Working with text

The text area in Advanced Diary supports rich text formatting (RTF), images, tables and hyperlink insertion.

There is a main menu, a special toolbar, and a pop-up window that provide these options:

The toolbar allows you to set up the font options, add a background and inset a diary template.

You can use it to change a font style, size and color in the text.

Click the button to add a background picture or to change a background color. Then select an appropriate option from the menu:

Please note: you can use any picture as a background. To make this picture available for backgrounds just copy this picture into the "...\Advanced Diary\Backgrounds\" folder and restart Advanced Diary.

Click the button to insert a template into the text.

Please note: all templates are stored in the "...\Advanced Diary\Templates\" folder as RTF files. To add a template you can copy RTF file to this folder or prepare any text in Advanced Diary and then save it as template using the "File - Save as template" program main menu item.

The buttons align text.

The buttons add bullets and numbering inside the text.

The buttons allow to change the indents.

To change the paragraph formatting, please use the "Format - Paragraph" menu item. "Paragraph" window will be opened:

Here you can change paragraph alignment, colors, borders, indentations etc.

To create a hyperlink inside a document, click the button. The dialog window that creates hyperlinks will appear. You can add a link to any URL, Email address, any external file or any other entry in your Advanced Diary database.

To insert an image, click the button and choose an image file.

The function supports JPG, JPEG, BMP, ICO, EMF, GIF, and WMF file formats.

To insert a horizontal line, click the "Insert - Horizontal Line..." popup menu item. A dialog box for line insertion will appear:

Select the Horizontal Line color and width, then click "OK.”

To insert current Date and Time values, select the "Insert - Date and Time", "Insert - Date" or "Insert - Time" popup menu item.

To insert a table, click the button. A dialog box for table insertion will appear:

Select the number of rows and columns in the table and click "OK.”

To change the cell colors in the table, select the "Table - Cell Color..." popup menu item. To change the table settings, use the pop-up menu with additional functions. See below.

To insert the emotions pictures, click the button and select desired image:

To find and highlight any text in the current record click the button on the text editor (right) toolbar or use F3 shortcut. An appropriate dialog box will appear:

Enter the text you wish to find. For your convenience, the Advanced Diary "remembers" your last 10 search strings.

You can choose the additional options:

Case sensitive and Whole words only search.

Click the “Find” button. The Advanced Diary will place the cursor to founded word. To search the next word, please open the dialog box again.

Using the pop-up window:

The pop-up menu contains a number of additional functions for text editing.

Undo – cancels the last text alteration.

Cut – deletes a selected fragment from the text and copies it to the clipboard.

Copy – copies a selected fragment into the clipboard.

Paste – inserts a fragment from the clipboard.

Select All – selects the entire text.

Menu items Font, Insert Picture, Insert Hyperlink and Insert Table double the functions of the corresponding toolbar buttons.

Additional table menu options:

We provided Advanced Diary with the following standard table options:

A row/column Insertion/Deletion, cell merging, vertical/horizontal cell splitting. You can adjust text’s vertical and horizontal alignment inside the table, using the toolbar and pop-up menu buttons.

How to change the table properties:

If you select item Table – Properties in the menu, the dialog box that allows you to change the table settings will appear:

The following settings are available:

The Border width, Vertical spacing, Horizontal spacing for the whole table and for particular cells.

Moreover, you can change the table’s background color, the table’s border color and cells’ border color.

Also, the Advanced Diary includes the Spell-checking and Thesaurus features. You can access these functions via main menu or popup window. By default only English dictionaries are included in the program's installation package. But you can download the dictionaries for other languages here:

http://www.addictive-software.com/dicts.htm