Nisus Writer Pro User Guide

Close Closes the active window. The macOS automatically saves all documents when you close their windows. Press ⌥ to close all open windows. Press ⌥ to close all open windows.

Revert To Use the commands of the Revert To menu to see earlier versions of the file.

▸Last Opened (time) Reverts the file to its state when it was last opened (regardless of how much time or how many changes and saves have occurred since then).

▸Browse All Versions… Displays the version history of the active document á la Time Machine. See the section “Document version browser”.

Versions Allows opening notable prior versions of the active document in read-only mode. See the section “List prior document versions”.

▸List All Versions Shows a list of all available prior versions of the active document in the Document Manager.

Save Saves the active window. If the document has never been saved, Nisus Writer Pro opens the Save as dialog enabling you to give the file a name, save it to a particular location and choose a format for the file. Nisus Writer Pro saves the current selection or insertion point position as well as the window shape and position in addition to the zoom percentage.

Save As… Saves the active window with a different name and/or different folder location. Format available are Rich Text Format (RTF) (the Nisus Writer Pro default), Document Template, Microsoft Word Format, Rich Text Format Directory (RTFD), Nisus Compressed Rich Text, Plain Text, Nisus Macro, Nisus Perl Macro.

Save Copy As… Saves the active window with a different name and/or different folder location and enables you to continue working on the existing file. The formats available are the same as for Save As….

Duplicate Creates a duplicate copy of the active window. In addition the new document’s title in the Title bar is selected for modification.Press ⏎ to confirm.

Rename… Activates the files title in the Title bar for modification. Press ⏎ to confirm. This capability is also available by clicking the file’s name in the Title bar.

Move To… Opens a sheet with a pop-up menu that enables you to move the active file from its current location to any of the folders you have designated in the Finder as Favorites, any of your attached devices, or “Recent Places”. At the bottom of the menu you can choose Other… which displays a variant of the Save As… dialog. This capability is also available by clicking the file’s name in the Title bar.

Export As PDF… Exports the document of the active window as a PDF. It opens the Save as dialog enabling you to give the file a name, save it to a particular location. This is the same as clicking the Save as PDF button in the Print dialog (though it saves a step).

Export As… Exports your file to a different format such as Microsoft Word Format (binary), Microsoft Office 2007 XML (Office Open XML), Open Document Format (ODF/.odt XML), Rich Text Format (for older applications), Plain Text, HTML and EPUB with a different name and/or different format location.

Mail Choose commands from the Mail submenu to send the active document or a PDF version of it as an email attachment. These are supported only in Mail.app and Entourage.app.

▸Attach to New Message Attaches the current contents of the active document, unsaved or saved to a new email message.

▸Attach PDF to New Message
Attaches a newly created PDF version of the active document to a new email message.

Show Document Manager
Opens the Document Manager which allows you to preview unopened documents. It also lets you open, move or delete them. This is the same as the menu command: Window > Document Manager.

Open from Document Manager
Choose commands from the Open from Document Manager submenus to access all the files handled by the Document Manager. If you create any custom groups, these appear at the bottom of the submenu. The Document Manager is described in detail in the section “Document Manager” beginning on page 80.

▸All Managed Files Lists all files in, and managed by the Document Manager folder.

▸Dropbox Lists all files in the Dropbox folder (if you have a Dropbox account). It does not list any files in any subfolders within the Dropbox. You must first allow Nisus Writer Pro access to the folder.

▸Backups Lists all files in either the alternative backup folder, or that are made automatically in case of a crash.

▸Currently Open Lists all files that are currently open (similar to the files listed at the bottom of the Window menu).

▸Recently Opened Lists all files that were recently opened (similar to the files listed in the menu File > Open Recent.

▸Recently Saved Lists those files that were saved. The number of files is determined by that set in the General Preferences; Keep “x” documents in Open Recent menu.

▸Style Library Lists the Style Library files you have created. Each collection in the Style Library has a file on disk that stores the relevant styles.

▸Templates Lists all those files the you have added to it. The menu always lists the Nisus New File. Any other files you save to it are, by default saved as document templates and open as untitled.

Save in Document Manager
Choose commands from the Save in Document Manager submenus to save the frontmost document and have it managed by the Document Manager. If you create any custom groups, these appear at the bottom of the submenu.

▸All Managed Files Saves the file to the main Document Manager folder that you have set in the Doc Manager Preferences

▸Style Library Saves the file to the Style Library so that any styles in it are available to other files.

▸Templates Saves the file the special Templates folder and automatically sets its type to “.dot”.

Save As in Document Manager…
Choose commands from the Save As in Document Manager… submenus to save a copy of the active document with the option of giving the files new names and have them managed by the Document Manager. If you create any custom groups, these appear at the bottom of the submenu.

▸All Managed Files Saves a copy of the file, with the option of giving it a new name, to the main Document Manager folder that you have set in the Doc Manager Preferences.

▸Style Library Saves a copy of the file, with the option of giving it a new name, to the Style Library so that any styles in it are available to other files.

▸Templates Saves the file, with the option of giving it a new name, to the special Templates folder This causes the Save As dialog to automatically set its type to “.dot”.

Move to Document Manager Choose commands from the Move to Document Manager submenus to “physically move” the active document from its current location on disk to the designated folder and have it managed by the Document Manager.

▸All Managed Files Moves the file to the main Document Manager folder that you have set in the Doc Manager Preferences.

▸Dropbox Moves the file to the Dropbox folder (if you have a Dropbox account). You must first allow Nisus Writer Pro access to the folder.

▸Style Library Moves the file to the Style Library so that any styles in it are available to other files.

Add to Document Manager Choose commands from the Add to Document Manager submenus to create an alias to the active document so that it remains where it was saved on your hard drive, but is nonetheless managed by the Document Manager. If you create any custom groups, these appear at the bottom of the submenu.

▸All Managed Files Adds an alias to the main Document Manager folder that you have set in the Doc Manager Preferences.

▸Style Library Adds an alias to the file to the Style Library so that any styles in it are available to other files.

▸Templates Adds an easily available alias to the file to the Templates group.

Properties… Opens a dialog that enables you to enter a wide variety of meta information that you can insert in your document.

Text Analysis… Opens a sheet that displays a number of details about your document including the number of sentences, the number of words per sentence as well as the Flesch Reading Ease, Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level, and FOG Index scores. A forward pointing arrow that, when clicked, opens a Find Results window listing either selected or all the longest sentences in the document, sorted by size. Clicking any item in the list scrolls to and selects that sentence.

Image Analysis…
Opens a sheet that displays a number of details about the images in your document. See the section “Image Analysis”.

Merge Document…
Merges your open template file with data from the Apple supplied Contacts application, or your own comma-separated value data document. You can choose to have your resulting document saved individually, as one file, or printed.

Page Setup… Customize specific printer options and Nisus Writer Pro printing options by choosing Nisus Writer Pro from the pop-up menu at the top of the dialog. The options in the Page Setup dialog are specific to the printer selected.

Print… Print all or part of a document and specify Nisus Writer Pro printing options.

Edit menu

Undo Reverses the effect of the last action made in the current editing session. Choose Undo repeatedly to step back through all changes made in the active window.

