Nisus Writer Express - Manual (Page 241)

Customizing & Automating Solutions 221
Choose the Way in Which Files Save
Nisus Writer Express offers you several ways to save a document.
You can ignore saving your documents entirely. Nisus Writer Express (with the Autosave preference
turned on) automatically gives your document a name based on a string of text in the file and stores
the file in the folder called
~/Documents/Nisus Documents
And keeps track of your files in the Document Manager as explained on page 220.
Figure 189
The Saving section of the Preferences dialog
Save files after a certain number of minutes
1. Choose Preferences… from the Nisus Writer Express menu.
2. Check Saving at the top of the dialog as illustrated in Figure 189.
3. Check "Autosave every X minutes."
4. Enter the number of minutes you want.
Nisus Writer Express will create a title for your document after the designated amount of time.
Saving files in this way does not interfere with your writing.
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You can open the Document Manager at any time by choosing Document Manager from the Window
menu.
Have the Autosave feature of Nisus Writer Express serve as a “crash recovery” tool
In the General preference pane you can choose to have autosave not overwrite your existing file.
1. Choose Preferences… from the Nisus Writer Express menu.
2. Click Saving at the top of the dialog as illustrated in Figure 189.
3. Check “Autosave every X minutes.”
4. Enter the number of minutes you want.
5. Choose Autosave only to temporary backup files from the pop-up menu that becomes
enabled.
Now, when you open an existing file, make some changes and the autosave period expires,
Nisus Writer Express saves a copy of your file to a backups folder inside the Nisus Documents
folder of your documents folder.