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# &brandShortName; Menu Reference

This menu reference describes each menu item in the main &brandShortName; window.
In this section: File Edit View Insert Format Table Tools Help

## File

### New

Opens a new &brandShortName; window.

### Open File...

Displays an Open File dialog where you can select a file from your local disks or network. With &brandShortName; you can view HTML, HTML templates, and text file types.

### Open Web Location...

Displays an Open Web Location dialog for writing the URL of the document or choose a local file to open.

### Recent Pages

Shows the list of recently edited files.

### Close

Closes the current window.

### Close All

Closes all open tabs in current window.

### Save

Save the file opened in the current active tab.

### Save As...

Saves the page you are currently editing giving the option of saving it with a different filename.

### Save As Charset...

Gives an option of changing the "Charset" of the web page before displaying the "Save As..." dialog.

### Publish

Opens a Publish dialog for publishing the current page being edited

### Publish As...

Opens a Publish dialog for publishing the current page being edited. Behaves the same as Publish\!!

### Revert

Undo all changes done to the current document after last save. Reverts to last saved copy of current document.

### Export To Text...

Export the contents of the current document to plain text.

### Browse Page

View the current page in your default web browser

### Print...

Displays the Print dialog, where you can specify the number of printed copies, etc. Click OK to print the page.

### Quit

Closes all &brandShortName; windows including any with more than one tab open, and exits &brandShortName; completely. If you happen to select this option with unsaved documents, &brandShortName; will ask you to confirm your choice to prevent accidental exits.

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## Edit

### Undo

Undoes the last editing action done in the current document. If you later decide you didn't want to undo an action, use the Redo command.

### Redo

Redoes the last Undo command.

### Cut

Cuts the selected text from the document and stores it in the clipboard. Paste the text elsewhere by using the Paste command.

### Copy

Copies the selected text to the clipboard. Paste the text elsewhere by using the Paste command.

### Paste

Pastes the text from the clipboard copied using Cut or Copy command to the current cursor location.

### Paste Without Formatting

Pastes the text from the clipboard copied using Cut or Copy command to the current cursor position as simple text i.e. formatting information of clipboard text is discarded.

### Delete

Deletes the selected text from current document.

### Select All

Selects all text in the current document.

### Find and Replace...

Displays a dialog where you can enter a text string to be searched and replaced with another text string. Search is performed on the current page.

### Find Again

Performs the operation of finding the text string searched with the Find and Replace... command for next occurence of the text. Search is performed on the current page.

### Find Previous

Searches for the previous occurrence of the text specified when using the Find and Replace... command.

### Check Spelling

Opens the Spell Checker to start the spell check for the text on the current page.

### Detach From Template

Detaches the current document being edited from the template to be saved as an html page.

### Publish Site Settings

Opens the Site Manager to configure or change settings for the publishing site.

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## View

### Show/Hide

#### Composition Toolbar

Toggles the visibility of the composition toolbar, which usually contains standard composition buttons (Anchor, Link, Image, etc.).

#### Format Toolbar

Toggles the visibility of the format toolbar, which contains various formatting buttons.

#### Edit Mode Toolbar

Toggles the visibility of edit mode toolbar. Edit Mode Toobar is at the bottom of the &brandShortName; window just above the status bar. You can change to different views like HTML Tags view, HTML Source view, etc with it.

#### Status Bar

Toggles the visibility of the Status Bar situated at the bottom of the &brandShortName; window.

#### Rulers

Toggles the visibility of horizontal and vertical rulers.

#### Customize Toolbar

##### Main Toolbar

Opens panel to customize Main Toolbar. You can drag and drop buttons from the panel to the main toolbar to add new buttons or vice-versa to remove buttons.

##### Format Toolbar

Opens panel to customize Format Toolbar. You can drag and drop buttons from the panel to the format toolbar to add new buttons or vice-versa to remove buttons.

#### Site Manager

Toggles the visibility of Site Manager in the &brandShortName; window.

### Normal Edit Mode

Changes to the Normal Edit Mode viewing mode.

### HTML Tags

Changes to the HTML Tags viewing mode.

### HTML Source

Changes to the HTML Source viewing mode.

### Preview

Changes to the Preview viewing mode.

### Carriage Returns

Toggles the visibility of carriage returns.

### Block Outline

Toggles the visibility of outline of block level elements on the page.

