You can specify how to display formatting aids such as
paragraph delimiters, spaces, and tab stops in your documents. These
aids define which non-printing characters are displayed when editing
your document.
To access the formatting aids preferences, click .
Display of
- Paragraph end
- Specifies whether paragraph delimiters are displayed. The paragraph
delimiters contain paragraph format information.
- Spaces
- Specifies whether to represent every space in the text with
a dot.
- Nonbreaking spaces
- Specifies that nonbreaking spaces are shown as gray boxes. Nonbreaking
spaces are not broken at the end of a line and are entered with
the Ctrl+Spacebar shortcut keys.
- Tabs
- Specifies that tab stops are displayed as small arrows.
- breaks
- Displays all line breaks inserted with the Shift+Enter shortcut.
These breaks create a new line, but do not start a new paragraph.
- Hidden text
- If you have inserted text as conditional text or hidden text,
this option specifies whether to display the text.
- Fields: Hidden text
- If you have inserted text using the hidden paragraph field, this
option specifies whether to display it.
- Fields: Hidden Paragraphs
- If you have inserted text using the Hidden Paragraph field, specifies
whether to display the hidden paragraph.
Direct cursor
- Enable direct cursor
- Activates the direct cursor.
Insert
- Paragraph alignment
- Sets the paragraph alignment when the direct cursor is used. Depending
on where the mouse is clicked, the paragraph is formatted left aligned,
centered, or right aligned. The cursor before the mouse-click shows,
by means of a triangle, which the alignment is set.
- Left paragraph alignment
- When the direct cursor is used, the left paragraph indent action
is set at the horizontal position where you click the straight cursor.
The paragraph is left aligned.
- Tabs
- When the direct cursor is used, as many tabs as necessary are
added in the new paragraph until the clicked position is reached.
- Tabs and spaces
- When the direct cursor is used, a corresponding number of tabs
and spaces are inserted in the new paragraph as necessary until the
clicked position is reached.
Cursor in protected areas
- Enable
- Specifies that you can set the cursor in a protected area, but
cannot make any changes.