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jepry
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July 17, 2013
Question

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
    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

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    max_drawdown
    Inspiring
    August 30, 2013

    That's the way it works now in FM11 - press F9, then type ahead to match and hit Enter to apply the tag. FM9 & 10 were a bit flakey with the behaviour, and FM8 and earlier were quite reliable.

    Note: with very long lists of tags, if the mouse pointer happens to also be over the area where the tag pick-list pops up, then there might be some interference with the type ahead under some circumstances.


    @Arnis,

    Thanks.

    In my experience with FM11, the mouse pointer is almost always over the area where the tag list appears, since that's where I most recently used the mouse.

    How do I configure FM11 so the tag list appears at the edge of the window each time?


    Best,

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