Document Outline

• Welcome to Nisus Writer Pro
  • Before You Begin
    • Using the Mouse and/or the Trackpad
    • About the Nisus Writer Pro Documentation
    • Using the Documentation
    • Getting Help
      • Get online help
    • Getting Set Up
    • Installing Nisus Writer Pro
      • Install Nisus Writer Pro on your Macintosh
      • First Startup
      • Enter your license number
      • What? Another version? How did that happen?
      • Subscribe to the Nisus Newsletter
      • Open or Start Nisus Writer Pro
• Getting Started
  • Quick Start
    • Open a New or Existing File
      • Open a new file
        • Customize your new document “template”
      • Open an existing file
    • Enter Text in Your New or Existing File
      • Write in a language other than American English
      • Enter right to left text
    • Modify the Appearance of Your File
    • Save Your File
      • Save your file the first time and give it a name
      • Save your file after you have made some changes to it
      • Save your file with a new name and/or in a new location
      • Save your file automatically
    • Print Your File
      • Print an open document
      • Create a PDF file of your Nisus Writer Pro document
    • Quit Nisus Writer Pro
  • Nisus Writer Pro — a “Grand Tour”
    • Windows, Bars, Buttons, Pointers and Drawers
      • The Nisus Writer Pro window
      • The Nisus Writer Pro icon in the Dock
      • The Menu Bar
      • The Title Bar
      • Nisus Writer Pro windows
      • Nisus Writer Pro pointer variations
      • Keyboard shortcuts in Nisus Writer Pro
      • Nisus Writer Pro dialogs
      • The Nisus Writer Pro Toolbar
        • Turn on/off the display of the Toolbar
        • Rotate through the various sizes of the icons and text of the Toolbar display
      • The Nisus Writer Pro rulers
      • The Nisus Writer Pro Statusbar
      • The Nisus Writer Pro Tooldrawer
        • Modify the Nisus Writer Pro Tooldrawer
          • Display/hide the Tooldrawer
          • Open/close a palette in the Tooldrawer
          • Move a palette in the Tooldrawer
          • Remove a palette from the Tooldrawer (so that it does not display at all)
          • Return a floating palette to the Tooldrawer
          • Display a different group of palettes in the Tooldrawer
        • Using the Nisus Writer Pro Tooldrawer
        • Change the palettes that display in the Tooldrawer
        • Display a different group of palettes in the Tooldrawer
      • How clicking in the palettes of the Tooldrawer affects your document
        • The Character palette
          • Change the font
          • Scroll through a longer list of fonts
          • Change the typeface or color
          • Change the size
        • The Paragraph palette
          • Change the alignment
          • Change the direction text flows (for right to left languages)
          • Change the space between lines of text (“leading”)
          • Multiple/Fixed
          • Change the amount of space that appears above (before) a paragraph
          • Change the amount of space that appears below (after) a paragraph
          • Set the indents (line wrap area)
          • Control for widows and orphans
          • Prevent a paragraph (or paragraphs) from splitting across page or column breaks
          • Keep one paragraph with the one that follows it
        • The Statistics palette
        • The Page palette
          • Show the Page palette
          • Magnify, or, zoom in and out of your document
          • Show the maximum width of your document within the window Page View
          • Show the maximum width of your document including the margins in Page View
          • Show the entire width and height of your document in Page View
        • The Columns palette
        • The Headers and Footers palette
        • The Indexing palette
        • The Language palette
        • The Line Numbers palette
        • The Lists palette
        • The Margins palette
        • The Page Borders palette
        • The Paragraph Borders palette
        • The Paragraph Shading palette
        • The Section palette
        • The Shape Fill palette
        • The Shape Metrics palette
        • The Shape Shadow palette
        • The Shape Stroke palette
        • The Shape Wrap palette
        • The Shapes palette
        • The Special Characters palette
        • The Styles palette
        • The Table palette
        • The Table Cell Borders palette
        • The Table Cell Shading palette
        • The Table Cells palette
        • The Table of Contents palette
• Creating Documents
  • Writing and Editing
    • Entering (Typing) Text
      • Enter special characters into your text
        • Working with the Special Characters palette
          • Customizing the Special Characters palette
            • Add characters to a set
            • Add your own set to the palette and menu
            • Remove characters from a set or an entire set
    • Writing in Multiple Languages
      • Set up language support in Nisus Writer Pro
        • Choose a language in which to write
        • Write in a different language (to switch languages)
        • Enter right to left text in your document
        • Mix right to left and left to right text… some common errors and fixes
          • Have an exclamation point appear correctly in a left to right string of right to left text
          • Have the period appear correctly in a left to right sentence that ends with a right to left word
          • Insert a right to left table in a left to right section
    • Selecting Text
      • Select text using the mouse or trackpad
      • Select a column of text (rectangular selection)
      • Select text from different places in the document (multipart selection)
        • What you can (and cannot) do with text of a multipart selection
      • Select all the text in your document
      • Select everything in your document
      • Select everything not selected
      • Select using the keyboard
      • Other methods of selection
      • “De-select” text from a selection
    • Copying Text
      • Copy text
      • Copy text only, without its attributes
      • Copy attributes only, without its text
    • Drag and Drop
    • Cutting Text
      • Cut text
    • Pasting Text
      • Paste text
      • Paste text only, without its attributes
      • Paste attributes only, without their text
    • Moving, Deleting, and Replacing Text
    • Using the Clipboards
      • Display the contents of a Clipboard
      • Choose which Clipboard to use
      • Add text or images to the current Clipboard
      • Edit the contents of the Clipboard
      • Add a Clipboard
      • Change the name of a Clipboard
      • Copying and pasting styled text
      • Copying and pasting rulers
    • Creating Lists
      • About lists
      • Insert a bulleted list
      • End a bulleted list
      • Apply bullets to a series of paragraphs
      • Insert an automatically incrementing list
      • Begin using the next level of a list
      • Return to a higher level of a list
      • Restart numbering
      • Resume numbering
        • Automatic number formats supported in Nisus Writer Pro
      • Create numbered lists that may have a component missing
      • Create numbered list that aligns along the period
      • Modify list styles
      • Use list styles to automatically number figures, tables, etc.
