Edit Linked Documents

To develop the contents of a linked document, you use the Linked Document Editor. This provides a frame for working on the document, using a wide range of convenient features from the Document Edit Ribbon. These features help you in formatting and editing the document, and adding links from and references to the content of the document. Some editor facilities are duplicated in a right-click context menu for convenience.

Access

Select an element in the Project Browser, Diagram List, Package Browser, Specification Manager, Model Search or diagram, then use any of the methods outlined here to open the Linked Document.

Ribbon	Show > Portals > Window > Properties > Document Start > Explore > Properties > Linked Document Design > Element > Edit > Edit Linked Document
Context Menu	Right-click \| (Edit) Linked Document
Keyboard Shortcuts	Ctrl+Alt+D
Other	From the Notes window or from the 'Notes' field of the element 'Properties' dialog, click on the icon on the Notes toolbar.

Option Descriptions

The Linked Document Editor option descriptions are grouped according to the actions you are performing.

Action	See also
Creating and importing documents	File Control
Configuring the editor page display and formatting tools shown	Editor Tool Display Options
Incorporating stylesheets, special texts and Tables of Contents Managing the base styles in the Normal.rtf style template file	Styles, Special Texts & Table of Contents The Normal.rtf Style Template
Moving through, searching and selecting text	Scroll, Search and Select Text
Formatting characters and text strings	Format Text
Formatting paragraphs and text blocks	Format Paragraphs
Inserting tab points	Set Tabs
Inserting sections, columns and page breaks, and repaginating	Define Document Sections Manage Page Breaks
Inserting and editing page headers and footers, and footnotes and endnotes	Insert Headers, Footers, Footnotes and Endnotes
Inserting tables	Create Tables
Inserting hyperlinks	Hyperlink From Linked Document Create Element From Document Insert Reference Links
Inserting images, OLE objects, frames and drawing objects	Insert Images, Objects and Frames
Printer setup and printing documents	Print Report Documents
Checking spelling and use of words	Checking Text
Tracking, accepting and rejecting changes to text	Track Changes
Protecting document text from accidental change	Protect Document Contents
Create and refer to definitions of Glossary terms in the Project Glossary (using the 'Create \| Glossary Definition' menu option)	Project Glossary View

Notes

Throughout your document editing:
     - To undo one or more immediately previous edits, press Ctrl+Z, or select the 'Undo' context menu
         option; you can still undo a change even after you have saved the change
     - To redo one or more immediately previous undone edits, press Ctrl+Y, or select the 'Redo'
        context menu option