Nisus Writer Pro - Manual (Page 312)

292 Using Normal Find Finding and Replacing Text
Finding and Replacing Text
In Nisus Writer Pro, if you can describe a text pattern, you can probably find it. If you can find it,
you can almost definitely change it to any other text pattern you can describe. Nisus Writer Pro
offers three ways to find and replace text Normal Find, PowerFind™, and PowerFind Pro (regex). For
the purpose of brevity, “PowerFind Pro (regex”) will be called “PowerFind Pro”. Normal Find meets
the needs of most searches for words. Use PowerFind and PowerFind Pro for text patterns, such as
a series of numbers (where you know how many digits, but you don’t know what they are).
The resizable Find/Replace window identifies what document it will search in.
The Find/Replace window also indicates its “state”. Before you start to find and/or replace anything
it indicates in the lower left corner that it is “Ready.” Once you have searched for something the
Find/Replace window displays the number of items it has found or replaced. This useful
information is also available for various macros (which are explained in the file “Nisus Macro
Reference”).
Figure 319
The Find/Replace window of an Untitled document
To learn more about PowerFind and PowerFind Pro, see “Using PowerFind” on page 301 and “Using
PowerFind Pro” on page 318.
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The Find/Replace window is very versatile.
• You can choose the menu command View > Show Invisibles when the Find/Replace window is
open to make viewing distinct characters and spaces, etc. easier.
• You can resize the window by dragging the lower right corner.
• You can magnify the contents of the window by choosing the zoom percentage you want from
the menu View > Zoom.
Using Normal Find
The simplest means of finding things with Nisus Writer Pro is by using “Normal Find.” You can find
words, sentences, entire paragraphs, individual spaces, tabs, even the Return characters at the end
of paragraphs. You simply tell Nisus Writer Pro what you want to find by entering it into the Find/
Replace window. Nisus Writer Pro offers you a variety of methods to accomplish this.
When you choose the menu command Edit > Find > Show Find… Nisus Writer Pro opens the Find/
Replace window.
Enter something into the Find box
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Choose the menu command Edit > Find > Show Find… and type the text you want to find.
Or
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Select the text you want to find in your document, choose Copy to Find from the Copy or Find
submenus of the Edit menu.
Nisus Writer Pro puts the text into the Find box without using the Clipboard.