• Welcome!
  • Technical support
  • About this manual
  • System requirements
• Installation and program startup
  • Installing on Windows
  • Installing on macOS
  • Installing on Linux
  • Installing on Android devices
  • Installing on iOS devices
• Application window
  • Title bar
  • User interface: Ribbon
  • User interface: Classic menus
  • User interface on Android/iOS
  • Context menu
  • Document tabs
  • Horizontal ruler
  • Sidebar
  • Status bar
• Basics
  • Entering text
  • Moving the text cursor
  • Deleting text
  • Undoing changes
  • Insert or overwrite?
  • Starting a new document
  • Opening a document
  • Printing a document
  • Saving a document
  • Exiting the application
• The TextMaker tour
  • Sample letter
  • Saving the sample letter
  • Simple formatting
  • When something goes wrong...
  • Opening a file
  • Creating a letterhead
  • Paragraph alignment
  • Tabs
  • Inserting the date and other fields
  • Footers
  • Inserting a separator above the footer
  • Inserting fold marks
  • Printing the sample letter
  • Finished!
• Working with selections
  • Selecting text and objects
    • Selecting in the Windows, Mac or Linux version
    • Selecting in the Android/iOS version
  • Moving, deleting and copying
  • Paste (special)
  • Inserting a document
• Character formatting
  • Font and font size
  • Text styles
  • Font color
  • Superscripts and subscripts
  • Letter spacing and character pitch
  • Kerning
  • Format painter
  • Hiding text
  • Protecting text
  • Resetting the character formatting
  • Changing the default character formatting
• Paragraph formatting
  • Indents
  • Line spacing
  • Spacing above/below a paragraph
  • Paragraph alignment
  • Changing the_character format for whole paragraphs
  • Tabs
    • Using tabs
    • Deleting and moving tab stops
    • Using the horizontal ruler
  • Bulleted lists
  • Drop caps
  • Shading
  • Borders and lines
  • Outline level
  • Forcing a break before a paragraph
  • Paragraph control
  • Suppressing line numbers
  • Line break – insert manually
  • Sorting text or tables
  • Showing non-printable characters
• Page formatting
  • Inserting manual page breaks
  • Page setup
  • Headers and footers
    • Creating and editing headers and footers
    • Inserting a page number
    • Inserting date and time
    • Inserting other fields
    • Using alignment tabs
    • Changing the properties of headers and footers
    • Different headers/footers on the first page
    • Different headers/footers on left and right pages
    • Deleting headers or footers
  • Master pages
    • Editing the master page
  • Dividing a document into chapters
    • Inserting and removing chapters
    • Navigating chapters
    • Chapters and page formatting
    • Chapter formatting
      • Formatting page numbers
  • Changing the page background
  • Fold marks
• Styles
  • Character styles
    • Creating character styles
    • Applying character styles
    • Changing character styles
    • Scope of character styles
    • "Normal" character style
    • "Based on" character styles
    • Character styles and the sidebar
  • Paragraph styles
    • Creating paragraph styles
    • Applying paragraph styles
    • Changing paragraph styles
    • Scope of paragraph styles
    • "Normal" paragraph style
    • "Based on" paragraph styles
    • Paragraph styles and the sidebar
  • Managing styles
  • Document templates
    • Creating document templates
    • Using document templates
    • Changing document templates
    • "Normal.tmvx" document template
• Multi-column page layouts
  • Changing the number of columns
  • What are sections?
• Searching and replacing
  • Search
  • Replace
  • Repeating a search/replace
  • Advanced search options
  • Searching/replacing formatting
  • Bookmarks
  • Go to
  • Searching with the sidebar
  • Navigating with the sidebar
• Fields
  • Inserting a field
  • Editing and updating fields
  • Displaying field names and shading fields
  • Defining your own date and time formats
  • Inserting the date and time as text
• Inserting special characters
• Automatic numbering
  • Simple numbering
  • Numbered lists
    • Applying numbered lists
    • Changing numbered lists
    • Advanced functions: Creating your own numbered lists
  • Numbered headings
  • Numbering with auto numbers
  • Adding line numbers
• Inserting breaks
• Tables
  • Inserting tables
  • Ribbon tab "Table"
  • Moving in tables
  • Selecting table cells and cell contents
  • Deleting, copying, moving cell contents
  • Deleting and inserting table cells
    • Deleting cells from a table
    • Inserting cells in a table
  • Splitting and merging table cells
    • Splitting table cells
    • Merging table cells
    • Splitting tables
    • Merging tables
  • Formatting tables
    • Distributing rows and columns evenly
    • Changing row properties
    • Changing cell properties
    • Changing general table properties
    • Table styles
  • Converting a table into text
  • Converting text into a table
  • Sorting tables
  • Sorting text
• Pictures
  • Inserting pictures into the text
  • Scanning pictures
  • Inserting pictures from the gallery/camera (Android and iOS)
  • Changing position and size of pictures
  • Changing picture properties via the ribbon tab
  • Changing picture properties via the dialog box
• Charts
  • Inserting charts
    • Inserting charts via PlanMaker
    • Inserting charts manually
  • Editing charts
    • Changing the chart type
    • Entering/editing the data of a chart
    • Showing/hiding chart elements
      • Showing/hiding axes and axis titles
      • Showing/hiding chart titles
      • Showing/hiding data labels
      • Showing/hiding error bars
      • Showing/hiding gridlines
      • Showing/hiding the legend
      • Showing/hiding lines
      • Showing/hiding the trendline
      • Showing/hiding up/down bars
    • Editing chart elements
      • Chart area
      • Plot area
      • Walls (three-dimensional charts only)
      • Floor (three-dimensional charts only)
      • Corners (three-dimensional charts only)
      • Data series and data points
      • Trendlines
      • Category axis (X axis)
      • Value axis (Y axis)
