The Sidebar

It’s surprising how many ways you can alter the appearance of text. Pagesmith provides over eighty controls for formatting text. These controls live on the left side of the Pagesmith window, in an area called the sidebar.

Obviously it isn’t practical to show all those controls at once. The sidebar contains a Character View that contains all the controls for editing character attributes, and a Paragraph View that contains all the controls for editing paragraph attributes.

The Character and Paragraph views group related controls into palettes. For example, the Character View contains a Font palette, and the Paragraph View contains an Indents palette.

In addition to the Character and Paragraph views, the sidebar contains the Spelling and Find views.

The sidebar shows only one view at a time.