### Text Zoom

#### Smaller

Makes the text smaller on the web page. You can also do this with the mouse (see Increase Text Size for instructions). To restore the text size, press `Ctrl`+`0`.

#### Larger

Displays the text one size larger on the web page. You can also do this with the mouse by holding down the `Ctrl` key while using the scroll wheel or by pressing `+` or `-` to increase or decrease the text size. To restore the text size to the default, press `Ctrl`+`0`.

### Character Encoding

Allows you to manually change the character encoding on a Web page. &brandShortName; usually does this automatically.

## Insert

The Insert menu allows you to insert various HTML elements in the current document being edited.

### Image...

Opens a dialog box to insert an image in the current document.

### Table...

Opens a dialog box to insert a table in the current document.

### Form...

### Link...

Opens a dialog box to create a link. If clicked after selecting text in current document, the selected text will be made the link. You can also define Friendship(XFN) properties by clicking "More Properties" in the dialog box.

### Named Anchor...

Opens a dialog for typing-in the name to insert a Named Anchor at the current position of the cursor.

### Horizontal Line

Inserts a horizontal line in the current document.

### HTML...

Opens a dialog to insert HTML code manually. This can also be used to insert comments, script code, etc.

### Characters and Symbols...

Opens a dialog box to select special characters or symbols to insert in the current document.

### Table of Contents...

Opens a window to insert a Table of Contents at the current position of the cursor. The TOC can be selected to be formed of either Heading Level-1 to Level-6, a <div> or a <p> tag.

### Smart Widgets

Inserts Smart Widgets in your document.

#### Made With Nvu button

Inserts a "Made with Nvu" button in the document.

#### Calendar

Inserts a calendar type object in the document.

### Templates

When working with Templates, you can use this menu item to insert an editable area in your template.

### Break Below Image(s)

Inserts a break below images to make the text written besides the image to appear below it.

## Format

This menu contains various options to format the document text.

### Font

You can choose the font face to apply to the selected text in the current document. You can select the desired font face from the list containing all the available fonts installed on your system.

### Size

By selecting Smaller or Larger you can change the size of text being viewed in Nvu.

Selecting x-small, small, medium, large, x-large, or xx-large changes the font size of selected text in the current document.

### Text Style

You can select the HTML Text Style which will be applied to the selected text in the document.

#### Bold

Makes the selected text to appear bold. E.g. bold text

#### Italic

Makes the selected text to appear italicized. E.g. italic text

#### Underline

Underlines selected text. E.g. underlined text

#### Strikethrough

Applies a strikethrough on selected text. E.g. struck-through text

#### Superscript

Makes the selected text to appear as superscript. E.g.superscript text.

#### Subscript

Makes the selected text to appear as subscript. E.g. subscript text.

#### Fixed Width

Makes the text appear as fixed width. E.g. fixed width text.

#### Non Breaking

HTML breaks down multiple spaces to a single one. To mark non-breaking space use this option after selecting the space in the document. E.g. 3 nonbreaking spaces here.

#### Emphasis

Makes the text appear emphasized. E.g. emphasized text

#### Stronger Emphasis

Gives the selected text a stronger emphasis. E.g. strong emphasized text.

#### Citation

Defines the selected text as citation. E.g. Citation text

#### Abbreviation

Indicates the text is an abbreviated form. E.g. UN

#### Acronym

Defines the start of an acronym. E.g. WWW

#### Code

Defines the selected text as computer code text. E.g. `code text`

#### Sample Output

Defines the selected text as sample computer code. E.g. `sample code`

#### Variable

Defines the selcted text as a variable. E.g. variable

### Text Color...

Opens the color picker popup window to choose the color for selected text.

### Writing Direction

Gives the choice of writing the text as Left-to-Right or Right-to-Left. The slected text should be block-level and not inline text.

### Discontinuing Text Styles

Discontinues the application of any text styles being used from the current position of the cursor.

### Discontinue Link

Discontinues the text to be link text from current position of cursor.

### Remove Named Anchors

Removes the selected named anchor.

### Paragraph

Gives the option to tag the selected text as Body Text, Paragraph, Heading Level-1 to Level-6, Address, or preformatted text.

### List

Start a list with an option for various list types, namely, Bulleted, Numbered, Term or Definition. Choosing List Properties opens a dialog box to manually edit list properties.

### Increase Indent

Increases the indent of the selected block of text.

### Decrease Indent

Decreases the indent of the selected block of text.

