Nisus Writer Pro - Manual (Page 5)

Contents
Welcome to Nisus Writer Pro i
Before You Begin i
Using the Mouse and/or the Trackpad i
About the Nisus Writer Pro Documentation i
Using the Documentation ii
Getting Help ii
Get online help ii
Getting Set Up ii
Installing Nisus Writer Pro iii
Install Nisus Writer Pro on your Macintosh iii
First Startup iii
Enter your license number iv
What? Another version? How did that happen? vi
Subscribe to the Nisus Newsletter vi
Getting Started 1
Quick Start 1
Open or Start Nisus Writer Pro 1
Open a New or Existing File 1
Open a new file 1
Customize your new document “template” 1
Open an existing file 1
Enter Text in Your New or Existing File 2
Write in a language other than American English
2
Enter right to left text 2
Modify the Appearance of Your File 2
Save Your File 3
Save your file the first time and give it a name 3
Save your file after you have made some changes
to it 3
Save your file with a new name and/or in a new
location 3
Save your file automatically 3
Print Your File 3
Print an open document 3
Create a PDF file of your Nisus Writer Pro
document 3
Quit Nisus Writer Pro 4
Nisus Writer Pro — a “Grand Tour” 5
Windows, Bars, Buttons, Pointers and Drawers
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The Nisus Writer Pro window 6
The Nisus Writer Pro icon in the Dock 7
The Menu Bar 7
The Title Bar 8
Nisus Writer Pro windows 9
Nisus Writer Pro pointer variations 9
Keyboard shortcuts in Nisus Writer Pro 10
Nisus Writer Pro dialogs 10
The Nisus Writer Pro Toolbar 10
Turn on/off the display of the Toolbar 10
Rotate through the various sizes of the icons and text
of the Toolbar display 11
The Nisus Writer Pro rulers 11
The Nisus Writer Pro Statusbar 12
The Nisus Writer Pro Tooldrawer 15
Modify the Nisus Writer Pro Tooldrawer 16
Display/hide the Tooldrawer 16
Open/close a palette in the Tooldrawer 16
Move a palette in the Tooldrawer 16
Remove a palette from the Tooldrawer (so that it does
not display at all) 16
Return a floating palette to the Tooldrawer 16
Display a different group of palettes in the Tooldrawer
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Using the Nisus Writer Pro Tooldrawer 16
Change the palettes that display in the Tooldrawer
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Display a different group of palettes in the
Tooldrawer 17
How clicking in the palettes of the Tooldrawer
affects your document 17
The Character palette 18
Change the font 18
Scroll through a longer list of fonts 18
Change the typeface or color 18
Change the size 18
The Paragraph palette 19
Change the alignment 19
Change the direction text flows (for right to left
languages) 19
Change the space between lines of text (“leading”) 19
Multiple/Fixed 19
Change the amount of space that appears above
(before) a paragraph 19
Change the amount of space that appears below (after)
a paragraph 19
Set the indents (line wrap area) 20
Control for widows and orphans 20
Prevent a paragraph (or paragraphs) from splitting
across page or column breaks 20
Keep one paragraph with the one that follows it 20
The Statistics palette 20
The Page palette 20
Show the Page palette 20
Magnify, or, zoom in and out of your document 20
Show the maximum width of your document within the
window Page View 20
Show the maximum width of your document including
the margins in Page View 20
Show the entire width and height of your document in
Page View 20
The Columns palette 21
The Headers and Footers palette 21
The Indexing palette 21
The Language palette 21
The Line Numbers palette 21
The Lists palette 21
The Margins palette 21
The Page Borders palette 21
The Paragraph Borders palette 21
The Paragraph Shading palette 21
The Section palette 21
The Shape Fill palette 21
The Shape Metrics palette 21
The Shape Shadow palette 21
The Shape Stroke palette 21
The Shape Wrap palette 21
The Shapes palette 21
The Special Characters palette 21
The Styles palette 21
The Table palette 21
The Table Cell Borders palette 21
The Table Cell Shading palette 22
The Table Cells palette 22
The Table of Contents palette 22
Creating Documents 23
Writing and Editing 23
Entering (Typing) Text 23
Enter special characters into your text 23
Working with the Special Characters palette 24
Customizing the Special Characters palette 25
Add characters to a set 25
Add your own set to the palette and menu 26
Remove characters from a set or an entire set 26
Writing in Multiple Languages 27
Set up language support in Nisus Writer Pro 27
Choose a language in which to write 31
Write in a different language (to switch languages)
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Enter right to left text in your document 32
Mix right to left and left to right text… some
common errors and fixes 33
Have an exclamation point appear correctly in a left to
right string of right to left text 33
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