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Hi All, I'm new to the Mac, and thought that behaviour of the Home and End keys in NWP was simply an OS X convention (which it very well may be). However, I noticed that the behaviour of those keys in MS Word (for OS X) is similar to what I would expect from my Windows days: Home takes you to the be...

Hello Martin, thanks again for the quick and clear explanation. Much appreciated. Josh

Hi All, Just a question out of curiosity, because there is an easy work-around: I've noticed that NWP semi-regularly will not be able to open a file in Wordperfect format (an error message occurs saying that file cannot be opened), but when I try to open the same file in OpenOffice, it will open jus...

Hello Hamid, Thanks for the helpful information. Unfortunately, I need the ability to 'paint' the attributes onto the text (basically highlighting a lot of non-consecutive words which I use in my lectures) using a tablet and stylus. The dropper generally works fine, but is a bit sensitive (or, I'm a...

Hello All,

Quick question: is there anyway to set up a keyboard shortcut for the 'dropper'. I can't seem to locate it in the menus and no menu location is mentioned in the manual as far as I can tell.

Thanks,
Josh

Hi Martin, thanks. Selecting noncontiguous cells will do for now. Of course, it would be nice to either have true table cell styles or to be able to copy and paste cell attributes just like you can do with text attributes (btw, the copy and paste ruler feature of NWP is very nice and handy!).
Josh

Hello Kino, When I try to edit that style, NWP won't allow me to modify the table cell attributes (e.g., to set the cell shading): they are grayed out. I'm not sure if this is a problem with me or my NWP or what. What I would like to do is set up a number of table cell styles and then apply them to ...

Hello All, I have a table where a number of discontinuous cells have the same cell shading. Is there an easy way to copy cell shading from one cell to another one? Also, the manual seems to indicate that one can create styles for table cells, but I'm a bit uncertain how to do that. When I create eit...

Hi Martin, perfect! That solves (and explains) the problem. Thanks again, Josh

Hi Martin, The 'character style' must have been an artifact of importing my Wordperfect documents that then got into my NisusNewFile when I was first getting NWP all set up—and I've always just assumed that it was a Nisus default style! I looked at the style, it has no content: it's based on 'none' ...

Hi Martin, Thanks for the help. I don't have character style defined; when I made the macro (and new to NWP, which I still am!) I assumed that it was some sort of default (or neutral) definition that was applied to all characters. When I tried applying it to text with italics, bold, etc., it seemed ...

Hello All, I have the following very simple macro which I use to get rid of italics and bold, etc. on the word at the insertion point (it then moves the insertion point to the next word): Menu ‘:Edit:Select:Select Word’ Menu ‘:Format:Character Style:Character Style’ Select End Find ‘\m’, ‘E’ Select ...

Hello Talazem, This is a miser-loves-company post. I've recently switched to NWP too, used mainly for academic writing. I've found the same slow down, even in small documents (about 7000 words in the body with 90 footnotes (about 2000 words)). But, for me, the slow down tends to come and go when I'm...

Thanks Kino, Hamid, and Martin for all your help. I'll make good use those very handy macros, Kino. Much appreciated. Josh

Hello All, I've attached a page or so from the file that is giving me problems, for anyone who is curious (there are tabs in every footnote, and one tab in the body). Here is what I tried: selection point in body of text hit Command-A to select body (only body of text is selected, note text is not) ...