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<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Direct Cursor On/Off</title>
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<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3152896" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="2"><ahelp hid=".uno:ShadowCursor">Activates or deactivates the direct cursor.</ahelp> You can specify the behavior of the direct cursor by choosing <emph><switchinline select="sys"><caseinline select="MAC">%PRODUCTNAME - Preferences</caseinline><defaultinline>Tools - Options</defaultinline></switchinline> - <link href="text/shared/optionen/01040600.xhp" name="Text Document - Formatting Aids">%PRODUCTNAME Writer - Formatting Aids</link></emph>.</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154570" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="4">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" l10n="U" oldref="6">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>
<paragraph role="warning" id="par_id3151255" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="5">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.</paragraph>

<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3148982" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="7">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>
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