3.6 Tips and Tricks

3.6.1 Tips

You may not find the document you are looking for while trying to make a link; although you are absolutely sure that it must be in the file you opened.
You may be looking for a document with a file extension that you excluded by not looking closely at the menu. Often it has a window stating "file type" or "Dateityp" with a certain setting (e.g. "HTML documents"). This happens, e.g. if you try to make a link to a class sheet with a .css ending, or to an .gif or .jpg illustration.

Simply change the setting to "all documents"!
In many cases, there is a whole menu hidden in the line where you can enter the attribute specifications.
All you have to do: Click on the empty bar. A sign with some dots pops up at the right hand side of the bar. Click on it and you have the menu with the possible attribute values.
Links with bookmarks sometimes don't work. In other word, you want to jump to a bookmarked specific part of another document; instead you end up somewhere in that document.
What probably happened is that you established the link via the direct bookmark function (the blue arrows in the tool bar) and that your bookmark (the attribute under "name" in the attributes of the link tag) had a space in it (as e.g. in "book mark".
A bug in the program converts this to "book%20mark", which the browser will not understand. Use the F6 key with the link; you will see that problem in the name attribute bar. Simply take out the "%20" and replace it by a space and your bookmarked link will work.
The attribute you want to set is not in the list
The attribute menus popping up have the options "common", "event", and "all". It is usually set on "common", but the attribute you are after may not be among the common ones - select "all"!
This applies, e.g., to "border color" for tables.

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