Nisus Writer Express - Manual (Page 194)

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Finding and Replacing Text
In Nisus Writer Express, if you can describe a text pattern, you can probably find it. If you can find
it, you can almost definitely change it to any other text pattern you can describe. Nisus Writer
Express offers three ways to find and replace text Normal Find, PowerFind™, and PowerFind Pro.
Normal Find meets the needs of most searches for words. Use PowerFind and PowerFind Pro for text
patterns, such as a series of numbers (where you know how many digits, but you don’t know what
they are).
The Find/Replace window identifies what document it will search in.
Figure 161
The Find/Replace window of an Untitled document
To learn more about PowerFind and PowerFind Pro, see “Using PowerFind” on page 176 and “Using
PowerFind Pro” on page 194.
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The Find/Replace window is very versatile.
• You can choose Show Invisibles from the View menu when the Find/Replace window is open to
make viewing distinct characters and spaces, etc. easier.
• You can resize the window by dragging the lower right corner.
• You can magnify the contents of the window by choosing the zoom percentage you want from
the Zoom submenu of the View menu.
Using Normal Find
The simplest means of finding things with Nisus Writer Express is by using “Normal Find.” You can
find words, sentences, entire paragraphs, individual spaces, tabs, even the Return characters at the
end of paragraphs. You simply tell Nisus Writer Express what you want to find by entering it into
the Find/Replace window. Nisus Writer Express offers you a variety of methods to accomplish this.
When you choose Show Find… from the Find submenu of the Edit menu Nisus Writer Express
opens the Find/Replace window.
Enter something into the Find box
▶ Choose Show Find… from the Find submenu of the Edit menu and type the text you want to
find.
Or
▶ Select the text you want to find in your document, choose Copy to Find from the Copy
submenu of the Edit menu.
Nisus Writer Express puts the text into the Find box without using the Clipboard.
If you simply press
@ Nisus Writer Express moves the insertion point to the Replace box. If you
press < Nisus Writer Express searches for what you have in the Find box.