Home Tab in Documents

The Home tab is where you'll find the standard range of tools for adjusting font sizes, colors, and styles; formatting options for paragraphs and headings; and more.

Paste – Place cut or copied elements in your document. For further choice on what to paste and what not to you have the following options:
Keep Formatting – Keep any formatting present on the copied or cut content.
Text Only – Pastes only text with no formatting.
Cut – Cut elements from one location, and move them to another via paste.
Copy – Copy elements from one location to another via paste.
Paste Style – Applies formatting to text as copied with the format painter.
Format Painter – Copies the formatting and style of the selected text.
 Arial Font Families – Opens the font menu, which lists your available OfficeSuite fonts in their relevant style.
  11 pt Font Size – Adjusts font size from a predefined value.
Increase font – Increases the currently selected text by one font point.
Decrease font – Decreases the currently selected text by one font point.
Open Font Dialog – Set up additional font customizations.
Clear Formatting – Removes any formatting from the selected text.
Bold – Embolden text.
Italics – Italicize text.
Underline – Underline text.
Strikethrough – Add a strikethrough effect to text.
Subscript – Write text as subscript, or lower than the text around it.
Superscript – Write text as superscript, or higher than the text around it.
Highlight Color – Specify the highlight color.
Font Color – Specify the text color.
Ordered List – Displays the ordered list menu, where you can choose from a variety of ways to order lists (letters, numbers, roman numerals, etc.).
Bulleted List – Creates a list with a variety of bullet styles.
Multilevel List – Creates a multilevel or tiered list.
Indent Right – Shifts text entries to the right.
Indent Left – Shifts text entries to the left.
Left-to-Right Text Direction – Writing direction will move from left to right. Useful when working with European languages.
Right-to-Left Text Direction – Writing direction will move from right to left. Useful when working with languages such as Hebrew, Arabic, Farsi and others.
Align Left – Aligns text against the left margin.
Align Center – Centers text between both margins.
Align Right – Aligns text against the right margin.
Justify – Distributes text evenly between both margins.
Line Spacing – Determines the amount of spacing between lines in your text.
Show Formatting – Toggling this feature will display a symbol anywhere the document has been formatted. This helps greatly when managing your document's formatting.
Styles– Tapping on this feature will open a drop-down menu listing different text style presets that can be used for the document.
Open Paragraph Dialog – Includes additional text layout customizations.
Find & Replace – Will search for instances of text entered in the Search field, and will replace them with text entered in the Replace field. The Find/Replace… button will allow you to scroll between each instance of the text using the left and right arrows, which you can replace individually by tapping on Replace.
  To display the find and replace dialog again, tap on the Contextual icon. You can also perform a mass replace without browsing through individual entries by tapping on Replace all.
Text to Speech – Reads the selected text aloud. Specify the languages of choice with the  Downwards Arrow.
Select All – Selects all the elements in your document.

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