      • Series axis (Z axis)
      • Axis title
      • Chart title
      • Gridlines
      • Legend
    • Changing chart properties via the dialog box
  • Saving charts as pictures
• OLE objects
  • Inserting OLE objects
  • Editing OLE objects
  • Editing links to OLE objects
  • Changing position and size of OLE objects
  • Changing OLE object properties via the ribbon tab
  • Changing OLE object properties via the dialog box
  • Using the SoftMaker Equation Editor
• Frames and drawings
  • Frames – basic functions
    • Inserting frames
    • Selecting objects
    • Object mode
    • Changing the position, size and margins of objects
      • Changing the position of objects
      • Changing the size and margins of objects
      • Preventing changes in an object's position and size
    • Rotating and flipping objects
    • Changing the order of frames
    • Duplicating objects
    • Changing the names of objects
    • Converting between frame and embedded object
    • Aligning and distributing frames
    • Grouping frames
    • Hiding objects
    • Changing the AutoShape of frames
    • Combining shapes
    • Editing shapes retroactively
    • Changing object properties via the dialog box
      • Object properties, Layout tab
      • Object properties, Format tab
      • Object properties, Fill tab
      • Object properties, Lines tab
      • Object properties, Shadow tab
      • Object properties, 3D tab
      • Object properties, Effects tab
      • Object properties, Properties tab
      • Object properties, AutoShapes tab
      • Additional tabs
      • Changing the default settings for objects
  • Text frames
    • Inserting text frames
    • Changing text frame properties via the ribbon tab
    • Changing text frame properties via the dialog box
    • Changing the text area
    • Linking text frames
  • Picture frames
    • Inserting picture frames
    • Changing picture frame properties via the ribbon tab
    • Changing picture frame properties via the dialog box
  • Drawings
    • Inserting drawings
    • Adding text to AutoShapes
    • Changing drawing properties via the ribbon tab
    • Changing drawing properties via the dialog box
      • AutoShapes tab (available only for AutoShapes)
      • Inner text tab (available for AutoShapes with text added)
      • Text tab (available only for TextArt objects)
      • Transformation tab (available only for TextArt objects)
• Forms
  • Filling in forms
  • Creating forms
    • Types of form objects
    • Inserting form objects
    • Editing form objects
    • Preparing an example form
  • Form objects in detail
    • Text fields
      • Using text fields
      • Changing the properties of text fields
      • Options of the contextual ribbon tab "Object"
    • Text (field) frames
    • Checkboxes
      • Using checkboxes
      • Changing the properties of checkboxes
      • Options of the contextual ribbon tab "Object"
    • Checkbox frames
    • Dropdown lists
      • Using dropdown lists
      • Changing the properties of dropdown lists
      • Options of the contextual ribbon tab "Object"
    • Dropdown list frames
    • Labels and groupboxes
      • Using labels and groupboxes
      • Changing the properties of labels and groupboxes
      • Options of the contextual ribbon tab "Object"
  • Forms – advanced functions
    • Changing the tab order
    • Protecting contents of form objects
    • Protecting forms
    • Calculating with form objects
• Language tools
  • Setting the language
    • Setting the default language
    • Formatting text in another language
    • Application examples
  • Spell check
    • Manual spell check
    • Checking the spelling as you type
    • Conversion to the new German spelling
      • Enabling conversion to the new German spelling
      • Correcting words with old German spellings
      • Info command of the spell check
    • Editing user dictionaries
  • Hyphenation
  • Thesaurus
  • Duden Korrektor
    • Using the Duden spell check
    • Using the Duden hyphenation
    • Using the Duden grammar check
    • Configuring Duden Korrektor
  • Looking up terms in the Duden dictionaries
  • Research
  • SmartText
    • Creating SmartText entries
    • Inserting SmartText entries
    • Editing SmartText entries
• Database
  • Opening a database
  • Creating a new database
    • Creating a new SQLite database
    • Creating a new dBASE database
  • Using the database module
    • Main window of database module
    • List and form view
    • Scrolling through records
    • Searching a database
    • Adding and editing records
    • Deleting and restoring records
    • Sorting a database
    • Closing a database
    • For advanced users: Changing the database structure
  • Importing individual addresses
    • Preparing a document template
    • Using document templates
  • Creating lists and labels
  • Printing envelopes
  • Importing the Thunderbird address book
• Mail merge
  • Assigning a database to a document
  • Inserting database fields
  • Viewing test records in the text
  • Sample letter
  • Selecting records for a mail merge
    • Selecting individual records manually
    • Selecting by record numbers
    • Selecting by condition
  • Printing a mail merge
• Calculations in the text
  • Inserting calculations
    • Variables in calculations
    • Table cells in calculations
    • Database fields in calculations
    • Objects in calculations
  • Formatting and rounding calculations
  • Updating calculations
  • Conditional text
  • Simple calculations at the touch of a button
  • Formulas and functions
    • Structure of a formula
    • Operators
    • Overview of computational functions
• Working with large documents
  • Outlines
    • Using the outline view
      • Changing the outline levels of paragraphs
      • Selecting the outline levels to be displayed
      • Expanding/collapsing a heading
      • Editing text in outline view
    • Formatting headings
    • Expert tip: Managing headings via paragraph styles
    • Practical outlining
    • Numbering headings
      • Advanced functions: Creating your own heading list
    • Outlined documents and chapters
  • Tables of references (TOC, index, etc.)
