Polish & Manage Documents

This part of your Nisus Writer Pro documentation contains information that helps you manage and fine tune documents. It also gives you some ideas on how to use Nisus Writer Pro effectively.

While you are in the process of writing, and especially once you have written a complete draft of your document you will probably want to take a closer look at different portions of it. The various ways to do this are highlighted in “View and Work in Documents” and “Move Around in Your Documents”. “Proof Documents” deals with checking your spelling. “Find and Replace Text and Formatting” explains the details of Nisus Writer Pro’s unmatched find/replace tools. If you work in a collaborative environment, or simply want to make notes to yourself in the document, you will want to study the sections “Use Comments” and . “Paginate, Sort and More” shows you how to use the special tools of Nisus Writer Pro to make sure that your text is clean of extraneous characters. “Work with Multiple Documents” shows you how to keep track of open Nisus Writer Pro documents. In addition you see how Nisus Writer Pro handles working with multiple windows (and multiple monitors) as well as automatically merging the contents of one document with another. When you are satisfied with the contents and appearance of your document, “Print Documents” explains how to transfer what you have written from electronic form to paper.

View and Work in Documents 354

Views, Tabs, Sidebars, Splits & Focus 354

Views 354

Sidebars 360

Synchronized Scrolling 361

Splits 363

Zoom In or Zoom Out 373

Focus on Your Writing 375

Typewriter Scrolling 376

Move Around in Your Documents 377

Proof Documents 383

Check Spelling 384

User Dictionaries 391

Use the Nisus Thesaurus 391

Use Multiple Language Dictionaries 394

Hyphenate your text 394

Word counts & text statistics 400

Paginate, Sort and More 419

Line Numbers 411

Pagination 422

Alphabetize (Sort) Paragraphs 428

Special Formatting Tools 428

Clean Up Documents 440

Find and Replace Text and Formatting 441

Normal Find 442

PowerFind 458

PowerFind Pro 477

Use the Formatting Examiner 485

Use Comments 497

Track Changes 521

Work with Multiple Documents 547

Merge Documents 549

Print Documents 555

PDF Export 562

Create a PostScript file 563


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