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Visualization tools

1 Hiding the outline

  • You can hide the outline by clicking on the arrow on the top of the screen (Tool tip = “Close outline”). 

Close outline option to hide left pane navigation.

2 Tools tab

  • The TOOLS tab offers different ways of viewing your document:

Options within the OSD tool tab on the OSD ribbon interface.

Menu item

Description

Whitespace

Visualize spaces as dots

Wide balloons

Make the commenting section wider to focus on comments

Wide canvas

Make the editor wider to focus on the document

Zoom

Increase/decrease the zoom for the editor pane

Quality check

Activate/deactivate the spell checker (off by default)

Manage comments

Access to the manage comments dashboard (permissions dependent).

Other actions

Access to other features available (depends on stage, permissions, etc.)


3 Wide screen mode

The wide screen mode in the TOOLS tab will enable you to visualize your document without clause breaks. This helps give you a better impression of what your document will look like.

Wide screen mode.

4 Commenting mode

Commenting mode is enabled by default for contributors. Leaders and Authors can switch between default view/edit mode and commenting mode.

The commenting mode has limited features:

  • Document available in read only mode

  • Wide screen view mode activated by default

  • Simplified navigation panel:

Comment mode.

5 Keyboard shortcuts

Keyboard shortcuts are available, to view those available please click on the small logo at the bottom right of the screen as follows:

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A pop window will appear to display the keyboard shortcuts available as follows:

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6 Customizing interface localization

To set a locale for your user interface to translate labels and other tool components:

  • Click the document title or project code in the interface’s header

  • Select Preferences menu

  • Change Editor locale language for translation:

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