Table of Contents

Title Page 1

Front Matter 3

Table of Contents a

Welcome to Nisus Writer Express i

About Nisus Software i

About Nisus Writer Express i

System Requirements i

Get Help i

Self Help i

Contact Support i

This Documentation ii

Documentation Structure ii

Documentation Conventions iii

Install Nisus Writer Express iv

From where did you purchase Nisus Writer Express? iv

Purchasing Nisus Writer Express from the Mac App Store iv

Purchasing Nisus Writer Express from Nisus Software, Inc. iv

Install Nisus Writer Express on your Macintosh iv

First Startup v

Welcome to new users! v

Enter your license key vi

Designate where supplemental tools are stored vii

Make sure your copy is up to date ix

What? Another version? How did that happen? ix

Subscribe to the Nisus Newsletter x

Get Started 1

Quick Start 1

Open or Start Nisus Writer Express 1

Open a New or Existing File 1

Open a new file 1

Customize your new document “template” 1

Open an existing file 1

Enter Text in Your New or Existing File 2

Write in a language other than American English 2

Enter right to left text 2

Modify the Appearance of Your File 2

Save Your File 3

Save files in Nisus Writer Express 3

Save your file and give it a name 3

Save your file after making changes 3

Save your file with a new name and/or in a new location 3

Prevent changes from being saved 4

Save your file automatically 4

Print Your File 4

Print an open document 4

Create a PDF of your document 4

Quit 5

“The Grand Tour” 7

Windows, Bars, Buttons, Pointers and Palettes 7

The Nisus Writer Express window 8

The Nisus Writer Express icon in the Dock 8

The Menu Bar 9

The Title Bar 10

The windows 11

Insertion Point 12

Mouse cursors 12

Mouse and/or Trackpad Use 12

Right-click 12

Keyboard shortcuts 13

Dialogs 13

The Toolbar 13

Display the Toolbar 13

Alter the Toolbar display 14

The rulers 14

The Status Bar 14

Tool tags 15

Info 15

Formatting tags 16

The Palette Dock 18

Modify the Palette Dock 20

Palette Dock’s title bar. 20

Display/hide the Palette Dock 20

Open/close a palette in the Palette Dock 20

Move a palette in the Palette Dock 20

Delete a palette from the Palette Dock 21

Return a floating palette to the Palette Dock 21

Display a different group of palettes 21

Using the Palette Dock and its palettes 21

Change the of palettes in the Palette Dock 22

Palettes affect your document 23

Palettes inspect your selection 23

Mixed selections 23

Palette controls 24

Text entry controls 24

Stepper Arrows 24

Character and Paragraph palettes 25

The Character palette 25

Change the font 25

Scroll through a longer list of fonts 25

Change the typeface or color 26

Change the size 26

The Paragraph palette 27

Alignment & Direction 27

Change the alignment 27

Change the direction text flows (for right to left languages) 27

Spacing 28

Change the space between lines of text (“leading”) 28

Change the amount of space that appears above (before) a paragraph 28

Change the amount of space that appears below (after) a paragraph 28

Indents 28

Set the indents (line wrap area) 28

Grouping 29

Control for widows and orphans 29

Prevent a paragraph (or paragraphs) from splitting across pages or columns 29

Keep one paragraph with the one that follows it 29

Force page breaks 29

All the other palettes 30

The Clipboards palette 30

The Columns palette 30

The Formatting Examiner palette 30

The Headers and Footers palette 30

The Language palette 30

The Lists palette 30

The Margins palette 30

The Page Borders palette 30

The Page Zoom palette 30

The Section palette 30

The Special Characters palette 30

The Statistics palette 30

The Styles palettes 30

The Table palette 30

The Table Cell Borders palette 30

The Table Cell Shading palette 31

The Table Cells palette 31

Create Documents 32

Write and Edit 32

Enter (Type) Text 32

Enter special characters into your text 33

Use the Special Characters palette 34

Customize the Special Characters palette 34

Add characters to a set 34

Add your own set to the palette and menu 36

Remove characters from a set or an entire set 36

Write in Multiple Languages 37

Set up language support 37

Language preferences 37

Preferred languages 38

Language settings 38

Choose a language in which to write 40

Write in a different language 41

Enter right to left text 41

Mix right to left and left to right text 43

Have an exclamation point appear correctly in a left to right string of right to left text 43

