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INTRODUCTION
Below you'll find the most frequently used NetObjects Fusion mouse and keyboard shortcuts, as well as tips for accessing some lesser-known features.
LAUNCHING SITE VIEW
To open your most-recently edited site in Site view instead of Page view, hold down the Control key while you launch NetObjects Fusion.
WORKING IN SITE VIEW
You can immediately open a page in Page view by double-clicking a page icon.
Press Enter to turn edit mode on and off for the page name of the selected page.
To add a page, select the page you want to be the parent of the new page, then click the New Page button in the control bar, press the Insert key, or choose New Page from the Edit menu.
To delete a page, select it, then press the Del key.
A page icon is shaded with diagonal lines when its page is an external HTML page. This means you cannot edit it in Page view. However, if you switch to Page view and double-click the grey area that covers the page, NetObjects Fusion launches the HTML editor you have specified in the Preferences dialog and loads it with the external HTML file for convenient editing.
MINIMIZING TOOL AND PROPERTY PALETTES
Double-click the title bar of the tool or properties palette to reduce the palette to its title bar. Double-click the title bar again to restore the palette to its full size.
WORKING IN PAGE VIEW
Use the buttons at the lower left corner to move from page to page. You can move up, down, left, or right within your site without leaving the Page view.
Use the Last button in the main tool bar to switch between the current and previous view or page.
In the Spelling dialog, you can replace a misspelled word with a suggestion by double-clicking the suggestion.
When drawing a line, to constrain the line to vertical or horizontal, hold down the Shift key while dragging.
SELECTING ELEMENTS IN PAGE VIEW
To select multiple elements, drag a selection box around them, or hold down the Shift key while you click them one at a time.
You can deselect one element at a time by holding down the Shift key while you click the element.
To select all elements in the MasterBorder or Layout area, click in the area, then press Ctrl-A.
WORKING WITH PICTURES IN PAGE VIEW
To change the size of a bounding box, drag one of its handles. This does not affect the size of the image, which you determine in your image-editing application when you create the image file.
To crop the lower right portion of a picture, select the picture you want to crop, then drag the lower-right bounding box handle until you see only the portion of the image you want to display.
To return a bounding box to the picture's original size, select the picture, then choose Size to Image from the Page menu.
To copy a picture, hold down the Control (Ctrl) key while you drag the picture to a new location. The original will remain in place.
To change an image, double-click on it to display the Image File Open dialog.
When using the Image File Open dialog, the path appears in the File Path field of the Image Assets tab. Use the right-arrow key to scroll and view the whole path and name. You can do the same in the File field of the Picture properties tab.
WORKING WITH TEXT IN PAGE VIEW
Use these methods to select text and paragraphs:
Drag to select specific characters.
Double-click to select a word.
Triple-click to select a paragraph.
To select a block of text, click the first word, then Shift-click the last word.•To select multiple paragraphs, drag through them.
To end a paragraph, press Enter. NetObjects Fusion automatically inserts a double space before the next paragraph. When you apply a paragraph style, it affects all characters between Enter keystrokes.
To force a line break within a paragraph, press Shift-Enter. The characters after Shift-Enter will have the same paragraph style as those before.
CREATING EXTERNAL LINKS
When you're using the External tab in the Link dialog to create a link that requires no protocol such as http://, you can clear the URL field and it will remain blank. The drop-down list makes it easy to choose a protocol, but you don't have to use one.
PREVIEWING, STAGING, AND PUBLISHING
To quickly preview just the page you are working on, hold down the Control key while clicking Preview.
When staging or publishing your site, if your Web server is not responding, hold down the Control key while clicking the Stage button. This starts the FTP client application that is built into NetObjects Fusion without re-generating all the HTML and assets.
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