Psion Revo Palmtop Computer Instructions Manual

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Aligning paragraphs
Use alignment to change the horizontal position of
paragraphs on the page. You can align text to the left
or right margin, centre a title, or “justify” text (align
both left and right edges with the margins).
·To change the alignment: select the paragraph(s)
to align; then tap 
, or select the command
from the Paragraph menu; then select the
alignment you want.
Note: Margins are set as part of the file’s page setup.
See ‘How the page looks’ later for more information.
Indents...

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Special characters
To insert foreign and other special characters in your
file, select the Special character command from the
Insert menu.
You can also insert characters which control word
wrapping on the screen, and in the printed document:
·To insert a non-breaking space, press Shift and
the Spacebar. This will prevent a line breaking at
the space.
·To insert a non-breaking hyphen (or “hard
hyphen”), press Shift with the - key (i.e.
Shift+Fn+O). This will prevent a line breaking at
the...

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Using styles
A style is a collection of formatting settings which can
be applied to a whole paragraph. If you change a
style’s settings, e.g. the font size, all paragraphs which
use that style will be reformatted automatically.
Word has four built-in styles; Normal, Heading 1,
Heading 2 and Heading 3.
·To apply a built-in style: Tap the style button
 on the Top toolbar, then select the
style you want, e.g. Heading 1. You can also apply
styles using the Style gallery command from the
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If you are creating a new style, you can name and
assign an “outline” level and shortcut key. The new
style will appear in the list of paragraph styles for the
current file.
·To delete a style you have created: select the
Style gallery command from the Paragraph
menu, then select the style name from the list
and tap Delete.Note: You cannot delete or rename Word’s built-in
styles, but you can modify their settings for the
current file. The built-in styles in other files will not be
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·To “expand” the outline to include other styles
with a lower outline level: highlight a line and tap
again or press the right arrow key. Tap Open all
to show all of the outline levels. Styles which
have an outline level of zero are not shown.
·Close an outline to show only the higher outline
levels: highlight a line and tap again or press the
left arrow key. Tap Close all to only show the
highest outline level.
·Tap Go to or press Enter to return to the
document with the cursor at this section...

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To close the object, tap the Done button at the top
of the screen.
·To resize a table or graph: select it, then drag the
“handles” to resize it.
·To edit an object, highlight it, then tap on it again.
·To resize a Sheet object, or crop the edges, or
display it as an icon: use the Object commands
on the Edit menu.
Note: Inserted Word objects are always
displayed as icons and cannot be formatted.
Important
Inserting objects into a file can cause a considerable
increase in file size.
Creating a new...

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You can select from a number of standard templates.
When you open a document based on a particular
template, changes you make to the document don’t
affect the template itself.
Creating a template
If you can’t find a suitable built-in template, you can
create your own file template. To do this:
1.Create the Word file with the text, styles, page
layout, headers, footers, etc. that you want to
include in the template. Note that other settings
such as the cursor position and printer setup are
also...

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Saving Word files
When you close Word, the file is automatically saved.
If you do not specify a filename it will be called
‘Word’, and subsequent files will be saved as
‘Word(01)’, ‘Word(02)’, and so on. To save a file
using a different name, or save it in a different folder,
select the Save as command from the More
commands on the File menu.
To undo all changes since the last “save”, use the
Revert to saved command on the File menu. Word
will re-open the most recently saved version of the...

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Page breaks
Word fits text to the paper size and continues on to
another page where necessary. To control where a
new page starts, insert a page break, and/or set page
breaking options for individual paragraphs.
·To start a new page at the current cursor
position, select the Page break command from
the Insert menu, or press Ctrl + Enter.
To define how Word prints a specific paragraph;
place the cursor in the paragraph, or highlight several
paragraphs; select the Line spacing command from
the...

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Printing
You can print Word files and preview how the file
will appear on paper.
·To preview the document as it will be printed,
select the Print preview command from the
Printing commands on the File menu. Word
paginates your file and displays the first page(s).
Use the Setup button to control the number of
pages displayed in the preview, and whether
visible margin lines are shown.·To print the file, select the Print command from
the Printing commands on the File menu. You
can print the entire...