Have the period appear correctly in a left to right sentence that ends with a right to left word 44

Insert a right to left table in a left to right section 45

Advanced language customizations 45

Installing spelling dictionaries 45

Custom languages 46

Language flag icons 46

Select Text 48

Select text using the mouse or trackpad 48

Select a column of text (rectangular selection) 48

Select text from different places in the document (multipart selection) 48

What you can (and cannot) do with text of a multipart selection 48

Select all the text in your document 48

Select everything in your document 48

Select everything not selected 48

Invert the selection of a small area of text 48

Select using the keyboard 48

Other methods of creating a multipart selection 49

“De-select” text from a selection 50

Copying Text 50

Copy text 50

Copy text only, not its formatting 51

Copy formatting only, not its text 51

Drag and Drop 51

Cutting Text 51

Cut text 51

Delete text 52

Pasting Text 52

Paste text 52

Paste text only, not its formatting 52

Paste formatting only, not its text 53

Move, Delete, and Replace Text 53

Using the Clipboards 53

Add text or images to the Clipboard 53

Edit the Clipboard’s contents 53

Copy and paste styled text 54

Copy and paste rulers 54

Clipboard Tools 54

Use the Clipboards palette 54

The Clipboard tag on the Status Bar 55

The Clipboard preferences 55

Choose which Clipboard to use 55

Add a Clipboard 56

Change the name of a Clipboard 56

Delete a Clipboard 56

About Lists 56

List styles 56

List interface 56

Using lists 58

Start a list 58

Stop a list 58

Add list bullets to paragraphs 58

Add list numbers to paragraphs 59

List levels 59

Increase the list level 59

Decrease the list level 59

List numbering 60

Restart numbering 60

Continue numbering 60

Automatic numbering formats 60

Modify list styles 61

Edit list style levels 61

List level settings for list items 62

List level indents 62

List level character formatting 63

List level paragraph formatting 63

Use list styles to automatically number figures, tables, etc. 63

Create numbered lists that may have a component missing 65

Align a numbered list along a period 66

Recover From Mistakes 67

Undo an action 67

Redo an action 67

Manage… Save and Open Files 69

Save Files 70

Autosave 70

Autosave and new files 70

Autosave new files without interruption 70

Manual Save 70

Formats of saved files 70

Rich Text Format (RTF) 71

Microsoft Word Format (.doc) 71

Document Template (.dot) 71

Nisus Compressed Rich Text 71

Plain Text 71

Nisus Perl Macro 71

Rich Text Format Directory (RTFD) 71

Saving Files Tasks and FAQ 71

How do I rename an existing file? 71

How do I change my document’s file format? 71

What's the best way to share documents with Microsoft Word? 72

How do I decrease the size of my files? 72

Export Files 72

Export As PDF… 72

Export Formats 72

Microsoft Word Format (binary .doc) 72

Microsoft Word XML (DOCX / Office 2007 Open XML) 72

Open Document Format (ODF/.odt XML) 72

Rich Text Format (limited features) 73

Plain Text 73

HTML 73

Font Size 73

HTML Chapters 73

Chapters Split By 73

Font Size 73

EPUB 73

Open Files 73

Open automatically saved and closed files 74

Determine what displays when you open a file 74

Open any document as “new” or “Untitled” 74

Prevent Nisus Writer Express files from opening in TextEdit? 74

Open Microsoft Word documents in Nisus Writer Express 76

More about opening files 76

Manage Files 76

The Document Manager 76

Display the Document Manager 78

Set up the Document Manager using the Doc Manager preferences 79

Determine the location of your Document Manager folder 79

Choose file listing options for the Document Manager window 79

Choose whether or not to show file extensions in the Document Manager window 79

Work with your files so that the Document Manager can help you manage them 80

Save all your files automatically to the Document Manager 80

Save your file (as needed/desired) to the Document Manager 80

Save your file to the Document Manager with a new name 80

Move your file to the Document Manager 81

Add your file to the Document Manager 83

Display and sort files managed by the Document Manager 84

