Operation Manual

Figure 62: View layouts: single, side-by-side, book.
Sidebar
The Writer sidebar (View > Sidebar) is located on the right side of the edit view. It is a mixture of
toolbar and dialog and consists of four decks: Properties, Styles and Formatting, Gallery, and
Navigator. Each deck has a corresponding icon on the Tab panel to the right of the sidebar,
allowing you to switch between them.
Each deck consists of a title bar and one or more content panels. Toolbars and sidebar panels
share many functions. For example, the buttons for making text bold or italic exist in both the
Formatting toolbar and the Character panel of the Properties deck.
Some panels contain a More Options button ( ) which when clicked opens a dialog to give
greater choice of editing controls. The dialog that opens locks the document for editing until the
dialog is closed.
The decks are described below.
• Properties: Contains tools for direct formatting within the document. By default, the tools
are separated into the following three panels for text editing:
– Character: Modify text by the font type, size, color, weight, style and spacing.
– Paragraph: Style the paragraph by alignment, lists or bullets, background color, indent,
and spacing.
– Page: Format the page by orientation, margin, size, and number of columns.
If a graphic is selected, then the following panels open:
– Graphic: Modify the graphic’s brightness, contrast, color mode and transparency.
– Position: Modifications to width and height.
– Wrap: Permits wrap modifications where these are available.
If a drawing object is selected, then the following panels are available:
– Area: Fill and transparency edits are available.
– Line: Permits edits to the line style, width, color, arrows, corners and cap styles.
– Position and Size: Enables edits to width, height, rotation and flip attributes.
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