Nisus Writer Pro - Manual (Page 61)

Creating Documents 41
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Warning!
Nisus Writer Pro only transfers the contents of the Current Clipboard to the System Clipboard when
you quit the application. Anything you have on any other clipboards is eliminated.
To be sure you do not lose any material that may be on your clipboards you may want to paste it into
one or more documents before quitting Nisus Writer Pro.
Nonetheless, Nisus Writer Pro comes with a set of macros designed to help you work with, and even
save, your Clipboards. You can learn more about them on page 413.
Add a Clipboard
Nisus Writer Pro allows you to have as many Clipboards as you like.
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See “Customize Your Clipboards” on page 382.
Change the name of a Clipboard
Nisus Writer Pro allows you to name your Clipboards anything you like. This allows you to use
dedicated clipboards for specific tasks.
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See “Customize Your Clipboards” on page 382.
Copying and pasting styled text
When you copy formatted text and then paste it into an area with other formatting Nisus Writer Pro
pastes in the text with the attributes as it existed in that text’s original location. To override this
behavior choose the commands Copy Text Only or Paste Text Only as explained above.
Copying and pasting rulers
You can copy and paste the shape of a paragraph with all the settings related to that paragraph as
they display on the ruler and in the Paragraph palette.
1. Click your insertion point in the paragraph the ruler of which you wish to copy.
2. Choose the menu command Edit > Copy > Copy Ruler.
3. Click your insertion point in the paragraph where you want this formatting to appear.
4. Choose the menu command Edit > Paste > Paste Ruler.
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If a ruler icon appears on the Statusbar or in the gutter, you can choose the appropriate
command from the pop-up menu that appears there.
Creating Lists
Nisus Writer Pro enables you to create various kinds of lists that automatically appear and/or
increment.
Six list “styles” come built into Nisus Writer Pro. You can use these “out of the box”.
You can modify, or add to the list styles supplied, whenever you want.
The appearance of the list, its indents, the format of the numbers, starting number, increment
value, etc. are all controlled by the Lists palette and the List Styles portion of the Style Sheet view.
See “Modify list styles” on page 48 for instructions on how to modify the List Styles.
You can combine List Styles and other Styles of Nisus Writer Pro to create a wide variety of listing
capabilities. All of the figures, tables, numbered (and unnumbered) instructions, and bulleted lists
in this document are controlled by the list and style tools of Nisus Writer Pro. Details of how to
develop these more complex tools are discussed in the section “Formatting Documents Using Style
Sheets” beginning on page 95.
Nisus Writer Pro offers numerous methods for creating your numbered lists, from the standard
menus (the menu Format > Lists), the Toolbar, and the Lists palette of the Tooldrawer. In addition,
you can use the keyboard if you assign keyboard shortcuts to the standard menu commands. When
your insertion point is in a range of text that is part of a list you can modify that list’s format from
the List (“number”) tag at the bottom of the document window, the Toolbar, or the Lists palette of
the Tooldrawer. In addition, you can use the keyboard if you assign keyboard shortcuts to the
standard menu commands.
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The List button on the Toolbar is probably the easiest way to insert a list, but, because it may not
always be visible, the following instructions explain how to use lists by referring to the standard
menus. All the other methods can be used interchangeably.