Insert
This menu contains all the necessary commands for inserting new elements in your document. This includes sections, footnotes, notes, special characters, graphics, and objects from other applications.
Inserts a manual line break, column break or a page break at the current cursor position.
Inserts a field at the current cursor position. The submenu lists the most common field types. To view all of the available fields, choose Other.
Inserts special characters from the installed fonts.
Opens a submenu to insert special formatting marks.
Inserts a text section at the cursor position in the document. You can also select a block of text and then choose this command to create a section. You can use sections to insert blocks of text from other documents, to apply custom column layouts, or to protect or to hide blocks of text if a condition is met.
Opens a dialog that enables you to create and edit hyperlinks.
Adds or removes a header from the page style that you select in the submenu. The header is added to all of the pages that use the same page style. In a new document, only the "Default" page style is listed. Other page styles are added to the list after you apply them in the document.
Adds or removes a footer from the page style that you select in the submenu. The footer is added to all of the pages that use the same page style. In a new document, only the "Default" page style is listed. Other page styles are added to the list after you apply them in the document.
Inserts a footnote or an endnote in the document. The anchor for the note is inserted at the current cursor position. You can choose between automatic numbering or a custom symbol.
Adds a numbered caption to a selected graphic, table, frame, text frame, or drawing object. You can also access this command by right-clicking the item that you want to add the caption to.
Inserts a bookmark at the cursor position. You can then use the Navigator to quickly jump to the marked location at a later time. In an HTML document, bookmarks are converted to anchors that you can jump to from a hyperlink.
This is where you insert the references or referenced fields into the current document. References are referenced fields within the same document or within sub-documents of a master document.
Inserts a note at the current cursor position. To view or edit the contents of a note, select the note and choose this command.
Inserts a script at the current cursor position in an HTML or text document.
Opens a menu to insert index entries and to insert indexes and tables.
Creates an envelope. On three tab pages, you can specify the addressee and sender, the position and format for both addresses, the size of the envelope, and the envelope orientation.
Inserts a frame that you can use to create a layout of one or more columns of text and objects.
Inserts a table into the document. You can also click the arrow, drag to select the number of rows and columns to include in the table, and then click in the last cell.
Inserts a horizontal line at the current cursor position.
Select the source for a picture that you want to insert.
Inserts an object into your document. For movies and sounds, use Insert - Movie and Sound instead.
Inserts a floating frame into the current document. Floating frames are used in HTML documents to display the contents of another file. Floating frames are not supported by Netscape Navigator 4.x.
Inserts a video or sound file into your document.
Inserts a text file at the current cursor position.
Index
inserting,movies/sounds
sounds,inserting and playing
playing movies and sound files
videos
audio, inserting
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