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by ssampler
2007-11-26 13:36:43
Forum: Nisus Writer Pro
Topic: Can Nisus do this?
Replies: 5
Views: 9040

My mistake-I missed the 'spelling' part of your original post. You can invoke the spelling window and most spell-check commands with menu keyboard shortcuts. In the window, tabs and arrow keys will navigate the left-side panes. To create a macro that will set and remove a bookmark, see: http://www.n...
by ssampler
2007-11-26 12:13:40
Forum: Nisus Writer Pro
Topic: Can Nisus do this?
Replies: 5
Views: 9040

In Word 2004 on my system, the contextual menu invoked by alt-F7 shows entries related to spell checking. Otherwise, Word invokes contextual menus by CTRL-clicking.

-Steve
OS X 10.4.11, PB G4
by ssampler
2007-11-20 09:28:55
Forum: Nisus Writer Pro
Topic: help! text>table =skinny text columns
Replies: 9
Views: 12467

Thank you, Martin. I did not realize that indents could be set separately within each table cell. Fixing the problem is easy: 1) Select the whole table, either by dragging or by clicking in a blank cell and pressing cmd-a. 2) Drag the right-margin icon on the ruler to the right. If the icon is alrea...
by ssampler
2007-11-19 11:47:29
Forum: Nisus Writer Pro
Topic: help! text>table =skinny text columns
Replies: 9
Views: 12467

You are very welcome. I just sent Support an example in which I created a table in NWP, pasted it into TextEdit, where it displays well, then pasted it back into NWP. The pasted version suffers from the 'right margin' problem. The same thing happens when the rtf file containing the table is dragged ...
by ssampler
2007-11-19 08:55:05
Forum: Nisus Writer Pro
Topic: help! text>table =skinny text columns
Replies: 9
Views: 12467

I've had this happen occasionally with NWP and also with Word. It appears as if an unchangeable 'right margin' is set in the table cells. Taking the tabbed text to BBEdit and zapping gremlins didn't help. TextEdit seems somewhat immune, so try that. I didn't save an example, so please send your prob...
by ssampler
2007-11-16 16:50:00
Forum: Nisus Writer Pro
Topic: Changes Word icons to Nisus icons
Replies: 16
Views: 23434

Every once in a while, Finder decides to open one of my '.doc' files in Notetaker. Yet the icon is still pure Word. Go figure.

-Steve
by ssampler
2007-11-12 17:52:26
Forum: Nisus Writer Pro
Topic: Working on multiple documents
Replies: 13
Views: 17312

There's one thing to watch out for: there's currently no way to get the options that are set in the Find window. This means the options have to be hardcoded into the macro. Martin, the Nisus Macro Reference States (p 11) that the option * in 'Find and Replace' will "Use options currently set i...
by ssampler
2007-10-08 13:31:34
Forum: Nisus Writer Pro
Topic: A malfunction in Table row/column delete
Replies: 3
Views: 7250

I think that Geoff's problem would be solved if, after deleting a row or column, NWP did not select the next one. I don't see a good reason for the automatic selection, since to delete a row, it is only necessary to have the cursor in one of its cells.

-Steve
by ssampler
2007-09-29 15:35:42
Forum: Nisus Writer Express
Topic: Document saved to Trash
Replies: 3
Views: 8240

As a start, run Disk Utility to check/fix your drive. (Disk Warrior is even better and worth the price.) Repair permissions. Try deleting the Nisus plist file in your User preferences folder. You might also redownload NWX from Nisus, as one or two people in the past have reported corrupt installatio...
by ssampler
2007-09-28 14:49:00
Forum: Nisus Writer Express
Topic: Slow opening of NWE 2.7
Replies: 3
Views: 8805

Increase memory!

-Steve
by ssampler
2007-09-19 18:50:26
Forum: Nisus Writer Pro
Topic: Page numbering in Nisus Help Manual is wrong for screen use
Replies: 12
Views: 20514

I also strongly support a PDF manual with screen format and 'real' page numbers. Please also include bookmarks and links from the TOC and index as in the BBEdit User Manual, for example.

-Steve
by ssampler
2007-09-18 18:39:25
Forum: Nisus Writer Express
Topic: Upgrade to 3.0 costs money?!
Replies: 24
Views: 40100

I agree that three years of free upgrades to NWX 2 was a generous policy. Actually, I was surprised that Nisus continued NWX at all. I think that a reasonable business strategy for a small company would have been to offer only the $49.00 upgrade to the much more powerful NWP. Supporting one program ...
by ssampler
2007-08-29 07:15:48
Forum: Nisus Writer Pro
Topic: PowerFind OR
Replies: 4
Views: 10410

Much simpler, Martin! I've forgotten how powerful powerfind is.

Steve
by ssampler
2007-08-28 18:17:52
Forum: Nisus Writer Pro
Topic: PowerFind OR
Replies: 4
Views: 10410

Not sure about powerfind, but in powerfind pro it is simple:

(o|a)r


the "|" is the "or" and the () group, so that the translation is "o" or "a" followed by "r"

-Steve
by ssampler
2007-08-27 14:53:51
Forum: Nisus Writer Pro
Topic: help please
Replies: 9
Views: 16017

cmd-click and hold--you should see the entire 'path'--the original folder, and all the enclosing folders. the original guide is within the nisus application itself--actually a package, a special kind of folder. you open it up by control-clicking on the app and selecting the 'show package contents' i...