Menus – Fact Sheet Fusion Help

File Menu

The file menu allows you to open a different Project (Ctrl+P) within the currently opened Fusion database, open a different Fusion Database (Ctrl+O) containing other projects, or to Import content from HTML or MS Word files.

Edit Menu

The edit menu gives you access to the Glossary (Ctrl+G), Media Library (Ctrl+M), Watermarks (Ctrl+W), Global Find & Replace (Ctrl+F), Global Topic Clean and Preferences.

Topics Menu

The Topic menu gives you access to actions available for managing Topics. Menu items will only be available if they are able to perform the action. For example, the Delete option would be unavailable if no topics are present. For more information on Topics please see the Topics help section below.

Entities Menu

The Entities menu gives you access to actions available for managing Entities. Menu items will only be available if they are able to perform the action. For example, the Delete option would be unavailable if no entities are present. For more information on Entities please see the Entities help section below.

Help Menu

The help menu gives access to this help file and to the about dialog, where version information and the log file is accessible. You can also check for updates to Fact Sheet Fusion that may have become available.

Components of a fact sheet

A fact sheet is usually comprised of headings, text and multimedia. Fact Sheet Fusion is designed to create standardized fact sheets; by this we mean that each fact sheet has a similar look and feel in its design and each fact sheet is built using a common set (or subset) of topic headings.

To develop a Fact Sheet Fusion project a list of topic headings is entered along with a list of entities*. For each entity, text is entered for each topic heading, and these topic headings, along with corresponding text, are integrated for each entity when being transformed into the final fact sheet.

* An entity is the object for which the fact sheet is being created. An entity can be anything such as an insect, fish or plant species, a medical disorder, or any other series of objects that are described according to specific topics.

To make a fact sheet more informative images, and other media (videos, sounds, PDF, Office documents) can be linked to entities. These images are then included with the text at the time of fact sheet creation.

The presentation and structure of a fact sheet is determined by the specific template the user selects. The template dictates every aspect of the fact sheet such as the layout, color scheme, the positioning of topics and images, font sizes etc.

See Templates help topic for further information.

For help on the elements of the main interface see:

Closing the Main Editing Interface

Closing the main editing interface will return you to the databases available projects. From there you can elect to open another project or open a different database.