6. Move Around a Document
The faster you can move around a document, the faster you'll get your work done. If most documents consumed less than a screen of real estate, the ability to move around the document wouldn't be needed. Most documents, however, require far more than a single screen of room. Being able pto navigate from place to place becomes second nature quickly because it's a skill needed before you can edit seriously.
Writer and the other OpenOffice.org programs help you move from place to place with onscreen elements, a Navigator window, and a bevy of keyboard shortcuts. In this task, you'll get a chance to use onscreen elements such as the scrollbars, the
Navigation toolbar, and a more sophisticated set of navigation tools called the
Navigator .
The
Navigation toolbar lets you move from one element to another (such as from one graphic to another, or one heading to another) with a click of the mouse. You can specify whether that element is graphics, charts, or whatever and then use the toolbar's navigation buttons to jump from one to another. By treating your document as a set of objects rather than as one cohesive whole, the
Navigation toolbar lets you navigate quickly through a very long document. This feature is invaluable when you're working with a multi-page document. Suppose that you want to quickly check that all the graphics in a 100-page document look good. Instead of scrolling through the whole document, you can use the
Navigation toolbar to quickly jump from one picture to the next.
The
Navigator is more powerful cousin to the
Navigation toolbar. It's a window that contains icons and a toolbar for working more efficiently in long documents. The
Navigator displays icons for all the elements in your document (pictures, headings, and so on) and lets you move from one to another simply by clicking icons in the window. Its true power is apparent when your document is many pages long; with a click of the mouse, you can move from one figure to the next or one heading to the next, no matter how far apart they are in the document. The
Navigator window contains its own toolbar with additional navigation tools that let you specify exactly how you want to work in the window. You can let the
Navigator window float in the document area or dock it to either side of the window.
Table 2.2 lists several keystroke shortcuts that help you get from place to place quickly in Writer. The rest of this task shows you other ways available, such as the scrollbars,
Navigation toolbar, and Navigator, so you can get where you want to go.
Keyboard Shortcut | Description |
|---|---|
Ctrl+left arrow | Moves the text cursor to the beginning of the word |
Ctrl+Shift+left arrow | Moves the text cursor to the left, word by word and extends the selection left |
Ctrl+right arrow | Moves the text cursor to the end of the word |
Ctrl+Shift+right arrow | Moves the text cursor to the right, word by word and extends the selection right |
Up arrow | Moves the text cursor up one line at a time |
Down arrow | Moves the text cursor down one line at a time |
Home | Goes to the beginning of the current line |
End | Goes to the end of the current line |
Ctrl+Home | Moves the text cursor to the beginning of the document |
Ctrl+End | Moves the text cursor to the end of the document |
PageUp | Moves up one screen at a time |
PageDown | Moves down one screen at a time |
Ctrl+Delete | Deletes text to the end of the current word |
Ctrl+Backspace | Deletes text to the beginning of the current word |
Ctrl+Shift+Delete | Deletes text to the end of the current sentence |
Ctrl+Shift+Backspace |
Writer supports a wealth of additional keyboard shortcuts. Table 2.2 lists only the ones found to be among the most popular or useful for moving around a document.
1. | Adjust the Document's Position on the Screen When editing your document, drag either the vertical or the horizontal scrollbar to position a different part of your document on the screen.1 Set Writer Options ). |
9. | Jump to the Next Graphic Click the Next Graphic button that now appears on your vertical scrollbar to jump to the next graphic image in your document. Notice the floating ToolTip that describes the scrollbar has changed from Next Page to Next Graphic . That's because you just selected a graphic image when you used the Navigation toolbar in the previous step. As long as your document has a graphic image somewhere below your current position, Writer jumps to that image. If no graphic image appears in the document, Writer remains where it is. |
10. | Jump to the Previous Graphic Click the Previous Graphic button to move back to the previous graphic image you viewed (assuming your document has multiple graphic images). |
11. | Open the Navigator Click the Navigator button on the Standard toolbar, or press F5, to open the Navigator window. The Navigator window differs from the Navigation floating toolbar, although their similar names never cease to confuse users. The Navigation toolbar is more directly linked to your vertical scrollbar, as the previous steps showed. The Navigator window provides a high-level look at your document's various elements (or possible elements, such as a header that you may not have yet added). If the Navigator takes up too much room docked to a border of the document window, you can drag it into the document window where it will float as a smaller, scrollable window. |
12. | View the Document Elements View the Navigator options to see various Writer-related elements that can appear in your document. If your document has multiple elements, such as the two graphic images found by Navigator here, Navigator displays a check mark next to the item on the list. Click the check mark to see a list of the items. |
13. | Jump to an Element In this example, you can double-click either entry, graphics1 or graphics2 , in the Navigator to see either graphic image. Writer scrolls directly to that item in the document window. |
14. | Close the Navigator When you're finished using the Navigator to look for something, press F5 or click the |
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