Create special groups of files 85

Add a Custom Group 85

Add a Folder Group 86

Remove a group from the Document Manager 87

Rename a group in the Document Manager 88

Find a particular file or files among those listed in the Document Manager 89

See a preview of your file 89

Open a file using the Document Manager 91

Additional features of the Document Manager 91

Using the buttons of the Document Manager window 91

Using the contextual menus of the Document Manager window 92

Format Text 93

Text Formatting Topics 93

See Text Formatting 93

Format Characters 94

Use the Character palette to format text 94

Change the font of text 95

Scroll through a longer list of fonts 99

Preview font changes 99

Change the size of characters 99

Change the size of characters to a size not listed on the menu 100

Increase or decrease the size of characters by a specific amount 100

Font substitution 100

How to fix font substitution 101

Add a font to your System 101

Change the format of characters 102

Change the format of characters using the “Dropper” 103

Manually override formatting 103

Example 1 103

Example 2 103

Example 3 103

Format Paragraphs 104

Set the indent or outdent (“hanging indent”) position of the first line of a paragraph 104

Create a normal indent 104

Create a hanging indent 104

Quickly indent or outdent a selected range of paragraphs 106

Set the text wrap area 108

Set the text wrap area numerically 111

Set the text wrap area using the keyboard 112

Set the text wrap area using the Paragraph palette 112

Justify “align” text 113

Set spacing between lines 116

Keep your lines from spreading when using superscript or footnotes/endnotes 117

Allow your lines to spread when using superscript or footnotes/endnotes 117

Set spacing between paragraphs 118

Control how paragraphs split and stick together 120

Prevent widows and orphans 120

Keep selected paragraphs together 120

Keep one paragraph with the following one 121

Ensure and/or force a break before a selected paragraph 121

Set tabs 121

Set a tab visually 122

Set a tab using the menus 122

Use leader tabs 124

Set the type of leader before placing a tab 124

Move a tab indicator using the mouse or trackpad 127

Move a tab indicator using the keyboard 127

Edit a tab’s location numerically 127

Remove a tab Indicator 127

Selecting paragraphs with different formatting 127

Set the same format for a group of differing paragraphs 127

Style Sheets 128

Introduction to Style Sheets 128

The various tools for using styles 128

Apply a style to your text 129

The Styles palettes interface 129

The difference between various kinds of styles 130

Supplied styles 130

Styles of the Paragraph Styles palette 130

Styles of the Character Styles palette 131

Styles of the Lists palette 131

Styles of the Note Styles palette 131

The styles palettes’ menus 131

The “…” (ellipsis, or options) menu 131

The style icon button menu 133

The style icon button menu of the Character and Paragraph Styles palettes 133

The style icon button menu of the List Styles palette 133

The style icon button menu of the Note Styles palette 134

The gear menu 134

WYSIWYG Styles palette 134

The Style Sheet view’s interface 134

See the Style Sheet associated with a document 134

Edit a style 136

Select more than one style 136

Modify style formatting 137

Change the name of a style 137

Have one style inherit the formats of another 137

Determine the style of the next paragraph of your text automatically 139

Assign a keyboard shortcut to your style as you edit it 139

Remove a keyboard shortcut from your style 139

Change the sample text that illustrates your style 140

Quickly remove formats that define your style 140

Add or modify formats associated with your style 140

Create a new style 140

Find text using styles 142

Find all text using a style 142

Jump to the next text using a style 142

Remove a style’s formats from selected text 142

Remove a character format from your text 143

Remove a style from your document 143

Resolve conflicts between styles 144

Maintain a Style Library 145

Create a style library 145

Import styles from an existing file 146

Save a file with styles you want to the Style Library folder of the Document Manager 148

