Whenever you want to do something beyond writing in iA Writer for Windows, you’ll want to look to the menus.
File
New Clears the Editor and offers a blank slate to create a new document
Open Displays a dialog which lets you browse to a file and open it in iA Writer
Save Saves the currently open file; on the first save you will be asked to name the file
Save As Allows you to save the currently open file under a new name
Export > HTML|PDF Choose this to have an HTML or PDF file generated from the contents of the Editor; you’ll be asked for a location to save this file
Show in Explorer Opens a File Explorer window showing the folder in which the current document resides
Install Template Displays a dialog allowing to browse for a custom template to install
Print Displays a dialog which lets you print the current contents of the Editor
Quit Quits iA Writer
Edit
Undo Undoes the previous action in the Editor
Redo Redoes the previous action in the Editor
Cut Removes the currently selected text from the Editor and copies it to the clipboard
Copy Copies any text currently selected in the Editor to the clipboard
Paste Pastes any text in the clipboard into the Editor at the caret’s current position
Delete Removes the currently selected text from the Editor
Select All Selects all text in the document currently open in the Editor
Find Shows the Find bar, placing focus in the Find field so you can search for text in your document
Find Next Jumps to the next result of a previous search using Find
Replace Opens the Find bar with the Replace fields already visible
Replace All Replaces all instances of found text with the text in the replace field
Format
Body Text Removes Markdown formatting from the currently selected text
Strong Adds Markdown for bold text to the currently selected text
Emphasis Adds Markdown for italics to the currently selected text
Strong Emphasis Adds Markdown for both bold and italic text to the currently selected text
Headings
Heading (1-6) Converts the line on which the caret is placed into a Markdown heading
List
Unordered List Converts the currently selected line(s) into a bulleted list. If nothing is selected, the current line will be made into a list item.
Ordered List Converts the currently selected line(s) into a numbered list. If nothing is selected, the current line will be made into a list item.
Task Converts the currently selected line(s) into a task list. If nothing is selected, the current line will be made into a list item.
Check/Uncheck Task If the caret is positioned on a line with a task list item, this will add or remove a check to that item (These can also be checked on and off with the mouse in the Editor)
Table
Add Table Inserts a table at the current caret position
Table of Contents Inserts a table of contents a the current caret position
Link
Add [Hyperlink, Footnote, Footnote Reference] Inserts Markdown syntax for the chosen item at the current caret position
Embed [Image, Textfile, CSV] Opens a dialog allowing you to browse for an image, text file or CSV which will be embedded into the document at the current caret position
View
Focus → Paragraph Dims all the text except for the paragraph in which the caret is positioned
Focus → Sentence Dims all the text except for the sentence in which the caret is positioned
Focus → Off Turns off Focus Mode
Focus → Typewriter Scrolling Keeps the caret positioned in the center of the window at all times and scrolls the text when using up/down cursor arrows
Full Screen Toggles full screen mode
Night Mode Toggles between Night and Day color themes
Spellcheck Toggles usage of the built-in spell checker
Show Hidden Characters Hidden characters such as line feeds are shown in the Editor when this is toggled on
Line Length Adjust this value to set the desired maximum line length in the Editor (it may be reduced in narrow width windows)
Text Size Set the size of the text in the Editor and Preview
Preview Opens/Closes the Preview window
Help
About iA Writer Version information
iA Writer Help Opens the integrated help files
What's New Shows release notes for current version
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