Insert Menu

This menu allows you to insert various kinds of entity into your document.

Break...

This command opens the Break dialog, which allows you to insert page, column, and section breaks.

Page Numbers...

This command opens the Page Numbers dialog, allowing you to insert automatically calculated page numbers into your document's header or footer.

Date and Time...

This opens the Date and Time dialog, which allows you to insert fields showing the current date and time into your document.

Field...

The Field dialog allows you to insert any field defined in AbiWord into your document. Fields are entities which automatically update their values.

Text Box

This inserts a floating, resizeable box for text.

Mail Merge Field...

Opens the Insert Mail Merge Field dialog.

Symbol...

This command opens the Insert Symbol dialog, which enables you to insert non-standard symbols from various character sets into your document.

Autotext

The Autotext sub-menu gives access to various kinds of text which can be inserted into your document. Each of the commands on the sub-menu has its own sub-menu. The text listed for each command on the lowest-level menus is inserted into the document when you select that command.

For example, if you select Autotext > Reference: > In reply to:, the text 'In reply to:' is inserted into your document at the insertion point.

Insert Header

This command inserts a header in your document, and puts the insertion point in the header. The header is an amount of text placed on every page of a document, in the top margin. You can edit it in exactly the same way as any other text.

To return to the main text, click within it to move the insertion point. Clicking within the header will move the insertion point back there.

This command is not available if your document already has a header, as a document can only have one header. However, see the Format Header/Footers dialog for information on how you can have different headers and footers on different pages.

Insert Footer

This command inserts a footer into your document, and places the insertion point in it. The footer is the equivalent of the header, but in the bottom margin.

This command is not available if your document already has a footer.

Insert File...

Inserts the contents of a file into the open document. This command opens the Insert File dialog, which works the same as the normal Open File dialog.

Bookmark...

Opens the Insert Bookmark dialog, which allows you to insert a named, invisible marker into your document. You can create hyperlinks to bookmarks, and go to them from the Go To dialog.

Hyperlink...

Opens the Insert Hyperlink dialog. If you click on a hyperlink, you are taken to either another part of the document, or to another document or website. Hyperlinks are displayed in blue, underlined text.

This inserts a Table of Contents section into your document.

Footnote

Inserts a footnote into the document at the insertion point.

Endnote

Inserts an endnote into the document at the insertion point.

Picture...

This command opens an 'Insert Picture' dialog, which works like an Open dialog. You can open any png or bmp files you have, and insert them in your document at the insertion point. You may be able to open other image formats, depending on your operating system and the plug-ins you have installed.

Direction Markers

This sub-menu allows you to insert Unicode direction markers LRM and RLM to control ordering of text. Please see the howto dealing with bidirectional issues.