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1. E 69 Allow Making Masters 69 Open Windows 59146 70 Table of Contents v Print KOJ pA Lame E E E ES 70 Fit KEAT e DIE E E T A E RATA Sn 70 ter eect E E 70 Default gt E E A eb 70 Default O LESI VA EE 70 ee ee 70 ieee E a a at es 70 Binding Margins ei eee earns 71 DOIN 71 Settings Dialog BOK ii ee 71 Auto Reformat 233 a2h acto ants cataracts ee A aces 71 Auto enna eldest 72 Right Justification betes 72 English DOCUMENT veces Wasted bite cessor dete arsed eee 72 Width hel hice tel he 72 Tabs 9 73 73 Ind Ont 73 Ae eB A Aa tne alsa 73 Reformat SH et ae nee oa 74 Renumber Shift F2 a 74 Drop SPEC NOTE SHFS onecebandeeseecuites 75 Drop O
2. 12 Startins NMS Edit PIUS ien EEEE E 12 Sereen Control Skein nesi eusao nen NEEE ES EE 12 Deleting Para staph sdveesepestachigaeceeseeests este 13 Working Wath Options D T oiner p epe 14 Selecting Options and 14 Cleaning UP 15 17 Session 2 MOVING 18 kk Sk oe aa Seen oh cade eh anal A 18 SA el abe ea A ate A et A eerie et eh al 18 NMS Edit Plus for Windows Adding New Paragraphs 19 Opening Multiple Windows OESE EE EEES SEESE 19 VOX tics scss32 E E es 20 Getting 21 REVISILG 21 Session 3 Finishing 22 Using Projects S
3. 84 Adding 10 22 81 82 83 List of 84 Opening a Project 81 Pre Editing a Federal 80 Project 80 91 Quick Start Removing Files 00 cece eeeseeeeseeeceeeeeeneeseeaes 84 Tutorial Changing Headers 35 38 Creating Cross Reference List of Contents R Renumbe ring Auto Command File Renumber Mode AutoRenumber Overrides tees 5 SPEC NOTEs Deleting rre 75 Special 42 95 Hard Space Character 41 43 Standards 5 see Commands Update Standards System Requirements 2 T Table Processing SCOLS anaes 98 SRESET 99 STABLE 97 Tables 104 NMS Edit Plus for Windows Edn hedo 28 Formatting ienna nienean 97 99 nune e an E n aa 48 Setting Apart Inserting 60 U Underlines Converting to CSC 30 77 Update of the NMS DDN Printing the Lates
4. 31 Selecting a Printer Font enirn E 31 Print Preview a th he dig eel RE hob E A ea a Ae eee 32 The PiN A Bente sic sod SI sek ete dees Ged ee RA A Ae AR R 32 Printing a S ctOn eisai celie Roden e ete Rei ei ela Red lod tied eee 33 Page Breaks eco eed ees a ai a ete ad eek ee 33 Using Project Level amp 34 Building a List of Contents 34 Sample List Of E AEE EN bts 34 Changing ulead E a EEE devs e bined EEE EKOE EE EET OEEO n SESS 35 Change E AEE E outs 35 Change Header Confirmation Dialog 36 Setting a New 37 Define 37 Division Title See ie wai 38 Division Titles Dialog 38 Generating Cross Reference 39 Reference Errors srie 39 Sample Reference Listini 40 Printing the PLO CCl 40 Tabl
5. 2 SEESE EKS TSS EESE Eana 3 CD ROM orean oe ee A ee eS ee 3 Disketten oes 4 Installing NMS Edit Plus on a 5 Converting NMS Edit MS DOS Files 0 cece cece The vate Eevi tses Tsip 6 File Manipulation a S E 6 Cutan Paste tine gents Thin ane Gov T 6 Conttol ath vance tees Seda ee real 6 Text capssenebeaes cp oE E EEE EEEE ev 6 Clean up Commands ss op rotes EErEE ETE Ea Enr S ES SE 6 Using th NMS 8 8 Sample NMS Page 8 Sample CSC Page ea E eias eios a 8 Start T AR 9 Create a Gets wel aad SE 9 Add the SECtrOns 10 12 Session 1 The Basics
6. 72 Hard Space 43 JUSTIFICATION 72 NMS CSC Formats 8 9 30 Override aces Bh ae hei eh 47 70 Paragraph Indent 73 74 Reformat Command 74 H Command Files Command Files House 22 23 New Project inis meie aeeie eea 80 New Projecte deducts 22 23 Header Defining Editing Formatting Errors Global Help On Line 21 Help Files CGSB NMS List of Contents I L Language of the 72 LACONSING Inside Front Cover M Master Files Adding to Project a Allow Making Masters 69 House 2 42 MAS 1 10 55 MasterFormat Numbering 29 Menu Reference Control Preferences a Se tt SS Edit Meni File Menu Aia Project Menu Search Menu Windows Menu MS Word Files 54 ee ee 55 N New Document Creating ainsi ei een ea
7. E rE EEEE S ROE ET 46 Open Windows Full SIZE oiner E ae E E E ETE EE E EEEE EE E E 46 Print ROIO Eri olea EREE E T A E AA T A E 47 Fit Text in WdoWa Sea 47 Teon B r 47 Default Foni 47 Font 516 nere Sse She lah shee ES 47 ae eg ee 47 Override huh chee culate hie 47 Martins asna ced EE 47 Print 47 48 DSPACE os D E TTE EEEN E EAS cove ETE enous ET 48 DEO QT e i Ea eaa aN E T A 49 Automating Operations with Command Files 49 MCI teak EEE E 51 TRC SOT ORCC TOE 54 54 54 OaE a CEEE EEEE 54 E 55 DAVE cvs assess E 55 Revert to Saved sess aeae IAN E 55
8. Bytes 7238 Pages 5 Words 848 Paragraphs 35 Lines 210 Statistics Dialog Box About NMS Edit Plus This command displays the NMS Edit Plus version number and copyright notice It also shows the amount of free memory available for opening more windows NMS Edit Plus is licensed for use on a single computer only Unless you have purchased a site license or multiple copies of NMS Edit Plus you should not have this software installed on more than one computer You may also NOT give away loan or in any other way distribute a copy of NMS Edit Plus to any other person or company To do so is illegal and unethical 94 NMS Edit Plus for Windows National Master Specification NMS All rights reserved No part of this data may be reproduced stored in a retrieval system of transmitted in any form or by any means electronic mechanical by photocopying recording or otherwise for resale purposes without the prior written permission of the Minister of Public Works and Government Services Canada Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada 1997 NMS EdiyPlus Version 1 6 00 ox Resource Version 1 4 1 Free Memory 49831936 Bytes About NMS Edit Plus Other Help Items Mouse As other spec writing aids become available they will appear in the Help Menu For example if you installed NMS Edit Plus from CD ROM you may have access to a help file of CGSB summaries of standards These aids are documents on
9. This command lets you take back your last operation Once the operation has been undone the command changes to redo to permit you to change your mind A button on the Icon Bar provides a quick way to use the Undo command When the arrow points left it is an Undo button When right it functions as Redo The Cut command removes the marked text from the document and saves it to the clipboard The previous contents of the clipboard are lost The Copy command copies the marked text to the clipboard The text in the document is not altered by this command The previous contents of the clipboard are lost The text on the clipboard is inserted into the document at the current insertion point If there is marked text at the time the Paste command is issued it is replaced by the text on the clipboard The data remains on the clipboard Text from other applications may usually be pasted into NMS Edit Plus Hint Be sure your cursor is positioned where you want the text pasted If you copied text from the right column paste it on the right If you copied from the left column paste it on the left The Clear command removes the marked text from the document without putting it on the clipboard If no text is marked nothing happens The Newline command adds a blank line to the document on the line below the cursor Lines added this way are used to make room for a new paragraph a table or text to the
10. ee ee 22 Creating a New Project sete dove 22 FES ETTA 22 Add Fil Di log Eaa Ea aE EEDE ARE EIAS EEE PESES 23 Searching and Replacin gy sisis esop resres riora EET Sora eoa EE r o TEE 24 Search DiGlOg BOX ripi ieat sa EE EEE E aE E ED eE TETS PaE ESERE E 24 Replace Di lo g BOK aa E E E a aE ESAS 25 Verify Replacement Dialog sana aeaiia isses 25 Standards Checking sero EEE ATena E EE EE TE r 26 Update Standards Dialog 26 Update St ndards R sultS s isisisi 26 Verify Standards Dialog 27 Update Standards 27 Editing Tables ons cance apegecbedstb on 28 Undo RAT he hte a he Ee Re 28 Turning Formatting Off 28 Editing a Section Header 29 Header Dialog A AA E das O E 29 Page Formats a a sek eee 30 Preparing to Print
11. to see what changes the program has made as well Then begin checking with OK Update Standards Results The SAMPLE DOC file we are editing is a very simple test for the NMS Edit Plus standards checker In fact there are only two standards in the section Let s see what the results of our check are Almost immediately a Verify Standard popup appears in reply to our request to verify all standards Verify Standard Ea Replace CSA 82 8 1977 By CSA CAN3 A82 8 M78 Skip Tutorials Session3 27 Verify Standards Dialog Box Update Standards finds the first standard reference CSA 82 8 1977 and determines that it is superseded by CSA CAN3 A82 8 M78 Note that it wishes to correct both the old revision date and the incorrect format of this standard If you click on Skip the standard will be left unchanged Cancel ignores the change and stops standards checking entirely For our example click OK to accept the change The new standard is inserted in the document and the search continues A second dialog box appears for the second problem standard CSA A82 1 Update Standards wants to change it to CAN CSA A82 1 M87 Accept the change by clicking OK Since standards checking for this section is complete NMS Edit Plus displays a summary of changes Click OK and a new window opens to display the file STANDARD ERR WAC NMS TUTORIAL STANDARD ERR
12. The top one is the list of files in the selected directory The bottom one is the list of files selected for adding to the project To add master files to your project first find the directory where the master files exist using the directory list nms samples DEE do TESTES 504521 samples Hint The NMS master files are organised by division under the NMS directory Division 01 English files are in directory EOI in the NMS directory Select the files you want to add to your project from the files in the list You may do this by double clicking the file name or by marking it single click and then clicking the Select button As you select each file it appears in the bottom list To remove a file from the bottom list mark it by single clicking it and hit the Remove button Continue adding files to the select list this way You can add files from several different directories if you wish You can review the list of selected files by scrolling through the bottom list When you are done selecting files click the Add button to add all the files in the select list to the project A copy of each file is added to the current project The old copy of the file remains untouched Some pre editing may be done to the files as they are copied to the project directory if the project was set to Federal Government or Not Federal when it was first create
13. for federal projects One of these actions is set into effect when you select Federal Government or Not Federal on the New Project dialog The default Undecided performs no pre edit on new sections being added to the project Note there is no warning when these edits are performed during Add File Open Project Close Project Latest Update Menu Reference Project Menu 81 Opening a Project Section When the project is created a project window will be displayed on the screen The project window lists all sections in the project and their page counts if known Double clicking on a section in the list opens that section for editing Or highlight the section and click the Open button on the Icon Bar Once a project is open the other commands on the project menu become available Only one project may be open at a time Use the Add File command to move sections into the project This command is used to open an existing project When the open dialog appears change to the directory containing the project If there is more than one project in the directory select the one you want file with extension PRJ Click on the Open button NMS Edit Plus C NMS TUTORIAL TUTORIAL PRJ File Edit Search Control Font Project Window Help 2 Section Title Pages 4 02220 Excavating and Backfilling 0 When the project opens a project window will be displayed on the screen The project window lists al
14. not by counting the number of characters in the line as it would when printing a fixed spacing font like Courier but by summing the width of each character and breaking when the line is full This approach shows clearly where the line breaks will occur However it has the drawback of making it more difficult to edit the section Hint Wait until section editing is almost complete before selecting a printer font 32 NMS Edit Plus for Windows Print Preview Next bring up Print Preview under the File menu to see before printing how the document will appear The four green arrow buttons at the top allow selection of a new page to preview either at the top of the document back a page forward a page or at the bottom of the document The magnifying glass allows you to zoom in to the page to see more detail or out to normal scale Finally X closes Print Preview mode Try zooming in to view one of the tables on page 2 Then close the view NMS Edit Plus Print Preview iof x Canadian National Master Construction Specification h N Shoring Bracing and Excavating and Backfilling Section 02220 Page 2 1990 12 31 Prevent movement or settlement safeguard and Maintain integrity of adjacent structures Underpinning earth bench marks services walks paving trees bearing piles curbs landscaping adjacent grades Prowide bracing shoring and underpinning required Shore and brace
15. 01340 02356 refers to 04521 refers to 01340 01400 01300 04115 BACKWARD CROSS REFERBNCE TABLE 01300 ceferred to 01340 referred to 01300 referred to by 01400 referred to 0 01545 referred to by 02220 Sample Cross Reference Listing 02521 Update Standards Spell Check Execute Print All Update Standards from the project menu operates in much the same way as it does for an individual section it puts up the same prompt window as in the editor but processes all files in the project when confirmed with OK When complete it conveniently displays a report of its findings for all files encountered in the project The Project menu Spell Check command launches the spelling checker for each section of the project It saves time by processing each file automatically It uses the same familiar prompts as in the editor version If you run a command file of cleanup commands in the editor when finishing a section consider running it here in the Project menu for all sections automatically In this way you will not miss a section and will ensure that your specification is formatted consistently The Print All command prints each section of the project in order It is most often used after changing headers or doing a project replacement This command may take a while to complete depending on how fast your printer is 92 NMS Edit Plus for Windows Window Menu NMS Edit Plus allows you to
16. 1 1 Related Work 1 Recording of existing Specified Elsewhere conditions Section 01380 SPEC NOTE If excavation may interfere with foundations of adjacent buildings specify in Division 1 that contractor Engineer or Architect take photographs of adjacent buildings before commencing excavation and investigate foundations to determine underpinning etc required y barricades and Section 01545 Environmental protection Section 01575 Clearing and grubbing Section 02110 Tree and plant To delete the paragraph you can either pull down the Edit menu and select Cut or you could press any one of the backspace delete or Ctrl X keys Notice when you do so the entire paragraph is removed and the rest of the paragraphs are renumbered Try it again on 1 1 5 Double click on the paragraph number and delete the text Scroll down and delete 1 5 1 in the same way Notice this time that the title on the left remains in place and the next paragraph is placed opposite it and renumbered 14 NMS Edit Plus for Windows Working With Options Another common feature of master sections is that they contain options which are always enclosed in square brackets In paragraph 1 4 1 there number of examples In this paragraph the options tell us to choose either shoring and bracing or underpinning or both To choose both we need do nothing else since both are there But to choose shoring and bracing on
17. Edit Plus editor allows the user to easily manipulate construction specifications It works with the NMS DDN Construction Specification database produced by the NMS Secretariat and Construction Specifications Canada This database a standard for the construction industry in Canada provides specification writers and other professionals involved in the industry with a comprehensive and easy to use source of information NMS Edit Plus may also be used with other master specifications such as CONSPEC or DEVIS SOMMAIRE TYPE or with user entered specifications Because NMS Edit Plus understands the specification writing task it is far superior to general purpose word processors for this job The NMS Edit Plus package consists of two major parts a A word processing system for editing construction specifications NMS Edit Plus performs normal word processing tasks as well as special functions such as renumbering and automatic formatting The unique formatting capability maintains the standard headings and columns of the specifications both in the editor and while the document is printed A document can be processed in its original two column format or in the CSC Page Format sometimes called wide page format b The complete NMS DDN database itself provided as files on diskette for ease of use The NMS files are normally installed onto the system s hard drive The NMS Edit Plus system requires the use of Microsoft Windows version 3 1
18. Pile o STANDARD ERR SAMPLE DOC 2 3 1 1 CSA 82 8 1977 Replaced by CSA CAN3 A82 8 M78 2 3 1 2 CSA 2 1 Replaced CAN CSA A82Z 1 M87 2 standards 2 outdated errors see STANDARD ERR Eimi Update Standards Report The program reports that two standards were found in the section Of the two both were outdated and replaced by current versions There were no standards in error Had you requested that Substitutions were not to be reported in the file the error file would not be displayed at all Since no errors were found there would be nothing additional to report beyond the summary message that appeared at the end of processing You may print the error file now if you wish Click on File Close to close the window 28 NMS Edit Plus for Windows Editing Tables Now let s look at another case you ll run into Find paragraph 2 1 1 for speed use the Find command on the Search menu A table follows this paragraph To begin with add a new line to the table by putting the text cursor on the line beginning 9 5 mm then selecting the Duplicate command from the Edit menu When working with tables it is often handy to be able to just duplicate a line and change a couple of values in it Try changing the 9 5 to 9 7 The table is suddenly all jumbled up That s because NMS Edit Plus is handling the table as if it was a paragraph and is reformatting it as we type So we need to find a
19. Repaginate commands do this So if you have made changes and want to verify how they affect the pagination select the Repaginate command 34 NMS Edit Plus for Windows Using Project Level Commands The project menu contains a number of commands that are very useful when working with a full project To this point all of the things we have learned to do involve working with one section at a time In the project view you will work with as many sections as there are in the project If the project window is not visible bring it to the top now by selecting the Show Project Window command from the Project menu This will give you access to the project commands Select the Show File Name command This changes the project window so file names are shown instead of section titles To return to the section title listing select the Show Title command Building a List of Contents Now choose the List of Contents command Click OK to the List of Contents Options dialog This will add a new file to the project with section number 00000 The file will be a list of all the sections in the project including their page numbers The sections will be listed in order by division For now you receive the default division titles We will describe how to change these when we discuss the Define Header command Rac NMS TUTORIAL CONTENTS DOC 302220 02 Canadian National List of Contents S
