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Nisus Writer FAQs
Styles
Question:
Formatting Characters Using Defined Styles.
Answer:
Defined Styles assign designated
attributes to a user-named style. You can
attach rulers and assign other attributes to a style. Nisus Writer lists your
defined styles at the bottom of the Style menu.
Working with defined styles makes it
easy for you to experiment with how your
document looks. Changing a defined style only affects the attributes that are
specifically linked to that defined style. Once you change a style, all text of
that style in the document changes to match the modifications.
To define a style:
- Choose Define Styles from the Style menu.
- Choose New from the Style pop-up menu.
- Enter a name in the Style box.
- Check any of the boxes for style attributes you want this
style to have. You must set at least one attribute to your
defined style.
- Click Set, then click Done. Your new style now appears as
a command at the bottom of the Style menu.
Question:
Defining a style that assumes surrounding attributes.
Answer:
Nisus Writer allows you to have your
style assume a variety of the attributes of surrounding text.
- Choose Define Styles from the Styles menu.
- Enter a name in the Style box.
- Uncheck the boxes beside Font, Color, and/or Size
for the attributes of text in your document which
you want this new style to assume. If you do not
have Nisus Writer assume a particular font, size
and/or style attribute, when you apply this style
to text, any attribute of the surrounding text
will remain.
- Deselect the boxes beside Remove Existing Menu Styles
and Remove Existing Defined Styles.
Question:
To share style libraries in a networked environment:
Answer:
Style Libraries allow you to
standardize the appearance of documents
used by a work group. One person in a work group should be
responsible for maintaining the
style library. He or she can make changes to the style library files at any time.
When other members of the work group are not using Nisus Writer
the "style librarian" can place them in the Style Libraries
folders of the work group members. Then, when members of the group start
to use Nisus Writer and open
files that contain borrowed styles from the Style Library, their
files update to reflect the new formatting information.
Question:
To import defined styles.
Answer:
Defined styles are specific to each document.
However, you can import defined styles created in other documents.
- Open both documents. The style names contained in each
document display at the bottom of the Style menu with
the document name (if that document is open and is not
the top window).
- Select the text to which you want to apply the defined style.
- Choose the defined style. Nisus Writer automatically applies
styles available in the current document.
You can also copy text that contains
one or more defined styles
and then paste hat text into another document. The text retains those
defined styles. All the defined styles that are associated with
the text are imported into the new document. The original window must
be open as you paste. If not, the pasted text retains all the attributes
of the defined styles but loses the defined style names.