    • Indices
      • Preparing an index
      • Editing the keyword list
      • Creating the index
    • Tables of contents
    • Captions and tables of figures
      • Inserting captions for pictures and other objects
      • Generating a table of figures
    • Bibliographies
      • Step 1: Creating and editing the bibliography database
      • Step 2: Assigning the bibliography database
      • Step 3: Inserting references to sources
      • Step 4: Generating the bibliography
    • Bibliographies with Zotero
    • Updating tables of references
    • Editing and formatting tables of references
  • Cross references
    • Inserting cross references
    • Editing and updating cross references
  • Style references
  • Footnotes and endnotes
    • Footnotes
      • Inserting and editing footnotes
      • Changing the formatting of footnotes
      • Footnote options
    • Endnotes
      • Inserting and editing endnotes
      • Changing the formatting of endnotes
      • Endnote options
• Reviewing documents
  • Using comments
    • Inserting comments
    • Editing comments
    • Deleting comments
    • Displaying and printing comments
    • Locating comments
    • Settings for comments
  • Tracking changes in a document
    • Step 1: Enabling the Track changes function
    • Step 2: Making the desired changes
    • Step 3: Accepting/rejecting changes
    • Settings for the Track changes function
• Internet functions
  • Opening an HTML document
  • Editing an HTML document
    • Page formatting
    • Pictures in HTML documents
    • Tables in HTML documents
    • Horizontal lines
    • Using hyperlinks
  • Saving an HTML document
• Outputting documents
  • Print preview
  • Printing a document
  • Printing a mail merge
  • Exporting a document as a PDF file
  • Exporting a document as an EPUB file
  • Sending a document by e-mail
• Document management
  • Quick paths
  • Document summary
  • File manager
  • Searching with the file manager
  • Backup copies (file versions)
• Document protection
  • Enabling document protection
  • Disabling document protection
• Working with other file formats
  • Saving and opening files in other file formats
  • Notes on the text format
• Working with Arabic text
  • Enabling extended support for Arabic text
  • Changing the text direction of paragraphs
  • Changing the direction of tables
  • Changing the direction of multi-column text
  • Changing the font of Arabic text
  • Inserting dates in Arabic
• Scripts (BasicMaker)
• Working with multiple documents
  • Creating or opening a document
  • Switching between open documents
  • Arranging documents on the screen
  • Closing a document
• Customizing TextMaker
  • Changing TextMaker settings
    • Settings, View tab
    • Settings, General tab
    • Settings, Edit tab
    • Settings, Appearance tab
    • Settings, Language tab
    • Settings, Files tab
    • Settings, Backup tab
    • Settings, System tab
    • Settings, Fonts tab
    • "Manage" button
  • Export/import settings
  • Changing document properties
    • Document properties, Summary tab
    • Document properties, View tab
    • Document properties, Colors tab
    • Document properties, Statistics tab
    • Document properties, Protection tab
    • Document properties, Form tab
    • Document properties, Review tab
    • Document properties, Fonts tab
  • Customizing the document display
    • Zoom level
    • Full screen view
  • Customizing the ribbon
    • Showing and hiding the ribbon
    • Customizing icons and groups in the ribbon
    • Changing the position of the Quick access toolbar
    • Customizing icons on the Quick access toolbar
  • Customizing toolbars
    • Showing and hiding toolbars
    • Positioning toolbars on the screen
    • Managing toolbars
    • Customizing toolbar icons
    • Using the toolbar menu
  • Creating user-defined icons
  • Customizing shortcut keys
  • Using the grid
  • Using guides
  • Installing additional dictionaries
    • Installing additional SoftMaker dictionaries
    • Installing Hunspell dictionaries
    • Choosing a different dictionary for a language
• Appendix
  • Ribbon commands and corresponding menu commands
  • Shortcut keys
    • Shortcut keys in Windows and Linux versions
    • Shortcut keys in Mac version
  • Command-line parameters