Re: Newbie baffled

Colleen Steel wrote:

>
> OK--I'm a Mac user and am having some problems so basic some of you
> will probably laugh but:
>
> 1-When I create the template I want to use as a default and click
> "save template" it never appears on the template menu or anywhere I
> can access it.

You need to save this template into the templates folder. On Windows
it's in Program Files\AbiSuite 2\templates, and I know the Mac templates
come in the App bundle, but a Mac dev can tell you better if you can
save them to anywhere else in order to make them work. Alternatively,
if you want to use a template only some of the time, the "Open as Copy"
will start a new, untitled document with the contents of the opened file
in it.

>
>
> 2-I delete and rewrite constantly. Sometimes the program starts
> inserting the new text several spaces ahead of where my cursor is
> positioned and I don't know how to control it. (I'm sure I've somehow
> asked it to do that but it's kind of creepy...)

This sounds like a bug... please report this and any other bugs to
http://bugzilla.abisource.com However, I'm not a Mac user or dev, so
there may be some magic switch that was changed...

>
>
> 3-What's this ornery little arrow that appears when I try to edit my
> header?

I presume you mean the line-selection arrow, that generally is an arrow
pointing right instead of left. If you don't click "just right" in the
header to edit it, you may select a line accidentally. Make sure you
have first inserted the header using Insert, Header. If you have
trouble getting the caret (insertion pointer) into the header, turn on
the "Extra" toolbar (View, Toolbars, Extra, or thereabouts) and click
the icon that has a purple rectangle at the top (or bottom for footers)
of the document.

>
> Clueless,
>
> Colleen
>
Hope this helps!

Ryan
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Received on Mon Jul 18 07:47:57 2005