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July 17, 2013
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Pressing enter does not display catalog

  • July 17, 2013
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I used FrameMaker years ago and I always pressed <enter> to display the catalog of styles available at an insertion point. Using FrameMaker 11 now the <enter> key acts like it would in Word, that is, it creates a new paragraph or moves to the next line.

Looking in the Adobe Frame user guide, it describes pressing enter to display the catalog also.

Is it something they've configured at the place I'm working? Is it possible it's because it's a non-US keyboard? It's Dutch, almost exactly the same as US. Does anyone know how I can configure this in the settings?

Thanks in advance,

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    jepryAuthor
    Participant
    July 17, 2013

    I eventually came across this blog post that described pressing either Ctrl + 9 or F9 to bring up the "quick catalog", AKA "smart insert" menu.

    http://blogs.adobe.com/techcomm/2012/11/smart-insert-in-fm11.html

    This still shows it being done by pressing "enter" for FM 11:

    http://help.adobe.com/en_US/framemaker/using/WSf0ed2a6d7fb076883d36cf4 413721b00fca-8000.html

    As I say however, that doesn't seem to work. The one above does, so I have what I need now.

    Van Kurtz
    Inspiring
    July 17, 2013

    For whatever it is worth, the second link in your post (the one to help.adobe.com) shows a table in which Enter is used only for the Elements quick catalog.

    On the other hand, I have been using FrameMaker for many years, and I cannot believe that pressing Enter by itself would display a catalog. In my experience, it always creates a new paragraph or an element (in structured FrameMaker).

    Van

    jepryAuthor
    Participant
    July 17, 2013

    Thanks, yes the help for FM 11 does describe using enter to pop up the Elements catalog, but this would apply to strucured FM and I'm using unstructured right now. I must simply be remembering wrong about using it for the paragraph quick catalog, it's been a while since I've used FrameMaker at all. In any case Ctrl +9 works fine for me.