    • Recovering From Mistakes
      • Undo an action
      • Redo an action
  • Managing… Saving and Opening Your Files
    • Saving Files
      • Formats of saved files
        • Save As…
        • Export As…
        • Print…
      • Save files automatically in the Nisus Writer Pro Document Manager
      • Save an untitled file as a Nisus Writer Pro file
        • Rename and save an existing file
        • Save a file in a different format
    • Opening Files
    • Managing Files
      • Reintroducing the Document Manager
      • Display the Document Manager
      • Set up the Document Manager using the Doc Manager preferences
        • Determine the location of your Document Manager folder
        • Choose file listing options for the Document Manager window
        • Choose whether or not to show file extensions in the Document Manager window
      • Work with your files so that the Document Manager can help you manage them
        • Save all your files automatically to the Document Manager
        • Save your file (as needed/desired) to the Document Manager
        • Save your file to the Document Manager with a new name
        • Move your file to the Document Manager
        • Add your file to the Document Manager
        • Display and sort files managed by the Document Manager
        • Create special groups of files
          • Add a Custom Group
          • Add a Folder Group
          • Add a text based Filter Group
          • Add a date based Filter Group
          • Remove a filter group from the Document Manager
          • Rename a filter group in the Document Manager
        • Find a particular file or files among those listed in the Document Manager
        • See a preview of your file
        • Open a file using the Document Manager
        • Additional features of the Document Manager
          • Using the buttons of the Document Manager window
          • Using the contextual menus of the Document Manager window
  • Formatting Documents
    • Structuring Paragraphs
      • Set the indent or outdent (“hanging indent”) position of the first line of a paragraph
        • Create a normal indent
        • Create a hanging indent
      • Quickly indent or outdent a selected range of paragraphs
      • Set the text wrap area
      • Set the text wrap area numerically
      • Set the text wrap area using the keyboard
      • Set the text wrap area using the Paragraph palette
      • Justify “align” text
      • Set spacing between lines
        • Keep your lines from spreading when using superscript or footnotes/endnotes
        • Allow your lines to spread when using superscript or footnotes/endnotes
      • Set spacing between paragraphs
      • Control how paragraphs split and stick together
        • Prevent widows and orphans
        • Keep selected paragraphs together
        • Keep one paragraph with the one that follows it
      • Set tabs
        • Set a tab visually
        • Set a tab using the menus
        • Use leader tabs
        • Set the type of leader before placing a tab
        • Move a tab indicator using the mouse or trackpad
        • Move a tab indicator using the keyboard
        • Edit a tab’s location numerically
        • Remove a tab Indicator
      • Selecting paragraphs with different formatting
        • Set the same format for a group of differing paragraphs
    • Format Characters
      • Font substitution
      • Add a font to your System
      • Change the font of characters
        • Scroll through a longer list of fonts
      • Change the size of characters
        • Change the size of characters to a size not listed on the menu
        • Increase or decrease the size of characters by a specific amount
      • Change the attributes of characters
      • Change the attributes of characters using the “Dropper”
      • Manually overriding formatting
        • Example 1
        • Example 2
        • Example 3
    • Formatting Documents Using Style Sheets
      • An introduction to Style Sheets
      • See the Style Sheet associated with a document
      • Understanding the difference between the various kinds of styles
      • Apply a style to your text
      • Modify a style
        • Select more than one style
        • Change the name of a style
        • Have one style inherit the attributes of another
        • Determine the style of the next paragraph of your text automatically
        • Assign a keyboard shortcut to your style as you edit it
        • Remove a keyboard shortcut to your style as you edit it
        • Change the sample text that illustrates your style
        • Quickly remove attributes that define your style
        • Add or modify attributes associated with your style
      • Create a new style
      • Select a range of text with a particular style
      • Select all the text in your document with a particular style
      • Select the next instance of text in your document with the selected style
      • Remove a style’s attributes from selected text
      • Remove a character attribute from your text
      • Remove a style from your document
      • Resolve conflicts between styles
      • Maintain a Style Library
        • Create a style library
          • Import styles from an existing file
          • Save a file with styles you want to the Style Library folder of the Document Manager
          • Add styles to an existing Style Library file
          • Save specific styles from an existing file to a Style Collection
        • Use styles saved in a Style Library
          • Import a style the attributes of which you know
          • Import a style the attributes of which you do not know
          • Open a Style Collection to copy text with style for pasting in another document
  • Setting Up a Document’s Page
    • Understanding Template (Stationery) Documents
      • Make any file a template file
      • Set “defaults” for the application and new files
