While Aligner is not a full word-processor, some editing facilities have been built in to help deal with common formatting problems:

 

•Find: lets you search for a term and have that highlighted in the text.

•Join up, down: these buttons merge a line with another one. You can achieve this also by simply dragging.

•Split: allows you to choose where a line should be divided in two.

•Cut blank lines: removes excess blank lines.

•Oddities: this identifies cases where e.g. a sentence or paragraph does not start with a capital letter or number -- you will probably want to join it to the one above, or where a line is unusually short, etc.

•Abbreviations: if Aligner cuts sentences at e.g. Mr. you can re-join by tying in search terms such as Mr. Mrs. Sr.

•Refresh: tidies up the text display.

 

Use Edit data to get a window allowing you to edit the whole of the current sentence or paragraph.

Use Copy (Ctrl/C) to copy the whole text, to copy one line, or copy one word.

And Save as TXT, RTF to get the aligned text into Word or Excel.

 

•#: switches on and off line numbering.

•Heading: allows you to treat a line as a heading, and if so makes it look bold.

 

You will then want to save (Ctrl+F2) your text.

 

You can also:

•open a new file for viewing (you can open any number of text files within Viewer & Aligner)

•copy to the clipboard (Control/C)

•print the whole or part of the currently active text file

•search for words or phrases (press F12)