Redo Undo an Undo. Choose Redo repeatedly to redo all recent Undos until the Undo list is empty.

Repeat [Command]
Allows you to repeat the immediately preceding menu command or palette action you performed.

Cut

▸Cut Removes the current selection and inserts it in the current Clipboard, replacing whatever was in the Clipboard.

▸Append Cut Removes the current selection and inserts it at the end of whatever is stored in the current Clipboard.

Copy

▸Copy Inserts a copy of the current selection in the current Clipboard, replacing whatever was in the Clipboard.

▸Append Copy Inserts a copy of the current selection at the end of whatever is stored in the current Clipboard.

▸Copy Text Only Copies only the text, but no formatting information. This is especially useful for taking formatted text from Nisus Writer Pro to another application.

▸Copy to Find Inserts the current selection in the Find box of the Find & Replace window without activating it and without placing the selection on the Clipboard.

▸Copy to Replace Inserts the current selection in the Replace box of the Find & Replace window without activating it and without placing the selection on the Clipboard.

▸Copy Character Formatting
Copies the font and other formatting information of selected text.

▸Copy Paragraph Formatting Copies the ruler information of selected text.

▸Copy Shape Appearance Copies, with certain exceptions, the formatting associated with the selected shape.

▸Copy Document File Path
Copies, the path to the file, separating each nested folder with a slash “/”.

Paste

▸Paste Inserts the contents of the current Clipboard into your document at the insertion point.

▸Swap Paste Swaps the current selection with the contents of the current Clipboard.

▸Paste Text Only Pastes the text on the Clipboard so that it assumes surrounding formatting.

▸Paste Character Formatting
Pastes the font and other formatting information stored on the Clipboard onto selected text.

▸Paste Paragraph Formatting Pastes the ruler information on the Clipboard onto selected text.

▸Paste Shape Appearance Pastes, with certain exceptions, the formatting copied by Copy Shape Appearance onto the selected shape.

Delete Deletes the current selection from your document. The deleted selection is not stored on the Clipboard.

Select Choose commands from the Select submenu to modify and or move the selection.

▸Select All Selects everything in that portion of the active document where the insertion point appears.

▸Select All Document Selects all the text in the document (this includes the footnotes, endnotes, headers and footers as well as any table of contents and index, but excludes any comments and tracked changes information). Comments and tracked changes are considered additions to the document. They may have been created by others and are therefore not selected.

▸Select Word Selects the word in which the insertion point appears or the word (or white space) ahead of the insertion point.

▸Select Sentence Selects the sentence in which the insertion point appears or the sentence ahead of the insertion point, unless the insertion point is at the end of a sentence at the end of a paragraph in which case it selects the preceding sentence.

▸Select Paragraph Selects the paragraph in which the insertion point appears or the paragraph ahead of the insertion point. If the insertion point is at the very end of a paragraph the command selects the paragraph behind the insertion point.

▸Invert Selection Selects everything that is not selected. This is an excellent way to find everything that is not “x”.

▸Next Selection If you have used Previous Selection, this command returns your insertion point to its next selection. If it was a location and not a selection Nisus Writer Pro flashes the line with the color set for Flash Selection in the Appearance preferences.

▸Previous Selection Moves your insertion point to its previous selection. If it was a location and not a selection Nisus Writer Pro flashes the line with the color set for Flash Selection in the Appearance preferences.

▸Flash Selection Causes the insertion point or selected area of your text to become more visible by bringing it to the center of the window and “flashing” the line or selection. If there is no selection, but only an insertion point, the flash narrows to focus on that point. The command works on the active document even if the Find & Replace window is in front of it. Nisus Writer Pro flashes the line with the color set for Flash Selection in the Appearance preferences.

▸Flash Next in Multipart Selection
Causes the next selection of a multipart selection to “flash”. The command works on the active document even if the Find & Replace window is in front of it. Nisus Writer Pro flashes the selection with the color set for Flash Selection in the Appearance preferences.

▸Flash Previous in Multipart Selection
Causes the previous selection of a multipart selection to “flash”. The command works on the active document even if the Find & Replace window is in front of it. Nisus Writer Pro flashes the selection with the color set for Flash Selection in the Appearance preferences.

▸Show Selection in Results Window
Opens a new find results window that shows the current selection. This is most useful if you’ve somehow created a multi-part selection that you want to preserve or review.

▸Select Next in Results Window
Selects the next result in the frontmost find results window. This is useful for quickly jumping through a results list using the keyboard.

▸Select Previous in Results Window
Selects the previous result in the frontmost find results window. This is useful for quickly jumping through a results list using the keyboard.

Complete Presents a “menuoid” that offers words that would complete the word you began to type. Most useful by using its keyboard shortcut (initially set at ⎋).

Expand Glossary
Expands Glossary abbreviations created by using the Glossary tools of the QuickFix preference. This is especially useful for East Asian (ideographic) languages that don’t have spaces between characters.

Transform Text Choose commands from the Transform Text submenu to quickly change the kind of quotes and/or the case of text in a selection.
These commands are not to be confused with the commands with similar names that appear in the menu Format > Character Case. The commands here alter the actual Unicode values (in addition to the appearance) of the characters. If you copy and/or paste the text only at a different location (either in Nisus Writer Pro or some other application) the underlying characters will not change.

▸Plain Quotes to Smart Quotes
Changes all quotes in the current selection to “Smart Quotes” (sometimes called “curly” quotes).

▸Smart Quotes to Plain Quotes
Changes all quotes in the current selection to "Plain Quotes" (sometimes called "dumb" quotes).

▸Strip Diacritics Using services provided by macOS to do the transformation, removes all niqqud and/or diacritical markings from selected text.

▸Strip Combining Marks Using services provided by macOS to do the transformation, removes all combining markings from selected text. Combining marks is a Unicode category that includes all modifier characters that work to augment a base character. It includes things like diacritics and niqqud, but also characters like Combining Enclosing Circle, such as: a⃝, 7⃝, *⃝,

▸To lowercase Changes the current selection to all lowercase characters.

▸To UPPERCASE Changes the current selection to all UPPERCASE characters.

▸To Capitalized Makes the first letters of all words in the current selection uppercase characters. If any uppercase characters appear in the selection (and not at the beginning of words) Nisus Writer Pro makes these lowercase.

▸To S MALL CAPS Changes the current selection so that all lowercase characters are reduced by approximately 75 percent and then exchanged with their equivalent uppercase characters.

▸To Toggled Case Switches UPPERCASE characters in the current selection to lowercase characters and lower case to upper case.

▸Convert Scripts Using services provided by macOS to do the transformation, converts selected scripts to their various identified versions (technical transliterations). The conversions depend on “academic” spellings; transcriptions (based on the sounds of the different texts will not work.

▸To Roman Using services provided by macOS to do the transformation, converts selected scripts to their romanized versions (transliterations).

▸Arabic to Roman Using services provided by macOS to do the transformation, converts selected Arabic texts to their romanized versions (transliterations).

▸Roman to Arabic Using services provided by macOS to do the transformation, converts selected Roman character texts to their Arabic versions (transliterations).

▸Cyrillic to Roman Using services provided by macOS to do the transformation, converts selected Cyrillic character texts to their romanized versions (transliterations).

