How to always show full menus in RHhtml8?

[jonestech]

Ok - these should be a couple of slam dunks for the veterans in this group.

Just upgraded to RHhtml8. Two questions:

1. How do I set RHhtml8 to always show full menus? You know, there are the abbrev menus with the arrow at the bottom to show more. I always want to see them all. As a new user to RHhtml8, I am constantly hunting for the feature I want, and I always have to expand the menu because I don't know if it is currently hidden.
2. What prompted question #1; how do I get the TOC pod to display? I have done it a couple times and can't remember how I got it to show. Now, I can't find it anywhere. It certainly isn't under View | Pods?
   1. Follow-up to the TOC mgr/pod; is there an easy way to get all the topics under one book to sort alphabetically in the TOC for final output? I think there used to be in a previous version such as 6 or 7.

Looking forward to the response cause these two are killing me.

Jeff

[Nick27 · Accepted solution]

#1 View > Toolbars > Customize > Options > Always Show Full Menus

#2 the TOC is under the Project Manager Pod, where all the folders are listed, HTML Files, Images, Multimedia, Styles etc etc, its just after the URLs section on the tree.

#2a, If you sort the files in the HTML Files folder in the Project Manager Pod to how you want them and then auto generate the TOC, or use the A-Z icon, but this will sort the entire contents on the HTML Folder by name, whether or not this is what you want......

[Peter Grainge]

Right click the menu bar > Customise > Options tab.

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[jonestech]

Thank you both!

[jonestech]

Please allow me to ask a follow-up question.

Is there an auto-correct (aka auto-completion) feature in the RHhtml8 editor. Much like Word, etc.

For example, if I have a string of text that I often type in my help (e.g. the product name) can I create a shortcut for it (e.g. 'pn' = "Product Name v1.2") such that everytime I type 'pn', it gets replaced with "Product Name v1.2"?

T'would really save me some typing since I have converted form RHWord to RHhtml.

Thanks gurus,

Jeff

[Peter Grainge]

No. Try MacroExpress or BKReplaceEm. The latter is free. MacroExpress has a long trial and is worth every penny/cent. It does much more than you are looking for now.

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[Peter Grainge]

Seems I was wrong.

Tools > Spelling Options > Auto Correct.

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[jonestech]

Fantastic. Thanks for the update Peter.

Jeff J Jones

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