Every command — TrestleBoard

The newsletter

Starting one, opening one, saving it, and making the PDF you email round.

Open a newsletter…Ctrl+O

Opens a newsletter you saved earlier.
Open the sample newsletter

Shows an example issue to look around in.
Start from a template…

Begins a new newsletter from a ready-made layout.
Start from last month

Copies this newsletter forward to next month and clears the articles.
Save this newsletterCtrl+S

Keeps your work in its file so you can come back to it.
Save it as a new file…Ctrl+Shift+S

Keeps your work in a file you choose, leaving the one you started from alone.
Go back to an earlier version…

Opens one of the copies TrestleBoard kept each time you saved.
Look it over with me…

Goes through the newsletter with you before you make the PDF, one question at a time.
Check my spelling…

Shows you one word at a time that TrestleBoard does not know, with the sentence it is in.
Show me last year's…

Opens the same month from last year, to look at while you write this one.
Read it back to me…

Goes through the newsletter one sentence at a time, out loud where this computer can.
Make the PDF…Ctrl+E

Makes the file you email to the lodge.
Make a draft copy…

Makes a PDF with DRAFT across every page, for the Master to read before you send it.
Print it

Sends the PDF you just made to your printer.
Save this as one of my templates…

Keeps this newsletter's layout to start from another time, without its writing or its date.
My templates…

Renames, removes, or hands on the templates you have saved.
Which issue is this?…

Asks which month and year this newsletter is for, on the cover heading.
Now send it…

Opens your email with the brethren who get it by email already filled in.
Exit

Closes TrestleBoard.

Undoing and the clipboard

Everything can be undone, including the things most programs will not let you take back.

UndoCtrl+Z

Takes back the last thing you did.
RedoCtrl+Y

Does again the thing you just took back.
CutCtrl+X

Removes the highlighted words and keeps a copy.
CopyCtrl+C

Keeps a copy of the highlighted words.
PasteCtrl+V

Puts the copied words where the cursor is.
Select allCtrl+A

Highlights everything in this piece of writing.
Choose everything on this page

Takes hold of every box and picture on the page at once, ready to line them up.
Also choose the next oneCtrl+Tab

Keeps what you have chosen and takes hold of the next thing on the page as well.
Also choose the one beforeCtrl+Shift+Tab

Keeps what you have chosen and takes hold of the one before it as well.
Find…Ctrl+F

Looks for words anywhere in this newsletter.
Find and replace…Ctrl+H

Looks for words and puts different ones in their place.

Writing

Typing, bold and italic, the kind of writing a paragraph is, and choosing a typeface.

BoldCtrl+B

Makes the highlighted words heavier.
ItalicCtrl+I

Slants the highlighted words.
Make this a list of points

Puts a dot in front of this paragraph, and keeps the wrapped lines lined up under the writing.
Make this a numbered list

Numbers this paragraph and the ones with it, and renumbers them if you add another.
Paragraph style ▸

Chooses what kind of paragraph this is, such as a heading.
Change the font for this style ▸Ctrl+Shift+D

Chooses the typeface and size for every piece of writing of this kind.
+ BiggerCtrl+Shift+.

Makes this kind of writing one step larger everywhere.
− SmallerCtrl+Shift+,

Makes this kind of writing one step smaller everywhere.
Use a different font just here…

Changes the typeface of the highlighted words only, leaving the rest alone.
Put it back to the usual font

Returns the highlighted words to the font the rest of this kind of writing uses.

Putting something on the page

A box for writing, a photograph, and the lists the app lays out for you.

Words for hard news…

Offers ready-made wording for a memorial, a get-well message and other hard moments.
Keep these words for next time…

Saves the writing you have highlighted, so you can use it again in a later issue.
Add a box for writingCtrl+Shift+T

Puts an empty box on the page for you to write in.
Insert a picture…Ctrl+Shift+P

Puts a photograph on the page.
Lodge officers

Adds the officers table and asks who they are.
Birthdays

Adds the birthday list.
Committees

Adds the committee list.
District calendar

Adds the 22nd District meeting table.
Announcement box

Adds a box for one announcement.
Cover heading

Adds the lodge name and meeting details for page one.
A list of my own

Adds a list of up to three columns that you fill in yourself.
Bring in writing from a file…

Reads a Word document or a text file and puts the writing on the page, in this newsletter's own lettering.
A page from a PDF…

Shows you the pages of a PDF and puts the one you choose on the page as a picture.
Add an emblem…

Puts one of the craft's emblems on the page — the square and compasses, the working tools, a rule or a corner ornament.

Whatever you have chosen

These act on the thing selected on the page right now, and appear beside it when it is.

Delete thisDelete

Takes it off the page. You can undo this.
Change what this says…Ctrl+Shift+E

Asks the questions again, already filled in.
Edit the list…Ctrl+Shift+G

Shows the whole list at once, with big rows.
Make it fit what is in itCtrl+Shift+Y

Makes the box exactly as tall as what is in it.
Bring in birthdays from the address bookCtrl+Shift+U

Fills the birthday list in from your address book, showing you the changes first.
Fill in the officers from the address bookCtrl+Shift+B

Fills the officers table in from your address book, showing you the changes first.