▸Roman to Cyrillic Using services provided by macOS to do the transformation, converts selected Roman character texts to their Cyrillic versions (transliterations).

▸Greek to Roman Using services provided by macOS to do the transformation, converts selected Greek character texts to their romanized versions (transliterations).

▸Roman to Greek Using services provided by macOS to do the transformation, converts selected Roman character texts to their Greek versions (transliterations).

▸Hebrew to Roman Using services provided by macOS to do the transformation, converts selected Hebrew character texts to their romanized versions (transliterations).

▸Roman to Hebrew Using services provided by macOS to do the transformation, converts selected Roman character texts to their Hebrew versions (transliterations).

▸Convert Asian Scripts Choose commands from the Convert Asian Scripts submenu to convert text in Asian based script systems to other related Asian script representations or to Roman transliterations.

▸To Roman Coverts an Asian script to a roman transliteration (i.e. converts kanji to its underlying Chinese roman reading)

▸Kanji to Hiragana
Coverts Japanese kanji to a Japanese hiragana phonemic reading (useful when unsure of how to read an individual kanji character or word).

▸Full-Width to Half-Width
Coverts a Japanese two byte roman or katakana loan word script to a single byte roman or single byte katakana loanword script (ie. カ to ｶ ).

▸Half-Width to Full-Width
Coverts a Japanese single byte roman or katakana loanword script to a double byte roman or katakana loanword script (ie. ｶ to カ ).

▸Hiragana to Katakana
Coverts a hiragana phonemic script to a katakana phonemic loanword script (i.e. か to カ).

▸Katakana to Hiragana
Coverts a katakana phonemic loanword script to a hiragana phonemic script (i.e. カ to か).

▸Hiragana to Roman
Coverts a hiragana phonemic script to a roman transliteration (i.e. か to ka).

▸Roman to Hiragana
Coverts a roman script to a hiragana phonemic script (i.e. ka toか).

▸Katakana to Roman
Coverts a katakana phonemic loanword script to a roman transliteration (i.e. カ to ka).

▸Roman to Katakana
Coverts a roman script to a katakana phonemic loanword script (i.e. ka to カ).

▸Thai to Roman Coverts a Thai phonemic script to a roman transliteration.

▸Roman to Thai Coverts a roman script to a Thai phonemic script.

▸Hangul to Roman
Coverts a Korean hangul script to a roman transliteration.

▸Roman to Hangul
Coverts a roman script to a Korean hangul scrip.

▸Mandarin to Roman
Coverts a Simplified Chinese script (Mandarin) to a roman transliteration.

▸Convert Character Codes
Choose commands from the Convert Character Codes submenu to convert to and from Unicode code points and character names as well as HTML entities.

▸To Unicode Code Points
Changes the character displayed to its appropriate value in the Unicode codespace; that is, the range of integers from 0 to 10FFFF16.

▸From Unicode Code Points
Changes the character displayed from its Unicode codespace; to its appropriate linguistic glyph.

▸To Unicode Character Names
Changes the character displayed to its appropriate value in the Unicode codespace; that is, the range of integers from 0 to 10FFFF16.

▸From Unicode Character Names
Changes the character displayed from its Unicode codespace; to its appropriate linguistic glyph.

▸To HTLM Entities
Changes the character displayed to its appropriate value in the Unicode codespace; that is, the range of integers from 0 to 10FFFF16.

▸From HTLM Entities
Changes the character displayed from its Unicode codespace; to its appropriate linguistic glyph.

Transform Paragraphs
Choose commands from the Transform Paragraphs submenu to quickly change the sequence of selected paragraphs. A paragraph is any text that ends with a Return character.

▸Sort Ascending (A-Z) Changes the sequence so that selected paragraphs ascend from A - Z and from 1 - “x”.

▸Sort Descending (Z-A) Changes the sequence so that selected paragraphs descend from Z - A and from “x” - 1.

▸Reverse Reverses the sequence of selected paragraphs so that the last appears first, etc.

▸Randomize (shuffle) Changes the sequence so that selected paragraphs appear in a random shuffle.

▸Add Line Breaks Adds line breaks (Return characters) wherever the selected lines wrap.

▸Remove Line Breaks Removes line breaks (Return characters) causing selected paragraphs to become one paragraph. Where two Return characters appear in sequence, causing an empty paragraph that paragraph is maintained.

Find Choose commands from the Find submenu to specify Find and Replace options. Find and Replace are explained in detail beginning on page 441 through page 484.

▸Show Find… Opens the Find & Replace window.

▸Find Next Finds the next occurrence of the Find Expression in the active document without activating the Find & Replace window.

▸Find Previous Finds the preceding occurrence of the Find Expression in the active document without activating the Find & Replace window.

▸Find All Finds all occurrences of the Find Expression in the active document without activating the Find & Replace window.

▸Find All and Show Results Window
Finds all occurrences of the Find Expression in the active document. Opens a new window and displays all occurrences in a list in order of their appearance in the document. Clicking any item in the list selects the corresponding instance in the document.

▸Replace Replaces the selection with the contents of the Replace Expression in the Find & Replace window without activating the Find & Replace window.

▸Replace and Find Replaces the selection with the contents of the Replace Expression and finds the next occurrence of the Find Expression in the active document without activating the Find & Replace window. If the selection does not match the find expression, no replacement is made.

▸Replace All and Show Results Window
Replaces all occurrences of the Find/Replace Expression in the active document. Opens a new window and displays all occurrences in a list in order of their appearance in the document. Clicking any item in the list selects the corresponding instance in the document.

▸Replace All Finds all occurrences of the Find Expression in the active document and replaces them with the contents of the Replace Expression without activating the Find & Replace window.

▸Copy to Find Inserts the current selection in the Find box of the Find & Replace window without activating it.

▸Copy to Replace Inserts the current selection in the Replace box of the Find & Replace window without activating it.

▸Find Next Selected Text Finds the next occurrence of whatever text happens to be selected in the active document without activating or putting that text in the Find what portion of the Find & Replace window.

▸Find All Selected Text Finds all occurrences of whatever text happens to be selected in the active document without activating or putting that text in the Find what portion of the Find & Replace window. This moves the display to the first appearance of the selected text.

▸Scroll to Selection Scrolls the active document to the location of the insertion point/selection. This command functions as does the menu command: Edit > Select > Flash Selection. It causes the insertion point or selected area of your text to become more visible by bringing it to the center of the window and “flashing” the line or selection. If there is no selection, but only an insertion point, the flash narrows to focus on that point. The command works on the active document even if the Find & Replace window is in front of it. Nisus Writer Pro flashes the line with the color set for Flash Selection in the Appearance preferences.

Show Spelling and Grammar
Choose commands from the Spelling submenu to check the spelling of your document. Spelling and other proofing tools is explained in detail beginning on page 383.

▸Spelling Window… Opens the Spelling dialog for you to check the spelling.

▸Thesaurus Window… Opens the Nisus Thesaurus window (not the Language palette that has the thesaurus built into it) for you to check for alternate words.

▸Check Spelling Selects the next misspelled word following the insertion point.

