Document Outline

• Title Page
• Disclaimer
• Table of Contents
• Welcome to Nisus Writer Express
  • Before You Begin
    • About the Nisus Writer Express Documentation
    • Using the Documentation
    • Getting Help
      • Get online help
    • Getting Set Up
    • Installing Nisus Writer Express
      • Install Nisus Writer Express on an individual Macintosh
      • Enter your license number
      • Subscribe to the Nisus Newsletter
• Getting Started
  • Quick Start
    • Open or start Nisus Writer Express
      • Open a new or existing file
    • Open a new file
      • Customize your new document “template”
    • Open an existing file
    • Enter text in your new or existing file
      • Write in a language other than American English
      • Enter right to left text
    • Modify the appearance of your file
    • Save your file
      • Save your file the first time and give it a name
      • Save your file after you have made some changes to it
      • Save your file with a new name and/or in a new location
      • Save your file automatically
    • Print your file
      • Print an open document
      • Create a PDF file of your Nisus Writer Express document
    • Quit Nisus Writer Express
  • Nisus Writer Express — a “Grand Tour”
    • Windows, Bars, Buttons, Pointers and drawers
      • The Nisus Writer Express Window
      • The Nisus Writer Express Icon in the Dock
      • The Menu Bar
      • The Title Bar
      • Nisus Writer Express Windows
      • Nisus Writer Express Pointer Variations
      • Keyboard Shortcuts in Nisus Writer Express
      • Nisus Writer Express Dialogs
      • The Nisus Writer Express Toolbar
        • Turn on/off the display of the Toolbar
        • Rotate through the various sizes of the icons and text of the Toolbar display
      • The Nisus Writer Express Ruler
      • The Nisus Writer Express Statusbar
      • The Nisus Writer Express Tooldrawer
        • Modify the Nisus Writer Express Tooldrawer
          • Display/hide the Tooldrawer
          • Open/close a palette in the Tooldrawer
          • Move a palette in the Tooldrawer
          • Remove a palette from the Tooldrawer (so that it does not display at all)
          • Return a floating palette to the Tooldrawer
          • Display a different set of palettes in the Tooldrawer
        • Using the Nisus Writer Express Tooldrawer
        • Change the palettes that display in the Tooldrawer
        • Display a different set of palettes in the Tooldrawer
      • How clicking in the palettes of the Tooldrawer affects your text
        • The Character Palette
          • Change the font
          • Scroll through a longer list of fonts
          • Change the typeface or color
          • Change the size
        • The Paragraph Palette
          • Change the alignment
          • Change the direction text flows (for right to left languages)
          • Change the space between lines of text (“leading”)
          • Multiple/Fixed
          • Change the amount of space that appears above (before) a paragraph
          • Change the amount of space that appears below (after) a paragraph
          • Control for widows and orphans
          • Prevent a paragraph (or paragraphs) from splitting across page or column breaks
          • Keep one paragraph with the one that follows it
        • The Statistics palette
        • The Page Palette
          • Show the Page palette
          • Magnify, or, zoom in and out of your document
          • Show the maximum width of your document in Page View
          • Show the entire width and height of your document in Page View
        • The Columns Palette
        • The Headers and Footers Palette
        • The Image Palette
        • The Language Palette
        • The Lists Palette
        • The Margins Palette
        • The Page Borders Palette
        • The Section Palette
        • The Styles Palette
        • The Table Palette
        • The Table Cell Borders Palette
        • The Table Cell Shading Palette
        • The Table Cells Palette
    • The Nisus Writer Express Menus
      • Conventions
      • Nisus Writer Express Menu
      • File Menu
      • Edit Menu
      • Insert Menu
      • View Menu
      • Format Menu
      • Table Menu
      • Macro Menu
      • Window Menu
      • Help Menu
• Creating Documents
  • Writing and Editing
    • Entering (Typing) Text
    • Writing in Multiple Languages
      • Set up language support in Nisus Writer Express
        • Choose a language in which to write
        • Write in a different language (to switch languages)
        • Enter right to left text in your document
        • Mix right to left and left to right text… some common errors and fixes
          • Have an exclamation point appear correctly in a left to right string of right to left text
          • Have the period appear correctly in a left to right sentence that ends with a right toleft word
