OmniOutliner's Info Panel consists of five sections, each used to control a specific portion of your document. These sections can be individually shown/hidden allowing you to fit the whole Info Panel to your screen size with ease. To hide or show a section, click on the corresponding title bar within the Info Panel.
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Row Levels - This section is used to control the default properties of each level of the outline
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Styles: For each level you have in the current document a numbered level will be present in this field. To edit the properties of a row, select the appropriate row and modify the available settings. These include the numbering as well as the text properties
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Numbering Type: This pull down menu allows you to specify the labeling for the selected level. There are several options, including 1,2,3,4,... and i,ii,iii,iv,... which can be selected.
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Prefix and Suffix: In addition to the standard number scheme, you can also add a prefix and suffix to the labels of each row level. As expected these characters or words will appear before or after the selected type label. Alternatively, you can use these fields to create your own numbering system.
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Text Properties: With a level selected, you can modify the font, style, and color of that level. Both the font and style can be edited from the font panel, which can be accessed from the toolbar, or choose Show Fonts (⌘T) from the Font submenu of the Format menu. To change the color select Show Colors (⇧⌘C) from the Format menu, select a color and press the Apply button. You can also access the color panel from the toolbar of your document.
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Column Type - This section is used to specify the format of each column in your document.
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Column Type: From this pull down menu, you can specify the format of any selected column within the active document. There are seven different options that you can choose, each with their own purpose.
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Checkbox: Just like the standard checkboxes, useful when you find one checkbox simply isn't enough.
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Date: Displays the entered date as shown in the Format pull down menu.
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Duration: Shows the total number of hours spent. OmniOutliner will automatically convert the hours spent into days, weeks and months if appropriate. The conversion for this can be set to work time (8 hour days, 5 day weeks, etc.), calendar time (24 hour days, 7 day weeks, etc.) or your own setting. Selecting the Verbose Format checkbox will spell out the durations (hours, days, weeks, and months) rather than abbreviating them (h, d, w, and m).
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Pop-up List: When you select Pop-up List, all of the current entries in the column become pop-up options for all of the cells. In the options window, you can modify, add, or delete items from the pop-up list, and since the options window works just like a standard outliner column you can paste directly to it. Any cell in a Pop-up list column can be set to one of the set options by clicking on the cell and selecting from the pop-up.
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Number: Number columns allow you to calculate totals and to format numerical values in more readable ways. The style of the number can be changed in the Format pop-up menu, allowing you to display the column as numbers, percentages, or dollar values.
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Rich Text: The default column type that matches the text in each cell to the default for its level unless otherwise specified.
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Text: Your most basic column type, with all of the text being standardized to one font, style and color.
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Summaries: The summaries pull down can be set to one of three options; None, Calculated, or Hidden. The behavior of each column type summary is described in the Column Summaries section.
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Column Style - This section is used to control the alignment and background color properties of each column.
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Background Color: Allows you to set a specific background color for each column if desired. By default, the background color is set to the color specified in the Outline Style section of the Info Panel.
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Gutter Color: This option is only available for the outline column, and allows you to specify the color of the gutter.
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Alignment: Allows you to change the alignment of the text in the selected column. By default, number columns are aligned to the right while all other columns are aligned to the left.
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Outline Style - This section is used to control the default color properties of the entire outline. It is also used for controlling the visibility of the status checkboxes.
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Background: Allows you to set a default background color for the entire outline. This color will be overwritten by any column's background color.
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Alternate Rows: This option lets you set a color to be displayed every other row in place of the background color. This creates an alternating color pattern that can make some documents easier to read.
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Show status checkboxes: Determines whether status checkboxes will be displayed within the current document. This can also be controlled from the View menu.
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Column Export Width - This section of the Info Panel allows your to specify specific widths for each of the columns in a document when pasting strings and exporting to plain text.
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Character Width: To specify a width, replace the value next to the name of the appropriate column with the new value.
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