### Align

Lets you select the alignment for the selected text. You can make the text to be center aligned, left aligned, right aligned or simply justified text.

### Positioning Grid

Opens a dialog box to set the resolution in pixels for moving a layer.

### Advanced Properties

Opens the "Advanced Property Editor" where you can manually edit/add HTML attributes, Inline Styles, or even Javascript events.

### Page Colors and Background...

Opens a window to select Page Colors and Background. Users can select the color of Normal text, Link text, and Active and Visited link text. You can also choose the background color for your web page and optionally attach a background image to the page too.

### Page Title and Properties...

Opens up the "Page Properties" window where you can add the Title, Author, and Description information for your web page. You can also specify the language and writing direction you will be using in the current web page document. To use this page as a template you can check the "This page is a template" check box.

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## Table

This menu enables you to create/edit tables in an HTML document.

### Insert

Opens a sub menu with choices for various table editing/creating options.

#### Table

Opens a dialog box to choose various properties of table to be inserted at the current location of the cursor. Users can choose the size of table by clicking on the shown table grid or choose precise table size. Other cell properties like cellspacing, cellpadding, etc can also be set.

#### Row Above

Inserts an empty row above the currently active table row.

#### Row Below

Inserts an empty row below the currently active table row.

#### Column Before

Inserts an empty column before the currently active table column.

#### Column After

Inserts an empty column after the currently active table column.

#### Cell Before

Inserts an empty cell before the currently active table cell.

#### Cell After

Inserts an empty cell after the currently active table cell.

### Select

Selects various components of the currently active table for editing.

#### Table

Select the whole table.

#### Row

Select the currently active row.

#### Column

Select the currently active column.

#### All Cells

Select all cells. This is different from selecting the whole table, as changes will be applied individually to all cells rather than the table.

### Delete

Opens submenu to delete various table components.

#### Table

Delete currently active table. User with caution, all table data will be lost.

#### Row(s)

Delete currently active row or selected rows of table.

#### Column(s)

Delete currently active column or selected columns of table.

#### Cell(s)

Delete currently active cell or selected cells of table.

#### Cell Contents

Delete contents of active cell.

### Join With Cell to the Right

Merge current table cell with the cell immediately to its right.

### Split Cell

Split a cell which has a `colspan` value of more than 1.

### Create Table from Selection

Creates a table from the selected text. A row is created for each paragraph of selected text. Column separations can be chosen to be either of comma (,), space ( ), or a user defined character.

### Table or Cell Background Color...

Opens a dialog box to edit table or cell background color.

### Table Properties...

Opens the table and cell properties editing window. You can change all table and cell properties using the simple GUI.

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## Tools

### Markup Cleaner

Opens the Markup Cleaner window. Markup cleaner tidies up the html code by removing extra <br> tags, empty blocks, etc.

### Validate HTML

Opens a window to show current document's validation results as given by W3C's HTML validator.

### CSS Editor

Opens CaScadeS the inbuilt CSS editor for editing CSS style rules.

### Extensions

Opens the Extension manager which can be used to install or remove installed extensions. Extensions adds new features to &brandShortName;.

### Themes

Opens the Theme Manager which can be used to install or uninstall themes for &brandShortName;.

### Web Development

Opens various tools packaged with &brandShortName; for web developers.

#### Javascript Console

Opens Javascript console window.

#### Java Console

Opens Java console window.

#### DOM Inspector

Opens the Document Object Model (DOM) Inspector.

#### Javascript Debugger

Opens the Javascript debugger Venkman for debugging javascript code in the document.

### Preferences

Opens the Preferences window to change personal preferences for &brandShortName;

## Help

### Help Contents

Opens the Help Viewer window.

### &brandShortName; Website

Opens &brandShortName;'s website in your default browser.

### FAQ

Opens &brandShortName;'s FAQ page in your default browser.

### Bug Reports and Suggestions

Opens &brandShortName;'s bug report and suggestions page in your default browser.

### Developer's Community

Opens &brandShortName;'s Developer's website in your default browser.

### Forums

Opens &brandShortName; Forums website in your default browser.

### Tip of the Day

Displays a small window with the Tip of the Day.

### About &brandShortName;

Displays a dialog box with information about &brandShortName;, including the current version and a brief list of credits.

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7 December 2004

Copyright © 2004-2005 Contributors to the Nvu Help Documentation Project.