First of all I do apologize for getting back so late
as I been editing movie on imovie / idvd. The
problem is when I am drawing and then need to text
inside the drawing it just do not let me, every time
i click the text tool it comes up with the cell tool.
Still working on more clarity. When you click on the Text tool button ("A" at the top left of the Tools palette) is that button then highlighted (button's background changes from white to grey)? Is a different button highlighted?
There is no "cell tool". Do you perhaps mean the "Spreadsheet tool", which is to the right of the Text tool, at the top of the Tools palette. This tool's cursor is a outline cross (plus sign) with a dot in the center. Or you could have the Table tool, whose cursor is a 3x3 cell grid.
I see two possibilities here—that your click is slightly to the right of where you're aiming, and you're actually clicking the Spreadsheet Tool button (or the Table tool button), or that there is some sort of corruption in AppleWorks's preferences files, and they need to be deleted. The second is a general troubleshooting task, and more details on the questions above would give a better idea whether it's an appropriate one in this case.
secondly when i am doing a calendar from the template
and I make a text box i am unable hit return without
every other text moving.
This is the Calendar Template in Starting Points that opens with the 31 day calendar for the month of April? That in itself should give a pretty good idea of just how useful this template is. 🙂
The calendar portion of the template is a seven column by six row Table. The first row of cells contains the days of the week, the rest contain the dates. The cells containing dates have their Vertical alignment (in the Table menu)set to the Top of the cell. Date cells containing a date have a single line of text (the date number), which is aligned to the right edge of the cell.
You can realign all or some of the text in these cells, although it's not immediately apparent how this is done. More below.
Table cells hold their horizontal size unless you intentionally change it, but will automatically adjust their vertical size to accomodate extra text as you enter it into the cell. If the font and size are not changed, the cells in the calendar have room for five rows of text (including the date number) without forcing this automatic resizing.
Here are some things to try to demonstrate the behaviour of Tables in this document.
•Go to Starting Points > Templates, and click on the Calendar.
•In the calendar, click immediately to the right of the 7 in the second row of dates. As you are in Draw mode (Arrow cursor), this will select the frame/Table containing the 7, and you will see small black squares (Handles) at each corner of the calendar.
•Click a second time at the same location. This time your click will switch you to Text mode, and you will see an Insertion Point ( | ) either snug against the right side of the 7 or snug againstr the left side of the 8, depending how close you were to the 7 when you clicked.
•Release the mouse button and move the mouse slowly to the right until the cursor changes to a pair of vertical lines with outward pointing arrows at their centers. With that cursor showing, click to select one of the cell boundaries. It will show as a dashed line.
•Press command-A (hold down the command (apple) key, and press the A key) to select All of the cell boundaries.
•With all the cell boundaries selected, click on the Pen formatting button (just above the T at the bottom of the Tools) to select it, then choose one of the bright greens fom the Color palette to the right of this button.
The above steps make the Table's cell boundaries visible for the rest of the demonstration.
•Click outside the calendar to deselect the lnes and show their new colour.
•Click (probably two separate clicks, as above) between the 7 and the cell boundary to its right to switch to Text mode and place the insetion point after the 7.
•Press Return once. The insertion point will move down one line.
•Type "This " (without the quotation marks). Notice that the insertion point stays at the right edge of the cell, and the front of the word moves to the left.
•Go to the Format menu and choose Paragraph... Find the Alignment: popup in the dialogue, and change it from "Right" to "Left," then click OK. The first "paragraph" in the cell (ie. the number 7) will stay aligned to the right side of the cell; the second (which currently contains only the word "This") will move to the left.
•Continue typing this short sentence into the cell: "This is some sample text in day seven." As you are typing the word "seven", the sentence will become too long to fit in the existing cell, and the cell, along with the rest of the cells in that line, will be automatically extended downward to accomodate the extra line. This is what's happening when you press return (more than 4 times) in a cell.
thirdly, when I insert a
clipart it is to large and I have a hard time
adjusting.
Clipart from the Clippings collection supplied with AppleWorks enters at its default size. Bitmapped graphics (such as JPEG) enter at a rsolution of 72 dots per inch, which can make them rather huge. You can resize these in three different ways:
1. Select the clipping, then drag one of the Handles to resize. Hint: Before resizing, draw a diagonal line that passes through and extends beyond the diagonally opposite corner handles of the clipping. (This will probably take a bit of guess and check before it's right.) Resize by grabbing one of the handles that is on the line, and dragging it aloong the line toward r away from the other handle on the line. As long as both handles are on the line, the proportions of the clipping will remain the same. Delete the line when done.
2. Select the clipping, then use Arrange > Scale by percent.
3. Select the clipping, then use Options > Object Size.
Regards,
Barry