          • Insert a right to left table in a left to right section
    • Selecting Text
      • Select text using the mouse
      • Select a column of text (rectangular selection)
      • Select text from different places in the document (noncontiguousselection)
        • What you can (and cannot) do with noncontiguously selected text
      • Select using the keyboard
      • Other methods of selection
      • “De-select” text from a selection
    • Copying Text
      • Copy text
      • Copy text only, without its attributes
      • Copy attributes only, without its text
    • Drag and Drop
    • Cutting Text
      • Cut text
    • Pasting Text
      • Paste text
      • Paste text only, without its attributes
      • Paste attributes only, without their text
    • Moving, Deleting, and Replacing Text
    • Using the Clipboards
      • Display the contents of a Clipboard
      • Choose which Clipboard to use
      • Add text or graphics to the current Clipboard
      • Edit the contents of the current Clipboard
      • Edit the contents of a Clipboard other than the current Clipboard
      • Add a Clipboard
      • Change the name of a Clipboard
      • Copying and Pasting Styled Text
    • Creating Lists
      • About lists
      • Insert a bulleted list
      • End a bulleted list
      • Apply bullets to a series of paragraphs
      • Insert an automatically incrementing list
      • Begin using the next level of a list
      • Return to a higher level of a list
      • Restart numbering
      • Resume numbering
      • Modify list styles
      • Use list styles to automatically number figures, tables, etc.
    • Recovering from Mistakes
      • Undo an action
      • Redo an action
    • Saving files
      • Formats of saved files
        • Save As…
        • Export As…
        • Print…
      • Save files automatically in the Nisus Writer Express DocumentManager
      • Save an untitled file as a Nisus Writer Express file
        • Save a file in a different format
        • Rename and save an existing file
  • Formatting Documents
    • Structuring paragraphs
      • Set the indent or outdent (“hanging indent”) position of the first lineof a paragraph
        • Create a hanging indent
        • Create a normal indent
      • Quickly indent or outdent a selected range of paragraphs
      • Set the text wrap area
      • Set the text wrap area numerically
      • Set the text wrap area using the keyboard
      • Justify “align” text
      • Set spacing between lines
        • Keep your lines from spreading when using superscript or footnotes/endnotes
        • Allow your lines to spread when using superscript or footnotes/endnotes
      • Set spacing between paragraphs
      • Control how paragraphs split and stick together
        • Prevent widows and orphans
        • Keep selected paragraphs together
        • Keep one paragraph with the one that follows it
      • Set tabs
        • Use leader tabs
        • Set the type of leader before placing a tab
        • Move a tab indicator using the mouse
        • Move a tab indicator using the keyboard
        • Edit a tab’s location numerically
        • Remove a tab Indicator
      • Selecting paragraphs with different formatting
        • Set the same format for a group of differing paragraphs
    • Format Characters
      • Font Substitution
      • Add a font to your System
      • Change the font of characters
        • Scroll through a longer list of fonts
      • Change the size of characters
        • Change the size of characters to a size not listed on the menu
        • Increase or decrease the size of characters by a specific amount
      • Change the attributes of characters
      • Change the attributes of characters using the “Dropper”
    • Formatting Documents using Style Sheets
      • An introduction to Style Sheets
      • See the Style Sheet associated with a document
      • Understanding the difference between the various kinds of styles
      • Apply a style to your text
      • Modify a style
        • Select more than one style
        • Change the name of a style
        • Have one style inherit the attributes of another
        • Determine the style of the next paragraph of your text automatically
        • Assign a keyboard shortcut to your style as you edit it
        • Remove a keyboard shortcut to your style as you edit it
        • Change the sample text that illustrates your style
        • Quickly remove attributes that define your style
        • Add or modify attributes associated with your style
      • Create a new style
      • Select a range of text with a particular style
      • Select all the text in your document with a particular style
      • Remove a style’s attributes from selected text
      • Remove a character attribute from your text
      • Remove a style from your document
