Nisus Writer Pro - Manual (Page 348)

328 Add comments Using Comments in Your Documents
As illustrated in Figure 359:
• A new pane opens to the left of the text of your document displaying a “PostIt™” type note
area where you can write your comment.
• Nisus Writer Pro draws a line from the comment to the text in the document to which it is
attached and adds a background highlight to the commented text in the same color as the
comment note background.
Nisus Writer Pro is shipped so that the background color of “My Comments” is set to a soft
pale yellow. You can customize this color in the Appearance Preferences of Nisus Writer Pro
(see “Choose Various Display Options for Your Documents” on page 372).
Nisus Writer Pro enables an unlimited number of commentators. However, the application
enables customization of the pane background for up to 6.
• The User Name of the person who wrote the note appears in the Title Bar of the note along
with local date and time.
Nisus Writer Pro is shipped so that the Title Bars of comments show the author’s name.
You can customize this for the application as explained in “The View portion of the New File
preferences pane” on page 118.
You can also can change this in any individual file to include either:
• Author Name, Date and Time
• Author Name and Date
• Author Name
• Date and Time
You may need to widen the Comments pane to see all the information available in the
title bar.
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Nisus Writer Pro adds a new style to your document called Comment. This style is automatically
applied to every comment created. If a style called Comment already exists in your Nisus New File,
Nisus Writer Pro uses the attributes of that style. You can add any character formatting you want to
the comment. You can also add images, and tables, but you cannot add footnotes or endnotes.
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When your insertion point is in any particular comment area, Nisus Writer Pro brightens the
corresponding portion of the document to which that comment is applied.
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When comments are showing and your insertion point is in a paragraph that has one or more
comments, Nisus Writer Pro brightens those comments. Otherwise comments are dimmed.
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All the commands of the menu Tools > Comments are also available from the Gear menu at the
bottom of the Comments page. Add Comment is also available from the contextual menu when you
right-click in your text.
Remove comments
Nisus Writer Pro offers a number of ways to remove comments from your document.
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The easiest way to remove a comment is to click the Minus (-) button in the lower right corner
of any comment. The comment does not even have to be active in order to do this.
If you want to remove a number of comments at once.
1. Place your insertion point inside the comment or select any portion of the commented text.
2. Choose the menu command Tools > Comments > Remove Comments in Selection or click
the Minus (-) button in the lower right corner of that comment.
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The command Remove Comments in Selection removes all comments associated with the
selection, the Minus (-) button only removes the currently displayed comment.
Copy and paste commented text
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Beware.
When you copy text in one document that has comments associated with it, even if the comments
are hidden and you cannot see them, you copy those comments as well.
If you paste the copied text into a document Nisus Writer Pro concatenates all the text.
If you paste the commented text into a new document those hidden comments will remain hidden
until you (or someone else) chooses the menu command Tools > Comments > Show Comments.