# Step by Step Tutorial

This section is a step by step walk through of the most important functions needed to understand how to create and manipulate a complex document. This tutorial will generate the start of a newsletter as an example document.

It is recommend that you go through the tutorial in order at least once if you are new to frame based word processors.

## Tutorial: Choosing the initial template

The steps to this tutorial are numbered from 1 to 22. Beneath each step, is text in italics. This text will explain what the previous step in the tutorial accomplished.

When you first start &kword; (or start a new document after &kword; is running), a dialog appears.

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This dialog box is used to:

1. Select the initial template for your new document

2. Open a &kword; Document saved to your hard drive or network.

3. Start &kword; without any document started.

Step 1: Click on the Page Layout tab.

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This will list the Page Layout templates available on your system. For information on the differences between Page Layout and Text Oriented templates, see the section entitled The difference between Text Oriented and Page Layout templates.

Step 2: Now select the Simple Layout icon by clicking once with the left button of your mouse.

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This is the template we will use for the tutorial

Step 3: Now confirm your selection by clicking on OK

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To complete your selection

&kword; will open a new document with three frames. The frames are outlined on the white background, as gray boxes. Each box is a separate frame.

## Tutorial: Selecting a frame and entering text into that frame

To begin entering text (or adding any sort of data for that matter) into a document, its important to let &kword; know which frame to put the data in.

In order to keep both editing and formatting of your document efficient and simple, the command executed with a mouse click changes depending on where in the &kword; window the pointer is located.

When the pointer is located over toolbars, scrollbars, menu buttons or other areas outside the document, the pointer is an arrow. You should already be familiar with this type of pointer when using other &kde; programs.

When inside the document, there are two separate pointers which alternate automatically based on how close to a frame edge the pointer is currently located.

When the mouse pointer is near the edge of a frame, the pointer will change into two intersecting lines with arrows on all four points. Clicking the left mouse button now will select the nearest frame.

As you move the pointer away from the edge of the frame, the pointer will change into the text entry pointer. Clicking the left mouse button at this time will tell &kword; to insert text into this frame.

Step 4: Place the mouse pointer over the upper-left frame. Make sure you do not see the frame select pointer

Step 5: Click once with the left mouse button.

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This tells &kword; to insert text into this frame. A cursor appears in the upper left corner of the frame.

Step 6: Enter the following text into the keyboard: `KWord Press Release`.

This is some sample text for our newsletter.

Step 7: Select KWord Press Release by placing the mouse cursor on the right end of the text. Click once with the &LMB; and drag the mouse cursor to the left.. Selected text will be white text on dark background. When all the text has been selected, release the &LMB;.

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This defines what text is going to be altered with Step 8.

Step 8: Click inside the text size drop down box. Change this number to 26.

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This changes the size of the selected text to one more appropriate for a title.

## Tutorial: Changing the size of a frame

Now that we have entered some text, we can see that the frame should extend across the entire width of the page for a title. We need to change the size and shape of the frame.

Step 9: Place the mouse pointer over the frame border (you will notice the cursor changes to two intersecting lines with arrows), and click once with the &LMB;.

This will select this frame, so it can be re-shaped.

You will now notice the frame is outlined in black, with 8 dark squares on the outline. These squares are used for re-sizing the frame.

Step 10: Place the mouse pointer over the dark square in the lower right corner of the frame. Click with the left mouse button and hold it down. Drag the mouse up and to the right.

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Notice how the frame changes shape. Adjust the size and shape of the frame until it looks similar to the example below:

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When it does, release the mouse button.

## Tutorial: Moving a frame on the page

Now that we have created a title block, we will center it at the top of the page.

Step 11: Place the mouse pointer over the border of the frame (but not on any of the dark squares).

The pointer will now change to a 4 way arrow. This indicates &kword; is ready to move the frame on the page.

Step 12: Click and hold with the left mouse button. Drag the mouse, and the frame will follow it. Position the frame in the center of the page near the top. When you are satisfied with its final location, release the mouse button.

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## Tutorial: Adding a new frame/Making text flow between two frames

Now we will add a new text frame for our first story.

Step 13: Begin by selecting Insert Text Frame

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The pointer has changed to cross-hairs. You can draw your new text box with this cursor. Start by placing the pointer at one corner. Click and hold the left mouse button. Drag the mouse diagonally. An outline will appear which represents your new text frame. When you have a text frame of reasonable size, release the left mouse button.

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It is not important if your text box does not resemble the example for the purposes of this tutorial.

When you release the left mouse button, a new dialog box appears.

This dialog box lists all the current frame sets. The default value is highlighted. By selecting the default value, you will create a new frame set (text will not flow from any other frame into this frame)

Notice that the default name for this frameset is Text Frameset 3

Step 14: For the purposes of this tutorial, the default value of Create new frameset with this frame is good. Simply select OK.

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Now you can see your new frame has been created. It is called Text Frameset 3

Now we are going to create another small frame right next to this one.

Step 15: Select Insert Text Frame

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Again using the crosshair pointer, draw another small frame near the first one.

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A dialog box will appear.

Step 16: Select Text Frameset 3 using your mouse.

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Step 17: Select OK.

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What you have just done, is connect this new textframe, to the last frame you created. To test this:

Step 18: Click once inside the new frame with the &LMB;.

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Notice that your cursor immediately jumps to the frame to the left. That is because the left frame is the first frame in the current frameset.

Step 19: Begin typing. You will need to type quite a bit, but keep typing. When you run out of space in the text frame, you will see your new text is moved immediately into your new text frame.

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## Tutorial: Deleting a frame

Now we will delete an unneeded frame. (Yes, we just created a new frame, but &kword; will forgive an indecisive user.). We will delete the long text frame on the right side of the page.

Step 20: Place the mouse pointer over the frame border of the right hand text frame (Remember: watch for the pointer to change), and click with the &LMB;.

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This selects the frame.

Step 21: Select Frames Delete Frame

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A small dialog box appears, checking you really intended to delete this frame.

Step 22: Select Delete.

This deletes the frame.

## Tutorial: Summary

Hopefully this tutorial has introduced you to the most basic tasks in &kword;.

At this point, you have :

- Added text to a frame.

- Resized text.

- Created, moved, resized and deleted frames.

The purpose of this tutorial was not to explore every aspect of &kword;, but to introduce you to the bare essentials. Hopefully you understand the basic manipulation of frames. From this point, you can refer to the specific sections of the manual for help, tips and advanced features of &kword;.