Add styles to an existing Style Library file 150

Save specific styles from an existing file to a Style Collection 152

Use styles saved in a Style Library 155

Import a style the formats of which you know 155

Import a style the formats of which you do not know 155

Open a Style Collection to copy text with style for pasting in another document 156

Set Up a Document’s Page 157

What Happens When You Choose New From the File Menu 157

Set Paper Size and Margins 157

Set the preferred paper size for all your documents 158

Reduce or enlarge the printed area 159

Determine the orientation of the printed page 159

Set different orientations for different portions of your document 160

Use a custom paper size 160

Set the margins of the sections of your document 161

Set the margins visually 161

Set the margins numerically 162

Set the margins by “stepping” through pre-set increments 164

Mirror page placement 164

Set the Number of Columns 165

Set column line 165

Set column and gutter width 165

Balance column text 166

Use the Page Borders palette to put a line around the edge of your page 167

Determine which edges of the page should have lines 167

Determine the pattern, width and color of the line of the page’s border 167

Determine around which portion of the page’s perimeter the border appears 167

Set the distance from the edge or margin the border should appear 168

Headers and Footers 171

Create Headers and Footers 171

Insert the same header and/or footer for all pages 171

Insert a header and/or a footer for even numbered pages 174

Insert a header and/or footer for odd numbered pages 174

First Page Special (have no number appear on the first header/footer) 174

Add a title page to a document and have the numbering appear and begin at 1 on the third page 174

Insert a different header or footer for each section in the document 174

Edit Headers and Footers 175

Display headers and footers as they appear in the document 175

Edit headers or footers 175

Find the header or footer for a particular section of your document 175

Include images in a header or footer 175

Move a header or footer higher or lower on the page 175

Move a header or footer higher or lower in relation to the text of your document 176

Delete Headers and Footers 176

Hide headers and footers 176

Number Pages 177

Insert the current page number (once) on a specific page 177

Display the current page number on every page 177

Restart page numbering for a new section 178

Restart page numbering at 1 178

Display the current page number and the total number of pages in the section (or document) on every page 179

