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Hello Hamid, thanks, again, very helpful. Josh

Hello Hamid, Thanks very much, this comes is very handy for many other Wordperfect files that I need to convert and work on! I assume that it must be quirk of the way the Wordperfect file was converted to rtf (or I've accidentally been using the horizontal bar instead of the em-dash all these years!...

I followed Mark's advice, just deleting the offending em-dashes and retyping them and that solved the problem. A bit time consuming, but probably no more than the time spent searching for some automated solution. Fortunately for me, whatever gremlin was causing the problem didn't appear anywhere els...

Hello, I've recently moved to NWP from Wordperfect and so far have been quite enjoying it. However, in a file that I just loaded in, I'm getting a consistent line spacing problem whenever a line has an em-dash in it: the line spacing just above the line containing the em-dash appears to be greater t...

Hello Martin, Thanks very much, that did the trick. I went back and look through the manual and did now catch the line that " " are for interpolation and ' ' are for literals. Although it still seems a bit confusing (at least to me) that the Find expressions appear to work the opposite (fr...

Hello, I'm new to NWP and the its macro language (it's been a long time since I've done any programming either), and I thought I could simply modify the following macro which Martin provided in NWP forum. While Select Next Note If Find '(.*)\s', 'Es$' If '.' != $1 Select Start Type Text ‘.’ End End ...

Thanks for the quick replies; very helpful to know. Josh

Hello Martin or Dan (or anyone else), as an academic who is thinking about switching to NWP, could you give us a sense of how big the document needs to be (and/or how many footnotes there needs to be) before things start to noticeably slow down? This is certainly a concern that I would have too. Tha...