Positioning the caret

To type text on to the page, first you need to position the caret in the document. The caret is the flashing line which appears on the page; it is the point at which any characters you type will be inserted into the document.

To position the caret in a document which already contains text, simply point to the place where you want it and click once with the left mouse button. When you start typing, the characters will appear at the point you clicked, wherever it is in the document. In a new document, the caret can only go at the start of the document unless you add text or returns and spaces to position it.