Determine the format of page numbers 179

Determine the format of section numbers 180

Graphics: Images and Shapes 180

Work with Various Types of Graphics 180

Inline images 180

Floating images 181

Import Images 182

Insert an image 182

Image Insertion Options 182

Link to File 182

Include copy of image in document 183

Image Data Preservation 183

Paste an image 183

LinkBack images 183

Drag an image to import it 183

Import a PDF 184

Single Image of First Page, Preserving Entire File 184

Single Image of First Page 184

Text Encoded in File 184

Extract Text Optically (OCR) 184

Export an Image 184

View image information 185

Extract Text from an Image (OCR) 185

Editing Images 185

Select an Image 186

Resize an Image 186

Resize an image using the mouse 186

Resize an image numerically 186

Restore an image’s original size 186

Restore an image’s original proportions 187

Crop an Image 187

Remove cropping 187

Image padding 187

Image opacity 188

Image borders 188

Edit images using LinkBack 189

Edit images using Markup 189

Work with Floating Images 190

Delete shapes and floating images 190

Use the Shape Wrap palette 192

Make an inline image into a floating image 192

The Shape Anchor 193

The contextual menus for inline and floating images 194

The contextual menu for inline images 194

The contextual menu for floating images 195

The Shape Bounding Box 195

Align a floating image 196

Cause text to wrap around an image 197

Bounding Box of lines 198

Set the padding text leaves around an image 200

Cause text to appear on top of, or behind an image 201

Cause images to appear around text; create a “screen” behind text 201

Make a floating image an inline image 202

Book Tools 204

Create Sections 206

Insert a new section 206

Number Sections 206

Insert a section number 206

Restart section numbers 206

Footnotes and Endnotes 207

Insert a footnote or endnote 207

Return to the document from the note text 207

Return to a specific note from its marker in the document 207

Edit a footnote or endnote 207

Note references 207

Note reference numbering 207

Note reference formatting 207

Note text 209

Note text formatting 209

Note style settings 209

Note References 210

Note Area Divider 210

Make sure your notes have a uniform appearance 210

Standardize the paragraph formatting of all notes 210

Use note styles to standardize formatting 211

Delete a footnote or endnote 211

Use an asterisk or other custom symbol for note references 211

Edit a custom symbol that marks footnotes and or endnotes 212

Change endnotes to footnotes, or vice versa 212

Change one footnote to an endnote 212

Change one endnote to a footnote 212

Change all footnotes to endnotes 212

Change all endnotes to footnotes 212

Continue footnote or endnote numbering across consecutive files 213

Restart footnotes or endnotes at an assigned page number 213

Restart footnotes or endnotes at an assigned note number 213

Restart endnotes at an assigned endnote page number 213

Find the next footnote in your document because it shares the selected style 213

Tables 214

What is a table? 214

Types of tables 214

Insert/create a table 215

Determine the size (number of rows/columns) of a table 215

Enter text in a table 217

Create a table with pre-existing text 217

Enter images in a table 217

Navigate among the cells of a table 218

Select cells, or portions of… or the entire table 218

Determine the alignment (position) of a table on the page 219

Determine the alignment (position) of text in a table 219

Align text in table cells along the decimal point 220

Add cells to a table 221

Remove cells from a table 222

Sort rows of a table 222

Merge cells 223

Split cells 226

Resize a cell 227

Equalize column widths 230

Equalize row heights 231

Cause the table to resize to fit its contents (and settings) 232

Cause the table to resize to fit the full extent of the page 233

Create table headers 234

Create a title for a table 234

Create a row header 235

Adjust the padding around the contents of a cell 235

Make your tables stand out! 237

Modify the lines (edges, borders, etc.) of a table 237

Clear the selection of lines to modify 237

Select which lines to modify 238

Determine the style (pattern) of the lines 238

Determine the thickness of the lines 240

Determine the color of the lines 240

Set the shading (color) of cells 241

Determine the pattern of cells 243

Set the color of the foreground and background of a cell pattern 244

Remove a table 245

Copy, cut and paste a table 245

Copy the contents, but not the “tableness” of a table 245

Find and/or replace a table and/or text in a table 245

Polish & Manage Documents 247

View and Work in Documents 247

Views, Tabs, Sidebars, Splits & Focus 247

Views 248

The View button 248

Page View 249

Draft View 249

Full Screen View 249

Style Sheet View 252

Document Tabs 252

Display your documents as tabs in existing windows 252

Use tabs to display your documents in one window 252

Open a group of documents into one window with many tabs 252

Manage tabbed windows 253

Closing tabs 253

Remove tabs from a window 254

Collect all windows into one 254

Zoom In or Zoom Out 254

Use the Page Zoom palette 254

Show the Page Zoom palette 255

Magnify, or, zoom in and out 255

Show the maximum width within the Page View window 255

Show the maximum width including the margins in Page View 255

Show the entire width and height in Page View 255

Show the text zoomed at a designated percentage in Page View 255

Focus on Your Writing 256

Typewriter Scrolling 257

Move Around in Your Documents 258

Go Back (restore prior selections) 258

Moving the Insertion Point 258

Move the Insertion Point Using the Keyboard 258

Move the Insertion Point Using the “Select” Commands 258

Other ways to move around 258

Jump to a particular page 259

Jump to a page via the menu 259

Jump to a page via the Page Zoom palette 259

Jump to a page via the Status Bar 260

Proof Documents 261

Check Spelling 262

Check spelling using the Language palette 262

Correct your typos as you type 263

Set your dictionary preferences 263

Correct your spelling using the keyboard and without calling up the Spelling window 263

Correct your spelling using the mouse or trackpad and without calling up the Spelling window 264

Correct your spelling using the mouse or trackpad and without calling up the Spelling window and add the word to your QuickFix abbreviations 265

