User guide
b. Enter a keyword in the New Keyword text box.
c. In the New Content text box, enter the notes to apply to the document and click Add.
3. Click OK.
Deleting a keyword
When you delete a keyword, the annotation for that keyword is also deleted.
1. In the Annotate dialog box, select the keyword from the Keyword list.
2. Click Delete Keyword. Click Yes when prompted for confirmation.
3. Click OK.
Discarding changes
To retrieve the last saved version of a file, go to File>Revert.
Undo, redo, and repeat
ChemBioDraw 13.0 tracks your actions. To undo, redo, or repeat your last action, select the appropriate option in the
Edit menu. The number of actions that can be tracked is limited only by the amount of memory (RAM and virtual mem-
ory) available.
Note: ChemBioDraw 13.0 tracks only those actions you have performed since you last saved the document.
Saving documents
1. Go to File>Save.
2. Choose a folder in which to store the file.
3. Type a file name in the Save As text box.
4. Select a file format.
5. Click Save.
Note: ChemBioDraw 13.0 uses the CDX file format by default. Some other formats store a picture of your drawing
but may not store the chemical data associated with a structure in its entirety. For example, if you save a Chem-
BioDraw drawing in the .eps file format, you will store only a picture of the structure without storing the chemical
significance of the connections between atoms and bonds.
ChemBioDraw lets you add comments or descriptions to the document you save. To enable/disable document com-
ments:
1. Go to File>Preferences. The Preferences dialog box appears.
2. Click the Open/Save tab.
3. Click Prompt for Comment check box.
To add document comments:
1. Click Save. The Set Document Comment window appears:
ChemBioDraw 13.0
Chapter 2: Getting started 7 of 401










