I’m somewhat new to Pagemaker 7.0 and need some quick help. We were given the program without any help or books so it’s been great fun trying to learn how to do it.
First, we need to find and then replace text in the files. The help files for “Find Replace” nets me, Importing Quicktime movies, Tagging basics, placing and linking, and a few other things, none of which seem to help me. I know there has to be a way to do this, I just can’t seem to discover how.
The second thing that I can’t figure out is how to find out about text attributes. We have superscripts for notes, hundreds of them, and the only way to change things around is to cut and paste other superscripts. The problem with that is that I don’t always have the number I want. For instance I usually have numbers 1-3 as superscripts, but sometimes I will need 5, or 6 or even higher. It would be a breeze to just edit the text, but if I back space over it then the attributes are gone.
Also I could use a good book, PageMaker is a royal pain in the butt to use, and I might even be able to get them to pay for it!
I’ve never used 7.0, but was once something of a PageMaker expert. So, you may have to translate what I say a little for the new version, but I’ll be close.
Find/Replace should be on your Edit menu. It’ll probably also come up if you hit Ctrl-H or Cmd-H, depending on your platform. If you want to find text with particular attributes but don’t care about the text itself, the wildcard is “^?” (without the quotes, natch). Look in Help for other special characters you can use in dialog boxes.
Superscript is an attribute you can apply from the text menu, or the Control Palette (if 7.0 has that). Or you can fake it by using a smaller text size and shifting its baseline. If you take that route, be sure to define a character style (I think 7.0 has them) so that all your superscripted numbers can look the same.
I can’t help you on a good book. I transitioned from PM6.5 to InDesign, and really have no intention of ever using PageMaker again if I can help it. Not that I don’t love the program, 'cause I do, but because Adobe is abandoning it. There will never be a new version of PageMaker, and InDesign is what they’re going forward with.
I hope this has been helpful. If not, at least it bumped your thread so maybe a 7.0 user will see it.
Like Saltire, I used an older version extensively for several years, but there is nothing easy about it! In 20 years of computing, I think it had the longest learning curve of any program I ever used, but once mastered, it went like clockwork.
I never did find a good book for it, just had to slog on learning one thing at a time. Have fun.
Damn what a pain to find. First I had to goto the Edit menu, no Ctrl-H for me. Then Edit Story, then some how figure out how to open up the story I’m working on, even though it should know since it’s open. Then you can finally open up the Find/Replace menu. What a royal pain, but it will save a ton of time that’s for sure.
Is there a way to have it tell me what size was used? I got this project from someone else, who got it from someone else. Got a grand total of 30 minutes of training then she left to have a baby and isn’t coming back. She said just cut and paste, but now I can’t do that since I’m running out of numbers. I think that they didn’t use the superscript and when I do the numbers look different. I see the text menu box showes size, but not for these smaller numbers and the superscript is not used.
One more question. Is there a way to make it give me the same page layout when I go to make a new page? Basically we have two columns that spill over. When we run out on one page we have to make a new one. The column size does not continue on the next page so I have to set the next page up. It’s a real pain to do that as well. I only learned the other day that I could type in the corners, but even that’s not the best. I would have thought they would just basically take the layout from one page to the next.
Thanks for the help though, that one find/replace will save tons of time.
