IBM Lotus Symphony


Create menu in Documents

The Create menu contains commands for inserting new elements in your document. This includes sections, footnotes, comments, special characters, graphics, and objects from other applications.

Break

Inserts a manual line break, column break or a page break at the current cursor position.

Fields

Inserts a field at the current cursor position. The submenu lists the most common field types. To view all of the available fields, choose Other.

Special Characters

Inserts special characters from the installed fonts.

Formatting Mark

Opens a submenu to insert special formatting marks.

Section

Inserts a text section at the cursor position in the document. You can also select a block of text and then choose this command to create a section. You can use sections to insert blocks of text from other documents, to apply custom column layouts, or to protect or to hide blocks of text if a condition is met.

Hyperlink

Opens a dialog that enables you to create and edit hyperlinks.

Header

Adds or removes a header from the page style that you select in the submenu. The header is added to all of the pages that use the same page style. In a new document, only the "Default" page style is listed. Other page styles are added to the list after you apply them in the document.

Footer

Adds or removes a footer from the page style that you select in the submenu. The footer is added to all of the pages that use the same page style. In a new document, only the "Default" page style is listed. Other page styles are added to the list after you apply them in the document.

Footnote and Endnote

Inserts a footnote or an endnote in the document. The anchor for the note is inserted at the current cursor position. You can choose between automatic numbering or a custom symbol.

Caption

Adds a numbered caption to a selected graphic, table, frame, text frame, or drawing object. You can also access this command by right-clicking the item that you want to add the caption to.

Document Bookmark

Inserts a bookmark at the cursor position. You can then use the Navigator to quickly jump to the marked location at a later time.

Cross-reference

This is where you insert the references or referenced fields into the current document. References are referenced fields within the same document or within sub-documents of a master document.

Comment

Inserts a comment anchored to the current cursor position.

References

Opens a menu to insert index entries and to insert indexes and tables.

Frame

Inserts a frame that you can use to create a layout of one or more columns of text and objects.

Object

Inserts an object into your document.

Video or Sound

Inserts a video or sound file into your document. You can choose to insert a video or sound file as a link or an OLE object.

File

Inserts a text file at the current cursor position.


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