Nisus Writer Express - Manual (Page 34)

14 The Nisus Writer Express Tooldrawer Getting Started
The palettes are designed to give you an uncluttered working environment, while, at the same time
giving you quick access to information about your document and the tools to manipulate it.
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The Tooldrawer is not available in Full Screen view.
Modify the Nisus Writer Express Tooldrawer
The Nisus Writer Express Tooldrawer holds a number of palettes to ease the manipulation of your
text.
Palettes are grouped according to task. You can switch among the various groups using the four
buttons at the top of the Tooldrawer. You can rearrange the layout of the palettes by dragging them
around within the Tooldrawer. You can drag any or all palettes out of the Tooldrawer creating
floating palettes that can be placed anywhere you like on your screen. When you close a floating
palette it returns to its original location in the Tooldrawer.
Display/hide the Tooldrawer
▶ Choose Show/Hide Tooldrawer from the View menu, or click the Tools button on the Toolbar.
Open/close a palette in the Tooldrawer
▶ Click the “Reveal” triangle on the left edge of the palette’s title.
Move a palette in the Tooldrawer
▶ Grab the palette’s title and move it above or below its current location or out onto the desktop.
Remove a palette from the Tooldrawer (so that it does not display at all)
▶ Click the “X” on the right edge of the palette’s title.
Return a floating palette to the Tooldrawer
▶ Click the X “close” button on the right edge of the palette’s title bar.
Display a different set of palettes in the Tooldrawer
▶ Choose the palette set you want from the four Palette Group buttons at the top of the
Tooldrawer.
Figure 15
The Nisus Writer Express Tooldrawer palette set selection buttons
The buttons are, from left to right
• Writing
• Formatting
• Tables
• Sections
• Additional Palette Groups Menu
Using the Nisus Writer Express Tooldrawer
The Nisus Writer Express Tooldrawer’s palettes offer point and click access to tools.
When you start Nisus Writer Express, the Tooldrawer opens with the Writing set of palettes visible.
• Writing
• Styles
enables you to change the font, size, options and color of the characters of your text using
Styles;
• Language
checks spelling and definitions of words you use with the built-in dictionary and the Nisus
Thesaurus, and change the language in which you write (with all its associated dictionaries
and keyboard input methods);
• Stats
maintains a continuous count of the characters, words and paragraphs of your document.