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What do the various bits of information on the status line at the bottom of the screen show?

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What do the various bits of information on the status line at the bottom of the screen show?

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The first, important, thing to know about the status line is that it is only updated in idle moments when you are not doing anything so it’s best to stop typing for one or two seconds before reading the information. The first entry on the line tells you which Style the current paragraph is based on. Often this will be Default but that changes when you use Style/Use a Paragraph Style and it may be different if you have created your own new templates with different default style names. Next is the Page number. This can only be relied on 100% immediately after the document has been repaginated (such as Document/Re-Paginate Now – [Ctrl]+T). At any other times you may have inserted new lines which will have changed where the page breaks will occur so the current position of page breaks is out of date. The paragraph number is the number of the paragraph that the cursor is in counting from the very start of the document. The line number is the number of the line that the cursor is in on the c

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