Editing Documents and Templates

Within Enterprise Architect you can create various documents from templates, and you can create customized templates to help tailor the documents to the needs and standards of your organization. You can create Linked Documents, Linked Document Templates and Document (Report) Templates, amongst others. In each case, selecting to create or edit the document opens the Document-Edit ribbon, which provides a wide range of editing and formatting facilities that you can use to develop your documentation. This section explains how to perform various editing tasks using the ribbon.

Each type of document can also have its own context menu of additional options, and the editing window might also have an option toolbar. These facilities are described in the topics specific to the type of document.

Access

Ribbon

Create or edit a document or template file; the Document - Edit ribbon displays automatically

Option Descriptions

The descriptions of the Document - Edit ribbon options are grouped according to the actions you are performing.

Actions	See also
Creating and importing documents	File Control
Configuring the editor page display and formatting tools shown	Editor Tool Display Options
Moving through, searching and selecting text	Scroll, Search and Select Text
Formatting characters and text strings	Format Text
Formatting paragraphs and text blocks	Format Paragraphs
Inserting tab points	Set Tabs
Inserting sections, columns and page breaks, and repaginating	Define Document Sections Define Document Sections
Incorporating stylesheets, special texts and Tables of Contents Managing the base styles in the Normal.rtf style template file	The Normal.rtf Style Template Styles, Special Texts & Table of Contents
Inserting and editing page headers and footers, and footnotes and endnotes	Insert Headers, Footers, Footnotes and Endnotes
Inserting tables	Create Tables
Inserting hyperlinks	Hyperlink From Linked Document Insert Reference Links Create Element From Document
Inserting images, OLE objects, frames and drawing objects	Insert Images, Objects and Frames
Printer setup and printing documents	Print Report Documents
Checking spelling and use of words	Checking Text
Tracking, accepting and rejecting changes to text	Track Changes
Protecting document text from accidental change	Protect Document Contents
Create and refer to definitions of Glossary terms in the Project Glossary (using the 'Create \| Glossary Definition' menu option)	Project Glossary View

Notes

Throughout your document editing:
     - To undo one or more immediately previous edits, press Ctrl+Z, or select the 'Undo' context menu option; you can still undo a change
        even after you have saved the change
     - To redo one or more immediately previous undone edits, press Ctrl+Y, or select the 'Redo' context menu option