      • Edit your Nisus New File
      • Create a template for plain text documents
      • See the Nisus New File or Plain Text Template in the Finder
      • Use an existing file as a Nisus New File
      • Choose a different file for your Nisus New File
      • Create a Nisus New File
      • Restore the “factory settings” of your Nisus New File
    • Setting Paper Size and Margins
      • Set the preferred paper size for all your documents
      • Reduce or enlarge the printed area
      • Determine the orientation of the printed page
        • Set different orientations for different portions of your document
      • Use a custom paper size
      • Set the margins of the sections of your document
        • Set the margins visually
        • Set the margins numerically
        • Set the margins by “stepping” through pre-set increments
      • Mirror page placement
    • Set the Number of Columns
      • Set column line
      • Set column and gutter width
      • Balance column text
        • Use the Page Borders palette to put a line around the edge of your page
          • Determine around which portion of the page’s perimeter the border appears
          • Set the distance from the edge or margin the border should appear
  • Headers and Footers
    • Creating Headers and Footers
      • Insert the same header and/or footer for all pages
      • Insert a header and/or a footer for even numbered pages
      • Insert a header and/or footer for odd numbered pages
      • Have your header and/or footer appear on the second and succeeding pages of your document and no number appear on the first (“First Page Special”)
      • Add a title page to a document and have the numbering appear and begin at 1 on the third page
      • Insert a different header or footer for each section in the document
    • Editing Headers and Footers
      • Display headers and footers as they appear in the document
      • Edit headers or footers
        • Find the header or footer for a particular section of your document
      • Include images in a header or footer
      • Move a header or footer higher or lower on the page
      • Move a header or footer higher or lower in relation to the text of your document
    • Deleting Headers and Footers
      • Hide headers and footers
    • Numbering Pages
      • Insert the current page number (once) on a specific page
      • Display the current page number on every page
      • Restart page numbering for a new section
      • Restart page numbering at 1
      • Display the current page number and the total number of pages in the section (or document) on every page
        • Determine the format of page numbers
      • Using Automatic Numbers, Date & Time Variables and Document Properties in Headers and Footers
      • Update “stale” automatic content
        • Update all stale content
        • Update only selected stale content
        • Set automatic content update policies
        • Determine the display and highlight color of stale content
      • Convert automatic content to static text
  • Graphics: Images and Shapes
    • Working with Various Types of Graphics
      • Inline images
      • Floating images
      • Shapes
    • Importing Images
      • Import an image using the Clipboard
    • Resize an Image
    • Crop an Image
    • Edit an Image
    • Adjust the opacity of an image
    • Working with Floating Images
      • Deleting shapes and floating images
      • Using the Shape Wrap palette
        • Make an inline image into a floating image
          • The Shape Anchor
          • The contextual menu for floating images
          • The Shape Bounding Box
          • Align a floating image
          • Cause text to wrap around an image
            • The Bounding Box of lines
          • Set the padding the text leaves around an image
          • Cause text to appear on top of, or behind an image
          • Cause images to appear around text; create a “screen” behind text
      • Make a floating image an inline image
    • Working with Shapes
      • Inserting shapes
        • Add a shape to your document
        • Using the Shapes palette
        • Text and Callout boxes
          • About Text and Callout Boxes
          • Add a text or callout box to your document
          • Link multiple text or callout boxes
          • Add a caption to your images
        • Drawing lines and arrows
          • Using the Shape Stroke palette
            • Make a line into an arrow, or an arrow into a line
            • Block Arrows
        • Geometric type shapes
          • Enter a shape in your document
      • Modifying shapes
        • More tools on the Shapes palette
          • Select floating shapes without selecting text
          • Rearrange the front to back order of various floating shapes
            • Bring selected shape(s) to the front
            • Send selected shape(s) to the back
          • Cause selected objects to function as a single unit
          • Cause grouped objects to function as a individual items
          • Working with multiple selected shapes
        • Using the Shape Fill palette
        • Using the Shape Shadow palette
        • Using the Shape Metrics palette
          • Move selected shapes by precise, designated amounts
          • Resize selected shapes by precise, designated amounts
          • Rotate selected shapes
          • Determine the values by which floating shapes and inline images adjust
        • The Canvas
          • Working with a Canvas
            • The Shape Paste Spot
      • Additional tools for working with shapes
        • Set a preferred appearance for future drawn shapes
        • Copy the appearance of one shape to apply to a different shape
        • Duplicate shapes
  • Book Tools
    • Creating Sections in Your Document
      • Insert a new section in your document