20. Settings you should always run Header confirming with OK to adjust the header and footer lines appropriately This is not done automatically by the Settings command Again when editing a section header always open the section where possible from within a project It will then inherit the header definition of the project and know the where to position the header components Hint Use Change Header in the project menu to change the project titles and dates for all sections of a project This is more efficient than changing one section at a time 62 NMS Edit Plus for Windows Insert Character F11 This command is used to insert accented language characters line drawing symbols and other special characters into the document After selecting the command you are shown a matrix of possible characters Highlight the character you want It is now magnified in the box at the right Click the Insert button to insert the character into your text You may also double click on a character to insert it To draw lines or boxes use the Line Drawing command as described later Delete Line Ctrl F3 Line Drawing Spell F5 T Use Delete Line to remove blank or non blank lines of data from your section without regard to content It performs the opposite function to Newline Delete Line acts in a somewhat brute force method with no regard to paragraph formatting or numbering Run the Control Renumber comman
21. Spacing values of the Settings dialog The numbers following the command are the spacing values They must be in ascending order The last value entered is propagated into all remaining entries Mode AutoReformat on off sets the Auto Reformat selection on the Settings menu to the indicated state either on or off Mode AutoRenumber on off sets the Auto Renumber selection on the Settings menu to the indicated state either on or off Mode Justify on off sets the Right Justify selection on the Settings menu to the indicated state either on or off Mode English on off sets the English language selection on the Settings menu to the indicated state either on or off Mode Pagewidth n sets the Width selection on the Settings menu to the indicated value in inches Reformat executes the Reformat command exactly as it would be executed from the menu Renumber executes the Renumber command exactly as it would be executed from the menu Menu Reference Control Menu 77 DropSpecs executes the Drop Spec Notes command exactly as it would be executed from the menu DropOptions executes the Drop Options command exactly as it would be executed from the menu Separate y n passes through the entire document separating titles from the left side of the text and placing them on a line by themselves At the same time it decides how to process any underlines If the option following the command is y or yes the titles
22. a FOOT command at the end of the file Solution Your footer command will only apply to the last page Move it after the header to have it apply to all pages of the section Print F9 Menu Reference FileMenu 57 e You appear to have an incorrect paragraph number Solution Correct the number to proper NMS numbering e Spec Notes have not been removed from this file Solution Remove the notes if desired Print Agent is invoked automatically each time you print a section The Print command first launches the Print Agent see above to check for coding errors in the section Then it presents a dialog requesting the range of pages to print and whether the top line of the file the line above the header is to be printed After completing this dialog the document in the current window is printed After printing the page breaks will be visible on the screen in the same manner as they are after the Repaginate command Print Preview F8 Print Preview views the document to see how page breaks page continuation and headers and footers will appear on the printed page The four green arrow buttons at the top select a new page to preview either at the top of the document back a page forward a page or at the bottom of the document The magnifying glass allows you to zoom in to the page to see more detail or out to normal scale Finally X closes Print Preview mode 58 NMS Edit Plus for Windows NMS Edit Plus Print P
23. a new paragraph on this line Once the cursor is on the line use the Tab key to move it to the first indentation Although you could have placed the cursor by eye you might easily have put it at the wrong column So you should always use the tab key to position the cursor before typing a paragraph Now you are ready to type Enter 2 This is a new paragraph that we are putting for learning purposes As you typed you saw that NMS Edit Plus made room when it was needed All we needed to start a new paragraph was enough space to begin typing But what if there isn t enough space For example how do we add a new sub paragraph of the one we just entered With the text cursor on the last line of the paragraph select the Newline command from the Edit menu or press F3 A new empty line is inserted Now we can position our cursor move it to the left then tab to the desired indentation level and begin typing Position the cursor at the second indentation and type 1 We follow this by another example for your edification You may have noticed that there should be blank lines before the new paragraph and before the old 2 paragraph In NMS Edit Plus you need never worry about this When the file is printed it will be spaced correctly Opening Multiple Windows So far we have only worked in one file and that may be the way you work much of the time But NMS Edit Plus will allow you to have as many as 50 file
24. are left underlined If the option following the command is n or no all underlines are removed See the PAGEFORM EXC command file for an example of the use of this command This special command is not available from a menu UnSeparate passes through the file looking for all titles that come before a first level l paragraph It removes the titles and places them to the left of the text See the NMSFORM EXC command file for an example of the use of this command This special command is not available from a menu Size n sets the size of the font for this file to n points Font Name selects font name to be the font used for this file 78 NMS Edit Plus for Windows Font Menu Plain Text Ctrl P Bold Ctrl B Underline Cirl U Fonts F B T These commands all operate in the same way They apply the indicated change in text style to the character following the text cursor or to the marked block of text Text may be marked as Plain all attributes removed Bold Underlined or a combination of bold and underlined The Fonts command is used to select a font for printing NMS Edit Plus requires that the entire specification be written using one type of text font and one text size This adheres to good spec writing practice Although NMS Edit Plus is able to print your specification in a proportional font such as Arial or Times Roman while editing you will only see a Cour
25. capability For most specifications simply printing with NMS Edit Plus will break the document into pages in a pleasing and easy to read manner Paragraphs will only be split across pages if two or more lines are on each page headings will be continued if appropriate at the top of pages etc The result will be a well laid out specification Sometimes there are special reasons for altering the layout of the specification beyond the normal constraints NMS Edit Plus provides for these by allowing a set of special lines to be inserted into the document at any point to tell it how to format the page These are entered into the document like normal lines of text They must be typed at the left margin of the page They will not be printed in the final output See the Insert command under the Edit menu for a convenient way to insert one of these printer controls into a document Each of the control lines is described as follows If you add a line to the document that begins with PAGE then a new page will be started at that point in the listing If the word PAGE is followed by a number then the break will occur only if less than that number of lines are left For example SPAGE 10 starts a new page if less than 10 blank lines are left on the current page So for example to ensure that an entire table is kept on one page of the document place the PAGE on the line before the table and number the PAGE to the number of lines in t
26. check the Remember Correction box and NMS Edit Plus will remember the correction you have made Whenever it comes across the same mistake again it will make the correction automatically without asking you NMS Edit Plus remembers up to 20 corrections in this way It remembers them only for the current NMS Edit Plus session There is a button on the Icon Bar to provide quick access to the Spell command Sometimes you only want to check the spelling of a small part of the document If you ve only corrected a couple of paragraphs you needn t recheck the entire document Just select the paragraphs in the usual way double click the paragraph numbers or click and drag or shift click then choose the Spell Area command 64 NMS Edit Plus for Windows This command works exactly like the Spell command except that it only checks the spelling of the words in the selected part of the document rather than the entire document Please refer to the Spell command description for the details of what happens when it detects a spelling mistake Search Menu Menu Reference Search Menu 65 Find Paragraph Shift F1 The Find Paragraph command prompts for a paragraph number Any valid paragraph number is acceptable Examples are 1 1 3 2 2 3 2 4 5 7 If the paragraph number cannot be found a nearby one is found instead So if you searched for 3 2 4 5 7 and it didn t exist but 3 2 4 5 6 did NMS Edit Plus would find 3 2 4 5 This command
27. document NMS Edit Plus for Windows Duplicate Ctrl D 60 Insert Duplicate makes a duplicate copy of the line under the text cursor It is especially useful when building tables Once the first line is entered subsequent lines are added by simply duplicating the first line and changing it The Insert command provides an easy way to insert special types of formatting into the document Select Insert then click on Page Break to force a page break at the cursor position It generates an automatic PAGE command into the text Non breaking Block to ensure the defined block does not break between two pages The block of text must be highlighted before the Insert Non breaking Block command is issued Space to insert a block of blank lines into the printed output to allow space for a figure etc A dialog box appears requesting the number of blank lines to print Use the Newline command to add blank lines into the document for new text Table to block lines of table text so they will not be formatted into a paragraph The entire table must be highlighted before the Insert Table command is issued Insert Table also sets up the table columns so they align correctly when printed in a proportional font See the section Printer Controls at the end of the manual for more information on TABLE END and COLS Footer to insert a footer line of text into the document Options are available in the dialog to e posi
28. have up to 50 document windows open at once assuming you have enough memory to hold them all You can switch windows by clicking the mouse on any part of a partially hidden window You may also change windows by pulling down the Windows menu and selecting the window by name Each window is also given a number that represents it With the Window menu open type the number to select that window There are two other selections on this menu The first Tile shows all the windows tiled The second Cascade shows the windows overlapped Menu Reference Help Menu 93 Help Menu Contents F1 NMS Edit Plus uses the Windows Help Manager to provide you with on line help in a familiar way The Windows Help system is described in the Windows User Guide NMS List of Contents Choose this option to view the current NMS List of Contents as a Windows Help file NMS Divisions and Packages are broken down to show the individual sections and each section contains a hypertext link to all related sections All general Spec Notes at the start of each section are shown as well Statistics F12 When a section is open The Statistics command provides information about the section such as the file path the date it was last modified and the current page count if calculated Statistics Ea Filename C NMS TUTORIAL SAMPLE DOC Last saved 7 23 1998 2 00 36 PM Section Number 02220 Title Excavating and Backfilling
29. is broken down into 02 1 02 2 02 3 and 02 4 representing the four binders of division 2 The diskette label indicates the revision of the NMS A revision number consists of the last two digits of the year followed by the number of the revision in that year e g 9701 Running the Installer CD ROM To access the installer on CD ROM simply insert the CD and click on National Master Specification then Install NMS from the start up program The installer will launch Next 1 Type the NMS Edit Plus access key exactly as printed inside the CD jewel case paying attention to letter case and distinguishing between the number 1 and small letter 1 the letter and the number 0 2 Type the drive and directory where you wish to install the software NMS Edit Plus is normally installed on the C NMS directory NMS DDN packages or divisions you have purchased automatically installed under the NMS Edit Plus directory Click Install 4 NMS Edit Plus for Windows 3 Diskette Select what components you wish to install It is most efficient to install both program and data to your hard drive If you wish to use the NMS with another word processor you must always install the NMS to your hard drive When installing for an external word processor a menu will appear allowing you to select the type of format you wish installed NMS Edit Plus format is installed by default Whe
30. laboratory and click once A blinking vertical line appears between the and the period If you don t get it in the right place try again Using the pointer to place the text cursor sometimes takes a little practice This little line is called the text cursor It indicates the position where any text you type will be placed Try typing in another city Don t type the quotation marks but do type the space at the beginning As you typed the text the letters were entered and the paragraph retained its correct format even though some words needed to be moved to the next line Now move up and double click on the word representative The whole word is marked You may also have noticed that the text cursor has disappeared Now type several Of course you expected that With an area of text marked whatever is typed will replace the marked text But you have also learned that double clicking on a word highlights that word You already knew about double clicking on paragraph numbers and options but now you see one more example You can also mark text by dragging the cursor Let s look at how to do this Move your pointer to the first letter of the word for Now while holding down the mouse button move your cursor up or down a couple of lines Also try moving it sideways staying within the right column of the section As you do you will see the area marked on the screen When the button is released the m
31. spec writing and related topics Having them on the Help menu gives you instant access to spec writing information while you are working on your project The mouse is used in NMS Edit to position the cursor or to mark a block of text When a block of text is already marked in the document you can adjust the limits of the block by holding down the shift key on the keyboard and dragging with the left mouse button You can extend or contract either end of any block this way Keyboard Menu Reference Help Menu 95 There are also a number of special keyboard keys you should know about The keys that type special characters were described earlier on page 42 This section describes some others used in editing Ctrl or Ctrl lt moves the cursor one word to the right or left End moves the cursor to the end of the line Home moves the cursor to the beginning of the line Enter moves the cursor to the beginning of the next line The enter key does not insert or change anything in the document It only moves the cursor If you need to insert new lines in the document use the Newline command F3 Ctrl Home moves to the beginning of the document Ctrl End moves to the end of the document Insert toggles between insert and overtype mode It also changes the icon of the icon bar to indicate which mode you are in 96 NMS Edit Plus for Windows Printer Controls PAGE n SPACE n NMS Edit Plus has a very intelligent printing
32. the file title doc from the NMS Edit Plus Samples directory COLS col1 col2 col3 When printing a section in a proportional font text in a title or paragraph flows appropriately to fit the page width and font size But in a table with more than one column the column margins may not form a smooth line but may appear as a ragged line To correct this problem use the COLS command to specify the column positions The parameters to COLS are character column positions taken from the column counter in the Icon Bar A column number may be prefixed with the letter R to indicate a right justified column A line with COLS and no numbers resets a previous COLS command Also text aligned to the left margin needs no column position Let s take for example a List of Contents generated from the Project menu Blanks are compressed to show the full line here SCOLS 9 R68 Section Title Pages STABLE SCOLS Division 02 SCOLS 9 R71 02220 Excavating and Backfilling 5 02356 Pile Tests 4 SEND The first 5 sets a column to line up with text at column 9 the word Title on the next line and sets the word Pages starting at column 68 to right justify to its rightmost character position that is to character 72 The next COLS disables column justification for the division number The last COLS aligns the section titles which are at column 9 on the screen and right justifies the page
33. the names of the sections in the project To access any commands on the project menu this window must be the top one on the screen Adding Files The next step in creating a project is to choose the master files you will be using to start this project Select the Add File command from the Project menu Using the Directory Window select the NMS directory and then select the Samples directory from that list Highlight the SAMPLE DOC and click the Select button to include it in the list of selected files at the bottom of the dialog Next click the Add button to add the files to the project A copy of SAMPLE DOC has now been added to your Tutorial project Tutorials Session3 23 nms gt samples SAMPLE DOC Add File Dialog Box The title of the section you added to the project is now shown in the project window along with its section number and the number of pages in it The number of pages is zero because we haven t calculated it yet NMS Edit Plus C NMS TUTORIAL TUTORIAL PRJ File Edit Search Control Font Project Window Help Section Title Pages 2 02220 Excavating and Backfilling A Sample Project Window You can open a file in a project just by double clicking on its name in the project window Do so now 24 NMS Edit Plus for Windows Searching and Replacing You saw earlier how to scroll through a document and how to find your w
34. the program has made Update Standards Results When Verify all changes is selected as each standard is encountered a Verify Standard popup appears Verify Standard EG Replace CSA A82 8 1977 By CSA CAN3 A82 8 M78 Verify Standards Dialog Box Here for example CSA CAN3 A82 8 M78 supersedes CSA A82 8 1977 Note that the command wishes to correct both the revision date and the incorrect format of the old standard If you click on Skip the standard will be left unchanged Cancel ignores the change and stops standards checking entirely Clicking on OK accepts the change the new standard is inserted in the document and the search continues 68 NMS Edit Plus for Windows When complete NMS Edit Plus displays a summary of changes Click OK and a new window opens to display the file STANDARD ERR C NMS TUTORIAL STANDARD ERR Pel Ea o STANDARD ERR SAMPLE DOC 2 3 1 1 CSA 2 8 1977 Replaced by CSA CAN3 A82Z 8 M78 2 3 1 2 CSA 82 1 Replaced CAN CSA A82 1 M87 2 standards 2 outdated 0 errors see STANDARD ERR 18 Update Standards Report The error file reports standard numbers which it has no record of in its standards file The example here shows none of these errors Since we requested that Substitutions be reported the replacements are shown The program reports that two standards were found in the section Of the two both were ou
