A Couple Questions

[Michael P. Webb]

On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 08:30:28 -0500, it appears that you wrote the following:

Hi Liz,

> I recently bought Outliner, after having nursed More 3.1 along through 
> an amazing number of OS upgrades.  [More still works, but using it on 
> an OSX box feels like driving a horse and buggy on the freeway.] I 
> can't live without an outlining program ... I'm still learning 
> Outliner, though, and have a couple questions I can't find answers to.

Welcome to the "family". :)


> 1) I have a list in TextEdit that I want to make an outline from. In 
> More, I could paste in the entire text document, then split it into my 
> outline sections, using Command-Return. I can't find a way to split 
> rows in Outliner. Is this feature missing (if so, please add it!), or 
> did I miss something.

Under "Preferences", hit the "Keyboard" graphic, and then change the
"When Pressing Return" pref to be "Split current row at insertion
point".

Then just put the cursor where you want to split and hit the return
key.


> B) With the same document, I'd like to apply styles to each level. I 
> can set the font for each level, but it isn't applied to the outline -- 
> I have to change each section manually. Then, when I copy some new text 
> into the outline (from Mail), it retains the styling from Mail -- 
> again, I have to change the style by hand.

One way to fix this is to set the "Column Type" (hit the "Info" button
in the tool bar and hit the heading for the column to change) to be
"Text", instead of "Rich Text".

That should help the appearance. I'm pretty sure that it will not help
when you export as the rich text style is still saved (and used).

 
> In More, there was a command to remove existing styles, so the "master" 
> style for that level could be applied. Outliner needs something like 
> this, too.

I agree. I'm not sure if OO3 will have this. I guess we will have to
wait and see.


> Oh, one more question -- is there any way to print one section of an 
> outline?

Yes. Select the part of the outline to print, and then under the
"Outline" menu, use the "Hoist" menu item.

Print what's there, and then don't forget to "Unhoist". :)

HTH,
Spud  d:-)


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