Nisus Writer Pro manuals

User’s Guide

1

DISCLAIMER

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

3

COPYRIGHT

3

Contents

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Formatting Documents 73

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Headers and Footers 135

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Book Tools 187

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10

Putting It All Together 421

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Welcome to Nisus Writer Pro

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Using the Documentation

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Getting Help

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Getting Set Up

16

Installing Nisus Writer Pro

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Enter your license number

18

Getting Started

21

Enter right to left text

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Save Your File

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Print Your File

23

Quit Nisus Writer Pro

24

The Nisus Writer Pro window

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The Menu Bar

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The Title Bar

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Nisus Writer Pro windows

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Nisus Writer Pro dialogs

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The Nisus Writer Pro Toolbar

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The Nisus Writer Pro rulers

31

• The “flag” (Language Tag)

34

• The “Clipboard”

34

• The magnifying glass

34

The Character palette

38

The Paragraph palette

39

The Statistics palette

40

The Page palette

40

The Table Cells palette

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The Table of Contents palette

42

Creating Documents

43

Add characters to a set

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Writing in Multiple Languages

47

• Do not change the keyboard

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מִ$ְפְח(ת )Be Careful!(

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מִ$ְפְח(ת(Be Careful!)

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• Solution

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• Corrected

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Creating Documents 35

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Selecting Text

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Select using the keyboard

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Other methods of selection

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Copying Text

58

Drag and Drop

58

Cutting Text

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Pasting Text

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Using the Clipboards

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Creating Lists

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About lists

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Insert a bulleted list

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End a bulleted list

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Figure 41

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Restart numbering

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Resume numbering

65

Modify list styles

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Creating Documents 49

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Recovering From Mistakes

71

Saving Files

73

Export As…

74

Opening Files

75

Managing Files

75

Display the Document Manager

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• Style Library

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• Folder Group

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Creating Documents 61

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• Templates

81

Create special groups of ﬁles

83

Add a Folder Group

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Add a text based Filter Group

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Add a date based Filter Group

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Creating Documents 69

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• Filename

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• Document Content

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• Either

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• Advanced Search…

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See a preview of your ﬁle

90

Creating Documents 71

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• Delete a file

91

• Open a New file

91

Formatting Documents

93

Structuring Paragraphs

95

Set the text wrap area

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Figure 78

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The Text Wrap area

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Justify “align” text

100

Creating Documents 81

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Set spacing between lines

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Creating Documents 83

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Prevent widows and orphans

104

Set tabs

105

Use leader tabs

106

Set a tab using the menus

106

Remove a tab Indicator

109

Format Characters

110

Change the font of characters

111

Change the size of characters

112

Example 1

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Example 2

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Example 3

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Creating Documents 95

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Apply a style to your text

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Modify a style

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Create a new style

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Creating Documents 105

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▶ Press x, or

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Maintain a Style Library

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Create a style library

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Creating Documents 109

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Figure 118

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Figure 119

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Creating Documents 111

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Creating Documents 113

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Setting Up a Document’s Page

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Make any ﬁle a template ﬁle

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Creating Documents 119

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Edit your Nisus New File

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Creating Documents 121

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Create a Nisus New File

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Creating Documents 125

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Use a custom paper size

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Set the margins visually

147

Set the margins numerically

147

Mirror page placement

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Set the Number of Columns

150

Balance column text

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Creating Documents 133

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Headers and Footers

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Creating Documents 137

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Editing Headers and Footers

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Creating Documents 139

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Deleting Headers and Footers

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Numbering Pages

161

Restart page numbering at 1

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Update all stale content

163

Creating Documents 145

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Graphics: Images and Shapes

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Inline images

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Importing Images

169

Resize an Image

171

Crop an Image

172

Edit an Image

173

Working with Floating Images

175

Using the Shape Wrap palette

176

The Shape Anchor

177

The Shape Bounding Box

178

Image Alignment

179

The Bounding Box of lines

181

Creating Documents 163

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Working with Shapes

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Text and Callout boxes

186

Creating Documents 169

189

Add a caption to your images

190

Drawing lines and arrows

191

Block Arrows

192

Geometric type shapes

193

Modifying shapes

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Using the Shape Fill palette

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Creating Documents 179

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Rotate selected shapes

201

The Canvas

202

Creating Documents 183

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Duplicate shapes

204

Creating Documents 185

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Book Tools

207

Numbering Sections

209

Footnotes and Endnotes

210

Creating Documents 191

211

Remove a footnote or endnote

213

What is a table?

215

Insert/create a table

216

Enter text in a table

217

Enter images in a table

217

TablePaletteButtons

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TableCellsPaletteButtons

219

200 Tables Book Tools

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Add cells to a table

221

Remove cells from a table

221

Sort rows of a table

221

Merge cells

221

202 Tables Book Tools

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Split cells

223

Resize a cell

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Equalize column widths

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Equalize row heights

226

Creating Documents 207

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Create table headers

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FrozenLoggerThe

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Make your tables stand out!

