The K Desktop Environment

The KWord Users Manual

Version 0.01.00
Last updated: 24/09/2000

Mike McBride

mpmcbride7@yahoo.com

KWord is a complete wordprocessing program. It is part of the KOffice suite of utilities.


Table of Contents
1. Current status of this manual
1.1. Whats done and what needs to be done
1.1.1. What is done
1.1.2. What is not done
1.1.3. Just before release of KOffice.......
2. Introduction
2.1. Introduction
2.2. Conventions Used Throughout this User Guide
2.3. What parts of this guide should I read?
3. Fundimentals
3.1. Starting Kword
3.2. An Introduction to Templates
3.3. The difference between Normal and Publishing templates
3.4. The difference between Text Edit mode and Frame Edit mode
4. Step by Step Tutorial
4.1. Choosing the initial template
4.2. Selecting a frame and entering text into that frame
4.3. Changing the size of a frame
4.4. Moving a frame on the page
4.5. Adding a new frame/Making text flow between two frames
4.6. Deleting a frame
5. The KWord Screen
5.1. Overview
5.2. Using Rulers
6. Detailed Guides: Document Storage and Printing
6.1. Beginning a New Document
6.2. Saving a Document
6.2.1. The "Save" Command
6.2.2. The "Save As.." Command
6.3. Retrieving a Saved Document
6.4. Printing A Document
7. Detailed Guides: Editing your Document
7.1. Selecting Text
7.1.1. Using The Keyboard
7.1.2. Using The Mouse
7.2. Undo/Redo
7.3. Cut/Copy/Paste and the Clipboard
7.3.1. The Copy Command
7.3.2. The Cut Command
7.3.3. The Paste Command
7.4. Finding and Replacing Text
7.4.1. The Find Command
7.4.2. Refining Your Search
7.4.3. The Replace Command
7.5. Spell Checking
7.6. Autocorrection
7.6.1. Simple Autocorrection
7.6.2. Advanced Autocorrection
8. Detailed Guides: Document Layout
8.1. Formatting the Page
8.1.1. Formatting the Page (Normal Template)
8.1.2. Formatting the Page (DeskTop Publishing)
8.2. Working with Frames
8.2.1. Framesets
8.2.2. Adding a Text Frame to a Document
8.2.3. Deleteing a Frame From a Document
8.2.4. Moving an Existing Frame
8.2.5. Resizing an Existing Frame
8.2.6. Reconnecing Frames in a Frameset/Changing text flow..
8.2.7. Hard Frame Breaks
8.3. Setting the Properties for a Frame/Formatting Frames
8.4. Formatting paragraph
8.5. Using Tab Stops
8.5.1. Setting Tab Stops
8.5.2. Moving Tab Stops
8.5.3. Removing Tab Stops
8.6. Formatting Characters
8.6.1. Changing Size, Font, Font Style and Character Set
8.6.2. Changing Font Color
8.7. Styles
8.7.1. Changing the Style of Text
8.7.2. Creating a Style
8.7.3. Deleting a Style
8.7.4. Editing a Style
8.7.5. Controlling Styles
8.8. Columns
8.9. Tables
8.9.1. Adding a new Table
8.9.2. Deleting a Table
8.9.3. Insert Row in Table
8.9.4. Insert Column in Table
8.9.5. Delete Row in Table
8.9.6. Delete Column in Table
8.9.7. Join Cells in Table
8.9.8. Split Cells in Table
8.9.9. Ungroup a Table
8.9.10. Format a Table
8.10. Headers/Footers
8.11. Creating Templates/Saving a document as a template
9. Detailed Guides: More than just text
9.1. Introduction
9.2. Graphics
9.2.1. Insert Pictures
9.2.2. Insert Clipart
9.2.3. Resize Graphics
9.2.4. Move Graphics
9.2.5. Delete Graphics
9.3. Insert Table of Contents
9.4. Inserting Date and Time
9.5. Page Numbering
9.6. Endnotes/Footnotes
9.7. Insert Kspread Table
9.8. Formulas
10. How do I...
10.1. How do I get the pages numbers on the outsides of the pages and the title in the middle of the header(like a novel)?
10.2. How do I get the chapter name on the top of each page?
10.3. How do I create a pdf file to post on the web?
10.4. How do I change the Quit and Close commands so they resemble Microsoft Office?
10.5. How do I remove template categories from the open dialog.
11. The Menu Items/Tool Bars
11.1. Introduction to Menu Bars and Tool Bars
11.2. Hiding, Changing, and Moving Tool Bars
11.2.1. Hiding ("Flatening") Tool Bars
11.2.2. Moving Toolbars around
11.2.3. Changing the look of your toolbars
11.3. Basic Menu Bar
11.3.1. File Menu
11.3.2. Edit Menu
11.3.3. View
11.3.4. Insert
11.3.5. Tools
11.3.6. Format
11.3.7. Table
11.3.8. Extra
11.3.9. Help
11.4. File Toolbar
11.5. Basic Editing Toolbar
11.6. Insert Tool Bar
11.7. Frame Edit/Create ToolBar
11.8. Table Edit ToolBar
11.9. Character Formatting ToolBar
11.10. Navigating with the File Dialog.
11.11. Selecting Colors from a Color dialog
12. Kword Options
13. Questions and Answers
13.1. FAQ
13.2. Where can I get updates
13.3. How do themes affect Kword
13.4. Drag and Drop with KWord
13.5. How do I insert a new frame into a frameset between two frames that already exist.
14. Appendix
14.1. KWord Command LIne Options
14.2. Pre-defined Styles in KWord
14.3. Import/Export Filters
14.3.1. Ascii Filter
14.3.2. HTML Filter
14.3.3. Microsoft Word 97 Filter
14.4. kword.rc:
14.5. Key Bindings Summary
15. Credits and License
Glossary
List of Tables
14-1. Key Bindings for KWord