RavBoy

9 hours ago, Dave-in-Decatur said:

Does this mean that you are shutting Evernote down at the end of each day (File > Exit; or turning off the compute

Hi @Dave-in-Decatur, yeah at the end of the day I simply close EN using the top right 'X' close icon, then shutdown the PC.  I just tried a File>Exit, then seconds later re-opened EN, to find the custom color was dropped from my saved custom colors list.  Ultimately I just want to add a custom color and have it retained, but given your comments about MS Word then perhaps EN does not allow it... not a biggy. thanks for the info

9 hours ago, Dave-in-Decatur said:

Ctrl+D is the shortcut for the entire font dialog, not just for font color, which explains why it's different. 

Cheers, that makes sense, a three for the price of one font dialog deal.  Would be nice, if the CTRL+D shortcut still allowed me the user the same function, of applying or creating a 'custom' color.  But actually the... CTRL+D doesn't allow any use of custom colors...however CTRL+D does allow one to 'apply' one of the existing standard colors!  In my experience keyboard shortcuts provide a different path to the same feature/function but in this case the shortcut is limited...easiest fix in my mind is for EN to simply stop displaying the CTRL+D alternate route to access this feature.

If you really look at it there is an inconsistency when compared with other icons on the editing toolbar.  To 'Bold' Font you can use the icon on the toolbar or CTRL+B... To underline  CTRL+U...to Italicise CTRL+I... and all of these are also accessible via CTRL+D as well, however Text Color appears to be the 'black' sheep in the family...lol...again not a biggy, cheers

When using EN-for-Windows, should I wish to change the color of any text, or in my case add a 'custom color' to the palette for later use, I simply go to the Editing Toolbar, and click the icon as pictured below, or use keyboard shortcut of CTRL+D keyboard shortcut.

My 1st question/issue:  When I create a custom color on the Text Color palette, EN gets rid of it, the next time I open EN, which I notice happens from day to day, rather than closing and immediately reopening.  Anybody know how to add a custom color to the Text Color palette on the Editing Toolbar that EN will retain??

My 2nd question:  Why when accessing the Text Color editing via keyboard shortcut CTRL+D after first highlighting text I wish to have it's color changed, that...  a) The popup dialogue box is so different   ....and more seriously  b) The custom color, at the bottom of list, weirdly changes to reflect the text I highlighted, rather than display the custom text color I added earlier...very weird!  Notice the dark grey color in my custom colors, and by way of example, look at what happens when I try to apply this to some lines of text, but using CTRL+D shortcut (versus accessing text-color feature from editing toolbar)... the first line is green text I want to apply my custom 'grey' to... the 2nd line is red text, that I also wish to apply the custom color to... but it the pop-up box just changes custom color to the text selected color!!!   Making CTRL+D shortcut, useless for 'Text color'!   ...how could a flaw like that pass through alpha, beta, omega, whatever testing? Screen captures added below.  *Note, EN does not actually get rid of the custom color, It just means I must use the editing toolbar to get to it

6 hours ago, Dave-in-Decatur said:

you may actually need to hover over an item in the toolbar and right click

Thanks...yep that worked for me on v6.18... little things hey.

10 hours ago, gazumped said:

right click the toolbar for options to customize the appearance

I just tried that out of curiosity but that did not work for me, I'm on EN Windows v6.18

3 hours ago, ChipAHoy said:

Which of these options would I choose

Go to Top Main Menu: Click Tools> Customise Tool Bar

Then drag the highlighted icon as pictured below  (ignore my customised shortcuts see top right)

You can also use keyboard shortcut:  Press & Hold:   CTRL + Left/Right Arrow Keys ...to go back forward pages at any time

Cheers @Narnk ...I read the link and 1st activated or made sure the touch keyboard for my Win10 PC was displayed on the taskbar, but no 'Mic' Icon was given at top left on the touch keyboard. I played with all settings I could see, but nothing.  The link you provided does say "when using PC in Tablet Mode" perhaps that's the issue, as I'm using my PC/laptop in regular PC mode. If you have a sec and know the issue, would be great to hear from you, cheers again

This question piqued my curiosity... and so I found a workaround for you @RedEyedRocker

1. Create a Note in either EN Windows or EN Web... this note will serve as your Template 'Colour Palette' note when using EN Windows.
2. Create 6 lines of text, or just use characters e.g ellipses for each line ".... ..... ....." etc  for each of the 6 available colours
3. Format the backgrounds of each line text with each of the 6 colours (edit note in EN-Web)
4. Return to EN Windows > Double click your Template Colour Palette Note, so it opens in a new window

Now when you create new notes, you simply copy/paste a line of text/background colour required from your 'colour-palette' note window to the new note and edit text as necessary

Example Images attached... shows the note in EN-Web v EN-Windows

2 minutes ago, CalS said:

Not 100%, but I'm reasonably sure you have to edit font or size of text for it not to change with subsequent default font changes.  Color is not impacted by changing the default font.

