How to Print Document Background Color in PDF using Kingsoft Writer 2013

In the latest Kingsoft Office 2013, you can export the background color together with the document content to PDF. Take the following steps to add background color to your document and export it to PDF.

Apply Background Color to Word Document

Step 1 Launch Kingsoft Writer 2013.

Step 2 Under 2013 style interface, go to Page Layout > Background, and then select a color for your document background. Under Classic interface, the background function can be found in Format > Background.

Figure 1 - Background Color function under 2013 style interface

The color will be applied to your document background. You can also choose a color from the color pallette by click on More Fill Colors.

Tips:

You can also apply gradient effect to the color you have applied to the document background. Click onGradient in the drop-down option list as seen in the above screenshot, and choose a fill effect in the pop-up dialog. You can choose colors, transparency, and shading styles. Press OK to apply it to the document.

Figure 2 Background color fill effect

Export document background color in PDF

Under 2013 style interface, go to Save as > Export to PDF to convert the document to PDF. After the PDF process is completed, you can open the PDF file to check the background color.

Want to try it now? Download Office Free 2013 to try it out.

How to Replace Duplicate Breaks in Document Using Writer 2013

When use Kingsoft Writer 2013 to edit document, there are sometimes many unnecessary breaks in the document. For example, you may not have used the formatting options in Writer to specify the spacing between paragraphs or lines of text. Instead, you may have inserted extra returns. In this case, you don't have to scroll through the document to delete the breaks one by one manually. There is an easy way to remove duplicate page breaks. Follow these steps to remove extra paragraph breaks.

Find and Replace duplicate paragraph breaks

Step 1 Press Ctrl + H to open the Find and Replace dialog box.
Step 2 In the Find what box, enter ^p^p (two paragraph marks).
Step 3 In Replace with box, enter ^p.
Step 4 Click Replace All.



The duplicate paragraph marks will be replaced with one. You can also find other characters and replace them.

Find and Replace duplicate line breaks

If you copied the text from the Internet, there might be too many line breaks. To replace manual line breaks with paragraph breaks, follow these steps:
Step 1 Press Ctrl + H to open the Find and Replace dialog box.
Step 2 In the Find what box, enter ^l (manual line break).
Step 3 In Replace with box, enter ^p.
Step 4 Click Replace All.

How to Insert Column Break to Document Using Writer 2013

In Writer 2013, if you have formatted your text in columns, the text will flow automatically from one column to the next. However, you can also insert column breaks manually, so that text after the break will flow to another column.

Create Columns

Step 1 Open a document in Kingsoft Writer 2013
Step 2 Under 2013 interface, go to Page Layout > Column and select number of columns you'd like to divide to text to.




For example, select Two from the Columns list. The text will be divided into two columns.

Insert Column Break

Step 1 Place your cursor where you want the column to break.
Step 2 Under 2013 style interface , click Page Layout > Breaks. A menu with options will appear; click Column Break. Under Classic interface go to Format > Columns to choose column number in the pop-up dialog.




Under Classic interface, go to Insert > Break > Column Break.



After inserting column breaks manually, the text in the document shows like this:

How to Match Gridlines and Typed Text in Kingsoft Writer

Enable Gridlines feature under View tab in Kingssoft Writer. Then write several lines, gradually you will find that the gridlines and the text you’ve typed do not match. You think this is a bug of Kingsoft Office? No, it’s not. You just need to change the setting to match gridlines and the text. Please follow the guide below:

1. Go to Page Layout > Settings > Document Grid. Select Specify line grid only and hit OK.

2. Go to Page Layout > Settings > Document Grid once again. Click Drawing Grid to bring the dialog box. Then uncheck Vertical Every box and hit OK.

3. Then you will see that gridlines and typed text are matched in Writer, as shown in the following:

How to Set Print Areas and Print Titles on a Worksheet

This article will guide you through the process of setting print areas and print titles in a worksheet using Spreadsheets 2013.

If a worksheet contains more than one page, you can print row and column headings or titles on every page to make the page data properly labeled.

