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Text (word processing) 4-3
About the word processing window
When you open a word processing document, you see the word processing
menu bar, button bar, text ruler, page guides, and the insertion point. The
insertion point is a short, blinking vertical line that shows where text appears
when you type or insert text.
Text in a word processing document looks the same on the screen as it does
when it’s printed.
Working with text frames
Use a text frame when you want to add a block of text to a spreadsheet, draw,
or paint document, or to a database document in Layout mode. (You can’t
create a text frame in a database document in Browse, Find, or List modes.)
When you finish working with the text inside a text frame, click outside the
frame to make the frame’s handles reappear and to restore the main
document’s menu bar and functions.
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Choose Index from the or Help menu and scroll to the entry. Then choose a topic from
the list and click Go To Topic.
In the Help index,* see:
E drawing, tools
E rulers
E word processing
Word processing menus
Text ruler
Margin
Page guides
Text insertion point
Buttons for common
tasks in word
processing
documents and text
frames
In the Help index,* see:
E frames, creating
E frames, working in
E text, tool