Zen Writer Help

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Zen Writer is the word processing application for beginners and advanced users who like it simple. It enables you to create easily great-looking documents. In addition, a built-in spelling checker adds extra safety, and the new preview functionality eases the correct print output.

Word processing can be rather daunting when you‘re just starting out, and you feel you‘re never going to get the hang of things. This is a very common experience at start up so don‘t worry about it. After a while, with Zen Writer you‘ll be zipping around like a professional.

Formatting

Zen Writer supports bold, italic, and underlined font styles, and can display multicolored text. Font families such as Times New Roman and Courier can also be used directly. If you place the cursor in a region of your text, the controls in the tool bars will change to reflect the current style.

Paragraphs

Paragraphs can be formatted so that the text is left aligned, right aligned, centered, or fully justified.

Lists

Different kinds of lists can be included in your documents. Standard bullet lists can be nested, using different symbols for each level of a list.

Also ordered lists can be created that can be used for tables of contents. The list will automatically be renumbered if you add or remove items. Different characters help you to enumerate items, and you can use both Roman and Arabic numerals in the same list structure.

Spell checking

You can check your spelling as you type. As Zen Writer finds errors, it underlines misspelled words in red. Several suggestions help you to correct it with just one-click.

Currently supported languages:

• Afrikaans,
• Arabic,
• Basque,
• Catalan,
• Czech,
• Danish,
• Dutch,
• English (GB),
• English (US),
• English (AUS),
• French, German,
• German (Swiss),
• German (Austria),
• Greek,
• Hebrew,
• Hindi,
• Hungarian,
• Icelandic,
• Italian,
• Japanese,
• Norwegian,
• Polish,
• Portuguese,
• Romanian,
• Russian,
• Slovak,
• Slovenian,
• Spanish,
• Swedish,
• Ukrainian,
• Vietnamese.

Page Setup

The Page Setup Dialog lets you to configure various options related to printing out your text, like paper size and margins. This allows you to make changes and revisions to your document, if you don‘t like the way it looks.

Compatible with common document formats

Open, edit and save common document formats. Zen Writer enables you to import external documents, like HTML, ODT and plain text.

Undo and Redo

Zen Writer fully support undo and redo operations. You can always undo unwanted changes and recover the original contents.

After launching Zen Writer, the first thing to notice is the big white area dominating the screen. This is your page. Think of it as a blank piece of paper just waiting to be written on. Except, this is Word Processing, so you don‘t write on your blank piece of paper - you type on it. The most important thing on the big white area is that short vertical line at the top. Yours will probably be blinking on and off. The line is called a cursor (or caret) and this blinking is normal behaviour for a cursor.

The cursor is where all the action takes place. Try touching one or two of the letter keys on your computer keyboard and watch what happens. You should see the vertical line, the cursor, move to the right. Your letters will appear to the left of the cursor. In other words, when you tap a letter on your keyboard, the letter will appear where the cursor is. The cursor will move across, ready for the next thing you type.

Before you start typing your first letter, there are two keys on your keyboard that might come in very handy: the Backspace key and the Enter key. If you have made a spelling mistake, tap the backspace key to get rid of your unwanted characters. The Enter key will create a new paragraph. Use the Shift and Enter key at the same time to move the cursor down one line.

Now, it is time for your own experience.