Nisus Writer Pro - Manual (Page 164)

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• Information Stamps (such as those items inserted into your document using the Date and
Time and Document Property submenus of the Insert menu)
can be set to update either:
• Immediately
• Sooner
• As Performance Allows
• When Printing / Saving PDF
Figure 162
The Automatic Content Update Preferences dialog
The more often Nisus Writer Pro updates this information, the more time it spends on these tasks
instead of paying attention to your keystrokes and/or editing actions.
Determine the display and highlight color of stale content
While you can specify whether or not stale content displays a highlight, and set its color in the
Appearance preferences of Nisus Writer Pro explained on page 378, you can also make that choice
in the Automatic Content Update Policy dialog.
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Check Highlight stale content on screen using color: to display the highlight.
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Uncheck Highlight stale content on screen using color: to turn off the display highlight.
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Click the color swatch to open the Colors panel and choose a different color.
Convert automatic content to static text
You may need to send a portion of a document to someone. The part of the document in question
has cross-references to elsewhere in the document you are not sending. It may also include other
automatic content such as a variable date, or the number of total characters in the document. If
you simply copy that text out and paste it into an email message or another Nisus Writer Pro
document your automatic content will be replaced by:
[Referenced content is missing.]
You can prevent this happening by converting the automatic content to static content before
copying the text and then undoing the action immediately following the copy action.
1. Select the range of text you want to copy and send or put in a new document.
2. Choose the menu command Tools > Automatic Content > Convert to Fixed Content….
3. Choose the menu Edit > Copy (or, if you want, Edit > Cut) to put your selected text on the
Clipboard.
4. Choose the menu command Edit > Undo.
Choosing Undo does not affect what is on the Clipboard, but it does restore the “automatic”
nature of the text in your document.
5. Switch to the window in which you wish to paste the text and choose the menu command Edit
> Paste.