The insert menu allows you to insert pictures, calculated fields and other special formatting into your document. It has the following options:

Menu Name    Menu Purpose

Break    This allows you to insert different kinds of breaks into the document. For example, Page Break's, which cause the text to start on the next (new) page. Section breaks allow you to have different sections to your document with different kinds of paragraph formatting. Column breaks allow you to go immediately to the next coloumn; this can be used when writing a document with more than one column of text on a page.

Page Numbers    If you choose this option, a special "field" will be inserted at the cursor point into your document that displays the current page number. This is most often used to insert page numbers into your header or footer. You do not then need to keep track of what page your are typing on since the field automatically displays whatever page it exists on.

Date and Time    This is another kind of calculated field. If you select this option the current date and time will be inserted into your document. This will be updated each time the document is opened on a different day. This is particularly useful when you want to know when a document is printed. If you insert one of these fields into the document, you wil always know how old a copy of a document is, since it will have on it, the date that it was printed out.

Field    Choosing this command allows you to insert a field into your document. A field is a section of text that is automatically updated by the computer. For instance the date/time field is the most commonly used field. The computer updates this each time the document is opened, so for example, if you print out the document it will always have the date and time that it was printed on the document. Hence you can see immediately how out of date the document is.

Symbol    This command allows you to insert special symbols into your document. Examples of special symbols includes mathematical symbols such as p or the various greek characters used extensively in the mathematical domain.

Autotext    This feature allows you to insert predefined sections of text into your document without the need to type them out fully.

Insert File    This allows you to insert the entire contents of a file into your document at the cursor location.

Bookmark    This allows you to insert a "Bookmark" into your document. Once you have inserted a bookmark into your document you can insert links to that point in the document from any other point in any other document.

Hyperlink    This command will insert a hyperlink into your document. Hyperlinks allow you to jump directly to a defined bookmark in a document, in the same way that you can jump to different points on the World Wide Web using internet links.

Picture    This command will allow you to insert a picture into your document.