Word processor menu bar

When you open the word processor, the menu bar options are changed from the normal main OMSVision window. The following subsections explain the options available from the menu bar.

File menu

The following general options for the current document are available:

New - Creates a new, blank document.

Open - Allows you to browse for and open an existing document from a directory on your computer or a computer on your office's network.

Close - Closes the current document.

File Manager - Allows you to begin a new document.

Letters Batch - Allows you to access letters in the Letters Batch.

Save - Saves any changes made to the current document.

Save as - Allows you to choose the location and file name to save the current document. You can save the document with the following extensions: doc, rtf (the program's native document format), htm, html, txt, xml, and css.

Export - Allows you to choose the location and file name to export the current document. You can export the document with the following extensions: pdf or css.

Page Setup - Allows you to change the paper size and margins.

Print/Send - Allows you to print or e-mail the current document. You can also set up printer options.

Print Preview - Generates a print preview.

Exit Word Processor - Exits the word processor.

Edit menu

The following editing options for the current document are available:

Undo - Reverses the last operation.

Redo - Reverses the last undo operation.

Cut - Removes the selected text or selected object and puts it on the Windows clipboard.

Copy - Copies the selected text or selected object to the Windows clipboard.

Paste - Pastes the text or object from the Windows Clipboard at the location of the cursor.

Select All - Selects the whole document.

Find - Allows you to find a particular character, word, or string of text.

Replace - Allows you to find and replace a particular character, word, or string of text.

Go to - Displays a fly-out menu to allow you to go to a certain bookmark or page.

Bookmark - Allows you to create a bookmark.

Hyperlink - Allows you to creates a hyperlink.

Delete Bookmark/Hyperlink/Merge Variable - Removes the selected bookmark, hyperlink, or merge variable.

View menu

The following viewing options for the current document are available: Normal, Page Layout, Floating Text, Simple Control, Activate Headers and Footers, Button Bar, Status Bar, Ruler, Vertical Ruler, Control Characters, and Zoom.

Insert menu

You can insert the following into the current document:

File - Allows you to browse for and insert a document.

Image - Allows you to browse for and insert an image from the Image Library or from the Image File.

OLE Object - Allows you to insert a new OLE object or an existing OLE object.

Text Box - Inserts a text box, which you can type text in, at the location of the cursor. You can resize a text box and move it anywhere on the page.

Check Box - Inserts a check box, which you can use in a template, at the location of the cursor.

Merge Fields - Opens the Merge Fields dialog box from which you can select merge fields to insert. When the document is merged the appropriate patient or other information is inserted in the document where there are merge variables.

Practice Information - Inserts the practice information (name, street address, suite, city, state, ZIP Code, phone number, Fax number, and email address), at the location of the cursor.

Signature - Allows you to insert a digital signature.

Quick Tables (Posted Treatment or Treatment Plan) - Allows you to insert posted or treatment-planned procedures.

Date - Inserts the current date (multiple formats are available) at the location of the cursor.

Time - Inserts the current time at the location of the cursor.

Bookmark - Inserts a bookmark.

Hyperlink - Inserts a hyperlink.

Page Number - Inserts a page number.

Page Break - Inserts a page break.

Format menu

The following format options for the current document are available:

Character - Allows you to change the font, font size, font attributes, position, and color of selected text.

Paragraph - Allows you to change the alignment, spacing, indents, frames, and pagination.

Tabs - Allows you to set and clear tabs.

Bullets and Numbering - Allows you to apply unordered lists and numbered lists to selected text, as well as increase or decrease the indent and change the attributes.

Styles - Allows you to create, modify, and delete styles.

Image, Object, Text Box - Allows you to format images, objects, and text boxes.

Text box Marker Lines - Displays text box borders when selected.

Text Color - Allows you to change the color of selected text.

Text Highlight Color - Allows you to change the color of selected text that you apply a highlight to.

Background Color - Allows you to change the background color of selected text.

Tables menu

The following table options for the current document are available:

Insert - Allows you to insert a table, column, or row.

Delete - Allows you to delete a table, column, or row.

Split - Allows you to split a cell.

Select - Allows you to select a table, column, or row.

Grid Lines - Makes table grid lines visible when selected.

Properties - Opens the Table Properties dialog from which you can view or change the frame, color, margins, cell height, and alignment.

Tools menu

You have the following tool options for the current document:

Check Spelling - Allows you to check the spelling in the entire document.

Edit Spelling Dictionary - Allows you to customize the accepted words in the spell check dictionary.

Labels - Allows you to access label options.

Envelopes - Allows you to access label options.

Preferences - Displays a fly-out menu with options to set preferences for HTML and PDF, for the current document; to Save Current Settings as Defaults for the current and all subsequent documents; to Reset Defaults to the original system default settings, to Include Labels, and to Include Envelopes.

Note: The Images option was moved to the Word Processing section of the Operations tab in Preferences.

For a patient letter, the following options provide a way to add a document to a patient's Document Center:

Copy document to the Document Center when printed - If this option has a check mark, when you print a document, a copy is added to the patient's Document Center.

Always copy document to the Document Center - If this option has a check mark:

When you print a document, a copy is added to the patient's Document Center.

When you open a document (or create a new document), make and save changes to it, and then close it, a copy is added to the patient's Document Center even if you choose to not print the document when a message to print the document appears. However, if you open a document (or create a new document), make changes to it, and then close it without saving it, a message to print the document does not appear, and a copy is not added to the Document Center.

When you open and then close a document without making any changes, a copy is added to the patient's Document Center even if you choose to not print the document when a message to print the document appears.

Display reminder to print unprinted documents on Exit - If this option has a check mark:

If Copy document to the Document Center when printed has a check mark, when you open a document (or create a new document), make changes to it, and then close it without saving it, a message appears and states that the document will be printed. However, if you open a document (or create a new document), make changes to it, save the changes, and then close it, a message to print the document does not appear.

If Always copy document to the Document Center has a check mark, when you open a document (or create a new document), make changes to it, save the changes, and then close it, a message appears and asks if you want to print the document. However, if you open a document (or create a new document), make changes to it, and then close it without saving it, a message to print the document does not appear, and a copy is not added to the Document Center.

Window menu

The options are the same as with the main program window.

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