IBM Lotus Symphony


Formatting Aids

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 File > Preferences > Symphony > Lotus Symphony Documents > Formatting Aids.

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.

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