Start the spelling checker 266

Set the starting point of the spelling checker 267

Activate the Spelling floating window 267

Replace a misspelled word using the spelling checker 268

Skip words flagged by the spelling checker 268

Skip all instances of a particular word 268

Add a word to the Dictionary 268

Remove a “learned” word to the Dictionary 268

Find the next error 268

Stop the spelling checker 268

User Dictionaries 269

Edit the Dictionary 269

Remove words from the dictionary 269

Use the Nisus Thesaurus 269

Use the Nisus Thesaurus in the Language palette 269

Use the Nisus Thesaurus as a free standing application 270

Use the Nisus Thesaurus from the contextual menu 271

Use Multiple Language Dictionaries 272

Alternative spelling checker dictionaries 272

Hyphenate your text 272

Document Hyphenation 272

Disable hyphenation 272

Enable hyphenation 272

Manual hyphenation 272

Paragraph Hyphenation 273

Language Hyphenation 273

Hyphenation Dictionaries 273

Character Wrapping Limits 273

Manual Hyphenation 273

Add a hyphenation point 273

Prevent a hyphenation point 274

Hyphens and line wrapping 274

Hyphenation illustrated 274

Word counts & text statistics 278

Use the Statistics palette and the Status Bar to maintain a count of your writing 278

Keep a running count of the characters, words and/or paragraphs of your document in your header or footer 284

Paginate, Sort and More 286

Pagination 288

Set where page breaks appear 289

Display a document as a continuous scroll 290

See where page breaks appear 291

Find page breaks in your document 292

Alphabetize (Sort) Paragraphs 294

Sort paragraphs 294

Jumble paragraphs 294

Special Formatting Tools 294

Plain Text 294

Remove formats from text 294

Change the height of text in relation to the baseline 294

Return raised or lowered text to the baseline 295

Increase or decrease the height by a specific amount 295

Cause letter pairs to use ligatures 295

Prevent letter pairs from using ligatures 295

Cause letter pairs to display closer together or further apart 296

Increase or decrease the amount of kerning by a specific amount 296

Prevent letter pairs from displaying closer together or further apart 296

Color text 297

Highlight text 297

Highlight text using a color other than the current color 297

Remove highlight color from your text 297

Background color 298

Remove background color from your text 298

How highlight color and background color differ 298

Use the MacOS Colors panel 301

Save colors for later use 301

Remove saved colors 301

Clean Up Documents 303

Change the case of alphabetic characters 303

Make all selected characters UPPERCASE 303

Make all selected characters lowercase 303

Capitalize all selected words 303

Make all selected words appear in sMALL cAPS 303

Reverse the case of selected text 303

Change the appearance of quotation marks 303

Make all selected quotation marks “smart” 303

Make all selected quotation marks "plain" 303

Find and Replace Text and Formatting 305

Normal Find 306

Enter something into the Find box 307

Enter something into the Replace box 307

Find text, or find and replace text 307

Find and/or replace the next occurrence(s) of the Find expression 308

Set the search parameters 308

Where 308

Special Situations 309

Set the replace parameters 310

Reuse find and/or replace expressions 310

Use a recently used find or replace expression 310

Save a find or replace expression 312

Use a saved find or replace expression 314

Delete a saved find or replace expression 314

PowerFind 314

About PowerFind 315

PowerFind terminology 315

PowerFind example 316

Use the “Find what” and “Replace with” menus 316

The PowerFind Browser 317

Open the PowerFind Browser 317

Resize the PowerFind Browser 317

Find capitalized words (a PowerFind example) 318

Select all instances of a found expression at once 319

Convert a PowerFind expression to a PowerFind Pro expression 319

PowerFind guidelines 320

Match set 320

Repeat set 322

Scripts / Blocks set 323

Finding and/or replacing non-Roman characters 324

Special Characters set 325

Special Positions set 325

Wild Card set 327

Transform set 328

Examples of putting PowerFind to use 329

Remove extra blank lines 329

Remove page breaks 329

Change the sequence of a pattern 329

Find two neighboring duplicate paragraphs 331

Change the wording of a repeated phrase containing a variable 332

Convert Styles to HTML Code 332

PowerFind Pro 334

Exercises, or examples of putting PowerFind Pro to use 334

Find a seven-digit phone number 334

Find any number of trailing spaces in a document or tabs at the end of paragraphs 334

