About the button bar icons in AppleWorks 6

The icons are read from left to right and include comments when necessary.

Common Tools

• Bold
  
• Italic
  
• Underline
  
• Anchor (makes the select text or object an anchor)
  
• Document link (creates a link to another document)
  
• URL link (creates a link to a web page)
  
• Links On/Off (turns actives links on or off so you can edit text within a link)
  
• Print
  
• Word Processor (open a new word processor file)
  
• Drawing (open a new drawing file)
  
• Painting (open a new painting file)
  
• Spreadsheet (open a new spreadsheet file)
  
• Database (open a new database file
  
• Presentation (open a new presentation file)

Word Processor

• Promote (moves the selected topic one level to the left)
  
• Demote (moves the selected topic one level to the right)
  
• Check Spelling
  
• Show/Hide Invisibles (shows or hides formatting characters such as spaces or tabs
  
• Sort Paragraphs (sorts selected paragraphs in order specified)

Spread Sheet

• Outline Border (outlines the selected range within a border)
  
• Left Border
  
• Top Border
  
• Right Border
  
• Autosize Column (Makes the selected columns as wide as the widest cell in the range)
  
• Autosize Row (Makes the selected rows as tall as the tallest cell in the range)
  
• AutoSum (Calculates the total of the data in the selected range and displays the results in the next empty cell)
  
• Make Chart (Creates a chart from the selected data)

Database

• Sort+ (sorts the found set of records in ascending order (A to Z))
  
• Sort - (sorts the found set of records in descending order (Z to A))
  
• New Record
  
• Delete Record
  
• Show All Records
  
• Browse Mode (switches the current database to browse mode)
  
• List Mode (switches the current database to list mode)
  
• Create Labels (Lets you create a new label layout)

Drawing

• Text Wrap (wraps text tightly around the selected object)
  
• Rotate 90° (rotates the selected object 90° counterclockwise)
  
• Align (aligns the selected objects)

Painting

• Lighter (adds a white tint to the selected object)
  
• Darker (adds a black tint to the selected object)
  
• Tints (tints the selected image with the current fill color)
  
• Blend (softens an image by adding intermediate colors)
  
• Invert (reverses the colors of the selected image)
  
• Pickup (picks up the selected image's attributes)