Nisus Writer Express - Manual (Page 22)

2 Quick Start Getting Started
3. When you see it in the list, double click the name of the file you want to open (or click once
to select the file and then click the Open button).
You can open any file you have saved in your Nisus Documents folder.
▶ Use the Document Manager.
1. Choose Document Manager from the Window menu.
2. Scroll through the list of files that appears there.
3. When you see it in the list, double click the name of the file you want to open (or click once
to select the file and then click the Open button).
You can learn more about how to use the Document Manager on page 223.
You can open any recently opened file from the Open Recent menu of the File menu.
▶ Choose the file you want from the list that appears in the Open Recent menu of the File menu.
You can determine how many files appear in the Open Recent menu in the General Preferences of
Nisus Writer Express.
Enter text in your new or existing file
Your new or existing file opens ready to receive your text. The insertion point in an existing file
appears where it was when you saved the file. You can either…
▶ Type your text, or…
▶ Choose Paste from the Edit menu to enter whatever you have stored on any of Nisus Writer
Express’s Clipboards, or…
▶ Drag a selection from another Nisus Writer Express document or other application into your
Nisus Writer Express document window, or…
▶ Drag a file into your Nisus Writer Express document window from the Desktop, or…
▶ Drag the icon of another Nisus Writer Express document from its Title Bar into your Nisus
Writer Express document window.
Write in a language other than American English
In order to type text in a language other than English (Nisus Writer Express is already set up and
ready to go to write in American English) see the section “Writing in Multiple Languages” on page
36.
Enter right to left text
In order to type text in a language other than English (for which Nisus Writer Express is already set
up and ready to go) see the section “Writing in Multiple Languages” on page 36.
Modify the appearance of your file
Using the many tools of Nisus Writer Express you can modify the appearance of the text in your file
in a variety of ways. You can change the font (“family”), size, style (“typeface”) and color of text, you
can change the margins of the page and the shape of paragraphs with various indents, line wrap
areas, tab settings, line spacing and alignment options.
▶ To control the overall appearance of a longer document, your best solution is to use Styles.
These are explained in the section “Formatting Documents using Style Sheets” beginning on
page 81.
The Nisus New File that comes with Nisus Writer Express has a number of Styles.
▶ To modify Styles to fit your own needs and desires see the section “Modify a style” which begins
on page 86.
However if all you want to do is make a quick and simple change to a small area of your text you
can do that as well.
▶ To quickly change the appearance of only a little bit of your text use the appropriate control in
the Character palette (or the associated menu). To learn more about the Character palette see
“Using the Nisus Writer Express Tooldrawer” on page 14 and “The Character Palette” on page
15.
▶ To change the shape of your paragraphs you modify the ruler that displays at the top of the
document window and use the settings that appear in the Paragraph palette as explained in
“The Paragraph Palette” on page 16 and “Structuring paragraphs” beginning on page 61.
▶ To change the margins of the document drag the Page Guides that appear in Page View or set
them numerically as explained in “Set the margins of your document” on page 106.