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G’day, Dan et al Welcome to the Forum, Dan. I see Mark has just beaten me to the reply. Same idea, but I’ve spelt it out a bit more, step-by-step fashion, so I’ll post it just in case it helps. First of all, we (almost!) never use spaces for formatting. It is easy (and more elegant!) to achieve what...

G’day, dumiya et al

Try saving the file as Plain Text, with .txt file extension. Then, in the Finder, change the .txt extension to .csv. Numbers opens such a file as a spreadsheet table in the manner you would expect.

Cheers,
Adrian

G’day, foster13 et al

Format > Underline > Show Underline Colors
Format > Strikethrough > Show Strikethrough Colors
Format > Highlight > Show Highlight Colors

The macro language has commands for setting such colors.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,
Adrian

G’day, all Actually, I’ve made what I think is an improvement:– # Ensure something is selected. $textExpression = Read Selection If $textExpression == '' $proceed = Prompt "You need to select some text first…", '', 'OK, I will.' If $proceed == 'OK, I will.' While $textExpression == '' Slee...

G’day, Þorvarður et al

Great idea! I’ll use it. Thanks.

Cheers,
Adrian

G’day, exegete77 et al On my system, the current version of the Add or Remove Blank Lines macro is a .nwm file rather than a .pl one:– $count = Find and Replace ‘\n\n+’, ‘\n’, ‘Eas’ If 0 == $count Find and Replace ‘\n’, ‘\n\n’, ‘Eas’ End It works fine when adding or removing blank lines, but one has...

G’day, Martin et al

NWP 2.1.1 beta 2 does indeed fix the issues I had with AppleScript's calling (via “Do Menu Macro” commands) Nisus macros that include paragraph spacing and a Save command.

Thanks, Martin.

Cheers,
Adrian

G’day, all More on the subject of the grey " — Edited" suffix in the Toolbar…. I have an AppleScript script that:– (1) gets data from a Mail message (2) uses the Finder to open an RTF destination file (which opens in Nisus Writer Pro); it contains the dummy text “XXXX” followed by a paragr...

G'day, Philip et al I was interested to see Philip's use of "\A" as a metacharacter for the Special Position "Start of Document". I had been looking for such an object for a long time but couldn't find one. It appears to be undocumented (in both NWP Help and the Macro Language Re...

G’day, Þorvarður et al

Just for the record, note that Philip’s solution only works when the replicated paragraphs are contiguous. But one can easily ensure this by first using one of the Sort Paragraphs commands in the Edit menu.

Cheers,
Adrian

G’day, Þorvarður et al Depending on how one wishes to proceed, one can initialize a chapter number variable thus:– $chapter = 0 or one can find it thus:– Find 'Chapter ([[:digit:]]+)', 'E$', '-h' $chapter = $1 A complexity with my proposed approach arises because image captions are not part of the m...

G’day, schac et al I’ve never done this before, so I did some experimentation. It’s certainly not obvious how to proceed. I, too, used a list and also faced the problem of prefixing the list item number with the chapter number. I managed to get it to work without using Þorvarður’s ingenious use of r...

G’day, Emilio et al

There is a macro that might do want you want:–

Macro > Document > Create Word List (v4)

Cheers,
Adrian

G’day, WF et al The first thing you need to ask yourself is: Is it absolutely necessary to have your text fully justified? Fully justified text can never look “perfect” everywhere: the best you can hope for is that it looks “good enough” most of the time. Some things that can make a difference:– (1)...

G’day, Emilio et al Just insert the word you wish to find in the “Find what” field of the Find/Replace dialog box and check or uncheck each of the three checkboxes there, as desired. Hit the Find All button, then click once on your document window and choose Format > Highlight > Green (or the color ...