Find the invisible null (ASCII (Unicode) 0) character 334

Find repeated groups of characters 334

Find any set of characters 335

Characters with special meaning 335

Modifier characters 336

Parenthesized expressions 336

Pre-defined wild cards 337

User-defined wild cards 338

[∑] (any character from a set ∑ excluding Return) 338

[^∑] (any character not from a set ∑) 338

Characters with a unique match 338

Repeat characters 339

Match characters 339

PowerFind Pro find expressions 339

PowerFind Pro replace expressions 339

Definitions in Nisus Writer Express 340

Advanced exercises, or more examples of putting PowerFind to use 340

Swap the sequence of words 340

Find any and/or all words that begin and end with specified characters 340

Change multiple periods to ellipses 340

Make sure your spaces follow the punctuation 340

Make sure your punctuation appears inside quotation marks 341

Replace two or more spaces with one space 341

Find ten-digit phone numbers 341

Use the Formatting Examiner 342

Understand and Modify the Appearance of Your Document 342

The Formatting Examiner Interface 342

Applied Formatting 342

Displayed Formatting 342

Additional Tools and Displays in the Formatting Examiner 343

Work with Multiple Documents 343

Window basics 343

Close a window 343

Minimize, or, put a window in the Dock 343

Redisplay a window that has been in the Dock 344

Open a window to its full size 344

Use the Window menu and working with multiple windows 344

Choose which window displays in front 344

Print Documents 345

Print your document 345

Determine how many copies to print 347

Determine which pages to print 347

Determine aspects of how your document prints 347

Print page guides & “invisibles” 347

Print pages in reverse order 347

Print odd pages, then even pages 347

PDF Export 349

Create a PostScript file 349

Customize & Automate Solutions 351

Set Preferences 351

Set “Defaults” for the Application 352

General Preferences Control the Application 352

The Application 353

The Palettes 354

Text Editing 355

Appearance Preferences 356

Appearance 356

Text editing areas always use Light Mode 356

Editing 356

Insertion point (caret) blinks on/off 356

Insertion point (caret) width 356

Focus mode fades inactive text by 357

Tools 357

Font menu shows preview 357

Colors 357

Dark Mode colors vs Light Mode colors 358

Edit customizable colors 358

Change a particular color 358

Show or hide colors 358

Import and export colors 358

Reset colors 358

List of customizable colors 358

Automatic Text 358

Document Views 359

Highlighters 359

Invisibles & Guides 359

Marked Text 359

Selection 360

Dark Mode 360

System Appearance Preferences 361

Quickly Switch Appearance Modes 361

Menu Keys for Menu Commands 362

Multi-key keyboard shortcuts 363

Remove an existing keyboard shortcut 363

Find whether a key combination is assigned to a command 363

Language Preferences 363

Interface Language 363

Text Language 364

QuickFix Preferences 365

Various QuickFixes 365

Enter smart quotes as you type 366

Superscript ordinals as you type 366

Capitalize the first word of sentences as you type 366

Fix typos as you type 366

Add or subtract, or modify a “typo” that gets fixed 367

Glossaries and macOS System-Wide Replacements 367

Create a new Glossary 368

Add or remove an entry to or from a Glossary file 368

Activate a Glossary file 369

Enable automatic expansion of Glossary file abbreviations 369

Enter a glossary abbreviation directly from the menus 369

Create a new glossary abbreviation, or edit an existing abbreviation 369

Import a Nisus Writer Classic Glossary file 369

Delete a Glossary file 369

New File Preferences 370

Understanding Template (Stationery) Documents 370

Make any file a template file 370

Set the appearance “View” of your Nisus New File 371

Determine which of the three primary views of your document displays when you choose New 371

Determine how your document uses Apple’s tabbed interface 371

Choose Measurement Display Options for New Documents 372

Determine the unit of measurement in any document 372

Determine how the Palette Dock appears in relation to new files 372

Determine whether or not “Invisibles” display in all new files 372

Customize the color of your Invisibles 374

Determine whether or not Page guides display in all new files 375

Customize the color of your Page Guides 376

Determine whether or not your spelling is checked as you type in all new files 376

