Child Pages and Families

Using Inspiration Tutorial

Child Pages and Families

When creating Inspiration document your ideas may get larger than the single diagram/outline you are working on. This is easily remedied by creating a family of concept maps/outlines in the same file. The top level document is known as the family head and all others are considered child subdocuments. This feature allows you to layer and better organize complex diagrams or outlines.

This tutorial will explain the following:

Creating a child
Switching between family members
Deleting a child
A little more info on families

Creating a child

Select the symbol you wish to add a child.

Method 1. Go to file on the menu bar, down to Family, and over to Open Child.

Method 2. Hit F6.

Method 3. On the symbol double click on the upper right hand selection handle.

After you have created the child a new Inspiration window will open with the symbol from the original document the main idea.

Switching between family members

Method 1

Go to Window on the menu bar and select the desired document.

If the child is not currently open, try Method 2.

Method 2

1. To switch from one family member to another, go to file, down to Family, and over to Open Any Child.

2. This will list all members of the family. Select the child you wish to work on and hit OK.

Deleting a child

1. If only it were this easy.... Select the symbol with the child to be deleted.

2. Return to the Family submenu (off of File on the menu bar). Select Delete Child.

Note: Once you do this it will ask you to save the child. If you wish to save it, hit Yes, otherwise hit No.

A little more info on families

To directly access a parent/grandparent document from a child hold down the Command () key and click on the title bar of the Child window
To add an existing document as a child to another. Select the symbol you wish to add the child to, go to the Family menu (under File from the menu bar) and select Adopt.
To spell check the entire family, select the Check Family box on the Spell Check dialogue window.
To print the entire family, select the Print Entire Family box on the Print dialogue window.

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Written by Dan McDowell
Last updated on July 16, 1998