    • Numbering Sections
      • Insert a section number
      • Restart section numbering
    • Footnotes and Endnotes
      • Insert a footnote or endnote
      • Return to the document from the notes
      • Return to a specific note from its marker in the document
      • Edit a footnote or endnote
      • Determine the appearance of note markers
        • Use an asterisk or other custom symbol to mark several footnotes and or endnotes
        • Edit a custom symbol that marks footnotes and or endnotes
      • Determine the appearance of note text
      • Remove a footnote or endnote
      • Change endnotes to footnotes or the reverse
        • Change a footnote to an endnote
        • Change an endnote to a footnote
        • Change all footnotes to endnotes
        • Change all endnotes to footnotes
      • Continue footnote or endnote numbering across consecutive files
        • Restart footnotes or endnotes at an assigned page number
        • Restart footnotes or endnotes at an assigned note number
        • Restart endnotes at an assigned endnote page number
      • Find the next footnote in your document because it shares the selected style
      • Determine whether or not a document has footnotes
    • Tables
      • What is a table?
        • Types of tables
      • Insert/create a table
      • Determine the size (number of rows/columns) of a table
      • Enter text in a table
      • Create a table with pre-existing text
      • Enter images in a table
      • Navigate among the cells of a table
      • Select cells, or portions of… or the entire table
      • Determine the alignment (position) of a table in the document
      • Determine the alignment (position) of text in a table
        • Align text in table cells along the decimal point
      • Add cells to a table
      • Remove cells from a table
      • Sort rows of a table
      • Merge cells
      • Split cells
      • Resize a cell
      • Equalize column widths
      • Equalize row heights
      • Cause the table to resize to fit its contents (and settings)
      • Cause the table to resize to fit the full extent of the page
      • Create table headers
        • Create a title for a table
        • Create a row header
      • Adjust the padding around the contents of a cell
      • Make your tables stand out!
        • Modify the lines (edges, borders, etc.) of a table
          • lear the selection of lines to modify
          • Select which lines to modify
          • Determine the thickness of the lines
          • Determine the style (pattern) of the lines
          • Determine the color of the lines
        • et the shading (color) of cells
        • Determine the pattern of cells
        • Set the color of the foreground and background of a cell pattern
      • Remove a table
      • Copy, cut and paste a table
      • Copy the contents, but not the “tableness” of a table
      • Find and/or replace text in a table
    • Working with Bookmarks and Cross-references
      • Set a Bookmark
        • Set a bookmark as something other than selected text
        • Display the bookmarks Navigator pane
      • Edit an automatically named bookmark
      • Edit the name of a “Bookmark as…” bookmark
      • Jump to Bookmarked Text
        • View bookmarks in alphabetical order
        • View bookmarks according to their location in the document
      • Move a Bookmark
      • Remove a Bookmark
        • See bookmarked text
      • Add Cross-References to Your Text
        • Adding other links in your text
          • Add a hyperlink to any content available in the bookmark dialog.
          • Add a hyperlink to any file on your connected hard drive(s).
          • Add a hyperlink to a location on the World Wide Web
      • Find the Original “Bookmarked” Text to Which the Cross-Reference Refers
        • Have cross-referenced text hyperlinked when saving your file as a PDF
        • See cross-referenced text
      • Jump to Any Page in Your Document
        • Jump to any page using the menus
        • Jump to any page using the page number display in the Statusbar
    • Creating Tables of Contents, Outlines and Indexes
      • About Tables of Contents and Indexes
      • Tables of Contents
        • Create a table of contents
          • Designate text to appear in the table of contents
          • See what text has been included in the table of contents
            • Display the table of contents Navigator pane
            • Jump to a heading in the table of contents
            • Jump to the next or previous heading in the table of contents
              • Move about in the Navigator
              • Highlight text marked for the table of contents
          • Remove an entry from the table of contents
          • Set the various headings of your document so that they automatically appear in the table of contents
          • Insert a table of contents into your document
          • Update the table of contents you have inserted into your document
          • Remove a table of contents from your document
          • Format the text of your table of contents
            • Determine whether page numbers appear or not
            • Determine whether numbers follow a tab or not
            • Set what appears when line breaks or tab characters appear in marked text
            • Set the paragraph style associated with each level of the table of contents
            • Set the leader that appears between the table of contents text and the page number
            • Modify the appearance of the text in the table of contents
          • Add highlight color to your inserted table of contents
          • Create a new table of contents
          • Determine which table of contents is active
          • Quickly add text to the table of contents of your choice
          • Maintain a running table of contents
      • Outlines
        • What is an outline?
