Psion Teklogix 32M/64M, netBook manual Special characters, Line spacing, Paragraph borders

Special characters

You can insert foreign and other special characters in your file by selecting the Special character command from the Insert menu.

You can also insert non-printing characters which control word wrapping on the screen and in the printed document:

∙For a non-breaking space, press Shift and the Spacebar. This will prevent a line breaking at the space.

∙For a non-breaking hyphen or “hard hyphen”, press Ctrl with the - key. This will prevent a line breaking at the hyphen.

You can use the View preferences command on the Tools menu to select which non-printing characters are displayed on screen.

Line spacing

When you select a particular font size, Word automatically uses an appropriate line spacing to make sure that there will always be a gap between successive lines of text. You might sometimes wish to override these settings, e.g. in a paragraph with different sizes of text.

∙To set line spacing: select the command from the Paragraph menu and enter a point size. Set the spacing to ‘At least’ to ensure that lines of text never overlap, but will move further apart to accommodate any larger text appearing on the same line, or ‘Exactly’ to ensure that lines of text are always the same distance apart, even if larger text appears on the same line.

∙To insert extra blank space between paragraphs, enter point sizes for the ‘Space above’ and ‘Space below’.

Note: The other lines in this dialog affect where page breaks occur when the file is printed. See ‘How the page looks’ later.

Paragraph borders

You can draw a border around a paragraph. You can also change the background colour of a paragraph.

∙To draw a border: select the paragraph(s) then tap and select from the range of options. Or, use the command on the Paragraph menu to apply the borders and set the style and colour for each “side” of the border (i.e. Left, Right, Top or Bottom) and how far you want the border to be from the text. You can also set a background colour.

∙Remember to set different background and text colours, otherwise the text will be invisible.

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