Sections Tab
Filling individual sections of your crossword
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Filling individual sections of your crossword
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A control + click will select an area of the puzzle AND any words intersecting that area. Often, an area we want to fill is not perfectly square. Rather we want to fill an area with words of various lengths and directions. Control + click enables this behavior. To select an extended area, follow these steps:
Click a white square within your grid
Press and hold the control key
While holding control, click a second square
A shift + click will select a square area without concern for the surrounding words. To select a square area, follow these steps:
Click a white square within your grid
Press and hold the shift key
While holding shift, click a second square
As you can see, with this type of selection we get the square area we've selected without surrounding areas. For example, our section only includes the last three letters of the bottom across word. This means our completions may or may not include valid options for this word. To include this word, use a control + click.
Once you have selected a section, you can adjust which individual squares were selected by using another control + click.
Once you've selected a section using the above methods, simply click "Complete Section" to see the results.
The resulting completions will be displayed as follows:
When a section completion is requested, the results will appear to the right of your main grid. There will be one result if you are using the free version of the software, and eight results if you are using the pro version.
On the left is the completed grid, and on the right are the words used in the completion, accompanied by their ranking and a total ranking. The results are sorted by total ranking, so the first result will include the most common words and should be free of obscure entries if such a fill is possible.
Note: At the top of this control is a dropdown (labelled "37,38,39, et al" above). If you've requested completions for different sections of the grid, you can switch between them using the dropdown.
If you would like to insert one of the resulting completions into the grid, simply click anywhere on the completion.