      • Resolve conflicts between Styles
  • Setting Up a Document’s Page
    • Understanding template (stationery) documents
      • Set “defaults” for new files
      • Edit your Nisus New File
      • See the Nisus New File in the Finder
      • Use an existing file as a Nisus New File
      • Choose a different file for your Nisus New File
      • Create a Nisus New File
      • Restore the “factory settings” of your Nisus New File
    • Setting paper size and margins
      • Set the preferred paper size for all your documents
      • Reduce or enlarge the printed area
      • Determine the orientation of the printed page
      • Use a custom paper size
      • Set the margins of your document
        • Set the margins visually
        • Set the margins numerically
        • Set the margins by “stepping” through pre-set increments
      • Mirror page placement
    • Set the number of columns
      • Set column line
      • Set column and gutter width
      • Balance column text
        • Using the Page Borders palette to put a line around the edge of your page
          • Determine around which portion of the page’s perimeter the border appears
          • Set the distance from the edge or margin the border should appear
  • Headers and Footers
    • Creating Headers and Footers
      • Insert the same header or footer for all pages
      • Insert a header or a footer for even numbered pages
      • Insert a header or footer for odd numbered pages
      • Have your header and/or footer appear on the second andsucceeding pages of your document and no number appear on thefirst (“First Page Special”)
      • Insert a different header or footer for each section in the document
    • Editing Headers and Footers
      • Display headers and footers as they appear in the document
      • Edit headers or footers
        • Find the header or footer for a particular section of your document
      • Include images in a header or footer
      • Move a header or footer higher or lower on the page
      • Move a header or footer higher or lower in relation to the text ofyour document
    • Deleting Headers and Footers
      • Hide headers and footers
    • Numbering Pages
      • Insert the current page number (once) on a specific page
      • Display the current page number on every page
      • Restart page numbering for a new section
      • Restart page numbering at 1
      • Display the current page number and the total number of pages inthe section (or document) on every page
        • Determine the format of page numbers
  • Graphics
    • Working with Character Graphics
    • Importing Graphics
      • Import a graphic using the Clipboard
    • Resize a Graphic
    • Crop a Graphic
    • Working with Floating Graphics
      • Make an inline graphic into a floating graphic
      • Align a floating graphic
      • Cause text to wrap around a graphic
        • The Graphic Anchor
  • Book Tools
    • Creating Sections In Your Document
      • Insert a new section in your document
    • Numbering Sections
      • Insert a section number
    • Footnotes and Endnotes
      • Insert a footnote or endnote
      • Return to the document from the notes
      • Return to a specific note from its marker in the document
      • Edit a footnote or endnote
      • Determine the appearance of note markers
        • Use an asterisk or other custom symbol to mark several footnotes and or endnotes
        • Edit a custom symbol that marks footnotes and or endnotes
      • Determine the appearance of note text
      • Remove a footnote or endnote
      • Change endnotes to footnotes or the reverse
        • Change a footnote to an endnote
        • Change an endnote to a footnote
        • Change all footnotes to endnotes
        • Change all endnotes to footnotes
    • Tables
      • What is a table?
        • Types of tables
      • Insert/create a table
      • Determine the size (number of rows/columns) of a table
      • Enter text in a table
      • Create a table with pre-existing text
      • Enter graphics in a table
      • Navigate among the cells of a table
      • Select cells, or portions of… or the entire table
      • Determine the alignment (position) of a table in the document
      • Determine the alignment (position) of text in a table
      • Align text in table cells along the decimal point
      • Add cells to a table
      • Remove cells from a table
      • Merge cells
      • Split cells
      • Resize a cell
      • Equalize column widths
      • Equalize row heights
      • Cause the table to resize to fit its contents (and settings)
      • Cause the table to resize to fit the full extent of the page
      • Create a table header
        • Create a column header
          • Create a title for a table
      • Create a row header
      • Adjust the padding around the contents of a cell
      • Make your tables stand out!