▸Correct Next Spelling
Moves the insertion point to the next “unknown” word and corrects it. If more than one possible alternate spelling exists it opens a windoid with the list of words the dictionary suggests as replacements. Pressing ⏎ replaces that word with the top word in the list. Pressing an arrow key replaces it with the next (and continuing) word in the list.

▸Unlearn Spelling Removes the selected word to the System User Dictionary. This command toggles with Learn Spelling depending on the state of the word selected.

▸Learn Spelling Adds the selected word to the System User Dictionary. This command toggles with Unlearn Spelling depending on the state of the word selected.

▸Ignore Word Causes Nisus Writer Pro to ignore the selected word in the current document without adding it to the System User Dictionary.

▸Prevent Check Spelling in Selection
When applied to arbitrary pieces of text or as part of style definitions, prevents the Spelling Checker from checking. This can be useful when applied to transliterations or “fake Latin” (as in “Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet”).

▸Check Spelling as You Type
Turns on or off Nisus Writer Pro’s ability to draw a red squiggly line beneath misspelled words (as you type).

Speech Choose commands from the Speech submenu to have Nisus Writer Pro start or stop speaking the selected text of your document.

▸Start Speaking Causes Nisus Writer Pro to start speaking your text from the location of your insertion point, or the selected text.

▸Stop Speaking Causes Nisus Writer Pro to halt speaking your text.

Clipboards Enables you to create and edit Clipboards as well as determine which is the “current” Clipboard. By default, at the bottom of the Clipboards submenu four Clipboards are listed Clipboard 1, Clipboard 2, Clipboard 3, Clipboard 4. You can change these in the Clipboard preference dialog. A check mark in the menu indicates the current Clipboard.

▸New Clipboard… Opens the Clipboard preference dialog and creates a new Clipboard.

▸Edit Clipboards… Opens the Clipboard preference dialog.

▸Edit Current Clipboard
Opens the Current Clipboard for editing.
To open any Clipboard to edit its contents press ⌘ as you choose its name from the Clipboards submenu.

▸Show Clipboards Palette Opens the Clipboard palette. This is the same a choosing the menu command: Window > Palettes > Floating Palettes > Clipboard.

Start Dictation Alternately starts and stops transcribing what you say to your Mac.

Special Characters
Choose commands from the Special Characters submenus to insert various characters in your document at the insertion point.

▸Arabic Choose commands from the Arabic submenu to insert various special Arabic characters in your document at the insertion point including: Rial: ﷼ ; Place of Sajdah: ۩ ; Sallallahou Alayhe Wasallam: ﷺ ; Ornate Left Parenthesis: ﴾ ; Ornate Right Parenthesis: ﴿ ; Sign Alayhe Assallam: ؑ ; Sign Rahmatullah Alayhe: ؒ ; Sign Radi Allahou Anhu: ؓ; Sign Sallallahou Alayhe Wassalam: ؐ ; Sign Takhallus: ؔ .

▸Currency Choose commands from the Currency submenu to insert various currency symbols in your document at the insertion point: Sheqel: ₪; Cent: ¢; Dollar: $; Euro: €; Florin: ƒ; Baht: ฿; Rupees: ₨; Generic: ¤; Mill: ₥; Pound: £; Rial: ﷼; Won: ₩; Yen: ¥.

▸Dashes and Hyphens Choose commands from the Dashes and Hyphens submenu to insert various dashes and hyphens in your document at the insertion point: En Dash: –; Em Dash: —; Figure Dash: ‒; Quotation Dash: ―; Swung Dash: ⁓; Hyphen: ‐; Non-Breaking Hyphen: ‑; Soft Hyphen.

▸Greek Choose commands from the Greek submenu to insert various UPPERCASE and lowercase Greek alphabetics in your document at the insertion point.

▸Hebrew Choose commands from the Hebrew submenu to insert various special Hebrew characters in your document at the insertion point. Most of these “niqqud” characters require a pre-existing alphabetic character to display. While these are inserted as single characters, the command Edit > Transform Text > Strip Diacritics removes all but the basic alphabetics.
Those that do not require such a character are: Letter Alef Lamed Ligature ﭏ; Letter Lamed Holam Ligature לֹ; Letter Shin with Shin Dot Ligature שׂ; Letter Sin with Sin Dot Ligature שׁ; Letter Vav Holam Ligature וֹ; Letter Vav Shuruk Ligature וּ; Yiddish Letter Double Vav װ; Yiddish Letter Double Yod ײ; Yiddish Letter Double Yod Patach ײַ; Yiddish Letter Kometz Alef אָ; Yiddish Letter Vav Yod ױ; Punctuation Geresh ׳; Punctuation Gershayim ״; Punctuation Maqaf ־; Punctuation Paseq ׀; Punctuation Sof Pasuq ׃.
Those that do require a pre-existing alphabetic character include: Point Dagesh Or Mapiq, Point Meteg, Point Rafe, Point Shin Dot, Point Sin Dot, Vowel Point Hataf Patah, Vowel Point Hataf Segol, Vowel Point Hiriq, Vowel Point Holam, Vowel Point Patah, Vowel Point Qamatz, Vowel Point Qubutz, Vowel Point Segol, Vowel Point Sheva, Vowel Point Tsere, Accent Darga, Accent Dehi, Accent Etnahta, Accent Geresh, Accent Geresh Muqdam, Accent Gershayim, Accent Iluy, Accent Mahapakh, Accent Merkah, Accent Merkah Kefula, Accent Munah, Accent Ole, Accent Pashta, Accent Pazer, Accent Qadma, Accent Qarneypara, Accent Revia, Accent Segol, Accent Shalshelet, Accent Telisha Gedola, Accent Telisha Qetana, Accent Tevir, Accent Tipeha, Accent Yerah Ben Yomo, Accent Yetiv, Accent Zaqef Gadol, Accent Zaqef Qatan, Accent Zarqa, Accent Zinor, Mark Masora Circle, Mark Upper Dot.

▸Math Choose commands from the Math submenu to insert various mathematical expressions in your document at the insertion point: Fraction (1/4): ¼; Fraction (1/3): ⅓; Fraction (1/2): ½; Fraction (2/3): ⅔; Fraction (3/4): ¾; Multiply ×; Divide ÷; Plus/Minus ±; Minus/Plus ∓; Not Equals ≠; Less Than or Equal To ≤; Greater Than or Equal To ≥; Infinity ∞; Squared ²; Cubed ³; Square Root √; Cube Root ∛.

▸Misc Choose commands from the Misc submenu to insert various arrows, geometric, and other symbols in your document at the insertion point: Arrow Left ←, Arrow Up ↑, Arrow Right →, Arrow Down ↓, Arrow Wrap ↩, Diamond ◊, Diamond (Filled) ◆, Circle ○, Circle (Filled) ●, Triangle ▸, Arrowhead ➢, Arrowhead (Filled) ➤, Diamond Pattern ❖, Box ☐, Box (Checked) ☑, Box (Xed) ☒, Moon ☾, Star ☆, Star (Filled) ★, Sun ☀, Cloud ☁, Lightning ⚡, Snowman ☃, Female Sign ♀, Male Sign ♂, Happy Face ☺, Sad Face ☹, Spade Suit ♠, Diamond Suit ♦, Club Suit ♣, Heart Suit ♥, Musical Clef (G) 𝄞, Musical Note (Eighth) ♪, Beamed Musical Note (Sixteenth) ♬.

