Nisus Writer Pro - Manual (Page 23)

Getting Started 3
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To control the overall appearance of a longer document, your best solution is to use Styles.
These are explained in the section “Formatting Documents Using Style Sheets” beginning on
page 95.
The Nisus New File that comes with Nisus Writer Pro has a number of Styles.
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To modify Styles to fit your own needs and desires see the section “Modify a style” which begins
on page 100.
However if all you want to do is make a quick and simple change to a small area of your text you
can do that as well.
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To quickly change the appearance of only a little bit of your text use the appropriate control in
the Character palette (or the associated menu). To learn more about the Character palette see
“Using the Nisus Writer Pro Tooldrawer” on page 16 and “The Character palette” on page 18.
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To change the shape of your paragraphs you modify the ruler that displays at the top of the
document window and use the settings that appear in the Paragraph palette as explained in
“The Paragraph palette” on page 19 and “Structuring Paragraphs” beginning on page 75.
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To change the margins of the document drag the Page Guides that appear in Page View or set
them numerically as explained in “Set the margins of the sections of your document” on page
127.
Save Your File
Nisus Writer Pro offers you a number of ways to save your work. The application can do this
automatically or you can do it manually.
Save your file the first time and give it a name
1. Choose the menu command File > Save As….
2. Type the name you want to use for the file in the Save As text edit box at the top of the
document.
3. Navigate through your folders to find the location where you want to save the file.
4. (Optionally) choose the file format in which you want to save the file from the pop-up menu at
the bottom of the dialog. (The standard and preferred format is Rich Text Format (“RTF”). You
can learn more about the various formats in which Nisus Writer Pro can save your files in the
section “Choose the Way in Which Files Save” on page 367.
Save your file after you have made some changes to it
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Choose the menu command File > Save.
Save your file with a new name and/or in a new location
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Follow the instructions in “Save your file the first time and give it a name”.
Save your file automatically
You should not have to worry about saving your work. Nisus Writer Pro can take care of that for
you.
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Set your Saving preferences in Nisus Writer Pro to “autosave” after however many minutes you
want.
For more information about automatic and backup saving of files in Nisus Writer Pro see the
section “Choose the Way in Which Files Save” on page 367.
If you save your file in this manner, the first time it is saved, Nisus Writer Pro assigns a name for
the file based on the content at the beginning of the document and saves it in the Nisus Documents
folder inside your User’s Documents folder:
~Documents/Nisus Documents/“automatically named file”
Print Your File
When you are satisfied with the appearance of your document and ready to store it on paper or
share it with someone in a Portable Digital Format (PDF), Nisus Writer Pro is at your service.
Print an open document
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Choose the menu command File > Print… and enter your choices in the dialog that appears.
Create a PDF file of your Nisus Writer Pro document
You may want to save your document as a PDF.
1. Choose the menu command File > Save as PDF….
2. Name the file and navigate to the location in which you want to save it.