Nisus Writer Pro - Manual (Page 409)

Customizing & Automating Solutions 389
Create a new glossary abbreviation, or edit an existing abbreviation in an existing
Glossary
1. Choose the menu command Nisus Writer Pro > Preferences… and click QuickFix at the top of
the Preferences dialog.
2. Click Edit Glossary.
3. Edit the file following steps 5 through 9 as explained in “Create a new Glossary” on page 387.
Import a Nisus Writer Classic Glossary file
1. Choose the menu command Nisus Writer Pro > Preferences… and click QuickFix at the top of
the Preferences dialog.
2. Click Import Glossary.
3. A variant of the standard Open dialog appears, find your old Glossary file and click Open.
4. Your imported glossary file appears in the list of Glossary Files, checked, enabled, ready to use.
Delete a Nisus Writer Pro Glossary file
1. Choose the menu command Nisus Writer Pro > Preferences… and click QuickFix at the top of
the Preferences dialog.
2. Click Delete Glossary.
3. An alert appears asking you to confirm that you want to delete the file: “The file will be moved
to the trash immediately. This action cannot be undone.”
4. Click Delete.
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Nisus Writer Pro moves the file to the Trash where it remains until you choose Empty Trash. You can
retrieve the file returning it to the Glossaries folder as illustrated in Figure 415 on page 388. If you do
this, the next time you restart Nisus Writer Pro the glossary file will once more be available to you.
Advanced Preferences
When you open a document that is not in the native file format of Nisus Writer Pro (.rtf), the
application needs to import the file and convert its formatting. This is required so that Nisus Writer
Pro can display the file correctly and you can work with the document. These different file types,
listed in Figure 416, are:
• Microsoft Word 97 (binary .doc)
• Microsoft Office 2007 XML (.docx) (also known as Office Open XML)
• OpenOffice.org Open Document (.odt)
Nisus Writer Pro uses one of two different file importers to accomplish this task. One is faster at
accomplishing the import, the other offers a more complete import of the features of the imported
file.
• Mac OS X (faster)
• OpenOffice.org (more complete)
In either case, Nisus Writer Pro must load the required file importers in order to accomplish the
task.
Load import files when Nisus Writer Pro starts
You can have Nisus Writer Pro do this at startup, or when you first need to import a file.
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Check Load file importers in the background after Nisus Writer starts.
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If the importers are loaded in the background, they will likely be ready for use by the time you
want to open a file that requires them. That means, however that the importers will always be
loaded, whether they are used or not. This might waste some your computer’s resources. If
the importers are not loaded in the background after Nisus Writer Pro starts, they will be
loaded when you first open a file that requires them. This may delay the opening of such files
(the first time you need them).
Choose which import files are used for different file formats
For each of the three file formats listed above, you can choose one or the other two different import
methods, also listed above.
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Choose the preferred method from the pop-up menu to the right of each file type listed in the
window as illustrated in Figure 416.