Nisus Writer Pro - Manual (Page 56)

36 Selecting Text Writing and Editing
Selecting Text
Select text using the mouse or trackpad
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Drag across text to select it.
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Double-click to select a word.
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Triple-click to select a sentence (also selects a following note character, if present).
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Quadruple-click to select a paragraph.
Select a column of text (rectangular selection)
1. Press 4 .
2. Drag across the text to select it.
Select text from different places in the document (multipart
selection)
1. Drag across the text to select it.
2. Press A as you select each additional character or passage.
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What you can (and cannot) do with text of a multipart selection
Almost anything you can do with contiguously selected text you can do with a multipart selection.
When you copy text of a multipart selection, Nisus Writer Pro inserts newlines between the copied
parts.
Certain commands and actions are disabled for practical reasons. (Which selection should the
command affect the most recent selection or the first selection, the selection closest to the top of the
document, or closest to the bottom?)
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Commands disabled in the Edit menu (and its submenus) are
• Paste
• Complete
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All the Commands in the Insert menu except for the commands in the New Style submenus
(these commands base their functioning on the attributes of the first selection in the sequence)
and Add Bookmark.
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You cannot enter text from the keyboard when you have multipart selection.
Select all the text in your document
You can select all the text (including the images and tables) in your document
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Choose the menu command Edit > Select > Select All.
This, however, does not select the text in your headers/footers or footnotes/endnotes or comments.
If your insertion point is in the comments, choosing Select All will select all the text in that
comment; choose Select All a second time to select all the text in all the comments.
Select everything in your document
You can select all the text (including the images and tables) in all areas of your document (which
includes also the text in the headers/footers as well as footnotes/endnotes)
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Choose the menu command Edit > Select > Select All Document.
This, however, does not select anything in the Comments, which (for this purpose) are not
considered part of the text of your document, but external to it.
Select everything not selected
Suppose you have selected a certain series of words or characters. But, now you want to modify
everything that is not that series of words:
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Choose the menu command Edit > Select > Invert Selection.
7 Nisus Writer Classic introduced this feature in version 3 in the early ’90s when the application was still called
simply Nisus. At that time, and until now, it was called “noncontiguous selection”. Because various forms of the
term are now in use, we have decided to change the term to “multipart” which seems a bit simpler and clearer.