▸Quotes Choose commands from the Quotes submenu to insert various arrows, geometric, and other symbols in your document at the insertion point: Single Plain Quote ', Single Smart Quote (Open) ‘, Single Smart Quote (Close) ’, Single Smart Quote (High Reversed 9) ‛, Single Smart Quote (Low 9) ‚, Double Plain Quote ", Double Smart Quote (Open) “, Double Smart Quote (Close) ”, Double Smart Quote (Low 9) „, Single Guillemet (Left Pointing) ‹, Single Guillemet (Right Pointing) ›, Guillemet (Left Pointing) «, Guillemet (Right Pointing) », Corner Bracket (Left) 「, Corner Bracket (Right) 」, White Corner Bracket (Left) 『, White Corner Bracket (Right) 』.

▸Spaces Choose commands from the Spaces submenu to insert various arrows, geometric, and other symbols in your document at the insertion point: Non-Breaking Space, Thin Space, Hair Space, Zero Width Space, Non-breaking Zero Width Space, Zero Width Joiner, Zero Width Non-Joiner.

▸Writing Choose commands from the Writing submenu to insert various arrows, geometric, and other symbols in your document at the insertion point: Bullet •, Lozenge ◊, Copyright ©, Registered Trademark ®, Trademark ™, Section Mark §, Paragraph Mark ¶, Dagger †, Double Dagger ‡, Degree °, Per Mille ‰, Left Half Ring ʿ, Right Half Ring ʾ, Ellipses …, Inverted Exclamation ¡, Inverted Question Mark ¿, Interrobang ‽, Broken Bar ¦, Asterism ⁂.

▸Show Special Characters Palette…
Opens the Special Characters palette enabling one click entry, with the mouse or trackpad, of any special character itemized above.

▸Show Character Catalog…
(Supplied by macOS.) Opens the System’s Characters palette from which you can choose to insert into your document any special character or symbol in the macOS.

▸Customize Special Characters…
Opens a dialog which enables you to modify the any special character’s symbol or name, as well as add new or remove existing special characters. The changes you make appear in the appropriate submenu as well as the Special Characters palette.

Insert menu

Use the Insert menu to add objects (images, etc.), formatting elements (page and column breaks, sections, etc.) and numbering variables, footnotes and/or endnotes, links, and other special content to your document.

New Style Commands from the New Style submenu enable you to create a new style for your document. Using styles to format your documents is explained in detail beginning on page 136.

▸Character Style Based on Selection
Changes the view of your document to Style Sheets and creates a new Character style with the formatting of the selected text.

▸Paragraph Style Based on Selection
Changes the view of your document to Style Sheets and creates a new Paragraph style with the formatting of the selected text.

▸Character Style Changes the view of your document to Style Sheets and creates a new character style.

▸Paragraph Style Changes the view of your document to Style Sheets and creates a new paragraph style.

▸List Style Changes the view of your document to Style Sheets and creates a new list style.

▸Show Style Library Opens the Document Manager and displays the Style Library group of files.

▸Import from Style Library…
Presents a sheet that lists all the styles you have created and saved in your Style Library group of the Document Manager and enables you to check off those you wish to add to the active document.

▸Save to Style Library… Presents a sheet that lists all the styles present in the active document and enables you to save any of them to any one of various style collections in the Style Library.

Special Character
Choose commands from the Special Character submenus to insert various characters in your document at the insertion point. These submenus duplicate those of the menu Edit > Special Characters which is described in detail on page 668.

Directionality Marker
Use the commands in the Directionality Marker submenu in bidirectional text to embed an “Implicit Directional Override”. The different markers allow the bidirectional character types to be overridden when required for special cases, such as for part numbers, addresses and punctuation. These also allow for nested directional overrides. These characters do not display or have any other semantic effect.

▸Reverse Direction Marker
Enters a non-displaying character (that takes up no space) that forces the following text to flow in the opposite direction from that of the preceding text.

▸Left to Right Marker Enters a non-displaying character (that takes up no space) that forces the following text to flow left to right in the midst of right to left text.

▸Right to Left Marker Enters a non-displaying character (that takes up no space) that forces the following text to flow right to left in the midst of left to right text.

Page Break Starts a new page immediately following the insertion point.

Column Break Starts a new column immediately following the insertion point.

Section Break Commands from the Section Break submenu enable you to start a new section immediately following the insertion point.

▸Next Page A new section begins on the following page.

▸Odd Page A new section begins on the following odd page.

▸Even Page A new section begins on the following even page.

▸Same Page A new section begins at the insertion point on the current page.

Automatic Number
Choose commands from the Automatic Number submenu to insert into your document numbers that automatically increment and sort.

▸Page Number Inserts the number of the current page (of the current section) at the insertion point in the active window.

▸Pages in Document Inserts the total number of pages in the document at the insertion point in the active window.

▸Section Number Inserts the number of the current section at the insertion point in the active window.

▸Pages in Section Inserts the total number of pages in the current section at the insertion point in the active window. The number of pages in this little section dealing with the commands of the Insert menu is -PAGES IN SECTION-.

▸Character Count Inserts the total number of characters in the document at the insertion point in the active window. The number of characters in this document is 0. This matches the information in the Statistics palette.

▸Word Count Inserts the total number of words in the document at the insertion point in the active window. The number of words in this document is 0. This matches the information in the Statistics palette.

▸Paragraph Count Inserts the total number of paragraphs in the document at the insertion point in the active window. The number of paragraphs in this document is 0. This matches the information in the Statistics palette.

Date and Time Choose commands from the Date and Time submenu to insert various date and time options

▸Current Time Inserts the current time into your document. If you set your time stamp to display seconds, the stamp updates approximately every second. If you set your time stamp to display minutes, the time stamp updates approximately every minute.

▸Current Date Inserts the current date into your document. The date updates daily after midnight.

▸Current Date & Time Inserts the current time and date into your document. If you set your time stamp to display seconds, the stamp updates approximately every second. If you set your time stamp to display minutes, the time stamp updates approximately every minute. All other time stamps update approximately every hour.

▸Fixed Current Time Inserts the current time, that does not update, into your document.

▸Fixed Current Date Inserts the current date, that does not update, into your document.

▸Fixed Current Date & Time
Inserts the current, static, time and date, into your document.

▸Document Creation Date
Inserts the date the document was created into your document. This date does not update.

▸Document Creation Date & Time
Inserts the date and time the document was created into your document. This date and time does not update.

▸Document Last Saved Date
Inserts the date the document was last saved. This displays its date only when you save the file after insertion. It does not display the previous time the file was saved. This updates every time you save.

▸Document Last Saved Date & Time
Inserts the date and time the document was last saved. This displays its information only when you save the file after insertion. It does not display the previous time the file was saved. This updates every time you save the file.

▸Document Last Printed Date
Inserts the date the document was last printed. This displays its date only when you print the file after insertion. It does not display the previous print time. This updates every time you print the file.

▸Document Last Printed Date & Time
Inserts the date and time the document was last printed. This displays its information only when you print the file after insertion. It does not display the previous time the file was printed. This updates every time you print the file.

