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Mellel 4's indexing will add to the many nice features Mellel brings to the party. However, some of us have to export to Word. Thus, it's essential that that work well. Otherwise, indexing will be useful, as well as cross referencing, etc. There continue to be some pretty significant shortcomings in...

I am now able to access a document in iCloud Drive to edit on my iPad, but I have not been able to access a file in drop box. What am I doing wrong?

The planned Mellel 4.0 sound very good and I look forward to seeing the result. It's great to see these things happening. The Index will be especially nice. However, for those of us who must ultimately send the results to an editor, journal, or collaborator in pdf or Word, the index might or might n...

Well, it's an awkward solution (inserting jpegs), but it is an option that I hadn't thought of that, assuming that the files would be larger than they are. I may end up using this method. Thanks.

I was unable to find prior discussion with search because my terms were too common. Anyway, is it possible to insert a pdf file at some point in a Mellel document? This is a file written in Power Point and then printed to pdf.

Thanks

Emmanuel, although I had no trouble with a 100-page complex document, you may run into difficulties with your manuscript because it is so big. If so, I would think that you could convert chunks of the pdf one 100-page chunk at a time and then combine them in Word using Insert File. This is just spec...

***Encouraging Follow-up Using a Different PDF to Word Converter*** I obtained close to 100% accuracy in translating a complex 100 page Mellel document with figures, tables, endnotes, footnotes, and cross references by (1) exporting to pdf and (2) using the free docs.zone [rather than Adobe Acrobat...

Although I sometimes am able to write in Mellel, it is necessary for me to go into Word to deal with others in my organization. That is problematic for reasons readers of the forum understand. However, I have come up with perhaps 80% of a better way. As background, if I export to RTF and then conver...

Robert, I am missing your point. To send someone a file to mark up in Word, I normally export to rtf. I then open in the Word application and save-as to Word, which reduces file size by a factor of perhaps 10. I then send that. Is there a step I could skip?

I can add a bit based on experience today. I sent a colleague my rtf export and he did a significant markup in Word. He was unable to send the result back to me, probably because the email system balked: the file was vey large and included many graphics. I had him save-as to Word and send that back....

This is indeed fixed with today's update. Great.

Apparently, the problem I mention is a known issue. The RTF conversion is not perfect. Apparently, it is necessary to create the table in the "other" app or do something ugly such as turn the Mellel table with formatting into a pdf graphic to be pasted into the other app. The result cannot...

El Capitan's new split view works and is very nice. I have used three pairs: Mellel and Bookends, Mellel and OmniGraffle, and Mellel and Mail. Unfortunately, most of the time when I try to invoke the split view, what I get is not what I want. I have not figured out the "right" formulas for...

If a table in Mellel is formatted so that some cells are colored, those colors do not export to rtf and Word. Has anyone discovered a trick for dealing with this? It is possible to use the thickness of cell borders to make the distinctions, rather than use colors, and that formatting exports. Howeve...

When I print a manuscript with referencing by Bookends, the printed citations show the tiny dot corresponding to a space for items in the citation field. Thus, a printed citation might be "Lebow,*2007,*p.473)" where * is actually a dot. The bibliography looks fine. The setting in Bookends ...