Format menu – Nisus Writer Express User Manual

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Show/Hide Toolbar

Hides or displays the Toolbar at the top of the Nisus Writer Express document
window.

Customize Toolbar…

Opens a sheet that enables you to customize the appearance of the Toolbar.

Show/Hide Tooldrawer

Displays a drawer of tools to the right or left side of the Nisus Writer Express
document window (depending on the side set in the General preferences of Nisus
Writer Express).

Show/Hide Rulers

Displays a ruler (with certain paragraph formatting tools) at the top of the Nisus
Writer Express document window.

Ruler Units

Commands from the Ruler Units submenu enable you to choose the units
displayed on the ruler. You can choose from among Centimeters (cm), Inches (in),
Millimeters (mm), Picas (pc), or Points (pt) .

Go to Page…

Opens a dialog that enables you to enter any page number of your document to
which you wish to jump. You can choose between the logical or physical page
number. If you have multiple sections in your document jumping to the logical
page number takes you to that page in the current section.

Go to Header

Moves your insertion point to the closest header area and highlights all text there.

Go to Footer

Moves your insertion point to the closest footer area and highlights all text there.

Go to Note (Text/Reference)

When a footnote or endnote reference marker is selected this moves your insertion
point to the associated note text and selects it. When in the note text, it moves
your insertion point to select the footnote/endnote reference marker.

Show Page Guides

When in Page View, displays a line around the printable area in the Nisus Writer
Express document window. It also indicates where to click to add text for a header
or footer.

Show Invisibles

Displays various markings in the text to indicate location of spaces, tabs, inserted
page and section breaks, and Return characters.

Allow Hyphenation

Causes all the text of your document to hyphenate based on Apple’s internal
hyphenation dictionary.

Format Menu

Choose commands from the Format menu to alter the display of text of your document.

Remove Attributes Except Styles

Removes all formatting from selected text except for applied Styles.

Remove Attributes and Styles

Removes all formatting (both character and paragraph, but not “List” styles) from
selected text and applies the “Normal” style to the selection.
When in the Find/Replace window this command displays as Any Attributes. In
this instance it functions the same as having the Attribute Sensitive checkbox
unchecked.

Character Style

Choose commands from the Character Style submenu of the Format menu to
apply styles to your document. This is the easiest way to control the formatting of
your document. The styles that appear beneath the dotted line are those that exist
in the document (the ones described here exist in the Nisus New File shipped with
Nisus Writer Express). You can add or remove these styles. The styles are based
on standard HTML editing conventions.

Select Style Range

Selects the entire current range of text with the current attribute(s).

Select All Style

Selects all text in the document with the current attribute(s).

Remove Character Styles

Removes all Character Styles that match those of the selection.
When in the Find/Replace window this command displays as Any
Character Style
. In this instance it functions the same as having

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