1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2 3<!--*********************************************************** 4 * 5 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one 6 * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file 7 * distributed with this work for additional information 8 * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file 9 * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the 10 * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance 11 * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 12 * 13 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 14 * 15 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, 16 * software distributed under the License is distributed on an 17 * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY 18 * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the 19 * specific language governing permissions and limitations 20 * under the License. 21 * 22 ***********************************************************--> 23 24<helpdocument version="1.0"> 25<meta> 26<topic id="textswriter0218130000xml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> 27<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Direct Cursor On/Off</title> 28<filename>/text/swriter/02/18130000.xhp</filename> 29</topic> 30</meta> 31<body> 32<section id="schacur"> 33<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3147167"><bookmark_value>direct cursor; restriction</bookmark_value> 34</bookmark> 35<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="hid/.uno:ShadowCursor" id="bm_id4799596" localize="false"/><!-- HID added by script --> 36<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="hid/.uno:ShadowCursor" id="bm_id3154504" localize="false"/> 37<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3147167" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="U" oldref="1"><link href="text/swriter/02/18130000.xhp" name="Direct Cursor On/Off">Direct Cursor On/Off</link></paragraph> 38<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3152896" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="2"><ahelp hid=".uno:ShadowCursor">Activates or deactivates the direct cursor.</ahelp> You can specify the behavior of the direct cursor by choosing <emph><switchinline select="sys"><caseinline select="MAC">%PRODUCTNAME - Preferences</caseinline><defaultinline>Tools - Options</defaultinline></switchinline> - <link href="text/shared/optionen/01040600.xhp" name="Text Document - Formatting Aids">%PRODUCTNAME Writer - Formatting Aids</link></emph>.</paragraph> 39</section> 40<section id="syschacur"> 41<table id="tbl_id3151173" name="tbl_id3151173"> 42<tablerow> 43<tablecell colspan="" rowspan=""> 44<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147508" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="E"> 45<image id="img_id3154840" src="res/commandimagelist/sc_shadowcursor.png" ><alt id="alt_id3154840" xml-lang="en-US">Icon</alt> 46</image></paragraph> 47</tablecell> 48<tablecell colspan="" rowspan=""> 49<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3151310" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="3">Direct Cursor On/Off</paragraph> 50</tablecell> 51</tablerow> 52</table> 53</section> 54<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154570" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="4">The direct cursor allows you to click in any blank area of a page to place text, images, tables, frames, and other objects.</paragraph> 55<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3155902" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="6">If you place the direct cursor approximately in the middle between the left and the right margin of a page or a table cell, the text you insert will be centered. Similarly, text is right-aligned when the direct cursor is placed on the right margin.</paragraph> 56<paragraph role="warning" id="par_id3151255" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="5">The AutoCorrect tool automatically removes empty paragraphs, tabs, and spaces that are inserted by the direct cursor. If you want to use the direct cursor, then disable the AutoCorrect tool.</paragraph> 57<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3148982" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="7">The direct cursor sets tabs to position the cursor. If you change the tabs later. the position of the text on the page may change as well.</paragraph> 58</body> 59</helpdocument> 60
