Gobe Productive User's Guide - Writing Tools

- Working with word processing frames
- Views & layers
- Paragraph Formatting
- Character Formatting
- The table frame
- Text Wrap
- Tabs
- Page numbers and other text fields
- Page, frame & line breaks
- Styles
- Spell checking
- Find & replace
- Writing tools
- Columns
- Headers & Footers
- Footnotes & Endnotes
- Named selections
- Placing images & graphics into word processing documents

# Writing Tools

Use the Thesaurus | Use the Dictionary | Use the Word Count Utility

The Gobe Productive suite includes three convenient tools to help you write your documents. Each of these tools is available from the Writing Tools menu item on the Document menu.

## To Use the Thesaurus

To use the thesaurus for Gobe Productive, the BeOS thesaurus files must be installed from the BeOS CD. These files are placed in the /boot/optional/goodies/thesaurus directory. If you do not have these files, refer to the BeOS documentation for instructions on installing the files.

1. Select the word in your text for which you want to find synonyms. You have to select the whole word.
2. From the Documents menu, select Writing Tools, then select Thesaurus from the submenu.
3. A list of synonyms is displayed, if there are any.
4. You can also enter a word that you want to look-up in the Word field of the Thesaurus dialog box. Click Find to display any synonyms.

## To Use the Dictionary

To use the dictionary for Gobe Productive, the BeOS dictionary files must be installed from the BeOS CD. These files are placed in the /boot/optional/goodies/dictionary directory. If you do not have these files, refer to the BeOS documentation for instructions on installing the files.

1. Select the word in your text for which you want to find a definition. Remember to select the whole word.
2. From the Documents menu, select Writing Tools, then select Dictionary from the submenu.
3. If there is a definition for the word in the dictionary, the definition for the word is displayed.
4. Use the Previous and Next buttons to cycle through the list of words in the dictionary.
5. You can also enter a word that you want to look-up in the Word field of the Dictionary dialog box. Click Find to display the word's definition.

## To Use the Word Count Utility

1. From the Documents menu, select Writing Tools, then select Word Count from the submenu.
2. The program counts the number of characters, words, paragraphs, and pages in the document. Words, characters, and paragraphs inside frames are counted as well.
3. Click OK to close the Page Count dialog box.

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