Thanks for all your hard work, but I do not think I shall ever need to do this again. 

I am rewriting a long document that was originally done with Pages. I do not have an app that will open this document, so I copied it onto Nisus, which gives me all the text, and then I have to sort out the formatting. It was a long but simple task, until I came to the tables. 

The first difficulty was using tabs inside the table, which Kino kindly solved for me with the 'Option' key.

The next difficulty is keeping a table in one piece and not having half on one page and half on the next. With paragraphs of text, I can check the boxes "Keep paragraphs together" or "Keep with next paragraph", but this does not work for tables. Has anyone any suggestions please?

Doug


On 30 May 2011, at 21:43, Þorvarður Davíðsson wrote:

> On 30.05.2011, at 16:02, Doug Browne wrote:
> 
>> I have a table and wish to insert the row numbers followed by a period and about four spaces.
>> eg    4.    Start the text ...
> 
> 
> Wouldn’t you want to have a macro to do this for you? I don’t know about you, but I would.
> 
> The macro is almost finished, I just need help from the list with one command.
> 
> Imagine I have a table with several rows. I place the insertion point in a cell and a number will be correctly inserted with this:
> 
> $startNumber = 1
> Type text $startNumber+1
> 
> 
> but how can I add a string to the number? If I try this
> 
> $startNumber = 1
> Type text $startNumber+1 & '.    '
> 
> 
> then I get an error. Obviously & is not the sign to be used. What am I supposed to use then instead?