          • Using the Table of Contents Navigator as an outline
          • Modifying the structure of your document using the Table of Contents Navigator
            • Moving portions of your document
            • Demoting portions of your document
            • Promoting portions of your document
      • Indexes
        • Create an index
          • Designate text to appear in the index
          • Index one thing as something else “index as”
            • Emphasize the page of a particular occurrence of an item in the index
            • Emphasize a particular term in the index
            • Index multiple terms as one term using the Find/Replace tool
            • Use the index to refer to other entries
            • Index all occurrences of the word in the “Index as topic” box
            • Add an additional “Index As” reference to indexed text
          • Create a hierarchical index
          • Create an index entry which references all text of a given font, size and/or style (or language)
          • Index overlapping entries
          • Automatically index your document using a word list
            • Create a word list as a tool for preparing an index
          • See what text has been included in the index
          • Remove an entry from the index
          • Insert an index into your document
          • Update the index you have inserted into your document
          • Remove an index from your document
          • Format your index
            • Determine the appearance of what separates the various sections of your index
            • Determine what separates the index entry from its reference
            • Determine what “leader” separates the index entry from its reference
            • Determine the characters that separate page numbers in the index
            • Have all sub-levels of the index appear on the same line (space permitting)
            • Set the paragraph style associated with each level of the index
            • Modify the appearance of the text in the index
          • Create a new index
          • Determine which index is active
          • Quickly add text to the index of your choice
          • Quickly remove text from the index of your choice
          • How Nisus Writer handles consecutive page numbers in an index
    • Working with Bibliographic Reference Tools
      • Link Bookends to Nisus Writer Pro
      • Add a citation from your references database to your document
      • Find a particular reference to add to your document
      • Insert a formatted bibliography into your document
        • Set the location of your bibliography
        • Scan your document for bibliographic references
        • Restore the full text citations to your document
• Polishing & Managing Documents
  • Moving Around in Your Documents
    • Moving the Insertion Point Using the Keyboard
    • Moving the Insertion Point Using the “Select” Commands
    • Moving the Insertion Point Using the “Go To” Commands
      • Go to page
      • Go to or from comments
      • Go to header/footer
      • Go to or from footnote/endnote to the text
    • Moving the Insertion Point Using the Table of Contents Navigator
    • Moving the Insertion Point Using the Bookmarks Navigator
    • Moving the Insertion Point Using the Find Tool
    • Moving the Insertion Point Using Macros
    • Moving Between Nisus Writer Pro documents
  • Proofing Documents
    • How to Check Spelling
      • Check your spelling using the Language palette
      • Have Nisus Writer Pro correct your typos as you type
      • Set your dictionary preferences
      • Correct your spelling using the keyboard and without calling up the Spelling window
      • Correct your spelling using the mouse or trackpad and without calling up the Spelling window
      • Correct your spelling using the mouse or trackpad and without calling up the Spelling window and add the word to your QuickFix abbreviations
      • Start the spelling checker
      • Set the starting point of the spelling checker
      • Activate the Spelling floating window
      • Replace a misspelled word using the spelling checker
      • Skip words flagged by the spelling checker
        • Skip all instances of a particular word
        • Add a word to the Dictionary
        • Find the next error
      • Stop the spelling checker
    • User Dictionaries
      • Edit the Dictionary
        • Remove words from the dictionary
    • Using the Nisus Thesaurus
      • Using the Nisus Thesaurus in the Language palette
      • Using the Nisus Thesaurus as a free standing application
      • Using the Nisus Thesaurus from the contextual menu
    • Using Multiple Language Dictionaries
      • Alternative spelling checker dictionaries
    • Hyphenating your text
      • Turn hyphenation on
      • Turn hyphenation off
      • Make hyphenation more frequent
      • Turn hyphenation off for particular paragraphs
      • Prevent a compound word from breaking on its hyphens
      • Use a soft hyphen
    • Word count, text analysis, document properties & statistics
      • Keep a running count of the characters, words and/or paragraphs of your document in your header or footer
      • Text analysis
      • Document properties
  • Paginating Numbering Lines, Sorting and More
    • Pagination
      • Set where page breaks appear
      • Display a document as a continuous scroll
        • See where page breaks appear
      • Find page breaks in your document
    • Line Numbering
      • Number lines
        • Number lines continuously throughout the entire document
        • Number lines for particular sections
        • Number lines so that they continue from the previous section
