Nisus Writer Express - Manual (Page 29)

Getting Started The Menu Bar 9
• To control an inactive window, press A. You can press A and click the show/hide Toolbar
button to rotate through the various display options of the Toolbar in all open Nisus Writer
Express windows. You can, scroll, move and resize inactive windows in this way without
activating them. You cannot click inside the text editing area of the window without activating
it.
• The Nisus Writer Express document window displays either as it would appear on paper (Page
View), as a continuous scroll (Draft View (or Full Screen, in which the window covers everything
on the monitor)), or the various styles in the document (Style Sheet).
Nisus Writer Express Pointer Variations
The pointer changes shape to give you feedback as you complete different tasks. You should be
familiar with some of these from your previous activities on the Macintosh. The list that follows
describes Nisus Writer Express pointer shapes.
Arrow Pointer The left-slanting arrow points to graphics, icons, menu commands and
buttons you can choose or click. It also indicates that you have text to drop
elsewhere. Select what you want to move then click and drag the mouse.
Arrow Pointer with Plus
This variant of the Arrow Pointer points to graphics, or text you can choose
or click. It appears after you begin to drag something and press
4 to
indicate that you have something to duplicate elsewhere. Select what you
want to move then click and drag the mouse, then press
4 .
I-Beam The I-beam indicates where you can enter text. When you click in the text it
changes to an insertion point.
or Margin Mover When your pointer hovers over one of the margin lines or lines that separate
the header or footer from the writing area, or the lines of a table or a graphic.
Cross Hairs When your pointer hovers over the “handle” of a selected graphic the cross
hairs indicate that you can resize the graphic.
Grabbing Hand When your pointer hovers over a selected graphic the grabbing hand
indicates that you can move the graphic.
Keyboard Shortcuts in Nisus Writer Express
You can use the keyboard for more than entering text and numbers. You can use it to give
instructions to the computer to perform certain tasks.
Macintosh keyboards include a variety of modifier keys and function keys. The four modifier keys
are
A (Command), 1 (Shift), 4 (Option), and 6 (Control).
You can assign almost any key to any command in the menus of Nisus Writer Express. Each time
you look at the menus you can see the menu key shortcut along the right column opposite the
command. As you become familiar with the commands you can also learn the shortcuts. To learn
more about this see “Assign Menu Keys to Menu Commands” on page 235.
Nisus Writer Express Dialogs
Dialogs are used to get information from you. Dialogs in Nisus Writer Express appear from the Title
Bar of the window to which they refer.
Dialogs can have a variety of controls, including checkboxes, buttons, pop-up menus & text boxes.
• A checkbox ( ) is referred to as checked when there is a “✓” a check mark in it ( ). You
click a checkbox to check or uncheck it. It is possible to check multiple checkboxes in a dialog.
• A radio button ( ) is referred to as selected when there is a “•” in it ( ). You can only select
one radio button in a dialog. Click a button to select it; click an alternate button to deselect the
first one and select the other.
• Pop-up menus, indicated by a menu name and an arrow, list options in the form of a menu.