▸Custom Date & Time… Displays a sheet enabling you to customize date and time formats.

▸Configure Date & Time Formats…
Displays a sheet that enables you to access and customize the date and time formats portion of the System Preferences.

Document Property
Choose commands from the Document Property submenu to insert various bits of meta-information about your file.

▸Author Inserts the “author” name as designated in the General portion of the Nisus Writer Pro Preferences.

▸Company Inserts the name of the company as designated in the Properties… dialog (choose the menu command: File > Properties…).

▸Copyright Inserts the copyright information as designated in the Properties… dialog (choose the menu command: File > Properties…).

▸Title Inserts the title as designated in the Properties… dialog (choose the menu command: File > Properties…).

▸Subject Inserts the subject as designated in the Properties… dialog (choose the menu command: File > Properties…).

▸Keywords Inserts the key words as designated in the Properties… dialog (choose the menu command: File > Properties…).

▸Comments Inserts the comments as designated in the Properties… dialog (choose the menu command: File > Properties…).

▸File Name Inserts the name of the file as it appears in the title bar (without its extension: RTF, DOC, etc.).

▸File Name with Extension
Inserts the name of the file as it appears in the title bar (with its extension: RTF, DOC, etc.).

▸File Path Inserts the path to the file on the volume (hard drive) on which the file was saved.

▸File Size (in Bytes) Inserts the size of the file (in bytes). The size of this document saved on disk (in Nisus Writer Pro) is 90388895 bytes.

▸File Size (in Kilobytes) Inserts the size of the file (rounded, in kilobytes). The size of this document saved on disk (in Nisus Writer Pro) is 88270 kilobytes.

▸File Size (in Megabytes) Inserts the size of the file (rounded, in megabytes). The size of this document saved on disk (in Nisus Writer Pro) is 86 megabytes.

▸Custom Property Choose commands from the menu command: Insert > Document Property > Custom Property to insert into your document special properties that you designate in the Properties… dialog (choose the menu command: File > Properties…).

▸Edit Custom Property
Enables you to create custom properties to insert in your document. For example, this document has a custom property “Physical Page #” that appears on “logical page” 381. Properties created here appear on the Custom Property submenu.

▸Edit Properties… Opens the Properties dialog where you can enter and/or change any of the properties you have set.

Glossary Use commands from the Glossary submenu to edit and insert your glossary abbreviations.
Any Glossary files you have appear, in alphabetical order beneath Glossary Entry Break. Choose the Glossary file name to open it for editing. Choose any of the Glossary file’s abbreviations from its submenu to enter its text in the active window.

▸Edit Glossaries… Opens the QuickFix preferences window enabling you to work with your Glossary files as explained in the section: “Glossaries and macOS System-Wide Replacements“ beginning on page 583.

▸Glossary Entry Break
When in a Glossary document, starts a new Glossary entry immediately following the insertion point. This command is only available in a Glossary type file as illustrated in Figure 503 on page 584.

Merge Placeholder
Choose commands from the Merge Placeholder submenu to insert into your document placeholders that you can use to fill with customized text as well as merge a template with data. While you can create any merge placeholders you want, the set that appears in the submenu are among the most common fields that would be filled from the Apple supplied Contacts application: First Name, Last Name, Email, Phone, Mobile Phone, Address, Address (street), Address (city), Address (zip), Address (state), Address (country). Merging files is explained in detail beginning on page 549.

▸Merge Record Number Inserts the placeholder for the number of the actual record in the data document.

▸Other… Opens a dialog that allows you to choose from any of the fields in the Apple supplied Contacts application, create a placeholder of your own design, or create a placeholder that uses the output of Perl code you create.

▸Merge Document… Merges your open template file with data from the Apple supplied Contacts application, your own comma-separated value data document. You can chose to have your resulting document saved individually, as one file, or printed. This is the same command as File > Merge Document….

Footnote Inserts a footnote at the location of the insertion point. Footnotes are explained in detail beginning on page 257.

Endnote Inserts an endnote at the location of the insertion point. Endnotes are explained in detail beginning on page 257.

Comment Adds a comment to your document, opening the Comments sidebar if it is hidden. This is the same as the menu command: Tools > Comments > Add Comment.

Hyperlink Use the commands in the Hyperlink submenu to add edit and remove hyperlinks from your document.

▸Add Link to URL… Displays a sheet that enables you to enter a URL and the clickable text to insert in your document. If a URL is on the active Clipboard that URL appears in the Link destination field.

▸Add Link to File… Displays the Open dialog enabling you to select a file on any of your connected hard drives; when the link is clicked, the linked file opens in the original application.

▸Add Link to Content… Adds a hyperlink to some other content in your document. See the section “Link to document content”.

▸Edit Link… When hyperlinked text is selected, displays a sheet that enables you to enter or modify a URL, linked-to file or bookmark, and the clickable text to insert in your document.

▸Remove Link Removes a hyperlink from selected text.

Bookmarks Commands from the Bookmarks submenu enable you to mark a selection of text to which you can jump and/or cross-reference. Bookmarks are explained in detail beginning on page 299.

▸Add Bookmark Creates a bookmark using selected text. If or when the bookmarked text changes, the name of the bookmark also changes.

▸Add Bookmark As… Presents a dialog enabling you to name a bookmark of selected text. If or when the bookmarked text changes, the name of the bookmark remains unchanged.

▸Rename Bookmark… Presents a dialog enabling you to edit the name of bookmarks created using Add Bookmark As….

▸Remove Bookmark Removes a bookmark from selected text.

▸Select Cross-References
Selects all cross-references (as a multi-part selection) that target the currently selected bookmark.

▸Show Cross-References in New Window
Opens a Find Results window listing all cross-references that target the currently selected bookmark.

▸Copy New Cross-Reference…
Copies a new cross-reference to the currently selected content. See the section “Copy a new cross-reference”.

▸Copy Link to Bookmark…
Copies a new intra-document link that targets the currently selected bookmark.

▸Show Bookmarks in Navigator
Displays all bookmarked text in a list to a sidebar of the document window (depending on your choice in the menu command: View > Navigator > Attach on Left Side). Clicking one of the items in the list moves the selection to that marked text.

▸Go to Bookmark Opens a variant of the Go to Content dialog that allows you to quickly jump to a particular bookmark.

▸Select Next Bookmark
Selects the next portion of your document that has been bookmarked.

▸Select Previous Bookmark
Selects the previous portion of your document that has been bookmarked.

Cross-references
Choose commands from the Cross-references submenu to enter and manage their appearance in your document. All these commands (except for Insert Cross-reference…) are available from the contextual menu when cross-referenced text is selected.

▸Insert Cross-reference… Presents a dialog that enables you to add a cross-reference to some other content in your document. For more details see the section “About Cross-References”.

▸Copy New Cross-reference…
Copies a new cross-reference to the currently selected content. See the section “Copy a new cross-reference”.

▸Find All Broken Cross-references…
Opens a find results window that lists all broken cross-references and intra-document links in your document. See the section “Broken cross-references”.

▸Go to Target When a cross-reference is selected, jumps to the bookmarked text.

▸Display Text: This is not an actual command, but a description of the following commands. You can display your cross-referenced text as any of the following. These are all the options available in the Insert Cross-reference sheet.

