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System 7.5/7.6, 8, 9.x, OS X

  • Internet Config support
  • Document stats: word count, grade level, reading ease, etc.
  • Floating tool bars
  • Remember last files used
  • Remember favorite files
  • PowerBook features
  • Stationery & Avery label templates
  • Keyboard shortcuts (control-shift arrows) decrease selections.
  • Command-close box on background window now closes it (used to be command-option close box); command-option close box on a background window does the intuitive thing and closes all windows.
  • Command or Option plus Page Up will take you to the top of the current page (if in the middle of one) or to the top of the previous page (if at the top of one), and Command or Option plus Page Down will take you to the top of the next page.
  • Enabled Page Up and Page Down in graphics layer and Page Layout windows.
  • New keyboard shortcuts are here!
  • Simple keystroke assignment of shortcuts.
  • Shortcuts without the command key.
  • Improved dialog box.
  • The ease-of-use and ultra-utility you've grown to love and expect in Nisus Writer.
  • Made the layout page draw more exactly what will be printed, fixing a bug in which the text seemed to overflow the right margin sometimes.
  • Shift button expands selections, while shift and control together decrease selections. A summary of commands:
left/right arrow: move cursor one character left/right
...+option: move cursor one word left/right
...+command: move cursor to beginning/end of paragraph
up/down arrow: move cursor one line up/down
...+option: move cursor to beginning/end of document
...+command: move cursor to top/bottom of screen
any arrow  
...+shift: extends selection
...+shift & control: shrinks selection
Command+Option plus...  
...Up Arrow Move cursor to beginning of line
...Down Arrow Move cursor to beginning of next line
...Left Arrow Move cursor to beginning of sentence
...Right Arrow Move cursor to beginning of next sentence
...+shift Extend selection
...+shift & control Shrink selection