Set the “Format” of your Nisus New File 377

Set certain “Advanced” aspects of your Nisus New File 379

Edit your Nisus New File 379

Create a template for plain text documents 380

See the Nisus New File. Plain Text, or Macro Template in the Finder 380

Use an existing file as a Nisus New File 380

Choose a different file for your Nisus New File 380

Create a Nisus New File 381

Restore the “factory settings” of your Nisus New File 381

Saving Preferences 383

Be notified whenever you save a file 383

Automatic File Saving 385

Set the interval between automatic saves 385

Save files automatically and never see the Save As dialog 385

Set the desired location for your autosaved files 385

Save backups 386

Formats and encoding of saved files 387

Set the preferred format for saved files 387

Set the preferred encoding for saved files 387

Document versioning 387

List prior document versions 387

Restore a prior version 388

Document version browser 388

Delete document versions 389

What gets saved with a file 390

Determine the Way the Document Manager Works 391

Clipboards Preferences 391

Save Preferences 392

Return All Preferences to Their Original (Shipped) Settings 392

Make the Toolbar Your Own 393

Change the Display of the Toolbar 393

Choose different displays of the Toolbar 393

Customize the Toolbar 393

Remove or move icons 393

Add icons 393

Edit a custom Toolbar item 395

Remove a custom Toolbar item 396

Customize the Dock and its Palettes 398

Rearrange the sequence of the palette groups in the Dock 398

Change the names of the palette groups in the Dock 398

Determine which and how many Palette Group icons appear at the top of the Dock 399

Add/subtract/rearrange and/or modify the names of specific palettes in their various groups 399

Rename a palette 399

Change the sequence of palettes in a group 399

Delete a palette from a group 399

Add a palette to a group 401

Create Your Own Group of Palettes for the Palette Dock 402

Put It All Together 405

Nisus Writer Express and the Community of Connected Applications 405

The Services Menu 405

Use LinkBack 405

What applications support LinkBack 406

Goals and non-goals 406

How you might use LinkBack 406

Use LinkBack with a drawing application 406

Nisus Writer Express and the Internet 406

Link to a location on the Internet 406

Link to a File 407

Link to a dragged file 407

Link appearance 407

Open a link 407

Copy a Link to a Document on the Web 407

Remove an Inserted Link 408

Edit an Inserted Link 408

Export Your Nisus Writer Express Documents to Share on the Web 408

Export a one-page document 408

Edit an HTML Document in Nisus Writer Express 408

Handling Communications 408

Email your Nisus Writer Express files 408

Send the active document as an RTF file 408

Send the active document as a PDF file 409

Standardize Your Correspondence Stationery 410

Format and Print Envelopes 410

Afterword 413

Send Feedback to Nisus Software Inc. 413

May All Your Writing “nisus” Be a Pleasure with Nisus Writer Express 418

Appendices 419

Appendix I 419

The Nisus Writer Express Menus 419

Conventions 419

Nisus Writer Express menu 419

File menu 421

Edit menu 423

Insert menu 430

View menu 433

Format menu 436

Table menu 446

Window menu 447

Help menu 449

Appendix II 451

Glossary of Useful Terms 451

Appendix III 455

Displaying Fonts and Text 455

About Displaying Fonts 455

How Nisus Writer Express Displays Your Text 455

Typing on a Computer 455

Typing Unusual Characters 456

Turn on display of the Input (keyboard “flag”) menu 456

Enter a character using the keyboard 458

Type “special” Yiddish characters 461

Set up language support on your Macintosh 462

Enter Unicode text 462

Appendix IV 463

From Nisus Writer Classic to Nisus Writer Express 463

The Nisus Men of the Past 463

Making the Transition 463

Open Multilingual Nisus Writer Classic Files in Nisus Writer Express 464

Open a Nisus Writer Classic Document with the “esreveR” style 464

More Classic 464

Indexes 465

Subject Index 465

Commands & Screen Messages 477

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