35. way around the problem Undo Redo Click the UNDO button on the Icon Bar It returns your document to its state before the last edit The Undo command is also on the Edit menu Once you have hit Undo it changes and becomes REDO so you can make the operation again if you change your mind Go to the File menu and select Revert to Saved This restores the document the way it was the last time we saved it Click on the OK button to complete the operation Turning Formatting Off Now click the Auto Reformat button on the Icon Bar so the light beside the F dims This turns Auto Reformat off Try changing the 9 5 to 9 7 again This time the change went in properly At the right end of the line change the 57 83 to 70 83 Setting Auto Reformat off allows you to work in tables without destroying them You could also have turned Auto Reformat off and on from the Settings dialog You should set Auto Reformat on when you resume editing paragraphs Do so now Hint Another way to turn Auto Reformat off or on is to type Ctrl F Tutorials Session3 29 Editing a Section Header The section header is a special part of the document which has it s own formatting rules and so deserves special attention It contains e the Project Title e the Section Title e Section Number typically 5 digits in length which follows the MasterFormat numbering convention e astarting Page Number n
36. 41 NMS CD 3 NMS List of Contents 93 NMS CSC Page Format 8 9 30 41 Command 77 30 75 72 74 NMS DDN 100 O Options Defined 65 Deleting Next Option Selecting acer ee 15 USDE 14 Page see NMS CSC Page Format Paragraphs 19 41 Deleting 13 62 15 65 Formatting 45 48 56 Numbering Renumber Command 74 Printing the 33 48 49 96 99 SCOURS R RARR 98 E O A 48 74 96 74 97 98 Document 74 Document Width 73 97 71 Page Breaks 33 56 60 ernes 56 ees 33 Print Asent lt csaniiaciecsieniedoanciss 32 56 Proportional Fonts 31 72 78 98 Special Words vei 72 Top 41 70 Private Practice 80 83 Project Control Adding External
37. 95 98 or NT It occupies approximately 7 megabytes of space on your hard disk The portions of the NMS database you choose to install will occupy up to 8 megabytes of additional space Introduction 3 Installing NMS Edit Plus The NMS Edit Plus installer is an easy to use program for setting up your spec writing system You can use it to e Install NMS Edit Plus and the NMS database e Upgrade your software to the latest version of NMS Edit Plus e Upgrade your existing NMS Edit for DOS installation to NMS Edit Plus for Windows If you load the NMS data onto your hard disk with the NMS Edit Plus installation program each division or group of divisions will be loaded into a different directory For example NMS E01 contains English division 1 e NMS E02 contains English division 2 5 5 contains French division 15 Preparing to Install The NMS is distributed typically on CD ROM However a diskette version is available The NMS may be loaded onto your hard disk for ease of use Diskette users should make a duplicate back up copy of the diskettes before use When the backup is complete use the duplicate copy not the ITT originals for your day to day work The labels on the NMS diskettes show the applicable divisions i e 03 04 08 etc Some divisions are divided into several binders in the hard copy format To make co ordination easier the NMS diskettes follow a similar subdivision Division 2 for example
38. Bout NMS Edit PIUS ETTE TEE peepee tise 93 Other Help E S EET EEEE rE 94 MOUSE heise tee deed ees Agvet E ape ates E Ania ae eee 94 Keyboard sssr thas sees seas sacs ran 95 Printer Controls sicss scisvosscavssatontsaversonssoctesstevssnsussvenivovatossengbontesesstesnesussasnonsslnsiestebonascnecvaneese 96 Table of Contents vii SSPRAGCE E a sachs alts E oc AL i AG MORE 96 EL oe 97 batons NEEE E A ee et te ae de Ree 97 DEIN Dest terete rat eta ane E E E E 97 SCOLS coll 12 13 98 SRESET TABLES coe eben Ge es ee Ses a eens eens Oo ae A a 98 NMS Updates sccscsscsscsssicssosnsebstacssdsccvssbecestetescecetesevesedtssuecvenondesdesessosecesneoecssdusuasseccssecesseee 100 Introduction This section of the NMS Edit Plus manual consists of e An Overview of the NMS Edit Plus system e Installation instructions e Functions in the Icon Bar 2 NMS Edit Plus for Windows Introduction Overview Contents Requirements This document describes the function and use of the NMS Edit Plus system developed by Innovative Technology Inc of Ottawa Ontario The NMS
39. Edit Plus Whether your NMS is on the hard disk or on diskettes the process of creating a project from the NMS is essentially the same Create a Project First an area to store the project needs to be created In NMS Edit Plus use the New Project command from the Project menu If you are using a hard disk use the New Directory button to create a new directory Give it the project name or some abbreviation to distinguish it from other projects that may also be on the hard disk For simplicity it is best to create the project directories in the NMS directory If you are using diskettes insert a new diskette and label it with the project name You may need to format the diskette and you may need to change to that drive to have it displayed on the New Project dialog Once the location for the project is ready enter the new project name and click on the Make button You have now created the control file for the project and established the new project as the current project 10 NMS Edit Plus for Windows Add the Sections The next step is to copy any master files you wish to add to the project Pull down the Project menu again and select Add File Turn to page 82 for more information on the Add File command When the Add File dialog appears you will be in the current project directory This dialog contains two file lists and a directory list The top file list is a normal list of files You use it to
40. NMS Edit Plus for WINDOWS This software is licensed for use on a single computer only You may not network the software or otherwise use it on more than one computer at the same time without a duly authorised site licence from ITI Innovative Technology Inc Using this software on more than one computer or distributing copies of this software to any other person or company is a breach of Canadian and International Copyright law It is also unethical If you require additional copies of this software contact Innovative Technology or a distributor for site licensing details Copyright c 1992 ITI Innovative Technology Inc 993 5B 1420 Youville Drive 1994 Orleans Ontario K1C 7B3 1998 phone 613 841 0050 2000 fax 613 841 5876 2001 email ITI_sales innovative ca 2002 web www innovative ca 2003 All Rights Reserved Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation Table of Contents i Table of Contents Introductio 2 COVER A CAN E 2 CONTENTS EE SA EEE a O EO 2 REQUITEMENIS erain ee KE ea EO EEA E A A esse EE E aa 2 Installing NMS Edit PlUSssc ssiccissecssssessecesssescsssbeesececdesonesseenssctsesossessbeseedectesonessssansessecsonssons 3 r r EEEE Eea EEEa hene A OESR EEES ESSEE ESEE R ERS 3
41. Plus will process them to determine an up to date page count 86 NMS Edit Plus for Windows Replace Change Header The Replace command for the project operates in much the same way as it does for an individual section The major difference is that this Replace command performs the replacement on all files in the project whereas the Replace command on the Search menu does the replacement for only one section You are asked what to search for and what to replace the search string by You can also select whether NMS Edit Plus is to prompt you for confirmation before each change and whether NMS Edit Plus should ignore upper and lower case differences The header at the top of each page of a section has special connotations in a project Some areas of the header change from section to section and some are constant for the entire project NMS Edit Plus provides special control for headers in a project You can change the project name or date for all sections in the project in one easy step with the Change Header command When the command is selected it shows the project name and the date taken from the first section of the project in a dialog box Change the contents of these areas to what you want to see in your section headers As soon as you change anything in these fields the corresponding selection box becomes checked To cancel a change just un check the box by clicking on it Project Name Innovative Technology D
42. Previous Section buttons When you are satisfied that your definitions are correct Click the OK button to accept them The definitions are now saved with the project Changing the Header Size To add one or more lines to the header to accommodate a longer project name for example simply click on the header elements and move or expand their size appropriately Click on OK to confirm the change Then use Change Header to modify all sections of the project or edit each section individually and use Edit Header to rearrange the header elements To remove one or more header lines first change the definition in Define Header then use Change Header to change to the new header text Never reverse the order of these commands If the Project Name is expanded to four or more lines Change Header will automatically expand the size of each header in the project when you use it to enter the new project name text Change Header however cannot handle some changes properly such as moving the date field to a new location in the header Change Header will simply write the new date text at the new location and leave the old date intact In these unusual cases run Change Header as you normally would and then edit each section of the project and run the Edit Header command from within it to remove the date from the old location Still other changes like moving the page number must be done manually from within each section Menu Reference Proje
43. REY SIN E S OEE TEETE EEEE EE EEEE ETSE EEEE EETA 56 devs aeae n e eo IEIR Oena aea panat 56 1 EEE Gevaert E AEE E TEETE E EEE T EEES 56 iv NMS Edit Plus for Windows CEQ Oa aioe eet E 57 Print PrevieW ES Mie ee ele A ee oe 57 Glose Ctrl 208 eects A de a 58 CATER A 58 E AE E A A 59 Undo or Redo E E A a E 59 Cut CEEX e gion hie teens 59 Copy CMEC antaa e 59 Paste otha cstehatec A ee E ati 59 59 Newline ccd he ae ds ee aac etisalat ae ce 59 Duplicate 60 60 Page Breaks ape ka ole that wee Ril alee 60 Non breaking eases capes sabes 60 r ies 60 60 A TA 60 veneaea
44. arked area is locked If you want to change the marked area just start again position the cursor push and hold the mouse button and move the mouse When you are marking an area in this way NMS Edit Plus looks at the start and end point of the block to decide how to mark it If you start and end on the same side of the document only that side is marked If you start and end on different sides all the text is marked Scroll down to 1 5 1 to see this Mark off just the words Shoring and bracing Now start again with the word shoring but this time drag your cursor over to the right to include some of the text on the right Now move it down a couple of lines Tutorial Session2 19 Marking text in this way makes editing very easy Just mark the text you want to replace or remove Then either type what you want to replace it with or press backspace or delete or Ctrl X to remove it Hint To mark large areas of text use shift clicking Mark a small area of text at the beginning of the block you want to mark Scroll down using the scroll bars to the end of the area you want to mark Hold down the shift key on the keyboard and click and drag the mouse to mark the end of the block This extends the previous block to this point Adding New Paragraphs Adding new paragraphs is easy with NMS Edit Plus Just type them in Position the text cursor somewhere on the left side of the blank line between 1 5 1 and 1 5 2 We will add
45. automatically You should Repaginate again after making changes if you want to see their effect The Repaginate command also calculates the total number of pages printed so you can adjust the number in your header if you show the total number of pages there i e Page 1 of 9 The exact format of this dialog is dependent upon the printer on your system Usually this dialog asks about scaling paper size orientation etc See your printer manual for more details Print Agent performs a supervisory function that ensures before a section is printed that proper cleanup has been done on the document and that the section is in proper NMS format It flags each type of error and indicates what portion of the document is at fault When you correct the problems run Print Agent again to verify correctness The error messages currently returned are e You appear to have a blank line in the header Solution remove the blank line or add a hard space at the start of the line e commands in the header are ignored Solution add at least one blank line between the header and a command e commands must begin at the left margin Solution Move the command to the left margin e The paragraph does not appear to start on the same line as the title Solution Move the paragraph up or down opposite the title e You appear to have a title with no paragraph attached Solution There must always be a paragraph opposite a title e You have
46. ay to a particular paragraph with the Find Paragraph command There is one more way of moving through the file Using the Search command it is possible to move quickly to the next occurrence of a particular word or phrase Select the Search command from the Search menu now A window pops up asking what to search for Enter area and click on the OK button or hit enter NMS Edit Plus finds the first occurrence of this word and marks it for you Search for Search Dialog Box To search for the next occurrence use the Search Again command Ctrl A for short Try it now Now try it once again There are no more occurrences of the word area in this file If we wanted to search for something else we would first need to move our cursor to the top of the file The Search command always starts searching from where our text cursor is located Scroll back to the start of the file now and click to move the text cursor to the top line of the file Select the Replace command from the Search menu In the first field of the window that popped up enter case In the second box enter situation Click the mouse pointer in the second box to move the text cursor Then click on the OK button NMS Edit Plus will replace the word case throughout the document with the word situation The Replace command is a good way to make a common change throughout the entire document However it has a disadvantage whe
47. ck the Print command from the File menu or use the Icon You can select on this dialog the pages to print and whether the top line should be printed NMS Edit Plus will then print the file From the printed copy you can see that NMS Edit Plus has paginated the file added continuation as needed corrected the number of blank lines between paragraphs and generally produced a pleasing layout As well the number of pages in the section has been updated in the project window Page Breaks As you scroll through the Sample section now you will notice that there are grey lines across the screen wherever a page break occurred These lines are calculated whenever the file is printed and they remain with the document only as long as its window is open If you wish to see the page breaks before printing a file select the Repaginate command from the File menu This will calculate where the page breaks will occur if you were to print the document If you decide that you do not like where NMS Edit Plus has broken the document you can add a special line into the file to tell it to break at that point At the point where you want the new page insert a blank line and at the extreme left side of the line type PAGE This line will not print but it will control NMS Edit Plus s pagination of the document Any changes you make to the file may change where the page breaks occur but they do not change the positions of the grey lines Only the Print and
48. count allowing for a 2 digit number if required The page count plus leading spaces is found at column 71 on the screen The section number needs no column number as it is at column 1 and left justified The COLS command is not required for a fixed space font such as Courier New because text will always remain justified as it appears on the screen RESET TABLES In NMS format paragraph and table headings are detected automatically and carried forward as long as required This means that the text on a page is always given a context There are times however when you would like to disable this feature The RESET command allows you to do this Printer Controls 99 The command by itself will reset the continuation of all paragraphs and table headings until the next headings or paragraph titles are found If the word TABLES is added to the line only table headings are reset This is useful if you have two tables in a row with no intervening paragraph NMS Edit will consider them to be one table and will only continue one set of headings unless the RESET TABLES is added to the document between the tables 100 NMS Edit P NMS Updates lus for Windows The NMS is updated once a year in January If you subscribe to the updates we will send you a notice of the new version as soon as it is available After updating your NMS you can get a printed copy of all the new sections by using the Latest Update command from the Proje
49. ct Menu 89 Division Titles The Define Header command is also used to define Division Titles for the List of Contents command The Division Titles check box at the bottom of the window indicates whether division titles are to be included in the List of Contents beside the division numbers If you turn this on you will be shown the list of division titles By default they are the standard NMS titles id Documents eneral Requirements hermal amp Moisture Protection BBE 3 a 9 o 3 a 2 5 oors and Windows 09 17 French Division Titles Dialog Box You can change them to whatever titles you want and NMS Edit Plus will use your new titles when building a list of contents for this project NMS Edit Plus allows titles for the standard 16 divisions as well as 0 and 17 To access the divisions you can t see click on the 09 17 button If you want to change the French titles if you re doing a French project use the French button 90 NMS Edit Plus for Windows Cross Reference The Cross Reference command is very useful for finding errors and potential problems in your project It takes only a few moments to run and creates two files on disk that you may edit with NMS Edit Plus The first file opens automatically It is called XREF ERR and contains a list of potential problems in the project The errors i
50. ct menu in NMS Edit Plus This command followed by Print All will produce the printed copy you need to update your binders Index B Backups BAK Filesi anan in ER 55 Make Backups 69 C Commands Add External 84 Add Filey oy eis cos Baie sone Sees 10 22 82 83 Bold tie chet nelle Be 21 78 Change Header 35 36 86 87 AAS A ES ee 59 Close D c ment 58 81 COLOUIS 70 DictOnaty 72 Drop Options Command 77 Drop SPEC 15 75 Command File Duplicate Execute Find Paragraph Font Index 101 Insert Characte ts ninrin onse eea Latest Update su s c 5coseceseisicoocsvesesacotegersescosesoeetes Line Drawing List of Mode Command Files vices 76 New DOCUMENT 41 54 Paragraphe aeien n a 19 Projecten e R Ri 9 80 Newline 19 59 eneses esiin seg ieres 15 65 Open Doc ment 20 23 55 81 Page Printer 33 56 Print Agent Print Preview Command File REMOVE Filen RenUiMbe ts anon
51. d See the New Project command above for more information Menu Reference Project Menu 83 Master files copied by Add File are converted into Section files to save disk space As the files are copied they are added to the list in the project window Double click on a file in the project window to open it for editing To allow conversion of ProSpec or NMS Specialist projects to NMS Edit Plus the Add from List button is available Highlight the list file usually called FILE LST and click on this button the files in the list are added to this project Before adding a WordPerfect or other format file from which NMS Edit Plus has a converter into a project open and convert the file to NMS Edit format first making sure the header layout is consistent with the rest of the project When the formatting is correct use Add File to bring it into the project If you are cloning an entire project you can use the Add button rather than selecting each file individually 84 NMS Edit Plus for Windows Add External Section Remove File Often files need to be associated with the specification that are not NMS Edit Plus sections such as a fill in form or AutoCad drawing To add such files to the project List of Contents use the Add External Section command Section from an external source Sectian Number Number of Pages fb Section Title Planting Detail Caneel Add External Secti