Photographs

Your original file is never altered — every change is a recipe applied when the page is drawn.

Put a picture here…Ctrl+Shift+O

Chooses a picture file and puts it in this frame.
Fix this pictureCtrl+Shift+F

Crops it to the frame and brightens it in one step.
Change how it looks…Ctrl+Shift+A

Brightness, colour, turning it, and taking the edges off.
Choose which part shows…

Slides the picture inside its frame without changing how much of it shows.
Dismiss this note

Hides the stretched-picture warning until the frame changes shape again.
Write a caption…

Writes the words printed under the picture.
Describe this picture…

Writes what somebody who cannot see it should be told.

How the writing flows

Around a picture, and on from one box into the next.

Make the writing flow around itCtrl+Shift+W

Makes the writing on the page flow around it.
Continue this text in another frame…Ctrl+Shift+L

Lets a long article carry on in a second box.
Stop continuing into the next frameCtrl+Shift+K

Ends the link so this box stands on its own.
Make the rest fitCtrl+Shift+M

Adds pages and boxes until all of this writing has somewhere to go.

Front and back

Which of two overlapping things is on top.

Move it forwardCtrl+]

Moves it one step towards the front.
Move it backCtrl+[

Moves it one step towards the back.
Move it to the frontCtrl+Shift+]

Puts it in front of everything else.
Move it to the backCtrl+Shift+[

Puts it behind everything else.
Line up the left edges

Moves the things you have chosen so their left edges are in a line.
Line up the centres, side to side

Moves them sideways until their middles are one above the other.
Line up the right edges

Moves the things you have chosen so their right edges are in a line.
Line up the top edges

Moves the things you have chosen so their tops are in a line.
Line up the middles, top to bottom

Moves them up and down until their middles are side by side.
Line up the bottom edges

Moves the things you have chosen so their bottoms are in a line.
Space them out evenly, side to side

Leaves the same gap between each one, without moving the two on the ends.
Space them out evenly, top to bottom

Leaves the same gap above and below each one, without moving the top and bottom ones.

Pages

Moving between them, adding one, and changing the order they come in.

Next pageCtrl+PageDown

Shows the following page.
Previous pageCtrl+PageUp

Shows the page before this one.
Add a page after this oneCtrl+Shift+N

Puts a new empty page in.
Delete this page

Takes this page out. You can undo this.
Move this page earlier

Swaps it with the page before it.
Move this page later

Swaps it with the page after it.
Go to a page

Shows whichever page you pick out of the row down the side.

Looking at it

How large the page is shown, how large the app's own text is, and which theme is on.

Zoom inCtrl+=

Makes the page on screen bigger.
Zoom outCtrl+-

Makes the page on screen smaller.
Actual sizeCtrl+0

Shows the page at its printed size.
Fit pageCtrl+1

Shows the whole page in the window.
How things look…F10

Changes the theme and how big everything is.
Move to the next part of the windowF6

Moves between the page, the panel, the toolbar and the menus.
Move to the previous part of the windowShift+F6

Moves the other way round the window.
Show what I can do

Shows or hides the panel of things you can do to what you have chosen.
Show the pages down the side

Shows or hides the row of small pages down the left, so you can see the whole newsletter at once and go straight to any page of it.
Show the edge to keep inside

Draws a faint line where the printing stops, so you can see what is too close to it.
Show where fonts were changed

Underlines, on screen only, any writing whose font was changed by hand.
Show my spelling mistakes

Puts a dotted line, on screen only, under any word TrestleBoard does not know.

The address book

The lodge's members. This is the app's own list, not part of any one newsletter.

People…Ctrl+Shift+R

Opens your lodge address book.
Import from a file…

Reads a list of members from a spreadsheet you already have.
Save as a spreadsheet…

Writes your address book out so you can open it in Excel.
Undo the last change

Takes back the last change to your address book.
Restore an earlier version…

Puts your address book back as it was on an earlier day.

Handing over

Packing up everything a successor needs, and taking in a pack from whoever came before.

Pack everything up for my successor…

Writes your address book, your templates, your saved wordings and your settings into one file to hand on.
Bring in a predecessor's pack…

Puts back what the last committee packed up. You choose what to take, and nothing is replaced without being asked.

Help and updates

The example newsletter, the guided tour, the licence, and checking for a new version.

How do I…?F1

Opens a search box over everything TrestleBoard can do. Type it in your own words.
Show me round again

Walks through how a month goes, in five screens. The same one you were shown the first time TrestleBoard opened.
Check for an update

Asks whether a newer TrestleBoard exists.
About TrestleBoard

Shows which version this is.
Fonts and licences

Lists the typefaces that came with TrestleBoard and the licence each one is used under.
Licence

Shows what you are allowed to do with TrestleBoard itself. It is free for lodges, churches, charities and personal use.
Show me an example newsletter

Opens a finished five-page newsletter you can look around in and change without saving.