Format in the Editing view

The toolbar

From left to right: undo and redo, the paragraph style, the font, the size (with − and +), bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, colour, highlight, link, lists, indents, alignment, line spacing, image and footnote.

Style, font and size always show those of the text under the cursor: you know where you stand without opening a menu.

Styles

A style gives the paragraph the look the document defines: Format › Paragraph style, or the list in the toolbar. Normal text (⌥⌘0), Document title, Heading 1 to Heading 6 (⌥⌘1 to ⌥⌘6), Quote, Code block.

Headings also build the document outline (View › Document outline) and the PDF bookmarks. To change the look of the whole document at once: Format › Templates (.dotx).

Font and size

Format › Font and Format › Size, or the toolbar. They are kept in the Word file, in Markdown and in the PDF.

If one of the document’s fonts is not installed, Paginel uses a free one with the same metrics: Calibri becomes Carlito, Arial becomes Liberation Sans. The PDF view flags any replaced font.

Images

• Insert › Image…, the toolbar button, drag and drop, or a simple paste.
• The handles at the four corners resize, keeping proportions; clicking the image offers 25, 50 or 100%.
• PNG, JPEG, GIF, WebP and SVG.

Comments

Select a passage, then Insert › New comment (Nouveau commentaire, ⌥⌘M) or right-click, New comment. The passage is highlighted; the thread opens in the Comments tab of the right-hand panel. You reply, resolve, reopen.

The page

• Format › Page setup…: the size (A4, A3, A5, Letter, Legal), the orientation and the margins.
• Header and footer are typed straight on the sheet: Add a header (Ajouter un en-tête), at the top.
• Edit › History… shows the document’s versions and restores the one you want.

The Word file

File › Download › Word (.docx). For a document opened from a .docx, Paginel writes into that file: only what changed is rewritten, the rest is copied as it was.