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Chapter 5 : Editing a Project
bars for moving within the section. These areas of the Document panel are described in
detail in Chapter 3.
NOTE: For faster editing, on the Document menu, point to Check Out | Check In, and
then choose Check Out Document. A copy of the section will be copied to a
temporary location on your local drive and links to other sections will be
suspended, speeding up the editing process. When you are finished editing, you
check the section back in. See Chapter 9 for details.
The section content portion of the Document panel is where the specification text appears.
Each paragraph is one field in a database record, sequentially numbered as shown in the
sequence number status column (#) to the left of the text.
Document panel
The text is organized in hierarchical, or “outline” form, with the hierarchy for each paragraph
displayed on the die icon in the paragraph level status column (LVL). Relative hierarchy is
also indicated by the amount of indentation from the left margin. As you select text, the
default style for that level is applied automatically. This includes the appropriate paragraph
numbering, provided that Auto Numbering is toggled on (View menu…Display Layout, or
View toolbar).
The status of each paragraph is displayed, indicating whether it prints in the final document
or not. Selected, active text is indicated by a change in the color of the text and in the
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