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I'm experiencing a peculiar interaction between Knox and Nisus Writer Pro. (Knox is a secure desk image utility from Agile Web Solutions.) I keep a number of confidential documents in several Knox vaults. Sometimes when I launch Nisus Writer Pro, a vault will open without any intervention on my faul...

Actually I like the behavior as it is. For instance, I have 12 points before paragraphs in my basic Paragraph style, but I don't want 12 points of blank space at the top of a page. If I do want that spacing, I'll put it in manually.

--Craig

I don't know an easy way. A hard way, and one I wouldn't recommend, is to create a table and try to match the dimensions of the labels on the sheet as closely as possible. What I do when I need to generate labels is to use either NeoOffice (free) or FileMaker (not free). (Recently I haven't been abl...

Here's a screenshot of a Find-Replace dialog that worked for me. http://www.crchapin.com/etc/Nisus/NWE_Find.png This is PowerFind, not PowerFind Pro. To get the parentheses, click the gear button, choose Match and then Found. To get Found2, click the gear button, choose Match, then Found2. I hope th...

Sorry to hear that you're having these kinds of problems, foobar. I'm sure others can do a better job of suggesting ways to prevent crashes (delete preferences, repair permissions or whatever). I'll just tell you my experience. I had to deal with crashes with the early versions of Nisus Writer Expre...

For the time being, could Anne do what she wants with Folder Actions? Whenever anything is saved to the Nisus Documents folder (or another folder chosen for this purpose), I believe a folder action could copy it to the USB device. However, for this to work, I suspect that the USB device would have t...

I'd be glad to share. The macros are extremely simple. First, create a Comment character style. Mine uses a brown font color and a yellow highlight, but you can set yours up however you like. You can keep it in your Nisus New File or a special-purpose template. If you are working on a document creat...

I second the motion.

--Craig

Another option--and this is what my wife/partner and I do when working together on translations--is to use a Comment character style. We each have our own color-coded style. This puts the comments in line with the text, which could be an advantage or a disadvantage in your case. We also have a simpl...

martin wrote:You could also load a macro that inserts a non-breaking hyphen and then assign it a keyboard shortcut.

But wouldn't that be an obvious and more elegant solution?

--Craig

As Midwinter wrote, there isn't currently a way to create a text box. You might be able to get the results you want through a very inelegant workaround. You could create two columns on the first page, using the Columns palette in the Sections palette group. Then create a new section with only one co...

I do not believe so, but mine is not the most authoritative answer you could hope for.

--Craig

To add a character to Favorites in the Tiger Character Palette (other OS versions might be slightly different)... 1. Select the character. 2. Click the gear at the lower left of the palette. 3. Click "Add to Favorites" from the menu. You might consider setting something up with QuickFix. If there ar...

Two ideas for you to try. 1. Don't bother with the tab set at all. When you set margins for a hanging indent, Nisus Writer Express automatically sets a tab at the left margin for second and subsequent lines. It doesn't appear in the ruler bar, but it is there. 2. Try double-clicking a tab arrow or a...

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