OK, I started a document in my word-processing program (WriteNow 2.0 for Macintosh); the document got too complicated, so I downloaded MORE 3.1 to see if that would help me.

I saved my original file as a text file (with a .doc extension) and opened it in MORE.

Now the original document is in one piece inside of MORE, but I want to put it into a hierarchical form. How do I do that? I can drag the various paragraphs and place them underneath the headlines, but apparently I have to move them one at a time (there seems to be no shift-clicking to choose more than one paragraph at a time).

Any suggestions?

George
Los Angeles

You can do this with Mark and Gather. Use command-M to Mark all the headlines you want to make subheads of a particular headline, either one-by-one or in batches; then click in the headline of which you want them to be subheads, go command-G for Gather, and in the dialogue box choose the Move radio button. (You can select multiple headlines for marking in a number of ways: by drag-clicking in the bar, by option-clicking to select all headlines on the same level, or by multiple-clicking to select a headline's subheads with or without the headline itself. But all marked headlines stay marked until you do something with them, so it's fine just to mark them piecemeal.)

Also useful are command-] and command-[ to indent or outdent subheads from the headline in which the cursor currently is. With a bit of experiment and practice you'll find yourself intuitively doing all kinds of high-speed hierarchifications without thinking about it.

Nick.