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Nisus New confusion

Posted: 2006-08-15 08:50:04
by ncdobson
I selected a recent doc as my Nisus New file in the expectation that only its attributes would be present when I open a new document. But now when I open a new doc not only the desired attributes, but also all of the text from the paradigm document are present. Have I misunderstood the idea of using an actual document as the template? or just done something wrong in setting it as my New file?

TIA,

Nick Dobson

Posted: 2006-08-15 10:02:46
by cchapin
I don't believe you did anything wrong. I think this is the intended behavior. Just open the template, delete the existing content and save it.

--Craig

Posted: 2006-08-15 11:17:29
by Ryan
This would be desired behaviour if, for example, you primarily write TPS reports in Nisus, and you want your default new document to already have a coversheet on it, perhaps with all of your bosses' names written in loopy fonts.

I made my custom new doc template have all my styles and defaults set, then I use an assortment of other templates for documents where I want content (such as titles, page numberings, sections, biblios, etc.) to already be present.

*ahem* An interface for working with templates would be sweet. *cough*

probably obvious

Posted: 2006-08-15 11:17:37
by gemboy27
Making sure you deselect the "open as new file" box

Gem