      • Modify the lines (edges, borders, etc.) of a table
      • Clear the selection of lines to modify
      • Select which lines to modify
      • Determine the thickness of the lines
      • Determine the style (pattern) of the lines
      • Determine the color of the lines
      • Set the shading (color) of cells
      • Determine the pattern of cells
        • Set the color of the foreground and background of a cell pattern
      • Remove a table
      • Copy, cut and paste a table
      • Find and/or replace text in a table
• Polishing & Managing Documents
  • Proofing Documents
    • How to Check Spelling
      • Check your spelling using the Language palette
      • Have Nisus Writer Express correct your typos as you type
      • Set your dictionary preferences
      • Correct your spelling using the keyboard and without calling up theSpelling window
      • Correct your spelling using the mouse and without calling up theSpelling window
      • Start the spelling checker
      • Set the starting point of the spelling checker
      • Activate the Spelling floating window
      • Replace a misspelled word using the spelling checker
      • Skip words flagged by the spelling checker
        • Skip all instances of a particular word
        • Add a word to the Dictionary
        • Find the next error
      • Stop the spelling checker
      • User Dictionaries
        • Edit the Dictionary
      • Using multiple language dictionaries
        • Alternative spelling checker dictionaries
      • Word Count and Document Statistics
    • Finding and Replacing Text
      • Using Normal Find
        • Enter something into the Find box
        • Enter something into the Replace box
        • Either find or find and replace text
        • Find the next occurrence of the Find Expression
        • Limit the search
      • Using PowerFind
        • About PowerFind
        • PowerFind Terminology
        • PowerFind Example
        • Using the Find what and Replace with menus
        • Using the PowerFind Browser
          • Open the PowerFind Browser
          • Resize the PowerFind Browser
          • Find capitalized words (a PowerFind example)
          • Select all instances of a found expression at once
          • Convert a PowerFind expression to a PowerFind Pro expression
          • PowerFind Guidelines
          • Match Set
          • Repeat Set
        • Finding and/or replacing Non-Roman Characters
        • Scripts Set
          • Special Characters Set
          • Special Positions Set
          • Wild Card Set
        • Examples of putting PowerFind to use
          • Remove extra blank lines
          • Remove page breaks
          • Change the sequence of a pattern
          • Find two neighboring duplicate paragraphs
          • Change the wording of a repeated phrase containing a variable
        • Use a recently used find or replace expression
        • Save a find or replace expression
        • Using a saved find or replace expression
        • Deleting a saved find or replace expression
        • Using PowerFind Pro
      • Using PowerFind Pro
        • Exercises, or examples of putting PowerFind Pro to use
          • Find a seven-digit phone number
          • Find any number of trailing spaces in a document or tabs at the end of paragraphs
          • Find the invisible null (ASCII (Unicode) 0) character
          • Find repeated groups of characters
          • Find any set of characters
          • Characters with Special Meaning
          • Modifier Characters
          • Parenthesized Expressions
          • Pre-defined Wild Cards
          • User-defined Wild Cards
          • [Σ] (any character from a set Σ excluding Return)
          • [^Σ] (any character not from a set Σ)
          • Characters with a Unique Match
          • Repeat Characters
          • Match Characters
          • PowerFind Pro Find Expressions
          • PowerFind Pro Replace Expressions
          • Definitions in Nisus Writer Express
        • Advanced exercises, or more examples of putting PowerFind to use
          • Swap the sequence of words
          • Find any and/or all words that begin and end with specified characters
          • Change multiple periods to ellipses
          • Make sure your spaces follow the punctuation
          • Make sure your punctuation appears inside quotation marks
          • Replace two or more spaces with one space
          • Find ten-digit phone numbers
