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Yes, Express can read Classic Nisus Writer documents. There are some limitations, due to features in Classic Nisus Writer not being supported in Express.

However, as more Classic features are added to Express, translation of your Classic Nisus Writer documents will improve.

Moving Classic Nisus Writer documents from an OS 9 machine to an OS X machine results in the file showing up as a Unix Executable File on Mac OS X. This happens because Classic Nisus Writer files have resource forks that store your formatting information. OS X does support this, but PC formatted dri...

If you have made a complete switch from Nisus Writer Classic (6.5 and earlier) to Nisus Writer Express, until such time when we enable User Dictionaries, reading of old Nisus Writer Macros, Glossaries, Stationery Files, etc. we suggest you put those old files (in their folders) from your Nisus Write...

Yes and no. Some of the menu-based macros created with Nisus Writer Classic will just work. Others will have to be re-written, depending on what they do and which menus they rely on. In other words, if the menu exists in the same location as it does in Classic Nisus Writer, it will work. However, si...

Nisus Writer Express is supported by Bookends, EndNote, and Sente.

Our mission is to “enable the creativity of the user.” We try to remove as many (traditional) limitations as possible. (We try never to say “Oh, nobody will need to do that!”) We do not hide features behind multiple layered dialogs, and work hard to make our features as convenient for the user as po...

You can download Nisus Writer Express here.

You can use our Send Feedback feature which is located under the Help menu. You can send a screenshot, or an example document. You can also send us a feature request. Choose the problem type from the pull down menu, describe the problem, send us a screenshot or an example document and press the “Sen...

This is, without a doubt, the most frequently-asked question we hear. If you refer to your Nisus Writer manual or your nearest unabridged dictionary, you can confirm that nisus is an ordinary English word deriving from the Latin Niti meaning “a striving, effort, or endeavor.” It is pronounced like “...

We had a project that we had been working on for about a year, and in August of 2002 Charles Jolley, the developer and owner of Okito Composer, wrote to us and told us he was moving to San Diego to attend school. When we evaluated his word processor, we found that it was very similar in vision to ou...

We spent months examining porting Nisus Writer 6.5 to Carbon. We did not do this because for us, Cocoa offered more features for the same amount of engineering work. As an example, if we had ported to Carbon, our users still wouldn't have had features like Zoom, which comes for free with Cocoa. Then...

Before you begin, please make a back up of the Thesaurus application. We are not responsible for lost data, a non-functioning application, or any other things that happen while you are doing this. The keyboard shortcuts are stored in a file located inside Nisus Thesaurus. Typically this file's path...