Nisus Writer Express manuals

Writer

1

DISCLAIMER

3

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

3

COPYRIGHT

3

Table of Contents

5

Creating Documents 35

6

Writing and Editing 35

6

Formatting Documents 59

7

Prooﬁng Documents 165

10

Before You Begin

17

Getting Help

18

Getting Set Up

18

Getting Started

21

Enter right to left text

22

Save your ﬁle

23

Print your ﬁle

23

Quit Nisus Writer Express

23

Figure 5

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Figure 6

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The Menu Bar

27

The Title Bar

28

Nisus Writer Express Windows

28

Nisus Writer Express Dialogs

29

The Character Palette

35

The Paragraph Palette

36

The Statistics palette

37

The Page Palette

37

Show the Page palette

38

Conventions

39

Nisus Writer Express Menu

39

File Menu

40

Edit Menu

40

Insert Menu

43

View Menu

44

Format Menu

45

1 pressed or not, etc.)

48

Table Menu

52

Macro Menu

53

Window Menu

53

Help Menu

54

Creating Documents

55

Writing in Multiple Languages

56

Creating Documents 37

57

38 Writing and Editing

58

• Do not change the font

58

• Switch to last used font

58

• Switch to secondary font

58

3. Begin typing

60

)Be Careful!(

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(Be Careful!)

61

42 Writing and Editing

62

• Solution

62

• Corrected

62

Selecting Text

63

Copying Text

64

Drag and Drop

65

Cutting Text

65

Pasting Text

66

Using the Clipboards

66

• Enter text

67

Creating Lists

68

Insert a bulleted list

69

End a bulleted list

70

Restart numbering

71

Resume numbering

71

Modify list styles

72

Recovering from Mistakes

75

Saving ﬁles

76

Formatting Documents

79

Structuring paragraphs

81

Set the text wrap area

83

Figure 44

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The Text Wrap area

84

Justify “align” text

85

Left justify

86

Center justify

86

Right justify

86

Full justify

86

Figure 48

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Figure 49

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Figure 50

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Figure 51

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Set spacing between lines

89

Prevent widows and orphans

91

Set tabs

92

Use leader tabs

93

5. Click OK

94

Each of these is a paragraph

95

Remove a tab Indicator

96

Format Characters

97

Change the font of characters

98

Change the size of characters

99

Apply a style to your text

105

Modify a style

106

Create a new style

109

• Use Existing Styles

112

• Add Pasted Styles

112

• Click Cancel

112

Setting Up a Document’s Page

113

Figure 80

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Name the file what you want

114

Set “defaults” for new ﬁles

115

Edit your Nisus New File

120

3. Click Open

121

Create a Nisus New File

122

Figure 91

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Express

124

Use a custom paper size

125

Set the margins visually

126

Set the margins numerically

127

Mirror page placement

128

Set the number of columns

129

Balance column text

130

Figure 102

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Page Border set at Page Edge

132

Figure 103

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Figure 104

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Headers and Footers

135

116 Headers and Footers

136

118 Headers and Footers

138

Editing Headers and Footers

139

120 Headers and Footers

140

Deleting Headers and Footers

141

Numbering Pages

142

Restart page numbering at 1

143

1. Open the Section palette

144

Graphics

145

126 Graphics

146

Align a ﬂoating graphic

147

Image Alignment

148

Text Wrap

148

The Graphic Anchor

149

130 Graphics

150

Book Tools

151

Numbering Sections

152

Footnotes and Endnotes

153

134 Book Tools

154

Remove a footnote or endnote

157

138 Book Tools

158

What is a table?

159

Insert/create a table

160

Enter text in a table

162

Enter graphics in a table

163

Table Cells Palette Buttons

164

Figure 130

165

146 Book Tools

166

Add cells to a table

167

Remove cells from a table

168

Merge cells

168

Split cells

169

Resize a cell

170

Equalize column widths

172

Equalize row heights

173

154 Book Tools

174

Create a table header

175

Create a row header

176

Make your tables stand out!

177

Select which lines to modify

178

160 Book Tools

180

Using Gradients and Shading

181

162 Book Tools

182

Remove a table

184

Copy, cut and paste a table

184

Prooﬁng Documents

185

How to Check Spelling

187

168 Prooﬁng Documents

188

Spelling window

189

Start the spelling checker

190

User Dictionaries

192

Finding and Replacing Text

194

Limit the search

195

Using PowerFind

196

PowerFind Terminology

197

PowerFind Example

197

Using the PowerFind Browser

198

180 Prooﬁng Documents

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PowerFind Guidelines

201

Match Set

201

Repeat Set

202

184 Prooﬁng Documents

204

Scripts Set

205

Special Characters Set

205

Special Positions Set

206

Wild Card Set

207

Remove extra blank lines

208

Remove page breaks

208

190 Prooﬁng Documents

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3. Click OK

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192 Prooﬁng Documents

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Using PowerFind Pro

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Appearance

215

ABCDEFABGHABabcdABabcdEF

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User-deﬁned Wild Cards

217

Repeat Characters

218

Match Characters

218

Swap the sequence of words

219

Find ten-digit phone numbers

220

Pagination

222

Set where page breaks appear

223

Figure 176

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See where page breaks appear

225

3. Click Next

226

Special “Styles”

228

Color text

229

Highlight text

229

Background Color

230

Cleaning Up Documents

232

Window Basics

233

Printing Documents

234

Print pages in reverse order

235

Go to page

237

Go to header/footer

237

Setting Preferences

239

" Click Do nothing

240

222 Setting Preferences

242

• Rich Text Format (RTF)

242

• Microsoft Word Format

242

What gets saved with a ﬁle

243

4. Click Open

244

Invisibles

245

Page Guides

247

228 Setting Preferences

248

WYSIWYG Font Menu

250

Working Environment

250

Highlight marked text

252

Customize Your Clipboards

254

Set Your Language Preferences

256

Determine What QuickFix Fixes

257

238 Setting Preferences

258

Fix typos as you type

260

242 Setting Preferences

262

Save Preferences

263

Macros, Skimming the Surface

265

Editing Macros

266

Saving a Macro

266

Deleting Macros

266

Undoing a Macro

266

Working with Macro Files

266

Before Creating a Macro

267

Typing Menu Commands

267

Working with Menu Commands

268

Macros, the Deeper Workings

269

Writing Perl Scripts

270

Writing AppleScripts

272

Examples

273

Do Menu Macro

273

Other Examples

273

Putting It All Together

275

Edit an inserted link

276

Remove an inserted link

276

Handling Communications

277

Afterword

279

Appendices

281

Appendices 263

283

Appendix II

284

Displaying Fonts and Text

284

Typing unusual characters

285

To type:

287

" See “Kaf” above

288

Appendices 269

289

Enter Unicode text

291

Appendix III

293

276 Subject Index

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Indexes 277

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278 Subject Index

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Indexes 279

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280 Subject Index

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Indexes 281

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282 Subject Index

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Indexes 283

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0 - 9 Digits/Numerals

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Indexes 287

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Indexes 289

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Indexes 291

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Index of Figures and Tables

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Indexes 295

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