Multipage Software

The Mnova interface is designed to look and feel like MS PowerPoint. We think that the great majority of people in science are familiar with this presentation and reporting software, and that making our program behave in a very similar way to Powerpoint will ensure that even new users find it very easy to work with from the very start.

The first thing you will notice is that the software is Multipage, and incorporates a page navigator, which is placed, by default, as a column on the left hand side of the screen.

The Mnova document is a Multipage Document. This means that all pages within a single document will be saved as a single document. This will allow you to keep, for example, different experiments for a certain sample (1H, 13C, homonuclear and heteronuclear 2D correlations) as a single, unified document.

If the Mnova document is huge and contains several pages, you can save only some of the pages, by selecting them in the page navigator and following the menu 'File/Saves as/MestReNova Pages (*.mnpag)'

If you want to merge different Mnova documents into the same one, follow the menu 'File/Open/MestReNova Pages (*.mnpag)' to select the desired documents to be merged.

The active slide is highlighted in the page navigator, and will appear in the main paper area of the document. This is the page to which all selected operations will be applied. You can choose the desired spectrum just by clicking on it on the page navigator or by following the menu 'View/Previous or Next Page'. In the same way, if you have highlighted any spectrum in the page navigator, you can move to the previous or the next spectrum by using the up or down arrow keys.

There are a number of things you can achieve by working on the page navigator:

✓You can alter the order of the pages by left clicking on a page, dragging it and releasing the mouse to drop it at the desired position.

✓You can Create a New Page by selecting 'Home/New Page', by right clicking on the page navigator window and selecting 'Create New Page' or by holding <Ctrl>+M (or Cmd + M in Mac).

✓You can Delete an undesired spectrum by 'Home/Delete" or by right clicking on the spectrum or on the page navigator and selecting 'Delete'. A selected spectrum can also be deleted using the 'Del' key.

✓You can select more than one page by holding the <Ctrl> key (or Cmd in Mac) whilst clicking on the desired pages. When more than one page is selected, all operations (zooming, cutting, processing, etc.) will be applied to all selected pages.

✓You can copy a page to the clipboard by pressing the <Ctrl> key (or Cmd in Mac) and then left clicking on the desired page, then dragging and releasing it whilst still holding <Ctrl> (or Cmd in Mac). Of course, a page can also be copied by selecting it and then choosing 'Home/Copy', or <Right Click> and then Copy or by using the keyboard shortcut <Ctrl+C> (or Cmd+C for Mac). Any of these methods can be followed to copy one or several pages at a time, depending on what is selected when applying these operations.

✓Conversely, a page or several pages can be pasted by using 'Edit/Paste', or <Right Click> and then Paste or by using the keyboard shortcut <Ctrl+V> (or Cmd+V for Mac).

✓Finally, you can hide or move the page navigator, by clicking on the boxes highlighted on the picture below (or by following the menu 'View/Pages').

In order to navigate from one page to the other, you can use the page navigator or the arrows controls shown in the picture below (you will also find them at the right down corner of the spectral window):

From the 'Home/Page' ribbon, you can also move the page up and down and to the top and bottom. You could also use the applicable shortcuts:

•Move Page Up: Ctrl+Shift+Up

•Move Page Down: Ctrl+Shift+Down

•Move Page to Top: Ctrl+Up

•Move Page to Bottom: Ctrl+Down

You will be able to show the page navigator by clicking on the last button of the picture below:

You can edit the title of the spectrum shown in the page navigator by right clicking on it and selecting ‘Edit Page Title’ or by following the 'Edit or Home menu':

You can include headers or footers to any page by using the applicable feature from the 'Home' ribbon:

From here, you could also include your signature:

Keep in mind that the documents are signed when saving (to a mnova file), so nothing will appear in the header until the document is saved. Also to be strict with the actual status of the signature, the signature fields will be empty too if the document has been modified since the last save. This means that if we, for instance, want to report the document as PDF including the signature header/footer, we must save the document as an mnova document first and then print to PDF the unmodified version of the document.

Mnova documents can also be exported as JCAMP format by following the menu 'File/Save As' and selecting the applicable format from the scroll down menu.