Many Thanks... Think I will trial this with my wife or son's free account on their PC and see what happens.  Else, if one was to do this and then later wanted to reverse it, I imagine it would not be an easy process?  Not like EN has a restore point or anything! cheers

3 minutes ago, CalS said:

... all text changes except any text where a specific font was applied, tables included.

does 'specific' mean All/Any of font changes:  SIZE - COLOUR - TYPE

8 minutes ago, DTLow said:

You have the option of hardcoding font-size in specific notes/templates

Awesome...where/how do i make that happen? cheers

I have set my Note default font type-size to Tahoma 12.  The last time I changed/updated this, which was quite a while ago, I think I recall that making the change had the effect of changing the font size to not only any new note I would create, but also changed the font size to ALL pre-existing notes, which especially affected the layout of text I had formatted to my liking, inside of tables.

I'd like to go ahead and change my default font size to 14... but am having quite a lot of anxiety about it, as I have many template notes (not setup as actual EN Templates) that include lots of tables with font size layouts etc, that are just the way I like it... I fear changing the default font-size will throw everything out, and most concerningly in my tables

Am I correct...will EN change font size, esp in tables, in my pre-existing notes ?  IF yes, is there any way to tell EN to apply the NEW default font-size to ONLY new future notes created from this point in time?

I loved watching the TV re-runs of the Three Stooges when growing up in the 70's/80's.  And great to see @CalS & @gazumped have used them in their profile pics.  

So please, c'mon guys @DTLow, @jefito, @Dave-in-Decatur  somebody pickup the last character... and for the record everyone knows Curly (not accounted for yet, pictured centre in attached image) was the most popular 😉

Anyway to fix EN-Windows always showing a spelling error when placing a Unit of Measurement Abbreviation immediately after, so no space, after the numeric value:

EXAMPLE

Hi @Narnk Thanks for the heads up re Dragon... I think the last time I actually bought/used Dragon was 2011 and I was impressed back then.

I read that thread you referred to, the other day.  Dragon would be the ideal solution (if it's as good/easy as they promise), but in my case $300 USD (wow these guys worked inflation to their advantage since my last purchase) more like $360 AUD for me, combined with having to train it, combined with the apparent existing integration issues in EN, means I will be sticking with the solution mentioned above, and for now it does the job.  Otherwise and outside of transcribing my education courses, or composing long form emails here and there, I mostly rely and enjoy smashing away at my keyboard.  But at some time soon, think I will need to once again re-visit the value-proposition of controlling apps and data entry via voice... they just need to make it easy and reliable....cheers again

On 5/2/2019 at 2:25 PM, RavBoy said:

Whereas on iPad and Android speech-to-text dictation is right there ready to use, and it works great

Today I once again revisited this issue (or indeed feature request), of not being able to speech-to-text dictate into a Note when using EN Windows.  I'm currently in the midst of going through this educational video course, for which no transcription exists... and so I'd like to dictate key contents of it, into my study notes.

I prefer working at my desk with PC and multi monitor setup... rather than pulling out an iPad or Android Smart Phone just to be able to dictate text into a note (a solution I found previously).  And until now I have not been able to get MS speech-to-text working in EN, and so I have continued to rely on other dictation websites such as SPEECHNOTES or DICTATION. 

But like I mentioned before those sites still require me to copy-paste the resulting text into the EN Note... so time wasted doing that.  So I started looking for a Chrome extension that lets me dictate text anywhere on any webpage, thinking I could use it with EN-Web open, instead of EN-Windows.

And I found the Chrome Extension Speech Recognition Anywhere ...and it works perfectly with EN-Web. 

I just open EN-Web, and then open Speech Recognition Anywhere in another Chrome browser tab... and immediately start dictating text into any note (or other website).  And the accuracy is awesome.  I'm using a free 30 day trial of this extension, but am confident I will pay the one-time lifetime fee of $45 AUD when the trial finishes... hope this helps someone.

God, even hitting the submit button still converted the 8 follwed by a closing bracket to be converted to the emoji

On 10/30/2019 at 11:35 PM, Don Dz said:

add a space inside your emoji, then a space after,  then remove the space from inside the emoji.  This effectively disables it.