52. d select the Paste command The paragraph that we had on the clipboard is inserted into the document at this point This technique of marking text copying it and then pasting it at another point is a very useful way to copy paragraphs from one document to another or within the same document If you had chosen the Cut command instead of the copy command the text would be removed from the original location as it was copied to the clipboard allowing you to move text You can even move text between NMS Edit Plus and other word processors using the Cut Copy and Paste commands Using these techniques you can move as much or as little text as you want But beware Any underlining or bold facing is lost in the transfer You will need to replace them later Formatting Text In the paragraph we just pasted find the phrase NMS and DDN and mark it Then pull down the Font menu and select Underline or click on the UNDERLINE button on the Icon Bar All of the text we selected is now underlined Getting Help Tutorial Session2 21 The Plain Text Underline and Bold commands on the Font menu or the Icon Bar all work this way they apply to all of the marked text Be careful with their use A specification is a legal document not a work of art Underlines should be used for titles only Bold text should be used sparingly for special emphasis only Excessive use of bold or underlining defeats their pu
53. d to readjust paragraph numbering after deleting paragraphs if required Simple lines and rectangles can be drawn in a section using Line Drawing When invoked the cursor turns into a crosshairs Just click and drag into a box or line Hold down the Ctrl key when dragging to create a double line box Note that the line and corner characters are inserted as text into your document and may scramble when a paragraph is formatted It is best to insert blank lines and spaces to make room for the line or box before creating the graphic The Spell command allows you to check the spelling of an entire section If you want to check only a part of the document use the Spell Area command NMS Edit Plus s dictionary is specialised for the construction specification industry It contains many words that are not accepted English or French but are common in specifications The Spell command will select the dictionary to use based on the language setting See the Control Settings command As soon as you select the Spell command NMS Edit Plus begins checking each word in turn If there is a spelling error the offending word is highlighted and a dialog of choices appears to correct the error Spell Area Menu Reference Edit Menu 63 NMS Edit Plus CANMSISAMPLESISAMPLE DOC File Edit Search Control Font Project Window Help specified including representative samples of excavated material for analysis by testin laborator
54. der definition Use the Define Header command to add or reduce lines in the Project Name area Then use the Change Header command to change the project name in all sections New lines will be added to or removed from the header of each file as necessary Define Header The various operations that access information in the header depend on the information being in known places in the header Commands affected in this way are the Change Header List of Contents Add File and Edit Header commands If your headers have a different layout you will need to tell NMS Edit Plus what that layout is Define Header provides the way 88 NMS Edit Plus for Windows 0277 0 02 Canadian Natiowal Section 20808 Nester Constructions Page 1 Specification 1990 12 21 427 2 154 4 Rest Seotion Division Titles Sechen Tils Name Prevas Secbon Serban Member Cancel Date Define Header Dialog Box Define Header displays a dialog showing the header from the first file in the project The selectors in the centre indicate what part of the header is greyed Clicking these radio buttons changes the grey area If you need to change one of these definitions grab the top left or bottom right corner of the area and drag it with the mouse Ensure that none of the areas overlap You can check your definitions against other sections in the project by selecting the Next Section or
55. dows Setting Global Preferences NMS Edit Plus can be configured to operate in certain ways for ease of use For example NMS Edit Plus does not usually allow you to save documents as masters But you can change that default by using the Preferences selection under the Control menu Choose this command now Preference Settings Default Font IN Make Backups Allow Making Masters Courier New Open Windows Full Size Default Font Size _ Print Top Line 1 Fit Text in Window Icon Change Colors Override _ Auto Reformat with _ Check for Auto Renumber with _ Check for ON Binding Margins Odd 0 25 Even Preferences Dialog Box The following describes each of these settings and how to use them Make Backups tells NMS Edit Plus to keep the previous edition of a document if there is one as a backup when it saves the document It has the same file name but the extension BAKR is added This is a handy safety feature but it does use extra disk space Allow Making Masters specifies whether you are allowed to create master files in the File Save As command Normally for safety this is not allowed Open Windows Full Size Normally NMS Edit Plus opens a section in a full size window to fill the screen This makes it easy for you to look at all the text at o
56. e Settings Default Font IN Make Backups _ Allow Making Masters Courier New IS Open Windows Full Size La _ Fit Text in Window Change Colors Icon Bar Chang 1 Override _ Auto Reformat with _ Check for ON _ Auto Renumber with _ Check for Default Font Size Print Top Line Binding Margins Odd 0 25 Even Preferences Dialog Box Make Backups tells the Save or Save As commands to keep the previous version of the file as a backup This uses additional disk space but provides a helpful safety net in case of errors The backup file has an extension of Allow Making Masters indicates whether the user is allowed to create master files If so the Master file type selector will be available on the Save As file dialog It is a good idea to leave this function disabled in normal practice so that master files are not randomly created using up extra disk space 70 NMS Edit Plus for Windows Open Windows Full Size indicates whether NMS Edit Plus will open documents using either the New or Open command in windows that fill the screen or in windows that overlap one another This selection does not change the function of the Maximise icon on the window it just d
57. e of Contents iii Session 4 Advanced 5 41 Creating a New Doc meDtrsssremne seisen Set e EE e EREE E REE ESNE 41 751 E EE E E EEEa eases 42 Adding Special Characters ds Eer rero r 42 Hard Space spe eana EE o r E AE EEEE E EEr h 43 Controlling Document Formatting 43 BITTON 43 Auto Reformat 43 Auto Renumber a ane ee hea en eH 44 Right Justification sitet ei sie Ri ihe ee ae 44 English Documentairen e E r 44 Wath nied 44 Controlling Paragraph 45 nies Sei ee a 45 45 ee 45 Setting Global Preferences onines eara SERE EERE E AVERSE EIES S Ee LIS pe REESEN 46 Preferences Dialog BOX sirri nrun oreina aiae a EE ERTAS 46 Bac KUPS S RET 46 Allow Making Mastersu
58. ection 00000 Mester Conatructlon Page 1 apecitication 1980 12 31 5 8 9 R S Section Title Pages STABLE SCoLs Division 02 9 ATL 02220 Excavating snd Backfallang 5 02356 Pils Testes g coLa Division 04 SCOLS 9 RTL 04521 Replacement of Brick in Histories Structure 5 SEND ET Sample List of Contents Once the Contents section is complete it is added to the project and opened in a new window If you wish to do any special editing on the section you can do so now Tutorials Session3 35 The List of Contents can be tailored to meet your special needs For example non NMS Edit Plus sections can be generated into the List of Contents by using the Add External Section command As well special text can be automatically added to the beginning and end of the contents section by filling in the List of Contents Options dialog Consult the reference section of this manual under Add External Section and List of Contents for more information Changing Headers Usually the headers at the top of each specification section are the same for the whole project They contain the date and project name as well as section specific information The Change Header command will change the date or project name in all the sections at once Select Change Header now and you will see a dialog box showing the project name and date for the current project Project Name Innovative Technology Demonstration P
59. ed CSC Page Format Construction Specifications Canada designed the format for use in private practice specifications It has the advantage of using less paper However it is more difficult to read NMS Edit Plus allows you to convert your specifications from one format to the other automatically Click on the CSC Page Format button on the Icon Bar Alternatively pull down the Control menu and select Execute From the list of files select PAGEFORM EXC and click on OK The file is automatically converted You can see the difference in the formats now To convert the file to NMS format click on the NMS Page Format button on the Icon Bar Or choose Execute again and select the file NMSFORM EXC The conversion process between formats is controlled by a command file that can be altered to provide a number of different formats Using the Open command from the file menu change to the NMS directory and select the PAGEFORM EXC file You can see that this file is just a series of commands to NMS Edit Plus The mode lines change the specified parameters on the Settings window The separate n line is a special command to remove the titles from the left and place them on the line above The n on this line means no underlines If it is changed to y the format conversion is the same but for the underlining of titles which are now retained Hint If you prefer
60. emonstration Project Header Date 2001 12 31 Cancel Change Header Dialog Box When you have entered the new header and or date click the Change button A new window pops up showing the old and new headers for the first section The top box is the old header taken from the file The bottom box shows the header with your new changes applied Menu Reference Project Menu 87 B NMS 6222 6 62 Canadian National Excavating and Backfilling Section 62226 Master Construction Page 1 Specification 1998 12 31 B NMS 6222 6 62 Innovative Technology Excavating and Backfilling Section 62226 Demonstration Page 1 Project Header 2881 12 31 Skip Stop Asking Change Header Confirmation Dialog Box Cancel The buttons across the bottom of the window allow you to select whether the section is to be changed as shown OK whether it is to be skipped Skip or whether NMS Edit Plus should change this and all subsequent sections without asking for your approval Stop Asking Change Header is used to change the contents of all headers in a project uniformly It cannot be used to rearrange elements of the header If your project files have a different header layout from the standard use the Define Header command first to tell NMS Edit Plus what your new layout is Hint If you need to change the size of the header by adding or removing lines from it you must first change the hea
61. es To convert an NMS Edit Plus file to ASCII for use with another program edit the file select the Save As command select Control and enter a new file name Files may also be converted for use with WordPerfect MS Word or AmiPro Select the File Type appropriately to choose one of these formats NMS Edit Plus will append an extension WP or RTF to the new file If you specified on the Preferences dialog that NMS Edit Plus is to make backups the previous version of the file will be left on disk unchanged except that the extension will be added to its name Revert to Saved Sometimes while editing a section you make a mistake that is awkward to fix Often rather than fixing it you would like to just start again This is easily accomplished with the Revert to Saved command The last saved copy of the file is read into memory Any changes you made to the document since the last save are lost If you have made changes that you are about to lose you will be prompted to confirm the action 56 NMS Edit Plus for Windows Repaginate Printer Setup Print Agent This command determines where the page breaks would occur if the document was printed immediately A grey line across the window indicates where each page break occurs See the Print Preview command to view an image of the document as it would be printed If further changes are made to the file the page break marks will not adjust
62. es but it appears as a blank To type a hard space use Ctrl Shift spacebar On the screen a hard space looks like a small box c All paragraphs must start with 1 or a 2 etc This sequence must always be entered at a tab stop position Therefore always use the tab key to position the text cursor d In NMS format a paragraph that is opposite a title must always be opposite the first line of the title In other words this alignment is wrong 1 1 Related Work Specified Elsewhere 41 Section 12345 but the following is correct 1 1 Related Work 21 Section 12345 Specified Elsewher 42 NMS Edit Plus for Windows Using House Masters It is possible to make up your own master files We strongly recommend that you place them in a separate directory for that purpose Mixing them up with the NMS masters will only bring confusion and problems later To make a master file create it in the normal fashion When you are satisfied that it is correct you can save it with the Save As command Check the Master box on this window before selecting the Save button If the Master option is not visible it must be enabled from the Preferences command which will be described shortly Adding Special Characters The NMS uses a number of special characters in its files These include the degree symbol as well as sub script and super script values The following chart explains how to type the
63. estored Some of these may be overridden by setting the Preferences dialog appropriately before the file is opened As a shortcut an Open File button is available on the Icon Bar This command saves the current file to disk If the file has not already been saved i e it was started with the New command you will be prompted for a file name If the file is a master section you will also be asked for a file name the file extension will be changed to DOC For more information see the description of the Save As command The Save command is only enabled if changes were made to the file If you specified on the Preferences dialog that NMS Edit Plus is to make backups the previous version of the file will be left on disk unchanged except that the extension will be changed to BAK The Save As command is used to save a file and change its name or type This command displays a file save dialog that includes a file type selection on it A normal specification section is saved as a Section file A command file is saved as Control type If you are allowed to create master files see the Preferences command you will also be able to select Master type files If the file is being saved as a document it will be given the default DOC extension Master files are give the extension MAS Control files are given the extension Hint Files of type Control are really just ASCII fil
64. etermines the window s starting size Print Top Line determines whether or not the coded top line of the section should be printed You can override this option on the print menu Fit Text in Window changes the font size used to display the text on the screen so the full text width appears in he window After selecting Fit text in Window close any open documents so that the option can take effect or select the Font Fonts command When disabled the actual font size is used It has no effect when a proportional printer font is selected and it does not affect the font size used for printing Icon Bar turns on and off the display of the Icon Bar Default Font Default Font Size sets the default attributes for files such as master files which have never been edited in NMS Edit Plus Master files do not have a font or font size marked in them So when you first add them to a project and edit them they are assigned default font and size values Colours sets colours for the display of regular text Spec Notes and Option Fields in the document Override overrides either or both of the Auto Reformat and Auto Renumber settings for a document Normally these settings are saved with the document and restored when it is opened If you prefer to always have documents open in a particular mode set these overrides First check the override box to indicate the setting to be overridden Then indicate on the right what the setting i
65. ew page will be started at that point in the listing If the word PAGE is followed by a number then the break will occur only if less than that number of lines are left For example SPAGE 10 starts a new page if less than 10 blank lines are left on the current page So for example to ensure that an entire table is kept on one page of the document place the PAGE on the line before the table and number the PAGE to the number of lines in the table SPACE If you add a line to the document that begins with SPACE followed by a number that number of blank lines will be inserted at that point in the document If you have asked for more blank lines to be printed than are left on the page then a new page will be started but no blank lines will be placed at the top of the page Tutorials Session4 49 For example SSPACE 3 leaves three blank lines in the document FOOT In most specifications the header at the top of the page contains the project name the date the page number and the company name When you look at a document on the screen all of the lines up to the first blank line will be included in the header This header will be printed at the top of each page and the pages will be numbered appropriately Some companies prefer to have their company name at the bottom of each page instead of at the top To do this in NMS Edit Plus you will need to add two lines to the document The first one must have FOOT at c
66. excavations to prevent failure in accordance with Canadian Construction Safety Code 1977 and applicable local regulations PART 2 PRODUCTS 2 1 Materials 2 1 fill clean angular crusher run natural stone free from shale clay friable materials roots and vegetable matter and graded within following limits Sieve Sise Tyler Per Cent Passing 50 mm 100 19 95 100 16 mm 75 100 Print Preview The Print Agent Before printing the final copy of a section you will want to ensure that all the Spec Notes are removed from the document and that paragraphs are aligned and numbered properly NMS Edit Plus s Print Agent command under the File menu will check your document for these common types of errors and help you locate them It flags each type of error in a dialog and indicates what portion of the document is at fault When you correct the problems run Print Agent again to verify correctness Print Agent is invoked automatically each time you print a section Tutorials Session3 33 Printing a Section To print a file from NMS Edit Plus you must have a printer available and selected on your system If you are unsure about this refer to your Windows User Manual The Printer Setup command on the File menu allows you to choose one of the different printers installed on your system and configure the printer appropriately Once these preliminary steps are done select the Sample File window then pi
