The KWord Handbook

The KWord Handbook

Mike McBride

Gary Cramblitt (garycramblitt comcast.net)

Revision 1.5 (2006-04-23)

Copyright © 2000-2006 Michael McBride

Copyright © 2006 Gary Cramblitt

KWord is a complete word-processing and simple desktop publishing program. It is part of the KOffice suite of utilities.

This manual describes KWord 1.5.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

Introduction
What parts of this guide should I read?

2. Fundamentals

Starting KWord
An Introduction to Templates
The difference between Text Oriented and Page Layout templates

3. Step by Step Tutorial

Tutorial: Choosing the initial template
Tutorial: Selecting a frame and entering text into that frame
Tutorial: Changing the size of a frame
Tutorial: Moving a frame on the page and layering frames
Tutorial: Adding a new frame/Making text flow between two frames
Tutorial: Deleting a frame
Tutorial: Summary

4. The KWord Window

Overview
Using Rulers

5. Detailed Guides: Document Creation, Storage, and Printing

Beginning a New Document

Starting a new document from a template
Opening an existing document

Saving a Document

The Save Command
The Save As... Command

Retrieving a Saved Document

Using the dialog box

Printing A Document

6. Detailed Guides: Editing your Document

Selecting Text

Using The Mouse
Using The Keyboard

Using Multiple Views

Introduction
Creating a new view
Splitting the current view into two separate views.
Changing the split view orientation
Changing the size of views
Remove View
Close all views

Cut/Copy/Paste and the Clipboard

The Copy Command
The Cut Command
The Paste Command

Finding and Replacing Text

The Find Command
The Replace Command

Spellchecking

Automatically mark misspelled words

Finding related word (Thesaurus)

Autocorrection

Enabling/Disabling Autocorrection
Configuring Autocorrection Options
Manually applying autocorrection

Autocompletion

Using autocompletion
Configuring autocomplete

7. Detailed Guides: Document Layout

Formatting the Page

Formatting the Page (Text Oriented Document)
Formatting the Page (Page Layout Document)

Working with Frames

Framesets
Selecting a frame
Adding a Text Frame to a Document
Deleting a Frame From a Document
Moving a Frame
Resizing a Frame
Reconnecting Frames in a Frameset/Changing text flow.
Raise and Lower Frames
Hard Frame Breaks

Setting the Properties for a Frame

Using the frame settings dialogs
Using frame styles

Formatting Paragraphs

Indents and Spaces
General Layout
Decorations
Bullets and Numbering
Tabulators

Using Tab Stops

Setting Tab Stops
Moving Tab Stops
Removing Tab Stops
Tab filling

Formatting Characters

Changing Size, Font, Font Style, Text color and Background Color
Changing Font Case

Text styles

Introduction to text styles
Changing the text style of text
Creating a text style
Deleting a text style
Editing a text style
Import a text style

Simple lists
Complex lists

Adding a new Table
Moving between cells in a table
Deleting a Table
Insert Row in Table
Insert Column in Table
Delete Row in Table
Delete Column in Table
Change column width
Join Cells in Table
Split Cells in Table
Ungroup a Table
Protecting a cell in a table.
Formating a Table
Using table styles

Headers/Footers

Introduction
Using headers and footers

Creating Templates, Saving a document as a template and Deleting Templates

Creating a new template
Removing a template
Removing a template group

8. Detailed Guides: More than just text

Entering Document information

Insert Graphics from a file
Using a picture from a scanner
Changing the size of a picture
Move Pictures
Delete Graphics
Saving Graphic in separate file
Switching between inline and framed pictures

Table of Contents

Preparing the document
Creating the table of contents
Changing the look of the table of contents.

Document Variables

Date and Time
Page Numbering
Section Title
Other Variables
Custom Variables
Updating All Variable Values
Updating One Date or Time Variable Value

Expressions

Using expressions
Add, change and delete expression groups and expressions

Document Links

Insert a new document link
Opening a document link
Copy a document link
Changing a document link
Deleting a document link
Converting a document link to text

Document Comments

Adding a comment to a document
Adding to or changing the comment in a document
Deleting a comment from a document
Hiding all comments in a document

Footnotes and Endnotes

Add a new footnote or endnote
Change reference of footnote
Delete a footnote or endnote
Change the look of footnotes
Change the placement of the footnotes
Change the look of endnote entries

KOffice Data

General instructions
Working with the inserted component

Inserting files

Document bookmarks

Creating a new bookmark
Jump to a previously created bookmark
Rename a bookmark
Delete a bookmark

Add a formula
Moving a formula
Removing a formula
Editing a formula

9. For Users with Disabilities

Installing the kdeaccessibility Module

Visual Impairments

Theming
KMagnifier
Text-to-Speech

Motor Impairments and Mouseless Operation

KMouseTool
XAccess Features
Mouse Emulation
Mouse Navigation
Keyboard shortcuts
Resizing panels
Setting focus to widgets

10. Advanced Topics

Document Structure

Show and hide Document Structure area
Navigating the document structure area
Edit a text frame, frameset, or paragraph using the document structure area
Speak the text of a text frame, frameset, or paragraph using the document structure area
Jump to a frame, frameset, or paragraph using the document structure area
Delete frame or frameset using the document structure area
Edit a frame or paragraph properties using the document structure area

Using an external SQL database as a data source
Using a KSpread file as a data source
Using your KDE Address book as a data source
Using an internal representation of tabular data to create documents

11. How do I...

How do I get the pages numbers on the outsides of the pages and the title in the middle of the header (like a novel)?
How do I create a .pdf file?
How do I remove template categories from the startup dialog.

12. The Menu Items/Toolbars

Introduction to the Menubar and Toolbars

Hiding, Changing, and Moving Toolbars

Hiding Toolbars
Moving Toolbars around
Changing the look of your toolbars

File Menu
Edit Menu
View Menu
Insert Menu
Format Menu
Frames Menu
Table Menu
Tools Menu
Settings Menu
Help Menu

File Toolbar

Format ToolBar

Insert Toolbar

Edit Toolbar

Paragraph Toolbar

Table Toolbar

Border Toolbar

Formula Toolbar

Selecting Colors from a Select Color dialog

Selecting files using the file dialog

13. KWord Options

Configure Key Bindings (keyboard shortcuts)

Defining custom keyboard shortcuts

Configure Toolbars

Adding a button to a toolbar
Deleting a button from a toolbar
Moving a button on a toolbar

KWord Options

Configure KWord User Interface
Configure document options
Configure Spelling.
Configure formula options
Configure miscellaneous options
Configure path options
Configure Text-To-Speech options

14. Questions and Answers

15. Credits and Licenses

A. Installation

How to obtain KWord
Requirements
Compilation and Installation

B. KWord Command Line Options

C. Import/Export Filters

Introduction to Filters
Filters included in KWord

D. Key Bindings Summary

E. KWord Technical details

KWord file format

KWord 1.1 and earlier
KWord 1.2
KWord 1.3 (current version)

Kword MIME types

Introduction