The View Menu
The menu is
The menu choices are grouped into the following groups:
- 1 Alternative views of the current document.
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These menu items allow the user to open multiple views of the same document.
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— The menu item opens up a new window with the current workbook visible. and where both windows are open to the same section of the workbook. If the user starts editing a different part of the sheet in one view, the other view moves automatically to that portion of the worksheet. Similarly, if the user changes to a different worksheet in one view, the other view changes also.
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— The menu item is used to freeze the top-most and leftmost visible portion of the worksheet. This is useful to be able to line up portions of the worksheet which are not usually together. For instance, if a user had a very large table with the titles of each column of data on row 12, the user could select row 13 and select this menu item. If the user scrolled through each data row, the data would line up underneath each header.
Gnumeric freezes the portion of the worksheet which is currently visible and is above and left of the current selection. If the selection is not visible, then the frozen section will be nine rows tall and five columns wide unless the selection is in a currently visible column or row in which case that position is used.
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— The menu item provides access to a sub-menu which lists all of the windows which are currently open. This provides an easy way to jump between all the different instances and views of Gnumeric documents.
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- 2 Changes to the current view.
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These menu items alter the display of the current view.
- — The menu item provides a submenu which lists each Gnumeric toolbar. The toolbars in this submenu which have a check mark in front of their name will be shown. The display status of each toolbar can be changed by selecting the menu item with that toolbar's name.
- — The menu item determines whether to display the status bar and information area at the bottom of each worksheets. Selecting the menu item toggles the check mark in front. When this menu item has the checkmark, Gnumeric will display the statusbar.
- — The menu item changes the display of gnumeric from a window based display to a display which occupies the whole screen. In full screen mode, the window borders will not be displayed nor will the toolbars. The key F11 toggles between full screen and regular display mode.
- — The menu item opens a dialog which allows the user to set the magnification of any of the worksheets in the current workbook.