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Typing text – Apple AppleWorks 5 : Windows 95/NT 4.0 User Manual

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Note

If you create a text frame and then click outside the frame before you

enter text, the frame disappears.

Typing text

To type text, place the pointer where you want the text and click the
mouse. Then:

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Choose Index from the Help menu and type the first few letters of the entry. Double-click the
entry and then double-click a topic.

To

Do this

Type a paragraph

Begin typing the text. Don’t press Enter when you
reach the end of a line—AppleWorks wraps the
words to the next line.

End one paragraph and start another

Press Enter once to end the paragraph. Press Enter
again to insert a blank line.

Move the insertion point

Move the I-beam pointer to where you want to
insert text and click. (You can also move the
insertion point by pressing an arrow key.)

Use a line break (or soft return) to end
one line and start another without
creating a new paragraph

Hold down Shift and press Enter.

Insert a non-breaking space to keep two
words on the same line

Hold down the Ctrl key and press the Space bar.

Delete the character to the left of the
insertion point

Press Backspace.

Drag a handle to resize or
reshape the text frame

Draw document with a text frame

In the Help index,

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see:

E

deleting, text

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text, shortcuts

E

undoing actions