I like the autocomplete function. Mostly, anyway. But I index a series of books that have many italicized, lowercased entries interspersed among the...
You can get Cindex to only autocomplete entries that have the same style and case: Choose Edit from the top menu Choose Preferences Choose the Editing tab ...
I have a lot of Courier text in my Cindex file. When I save to an RTF file, it all shows up as unprintable characters. Any idea why? I don't recall ever having...
... file, ... If I type in Courier, it saves as Courier. However, in this index I typed all the Courier as bold, then did a global replace from bold to...
I would not have a clue as to why. If you have no need to preserve the Courier, you could just change all text in Cindex to Times or other common font. If no...
When a file of mine started misbehaving, I save the file as an .arc file. Then opened the .arc file and it righted itself. I have not have the problem you...
Rachel, I can't fine the name of the Macros software you recommended vs Quickeys which I find confusing. Can you remind me of the company and name? Thanks! ...
... Different strokes, etc. I tried iKey, but found that it wouldn't do all that I wanted it to do. I don't remember now just exactly what its failings were; I...
Hi Ed, I have Quickeys but find it mindboggling to set up a new macro. I, too, long for the OS 9 scheme of being able to perform the macro once and it is ...
If any of you are fluent in QuicKeys and also planning on going to the next ASI conference, would you consider offering a workshop on QK? Cheers, Carol ... ...
Dear Collective Wisdom Is there any way that I can retain the entries, subentries etc in an index and delete all the pages refs - I am redoing an annual report...
Madeleine Davis
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Sep 6, 2006 6:08 am
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... search for "see" in the page field and click the "not" box. That will bring up a window with all your entries except the cross-references. Next do a...
Thanks Carol - it works a treat! Whooo Hooo... regards Madeleine ... -- Madeleine Davis Special Project Officer Australasian Legal Information Institute...
Madeleine Davis
mdavis@...
Sep 6, 2006 7:23 am
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Another way to do this: Choose Tools from the top menu. Choose Alter References. Click Remove References. You'll have to choose a page range - you can make...
Yes, And after you use one of the processes described, then turn everything red until you put locators in so you will easily see the blank entries and can fix...
... Martha's suggestion is good. You do need a way to check for entries without page numbers when you finish. There are other ways to do that. What you...
I use still another method. I mark all the empty records as deleted (but do not compress the file, so they are still there) and then create new records using...
Fantastic! I knew there had to be a simpler way. Thanks for posting that. Cheers, Carol ... Indexing services: http://www.RobertsIndexing.com Photography:...
Apologies if this has been covered before. The Yahoo groups search engine is not very good for searching through message archives. If I need Greek letters...
When I insert a Greek letter, this is the procedure I use: *the New Record window is open and I'm typing along *time to insert the Greek letter, so Ctrl-C-Y...
Deborah Patton
dp@...
Sep 7, 2006 1:35 pm
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Thank you to Martha and Connie for more helpful ideas. Is anyone gathering all these help ideas into a comprehensive (and indexed) online guide for CINDEX??...
Madeleine Davis
mdavis@...
Sep 8, 2006 5:14 am
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Can someone refresh my memory on how to insert a volume number in front of the pages. I've got 4 indexes, they all have to go into a cumulative file, each one...
diana.witt@...
Sep 8, 2006 5:20 am
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Diana, You must have needed some sleep! It was late when you wrote. You didn't say what the character is that will separate the volume number from the page ...
Deborah Patton
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Sep 8, 2006 10:56 am
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Hi, Diana, I think the following procedure should work. 1. Find only the page locators for the first volumne. 2. Using Replace, in Find type "^?*$", change...
If you use Find: [1-9][0-9]* in your pattern, please be sure you do not have any numbers in your cross references. Example: War of 1812. Erin (Micki) Taylor ...
Good morning, Is there any way in Cindex to change one see also ref from italic type to plain type and still have it sort at the end of all subentries? I've...
