Nisus Writer Pro - Manual (Page 311)

Polishing & Managing Documents 291
Cleaning Up Documents
• You may receive e-mail from someone who “SCREAMS” for sentences on end.
• You may need to edit your text and then make sure that your text wraps at the appropriate
“column” number.
Nisus Writer Pro has the tools to help you out.
Change the case of alphabetic characters
Choose commands from the Convert submenu to change the case of text in a selection.
Make all selected characters UPPERCASE
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Choose the menu command Edit > Convert > To UPPERCASE.
Change pleasant conversation to SCREAMING TEXT with one command.
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This changes the actual characters in your document, exchanging every lowercase character with its
corresponding UPPERCASE ASCII (Unicode) equivalent.
Make all selected characters lowercase
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Choose the menu command Edit > Convert > To lowercase.
CHANGE SCREAMING TEXT TO pleasant conversation WITH ONE COMMAND.
Capitalize all selected words
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Choose the menu command Edit > Convert > To Capitalized.
This makes the first letter of every selected word UPPERCASE.
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To Capitalized treats hyphenated compound words such as “easy-to-find” as though they were each
separate words resulting in “Easy-To-Find”. Similarly, it treats words separated by a slash as two or
more changing “find/replace” into “Find/Replace” . If a word has uppercase characters inside it, To
Capitalized makes those lowercase as it capitalizes the word (“lowerCase” becomes “Lowercase”).
Make all selected words appear in
S MALL C APS
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Choose the menu command Edit > Convert > To SMALL CAPS.
This changes the current selection so that all lowercase characters are reduced by
approximately 75 percent and then exchanged with their equivalent uppercase characters.
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This changes the actual characters in your document, exchanging every lowercase character with its
corresponding UPPERCASE ASCII (Unicode) equivalent.
Reverse the case of selected text
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Choose the menu command Edit > Convert > To Toggled Case.
Change UPPERCASE to lowercase and lowercase to UPPERCASE wItH OnE ComMaNd.
cHANGE uppercase TO LOWERCASE AND LOWERCASE TO uppercase WiTh oNe cOMmAnD.
Change the appearance of quotation marks
If you have Use Smart Punctuation (Includes “curly” quotes) turned on in your QuickFix
preferences (see “Determine What QuickFix Fixes” on page 385 for more information), you can
quickly exchange them for straight quotes (for use in a macro, for instance). If you receive a
document with quotes of the wrong type, you can easily change them all. Choose commands from
the Convert submenu to change “Smart Quotes” to "Plain Quotes" (or the reverse).
Make all selected quotation marks “smart”
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Choose the menu command Edit > Convert > Plain Quotes to Smart Quotes.
Make all selected quotation marks "plain"
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Choose the menu command Edit > Convert > Smart Quotes to Plain Quotes.