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General
Writer
Impress
Math
Draw
Calc
Base
Basic

View

This menu contains commands for controlling the on-screen display of the document.

Print Layout

Displays how the document will look when you print it.

Web Layout

Displays the document as seen in a Web browser. This is useful when you create HTML documents.

HTML Source

Displays the source text of the current HTML document. To view the HTML source of a new document, you must first save the new document as an HTML document.

Toolbars

Opens a submenu to show and hide toolbars. A toolbar contains icons and options that let you quickly access OpenOffice.org commands.

Status Bar

Shows or hides the Status Bar at the bottom edge of the window.

Input Method Status

Shows or hides the Input Method Engine (IME) status window.

Ruler

Shows or hides the horizontal ruler, that you can use to adjust page margins, tab stops, indents, borders, table cells, and to arrange objects on the page. To show the vertical ruler, choose Tools - Options - OpenOffice.org Writer - View, and then select the Vertical ruler check box in the Ruler area.

Text Boundaries

Shows or hides the boundaries of the printable area of a page. The boundary lines are not printed.

Field Shadings

Shows or hides field shadings in your document, including non-breaking spaces, custom hyphens, indexes, and footnotes.

Field Names

Switches the field display between field names and field contents. A check mark indicates that the field names are displayed, and no check mark indicates that field contents are displayed. Some field contents cannot be displayed.

Nonprinting Characters

Shows nonprinting characters in your text, such as paragraph marks, line breaks, tab stops, and spaces.

Hidden Paragraphs

Shows or hides hidden paragraphs. This option only affects the screen display of hidden paragraphs, and not the printing of hidden paragraphs.

Data Sources

Lists the databases that are registered in OpenOffice.org and lets you manage the contents of the databases.

Full Screen

Shows or hides the menus and toolbars in Writer or Calc. To exit the full screen mode, click the Full Screen On/Off button.

Zoom

Reduces or enlarges the screen display of OpenOffice.org.

Index

HTML documents,source text

status bar on/off

IME,showing/hiding

input method window

full screen view

screen, full screen views

complete screen view

views,full screen

This help text is published from the OpenOffice-Help files under the Public Documentation License 1.0.

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