Pathagoras Tip of the Week

Adding Content to a DropDown List:

    A DropDown List is an always-on, always-ready list at the top of your editing screen that points to the content of a selected folder. Pathagoras lets you maintain up to 10 Lists simultaneously. Click on an item in the list and the document or glossary term to which it points is instantly inserted in your document.

    Click 'DropDown Lists' in the Help System References (at left) to learn how to create a DropDown List. 

    You can easily add additional text to the folder or glossary represented in a DropDown List.  It is a simple 'highlight and add' process.

    (1) With the text that you want to add displayed on your Word screen, highlight it using your mouse or using standard keyboard shortcuts.  The text can be from any source. It can be an existing document or a highlighted portion of it; it can be text you pulled from the Internet and pasted into a new document; it can be text you just typed onto the editing screen.

    (2) Select the DropDown List into which you want to add the text. Scroll down to the bottom of the list and click the entry called ed «Add H'lighted Text». (If the List reflects a glossary, look for the entry called "Add to Glossary.") You will be asked to provide a name and a subject for the new addition. Pathagoras handles the rest. 

    When the 'add text' process is finished (a matter of seconds), the highlighted text has been added as a new document into the folder which the DropDown List reflects (or new glossary term if the List reflects a glossary). The List is automatically augmented to including the new addition, so the next time you call on the List, you will see it.

    Bottom line: Once you have create a DropDown List, you can easily add content to it without ever having to navigate to the underlying folder again.