The VoodooPad Interface
VoodooPad has 3 basic sections: the work area, the toolbar, and the palette. The following introductions will help you in navigating and finding each section's usefulness.
The Work Area
The place where you do your typing is called the Work Area and it is relatively straight forward. It should look like just about every other text editor you have used.
The work area can be enlarged one of 3 ways. You can click on the bottom right corner of the screen to adjust it however you see fit.
You can click the rightmost button in the top to make the window as big as the screen.
Or you can choose View ▸ Full Screen to enter full screen mode.
For more information on editing text in the work area, check out the Editing Text page.
The Toolbar
VoodooPad's toolbar provides you with quick access to many useful features in VoodooPad. Most of these features can also be accessed from the menu or with keyboard shortcuts.
Toolbar Buttons
The butons in the top left are Close, Minimize, and Zoom. Unlike the zoom button in most windows, VoodooPad's zoom will stretch out your window to as big as it can get on your monitor.
Sometimes you will see the close button look like this: 
This means that the document has changed since you last saved it. For the most part you will not have to worry about saving. VoodooPad will automatically save every time you go to a different page, move to a different program, leave VoodooPad open, or when you close the document you are working on. If you find yourself nervous about the content of your page, choosing File ▸ Save will also do the trick. You will notice as soon as you save, the dot in the middle of the close button will disappear.
On the top of the toolbar is the name of your document followed by a colon, and then the page you are on. In this case: "Meeting Notes.vpdoc:Index".
On the right of the toolbar there is a little pill shaped button which hides or displays the toolbar.
The toolbar can also be modified by going to View ▸ Customize Toolbar. You will find options to move the exising icons around or remove them. For more on Customizing the toolbar, check out the Customizing Toolbar page.
The Palette
VoodooPad 4 introduces a new unified palette. All the information you need about your document in one easy place. The palette is designed to be there for you. If you want you can move it, resize it, or make as many of them as you want.
If you have questions about a specific palette, choose it from Palette List:
New Palette
To create a new palette choose Window ▸ New Palette.
If your palettes have become messy, you can gather them up by choosing Window ▸ Gather Palettes.
Hiding the Palette List
By clicking and dragging from the left edge of the palette list you can shrink, expand, or get rid of the list. This is great when screen real estate is low. Try using this feature in conjunction with the Palette HUD (Heads Up Display).
Palette HUD (Heads Up Display)
You can pop up a nifty palette HUD for quick switching between palettes. Click on the button in the bottom left corner of the palette to pull it up. The palette HUD does the same thing as clicking on the titles of the palettes on the left side, but gives you another way to change palettes around. If you are short on screen real estate try hiding the list and using this feature.
Hiding the Palette
You can hide the palettes by choosing Window ▸ Palettes ▸ Hide Palettes or by hitting this toolbar item (see Customizing The Toolbar if you don't see this in your toolbar).
Palette List
Click one of the links below to find out about a specific palette.
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