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+<helpdocument version="1.0">
+<meta>
+<topic id="textswriter0218130000xml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH">
+<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Direct Cursor Mode</title>
+<filename>/text/swriter/02/18130000.xhp</filename>
+</topic>
+</meta>
+<body>
+<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3147167"><bookmark_value>direct cursor; restriction</bookmark_value>
+</bookmark>
+<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="hid/.uno:ShadowCursor" id="bm_id3154504" localize="false"/>
+<h1 id="hd_id3147167"><link href="text/swriter/02/18130000.xhp" name="Direct Cursor Mode">Direct Cursor Mode</link></h1>
+<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3152896" xml-lang="en-US"><ahelp hid=".uno:ShadowCursor">Activates or deactivates the direct cursor.</ahelp> You can specify the behavior of the direct cursor by choosing <switchinline select="sys"><caseinline select="MAC"><emph>%PRODUCTNAME - Preferences</emph></caseinline><defaultinline><emph>Tools - Options</emph></defaultinline></switchinline><emph> - </emph><link href="text/shared/optionen/01040600.xhp" name="Text Document - Formatting Aids"><emph>%PRODUCTNAME Writer - Formatting Aids</emph></link>.</paragraph>
+<section id="howtoget">
+  <embed href="text/swriter/00/00000402.xhp#direct_cursor"/>
+<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3151133" xml-lang="en-US">On Tools bar, click</paragraph>
+<table id="tbl_id3151173" name="tbl_id3151173">
+<tablerow>
+<tablecell colspan="" rowspan="">
+<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147508" xml-lang="en-US">
+<image id="img_id3154840" src="cmd/sc_shadowcursor.png" width="1cm" height="1cm"><alt id="alt_id3154840" xml-lang="en-US">Icon Toggle Direct Cursor Mode</alt>
+	</image></paragraph>
+</tablecell>
+<tablecell colspan="" rowspan="">
+<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3151310" xml-lang="en-US">Toggle Direct Cursor Mode</paragraph>
+</tablecell>
+</tablerow>
+</table>
+
+</section>
+<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154570" xml-lang="en-US">The direct cursor allows you to click in any blank area of a page to place text, images, tables, frames, and other objects.</paragraph>
+<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3155902" xml-lang="en-US">If you place the direct cursor approximately in the middle between the left and the right margin of a page or a table cell, the text you insert will be centered. Similarly, text is right-aligned when the direct cursor is placed on the right margin.</paragraph>
+<warning id="par_id3151255">The AutoCorrect tool automatically removes empty paragraphs, tabs, and spaces that are inserted by the direct cursor. If you want to use the direct cursor, then disable the AutoCorrect tool.</warning>
+
+<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3148982" xml-lang="en-US">The direct cursor sets tabs to position the cursor. If you change the tabs later. the position of the text on the page may change as well.</paragraph>
+</body>
+</helpdocument>