67. ference Most sections in a project specification contain references to other sections Sometimes these are in the Related Work part of the section At other times they are in the body of the text In either case it is important that these be accurate NMS Edit Plus can help you ensure this On the project menu select Cross Reference Each file in the project is processed in turn When the command has finished the error list file XREF ERR opens automatically This file contains a list of potential problems in your project It lists the sections that you referred to but did not include in the project Unless someone else is providing these sections you should fix these problems The report also identifies places where section references are not complete It is normally advisable especially in trade sections to have all references go both ways C NMS ATUTORIALVXREF ERA 02220 refers to 01380 but 01300 does not refer to 02220 refers to 01545 but 01545 does not refer to refers to 01575 but does not refer to refera to 02110 but does not refer to refera to 02104 but does not refer to cetera to 02210 but doses not to refers to 01340 but does not refer to cefers to 01340 but does not refer to refers to 01400 but does not refer to refers to 01300 but does not refer to 04521 refers to 04115 but does not refer to 01390 missing referred to by 01545 missing referred to 01575
68. figuration allows users to run NMS Edit Plus from the single copy on the server They can perform all operations except setting their own preferences The preferences they get will be the ones defined by the NMSPLUS RF on the server directory If you wish to allow users the ability to set their own preferences you must copy the NMSPLUS RF file to each user s WINDOWS directory Converting NMS Edit MS DOS Files Some users wish to use files from the MS DOS version of NMS Edit in the Windows version Since the file formats are identical no special conversion is required and the files may be freely exchanged between the DOS and Windows versions 6 NMS Edit Plus for Windows The Icon Bar NMS Edit Plus features a shortcut command menu called the Icon Bar The Icon Bar contains the most common commands and options you will use Buttons on the Icon Bar are divided into four categories File Manipulation 22 e Open a file e Save the document Print the document e Spell check the document e Undo or Redo the last command Cut and Paste Ale heal e Cut e e Paste Mode Control Furs Auto Format ON OFF Filled in indicates Insert mode ON OFFthe setting e Right justify ON OFF is on Auto Renumber ON OFF e Column counter Text Formatting P BU e Plain text e Bold text e Underlined text Clean up Commands e the document Delete all Spec Notes from the docu
69. find files to add to your project As you select files to be added they are recorded in the bottom file list This lets you work quickly and select a number of files for adding to the project at once Using the directory list find the directory containing the file you wish to add to the project If you were adding files from division 2 of the NMS masters you would change to directory C NMS E02 If the files were on a different drive use the Drives list to change disk drives If you are unsure about navigating through directories using a dialog refer to your Windows manuals The file list shows a selection of the files in the directory By selecting the List Files of Type list you can have only master files only document files or some other selection of files listed When you have found a file to add to the project add it to the bottom list by highlighting it and clicking the Select button or by double clicking on the file name in the list You can then find another file and double click on it You can even change to a different directory and choose files from that directory After you have selected all the files you want to add to your project click the Add button This will copy the files to your project directory The original files will be left in place and a new copy will be in the new project Had you accidentally double clicked on an incorrect file name you can delete it from the list of files to be copied by hig
70. fine Header simply tells NMS Edit Plus the location of these fields in the header of each file It does not actually change the layout of a file header or move the fields in a section 38 NMS Edit Plus for Windows Division Titles At the bottom left of this dialog box is a check box called Division Titles When checked NMS Edit Plus will include division titles in all subsequent Lists of Contents it creates If it is not checked only the division numbers will show in the List of Contents Click on this item to turn off the division titles then click it again to turn it on When turned on a new dialog appears showing the titles that will be used for each division Since there is not enough room in the dialog for all of them only divisions 00 to 08 are shown Click the 09 17 button to see the remaining ones You can change any of these titles to whatever you wish The next time you make a List of Contents the new wording will be used id Documents eneral Requirements concrete hermal amp Moisture Protection on no Sj z oO a a 2 a a oors and Windows 0917 French Division Titles Dialog Box We don t want to save any of the changes we have been making so click cancel to return to the Define Header window and click cancel again to return to the menus Tutorials Session3 39 Generating a Cross Re
71. formatting only those paragraphs that are subsequently changed will be reformatted to this width Tabs Indent Spacing are each a column of values Each value in a column corresponds to a different level of indentation of paragraph or to a different type of item The left side of the dialog area shows the meaning of each entry in the columns Tabs determines the placement of paragraphs in NMS Edit Plus If you change a tab setting the paragraphs at that level will all move in or out Normal NMS format tab settings are 22 27 32 37 Page formatted documents are at 5 10 15 20 Indent determines how subsequent lines of a paragraph are formatted The first line of a paragraph always starts at the tab stop for that level The text always starts at the next tab in If the paragraph is more than one line long the second and subsequent lines start at the tab stop determined by adding the indent value to the tab stop number where the paragraph started For example this is what a paragraph formatted with an indent of 0 would look like sol This is a paragraph with indent level set to zero so subsequent lines begin under the period Here is another example this time with indent set to 1 ol This is a paragraph with indent level set to one so that subsequent lines start indented from the period If this selection is changed you will be asked whether you want to reformat the document so that it applies immediately or if you wan
72. he page reduce the Width value Tutorials Session4 45 Controlling Paragraph Formatting The three columns of numbers are parameters that affect the various levels of paragraph Two of the columns affect only numbered paragraphs The third applies to spec notes and titles as well The numbers down the left side indicate the successive levels of indentation for each set of parameters Tabs specifies in which column each level of indentation is to begin Indent specifies how many tab stops second and subsequent lines of a paragraph are to be indented The default is that first level paragraphs continue one stop in from the 1 and all other levels continue directly under the 1 For example the following paragraph has an indent value of 0 meaning that the second line begins under the period 1 This is a paragraph with the second line beginning at the same place as the first The next paragraph is formatted with an indent level of 1 1 This paragraph is different It is formatted with an indent level of 1 Spacing sets out how many blank lines are to be printed before each level of paragraph Regardless of how many blank lines are in the file NMS Edit Plus will put the right number in when printing Normally there are three lines before a title and one before a first indent level paragraph But if you want spaces between all levels of paragraph you can change their spacing to one as well 46 NMS Edit Plus for Win
73. he table A line beginning with SPACE followed by a number will leave that many blank lines on the page If you have asked for more blank lines to be printed than are left on the page then a new page will be started but no blank lines will be placed at the top of the page For example SSPACE 3 leaves three blank lines in the document FOOT TABLE END Printer Controls 97 In most specifications the header at the top of the page contains the project name the date the page number and the company name When you look at a document on the screen all of the lines up to the first blank line will be included in the header This header will be printed at the top of each page and the pages will be numbered appropriately Some companies prefer to have their company name at the bottom of each page instead of at the top To do this in NMS Edit Plus you will need to add two lines to the document The first one must have at column 1 The next line must contain the message to be printed at the bottom of each subsequent page of the document For example SFOOT Innovative Technology Inc places our company name at the bottom of each page of the document on all subsequent pages You can include the page number in the footer by including the word page followed by a number The page number is placed in this location when the page is printed For example 5 Innovative Technology Inc Page 1 NMS Edi
74. hem on the screen e Cancel Don t change this file cancel the command entirely The areas of the header that are changed by the Change Header command are pre defined to work for standard NMS headers If you are working with a different layout of header you may need to change the definition of where each item in the header is located You can do that with the Define Header command Tutorials Session3 37 Setting a New Header Layout Define Header displays a dialog showing the header from the first section The radio buttons in the centre of the dialog indicate what part of the header is shown with a grey background Try clicking the four buttons to see the different areas on the header B HNS R2220 2 Natioaal Waster Construction Specificatioa Section anana Page 1 1990 12 31 27 2 494 4 __ Section Division Titles Section Title ywz Sechon Secon Member Cancel lt Define Header Dialog Box You can adjust the size of the areas by holding the mouse button down and shifting the top left or bottom right corners of the grey box Try it now if you like The areas defined should not be allowed to overlap They should be large enough to include the entire contents of that field for any file in the project If you want to see how another file looks with these definitions click on the Next Section button It is important to understand that De
75. hlighting the file in the lower list and clicking the Remove button This does not delete the file it just removes it from the list of files to be copied Any master MAS files that are copied into a project in this way automatically become working sections DOC Tutorial This section of the NMS Edit Plus manual takes you through a tutorial on NMS Edit Plus for Windows Work through this tutorial before starting any real projects It won t take long and you will more than make up the time by knowing how to use NMS Edit Plus efficiently The first three sessions teach you the fundamentals of NMS Edit Plus After completing these sessions you will be able to begin work The last session teaches you more about using NMS Edit Plus and fine tuning it to your office practice 12 NMS Edit Plus for Windows Tutorial Session 1 The Basics Starting NMS Edit Plus To launch NMS Edit Plus double click on its icon After the copyright notice and version number appears a dialog asks whether you wish to open a new or existing project open a section file or use the menus Click on the Open a Section File button Next the Open command s dialog box appears Find the Samples directory in the list and select it by clicking the mouse on it Then click on the Open button You could also have double clicked on the Samples directory The list of files changes to show the files in that directory The one named SAMPLE DOC i
76. hoose to override the option every time you edit a file As well as specifying that the option is to be overridden you must also select whether it is to override to the on or off state Binding Margins specifies in inches the margins that are to be put on the left edge of the page to allow for binding You can set four different values two for odd and even pages to allow for double sided copying and two for the top and bottom margins of each page Print Formatting NMS Edit Plus has a very intelligent print capability For most specifications simply printing with NMS Edit Plus will break the document up into pages in a pleasing and easy to read manner Paragraphs will only be split across pages if two or more lines are on each page headings will be continued if appropriate at the top of pages etc The result will be an easy to read well laid out spec 48 NMS Edit Plus for Windows Sometimes there are special reasons for altering the default specification layout NMS Edit Plus provides for these by allowing a set of special commands to be inserted into the document at any point to tell it how to format the page These are entered into the document like normal lines of text They must be typed at the leftmost column of the page They will not be printed in the final output The three most common types of control lines are SPAGE SSPACE SFOOT PAGE If you add a line to the document that begins with PAGE then a n
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78. ier type font on the screen So before printing you will need to select the appropriate font and size The default font for master sections is Courier New at size 11 If this is your preference you need not use the Fonts command at all Otherwise when a new font or size is selected an automatic Reformat takes place You will notice that the right side of each paragraph appears more ragged than before and some lines even extend past the header boundary NMS Edit Plus is now creating line breaks not by counting the number of characters in the line as it would when printing a fixed spacing font like Courier but by summing the width of each character and breaking when the line is full This approach shows clearly where the line breaks will occur However it has the drawback of making it more difficult to edit the section Hint Wait until section editing is almost complete before selecting a printer font If you have a Courier font selected and the text size you chose for printing is too large to fit on your screen pick the Fit Text in Window selection on the Preferences Dialog This will decrease the screen font size without affecting the printed text size Menu Reference Font Menu 79 Hint For best results choose only TrueType fonts With other fonts what you see on the screen may not be what you get on the printer 80 NMS Edit Plus for Windows Project Menu New Project The project menu is used for project rela
79. ill in the blank Move the cursor over the option and double click on it As you have come to expect the whole option is marked Now type 01380 As soon as you typed the first zero the option disappeared and was replaced by the zero Then the rest of the numbers were entered in the usual manner This is another shortcut Whenever you have something marked in NMS Edit Plus typing a letter replaces it Selecting Options and Paragraphs So far you have only used the scroll bars to move around in NMS Edit Plus Now pull down the Search menu and select the Next Option command Cleaning Up Tutorials Session 1 15 It automatically finds the next option and marks it for you You can also execute this command from the keyboard with the Ctrl O key Try it several times moving through the document and finding the options Sometimes when editing a document you know exactly what paragraph you want to go to and you want to get there quickly To do this pull down the Search menu again and select Find Paragraph When the dialog pops up asking for the paragraph number type in 2 2 2 NMS Edit Plus immediately takes you to the paragraph requested When you are working from a marked up print listing Find Paragraph is a handy way to move about Now that you have seen the most common types of things that you will be doing in NMS Edit Plus it s time to learn how to finish off the document If you want to go through the Sample sec
80. in accordance with Section 01300 Submittals NOTE Use 1 3 2 for private sector projects Submit samples 1 Two of each type of masonry unit specified 2 One of each type of masonry accessory specified 3 One of each type of masonry reinforcement and tie proposed for use 4 required for testing purposes Investigate for evidence of previous repairs cracks moisture and dampness and report to Engineer Consultant before starting work 1 4 Existing Conditions DO Samples Submit samples in accordance with Section 01300 Submittals NOTE Use 1 3 2 for private sector projects 2 Submit samples 1 Two of each type of masonry unit specified 2 One of each type
81. ine Rah hehe R 78 vi NMS Edit Plus for Windows Project Soot Sote o Toos 80 New 80 Ne w Project Dialog 80 Opening a Project Section 81 Open Project 81 Close Projecto r a 81 Late st W pdate 81 Show Project Window scussessscerssiacesesste eae T E A TRATE AEE e 81 Add FE aa aah anne alee annie 82 Add File Dialog BOX A E EEE OEE E RTA 82 Add External Section ecw EERE EER SREE 84 Add External Section Dialog 84 Remove FE E aia TS EE ee 84 Show Title Show File 84 Contents E ai ete eda ae ey 84 List of Contents Dialog BOX 85 Sample List Of Contents 85 oc tinier ae ates ai Haran eed ek 86 Change Headers ede ban ass eee ots 86 Change Header D
82. ions can be generated into the List of Contents by using the Add External Section command As well special text can be automatically added to the beginning and end of the contents section by filling in the List of Contents Options dialog Menu Reference Project Menu 85 Build List of Contents Options Include Division Titles Underline the Titles Text to add at beginning Text to add at end List of Contents Dialog Box When checked the Include Division Titles box adds division titles to the division numbers in the section Underline the Titles provides additional formatting to the division numbers and titles To add a fixed block of text at the start and or end of the List of Contents put the text into an NMS formatted file using NMS Edit Plus and specify the filename in one of the boxes Click on OK The new List of Contents section is automatically opened so you can check it 7 C ANMS TUTORIAL CONTENTS DOC 302220 02 Canadian National List of Contents Section 00000 Master Conatruction Page 1 Specification 1990 12 31 SCOL8 9 RES aection Title Pages STABLE Division 02 COLI 9 RTL 02220 Excavating snd Backfalling 02356 Pile Tests coLa Division 04 SCOL 9 RTL 04521 Replacement of Brick in Historie atructure SEND 5101 Sample List of Contents If any sections in the project were not printed since they were last changed NMS Edit
83. iskettes click Done Lastly the README TXT file is displayed on the screen Please take the time to read this file It contains information that may be important to you If you later decide to add more of the NMS to your hard disk run the installer again and select Custom installation and Install database only Introduction 5 7 When NMS Edit Plus is first started it will ask for a valid access key to permit running the program and reading the NMS sections you have purchased Type in the access key exactly as printed on the insert included with the NMS Edit Plus package Pay close attention to letter case and distinguish between the number 1 and small letter I the letter and the number 0 Installing NMS Edit Plus on a Network NMS Edit Plus is licensed for a single concurrent use only If you wish to run NMS Edit Plus on more than one workstation at the same time you must purchase a site license to do so from Innovative Technology Inc Running more copies than you have a licence for is not legal To install NMS Edit Plus for network access you need to 1 Install NMS Edit Plus on a network accessible drive using NMS Edit installer 2 BWCC DLL from your WINDOWS SYSTEM directory to the server NMS Edit directory 3 COPY NMSPLUS RF from your WINDOWS directory to the server NMS Edit directory 4 Make the server NMS directory read only to the workstations This con