▸Page Number Converts your displayed cross-referenced text to show the page number.

▸Paragraph Number Converts your displayed cross-referenced text to show the paragraph number.

▸Line Number Converts your displayed cross-referenced text to show the line number.

▸Section Number Converts your displayed cross-referenced text to show the section number.

▸List Item Number Converts your displayed cross-referenced text to show the list item number.

▸Bookmarked Text Converts your displayed cross-referenced text to show the bookmarked text.

▸Bookmark Name Converts your displayed cross-referenced text to show the bookmark’s name (when the bookmark was created using Add Bookmark As…).

▸“Above” or “Below” Adds the word “above” or “below” the cross-referenced text.

▸Link in PDF Adds a live link to cross-referenced text when printing as a PDF.

▸Include “Above” or “Below” Adds the word “above” or “below” to cross-referenced text when printing as a PDF.

Table… Inserts a new table. This is the same as the menu command: Table > New Table….

Image
Choose commands from the Image submenu to insert and edit images.

▸Insert Image… Adds a new image to your document. See the section “Import Images”.

▸Save Image… Allows you to export the selected image to a file on disk. See the section “Export an Image”.

▸Show Linked File in Finder
If the selected image is linked to a file on disk, this command will reveal that file in the Finder. See the section “Link to File”.

▸Image Information This submenu will display information about the selected image and allow you to copy it to the clipboard if desired. See the section “View image information”.

▸Resize Image… Shows a dialog so you can resize the selected image numerically. See the section “Resize an Image”.

▸Restore Original Size Reverts the selected image to its original size and proportions. See the section “Restore an image’s original size”. This menu is disabled if you have not selected an image, or it already matches its original size.

▸Restore Original Proportions
Reverts the selected image to its original proportions (aspect ratio). See the section “Restore an image’s original proportions”. This menu is disabled if you have not selected an image, or it already matches its original proportions.

▸Remove Cropping Removes all cropping from the selected image. See the section “Remove cropping”. This menu is disabled if you have not selected an image, or it is not cropped.

▸Padding… Shows a dialog allowing you to enter padding amounts numerically. See the section “Image padding”.

▸Opacity Commands on this submenu manipulate the selected image’s opacity. See the section “Image opacity”.

▸Border Line Commands on this submenu control the selected image’s border. See the section “Image borders”.

▸Border Thickness Commands on this submenu control the selected image’s border. See the section “Image borders”.

▸Border Color Commands on this submenu control the selected image’s border. See the section “Image borders”.

▸Image Placement
Submenus allow you to control the placement of the selected image:

▸Inline with Text Converts a floating image to a an image that functions as if it were a character in your text.

▸Floats with Paragraph
Converts an inline image, or a floating image that is fixed to a page to an image that floats with the paragraph to which it is anchored.

▸Floats on Page of Paragraph
Converts an inline image, or an image that is floats with a paragraph to which it is anchored to a particular paragraph to an image that is fixed to the location on the page where it’s anchored paragraph appears.

▸Extract Text From Image Uses optical character recognition (OCR) to detect and extract editable text from the selected image. See the section “Extract Text from an Image (OCR)”.

View menu

Choose commands from the View menu to see your file in different ways.

Draft View Displays your current document as free-flowing text, independent of how it would appear printed on paper.

Page View Displays your current document as it would appear printed on paper.

Style Sheet Displays the various styles in your current document and enables you to edit them.

Ancillary Content
Choose commands from the Ancillary Content submenu to exclusively view and edit particular ancillary content in your document and not the main text.

▸Notes View Displays all and only the footnotes and/or endnotes in your document in the main document window area.

▸Comments View Displays all and only the comments in your document in the main document window area.

▸Tracked Changes View Displays all and only the tracked changes in your document in the main document window area.

Split View Choose commands from the Split View submenu to add or remove and work with additional views of your text inside the document window.

▸Add Split Splits the active document window so that an additional view of your text is available. The new split of the window initially displays the same text as the area displayed before the split, regardless of the insertion point location. The active insertion point remains in the portion of the document as it was before the split occurred. The split always occurs below or to the right of the split with the active insertion point.

▸Remove Split Removes the active split from the document window. As you choose Remove Split an overlay banner appears indicating which portion of the window will close.

▸Remove All Other Splits Removes all but the active split from the document window. As you choose Remove All Other Splits overlay banners appear indicating which portions of the window will close.

▸Add Split Showing Notes
Splits the active document window so that an additional view of your text is available showing any footnotes or endnotes in your document. The new split of the window displays the note text corresponding to the note reference in the text.

▸Add Split Showing Comments
Splits the active document window so that an additional view of your text is available showing any comments in your document. The new split of the window displays the comments scrolled to the area corresponding to the area of the main text.

▸Add Split Showing Tracked Changes
Splits the active document window so that an additional view of your text is available showing any tracked changes in your document. The new split of the window displays the tracked changes scrolled to the tracked changes corresponding to the area of the main text.

▸Add Split Showing Style Sheet
Splits the active document window so that an additional view of your text is available showing any styles in your document. The new split of the window displays the formatting associated with the selected text in the main text.

▸ Vertical Orientation Determines the orientation of all the splits in your window so that they all line up side by side.

▸ Horizontal Orientation
Determines the orientation of all the splits in your window so that they all line up one above the other.

▸Next Split Activates the next split (below/right of the active split). If only one split exists, or the active split is at the bottom or the far right, the activation circulates.

▸Previous Split Activates the previous split (above/left of the active split). If only one split exists, or the active split is at the top or the far left, the activation circulates.

Enter/Exit Full Screen
Displays your current document so that it fills the entire screen, embedding the Palette Dock in the document window (if it is visible) and hiding the Menu Bar.
To view the Menu Bar move your pointer to the area where the Menu Bar would be visible.
You can continue to use the commands of Nisus Writer Pro by using the Menu Keys equivalents.
You can exit Full Screen view choosing Exit Full Screen, or choosing another view from the View menu, or by pressing the esc (escape) key.

Document Tabs Use commands of the Document Tabs submenu to organize your document windows in a tabbed interface (familiar from Web browsers). The commands are duplicated on the menu: Window > Document Tabs.

▸Show Tab Bar Displays a Tab Bar beneath the Toolbar and above the Horizontal Ruler (if it is visible). At the far right a Plus + sign enables you to open a new untitled document as a new tab. If multiple tabs are open, a close button appears at the left edge of the tab. The document’s name appears in the center of the tab. Whichever tab is active determines the name of the file in the title bar of the window.

▸Use Tabs Use commands of the Use Tabs submenu to determine whether or not tabs are created when you choose the menu command; File > New. If, however, you click the Plus + and have chosen the menu command: View > Document Tabs > Use Tabs > Never, a new untitled document opens in its own window.

▸Automatic If a window has a tab, this causes new tabs to appear in that window every time you choose the menu command: File > New.

▸Always Every time you choose the menu command: File > New (or click the Plus + sign or open an existing document) the Untitled, or existing, document will appear with it’s Tab Bar displayed and be added to the window of the active document.

▸Never Causes all new untiled documents to open in a new window, even if you have the Tab Bar showing in another window.

