As mentioned earlier in this documentation, you can press Control+Shift+Backspace while reading a document with the WintextCom Reader to open it in its Windows program. A useful application of this capability is making notes, when it is required to append the notes to the end of the original document itself. For example, you have received an e-mail attachment of a text document and you want to read the document and send it back with your comments at the end.

Ordinarily, your library documents will be plain text files. The Control+Shift+Backspace command will open them in Notepad, or another program that you have set up as your text editor. When you have finished work on the file, you can use the Control+Shift+Space command to select it in Windows Explorer and move it, send it to your e-mail program, or whatever.

When you open the document in Windows by pressing Control+Shift+Backspace, the document is displayed in the editor and the WintextCom Reader goes into the background. It is important to realise that this feature is only suitable for adding material at the end of the document; if you edit the document at any point before the end, you might corrupt the general reading and any other bookmarks that are saved for it. To make changes to the body of the document itself while still using the WintextCom Reader to browse the original text, we recommend using one of the workspace integration techniques described in the next section.

When the document opens in Windows, you can move to the end and type whatever, then switch back to the WintextCom Reader by pressing Alt+Tab, read some more, and press Alt+Tab again to switch back to the document and add more notes. Alt+Tab switches between the two displays of the same document. If WintextCom hides for whatever reason and becomes unavailable on Alt+Tab, press F10 to bring it back to the foreground (default configuration). You can use the clipboard features of the WintextCom Reader if you want to copy text from the reading display to where you are making notes.

Beware that the open document in Windows and select in Windows Explorer commands can be used repetitively, they will open a new copy of the document or of Windows Explorer if the one from a previous invocation of the command is still running. This could cause problems, although it may sometimes be the required behaviour. In general, once you have opened the document or selected it, you should switch between it and the WintextCom Reader rather than invoke the command again, until the editor or Windows Explorer has been closed.

If the document does not have an associated Windows application, it is opened in File Manager's primary loader, which is your text editor by default. For example, if you have saved a series of related texts as "chapter.001", "chapter.002", etc., you can still use this feature to open them in Notepad or another editor. Another method of handling such a situation would be to press Control+K to associate each document with a file called "chapter.txt" in your WintextCom workspace. If required, you could then copy the text of the original document into the working file by pressing Control+C to copy it to the clipboard from the WintextCom Reader.

You might also consider the more advanced workspace association techniques discussed in the next section.

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Making Notes