84. it of the numbering only when it sees a line that looks like PART 2 or PARTIE 2 This command is usually used at the end of editing to clean up a section before printing Menu Reference Control Menu 75 Drop SPEC NOTE Shift F9 This command removes all Spec Notes from the file and cleans up any problems in the text as a result of their removal This command is normally done at the end of editing before printing the file Users can insert Spec Notes in their own master files A Spec Note is identified by the words SPEC NOTE or REDACTEUR in capital letters beginning at the first tab stop Drop Options Ctrl F9 This command is normally used to clean up at the end of an editing session It finds all square brackets in the file removes them and reformats the paragraphs containing them Any text between the brackets remains in the file Any fill in options which look like are completely removed The normal process of editing options is to remove the unwanted ones by double clicking them and deleting them with the Backspace or Cut command At the end of the editing session clean up the remaining brackets with the Drop Options command Execute Shift F3 NMS Edit Plus has the ability to execute special command files These command files can be used to change formats or provide automated capabilities to NMS Edit Plus When the Execute command is launched you must pick a command file to execu
85. ites 61 Header Didlog BOX E 61 Insert Character FU 62 Delete Line oE E nE 62 Line Drawing ee eee 62 Spell a 62 Spell Areas Aa eh aed nee I en ee had aa 63 GAP CH 65 Find Paragraph EEA ESSE SAE SERPEREK 65 Next Option n e aa R a e E aai 65 Search FA E EEE E EEEO T EEE EEEE E E EO 65 Search Asam EEEE A A TREE EEEa TE E T ENERE 65 CED EAE E A S 66 Verify Replacement Dialog 66 Update Standards EEEa 66 Update Standards Dialog 67 Update Standards Results s isccssectecy ccessscsceetegesscsspasdes iedh 67 Verify Standards Dialog 67 Update Standards Report 68 Standard Tron 68 Control 69 Preferences 69 Preferences Dialog BOK yi A OE RAVE OE AES 69
86. l sections in the project and their page counts if known Double clicking on a section in the list opens that section for editing Once a project is open the other commands on the project menu become available Only one project may be open at a time Close a project with the Close Project command If you want to change projects you must close the current project before opening a new one Close Project saves the current information about the project as shown in the project window to the project control file on disk Latest Update creates a special temporary project containing all the sections updated in the most recent NMS update applied to your system If you have both the English and French NMS updates you will be asked which one you want to look at The only command available from the Project menu when this project is open is the Print command You can use the Latest Update command to either print an entire update or to examine the new sections Show Project Window F10 Use this command to activate the project window The project window then becomes the top window and you can access the other commands in the Project menu 82 NMS Edit Plus for Windows Add File The Add File command provides a simple way of copying master files or document files from another project into this project You must have the new project open when you select this command The Add File dialog contains two lists of files
87. laced with a replacement string When the command is issued a dialog box prompts for the string to search for and the string to replace it by At the same time you can specify whether the search is to find only exact matches or whether the search should include upper and lower case instances of the same string If you ask NMS Edit Plus to verify the changes each time a change is to be made you are shown the change and asked for confirmation You then can choose to replace it skip it or cancel the command altogether NMS EditfPlus CANMS TUTORIAL SAMPLE DOC File Edit Search Control Font Project Window Help 3 Clearing grubbing Section 02110 4 Tree and plant preservation Section 02104 1 2 Site Replace 7 yation report is bound into Conditions ing Section 01380 Report Replace this string Pstigation Co dated gsampres of each type fill specified including representative samples of excavated material for analysis by testing laboratory In the case of coarse gravelly soil or coarse crushed stone submit 70 kg samples 1 3 Samples Verify Replacement Dialog Box If you do not choose to verify the changes they are all made automatically Update Standards F6 The Update Standards command searches the open section for standard references validates the format of each reference and ensures that the standard number is up to date The Update Standards com
88. ly we would need to delete the two options and and underpinning Move the mouse pointer over the and option and double click on it The whole option is selected Select Cut from the Edit menu or press the backspace delete or Ctrl X key The option is deleted and the paragraph is reformatted Use the same procedure to delete the underpinning option NMS Edit Plus C NMS SAMPLES SAMPLE DOC File Edit Search Control Font Project Window Help soil or coarse crushed stone submit 70 kg samples 1 4 Shop Drawings SPEC NOTE Delete 1 4 if shoring bracing and underpinning specified in a separate Section If shoring bracing and underpinning is extensive or complex it should be specified in a separate Section al Submit shop drawings of shoring and bracing underpinning required in connection with excavation in accordance with Section 01340 Drawings to show clearly procedural sequence to be followed 1 5 Shoring Shore and brace excavations to prevent failure in accordance with Canadian Construction Another example of options is found in 1 2 1 Scroll to there now Double click on the word available at the beginning of the option Once again the whole option is selected and selecting Cut backspace or delete removes it But this paragraph contains another type of option that looks like This is an option where there is not a standard value or choice but where you need to f
89. makes it easy to find your way from a listing to the right place in the document Next Option Search F4 The Next Option command finds the next option text contained in square brackets in the document and marks it for deletion or correction An option can be e a fill in the blank field shown as underlines between square brackets i e e a multiple choice selection represented by a series of two or more text strings each enclosed in brackets i e Engineer Architect or e optional word or phrase which could be any text contained in square brackets i e not This command provides an easy way for a spec writer to move through a document and quickly make his key choices The Search command scans the document for the next occurrence after the text cursor of a requested string Enter the string in the dialog box and click OK when ready The search process can look for an exact match or it can look for a match ignoring differences in capitalisation Just select the appropriate choice in the dialog box When found the string is marked for easy reference and editing Search Again Ctrl A This command scans for the next occurrence of the same string as was specified in the previous Search command 66 NMS Edit Plus for Windows Replace F7 The Replace command searches beginning at the text cursor position for every occurrence of a given string When each is found it is rep
90. mand operates by means of a file in your NMS directory containing more than 15 000 current standards from 22 agencies When a standard is encountered in the section Update Standards compares it to its list of current standards and then either flags it as invalid corrects its format or sets it to the latest revision When you purchase the update to NMS Edit Plus each year you will automatically get the latest standards data file Menu Reference Search Menu 67 Starting the standards checker brings up a dialog requesting more information Standards update options Report options Update all standards Errors gt Report only Substitutions Verify all changes 7 Update Standards Dialog Box Update Standards performs two functions First it searches for and optionally replaces standards in error with correct ones Second it produces a report of its findings The two parts of the dialog box reflect this When Update all standards is selected the command performs its searching and replacing automatically without any user intervention Clicking Report only tells the command to make no changes to the section just report its findings when done Finally Verify all changes locates each standard number one by one and prompts for the action to take By default the dialog appears with only Errors to be reported in the report file Clicking on Substitutions allows us to see as well what changes
91. massing refterced to by 02110 missing referced to by 02104 missing referred ta by D2210 missing referred ta by 0222 01340 miasing referred ta by 02220 04521 01400 missing referred to 04521 01300 missing referred to 04521 04115 missing referred to 04521 END 512 Sample Cross Reference Errors 40 NMS Edit Plus for Windows A second file XREF LST is also created It is viewed using the Open command from the File menu It gives you a full listing of all the inter section references listing them in both directions ac MMSATUTORIAL XREF LST ag 02220 cefers to 01380 01545 01575 02110 02104 02210 01340 02356 cefers to 04521 refers to 01340 01400 01300 04115 REFERENCE TABLE 01300 referred to 01340 ceferred to 01390 ceferred to 01400 referred to by 01545 referred to by 01575 referred to 02104 referred to by 02110 referred to by 0 02210 referred to by 02220 04115 referred to by 04521 END 41 Sample Cross Reference Listing Printing the Project The last thing we want to mention in this session is the Print All command As you might imagine it prints the entire project in order It is especially useful when you have changed the headers in all the files and need to reprint the entire project At this point you have learned all you need to know to begin editing specifications with NMS Edit Plus It would be a go
92. ment Delete all Option brackets and underscores Convert the document to NMS Page Format Convert the document to CSC Page Format Using th Tis section of the NMS Edit Plus manual explains e the Format of NMS documents how to Create a Project 8 NMS Edit Plus for Windows Using the NMS Document Format The National Master Specification database installs in the standard two column format with headings on the left and text on the right This format has often been criticised as being too wasteful of paper In response to these concerns the CSC Page Format was developed to allow the text to move almost to the left margin of the paper while maintaining the same content and paragraph numbering BO 1 3 Samples Submit samples
93. n GARR Command File Repaginate Replace Project a Ek 86 Search 24 25 66 Revert to Saved 28 56 2 17 55 69 21 55 69 24 65 Search Again inertne nea 24 65 Separate Command 30 77 43 45 71 74 Command File 76 Show Title Filename 34 84 Size Command 77 Spell Edit MENU 16 62 64 102 NMS Edit Plus for Windows Project 91 Spell Areas rnei nn sieve conve nR O 64 93 UNGEr lines 21 78 UnSeparate Command File 77 Update Standards Project Menu Search Menu D 16 44 63 64 Diskette i AR led 2 5 9 Division Titles 38 85 89 F Federal Government 80 83 File Types eRe 55 AS CID cos r ocean 55 MSWord ane 54 55 WordPerfect ua earne en 54 55 Font Defaults anana an Footer SHOOT Inserting Formatting Auto Reformata ea a 28 43 Command Files 76 77 Document
94. n changes are done blindly and you can t see what is going on behind the scenes Tutorials Session3 25 Search for Replace by Ignore case Replace Dialog Box Move your text cursor back up to the top of the file and try the Replace command again This time replace and by or and this time check the Verify before replacing box on the dialog Now when each replacement is made you are shown the location and asked whether or not to make the replacement NMS Edit Plus C NMS TUTORIAL SAMPLE DOC File Edit Search Control Font Project Window Help 3 Clearing grubbing Section 02110 4 Tree and plant preservation Section 02104 1 2 Site J Replace Hation report is bound into Conditions ing Section 01380 Report Pstigation dated Replace this string 1 3 Samples g sampres of each type fill specified including representative samples of excavated material for analysis by testing laboratory In the case of coarse gravelly soil or coarse crushed stone submit 70 kg samples Verify Replacement Dialog Box Clicking on Replace causes the replacement to be made Clicking on Skip takes you to the next possible replacement Clicking on Cancel cancels the rest of the replacements Try clicking Replace and Skip alternatively When you have seen how they work click on Cancel 26 NMS Edit Plus for Windows Standards Checking The Update Sta
95. n the installation is complete select the program group that is to hold the NMS Edit Plus icon If you have a diskette copy of NMS Edit Plus start the installer by double clicking on the install icon on diskette 1 or type a install from the Run command prompt The install program will begin Next 1 Enter the name of the drive and directory where you wish NMS Edit Plus to be installed If you are upgrading from NMS Edit for DOS enter the name of the directory where you have NMS Edit already installed You will normally click on the Full Install button If you are installing only new NMS database sections you may skip the installation of NMS Edit Plus by clicking on Custom Install and selecting the components you wish installed The installer will then copy the files to your hard disk You will next be asked for the name of the program group where you want the NMS Edit Plus icon to appear You can leave it as NMS Edit Plus or you can specify a new group if you wish You will then be asked for the next NMS or DDN data diskette If you wish to install the NMS database on your hard disk insert one of the database diskettes at this time and click OK When that diskette has been installed you will be asked for the next diskette You may install the database diskettes in any order Continue until all database disks are installed When you are finished or if you do not wish to install any database d
96. nce If you open many files and like to see all the windows together turn this option off Tutorials Session4 47 Print Top Line determines whether or not the coded top line of the section is printed by default You can override this option for an individual file on the print menu Fit Text in Window changes the font size used to display the text on the screen so the full text width appears in the window This makes the text more visible when editing Select the Font Fonts command to activate It has no effect when a proportional printer font is selected and it does not affect the font size used for printing Icon Bar turns the display of the Icon Bar on and off Default Font Default Font Size Master files do not have a font or font size marked in them So when you first add them to a project and edit them they are assigned the default font and size indicated here Colours sets colours for the display of regular text Spec Notes and Option Fields in the document Override allows you to override certain settings in the master files By default these files have Auto Reformat and Auto Renumber set on If you are usually working from marked up listings you will find the Auto Renumbering default a nuisance for as soon as you add or remove any paragraphs the remaining ones are renumbered and no longer compare to your listing You could set Auto Renumber off every time you edit a document but that is extra work So you can c
97. ndards command is a unique and powerful feature of NMS Edit Plus It searches the open section for standard references to ensure that they are up to date When a standard is encountered in your section Update Standards compares it to its list of current standards and then either flags it as invalid corrects its format or sets it to the latest revision Start the standards checker now by clicking on Update Standards from the Search menu A dialog appears requesting more information Standards update options Report options Update all standards Errors gt Report only IV Substitutions Verify all changes Update Standards Dialog Box Update Standards performs two functions First it searches for and optionally replaces standards in error with correct ones Second it produces a report of its findings The two parts of the dialog box reflect this When Update all standards is selected the command performs its searching and replacing automatically without any user intervention Clicking Report only tells the command to make no changes to the section just report its findings when done Finally Verify all changes locates each standard number one by one and prompts for the action to take Click on this selection now because it is the most interesting one to examine By default the dialog appears with only Errors to be reported in the report file For our test click on Substitutions
98. nes Mode AutoReformat Mode AutoRenumber Mode Justify Mode English Mode Pagewidth Reformat Renumber DropSpecs DropOptions Separate y n Unseparate Size Font Set the tab stops for paragraph positioning Set the indentation for second and subsequent lines of a paragraph Set the inter paragraph spacing Set automatic formatting on or off Set automatic renumbering on or off Set right justification on or off Set the English language to on or off Set the width of formatted text in inches Reformat the entire document Renumber the entire document Drop all spec notes from the document Remove all square brackets from the document Separate the titles on the left and put them on a line by themselves The parameter specifies whether to retain the underlines or not Find all titles on a line by themselves and put them beside the following paragraphs Specify the font size to be used Specify the font name to be used A sample command file that performs the standard cleanup at the end of editing a document might be dropspecs dropoptions mode justify on reformat renumber Tutorials Session4 51 Help Menu Along with the familiar Windows style on line help for NMS Edit Plus you will find in the Help menu e the Statistics command with useful information about the section being edited e the NMS List of Contents command describing each section and package in the c
99. ngs menu in NMS Edit Plus controls the way formatting takes place The following description should help you to understand this menu Tabs Indent Level Spec Note Auto Reformat Title Renumber 1 Right Justification English Document Width inches 2 3 Cancel Settings Dialog Box Auto Reformat Ctrl F F4 selects whether text in a paragraph is to be reformatted every time the paragraph is changed Auto Reformat is normally on but should be set off when editing tables It can be turned on and off quickly using Ctrl F Alternatively click on the F button on the Icon Bar 44 NMS Edit Plus for Windows Auto Renumber selects whether paragraphs are to renumber when necessary This action only takes place on cut delete backspace and paste commands For engineers architects and spec writers it is nice to have NMS Edit Plus renumber automatically But for word processing operators who are working from a marked up copy the Auto Renumber feature can be a nuisance These people should turn it off before editing See also the discussion of Control Preferences later in this session You can change this value quickly by clicking the R button on the Icon Bar Right Justification selects whether paragraphs are to be right justified when they are reformatted When you confirm the command with OK you are
100. no errors there probably weren t unless you made some mistakes the cursor will turn to the hourglass cursor for a few moments and then it will return to the arrow or I beam If there were errors they will be highlighted one after another and you will be given a dialog with a list of words you could use to correct the misspelled one To substitute a word from the list just highlight it and click on Substitute You may also enter a correction manually ignore the error or add the word to your dictionary NMS Edit Plus C NMS SAMPLES SAMPLE DOC File Edit Search Control Font Project Window Help specified including representative samples of excavated material for analysis by_testin laboratory In the case of coarse Q Q Q e bed one submit 70 kg Speller bring and bracing excavation in b40 Drawings to uence to be Add to Dict Shoring p to prevent failure Bracing and Construction Underpinning able local __ Remember Correction Substitute The last clean up task to perform is to renumber the file In all of your work so far NMS Edit Plus has kept the file properly renumbered But there are times when it can be out of sequence explained later It is always a good idea to choose the Renumber command from the control menu or from the Icon Bar before printing the file It renumbers the entire document Saving Tutorials Session 1 17 When you have cleaned up your work yo
