Freehand is an illustrator program, and it's quite unlikely you can 'convert' artwork to native InDesign stuff.

However, it should not be necessary. I don't think you can import (“Place”, in Indesign's parlance) native Freehand documents in InDesign (– have you tried?), but it should be possible to save the original files as something you can place in ID: Adobe Illustrator AI, PDF, or (when all else fails) EPS.

Adobe on Freehand: “No updates to FreeHand have been made for over four years, and Adobe has no plans to initiate development to add new features or to support Intel-based Macs and Windows Vista.”

If you want to be able to edit the files in a more modern package, try converting it to Illustrator instead. That should not be a problem at all, since Illustrator is an artwork design package as well. You can try opening the original file immediately, or use one of the other file types as above.

So what the problem with the math? If someone has problems getting the right answer, well, both Mac and Windows have a calculator

This one is “The sum of 3+3″ — perhaps you could make 'em a bit more difficult, these are no fun at all …

(Windows XP, SP3, IE 8 )

(It's not there when editing a post, I notice.)

So what the problem with the math? If someone has problems getting the right answer, well, both Mac and Windows have a calculator

This one is “The sum of 3+3″ — perhaps you could make 'em a bit more difficult, these are no fun at all …

(Windows XP, SP3, IE 8 )

(It's not there when editing a post, I notice.)

You cannot search the hyphen InDesign adds itself. I would suggest a tiny javascript instead. (Beware! Untested! Your Computer May Explode (etc.))

app.findGrepPreferences = null;

app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = “bw+-w+b”;

result = app.activeDocument.findGrep();

if (result.length == 0)

alert (“No More! No More!”);

else

result[0].select();

Then fix them yourself.

—-< Afterthought, 2 seconds later >—

Ahhhh — perhaps it's easier to apply No Break to the individual parts of the word (but not the hyphen!). You would need two GREP styles for that, one for each half:

<w+(?=-w)

and

(?<=w-)w+>

— both should apply a character style containing No Break. You might want to consider checking a maximum length of the word parts. There are not that many ten-letter-each compound words, but surely you would consider hyphenating “representative-elect”, “three-dimensionalness” or “vice-chancellorship”? (14 letters and more before or after the hyphen; just a few random finds in my English word list)

You cannot search the hyphen InDesign adds itself. I would suggest a tiny javascript instead. (Beware! Untested! Your Computer May Explode (etc.))

app.findGrepPreferences = null;

app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = “\w+-\w+”;

result = app.activeDocument.findGrep();

if (result.length == 0)

  alert (“No More! No More!”);

else

  result[0].select();

Then fix them yourself.

—-< Afterthought, 2 seconds later >—

Ahhhh —  perhaps it's easier to apply No Break to the individual parts of the word (but not the hyphen!). You would need two GREP styles for that, one for each half:

\<\w+(?=-\w)

and

(?<=\w-)\w+\>

— both should apply a character style containing No Break. You might want to consider checking a maximum length of the word parts. There are not that many ten-letter-each compound words, but surely you would consider hyphenating “representative-elect”, “three-dimensionalness” or “vice-chancellorship”? (14 letters and more before or after the hyphen; just a few random finds in my English word list)

Ellipsis: Alt+;

Bullet: Alt+8 (not the keypad one)

If you right-click in text (did you use a one-button mouse? it's similar to Ctrl+click), you can select “Insert Special Character” -> any of Symbols, Markers, or Hyphens and Dashes. The submenu helpfully shows the currently assigned shortcuts. Of course, you can change all of these with Edit -> Keyboard Shortcuts. Look under “Type Menu” for the “Insert xxx” series.

Every default shortcut from InDesign should work, with a little translation: Command -> Ctrl and Option -> Alt.

Nothing to feel dumb about. I recently switched from 20+ yr uninterrupted pc usage to a Mac — it's a lovely machine but I feel like having butterfingers with even the simplest of operations.

Ah — fortunately, that's an easy one. \Z is an (undocumented?) Tag-End-of-Story — \A is its Beginning-of-Story equivalent.

This ought to work:

[\r ~S~s]+\Z

(Replace with nothing.)

This looks for, and removes, series of Paragraph return, Tab, Space, Non-Breaking Space, and Non-Breaking Fixed Width Space (one of the latter two may have been imported via Word).

(An additional note: GREP cannot change the case of letters. Use the To-Caps function as Casey said, which will add an text attribute, or just search for it with GREP and change manually. For cases like this I assigned hotkeys to the To-Uppercase and To-Lowercase menu items.)