RE: Setting up NBW

["Earls, JP" <JEarls@nospam.CSBSJU.EDU>]

David--
You will get other and better answers, but it seems to be a slow Saturday night,
so here goes:
1) I would suggest first of all that you do a batch conversion of the files you
want to transfer.  Open each one in NBW to see if you need to do further
tweaking to make them the template you want.
2) To incorporate the style sheets for letters, memos, etc., do the following:  
a) Open (call) the first coverted style sheet you want to incorporate.  Define
it and  copy it.
b)Click on File/New, or the blank page at far left of the screen.  This will
bring up the New Standard Document: Academic Style Manuals menu.  
c) Select the tab of the type of document you want, such as Letter, then click
the radio button at the bottom of the screen to Template.  
d)Then go back up and click on the Blank icon.  You will then have a blank
screen.  
e) Paste the copied file from a) in the blank screen .  Make sure it is what you
want, type the name you want it to have in the box above, then save it.  
You now have your letter template.

You can bring in your more complicated document styles in the same way.  They
will, of course, require much more fiddling with.

There it is, FWIW!  Welcome aboard NBWIN!

J. P. Earls, OSB
English Department
St. John's University
Collegeville, MN 56321
Ph. (320) 363-2705
jearls@nospam.csbsju.edu

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David G. Becker [SMTP:David.G.Becker@nospam.attglobal.net]
> Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 4:52 PM
> To:   Multiple recipients of list NOTABENE
> Subject:      Setting up NBW
> 
> Sorry to bother all of you with questions that most of you have probably 
> already answered.... But I've finally taken the plunge into the Win world 
> from OS/2 Warp and installed NBW in Win NT, so now I'm trying to get set up 
> without redoing all my work from NBDOS 4.5.... (1) I have quite a few saved 
> NBDOS user styles: style sheets for letters and other documents, containing 
> text plus the usual SS/US deltas, labels, etc.  These were saved in NBDOS 
> under the Layout|Styles|User menu.  I have each style now in a separate 
> text document... but when I invoke the Styles menu option, I get a setup 
> screen that wants me to create my style from scratch.  Isn't there a way to 
> just import what I already have?  And if so, how do I do so with customized 
> academic styles that were saved as Generic academic styles in NBDOS? (2) 
> How, if at all, can I use my customized spelling and hyphenation 
> dictionaries from NBDOS?
> 
> TIA for any help, and best Holiday wishes!
> 
> 
>          David G. Becker
>          Dept. of Government
>          Dartmouth College
>          Hanover, NH 03755
>          ph: (603) 646-3337 or (212) 787-8292
>          fax: (603) 646-2152 or (212) 712-0883
> 
>