This section is a step by step
walk through of the most important functions needed to understand how
to create and manipulate a complex document. This tutorial will generate the start of a
newsletter as an example document.
It is recommend that you go through the tutorial in order at
least once if you are new to frame based word processors.
Tutorial: Choosing the initial template
Note
The steps to this tutorial are numbered from 1 to 23.
Beneath each step, is text in
italics
which further elaborates or explains the changes.
When you first start KWord
(or start a new
document after KWord is running), KWord asks for a document template.
Here you can either:
Step 1: Click on
Page Layout
.
This will list the Page Layout templates available on
your system. For information on the differences between Page Layout and Text Oriented templates, see the section entitled
The difference between Text Oriented and Page Layout
templates.
Step 2: Now select the
Simple Layout
icon by
clicking once with the left button of your mouse.
This is the template we will use for the
tutorial
.
Step 3: Now confirm your selection by clicking on
Use This Template
.
To complete your selection
.
KWord will open a new document with three frames. The
frames are outlined on the white background, as gray boxes. Each box is
a separate frame.
