Gobe Productive User's Guide - Word Processing Introduction

- 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

# Word Processing

The word processing capabilities of the Gobe Productive suite are comprehensive and easy to use. Whether you are writing a simple letter to a business associate or developing a huge, full color book, Gobe Productive can handle all your word processing needs.

The word processing environment is unlike any other environment in the Gobe Productive suite. It is a "text-centric" environment. In other words, the display and use of the workspace is focused entirely on entering and formatting text. Moreover, items placed in the word processing environment (such as images or spreadsheet frames) can be placed in line with the text or "floating" above the text.

One of the most important concepts to remember while working in the word processing environment is the difference between paragraph and character formatting.

- Character formatting is concerned with the appearance, size, and color of the actual characters in a word or paragraph. Character formatting only applies to the characters you select.
- Paragraph formatting is concerned with the appearance and placement of paragraphs in a document. Some properties, such as alignment, apply to entire paragraphs regardless of how many words or characters you select.

|------------- Alignment -------------|

and line spacing are examples of paragraph
formatting, while color, type style, and size
are examples of character formatting.

## Word Processing Terms

The following terms are used in this section:

> Floating: Graphic objects or frames placed above the text. These items are not directly tied to the text flow, and therefore do not move with the text. Text wraps around the items as specified.

> Hard-Return: When the [ENTER] key is pressed, a "hard-return" is placed in the text flow. This ends the current paragraph and begins a new one.

> In-line: An item, such as a graphic or frame, that is placed in the flow of text. An in-line item is treated like one, big character in the document. As such, the item moves and behaves a little like a single character.

> Text flow: A continuous block of text.

> Soft-Return: Also called a line-feed. A line feed merely breaks the line and does not begin a new paragraph. [SHIFT] [ENTER] inserts a soft-return in the text flow.

To read more about different word processing topics, select the topic from the menu to the left.

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