General Tools: Insert

The Insert toolbar contains elements that can be inserted into a document.

These elements are divided into the following categories.

Expanded Pages

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Page Break

Inserts a page break at the carriage position.
A page break cannot occur within tables, lists, or document headers and footers.

Expanded Tables

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Table

Inserts a table with a specified number of rows and columns at the carriage position.
To customize the table layout, use the commands available in the Table Tools: Design and Table Tools: Layout tabs.

Expanded Illustrations

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Inline Picture

Inserts an inline picture at the carriage position. In a document, the inline picture behaves like an ordinary text symbol.

Picture

Inserts a picture into a document. You can adjust the picture's outline, wrap text, position, and order using commands from the Picture Tools: Format tab.

Expanded Toolbox

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Bar Code

Inserts a bar code at the carriage position.
After adding a bar code, specify its symbology, data binding and other options using the Properties command in the Data Tools: Field tab.

Check Box

Inserts a check box at the carriage position (e.g., to display Boolean values from a data source).
To customize the check box state or bind it to external data, use the Properties command in the Data Tools: Field tab.

Chart

Inserts a chart at the carriage position.

Sparkline

Inserts a sparkline at the carriage position.

Row Index

Inserts a row index at the carriage position.

Expanded Links

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Bookmark

Invokes the Bookmark dialog to add a new bookmark at the carriage position, or navigate to an existing bookmark.

Hyperlink

Invokes the Insert Hyperlink dialog to create a hyperlink and specify its text, screen tip and destination.
A hyperlink's destination may be a web page, file, or specific position within a document.

Expanded Header & Footer

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Header

Allows editing the page header. In a published document, the content added to the header will appear at the top of each page.

To quickly switch to this mode, double-click the page header area.
To quit page header editing, press ESC, double click the document area, or click Close Header and Footer on the Header & Footer tab.

To make the first page header display unique content, or make odd- and even-numbered pages carry different headers, use the options available on the Header and Footer Tools: Design tab.

Footer

Activates the page footer edit mode. In a published document, the content added to the footer will appear at the bottom of each page.

To quickly switch to this mode, double-click the page footer area.
To quit page footer editing, press ESC, double click the document area, or click Close Header and Footer on the Header & Footer tab.

To make the first page footer display unique content, or make odd- and even-numbered pages carry different footers, use the options available on the Header and Footer Tools: Design tab.

Page Number

Inserts the number of the current page at the carriage position.
The page statistics can only be added to a page header or footer.

Page Count

Inserts the total page count at the carriage position.
The page statistics can only be added to a page header or footer.

Expanded Text

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Text Box

Inserts a text box into a document.
A text box is a floating container that is capable of displaying virtually any kind of content (including the most elaborate lists), posing no restrictions on its size and location within a document.

Expanded Symbols

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Symbol

Invokes the Symbol dialog, to insert characters that are not available on the keyboard.