101. od idea to work through a couple of projects to become entirely familiar with this system before going on to the next session Tutorials Session4 41 Session 4 Advanced Topics This session of the tutorial deals with some advanced topics in NMS Edit Plus It is a good idea to become familiar with the basic information presented thus far before working through this portion of the tutorial In this session we will look at starting new documents changing NMS Edit Plus s defaults creating new command files and more printer control options Creating a New Document To start a new document in NMS Edit Plus simply use the New command from the file menu This will present you with an empty window in which you can begin typing When entering a new section be sure to follow the formatting rules for the page format you are using In CSC Page Format this is usually easy but it is slightly more difficult for NMS format In either case remember some simple guidelines a The first line of the file is not usually printed but if it is underlined the underlines are printed b All of the lines up to the first blank line are considered to be part of the page header and are repeated at the top of every page This also means that you must not have a blank line in the header To get around this problem you can put a hard space on the line A hard space is treated like a non blank character by NMS Edit Plus s formatting and printing routin
102. of masonry accessory specified 3 One of each type of masonry reinforcement and tie proposed for use 4 As required for testing purposes Existing Conditions moisture before 1 Investigate for evidence of previous repairs cracks and dampness and report to Engineer Consultant starting work Files may be converted to the CSC format by following these steps 1 Edit the file Quick Start Using the NMS 9 2 Pull down the Control menu and select Execute select PAGEFORM EXC then click OK or 2 Click on the CSC Page Format button the Icon Bar This will set the editor s defaults to the Pageform values and reformat the document Note The definition of CSC Page Format does not include underlines anywhere in the document Many users prefer to keep the underlines in their documents For instructions on how to alter the standard CSC Page Format to include underlines see page 30 To convert a document back from CSC format to NMS format follow the same steps but instead select NMSFORM EXC or the NMS Page Format button on the Icon Bar Users who wish to use a format similar to but not quite the same as either of these formats should examine the contents of PAGEFORM EXC and the files in the NMS directory By changing the parameters and commands in these files many other specification formats may be incorporated into NMS
103. olumn 1 The next line must contain the message to be printed at the bottom of each subsequent page of the document For example SFOOT Innovative Technology Inc places our company name at the bottom of each page of the document on all subsequent pages If your footer contains the word page followed by a number NMS Edit Plus will insert the page number at that point in the footer on every page NMS Edit Plus determines where the header ends and the text begins by finding the first blank line after the header The FOOT control should never appear in the header The best place to put it is separated from the header by one blank line It will then appear on every page but will not be considered part of the header Automating Operations with Command Files NMS Edit Plus uses command files to automate certain operations You can make up your own command files either by modifying the ones we provide or by creating new ones in NMS Edit Plus To create a command file just create a new file with the File New command Then type the commands one per line When you are done save the file and check the Control box on the Save file dialog The best place to save command files is in the NMS directory Then they are always available to you regardless of what directory your project is in 50 NMS Edit Plus for Windows The commands that you may include in a command file are Mode Tabstops Mode Indent Mode Spaceli
104. on Dialog Box When launched the command brings up a dialog that accepts a section number section title and number of pages The section information is then displayed in the project window and entered into a subsequent List of Contents This command is used to remove sections from a project Highlight the file in the project window by clicking on it Don t double click Then select the Remove File command The section will disappear from the project list Note This command does not delete the file from your disk It just removes it from the list of sections comprising this project You can return the file to the project later with the Add File command Show Title Show File Name When a project is created sections added to the project show in the project window as section number and title By selecting the Show File Name command the paths and filenames of the sections display in place of the titles To return to the normal view select Show Title in the Project menu It makes no difference to NMS Edit Plus which view you are using select the one that is most convenient for you List of Contents The List of Contents command adds a new section to the project with number 00000 containing the numbers and titles of all other sections in the project If there already is a Contents section it will be replaced The List of Contents can be tailored to meet your special needs For example non NMS Edit Plus sect
105. ormally 1 e Date when the section was last edited If you attempt to edit the header directly you will encounter similar problems to editing tables Auto reformat must be disabled or the text will scramble Insert mode should be off or text on the right end of the line may wrap The preferred method by far is to use the Header command under the Edit menu This dialog allows you to change an individual component of the header and not worry about formatting the text NMS Edit Plus will do this for you Section Tithe Excavating and Backfilling Master Construction Specilication Header Dialog Box Try making a change now set the date to today s date Simply edit the text in the box and click OK The new date is set into the header and formatted appropriately for the font and page width that you have chosen Edit Header does other work as well behind the scenes which will be explained later Hint Use Change Header in the project menu to change the project titles and dates for all sections of a project This is more efficient than changing section at a time 30 NMS Edit Plus for Windows Page Formats There are two standard layouts used for construction specifications The format of the SAMPLE DOC document is called NMS Page Format This layout has two columns of text titles are on the left and paragraphs are on the right Another commonly used format for specifications is call
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107. rds used in printing Con t or Suite and End or Fin Width changes the width of text in inches on the printed page The default is 6 6 inches for NMS format documents and about 6 8 inches for CSC format documents This is with the default Courier New 11 point font You can set this value to any width you would like If you change to a proportional printer font like Times Roman the width will decrease to a value approximating the width of paper required to hold the same number of characters in the new font Changing back to a fixed spacing printer font Courier New will cause the width to increase Don t forget to run the Edit Header command simply confirm with OK after changing the document width to automatically adjust the header width proportionally Remember that the right margin width is determined by the paper width minus the left margin minus the document width If the margin width is 1 inch set in the Preferences command and the width set here is 6 6 inches and we are working with 11 point Courier characters then the right margin is calculated as follows Right Margin Paper Width Left Margin Width 8 5 1 0 6 6 72 chars x 11 point 120 pts per inch Menu Reference Control 73 0 9 inches If this selection is changed you are asked whether you want to reformat the document so that it applies immediately or if you want to delay that operation If you continue without re
108. review Canadian National Bk x Excavating and Backfilling Master Construction Specification 1 5 Shoring Bracing and Underpinning PART 2 PRODUCTS 2 1 Materials Close Ctrl F4 Section 02220 Page 2 1990 12 31 Prevent movement or settlement safeguard and maintain integrity of adjacent structures earth bench marks services walks paving trees bearing piles curbs landscaping adjacent grades Prowide bracing shoring and underpinning required Shore and brace excavations to prevent failure in accordance with Canadian Construction Safety Code 1977 and applicable local regulations Type 1 fill clean angular crusher run natural stone free from shale clay friable materials roots and vegetable matter and graded within following limits Sieve Sise Tyler Per Cent Passing 50 mm 100 19 mm 95 100 16 mm 75 100 Print Preview This command closes the currently selected window If changes were made to the file you are asked whether you want to save your work first As a shortcut click on the close icon of the current window Exit Alt F4 This command causes all windows to be closed and NMS Edit Plus to terminate You are given an opportunity to save any documents that were changed since they were last saved Edit Menu Menu Reference Edit Menu 59 Undo or Redo Ctrl Z 4 Cut Ctrl X Copy Ctrl C Paste Ctrl V Clear Newline F3
109. rn more about controlling NMS Edit Plus and to learn about printing 22 NMS Edit Plus for Windows Session 3 Finishing Up Using Projects In the previous sessions you learned to do most of the editing that needs to be done with NMS Edit Plus In this session you will learn how to start a new project in NMS Edit Plus Then you will find out more about controlling the way NMS Edit Plus works and finally you will discover how to print your work The best way to control your work in NMS Edit Plus is to divide it into projects by putting each project into a separate directory To begin a new project the first thing we need to is to create a new place for it Creating a New Project Start NMS Edit Plus now but pick Create a New Project from the opening dialog This brings up a file dialog box You should already be in the NMS directory If not change to the NMS directory by selecting the NMS directory from the list Click on the New Directory button This will ask you for a new directory name Type Tutorial and then hit enter This action has created a new directory called Tutorial within the NMS directory The project name is now Tutorial PRJ You could change this name if you wanted but for now click on the Make button You have now created a directory and a control file for your new project A new window has opened on your screen as well Right now it is empty but in the future it will show
110. roject Header Date Cancel 2001 12 31 Change Header Dialog Box Change the project name field from Canadian National Master Construction Specification to your company name and a project number As soon as you started typing in the new project name the selection box at the top was automatically checked to indicate the project name is to be changed Change the date to today s date as well 36 NMS Edit Plus for Windows When you are finished click Change to begin changing the files A dialog appears showing the header from the first section twice The top example shows the original file header The bottom example is the header changed with your new corrections You should verify at this time that the change is what you expected B NMS02220 02 Canadian National Excavating and Backfilling Section 62226 Master Construction Page 1 Specification 1998 12 31 B NMS 8222 6 62 Innovative Technology Excavating and Backfilling Section 62226 Demonstration Page 1 Project Header 2881 12 31 Skip Stop Asking Change Header Confirmation Dialog Box Cancel You have four possible options at this window e OK Make the changes to this file and show the next file for approval e Skip Don t make the indicated changes to this file but go on to display the next file e Stop Asking Make the change and make the same changes to all subsequent files without showing t
111. rpose NMS Edit Plus always displays the document in Courier New font while editing When printing it restricts a document to the use of only one font and only one size of text for the entire document The font menu indicates which font is currently in use for printing For the present leave the font selected as Courier New and size 11 This tutorial is a good way to learn NMS Edit Plus The reference section of the manual explains all of the commands available But sometimes while you are working you don t want to pull out the manual and leaf through it looking for how to do something Instead you can use the on line help Pull down the Help menu and select the Contents command This command opens the Windows Help Manager and displays the complete list of Help topics available You can click on any of the topics to see the related help information Often in the help information words appear underlined These words are links to related topics You can click on these words to go quickly to the related topic Saving Revisited You have seen already how to save your work You can save a copy of it as well to a new file by using the Save As command on the File menu With this choice you must always specify a new file name You now know most of the common editing features of NMS Edit Plus You should practice them now to gain more familiarity with them When you are ready go on to the next session to lea
112. s of Type to view in the File Name window only those files that have a particular extension Inporting Sections from Other Programs NMS Edit Plus has a built in converter for WordPerfect and MS Word files For optimal conversion the files must be structured in NMS format Make sure paragraphs are numbered properly according to NMS formatting rules Conversion takes place automatically when a file in either of the above two formats is opened NMS Edit imports Word DOC files previous to Word 97 directly RTF Rich Text Format files from any version of Word may be imported as well So if you have a Word 2000 file to convert for use in NMS Edit first save it as type RTF in Word Then open the RTF file in NMS Edit Word files are converted to wide page format when opened For a government job click on the 2 column NMS format button in the toolbar to convert the document immediately after importing A SPEC NOTE or REDACTEUR in the document which looks like SPEC NOTE Paragraph level is uncertain is generated by the conversion program It means that the indent of the paragraph following the SPEC NOTE may be incorrect Watch carefully for this message and if you find one compare the indent level of subsequent paragraphs to a printed Word master to verify that the paragraph indents were computed properly Save Save As Menu Reference File Menu 55 When an NMS Edit file is opened its previous settings are r
113. s open for editing at once 20 NMS Edit Plus for Windows Pull down the File menu and select Open or click on the Open File button on the Icon Bar From the file dialog select the file PRTEST DOC and then click the Open button This section is now displayed in a new window If your windows are zoomed in so that they do not fill the screen you will be able to see both windows The new one is down and to the right from the first one If you move your pointer over any part of a partially covered window then click the mouse that window is brought to the top of the display so you can work in it Try changing windows this way now If your windows are zoomed or if you have re sized them or moved them you may not be able to see an exposed portion of a partially hidden window You can switch windows by pulling down the Windows menu and selecting the one you want to view or by pressing Ctrl F6 Switch to the PRTEST DOC file now Mark the first paragraph by double clicking on the 1 Pull down the Edit menu and select Copy This makes a copy of the marked text on the clipboard The clipboard is an area where text and pictures can be saved while they are being moved from one place to another Switch back to SAMPLE DOC again and scroll up to 1 3 Position the text cursor on a blank line after paragraph 1 3 1 and use the tab key to position it exactly at the first tab position Pull down the Edit menu again an
114. s the one we want so select it by clicking on it and click on the Open button again After a second or two the sample section appears in a window on the screen Screen Controls The section appears in a Maximised window The upper right corner contains the size icon Clicking it will shrink the window Clicking it again maximises the window size On the right is the scroll bar Use it now to scroll down through the document The Page Up and Page Down keys as well as the Ctrl Home and Ctrl End keys can also be used to move through the document Notice that the header which contains the section title number date page number and project information only appears once in the document The section will be re paginated properly and the header replicated onto every page when the section is printed On the screen we only ever see a single header at the top of the document Tutorials Session 1 13 Deleting Paragraphs One of the most common things you do when working from a master specification is to delete paragraphs Let s see how to do it with NMS Edit Plus Scroll down so that paragraph 1 1 2 is in the middle of the screen Then move the I Beam cursor over the 2 and double click The whole paragraph is now marked It is shown in white on black so you can see exactly how much text is marked NMS Edit Plus C NMS SAMPLES SAMPLE DOC File Edit Search Control Font Project Window Help PART 1 GENERAL
115. s to be i e to the on or off position Settings Menu Reference Control Menu 71 Binding Margins selects how much left top and bottom margin is to be added to each page odd and even as it is printed The value is specified in inches By setting a larger value for odd pages than for even pages you can produce your sections ready for double sided copying Experiment with these values until you find the settings you want The Settings command controls the way editing is to occur for this document Changing the settings in one document does not affect any other document Spec Note Auto Reformat Title Auto Renumber 1 Right Justification English Document Width inches 2 3 Cancel Haaga Settings Dialog Box Each of the fields is described in the following pages Auto Reformat Ctrl F specifies that paragraphs are to be reformatted whenever anything is removed backspace delete cut clear or added typing or paste commands This setting also determines whether NMS Edit Plus will respect the two columns and keep them separate while editing Normally when working in paragraphs Auto Reformat should be selected It should only be turned off when working with tables Edit Header should be used to edit the header elements This setting may be overridden by the Preferences command so that it always defaul
