General Tools: Insert

The Insert toolbar contains elements that can be inserted into a document.

These elements are divided into the following categories.

• Pages
• Tables
• Illustrations
• Toolbox
• Links
• Header & Footer
• Text
• Symbols

Pages

| Command | Large Icon | Small Icon | Description | |—|—|—|—| | Page Break | | | Inserts a page break at the carriage position. A page break cannot occur within tables, lists, or document headers and footers. |

Tables

| Command | Large Icon | Small Icon | Description | |—|—|—|—| | Table | | | Inserts a table with a specified number of rows and columns at the carriage position. To customize the table layout, use the commands available in the Table Tools: Design and Table Tools: Layout tabs. |

Illustrations

| Command | Large Icon | Small Icon | Description | |—|—|—|—| | Inline Picture | | | Inserts an inline picture at the carriage position. In a document, the inline picture behaves like an ordinary text symbol. | | Picture | | | Inserts a picture into a document. You can adjust the picture’s outline, wrap text, position, and order using commands from the Picture Tools: Format tab. |

Toolbox

| Command | Large Icon | Small Icon | Description | |—|—|—|—| | Bar Code | | | Inserts a bar code at the carriage position. After adding a bar code, specify its symbology, data binding and other options using the Properties command in the Data Tools: Field tab. | | Check Box | | | Inserts a check box at the carriage position (e.g., to display Boolean values from a data source). To customize the check box state or bind it to external data, use the Properties command in the Data Tools: Field tab. | | Chart | | | Inserts a chart at the carriage position. | | Sparkline | | | Inserts a sparkline at the carriage position. | | Row Index | | | Inserts a row index at the carriage position. |

Links

| Command | Large Icon | Small Icon | Description | |—|—|—|—| | Bookmark | | | Invokes the Bookmark dialog to add a new bookmark at the carriage position, or navigate to an existing bookmark. | | Hyperlink | | | Invokes the Insert Hyperlink dialog to create a hyperlink and specify its text, screen tip and destination. A hyperlink’s destination may be a web page, file, or specific position within a document. |

Header & Footer

| Command | Large Icon | Small Icon | Description | |—|—|—|—| | Header | | | Allows editing the page header. In a published document, the content added to the header will appear at the top of each page. To quickly switch to this mode, double-click the page header area. To quit page header editing, press ESC, double click the document area, or click Close Header and Footer on the Header & Footer tab. To make the first page header display unique content, or make odd- and even-numbered pages carry different headers, use the options available on the Header and Footer Tools: Design tab. | | Footer | | | Activates the page footer edit mode. In a published document, the content added to the footer will appear at the bottom of each page. To quickly switch to this mode, double-click the page footer area. To quit page footer editing, press ESC, double click the document area, or click Close Header and Footer on the Header & Footer tab. To make the first page footer display unique content, or make odd- and even-numbered pages carry different footers, use the options available on the Header and Footer Tools: Design tab. | | Page Number | | | Inserts the number of the current page at the carriage position. The page statistics can only be added to a page header or footer. | | Page Count | | | Inserts the total page count at the carriage position. The page statistics can only be added to a page header or footer. |

Text

| Command | Large Icon | Small Icon | Description | |—|—|—|—| | Text Box | | | Inserts a text box into a document. A text box is a floating container that is capable of displaying virtually any kind of content (including the most elaborate lists), posing no restrictions on its size and location within a document. |

Symbols

| Command | Large Icon | Small Icon | Description | |—|—|—|—| | Symbol | | | Invokes the Symbol dialog, to insert characters that are not available on the keyboard. |