  • Displaying & Printing Documents
    • Pagination
      • Set where page breaks appear
      • Display a document as a continuous scroll
        • See where page breaks appear
        • Find page breaks in your document
    • Jump to any page in your document
      • Jump to any page using the menus
      • Jump to any page using the page number display in the Statusbar
    • Alphabetizing (sorting) Paragraphs
      • Sort paragraphs
      • Jumble paragraphs
    • Special “Styles”
      • Plain Text
      • Remove style attributes from text
      • Change the height of text in relation to the baseline
      • Return raised or lowered text to the baseline
      • Cause letter pairs to use ligatures
      • Prevent letter pairs from using ligatures
      • Cause letter pairs to display closer together or further apart
      • Prevent letter pairs from displaying closer together or further apart
      • Color text
      • Highlight text
        • Highlight text using a color other than the current color
        • Remove highlight color from your text
      • Background Color
        • Remove background color from your text
      • How Highlight color and Background Color differ
    • Cleaning Up Documents
    • Change the case of alphabetic characters
      • Make all selected characters UPPERCASE
      • Make all selected characters lowercase
      • Capitalize all selected words
      • Make all selected words appear in SMALL CAPS
      • Reverse the case of selected text
    • Change the appearance of quotation marks
      • Make all selected quotation marks “Smart”
      • Make all selected quotation marks "Plain"
    • Working with Multiple Documents
      • Window Basics
        • Close a window
        • Minimize, or, put a window in the Dock
        • Redisplay a window that has been in the Dock
        • Open a window to its full size
      • Using the Window Menu and Working with Multiple Windows
        • Choose which window displays in front
    • Printing Documents
      • Print an open document
      • Determine how many copies to print
      • Determine which pages of the document print
      • Determine aspects of how your document prints
        • Print pages in reverse order
        • Print page guides and “invisibles”
        • Print odd pages, then even pages
      • Create a PDF file of your Nisus Writer Express document
      • Create a PostScript file of your Nisus Writer Express document
  • Moving Around in Your Documents
    • Moving the insertion point using the keyboard
    • Moving the insertion point using the Go To commands
      • Go to page
      • Go to header/footer
      • Go to or from footnote/endnote to the text
    • Moving the insertion point using the Find tool
    • Moving between Nisus Writer Express documents
• Customizing & Automating Solutions
  • Setting Preferences
    • Using the General Preferences to Control the Application
      • Determine What Happens at Activation
      • Choose the Way in Which Files Save
        • Save files after a certain number of minutes
        • Have the Autosave feature of Nisus Writer Express serve as a “crash recovery” tool
        • Have Nisus Writer Express automatically create backups of your work
          • Save the original file as a “backup”
          • Set what Nisus Writer Express appends to the previous copy’s file name
          • Save an additional copy in another location
          • Set the preferred format and encoding for saved files
        • Save files automatically and never see the Save As dialog, unless you choose itfrom the menu
        • Open automatically saved and closed files
        • What gets saved with a file
      • Determine the way in which files open
      • Open any document as “new” or “Untitled”
    • Choose Various Display Options for Your Documents
      • Invisibles
        • Customize the color of your Invisibles
      • Page Guides
        • Customize the color of your Page Guides
      • Insertion point (caret, I-Beam) width
        • Change the width of the insertion point
        • Change the color of the insertion point
      • WYSIWYG Font Menu
      • Determine the Color of Various Aspects of Your Nisus Writer ExpressWorking Environment
        • Highlight marked text
      • Choose Measurement Display Options For New Documents
      • Determine the unit of measurement in any Nisus Writer Express document
    • Customize Your Clipboards
