FW: [Free Framers] Keyboard shortcut control for inserting a variable?/FM crashing when deleting multiple variables?

[Spectrum Writing]

thanks all for the responses. BTW, I wanted to delete some old variables
from this document, and when I tried to delete multiple variables before
saving the file, the file crashes - i.e., Special > Variables and scroll to
the user-defined variables portion of the list. Select a variable for
deletion and then click the Delete (Trash can) icon. Next user-defined
variable in  list is automatically  highlighted. Click the Delete icon.
After doing this for a few variables, BOOM, FM crashes. the only way I can
get around this - after I delete a variable, save the file, and THEN click
the Delete icon for the next selected variable in the list.

 

Major annoyance and not useful at all and I have noticed this behavior in
other pods that have the Delete option. has anybody else? If so, it's a yet
another bug in FM9 that didn't exist in previous versions.

 

TVB

 

Tammy Van Boening

Owner/Principal

Spectrum Writing, LLC

www.spectrumwritingllc.com

info at spectrumwritingllc.com

 

From: Spectrum Writing [mailto:info at spectrumwritingllc.com] 
Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 12:52 PM
To: Free Framers Subscriber
Subject: [Free Framers] Keyboard shortcut control for inserting a variable?

 

All,

 

The name of the application for which I am currently developing a manual is
a hideous mix of upper and  lower case letters and numbers. (Marketing
really outdid themselves on this one.) Obviously, it's a PITA to type this
creature every time I need to use it , so I set it up as a variable and have
been inserting it when needed. Of course, the Special > Variable  option
requires me to scroll through a list of variables to find the one that I
want and that's not that efficient either.

 

Deep in the fuzzy recesses of my  mind,  I remember something about a nifty
little keyboard shortcut to use to insert a variable (compliments of Fred
Ridder or John Posada or Richard Combs - one of you FM gurus out there!) I
remember something about the list appearing in the bottom tray of the FM
window and you used this keyboard command to scroll through the list
onscreen and select the one that you want - does this even sound close or
right to what I remember?

 

Anyway, if y'all have the answer, it would be much appreciated.

 

TVB

 

Tammy Van Boening

Owner/Principal

Spectrum Writing, LLC

www.spectrumwritingllc.com

info at spectrumwritingllc.com

 

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