Modify the Appearance of Your File

Using the many tools of Nisus Writer Express you can modify the appearance of the text in your file in a variety of ways. You can change the font (“family”), size, style (“typeface”) and color of text, you can change the margins of the page and the shape of paragraphs with various indents, line wrap areas, tab settings, line spacing and alignment options.

► To control the overall appearance of a longer document, your best solution is to use Styles. These are explained in the section “Style Sheets” beginning on page 128.

The Nisus New File that comes with Nisus Writer Express has a number of Styles.

► To modify Styles to fit your own needs and desires see the section “Edit a style” which begins on page 136.

However if all you want to do is make a quick and simple change to a small area of your text you can do that as well.

► To quickly change the appearance of only a little bit of your text use the appropriate control in the Character palette (or the associated menu). To learn more about the Character palette see “Using the Palette Dock” on page 21 and “The Character palette” on page 25.

► To change the shape of your paragraphs you modify the ruler that displays at the top of the document window and use the settings that appear in the Paragraph palette as explained in “The Paragraph palette” on page 27 and “Format Paragraphs” beginning on page 104.

► To change the margins of the document drag the Page Guides that appear in Page View or set them numerically as explained in “Set the margins of the sections of your document” on page 161.