as much up-close detail.

Click

OK to close the dialog box and see the result of your screen adjustment.

6.

Save the Document

After you have edited the text in the documentand periodically while you are editingyou should save your changes to the hard disk. To save the document, choose

File, Save or click the Save icon on the

Standard toolbar (the third icon from the left). Writer saves the current version of the file, overwriting the previous version of the file.