Viewing and navigating

WordPerfect 10® lets you customize the way you view and navigate documents.

Switching views

In WordPerfect, you can view documents in four ways: Draft, Page, Two pages, and Web page.

Draft view

Draft view attempts to match the fonts you have chosen and displays the document close to the way it will look when printed. Draft view does not display certain document features, such as headers, footers, and watermarks, although they may exist in the document. Because not all features display, working in Draft view is often faster than working in Page view.

Page view

Page view displays a document the way it will look when printed. Page view displays headers, footers, footnotes, watermarks, rotated text, and label arrangement.

Two pages view

Two pages view offers the same display features as Page view but without zoom options. It displays two consecutive pages side by side in the same document window.

Web page view

Web page view lets you convert WordPerfect formatting to HTML format, so you don't need to know HTML to create documents suitable for a local intranet or for the Internet. You can start a new document or format an existing document as a Web document. WordPerfect codes that have no HTML equivalents are modified or deleted from the document.

Publishing to HTML

When you publish a document to HTML, WordPerfect saves it as a .htm file.

You can browse the World Wide Web from WordPerfect, and you can preview a document in a browser from within WordPerfect.

When you publish graphics to HTML, they are automatically converted to a commonly used Web format. You can also specify a graphics file format. If a graphic consists of few colors or sharp edges, such as a line drawing, you may want to convert the graphic to the GIF format. If a graphic consists of broad tonal ranges, such as photographs or scanned images, you may want to convert the graphic to the JPEG format.

Creating documents

You can create a document in WordPerfect by opening a blank document window. Every document you create is based on a template. Even a blank document is based on the default template, which includes formatting elements such as the margins, tab settings, and toolbars. WordPerfect also includes ready-made project templates that you can open and use to create a wide range of documents, including letters, fax cover sheets, calendars, and business cards. For more information about templates, see "Using project templates."

Opening documents

You can open text files and other word-processing documents that are created in WordPerfect or in another application. For example, you can open Microsoft Word and Rich Text Format (.rtf) files in WordPerfect. For more information about opening Microsoft Word documents, see "Opening Microsoft Word documents."

The advantage of opening a document created in another application (rather than importing text) is that many of the formatting attributes in the original document, such as page size, margins, font properties, bullets, and underlining, are preserved. Some of the features not supported include embedded pictures, hidden text, interline spacing, kerning, macros, multiple page layouts (the first one in the document is used throughout), and OLE objects.

For more information about importing files, see "Import and export file formats for WordPerfect 10" in the Reference Information section of the online Help.

Adding a list of abbreviations to a document

It is best to add a list of abbreviations only if you have devised new abbreviations instead of using commonly accepted ones, such as standard abbreviations of titles of professional journals. You should arrange a list of abbreviations alphabetically by the abbreviation, not the spelled-out term.

Double-space between items, single-space within items. A list of abbreviations helps the reader who looks at only a portion of the paper instead of reading it from beginning to end. Even when a paper includes a list of abbreviations, you should use the spelled-out version the first time a term appears, followed by the abbreviation in parentheses.

Adding a table of contents to a document

The table of contents, usually headed "CONTENTS" (in uppercase), lists all the parts of the paper except the title page, blank page or copyright page, dedication, and epigraph, which all precede it. No page numbers appear on any of these four pages, but all are counted in the pagination of the front matter.