Inserting text

Typing text

To add text to a document, just create or open it and start typing. Whatever you type appears in the document at the insertion point—the blinking vertical bar that moves when you type. You can move the insertion point by clicking the mouse or pressing the arrow keys on your keyboard. Note, however, that you cannot move the insertion point beyond the end of the content that exists in the document.

To start a new paragraph, press Enter. To break the line you are typing without starting a new paragraph, press Shift+Enter.

Namo Web Editor icon tip Inserting textYou can reverse the functions of the Enter and Shift+Enter keys, so that pressing Enter inserts a line break and Shift+Enter starts a new paragraph. In the Edit section of the Preferences dialog box (click the Namo button Namo Web Editor button namo Inserting text and click Preferences), select Enter key inserts line break instead of starting new paragraph.

Pasting text from another program

If the text you want to insert into a Web document already exists in another document—such as a word processing document or a plain text file—you can copy the text from the other program by selecting it and pressing Ctrl+C, and paste it into the Web document by pressing Ctrl+V.

Inserting a text file

You can also insert the entire contents of a text file into a Web document.

  1. Create or open the Web document in Namo WebEditor, if it is not already open.
  2. In My Computer or Windows Explorer, locate the text file whose contents you want to insert.
  3. Drag the text file into the document window in Namo WebEditor.
  4. In the menu that appears, click Open.
Using overwrite mode

Normally, when you type text at the beginning or in the middle of a line of existing text, the new text “pushes” the existing text out of the way. But you can also type “over” existing text, if you want. First, you need to unlock the Insert key:

  1. Click the Namo button Namo Web Editor button namo Inserting text and click Preferences, then go to the Edit section.
  2. Deselect the Lock Insert key check box and click OK.

Then, to enter overwrite mode, press the Insert key. To return to insert mode, press Insert again.

Inserting text