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Manipulating Items

Selecting

To select the anyone element, do one of the following:
Mouse	Click it by mouse.
Keyboard	Use the Arrow keys.

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Adding Items

The current topic is displayed highlighted. Start with the Main Idea.

To add the topic or subtopic, do one of the following:
Toolbar	Click the Add Topic or Add Subtopic button on the Topic Management toolbar.
Menu	Choose the Add Topic or Add Subtopic item from the Topic menu.
Context menu	Choose the Add Topic or Add Subtopic item from the topic context menu.
Keyboard	Use the following keys: Enter, Ctrl + Space - Add a topic of the same level as that of the currently selected one. Insert, Shift + Enter - Add a subtopic to the selected topic. If no topic is selected or the main idea is selected, a new topic will be added to it.

Use the mouse or Arrow keys to select another item if necessary.

To delete the active item, do one of the following:
Toolbar	Click the Delete button on the Main toolbar.
Menu	Choose the Delete item from the Edit menu.
Keyboard	Press Delete.

In this way you can build the whole outline of your Mind Map by entering the topics in any order: the application lets you position the new items easily into the whole hierarchy, and also edit them and manipulate them in different ways.

Editing Items

To switch to the editing mode, select the item and do one of the following:
Menu	Сhoose the Edit Text item from the Edit menu.
Context menu	Сhoose the Edit Text command from the item context menu.
Mouse	Double-click on the topic.
Keyboard	Simply start typing the text.
	Press F2.

After the text is entered you need exit the editing mode.

For this do one of the following:
Mouse	Сlick the mouse outside the text.
Keyboard	Press Enter.
	Press F2 again.
	Press Esc to quit the text editing mode without applying the changes.

Folding and Unfolding

In Outline mode you can choose to show/hide the subtopics related to an item.

	To fold up the subtopics of an item, just click on its icon displaying a "minus". The child topics will be hidden, and the icon will turn into "plus" to indicate that. If an item is selected you can fold up its subtopics, just pressing Left Arrow key.
	To unfold the subtopics of an item, click on its icon containing a "plus" or select this item and press Right Arrow key.

Reordering the Items

To facilitate creating of your Mind Map outline, ConceptDraw MINDMAP lets you reorder the items by moving them to another level or changing their order within one level.

To move the selected item, do one of the following:
Toolbar	Click one of the following button on the Topic Management toolbar: - Outdent item (one level closer to the root) - Indent item (one level deeper) - Move item to the previous position (one line up) - Move item to the next position (one line down)
Menu	Choose one of the Topic Outdent, Topic Indent, Move To Previous Position, Move To Next Position items from the Topic menu.
Mous	Simply drag the item on the needed place.
Keyboard	Use the following keys: Ctrl + Left - Outdent item (one level closer to the root) Ctrl + Right - Indent item (one level deeper) Ctrl + Up - Move item to the previous position (one line up) Ctrl + Down - Move item to the next position (one line down)

Auto numeration

ConceptDraw MINDMAP allows you automatically numerate topics.

For this do one of the following:
Toolbar	Click the Auto Numeration button on the Map Management toolbar.
Menu	Check the Auto Numeration item in the Map menu.

Other objects in the Outline view

There are three columns to the left of the main area used to display objects, attached to topics: T – for text notes, H – for hyperlinks, and Symbols - for symbols (read more about them in the "Text Notes", "Using Hyperlinks", "Symbols" sections). To add an object to the topic, select the item in the list and proceed as in the diagram view.

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