Missing buttons for text formatting

[comment]

In version 9, the Text Formatting toolbar had buttons for Increase/Decrease Font Size, Single/Double Space, and - most importantly - Custom Space which provided quick access to the Paragraph setup window. All these are missing from the new formatting bar in v.10.

[Raybaudi]

... neither it can be customized.

And there is plenty of space !

[Lee Smith]

It seems that the keyboard combinations of

Command Shift and > Larger

Command Shift and < Smaller

Have replace that.

Lee

[comment]

Well, it should have been Command+ and Command- to conform to the standard. But I am not looking for a keyboard shortcut, I want quick access to the paragraph settings.

I really don't get this obsession with separate windows for everything. I'd like to double-click a field and get ALL its parameters in a single window.

[Dave Graham]

Well, it should have been Command+ and Command- to conform to the standard. But I am not looking for a keyboard shortcut, I want quick access to the paragraph settings.

I really don't get this obsession with separate windows for everything. I'd like to double-click a field and get ALL its parameters in a single window.

Until we get a proper object properties palette, add your own keyboard shortcut to the Text Formatting dialog, which will save you a little time.

• 1. Apple Menu > System Preferences > Keyboard & Mouse
  2. Select Keyboard Shortcuts tab and add a shortcut with the plus button in the lower left.
  3. Browse to your FileMaker application, enter the menu title (NB, you can either use ellipses or three periods when required), and type your shortcut combination.
  

If you have Tiger you'll need to relaunch FileMaker to see the changes. If you have Leopard you will be able to immediately use the new shortcut key combo and it will even show up in FileMaker's menus as if they were native shortcuts.

I already tried to assign a shortcut to the menu item "Custom…" but unfortunately there are multiple menu items with the same name and it triggers the one for custom font size instead.

[RodSierra]

I really don't get this obsession with separate windows for everything. I'd like to double-click a field and get ALL its parameters in a single window.

Could'nt agree more, I'm so sick of wading thru all these different menu options when one window would be so much easier!

[Rich Willis]

We all growled a lot about the first release of OS X, but it has matured over time to be much more useful than I would have thought.

I suspect this new FMP iteration will eventually mature in much the same way. I think they're off to a good, if not clumsy, start.

[comment]

That would be nice - but unlike Tiger, for example, which has had 11 incremental (free) upgrades over its lifetime, FMI usually issues 2 to 3 most critical bug patches and then nothing.

http://www.fmforums.com/forum/showtopic.php?tid/200281/