116. se special characters e sub scripted Ctrl plus the digits on the top line of the keyboard digits e super scripted Ctrl and the Shift keys with the digits on the top digits line of the keyboard The minus sign may also be used e degree symbol Ctrl Shift d e symbol Ctrl Shift f e quarter symbol Ctrl Shift q e hard space Ctrl Shift spacebar Other special characters such as French accented characters are obtained from the keyboard in the usual manner See your Windows User Manual To make it easier for you to enter these and other special characters there is an Insert Character command in Edit menu This command presents a dialog box showing all the possible extended characters supported by NMS Edit Plus Pick the character you want from the matrix and click the Insert button Tutorials Session4 43 Hard Space Character The hard space character looks like a box on the screen When printed it looks like a blank It can be used to mark a blank line that is not to be suppressed by the printing routines or it can be used as glue to hold two words together For example if you type 35 mm the formatting routines might break the two words up onto two separate lines But if you use a hard space between the words they will always stay together Submit 250kg samples of specified including rep excavaved material for A hard space looks like this Controlling Document Formatting The Setti
117. t Plus determines where the header ends and the text begins by finding the first blank line after the header The FOOT control should never appear just after the header The best place to put it is separated from the header by one blank line That way it will appear on every page but will not be considered part of the header Sometimes NMS Edit Plus is not able to distinguish between a table and a paragraph This is especially true of free format text and tables with decimal numbers At other times your file is printed in such a way that the tables do not come out properly You may have extra blank lines or even be missing some lines If this should happen you can tell NMS Edit Plus to treat any area of a section as a table and to print it out exactly as it is in the file You do this by placing a line with the word TABLE on it at the left side immediately before the area causing the trouble Then place another line after the problem area with the word END on it also at the left side A table heading line should be placed after the TABLE line The TABLE and END lines form brackets around that text Anything between these two lines will be printed exactly as it is NMS Edit Plus will make no attempt to adjust the spacing accumulate continuation information or headings or in any other way interpret the data 98 NMS Edit Plus for Windows For an interesting example of the use of tables edit and print page one only of
118. t Update W Window 20 Fit Text in Window 70 WordPerfect Files Adding to a Project x Savine oraa
119. t detects are references to sections that are not in the project and references that are not bi directional The first list always contains serious errors The second list contains problems that may need to be fixed at the specification writer s discretion ie C A NMS TUTORIALLXREF ERA ERROR LIST does not refer to does not refer to does not refer to does not refer to does not refer to doos not cefer to refere to 01260 but refers to 01545 but refers to 01575 but refera to 02110 but 0 retera to 02104 but cetera to 02210 but refers to 01340 but does not refer to cetfers to 01340 but does not refer to refers to 01400 but 01400 does not refer to refers to 01300 but 01300 does not refer to refers to 04115 but 04115 does not refer to 01380 missing referred to by 01545 missing ceferred to 01575 massing refterced to by 02110 missing referced to by 02104 missing referred ta by 02210 missing referred to by os ib so 01300 missing referred to by 04521 01400 missing referred to by 04521 01300 missing referred to by 04521 04115 missing referred to 04521 END 84 Sample Cross Reference Errors Menu Reference Project Menu 91 The second file is called XREF LST It contains a full cross reference of sections in your project It tells what each sections refers to and from where each section is referred 02220 cefers to 01380 01545 01575 02110 02104 02210
120. t to delay the operation If you continue without reformatting only those paragraphs that are subsequently changed will be reformatted to these indent settings Spacing determines how many blank lines are to be inserted before each level of paragraph when the document is printed If you add extra blank lines to your document see the Newline command or if you remove extra blank lines NMS Edit Plus will always correct the document and print the number of lines indicated here 74 NMS Edit Plus for Windows If you need to add extra space so that a diagram can be added use the SPACE command The default settings for NMS format documents is 0 3 1 0 00 etc For CSC format documents the defaults are 0 2 1 0 0 0 etc Changing these values does not affect the document on the screen They only take effect when it is printed Reformat Shift F6 This command causes NMS Edit Plus to reformat every paragraph according to the rules currently in effect Tables that are bracketed by TABLE END controls or tables that are separated from paragraphs by a blank line are not affected by this command If you change any settings that affect document format you will be asked whether you wish to reformat the document immediately Renumber Shift F2 This command renumbers the current document All levels of paragraph are renumbered If the document is a trade section and follows the standard 3 part format NMS Edit Plus will change the first dig
121. tdated and replaced by current versions Had we requested that Substitutions were not to be reported in the file the error file would not be displayed at all Since no errors were found there would be nothing additional to report beyond the summary message that appeared at the end of processing Standard Errors A standard error is flagged when NMS Edit Plus detects what it thinks is a standard that cannot be found in its standards database A standard is flagged in error if e it was retired completely e it was superseded by a completely new number e itis coded incorrectly in the section and cannot be deciphered Standards in error should be examined carefully to see what correction should be made if any In many cases outdated and retired standards should not automatically be replaced by current versions because the products and processes the new versions refer to may not be the same as that in the specification Great care should be taken in updating standard numbers to ensure that the new versions address the same issues as the old Control Menu Preferences Menu Reference Control Menu 69 gt The Preferences command presents a dialog showing the current NMS Edit Plus defaults When you change these settings they will remain in effect until changed again even between NMS Edit Plus sessions Preference settings are stored in the NMSPLUS RF file in your Windows directory Preferenc
122. te from the standard file dialog Once selected NMS Edit Plus executes each of the commands in the file in order until the end of the file The NMS Edit Plus editor can be used to edit and correct command files When saving the file ensure the Control File Type is set on the Save File dialog Control files have the EXC extension by default Two special command files are provided with NMS Edit Pageform EXC converts a section to CSC format The file being edited is automatically converted You can see the difference in formats immediately NMSform EXC converts a section to NMS format 76 NMS Edit Plus for Windows Command Files A command file is simply a list of commands to be executed Only one command is allowed per line The commands allowed are as follows Mode Tabstops n1 n2 4 sets the paragraph tab stops in the same manner as the Tabs values of the Settings dialog The numbers following the command are the tab values They must be in ascending order The last value entered is propagated into all remaining tab stop entries Mode Indent n1 n2 sets the paragraph indents in the same manner as the Indent values of the Settings dialog The numbers following the command are the indent values They must be in ascending order The last value entered is propagated into all remaining entries Mode Spacelines n1 n2 4 sets the inter paragraph spacing in the same manner as the
123. ted activities It is used to build a project launch the editor to modify a section and perform global changes and consistency checks to all sections of the project It is not necessary to edit sections from within a project but we strongly recommend you do so It is essential to work from within a project if you plan to make any global layout changes to the section headers It also simplifies many operations and keeps your work better organised Use this command to initialise a new project The command presents a dialog that permits creating a new directory for the project and naming the project Open File Eg Project Name Directories Cancel c nms tutorial ith New Directory nms amp tutorial Project is gt Federal Government gt Not Federal Undecided Drives 29 c drive New Project Dialog Box In general you should create a new directory under the NMS directory for each project Click New Directory to create this Then using the Make button create the project control files Two files named after the project with extensions and are created You should never delete these files When adding a file to a project NMS Edit Plus is able to remove from the file uses of the word Engineer leaving Consultant for non federal government projects Conversely Consultant is removed leaving Engineer
124. tion making more changes and experimenting with the commands you have already learned do so now When you are ready to finish a document there are a few special menu commands to help you The first one cleans up the Spec Notes These notes are found in master files to aid spec writers in the use of the master But once the file is edited you usually don t want them You will normally leave them in place while editing and only remove them at the end To do this pull down the Control menu and select Drop SPEC NOTE or click on the Drop SPEC NOTE button on the Icon Bar And voila the spec notes are all gone Browse through the file and you will see that they have all been removed and that any that were opposite titles have also been correctly handled But our file is still not ready When deleting and filling in the various option fields the square brackets were left around the option fields that you left in Select the Drop Options command from the control menu or click on the DROP OPTIONS button on the Icon Bar and all of these remaining options are deleted That was much quicker than removing each square bracket separately 16 NMS Edit Plus for Windows One other thing that we should do before saving our work is to check the spelling H Choose the Spell command from the Edit menu or click on the SPELL button on the Icon Bar This command will check the spelling of the entire document If there were
125. tion the footer so it takes effect for the entire document or from the current page on e justify the text to the left right or centre of the line and bold the footer text Header Menu Reference Edit Menu 61 The Header command provides an easy and powerful way to edit the section header Text entry fields are available in the Header dialog to modify e the Project Title e the Section Title e Section Number e astarting Page Number normally 1 e last edit Date If you attempt to edit the header directly you may find that components of the header will wrap to the next line You may also have to concern yourself with the position and length of the lines above and below These problems are avoided with Edit Header Excavating and Backfilling Master Construction Specilication Line Below Header Dialog Box When the dialog is confirmed with OK even if no text changes were made to the components of the header Edit Header positions and formats the text appropriately It looks to the project Define Header definition to determine the location of each component If the section being edited is not part of a project the command uses a default header layout to determine positioning If requested lines are drawn above and below the header to extend to the width of the document as defined in Control Settings Take note that if you change the document width in
126. ts to one state or another 72 NMS Edit Plus for Windows Auto Renumber indicates whether NMS Edit Plus should renumber the document after delete cut and paste operations or whether it should only renumber when the Renumber command is used Users who are reading the text on screen will often want this selection enabled But users working from marked up listings will find it hard to find their place if the numbers keep changing This setting may be overridden by the Preferences command so that it always defaults to one state or another Right Justification affects the formatting of text by determining whether extra blanks should be inserted into each line when a paragraph is reformatted to provide a smooth right margin Its setting is a matter of personal preference If this selection is changed you are asked whether you want to reformat the document so that it applies immediately or if you want to delay that operation If you continue without reformatting only those paragraphs that are subsequently changed will be reformatted with right justification Justified paragraphs look much the same on the screen as unjustified ones however the justification will be visible the next time you print English Document determines the language of the document If English Document is not selected the document is assumed to be in the French language The document language affects the language used for spelling and the special wo
127. u can save it by selecting the Save command from the File menu or from the Icon Bar If the sample section was a master file the Save command would automatically ask you to set a new name for the file to prevent it from being accidentally corrupted To leave NMS Edit Plus select Exit from the file menu This will close any windows you have open and terminate the application In this session we have learned the most common operations in NMS Edit Plus and we have seen how NMS Edit Plus saves us time Remember when editing a file using double clicks on options and paragraphs to quickly remove the unwanted text Use double clicks to replace fill in option fields When you are finished editing use the Drop SPEC NOTE Drop Options and Renumber commands from the Control menu before saving your work Carefully review the material you have learned thus far When you are confident with it go on to the next session 18 NMS Edit Plus for Windows Session 2 Moving On Review Typing Marking In the first session you learned about the most basic and fundamental aspects of NMS Edit Plus These were also the ones that you will use most frequently so be sure you know them well In this session we will amplify those concepts by giving you some more useful tools Start NMS Edit Plus Open a Section File and edit the SAMPLE DOC file again Scroll down to paragraph 1 3 1 move your pointer over the period after the word
128. urrent NMS e About NMS Edit containing the current version of the program you are running e plus other useful reference information as it becomes available Menu Reference This section of the NMS Edit Plus manual describes each of the menus and their commands individually This description contains more detail than that in the tutorial and is provided for the advanced rather than the novice user Many of the commands also have command key equivalents These are indicated with the command description Wherever possible the Windows standard keys are adhered to Fo those commands that appear in the Icon Bar we also show the icon beside the command name 54 NMS Edit Plus for Windows Menu Reference File Menu New Open The file menu provides standard access and control of files and printers Many of these commands operate in the normal Windows fashion The New command opens a new window in order to start a new document Remember to follow the formatting guidelines given in the tutorial Before the file can be saved it must be given a name the Save command will request this automatically The Open command opens a file using a standard file dialog box This allows changing directories or drives as well as selecting a file to edit The file is loaded into memory and is displayed in a new window NMS Edit Plus may have up to fifty files open at once if there is enough memory available Click on List File
129. warned that the settings you have changed affect the way the text is reformatted If you select Reformat at this time the entire document will be right justified If you select Continue only paragraphs you edit will be right justified You can force the reformat later with the Reformat command on the Control menu Justified paragraphs look much the same on the screen as unjustified ones however the justification will be visible the next time you print You can change this value quickly by clicking the J button on the Icon Bar English Document selects the language of the document This selection determines what dictionary is to be used when checking the spelling and what words are to be used for continuation in printing Width defines the width that the text is to be formatted to in inches The default is 6 60 inches for the default Courier New 11 point font If you change to a proportional printer font like Times Roman the width will decrease to a value approximating the width of paper required to hold the same number of characters in the new font Changing back to a fixed spacing printer font Courier New will cause the width to increase Don t forget to run the Edit Header command simply confirm with OK after changing the document width to automatically adjust the header width proportionally Hint If you are using a large text size or a large binding margin and are losing text off the right side of t
130. y In the case of coarse Q Q Q 2 bed ane submit 70 kg Speller bring and bracing excavation in 40 Drawings to uence to he Add to Dict 1 5 Shoring to prevent failure Bracing and Construction Underpinning able local A Spelling Error The dialog contains a list of words that NMS Edit Plus thinks are close to the word you intended To substitute one of these words for the misspelled word select the word from the list and click on the Substitute button You may also double click on the selected word If the word was spelled correctly you can either add it to the dictionary or simply skip over it To skip over the word click on the Skip button To add the word to the dictionary click the Add to Dict button Before the word is added to the dictionary you must indicate whether the word can appear in upper or lower case and whether it must appear exactly as shown Proper names and abbreviations usually must have exact capitalisation and so they must appear as shown Normal words can appear in either upper or lower case Sometimes the word is misspelled but the selections in the list are all wrong When this happens click the Edit word button to bring up a dialog which lets you edit the word directly The Stop button on the dialog lets you halt the spelling operation at any time Sometimes you make the same spelling mistake over and over again If you do this you can
131. your CSC Page Format to have underlined headers and titles edit the PAGEFORM EXC file in the NMS directory and change the line that says SEPARATE N to SEPARATE Y The next time you convert a file to Page Format the underlines will remain If you wish to define your own format that is similar to CSC format but has different settings you can easily do so Modify this file s values and save it with anew name Then you will have it available for converting files to your format any time you wish Formats with file names other NUSFORM EXC and PAGEFORM EXC can only be executed by selecting them from the Execute command in the Control menu Tutorials Session3 31 Preparing to Print NMS Edit Plus is able to print your specification in a proportional font such as Arial or Times Roman but while editing you will only see a Courier type font on the screen So before printing you will need to select the appropriate font and size Selecting a Printer Font The default font is Courier New at size 11 If this is your preference you need not change the font at all Otherwise select the Font command from the Font menu For our sample pick the Arial font at size 12 When a new font or size is selected an automatic Reformat takes place You will notice that the right side of each paragraph appears more ragged than before and some lines even extend past the header boundary NMS Edit Plus is now creating line breaks

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