Gobe Productive User's Guide - Views & Windows

- Documentation conventions
- The Productive documents
- The Productive interface
- The MenuBar
- The FormatBar
- The PartBar
- The ToolBar
- Frames & graphic items
- Selecting
- Sheets
- Cutting and pasting
- Tear-Off tools
- Page setup
- How to print
- Document size, margins, & history
- Headers & footers
- Views & windows
- Keyboard & mouse mappings
- Preferences
- Translators

# View & Windows

View | Change the Page Viewing Mode | Window | Open a New Window
Open a Frame into its Own Window | Fit Document to Window | Cycle through, Tile or Cascade Windows |

Using the View and Windows features of the Gobe Productive suite, you can customize how pages and documents are displayed on the screen.

## View

The View feature of Gobe Productive allows you to view a document in two different modes, page-view and normal. In page-view mode, the document appears on the screen as a full, laid-out page. The margins and page dimensions are accurately displayed. In the normal view, only the text, graphics, and frames in a document are shown.

The example above is in page-view mode. The application displays the document as it appears on a printed page. Notice how the margins on each side of the page are shown.

In the normal viewing mode, only the items in the document are displayed. Notice in the example above how no margins or extra white space is displayed.

### To Change the Page Viewing Mode

1. In any document type, select Page View from the Document menu. If the Page View menu item is checked, the document is in page-view mode. If the menu item is unchecked, the document is in normal mode.

## Window

The Window feature of Gobe Productive allows you to create multiple windows of the same document or frame. This feature can be extremely useful if you have a large document or one with many sheets. You can create new windows of a document and have each window display different sheets.

Windows allow you to open multiple views of the same document. You can also select a frame and open it into its own window. All windows are "live-linked" to one another, therefore changes made in one window are made to all windows.

### To Open a New Window on a Document

1. Select New Window from the Window menu. Each window displays the document in its own way, including viewing different sheets in different windows. However, changes made to the actual items in the document are recorded to all windows.

### To Open a Frame into its Own Window

The Open Frame feature allows you to select any frame in your document and open the contents of that frame into a separate window. This can be useful if you need to edit the contents of a particularly large frame.

1. Select the frame you wish to open into a window.
2. Select Open Frame Window from the Frame menu. The contents of the frame are opened in their own windows. If the frame has multiple linked frames, all contents of the linked set are displayed in the frame window.

Frame windows are somewhat limited in their functionality because they are "live-linked" to the original document window. You can format the items in the frame including editing text, cells, or graphics. However, many document features such as headers and footers and setting margins are not available. For more information about frames, please see the Frames and Graphic Items topic.

### To Fit the Document to a Window

1. Select Fit to Window from the Document menu.

The document is zoomed out so that all pages in the document are visible. To return to the normal view (100%), click on the Zoom Tool at the bottom left of your document.

### To Cycle through, Tile or Cascade Windows

If more than one Gobe Productive document window is open, you can cycle through the windows or tile them on the desktop.

#### To Cycle through the Open Windows:

1. Select Cycle Windows from the Window menu.

| NOTE: Instead of selecting Cycle Windows from the Window menu you can hold down the [ALT] key and the [,] to cycle through the different open windows.

#### To Tile Windows:

1. Select Tile Windows from the Window menu to distribute the windows equally throughout the workspace.
2. Select Tile Windows Horizontally from the Window menu to distribute the windows horizontally across the screen.
3. Select Tile Windows Vertically from the Window menu to distribute the windows vertically across the screen.

#### To Cascade Windows:

1. Select Cascade Windows from the Window menu.

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