Nisus Writer Express - Manual (Page 210)

190 Proofing Documents
You can use this expression to find and eliminate repeated paragraphs.
Change the wording of a repeated phrase containing a variable
Suppose your document contains multiple entries of the phrase “whose widget code number is #,”
where # represents any of fifty different widget codes. The Find and Replace expressions below
change this phrase to “with widget code #” without changing actual numerical values.
▶ Create these Find and Replace expressions:
Use a recently used find or replace expression
In addition to the PowerFind Commands sets of options in the PowerFind Browser, Nisus Writer
Express keeps track of recent find and replace expressions. These expressions are automatically
stored in the Recent Find Expressions and Recent Replace Expressions sets in the PowerFind
Browser.
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Nisus Writer Express stores recent expressions until you quit the application.
Once you have defined your expression and used it
1. Select Recent Find Expressions from the PowerFind column in the PowerFind Browser.
2. Select the expression you want from the Recent Find Expression column in the PowerFind
Browser.
Nisus Writer Express places whatever expression you had in the Find/Replace window into the New
Expression dialog as illustrated in Figure 171.
Save a find or replace expression
You can even save any PowerFind or PowerFind Pro expression.
Once you have defined your expression and tested it, for example the complex expression illustrated
in Figure 168 above. You can save it then and there.
1. Choose Save Expression from the bottom of the Gear menu in the Find/Replace window.