Missing menu commands in FM11

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December 27, 2012
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Hi,

FM11, structured, original release (not patched), Win XP

I have begin to notice a number of commands that have disappeared from FM menus with version 11, including:

Format > Font

Format > Paragraph

Format > Style

Format > Characters

Format > Paragraphs

Table > Custom Ruling And Shading

I first noticed this when I needed to undo some wacky ruling and shading that came in with a table pasted from MS Word. I could get the ruling and shading pod using the keyboard shortcut (Esc t x) but just cannot get it to appear in the Table menu. I am in the WYSIWYG view and it doesn't matter whether a structured or unstructured document is active.

Does anyone know what I'm overlooking here? Did somebody decide that I don't need these functionalities because I have the product interface set to structured?

Thanks,

Russ

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Correct answer Matt-Tech Comm Tools

Hi Russ,

There's new functionality in FM 11 that allows you to customize menus and call up custom menus via the Workspaces.

I wrote it up in the FM 11 Reviewer's Guide.

Arnis Gubins

Inspiring

Russ,

It's not the structured mode. Here's what I get in FM11:

Are you using any plug-in that modifies the menus? The menu customizations have changed for FM11 (see Klaus Daube's info at: http://daube.ch/docu/files/etb-customising-fm.pdf )

Also, the Table > Custom Ruling And Shading option has been moved to a sub-menu since FM10.

R

Russ WardAuthor

Legend

Thanks to all who responded. Mike's comment has gotten me a little closer to a solution... I was sure that I didn't have quick menus active, but went ahead and checked anyway. While there, I noticed a command I've never used... View > Menus > Modify. When I select that, it pops up a file browser that defaults to a 'menus' folder where there are some menu config files. The file that is pre-populated is:

menus_structured_authoring.cfg

When I select 'menus.cfg' instead, all the commands return. If I go back to the original, those commands all disappear.

So, I guess now I'd like to know how to activate 'menus.cfg' on startup, rather than the other one. It does seem that all my commands are there until I open the first document, then I get the different (undesired) menus.

Russ