        • Number lines so that they restart numbering on each page
        • Prevent line numbers from displaying
        • Change the way in which line numbers display
          • Display the Line Numbers palette
          • Set the starting number of line numbers
          • Determine the interval at which the line numbers display
          • Determine the format of the numbers displayed
          • Determine the size of the gutter, (the space between the numbers in the margin and your text)
          • Determine the font/face/size/color, etc. of the numbers displayed
        • Number lines for legal documents (“Pleading Pages” or “Pleading Paper”)
          • Set up your “Pleading Page” or “Pleading Paper”
    • Alphabetizing (Sorting) Paragraphs
      • Sort paragraphs
      • Jumble paragraphs
    • Special “Styles”
      • Plain Text
      • Remove style attributes from text
      • Change the height of text in relation to the baseline
      • Return raised or lowered text to the baseline
        • Increase or decrease the height by a specific amount
      • Cause letter pairs to use ligatures
      • Prevent letter pairs from using ligatures
      • Cause letter pairs to display closer together or further apart
        • Increase or decrease the amount of kerning by a specific amount
      • Prevent letter pairs from displaying closer together or further apart
      • Color text
      • Highlight text
        • Highlight text using a color other than the current color
        • Remove highlight color from your text
      • Background color
        • Remove background color from your text
      • How highlight color and background color differ
      • Use Paragraph Borders and Paragraph Shading to set off your text and create “screens”
        • Draw a border around paragraphs
        • Create a screen behind paragraphs
      • Using the Mac OS Colors panel
        • Save colors for later use
        • Remove saved colors
    • Cleaning Up Documents
      • Change the case of alphabetic characters
        • Make all selected characters UPPERCASE
        • Make all selected characters lowercase
        • Capitalize all selected words
        • Make all selected words appear in sMALL cAPS
        • Reverse the case of selected text
      • Change the appearance of quotation marks
        • Make all selected quotation marks “smart”
        • Make all selected quotation marks "plain"
  • Finding and Replacing Text
    • Using Normal Find
      • Enter something into the Find box
      • Enter something into the Replace box
      • Either find or find and replace text
      • Find the next occurrence of the Find expression
      • Limit the search
      • Limit the replace
      • Reusing find and/or replace expressions
        • Use a recently used find or replace expression
        • Save a find or replace expression
        • Using a saved find or replace expression
        • Deleting a saved find or replace expression
        • Creating a macro from a set of Find, Replace and or Find/Replace expressions
    • Using PowerFind
      • About PowerFind
      • PowerFind terminology
      • PowerFind example
      • Using the “Find what” and “Replace with” menus
      • Using the PowerFind Browser
        • Open the PowerFind Browser
        • Resize the PowerFind Browser
        • Find capitalized words (a PowerFind example)
        • Select all instances of a found expression at once
        • Convert a PowerFind expression to a PowerFind Pro expression
        • PowerFind guidelines
        • Match set
        • Repeat set
        • Scripts / Blocks set
          • Finding and/or replacing non-Roman characters
        • Special Characters set
        • Special Positions set
        • Wild Card set
        • Transform set
      • Examples of putting PowerFind to use
        • Remove extra blank lines
        • Remove page breaks
        • Change the sequence of a pattern
        • Find two neighboring duplicate paragraphs
        • Change the wording of a repeated phrase containing a variable
        • Convert Styles to HTML Code
        • Exercises, or examples of putting PowerFind Pro to use
          • Find a seven-digit phone number
          • Find any number of trailing spaces in a document or tabs at the end of paragraphs
          • Find the invisible null (ASCII (Unicode) 0) character
          • Find repeated groups of characters
          • Find any set of characters
        • Characters with special meaning
          • Modifier characters
          • Parenthesized expressions
        • Pre-defined wild cards
          • User-defined wild cards
          • [∑] (any character from a set ∑ excluding Return)
          • [^∑] (any character not from a set ∑)
          • Characters with a unique match
          • Repeat characters
          • Match characters
          • PowerFind Pro find expressions
          • PowerFind Pro replace expressions
          • Definitions in Nisus Writer Pro
        • Advanced exercises, or more examples of putting PowerFind to use
          • Swap the sequence of words
          • Find any and/or all words that begin and end with specified characters
          • Change multiple periods to ellipses
          • Make sure your spaces follow the punctuation
          • Make sure your punctuation appears inside quotation marks
          • Replace two or more spaces with one space
          • Find ten-digit phone numbers
    • Using PowerFind Pro
  • Using Comments in Your Documents
    • Add comments
    • Remove comments
    • Copy and paste commented text
    • Move to and from comments
    • Select the next or previous comment in your document
      • Select all text within comments
