How to navigate in Outline View

To navigate in Outline View

The outline that appears when you create or view a document in Outline view contains all of the essential elements of an HTML page. You can use this structure as a template and fill it with your own content.

1. HTML tag appears as box symbols.
   

2. Indents indicate an item’s position within the HTML hierarchy. The HEAD and BODY elements are indented to show that they are contained in the HTML element. The HEAD element in turn contains a TITLE element with a text box.
   

3. Start tag and the end tag are connected by vertical lines to show that they are complementary items.

1. Current selection
   

2. Start and end tag connectors
   

3. Drag and drop handle

To navigate in Outline view:

Step 1.

• First of all, you have to choose the File tab from the menu bar and select Open or File. And then choose the New followed by Outline tab in the document window.

Step 2.

• To collapse or expand the outline, do one of the following:

  1. Click the triangle on the HTML box to collapse the outline.
     

  2. Click the triangle on the HTML box to expand a collapsed outline.

Step 3.

• To navigate through the outline, do one of the following:

1. To move through the Outline view, use the arrow keys. The Up arrow selects the item above the current selection, and the Down arrow picks the one below. If the pointer is in a text box, the arrow keys will move the pointer within the box.
   

2. To move through the attribute list of an element, use the arrow keys. The Up arrow selects the item above the current selection, and the Down arrow chooses the one below.
   

3. To expand or collapse the currently selected tag element, press Enter. Please note that this is only possible with binary tags (tags always used in pairs).
   

4. To repeatedly expand or collapse the current selected tag element, press Shift-Enter. Please note that this is only possible with binary tags.
   

5. To show the tag attribute list, press Enter.
   

6. To hide the tag attribute list, press Shift-Enter.
   

7. To activate the next text box, press Tab. To activate the preceding text box, press Shift-Tab.
   

8. To delete the current selection, use the Backspace key.
   

9. To activate the tag selection pop-up menu, Control-click the tag name.