Home Ribbon in Advanced Edit Mode

Go to Edit > Convert > Convert to editable (or Advanced Editor) to turn on Advanced Edit mode, which offers different ribbons to support document editing rather than reviewing.

(For details on editing text in review mode see Editing Text with the Edit Text Tool.)

 

The Home ribbon in Advanced Mode consists of the following groups:

 

Text group

 

Provides basic controls for font, color, and alignment settings of the selected text, offers all commands of the Font Group, and adds the following:

  • Grow Font    Increases text size.
  • Shrink Font    Decreases text size.
  • Edit Font    Displays the Font dialog with controls for font, effects and character spacing.
  • Styles    Displays the Styles panel with default styles. Select All styles in the Show list at the bottom of the panel to display all available styles.
  • Text Highlight Color    Represents the highlight color of the text selection. Click the arrow to drop down the color palette with theme colors and standard colors. Select a color, or click More Colors to open the Colors dialog box featuring advanced palettes and a color picker..
  • Bullets    Turns the current paragraph bulleted.
  • Numbering    Turns the current paragraph numbered.
  • Multilevel List    Displays the Bullets / Numbering dialog, which offers templates for bulleted, numbered and multilevel lists and an editor to define new multilevel list templates.
  • Decrease Indent    Decreases paragraph indent.
  • Increase Indent    Increases paragraph indent.

 

Paragraph group

 

Provides controls for alignment settings of the selected paragraph(s).

  • Paragraph    Displays the Paragraph dialog box with the following controls:
    • Alignment    Select from Left, Right, Centered, Justified or Distributed.
    • Outline level    Select Body text or any numbered level to define the horizontal position of the paragraph in the multilevel list structure.
    • Left    Specify the left indent in the current measurement unit.
    • Right    Specify the right indent in the current measurement unit.
    • Special    Select the indentation style (None, First line, Hanging).
    • Value    Specify the degree of indentation regarding Special (see above) in the current measurement unit.
    • Before    Specify spacing before paragraph in the current measurement unit.
    • After    Specify spacing after paragraph in the current measurement unit.
    • Line Spacing    Select line spacing from the list of predefined values.
    • Value    Specify a rate to apply to line spacing. For example, 1.2 results in a line spacing 20% above the default.
    • Snap to grid when document grid is defined    Clear this to ignore document grid.
    • Text alignment    Select vertical alignment.
    • Tabs    Click Tabs to display the Tabs dialog box and define tab positions and alignments.
  • Alignment    Click the arrow, then select from Left, Right, Centered, or Justified.
  • Line Spacing    Click the arrow, then select line spacing from the list of predefined values.
  • Distribution    Click to distribute the characters horizontally from margin to margin, counting with indentation.
  • Borders and Shading    Click to display the Borders and Shading dialog box.

 

Guides group

  • Alignment    Click the arrow to drop down grid and guide options:
    • Ruler    Show or hide horizontal and vertical ruler bars around the Document Panel.
    • Alignment    Show or hide character baselines.
    • View Grid    Show or hide grid.
    • Snap to Grid    Select to force objects to stick with the grid.

Page Layout group

  • Columns    Click the arrow, then select the number of columns, or select More Columns to show the Columns dialog box and specify custom widths and spacings.
  • Paper Size    Click the arrow, then select from a list of typical paper sizes, or select More Paper Sizes to show the Page Setup dialog box and specify page width and height.
  • Text Direction    Click the arrow, then select from a list of most common text directions, or select Text Direction Options to show the Text Direction dialog box with preview.

Search group

 

This group has a single Find & Replace button, click to display the Find and Replace dialog box.

 

Close

 

This group has a single Close Advanced Editor button, click to return to review mode. A confirmation dialog box appears with an option to finalize the content.