Hebrew on NWP: TOC and MS word compatibilty

[ziv.maor]

Hi.
I owned NWE 2.7 and after upgrading to Macbook I decided to upgrade the word processor too - to NWP, espcially because of the TOC feture. Only it apears not to work on Hebrew:
When the document was less than 24 pages long, I kept updating the TOC with each chapter, and it looked messy since the page numbers appeared on the line underneath the chapter title, instead of on the end of the line of the chapter title.
I let it go, believing that I could solve it later, but after passing page 24, any attempt to update the TOC caused the program to collapse (Making me write the unsaved lost content over and over again), Some times the program has collapsed without even trying to update the TOC - till I gave up on the TOC, erased it, and troubles stopped. But it was a hell of a headache to write the TOC manually as a table, especially after paying for a program that suppose to do that automatically. BTW, the TOC on the left of the page worked well and was a great aid on navigating in the document.
Worse than the TOC problems are the compatibility problems with MS Word. On NWE 2.7 I had no troubles at all with that. The document didn’t always ended up as beautiful as I wanted it on Word, but at least it was readable and with no codification problems. No such luck on NWP.
If I write on the very same font I used on NWE - Arial Hebrew - the PC user sees the Punctuation marks as meaningless symbols. For example, “,” turned out as ®. “.” turned out as ¬.
If I change the font to Arial, which has a parallel Hebrew font on PC with the same name, than firstly it would have been uncomfortable for me to write with this font on the Mac. But worse - on Word, punctation marks after which was a space, got replaced with the space. “, ” turned out as “ ,”, etc.
So... HELP!

[martin]

I kept updating the TOC with each chapter, and it looked messy since the page numbers appeared on the line underneath the chapter title, instead of on the end of the line of the chapter title.

This is probably due to the tab settings, alignment, or writing direction of the TOC paragraph styles. I'd check if adjusting those helps the situation.

any attempt to update the TOC caused the program to collapse (Making me write the unsaved lost content over and over again)

Am I correct that after a collapse the Apple crash reporter dialog appears and NWP is no longer running? If so, after it occurs please relaunch NWP and submit a report using the menu Help > Send Feedback. We never see the reports sent to Apple, so we have to collect our own.

If I write on the very same font I used on NWE - Arial Hebrew - the PC user sees the Punctuation marks as meaningless symbols. For example, “,” turned out as ®. “.” turned out as ¬.

This could be a bug in NWP or the PC version of Word. Have you tried opening the file on Word for the Mac? It may help if you can send us an example document to look at. You can submit documents to us using the same feedback menu.