Clean Up Documents

You may receive e-mail from someone who “SCREAMS” for sentences on end.

You may need to edit your text and then make sure that your text wraps at the appropriate “column” number.

Nisus Writer Pro has the tools to help you out.

Change the case of alphabetic characters

Choose commands from the Transform Text submenu to change the case of text in a selection.

Make all selected characters UPPERCASE

Choose the menu command: Edit > Transform Text > To UPPERCASE.

Change pleasant conversation to SCREAMING TEXT with one command.

This changes the actual characters in your document, exchanging every lowercase character with its corresponding UPPERCASE ASCII (Unicode) equivalent.

Make all selected characters lowercase

Choose the menu command: Edit > Transform Text > To lowercase.

CHANGE SCREAMING TEXT TO pleasant conversation WITH ONE COMMAND.

Capitalize all selected words

Choose the menu command: Edit > Transform Text > To Capitalized.

This makes the first letter of every selected word UPPERCASE.

To Capitalized treats hyphenated compound words such as “easy-to-find” as though they were each separate words resulting in “Easy-To-Find”. Similarly, it treats words separated by a slash as two or more changing “find/replace” into “Find/Replace” . If a word has uppercase characters inside it, To Capitalized makes those lowercase as it capitalizes the word (“lowerCase” becomes “Lowercase”).

Make all selected words appear in sMALL cAPS

Choose the menu command: Edit > Transform Text > To SMALL CAPS.

This changes the current selection so that all lowercase characters are reduced by approximately 75 percent and then exchanged with their equivalent uppercase characters.

This changes the actual characters in your document, exchanging every lowercase character with its corresponding UPPERCASE ASCII (Unicode) equivalent.

Reverse the case of selected text

Choose the menu command: Edit > Transform Text > To Toggled Case.

Change UPPERCASE to lowercase and lowercase to UPPERCASE wItH OnE ComMaNd.

cHANGE uppercase TO LOWERCASE AND LOWERCASE TO uppercase WiTh oNe cOMmAnD.

Change the appearance of quotation marks

If you have Use Smart Punctuation (Including “curly” quotes) turned on in your QuickFix preferences (see “QuickFix Preferences” on page 581 for more information), you can quickly exchange them for straight quotes (for use in a macro, for instance). If you receive a document with quotes of the wrong type, you can easily change them all. Choose commands from the Transform Text submenu to change “Smart Quotes” to "Plain Quotes" (or the reverse).

Make all selected quotation marks “smart”

Choose the menu command: Edit > Transform Text > Plain Quotes to Smart Quotes.

Make all selected quotation marks "plain"

Choose the menu command: Edit > Transform Text > Smart Quotes to Plain Quotes.


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