Import Word Docs Into Rich Text Editor - X2
Great Thread Idea Wendy. Wish it could get stickied somehow because just when I need a sneaky trick these threads seem to disappear.
Anyway the 'sneaky trick' is how to get Rich Text in X-2 to format numbered lists properly and it seems that if you import a Word Doc with everything the way you like it, Rich Text will wrap and number (bullet) properly.
Once imported into Rich Text The Word doc's formatting seems to stay put and wrap properly through 2 or 3 sub heads. Would be cool to see it work properly in the Rich Text dbx (which it does not) but this is a close second.
And it IS called Rich Text which is Word's native text language. Also once in the Chief's Rich Text dbx it continues to behave properly. Which to me means one could copy and paste that text and have that feature at the ready for any future text. A library item?
Yup, works great.
Hope that helps someone
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Deck/Porch floor over hang
This works with all versions.Decks don't need it now because there is a place to add the overhang.
Make a room polyline, convert it to a slab.
Set the height just above the floor,thickness you want, and resize so it is hanging over the edge the amount you want.
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Create a framed deck overhang past the railing.
For anyone who wants to create a deck with framing that goes past the railing (16" to 2'), here is a way to do it:
1. Begin by drawing your deck railing. Specify each railing as 'no room definition.'
2. Create a wall type and name it 'deck boundary' or something similar. Make it any thickness that works for you, and set the outer line style as dashed or solid, and the inner line style as none. Copy the material 'air gap' and adjust the transparency to full. Set this as your wall material.
3. Draw this wall around your deck, spacing it as appropriate, and connect it to the exterior walls. This should create a room definition to your new boundary wall. Specify it as 'deck.'
4. Draw your stairs down from the boundary wall. Using a poline, draw a landing between the stairs and the railing, and remove the railing at the landing edge that meets the railing. Change the landing thickness to 0, and use the new air gap material you created earlier.
5. Break the railing at each end of the landing and make it invisible. Now your railings shoudl be continuous. Some minor work may be needed to make everything line up, but you should be 99.99% there.
6. Auto frame the deck and you are done.
In my photos here, I drew in my own posts and beam for the roof, as well as all my deck framing, except for the planking which I used from the auto framing. Now the beam supporting the deck is right under the posts and beam supporting the roof, and I the deck is framed 12" past. Thanks to Allen Colburn for suggesting this to me.