Re: Where can I find normal.awt in Mac OS 10.4?

Dear Mark,

Thank you for butting in!

I'll try to describe the exact sequence.

1 I open AbiWord, up comes the default empty page with Times New
Roman 12 point.
2 I go to drop down menu Format and select "Create and Modify Styles"
3 A pane opens with a list on the left containing one entry "Normal"
below it is a dropdown menu showing "In Use" and offering "All" and
User-defined styles" I have tried all three in turn.
4 I highlight Normal in the list and click on modify.
5 Another pane drops down showing various text fields: Style name,
Style type, Based on, Style for following paragraph, Preview and
Dscription. Below is a dropdown menu marked Format, I select Font
from this and yet another pane opens with the fonts and point sizes.
I select Palatino and 14 point and click OK
6 That pane closes leaving the previous pane visible, I click OK on this pane.
7 That pane closes and I'm left with the original Styles pane in
which I click the live button marked Apply. Nothing happens.
8 I close that pane and I'm left with the open page now showing
Palatino 14 point.
9a) I close that page and open another which comes up with Times New
Roman 12 point Aaargh!!
9b) I save that page as Normal.awt in the Templates folder, replacing
the existing Normal.awt. Then I open a new page which comes up with
Times New Roman 12 point Aaargh!!

Any suggestions about what I'm doing wrong very gratefully received!

Best wishes,

David

At 12:06 -0800 13/1/08, Mark Richardson wrote:
>Pardon me for butting in, but a few posts ago I addressed the same
>problem (though not on the Mac version).
>
>If you, David, have changed default settings as Ryan advises (by using
>the drop-down menu to change the "normal" default font settings), what
>happens when you immediately re-open that file? Have your new settings
>stuck? or are you back to original default settings? If you're back to
>original defaults, you must not be using the drop-down "Create and
>Modify Styles" menu properly. If the new modified settings are there,
>then something else is going wrong when you try to open a new document.
>
>I'm asking because it took me a while to get the knack of modifying the
>normal.awt file. But now I get it and it works fine. Apologies if this
>has nothing to do with how the Mac version works.
>
>--Mark Richardson
>
>On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 15:38:38 +0000
>David Van Edwards <david@vanedwards.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>
>> Dear Ryan,
>>
>> I have now done that but the same old default page opens when I open
>> the application. Even if I select the templates dialogue and select
>> nomal.awt I still get the orginal default format. This means I have
>> to alter each page every time I open one.
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