Nisus Writer Pro - Manual (Page 323)

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Figure 332
The Find/Replace Window’s Find What menu
Using the PowerFind Browser
The PowerFind Browser is a floating window. It functions much as the Finder browser window.
When you select from the commands on the left, new options become available in the columns to
the right from which you can select more options.
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While it may appear to be a bit unwieldy, the PowerFind Browser is very useful because it can give
you an explanation of what each metacharacter means. As you become more comfortable building
your Find and Replace expressions, you may wish to use the menus as you graduate to PowerFind
Pro.
Open the PowerFind Browser
1. Open the Find/Replace window by choosing the menu command Edit > Find > Show Find….
2. Choose Show PowerFind Browser… from the Find what Gear pop-up menu or the Replace
with Gear pop-up menu.
In addition to PowerFind Commands (as with the menus), the browser keeps track of Recent
Find Expressions, Recent Replace Expressions and even Saved Expressions that you may
have used at an earlier (no longer recent) session and decided to save.
Nisus Writer Pro groups the PowerFind expressions into five sub-sets Special Positions, Wild
Card, Match, Special Characters, and Repeat. When you choose an option from any of these
columns, Nisus Writer Pro inserts a graphic representation of the corresponding option in the
Find what or Replace with box.
Resize the PowerFind Browser
The PowerFind Browser opens so that you can see all three columns of PowerFind expressions
available. Below these expressions, two other areas appear
Repeat or Found #
These options only appear for two Find expressions (N - M Times and N Times of
the Repeat options) and in the Match expression OtherFound, or in the Replace
expression OtherFound. An example appears in Figure 336 on page 307.
Description This area displays the selected PowerFind expression both in its PowerFind
"bubble" as well as its PowerFind Pro text form. It also includes a brief description
of what the expression would find.
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Drag the lower right corner of the window to make the window larger or smaller.