Hej jem

Sådan gør du / This is how to do it.:-)

Create a new table with 2 columns and 2 rows.
= Column 1 for edited text
= Column 2 for original text

Insert all the revised text into Column 1 cell no. 1 - and as Hamid just 
wrote, the table seems to have only one page.

Put the caret into Column 1 cell 1 at the buttom and drag the cursor 
also to highlight Column 1 cell no. 2. I.e. all Column 1 is now 
selected. Now merge the two cells, and all the revised text will now be 
visible in Column 1.

Do the same with Column 2.

And you will have two long columns each containing the full inserted 
text - revised in Column 1 and original in Column 2.

To ease some processes like selecting a column with a shortcut, you can 
add such a shortcut in the shortcut manager in the prefs settings - or 
you can chose from the 'Table' menu. My shortcut settings are

Select Cell: COM+A (normal for 'Select' like in Finder)
Select Row: COM+ALT+A
Select Column: COM+SHIFT+A

Merge Cells: COM+ALT+M
Note: This command will merga /any/ selected cells, columns or whole 
tables, so be careful when using this command

Note2: Placing the blinking cursor in a cell and hit the COM+A will of 
course select the cell content. Hitting COM+A one more time will now 
select the full table, so be careful here!

Hope this will help. - I should have written this at first hand, but I 
just make tables this way without thinking.:-)

Cheers, Erik Richard


jem cabanes wrote:
> Tak Eric til oplysningen.
>
> Though I’ve tried hard according to your lines, whatever I do the text
> (unformatted, etc.) won’t span over one page.
>
> Yet, I’m sure I don’t know how to set the columns so that they ‘break
> over page-breaks’? I’ve searched everything I could think of to no
> avail. Would you mind telling me how?
>
> Tak, tak igen.
>
> On 30.07.2014, at 10.19, Erik Richard Sørensen <[log in to unmask]
> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
>
>> Same here. I always work in 'Page View'. My largest table right now is
>> apprx. 130 pages - set up in A4 - not US Letter... No problems with
>> page breaks. My tables consists of 2 or 3 columns.
>>
>> But I have noticed one big thing working with such large tables. NWP
>> gets extremely slow when exceeding 100 pages with text only tables.
>>
>> A work-around for this is to make such large tables into 'chapters' so
>> each table will be smaller, and the final document then contains more
>> tables - here for example 30 tables consisting of 2 or 3 columns -
>> i.e. 1 table for 1 chapter.
>>
>> ...And NWP will definitely be as fast as if it only contained 10-20
>> pages of pure text.:-)
>>
>> cheers, Erik Richard
>>
>> rdavis wrote:
>>> I'm surprised to hear this. I often have large tables that span multiple
>>> pages (in page view as well). In fact I'm working on a file right now
>>> that has a table which spans four pages in page view. No problems.
>>>
>>>> Thanks Bob,
>>>>
>>>> Sadly it seems that Nisus Pro tables don’t span multiple pages, except
>>>> in Draft View, and this rather imperfectly, so it’s no great use. Yet,
>>>> this is something Word or Oppen Office do without any trouble. That’s
>>>> a feature to be requested —if compatible with .rtf format.
>>>>
>>>> On 29.07.2014, at 21.37, Bob Stern <[log in to unmask]
>>>> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
>>>> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Nisus's columns definitely will not do what you want.
>>>>>
>>>>> Try a table having two columns.  I cannot remember whether there are
>>>>> problems with a table spanning multiple pages.
>>>>>
>>>>> If you need to align related text in the two columns, you need to do
>>>>> it via table rows.  If not, I believe the entire table can have only
>>>>> one row.

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