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Yes, the Book Layout View was introduced with TextMaker 2024 and is not available in TM 2021.

Yes, it does.

seasoned_geek wrote: ↑Wed May 21, 2025 11:47 am You don't want to be the poor fool wheeled into ER near death while the team trying to save your life is trying to look up the lab results in the new system.

Well said.

The .bak files are automatic backup files. Go to Tools > Options..., tab "Backup", and uncheck "Keep older versions of the document" to stop saving them.

Well, my Apple keyboard has an alt as well as a ctrl key.

As a PlanMaker table is not an image, it cannot simply be copied and pasted as an image. You will need a printer driver which is able to write the print output into an image file. This image file can then be inserted in a TextMaker document.

The main function of section breaks is the option to change the number of columns without starting a new chapter. So you can format part of the text with a different number of columns while all chapter options stay the same. A section break can be combined with a page break but this is not necessary...

Just an idea: Could it be that an invisible empty text box sitting on the page pushes the lines to the right? In any case, it would be helpful if we could get an extract of the original document showing the issue.

You are right. There is a bug in TextMaker. In the attached sample document, in the first line I define a variable named ID: ID="0025". By adding quotation marks, i have marked the value 0025 as a text string, not a number. But if I call this variable again in another calculation, the text...

I cannot quite follow you. Could you give us a sample document (with dummy values)?

Why don't you simply write „Total: “ into the cell and then add the calculation? And in which context do you need 05022513 as part of a calculation?

Of course it can also be done with AutoShapes. A bit more manual adjustment will be necessary. Proceed als follows: 1. Type all the entries (each one in a new paragraph). 2. Change to Object mode (View > Object mode). 3. Go to Object > New drawing > Rounded rectangle. 4. Draw a rectangle with the ap...

I recommend using form objects to achieve this. Go to Object > New form object > Checkbox..., insert a checkbox and choose yellow as background colour via Format > Character. Then you can copy and paste it as often as you want. As the checkbox is treated by the program like a letter, there are no pr...

In TextMaker, existing documents are opened with the zoom level they were saved with. If you want all your new documents to have a 100% zoom level, open the template Normal.tmvx, set the zoom level to 100% and save the template again.

Edit mode is the usual working mode you are in when you create a new document and write text. Object mode is a special mode to handle objects like images, text boxes, auto shapes and so on. To activate Object mode, go to View > Object mode. You will find more about it in the TextMaker help or in the...