    • Collapse or expand the comments in your document
    • Hide and show, or turn off and on the display of all the comments in your document
      • Hide and show all vestiges of comments in your document
      • Hide and show only the comments pane
      • Hide and show only the highlighted comments in the text
      • Additional controls for the display of comments
      • Minimizing the comments in your document
    • Receiving commented files from others
    • Add your comments to the comments of others
    • Review comment histories
    • Display comments of a particular “author”
    • Printing comments
  • Tracking Changes to Your Documents
    • Start tracking changes
      • Stop tracking changes
      • Copying and pasting text with tracked changes
    • View and review tracked changes
      • Hide and show only the Track Changes pane
      • Hide and show only the highlighted changes in the text
      • Additional controls for the display of tracked changes
        • Determine the kinds of changes Nisus Writer Pro tracks
        • Display changes of a particular author
        • Determine how Nisus Writer Pro displays the changes
      • Selecting the next or previous change to your document
      • Collapsing or expanding the change annotations in your document
    • Accept or reject changes made to your document
      • Accept changes
      • Reject changes
      • Review, accept and/or reject changes in one window
  • Working with Multiple Documents
    • Window basics
      • Close a window
      • Minimize, or, put a window in the Dock
      • Redisplay a window that has been in the Dock
      • Open a window to its full size
    • Using the Window menu and working with multiple windows
      • Choose which window displays in front
    • About Merging Documents
      • Creating a host document
      • Prepare the template document
      • About data documents
      • Creating a data document
      • Merging documents & displaying or printing the results
        • Deciding the source of the data to be merged
        • Deciding what to do with the new merged document
          • Saving the merged document to individual files
          • Saving the merged document to one file
          • Printing the merged document
          • Seeing a preview of your merged document
  • Printing Documents
    • Print an open document
    • Determine how many copies to print
    • Determine which pages of the document print
    • Determine aspects of how your document prints
      • Print page guides and “invisibles”
      • Print pages in reverse order
      • Print odd pages, then even pages
    • Add a “watermark” to your document
    • Create a PDF file of your Nisus Writer Pro document
    • Create a PostScript file of your Nisus Writer Pro document
• Customizing & Automating Solutions
  • Setting Preferences
    • Using the General Preferences to Control the Application
      • Determine what happens at launch or activation
    • Determine the Way the Document Manager Works
    • Choose the Way in Which Files Save
      • Have Nisus Writer Pro notify you whenever you save a file
        • Learn when Nisus Writer Pro has finished saving a file you explicitly save
        • Learn when Nisus Writer Pro has finished saving a file automatically
      • Save files after a certain number of minutes
      • Have the Autosave feature of Nisus Writer Pro serve as a “crash recovery” tool
      • Have Nisus Writer Pro automatically create backups of your work
        • Save the original file as a “backup”
        • Set what Nisus Writer Pro appends to the previous copy’s file name
        • Save an additional copy in another location
        • Set the preferred format and encoding for saved files
      • Save files automatically and never see the Save As dialog, unless you choose it from the menu
      • Open automatically saved and closed files
      • What gets saved with a file
      • Determine the way in which files open
      • Open any document as “new” or “Untitled”
    • Choose Various Display Options for Your Documents
      • Invisibles
        • Customize the color of your Invisibles
      • Page guides
        • Customize the color of your Page Guides
      • Insertion point (caret, I-beam) width
        • Change the width of the insertion point
        • Determine whether or not the insertion point blinks
        • Change the color of the insertion point
      • WYSIWYG Font menu
      • WYSIWYG Styles palette
      • Set the font used in the Navigator pane
      • Determine the suffix of automatically named bookmarks
      • Determine the color of various aspects of your Nisus Writer Pro working environment
        • Highlight marked text
        • Change the color of the highlight associated with the text marked for the table of contents
        • Hide the highlight color of text marked for the table of contents
      • Choose measurement display options for new documents
        • Determine the unit of measurement in any Nisus Writer Pro document
    • Customize Your Clipboards
    • Assign Menu Keys to Menu Commands
      • Remove an existing keyboard shortcut
      • Find whether a key combination has been assigned to a command
    • Set Your Language Preferences
    • Determine What QuickFix Fixes
      • Various QuickFixes
        • Enter smart quotes as you type
        • Superscript ordinals as you type
        • Capitalize the first word of sentences as you type
        • Fix typos as you type
        • Add or subtract, or modify a “typo” that gets fixed
      • Working with Glossaries
        • Create a new Glossary
        • Add or remove an entry to or from a Nisus Writer Pro Glossary file
