Insert
The Insert menu contains commands for inserting new elements in your document. This includes images, media, charts, objects from other applications, hyperlink, comments, symbols, footnotes, and sections.
Page Break
Inserts a manual page break at the current cursor position and places the cursor at the beginning of the next page.
Manual Break
Image
Inserts an image into the current document with optimal page wrapping and centered on the line at the current cell position centered on the page or slide.
Object
Inserts an embedded object into your document, including formulas, 3D models, charts and OLE objects.
Shape
This submenu contains common shapes like a line, circle, triangle, and square, or a symbol shape like a smiley face, heart, and flower that can be inserted into the document.
Fontwork
Opens the Fontwork dialog from which you can insert styled text not possible through standard font formatting into your document.
Textbox
Draws a text box with horizontal text direction where you drag in the current document. Drag a text box to the size you want anywhere in the document, and then type or paste your text. Rotate the text box to get rotated text.
Caption
Adds a numbered caption to a selected image, table, chart, frame, or shape. You can also access this command by right-clicking the item that you want to add the caption to.
Bookmark
Inserts a bookmark at the cursor position. You can then use the Navigator to quickly jump to the marked location at a later time. In an HTML document, bookmarks are converted to anchors that you can jump to from a hyperlink.
Cross-references
This is where you insert the references or referenced fields into the current document. References are referenced fields within the same document or within sub-documents of a master document.
Special Character
Allows a user to insert characters from the range of symbols found in the installed fonts.
Formatting Mark
Opens a submenu to insert special formatting marks like non-breaking space, soft hyphen, and optional break.
Horizontal Line
Inserts a horizontal line at the current cursor position.
Footnote and Endnote
The menu contains commands to insert a footnote or endnote with or without additional user interaction.
Table of Contents and Index
Opens a menu to insert an index or bibliography entry, as well as inserting a table of contents, index, and or bibliography.
Page Number
Inserts the current page number as a field at the cursor position. The default setting is for it to use the Page Number character style.
Fields
The submenu lists the most common field types that can be inserted into a document at the current cursor position. To view all of the available fields, choose More Fields.
Section
Inserts a text section at the cursor position in the document. You can also select a block of text and then choose this command to create a section. You can use sections to insert blocks of text from other documents, to apply custom column layouts, or to protect or to hide blocks of text if a condition is met.
Envelope
Creates an envelope. On three tab pages, you can specify the addressee and sender, the position and format for both addresses, the size of the envelope, and the envelope orientation.
Document
Script
Form Control
This submenu contains form controls like a textbox, checkbox, option button, and listbox that can be inserted into the document.