    • Assign Menu Keys to Menu Commands
      • Remove an existing keyboard shortcut
      • Find whether a key combination has been assigned to a command
    • Set Your Language Preferences
    • Determine What QuickFix Fixes
      • Create a New Glossary
      • Add/remove an entry to or from a Nisus Writer Express Glossary file
      • Activate a Nisus Writer Express Glossary file
      • Enable automatic expansion of Nisus Writer Express Glossary fileabbreviations
      • Create a new glossary abbreviation, or edit an existing abbreviationin an existing Glossary
      • Import a Nisus Writer Classic Glossary file
      • Delete a Nisus Writer Express Glossary file
      • Additional QuickFixes
        • Enter Smart Quotes as you type
        • Superscript ordinals as you type
        • Fix typos as you type
        • Add or subtract, or modify a “typo” that gets fixed
    • Change the Display of the Toolbar
    • Create Your Own Set of Palettes for the Tooldrawer
    • Save Preferences
    • Return All Preferences to Their Original (Shipped) Settings
  • Macros, Skimming the Surface
    • About Macros
      • Use existing macro files and their commands
    • Running Macros
      • Open (“load”) a macro file
      • Run a macro
    • Editing Macros
      • Edit a macro
      • Rename a macro
    • Saving a Macro
    • Deleting Macros
      • Remove a macro file from the menu
      • Delete a macro
    • Undoing a Macro
    • Working with Macro Files
    • Before Creating a Macro
    • Typing Menu Commands
      • Create a new macro file
      • Save the current macro file under a different name
      • Case sensitivity in Menu Command Dialect macros
        • A simple “to do” list
      • Writing an invalid command in a macro
    • Working with Menu Commands
    • Looping and Accessing Other Macros
      • Call one macro from another
  • Macros, the Deeper Workings
    • The Nisus Writer Express Macro Language
  • Writing Perl Scripts
    • The recommended way, to structure Perl Macros.
    • Learn more about Perl
    • Components of a Perl script header
      • #Nisus Macro Block
      • #source { front | next | none | clipboard }
      • #destination { front | next | none | clipboard | new } [replace]
      • #{Send Text as RTF | Send rtf | rtf | text as rtf}
      • #Before Execution
      • #After Execution
      • #End Nisus Macro Block
  • Writing AppleScripts
    • Integrate AppleScript with Nisus Writer Express
      • Write AppleScripts for use in Nisus Writer Express
      • Have AppleScripts open a new file
      • Have AppleScript open a file and perform some tasks
      • See a list of all the AppleScripts commands that Nisus Writer Expressrecognizes
        • Get/Set Text
          • Examples
          • Do Menu Macro
          • Examples
          • Other Examples
• Putting It All Together
  • Nisus Writer Express and the Community of ConnectedApplications
    • The Services menu
    • Using LinkBack
      • What applications support LinkBack
      • Goals and non-goals
      • How you might use LinkBack
        • Use LinkBack with a drawing application
  • Nisus Writer Express and the World Wide Web
    • Insert a link to a location on the World Wide Web
    • Edit an inserted link
    • Remove an inserted link
    • Save a Nisus Writer Express document as an HTML document
    • Edit an HTML document in Nisus Writer Express
  • Handling Communications
    • Standardizing Your Correspondence Stationery
    • Format and print envelopes
• Afterword
  • Send feedback to Nisus Software Inc.
    • See what information you send with Send Feedback…
    • May all your writing “nisus” be a pleasure with Nisus WriterExpress
• Appendices
  • Appendix I
  • Glossary of Useful Terms
  • Appendix II
  • Displaying Fonts and Text
    • About displaying fonts
    • How Nisus Writer Express displays your text
    • Typing On A Computer
    • Typing unusual characters
      • Turn on display of the input (keyboard “flag”) menu
      • Enter a character using the keyboard
      • Type “special” Yiddish characters
    • Set up language support on your Macintosh
      • Enter Unicode text
  • Appendix III
  • From Nisus Writer Classic to Nisus Writer Express
    • Open multilingual Nisus Writer Classic files in Nisus WriterExpress
      • Open a Nisus Writer Classic document with a table
      • More Classic
• Indexes
  • Subject
  • Commands & Screen Messages
  • Index of Figures and Tables