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RESOLVED Mellel Support recognized the background tint as that of flagging a misspelled word by Spellcheck. When I was looking for something in common I did not think in terms of words. The doc is a compilation of important information which includes passwords. Due to the requirements of secure pas...

My problem came up in another thread and I mentioned the following additional info: It is distracting and annoying but fortunately it is isolated to the Mellel doc and it does not show up in the exported PDF version. Did I mention it is inconsistent? It shows up when I highlight some text but not al...

Page numbering: Although I did not find the page style break thing in the doc I do have a unique first page. For some reason the page numbers did not update when I edited the appearance of the first numbered page. But it eventually updated. This may have been my doing as I probably did not carefully...

It sounds like you have a page style break or two in your document. All pages between page style breaks will have the same page style, and that should include headers, footers, and the style elements in them. I bet this isn't hard to solve. You might turn on View->Show hidden->Page style breaks. If...

Enable the header or footer in the Page palette, then click into the header or footer to be able to insert something. Having done this, you could open the “Insert” menu and select “Page Variables › Page Number”. Then you could format the number the way you like and set up several options in the Pag...

I have a document which was originally created several versions of Mellel ago. I update it periodically, at least once per month. When I highlight text to change its color it adds an unwanted shaded background. I am doing exactly the same steps as I have always done in previous versions. Since I dow...

I am creating instructional documents. I want to include a video. I do not want it to just be a link. Is this possible in Mellel? 1. It can be done in MS Word (it appears to be a very convoluted process). If the Word document with an embedded video can be imported by Mellel is this a way to get the...

Taking a different approach: It may not be a practical solution but if you want it to look exactly how you prefer you could create images to insert. Meaning, type out the quoted text over the desired background in an image editing program like Photoshop. Then export them as a PNG. If this document i...

I was contacted by Eyal and followed his suggestion to download the full version instead of using the updater approach.

The software recognized my existing serial number and works fine.

Thank you Eyal!

I have shut down and repeated the process three times now and am still at the initial version 5.1.6 Check for Updates It downloads 95MB of data Asks for system password and additional dialog box says waiting for Mellel to close. I enter password The dialog boxes go away. Then nothing happens. Hours ...

I have a template which includes a header with a colored background, text and an image. The header is repeated on every page. In the past I could click on the header and make edits to the text and image. Once I clicked outside the header I would move on to other things. Each instance of the header w...

I went to the floating palette and looked at the Page settings. There, the background showed white. I clicked on it and the Color palette opened and white was highlighted. I clicked on white anyway and it changed the turquoise to white. This only showed up after Mellel was updated to 5.1.3r1. In the...

I recently upgraded to 5.1 3r1 from 4.2.7 I think or it might have been something in between (It is on a stubborn old system that is having boot problems and not easily accessible currently). My newest system is a Mac M1 running Big Sur and I was able to install that older copy of Mellel and work on...

OK I figured it out. Preferences. I forgot to go to the first place one should check to customize things. :-)) I do wonder how that ever switched to Pts. though. I used it just the other day and it was in inches. I would remember whether I had changed it in Preferences. I did set up the WiFi on my p...

Had not encountered this until today. My documents are typically US Letter Default. I have version 5.0.8r6 and prior to today Jan. 06, 2023 when I opened the Margins & Orientation box it displayed Inches. Now it is showing Pts. I need to change it to inches. How is this done? I am on a Mac runni...