230

Select which lines to modify

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212 Tables Book Tools

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UsingGradientsandShading

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214 Tables Book Tools

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Remove a table

235

Copy, cut and paste a table

235

Set a Bookmark

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Creating Documents 219

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Jump to Bookmarked Text

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Move a Bookmark

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Remove a Bookmark

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▶ Bookmark

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▶ List Item

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▶ Footnote or Endnote

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▶ Text in TOC

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See cross-referenced text

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Tables of Contents

247

Move about in the Navigator

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Outlines

254

Create an index

258

• When you edit the entries

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▶ Click Mark All

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Create a hierarchical index

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Index overlapping entries

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@ then add

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Format your index

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Create a new index

268

Creating Documents 251

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Creating Documents 253

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Creating Documents 255

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Go to page

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Go to or from comments

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Go to header/footer

278

Prooﬁng Documents

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How to Check Spelling

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Start the spelling checker

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User Dictionaries

285

Using the Nisus Thesaurus

285

Hyphenating your text

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Text analysis

290

Document properties

291

Pagination

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Set where page breaks appear

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Figure 300

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See where page breaks appear

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Line Numbering

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Color text

305

Highlight text

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Background color

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Multiple Line Controls

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Individual Line Controls

308

Horizontal

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Vertical

308

Using the Mac OS Colors panel

310

Cleaning Up Documents

311

Finding and Replacing Text

312

Limit the search

313

Limit the replace

314

Using PowerFind

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PowerFind example

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Using the PowerFind Browser

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PowerFind guidelines

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Match set

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Repeat set

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Scripts / Blocks set

329

Special Characters set

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Special Positions set

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Wild Card set

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Transform set

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Remove extra blank lines

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Remove page breaks

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Convert Styles to HTML Code

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Figure 355

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Figure 356

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Using PowerFind Pro

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Appearance

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\2\3\3\1\5\5\2\1\4

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CDEFefABabcdabcdcdABGH

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\2\3\3\1\2\1\4

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EFGHghABefABabcd

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Pre-deﬁned wild cards

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User-deﬁned wild cards

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Repeat characters

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Match characters

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PowerFind Pro ﬁnd expressions

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Swap the sequence of words

344

Find ten-digit phone numbers

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Add comments

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Move to and from comments

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Hide and show comments

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▶ Click Show pane on Left or

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▶ Click Show pane on Right

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Figure 365

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Figure 366

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Figure 367

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Review comment histories

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Printing comments

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Start tracking changes

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Stop tracking changes

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Figure 375

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• Left or

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Accept changes

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Reject changes

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Window basics

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About Merging Documents

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About data documents

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Creating a data document

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Printing the merged document

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Printing Documents

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Print pages in reverse order

380

Setting Preferences

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• Don’t Backup at this time;

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What gets saved with a ﬁle

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Invisibles

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Page guides

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WYSIWYG Font menu

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WYSIWYG Styles palette

397

Highlight marked text

401

Customize Your Clipboards

402

Set Your Language Preferences

404

Determine What QuickFix Fixes

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Fix typos as you type

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Working with Glossaries

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@ or <

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Advanced Preferences

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Figure 416

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Customize Your Toolbar

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Save Preferences

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Macros, Skimming the Surface

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Running Macros

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Editing Macros

418

Saving a Macro

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Deleting Macros

418

Undoing a Macro

419

Working with Macro Files

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Before Creating a Macro

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Typing Menu Commands

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Working with Menu Commands

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Macros, the Deeper Workings

421

Using menu commands

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InterpolatedStringLiterals

423

Flow of control

424

Comparison warning

425

Document operations

425

Environment properties

425

Modifying text

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Changing the selection

427

Clipboards

428

User interaction

428

Meaningofsymbol

429

Useful blocks for data entry

430

Advanced macro notes

431

Included macros

431

Writing Perl Scripts

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Writing AppleScripts

438

Examples

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Do Menu Macro

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Other examples

439

Putting It All Together

441

Open a Document on the Web

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Putting It All Together 423

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Format and Print Envelopes

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Putting It All Together 425

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Afterword

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Appendices

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File menu

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Appendices 431

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Edit menu

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Appendices 433

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Appendices 435

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A as you choose

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Insert menu

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Appendices 439

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View menu

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Appendices 441

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Format menu

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Appendices 445

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MALL CAPS

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Appendices 447

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Appendices 449

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Table menu

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Tools menu

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Appendices 453

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Appendices 455

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Appendices 457

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Macro menu

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Window menu

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Help menu

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Appendix II

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462 Glossary of Useful Terms

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Appendices 463

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464 Glossary of Useful Terms

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Appendix III

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Typing Unusual Characters

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To type:

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▶ See “Kaf” above

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Enter Unicode text

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Appendix IV

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More Classic

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Subject Index

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476 Subject Index

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Indexes 477

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478 Subject Index

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Indexes 479

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480 Subject Index

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Indexes 481

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482 Subject Index

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Indexes 483

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484 Subject Index

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Indexes 485

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0 - 9 (digits / numerals)

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Indexes 489

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Indexes 491

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Indexes 495

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Indexes 497

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Index of Figures and Tables

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Indexes 501

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Indexes 503

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Indexes 505

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