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Control the display

${Highlight tagged elements}

With ${View} > ${Highlight tagged elements}, you can highlight elements with a specified tag. This opens a tag selection dialog.

${Reset Highlighting}

With ${View} > ${Reset Highlighting}, you can reset the highlighting of tree elements.

${Show Book}

Go to the “${Book}” branch and expand it

With ${View} > ${Show Book}, you can select and open the “${Book}” branch.

${Show Characters}

Go to the “${Characters}” branch and expand it

With ${View} > ${Show Characters}, you can select and open the “${Characters}” branch.

${Show Locations}

Go to the “Locations” branch and expand it

With ${View} > ${Show Locations}, you can select and open the “${Locations}” branch.

${Show Items}

Go to the “${Items}” branch and expand it

With ${View} > ${Show Items}, you can select and open the “${Items}” branch.

${Show Plot lines}

Go to the “${Plot lines}” branch and expand it

With ${View} > ${Show Plot lines}, you can select and open the “${Plot lines}” branch.

${Show Project notes}

Go to the “${Project notes}” branch and expand it

With ${View} > ${Show Project notes}, you can select and open the “${Project notes}” branch.

${Chapter level}

Hide the sections

With ${View} > ${Chapter level} or ${Ctrl}-Alt-C, you can collapse the tree, so that only parts and chapters are visible.

${Expand all}

Show the whole tree

With ${View} > ${Expand all}, you can expand the whole tree.

${Collapse all}

Hide child elements

With ${View} > ${Collapse all}, you can hide all tree elements except the main categories.

${Expand selected}

Show a whole branch

With ${View} > ${Expand selected}, you can expand a selected tree element.

${Collapse selected}

Hide child elements

With ${View} > ${Collapse selected}, you can collapse a selected branch.

${Toggle Text viewer}

Show/hide the novel text

With ${View} > ${Toggle Text viewer} or ${Ctrl}-T, you can open or close the text viewer window, showing part/chapter/section titles and section content.

Hint

On reopening, the windows shows the text, where the tree is selected.

${Toggle Properties}

Show/hide the selected element’s properties

With ${View} > ${Toggle Properties} or ${Ctrl}-Alt-T, you can open or close the element properties window.

Hint

On reopening, the window shows the properties of the currently selected element.

${Detach/Dock Properties}

Show the selected element’s properties either in the main window or in its own window

With ${View} > ${Detach/Dock Properties} or ${Ctrl}-Alt-D, you can detach or dock the element properties window .

Hint

On closing the detached window, the properties are docked again.

${Options}

Project independent program settings

With ${View} > ${Options}, you can open a dialog for settings concerning the display.

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${Coloring mode}

Set criteria according to which normal sections are colored in the tree

${None}

${Normal} sections are black on white by default.

${Status}

${Normal} sections are colored according to their completion status (${Outline}, ${Draft}, ${1st Edit}, ${2nd Edit}, or ${Done}).

${Work phase}

${Normal} sections are highlighted if their completion status does not match the work phase defined in the ${Book} properties.

${Large icons}

By default, the icon size is 16x16 pixels. If the ${Large icons} checkbox is ticked, 24x24 icons are used after the next program startup.

${Display localized dates}

If ticked, localized dates are displayed.
If unticked, dates are displayed like YYYY-MM-DD, according to ISO 8601.

${Columns}

Change the column order

From top to bottom in the list means from left to right in the tree.
Just drag and drop to change the order.

Click the ${Apply} button to apply changes.

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