Indexing - Split Screen

Dave Shurtz

The Microsoft spreadsheet program Excel allows the user to split a screen vertically or horizontally or both. Maybe the option already exists in Indexing. If not, it would be SO helpful to be able to split the screen and keep the column heading on the screen while processing each line.

genthusiast

If the Project allows - the Data Entry menu allows a few other arrangements of the Entries/columns:

It seems many times these other Entry formats are not available to the Project though.

You can do something similar in Form Entry mode - use 3-dot menu (blue bar above entries)> Show or Hide Entries. This would allow you to hide all other entries except the one(s) you would like to be entering currently.

John Empoliti

Hi @Dave Shurtz

If you use a Windows PC, I can suggest a workaround to provide something like what you're asking for, and perhaps even more. I have adapted an excellent, highly customizable always-on-top ruler/reading guide called A Ruler for Windows to do this. You'll find details and a video explaining the many features at

www.arulerforwindows.com.

The author has a concept of "skins" that allow you to control the color of the ruler, and I have adapted it to provide a floating header row. It can be helpful for indexing situations like you describe, where soon after you push the image up to access the records beyond the first few, especially when zoomed in, you can't see the header anymore. I create a "skin" by zooming in to the level I prefer, use the snipping tool to carve out an image of just the header, save it as a jpg file, and use it as a "skin" for the ruler. Below is a screen print showing it in action. I've purposefully parked it in the middle of the image so you can see that it is not the original header but a floating "ruler" with the header as a "skin"/background.

I usually use the rule as a skinny red reading guide. I know I can have two or more instances of A Ruler for Windows open simultaneously, but I am not sure whether they can have independent skins. I'll have to try that sometime to see if I can have the "header' ruler/guide plus my usual skinny red reading guide.

John Empoliti

You could also use this "floating header" as your reading guide. You move the image behind it, and it stays put unless you choose to move it. This behavior is unlike the built-in ruler for the Web Indexing program, which sticks to the image and moves with it. And you can resize it vertically (thinness) and horizontally (length) and wiggle it around but can restrict the side to side movement if you wish (pin it). Look at the website and author's video.

If it bothers you not to see the preceding or following names (depending on where you place it), you can adjust the transparency of the "skin" and thus be able, somewhat, see the names depending on your adjustment. Obviously, you want to be able to make out the header titles, so that will limit how transparent you can go.

I just checked, and two instances of A Ruler for Windows can have different skins, but the last skin set becomes the skin for each succeeding new instance until you change the skin again. So if you open three instances you could give them each a different skin, but the last skin you set will be the default skin for the 4th and later instances.