Set print area

Step 1 Select the worksheet range that you want to print.

Step 2 Under 2013 style interface of Spreadsheets 2013, go to Page Layout tab, click Print Area. Select Set Print Area.

Figure 1 Set Print Area

Set print titles

Step 1 Select the worksheet range that you want to include titles when print.

Step 2 Under 2013 style interface of Spreadsheets 2013, go to Page Layout tab, click Print Titles.

Step 3 In the Page Setup dialog that pops up, click on the select button in Rows to repeat at top area and select a title row.

Figure 2 Set Print Titles in Page Setup

Figure 3 Select Row(s) to Repeat in Every Page

Step 4 Go back to Page Setup dialog and press OK to finish setting. Now the selected row is repeated at the top of each page. In Print Preview, the pages looks like the following:

Figure 4 Repeated titles on every page of the worksheet

In the same way you can set column(s) to repeat at the left of each page.

Tips:

To show row and column headings, you can tick the check box before Row and column headings under Print in the Page Setup dialog (see Figure 2).

How to Use Paste Special to do Calculations in Kingsoft Spreadsheets

Perhaps you know that in Kingsoft Spreadsheets, you can use Paste Special to do simple calculations to the worksheet data. The calculations include add, subtract, divide and multiply. Follow these steps to use Paste Special.

Step 1 In the worksheet that you want to make the calculation (in this example, column B), enter the number you want to add, subtract, multiply by or divide by in one cell (or a column). In this example, we enter the value into column C.

Step 2 Select C2 to C8 and press Ctrl + C to copy the range to clipboard. Then select B2 to B8, and go to Home > Paste. Click on Paste button to open the drop-down function list. Select Paste Special from the list.

Step 3 The Paste Special dialog pops up. Here you can choose the operation you want to do on the selected range. For example, we choose Add and press OK to apply to the selected range in column B.

You will see that Spreadsheets adds the value you copied to the Clipboard to every value in the selected range. To do other calculations, simply select from the operation list.

How to Set Different Page Orientation in Kingsoft Writer

In some special cases, people need to set different page orientation in one document. With simple page break setting in Kingsoft Writer, you can easily achieve this. Now follow the tutorial to get more office tips.

For example, there is a file with 3 pages. You want to set page 2 to landscape orientation while the other 2 pages stay portrait orientation.

Step 1: Put your cursor at the end of page 1. Go to Page Layout > Breaks > Next Page Section Break (see screenshot below). Then your cursor will move to the beginning of page 2. In this way page 1 and page 2 are break into two sections.

Step 2: Put the cursor at the end of page 2, repeat step 1 to break page 2 and page 3. Then you can begin to set different page orientation.

Step 3: Put the cursor at any place of page 2. Go to Page Layout > Orientation > Landscape. Then you will find page 2 is in landscape mode while the rest pages maintain the portrait page orientation. See screenshot:

Note: If there are too many lines in page 2, when you change page 2 to landscape orientation, there may not have enough space for all lines, then page 2 will turn to 2 pages. The two pages will have the same page orientation.

How to Activate Kingsoft Office 2013?

To activate Kingsoft Office 2013, you need to purchase a product key first. When you purchase our product and complete the payment, you will receive an email confirming your order with a license code. The code is composed of five groups of number and letter mix, which are connected with hyphens. One product key can be used to activate three PCs.

Install Kingsoft Office 2013 and Activate

If you have not installed Kingsoft Office 2013 yet, you can download the latest version here: Download Office Professional 2013.
Run the installer and follow the instructions in the wizard to start installing Kingsoft Office Professional 2013 to your computer.
In the third step of the installation wizard, enter the product serial number you have purchased.


Press Next in the following steps. After the installation is completed, your office 2013 is succesfully installed and activated.

Add serial number to Office 2013 Product Management Center

If you already have Office 2013 free trial version installed, then simply open one of the three Office components: Writer, Spreadsheets or Presentation, and then click Help button to open Product Management Center. Click Add to enter your product key and click OK to finish.


The product key will be recorded as Not limited.