        • Activate a Nisus Writer Pro Glossary file
        • Enable automatic expansion of Nisus Writer Pro Glossary file abbreviations
        • Create a new glossary abbreviation, or edit an existing abbreviation in an existing Glossary
        • Import a Nisus Writer Classic Glossary file
        • Delete a Nisus Writer Pro Glossary file
    • Advanced Preferences
      • Load import files when Nisus Writer Pro starts
      • Choose which import files are used for different file formats
    • Customize Your Toolbar
      • Change the Display of the Toolbar
      • Add your own custom Toolbar item
      • Remove your own custom Toolbar item
    • Create Your Own Group of Palettes for the Tooldrawer
    • Save Preferences
    • Return All Preferences to Their Original (Shipped) Settings
  • Macros, Skimming the Surface
    • About Macros
      • Use existing macro files and their commands
    • Running Macros
      • Open (“load”) a macro file
      • Run a macro
      • Stop a macro
    • Editing Macros
      • Edit a macro
      • Rename a macro
    • Saving a Macro
    • Deleting Macros
      • Remove a macro file from the menu
      • Delete a macro
    • Undoing a Macro
    • Working with Macro Files
    • Before Creating a Macro
    • Typing Menu Commands
      • Create a new macro file
      • Save the current macro file under a different name
      • Case sensitivity in Menu Command Dialect macros
        • A simple “to do” list
      • Writing an invalid command in a macro
    • Working with Menu Commands
    • Looping and Accessing Other Macros
      • Call one macro from another
  • Macros, the Deeper Workings
    • The Nisus Writer Pro Macro Language
    • Old and New Macros
    • Menu Command Dialect
      • Using menu commands
      • Using parameters with menu commands
        • Examples
        • Variables
        • Flow of control
          • Conditional branches
          • Looping command
        • Comparison warning
        • Document operations
        • Environment properties
          • Macro document values
          • Current document values
          • Current Nisus Writer application values
          • Current System version
          • Current Home folder
        • Modifying text
        • Changing the selection
        • Clipboards
        • User interaction
        • Find and replace
          • The list of find options
        • Embedding Perl
        • Useful blocks for data entry
        • Advanced macro notes
        • Included macros
    • Writing Perl Scripts
      • The recommended way, to structure Perl Macros
      • Learn more about Perl
      • Components of a Perl script header
        • #nisus macro block
        • #source ( front | next | none | clipboard)
        • #destination ( front | next | none | clipboard | new) [replace]
        • #(send text as rtf | send rtf | rtf | text as rtf)
        • #before execution
        • #after execution
        • #end nisus macro block
  • Writing AppleScripts
    • Integrate AppleScript with Nisus Writer Pro
      • Write AppleScripts for use in Nisus Writer Pro
      • Have AppleScripts open a new file
      • Have AppleScript open a file and perform some tasks
      • See a list of all the AppleScripts commands that Nisus Writer Pro recognizes
        • Get/set text
          • Examples
          • Do Menu Macro
          • Examples
          • Other examples
• Putting It All Together
  • Nisus Writer Pro and the Community of Connected Applications
    • The Services Menu
    • Using LinkBack
      • What applications support LinkBack
      • Goals and non-goals
      • How you might use LinkBack
        • Use LinkBack with a drawing application
  • Nisus Writer Pro and the Internet
    • Insert a Link to a Location on the World Wide Web
    • Open a Document on the Web
    • Copy a Link to a Document on the Web
    • Remove an Inserted Link
    • Edit an Inserted Link
    • Save a Nisus Writer Pro Document as an HTML Document
    • Edit an HTML Document in Nisus Writer Pro
    • Handling Communications
      • Email your Nisus Writer Pro files
        • Send the active document as an RTF file
        • Send the active document as a PDF file
  • Standardizing Your Correspondence Stationery
    • Format and Print Envelopes
• Afterword
  • Send Feedback to Nisus Software Inc.
    • See What Information You Send with “Send Feedback…”
    • May All Your Writing “nisus” Be a Pleasure with Nisus Writer Pro
• Appendices
  • Appendix I
    • The Nisus Writer Pro Menus
      • Conventions
      • Nisus Writer Pro menu
      • File menu
      • Edit menu
      • Insert menu
      • View menu
      • Format menu
      • Table menu
      • Tools menu
      • Macro menu
      • Window menu
      • Help menu
  • Appendix II
    • Glossary of Useful Terms
  • Appendix III
    • Displaying Fonts and Text
      • About Displaying Fonts
      • How Nisus Writer Pro Displays Your Text
      • Typing on a Computer
      • Typing Unusual Characters
        • Turn on display of the Input (keyboard “flag”) menu
        • Enter a character using the keyboard
        • Type “special” Yiddish characters
        • Set up language support on your Macintosh
        • Enter Unicode text
  • Appendix IV
    • From Nisus Writer Classic to Nisus Writer Pro
      • The Nisus Men of the Past
      • Making the Transition
      • Open Multilingual Nisus Writer Classic Files in Nisus Writer Pro
        • Open a Nisus Writer Classic Document with the “esreveR” style
      • Open a Nisus Writer Classic Document with a Table
      • More Classic
• Indexes
  • Subject Index
  • Commands & Screen Messages
  • Index of Figures and Tables