Ovation DTP
Manual and User Guide
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- Introduction to DTP
- Before You Start
- General Principles>
- Getting Started
- Opening a new document
- The document window
- Page guidelines
- Principal Text Frame
- The caret
- The main menu
- Ovation tools
- The pointer
- Entering and editing text
- Inserting pages
- Caret movement
- Delete facilities
- Delete facilities
- Other useful keypresses
- Importing text
- Changing the view
- Marking text
- Deleting marked text
- Copying marked text
- Moving marked text
- Saving your work
- Printing your document
- Closing documents and quitting Ovation
- Opening a new document
- Working with Text Frames
- Working with picture frames
- >Working with Lines
- Ovation Styles
- Local styles
- Choosing multiple styles
- Current style
- Changing font
- Changing size
- Changing style effects
- Joining paragraphs
- Paragraph styles
- BodyText style
- Defining a new paragraph style
- Assigning paragraph styles
- Joining paragraphs
- Copying text to another document
- Stylesheets
- Merging stylesheets
- Customised startup
- Local styles
- >Using Master Pages
- Ovation Menus
- Menu Options
- Keyboard equivalents
- Using dialogue boxes
- Icon Bar Menu
- Info
- New Document
- Paper Size
- Margins
- Double Sided
- Orientation
- Guidelines
- Quit
- Ovation Main Menu
- The File Menu
- Save
- Save as
- Auto Save
- Save as Text
- Save Marked Text/Save Picture
- Save Stylesheet
- Revert to Saved
- Print
- Print Dialogue Box Options
- Print Setup
- Portrait
- X Scale/Y Scale
- Corner X
- File Info
- The Edit Menu
- Select All
- Delete Text/Delete Picture
- Cut Text/Cut Picture
- Copy Text/Copy Picture
- Paste Text/Paste Picture
- Show Clipboard
- Find/Replace
- Find
- Replace/Find
- Replace
- Undo
- Global Replace
- Count
- Cancel
- Find/Replace Options
- Whole Word
- Ignore Case
- Find From Start
- Wildcards
- Menu Options
- The View Menu
- The Para. Style Menu
- The Font Menu
- The Size Menu
- The Style Menu
- The Format Menu
- Copying Paragraph Format
- Left
- Centre
- Right
- Justify
- Single Space
- Double Space
- Leading
- Absolute Leading
- Relative Leading
- Incremental Leading
- Negative Leading
- Space Before
- Space After
- Tabs/Indents
- Setting Tabs
- Left Tab
- Centre Tab
- Right Tab
- Decimal Tab
- Left Indent
- Right Indent
- 1st Line Indent
- Word Wrap
- Hyphenation
- Discretionary hyphens
- Copying Paragraph Format
- The Object Menu
- Modify Text Frame
- Origin X/Origin Y
- Width/Height
- Inset
- Outset
- Background Colour
- Transparent
- Modify Picture Frame
- X Scale/Y Scale
- Inset
- Transparent frame colour
- Modify Line
- Origin X/Origin Y
- Endpoint X/Endpoint Y
- Style
- Endcaps
- Line Colour
- Thickness
- Frame Border
- Border Styles
- Size
- Border Colour
- Use Sprite Colours
- Designing new borders
- Delete Text Frame
- Cut Text Frame
- Copy Text Frame
- Paste Text Frame
- Duplicate Frame
- Number of Times
- Vertical Offset
- Horizontal Offset
- Scale to Fit
- Fill Pict Frame
- Send Behind
- Bring Forward
- Snap to Guides
- Modify Text Frame
- The Page Menu
- The Spell Menu
- Complex Document Design
- Printing from Ovation
- Problem Solving
- A. More about Fonts
- B. Keyboard Equivalents
- D. Date and Time Format
- E. Glossary
Last Edit: Thu,02 Apr 2026