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:

Here you can change fonts, paragraph formatting, add bullets and background etc. Text editor allows to insert text from file, images (even animated GIF files), special symbols, horizontal lines, tables etc.

Emotions

To insert the emotions pictures, click the Emotions button and an emotions panel will be displayed:

To insert any emotion picture, simply click it on the panel.

You can add any own emotion pictures. Just copy your pictures into the "...\Advanced Diary\Emotions" folder. Advanced Diary supports animated images.

To hide the emotions panel, simply click the Emotions button again.

Paste special

You can paste contents of the clipboard into a description area in various ways using the "Paste Special" popup menu item or Ctrl+Alt+V shortcut:

Paragraph Formatting

To open the paragraph formatting options, click the "Paragraph" button:

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

Text Wrapping

Advanced Diary supports various text wrapping types. To set up a text wrapping around the pictures, please select a picture, or put cursor after picture. Then click the "Text Wrapping" button.

The "Text Wrapping" window will be opened:

Just select any text wrapping type and click the "OK" button.

Hyperlinks

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

If you select the "Database Entry" link type, the new window will be opened:

In this window you can select any folder or database entry. Then click the "OK" button to create hyperlink to the selected entry.

Special Symbols

To insert a special symbol, click the "Special Symbol" button. A dialog box will appear:

Select Font and necessary Symbol and click the "OK" button.

Horizontal Line

To insert a horizontal line, click the "Horizontal Line" button. A dialog box for line insertion will appear:

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

Table

To insert a table, click the "Table" 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 "Table - Cell Color" menu item. To change the table settings, use the pop-up menu with additional functions.

To change the table properties, click the "Table - Properties" menu item:

In this window you can change Table width, colors, spacing etc.

Background

To add a background to a document, click the "Background" button. A dialog box will appear:

Background Color - here you can choose a color for background.

To add a picture, click the "Open" button and select desired picture file. C-Organizer comes with some background pictures. You can find them in the "...\Advanced Diary\Backgrounds\" folder.

To save current background picture to a file, click the "Save" button.

To remove picture from background, click the "Clear" button.

Picture Position - if the picture is selected, you can set up its position: Tiles, Stretched, Center, Fixed Tiles, Top Left, Top Right, Bottom Left, Bottom Right.

Padding - here you can choose the text editors padding.

Spell-checking and Thesaurus

Advanced Diaryr includes the Spell-checking and Thesaurus features. You can access these functions using popup window. By default only English dictionaries are included into the program's installation package, but you can download the additional dictionaries for other languages here:

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

Just unpack and copy the downloaded files into the "...\Advanced Diary\Dictionaries" folder. Then configure the Spelling Options.

Search in texts

To find a string or word in the text, click the "Find" button. A dialog box will appear:

Using this dialog box you can find any words in the text and replace them with the new one if necessary.

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