Word Documents
This article provides helpful tips and tricks for working with Microsoft Word documents, from creating documents to editing and formatting.
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You can create, view and edit Word documents on Supernote. In this article, you'll learn how to make the best use of Word documents.
Create a Word document
- Tap Files in the sidebar menu.
- Select a folder where you want to create a Word document.
- In the top right corner of the screen, tap
.
Pen mode
- Enter or exit pen mode
- Open a Word document.
-
Tap
to enter or exit pen mode.
- Handwrite in pen mode
- Rest your hand on the screen and start writing content freely.
- Double tap the screen with one finger to convert handwriting to typed text.
Browse mode
- Enter or exit browse mode
- Open a Word document.
- Tap the page number area in the top-right corner to enter or exit browse mode.
- Navigate pages in browse mode
- Tap the left/right arrow in the page number area to go to the previous/next page.
- Or you can tap on a page in the thumbnail pane to quickly jump to it.
- You can also swipe up/down on the screen with one finger to go to the next/previous page.
Keyboard mode
- Enter or exit keyboard mode
- Open a Word document.
- Single-tap the screen with one finger or your pen to enter or exit keyboard mode. If you are currently in pen mode, tap
to exit out of pen mode first.
- Handwriting input on the keyboard
- Go to Settings > Display & Input > Keyboard.
- Tap anywhere on the Handwriting line.
- Tap the circle to the far right of the handwriting recognition languange you want to use.
- Add new language keyboards
- Go to Settings > Display & Input > Keyboard.
- Tap anywhere on the Add Keyboard line.
-
Tap
to the far right of the language you want to add as a new language keyboard. the
Add a new page
- Single-tap anywhere on the screen with one finger to activate the keyboard. (Make sure you are currently not in pen mode.)
- Press the Enter key on the keyboard until the cursor is at the end of a page.
- Keep pressing the Enter key to add a new page.
Pinch to zoom
- Place two fingers on the screen.
- Move them apart to zoom in.
- Move them together to zoom out.
Reflow view
The reflow view allows you to rearrange text layout with one tap.
When content on the screen is zoomed in to the degree where some of it becomes hidden, the reflow view can come in handy, saving you from scrolling in more than one direction.
To enable the reflow view, simply tap on the toolbar.
Edit text using the keyboard
- Open a Word document.
- Single-tap anywhere on the screen with one finger or your pen to pen the keyboard. (Make sure you are currently not in the pen mode.)
- Place the cursor where you want to edit text.
- Use the keyboard to revise, add and delete text in the document.
- Tap
on the toolbar to save the changes.
Edit text using proofreaders' marks
Proofreaders' Marks | |
Mark | WHAT IT MEANS |
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Delete |
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Line break (drawn from top to bottom) |
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Transpose |
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Insert content |
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Cancel insert |
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Insert a space |
- Delete
- Tap
.
- Draw a horizontal line across the letter, word, sentence or space you want to delete.
- Line break
- Tap
.
- Draw a vertical line from top to bottom in the area where you want to insert a line break.
- Transpose
- Tap
.
- Draw
to transpose two letters, words or phrases.
- Insert content using a V-shaped mark
- Tap
.
- Draw a V-shaped mark
between two letters, words or phrases to insert content, such as letters, punctuation marks.
- Handwrite content you want to insert.
- Double tap the screen with one finger to have it converted to text and inserted.
Note: To cancel the insert action, draw a horizontal line across the V-shaped mark .
- Insert content by handwriting
- Tap
.
- In the empty space at the end of a sentence, simply handwrite content you want to insert without the need to draw the V-shaped mark.
- Alternatively, you can start a new line in the blank space and handwrite what you want to insert.
- Double tap the screen with one finger to have it converted to text and inserted.
- Insert spaces using an inverted triangle mark
- Tap
.
- Draw an inverted triangle mark
between two letters or words.
- Insert spaces using a V-shaped mark
- Tap
.
- Draw a V-shaped mark
between two letters or words.
- Single-tap the V-shaped mark or double-tap the screen with one finger to have it recognized and inserted as a space.