Yep, that also worked for me, thanks.  This minor issue just came up for the 1st time for me as well, and it was an unwelcome distraction.

My 1st solution, and another way to tackle this, was to: 1st copy/paste my text,  seen here inside quotes '😎'  which translates😎 to MS Notepad, then copy/paste back to EN.

I even struggled to stop this Auto Emoji behaviour here on this forum webpage!

I was creating 'non-sequential' numbered list and well the 😎 proved a hard nut to crack

5 hours ago, CalS said:

what worked best for me was an SSD drive.  Not only does EN run faster, everything does

DITTO...That's been my experience also.  Prior to upgrading my laptop a couple of years ago I would quite frequently clean stuff up, via Hold 'CTRL' key dwn then click help from menu, then Optimize Database etc, which would work but only for a couple of weeks.

When searching EN Windows Forums on 'Performance' @Titus I found the 6th search result "Looking for Evernote documentation: Diagnosing and fixing Evernote performance problems?" to be useful

5 hours ago, kennix said:

I've been using Duplicate

5 hours ago, kennix said:

Is there a way to stop "copy" from being appended to the end of the title of every Duplicated note?

Assuming these 'copied' notes live in the same Notebook, think about using 'Copy Note' instead.  Then the copied note will no longer be appended with the word 'copy' in its title.

Re dozens or hundreds of copies possibly required... once you have 2, 4, 6 copies of the note simply keep selecting all of them then copy...so 2 becomes 4, 4 become 8 etc... not sure that helps

11 hours ago, jeromemelillo@hotmail.com said:

can there be a Evernote logo added to the Snipping tool to immediately clip the image in to Evernote

No.

I have had this happen a few times in the past and have documented the process to fix, based on EN Support feedback and from other users on this forum...here's a copy.

1. Select the Note List View Icon and select Top List or Side List
2. At the top of the note list, Select the Sort Icon > Sort notes by > Sync
3. Unsynced notes will be listed with a dot displayed in the Sync column

 

FIX IDENTIFIED NOTES - METHOD

1. Copy and paste the content out of the referenced note into a new note
2. Delete the referenced note
3. Go to your 'Trash' notebook at the bottom of your notebooks list and delete the note from there so it's entirely removed from your account
4. Sync Evernote

On 3/6/2020 at 3:00 AM, CalS said:

Nice to have that much one click action.

@CalS You probably already know about this, but FYI, I accidentally discovered a keyboard shortcut (in addition to mouse one click action) to access Toolbar shortcuts. Simply hit CTRL key plus a number/digit, so...

CTRL+1  (to open 1st shortcut),   CTRL+2  (to open 2nd shortcut) etc...  But with 15, or in my case 17 shortcuts, would prob need to add a number label/prefix to the toolbar shortcut to make using the keyboard shortcuts easy (that was a mouthful).  As it is, I only use a few keyboard shortcuts currently for 'New Note', 'On demand Sync' etc...cheers

Hi @Pixelpops I had the same issue last year, and discovered the solution...see thread here

8 hours ago, CalS said:

click on one of the icons in the tool bar you get a context menu and you can check/uncheck Show labels

Yep that did the trick, thanks very much.  Whilst waiting for your reply i also tried shortening my full name online via profile settings, which partially did the trick.

I'm liking the extra room now provided in the toolbar that allows for more shortcuts...cheers

3 hours ago, CalS said:

Hey @CalS  How is it the 'User' drop-down on the menu bar doesn't also show your name, how do you make that happen?  Mine currently shows my Full Name to the right of the user-icon.

9 hours ago, gazumped said:

Any chance of a screen shot

In the above screen-shot example, you can see I have a couple of links in the first paragraph, then lots of links/linked-text, one after the other on the next four lines. 

• If you highlight all the text as shown, then right-click, there is NO option to 'remove' the links. 
• If you highlight just the 4 lines that contain consecutive links, then right-click, now the 'remove' option yes is available, but EN will literally only remove the link on the text immediately below the cursor.

So if you wanted to remove all links, You would have to remove one-by-one, or copy paste into another app like MS-Word, or Notepad, in order to remove the links then paste back

5 hours ago, CalS said:

To remove all hyperlinks in a document, press CTRL+A to select the entire document and then press CTRL+SHIFT+F9.

Yeah that works great in MS Word... was hoping could be done in EN.  Cheers anyway

Well not a biggy, as I only need it from time to time, thanks