Here is a collection of hints and tips on best practises
of using the document editor and they are written by our in-house
experts.
Changing bullet colors in documents
After you create bullets in documents, you can change bullet
colors without changing the color of the bulleted text.
Creating documents with specified page styles
In IBM® Lotus®
Symphony™ ,
you can create documents with specified page styles instead of default
page style. For example, you can create the documents with A4 paper
size always.
Creating cross-references in documents
In documents, you can create cross-references that allow
you to jump to specific text passages and objects in a document. A
cross-reference consists of a target and a reference that are inserted
as fields in the document.
Customizing paragraph styles in documents
You can customize your own paragraph styles from the style
list. This page introduces how to create your own numbering style.
Enabling assistive support in IBM Lotus Symphony
You can enable assistive support in preferences settings
that allows you to use assistive tools such as external screen readers,
Braille devices, or speech recognition input devices. The Java™ Runtime Environment must be installed on
your computer before you can enable assistive support.
Creating different headers for left pages and right pages
In IBM Lotus Symphony
Documents,
you can create different headers for different pages. For example,
when you edit a thesis, you might need to create a header for left
pages and a different one for right pages. You must specify left page
style and right page style for the document.
Making the Help font size larger IBM Lotus
Symphony Help
uses the system font in its navigation views, such as the Table of
Contents, Index, and Search. You can make the font size larger by
making the system font larger.
Using instant corrections in IBM Lotus Symphony Documents
In Lotus Symphony Documents,
you can use instant corrections to speed your writing. This pages
introduces two functions of instant corrections, one is to replace
texts with special characters automatically, the other is to complete
the words with user-defined settings automatically.
Using numbering style and outline numbering in documents
Although numbering style and outline numbering have the
same word numbering, they are different. Numbering style is used to
fast format paragraphs with a hierarchical structure, with special
formats including indent, numbering type, prefix, suffix and so on.
Outline numbering is a special numbering style with the hierarchy
being represented by outline level, which is a hierarchical concept
for table of contents (TOC). Outline numbering is not only used to
fast format paragraphs with a hierarchical structure, at the same
time, all the paragraphs formatted by outline numbering can be collected
into TOC with the same hierarchical structure.
Opening documents into a new window
In IBM Lotus
Symphony ,
you can open files into a new child window in addition to the tabs
that display files in the main window.
Setting paragraph indentations in documents
When your paragraph does not have bullets or numbering,
you can set paragraph indentations by paragraph properties. When you
use numbering or bullets in the paragraph, the paragraph indentation
is affected by both paragraph properties and numbering properties.
Using comments in documents
In IBM Lotus Symphony
Documents,
you can create comments, reply to comments, and delete comments. You
can also select to include user data on the comments.
Creating fields to describe documents
In IBM Lotus Symphony
Documents,
you can create fields to insert information about the current document,
for example, date, time, author, and so on. You can define the values
including author, title, and subject in document description and directly
use them to insert a field. When the description information changes,
all the corresponding values in the document change too.
Setting view options for documents
In IBM Lotus Symphony
Documents,
you can set layout options to make the content view more efficient
and convenient.