▸New Tab Creates a new document window (based on the Nisus New File) embedded in the active window.

▸Move Tab to New Window
Removes the active tab from its window and creates a new window (without the Tab Bar showing).

▸Show Next Tab Activates the next tab to the right of the currently active tab (regardless of which tab had been created first, or which had most recently been edited). When it reaches the furthest right tab it selects the first tab at the far left.

▸Show Previous Tab Activates the next tab to the left of the currently active tab (regardless of which tab had been created first, or which had most recently been edited). When it reaches the furthest left tab it selects the last tab at the far right.

▸Merge All Windows Merges all open windows into one window with many tabs. Even though all the windows may exist as tabs, each tab’s name appears at the bottom of the Window menu.

Zoom In Increases the display size of your document to the next higher percentage in the Zoom submenu.

Zoom Out Decreases the display size of your document to the next lower percentage in the Zoom submenu.

Zoom Choose commands from the menu View > Zoom to display your document at various preset percentages 800%, 600%, 400%, 300%, 250%, 200%, 175%, 150%, 125%, 100%, 75%, 50%, 25%, or 10% to set your own percentage (Other…). In addition…

▸Show Text Width Shows the maximum width of the text of your document in Page View, hiding the margins, increasing/decreasing the zoom based on the size of the window.

▸Show Page Width Shows the maximum width of your document in Page View, increasing/decreasing the zoom based on the size of the window.

▸Show Entire Page Shows the entire width and height of your document in Page View, increasing/decreasing the zoom based on the size of the window.

Focus Mode Choose commands from the Focus Mode submenu to set the amount of text surrounding your insertion point Nisus Writer Pro displays brightly among a screen of dimmed text. You can set the dim amount in the Appearance preferences.

▸None Displays all the text of your document window with no dimming.

▸Line Displays only one line of text in your document brightly while dimming all the surrounding text.

▸Paragraph Displays only one paragraph of text in your document brightly while dimming all the surrounding text.

Dark Mode Choose commands from the Dark Mode submenu to control which appearance mode Nisus Writer uses. See the section “Dark Mode”.

▸Automatic Use the same appearance as the macOS.

▸Light Mode Always use Light Mode.

▸Automatic Always use Dark Mode.

▸Open Preferences... Open the Appearance Preferences so you can adjust all Dark Mode settings.

Typewriter Scrolling
Choose Typewriter Scrolling to keep the insertion point at a certain location relative to the top of the document window. The percentage is set in the General preferences of Nisus Writer Pro.

Synchronize Scrolling…
Choose Synchronize Scrolling… to have two open documents scroll in tandem. An overlay banner appears directing you to “Click another open document area to synchronize scrolling…”.

Rulers Choose commands from the Rulers submenu to display a horizontal and/or vertical ruler as well as determine the kinds of units the rulers count in.

Show Rulers Shows or hides whatever rulers are checked in the portion of the menu immediately below.

Horizontal Ruler Displays a ruler (with certain paragraph formatting tools) at the top of the Nisus Writer Pro document window.

Vertical Ruler Displays a ruler along the left edge of the Nisus Writer Pro document window.

Other commands of the Rulers submenu enable you to choose the units displayed on the ruler. You can choose from among Centimeters (cm), Inches (in), Millimeters (mm), Picas (pc), or Points (pt). What you choose here overrides the setting in the New File preferences of Nisus Writer Pro for the active file only.

Toolbar Choose commands from the menu View > Toolbar to customize the display of the Toolbar.

▸Show Toolbar Turns on or off the display of a bar of tools at the top of the Nisus Writer Pro document window.

▸Customize Toolbar… Opens a sheet that enables you to customize the appearance of the Toolbar.

▸Add Custom Toolbar Item…
Opens a dialog that enables you to add any command on the Nisus Writer Pro menus (and any associated image) to the Toolbar. Adding a custom Toolbar item is explained in detail beginning on page 611.

▸Manage Custom Toolbar Items…
Opens a dialog that enables you to manage the custom Toolbar items you have added to the Toolbar.

Touch Bar Choose commands from the menu View > Touch Bar to use either the physical Touch Bar on certain Macintosh models or the virtual Touch Bar enabled by an app such as Touché.

▸Add Custom Touch Bar Item…
Opens a dialog that enables you to add any command on the Nisus Writer Pro menus (and any associated image) to the Touch Bar. This is the same process as adding a custom Toolbar item, which is explained in detail beginning on page 611.

▸Manage Custom Touch Bar Items…
Opens a dialog that enables you to manage the custom Touch Bar items you have added to the Touch Bar.

Palettes Choose commands from the menu View > Palettes to customize the display of the Palettes.

▸Show Palettes Turns on or off the display any floating palettes as well as a dock of tools to the right or left side of the Nisus Writer Pro document window (depending on the side set in the General preferences of Nisus Writer Pro).

▸Show Palette Dock Turns on or off the display Palette Dock.

▸Customize Palette Dock…
Opens a window enabling you to extensively customize the Palette Dock.

▸Palette Dock Placement Choose commands from the Palette Dock Placement submenu to determine where your Palette Dock appears on your screen.

▸Floating Window Causes the Palette Dock to float independently of any document windows you have open. The controls of one Palette Dock will affect any active window.

▸Attach to Document Left
Embeds the Palette Dock in the left side of each document window, below the Toolbar. Each window will have its own Palette Dock. If you have set the General preferences of Nisus Writer Pro to have it display on the right, this command can override the preference on a per-window basis.

▸Attach to Document Right
Embeds the Palette Dock in the right side of each document window below the Toolbar. Each window will have its own Palette Dock. If you have set the General preferences of Nisus Writer to have it display on the left, this command can override the preference on a per-window basis.

▸Palette Dock Resizes Automatically
Not all palette groups have the same number of palettes, nor do they require the same amount of vertical space. Choosing this command (checking it) causes the Palette Dock to shrink or enlarge based on the requirements of each palette group.

▸Switch to Palette Group Use the commands of the Switch to Palette Group submenu to switch from one palette group to another. While it may be more tedious to choose these commands from the menu, you can assign keyboard shortcuts to them in the Menu Keys preferences, thereby enabling quick access to the different palette groups from the keyboard.

▸Show Floating Palettes Shows or hides any palettes floating outside the Palette Dock. This has no effect on the Palette Dock itself.

▸Floating Palettes Choose commands from the Floating Palettes submenu to cause any palette to float independent of the Palette Dock (even if a copy of that palette is already in the Dock. The palettes are listed and briefly described (with cross-references to where they are discussed in greater detail) beginning on page 33.

Navigator Choose commands from the menu View > Navigator to customize its display.

▸Show Navigator Turns on (checked) or off (unchecked) the display of a (resizable) sidebar on the left side Nisus Writer Pro document window that lists all the bookmarks or table of contents entries in the document.

▸Attach on Left Side Causes the Navigator to display on the left side of the document window. Toggle this off to have it display on the right.

▸Show Bookmarks Causes the Navigator to display (checked) or hide (unchecked) the bookmarks in your document. Show Bookmarks and Show Table of Contents toggle one another.

▸Show Table of Contents Causes the Navigator to display the (active) table of contents of your document. Show Bookmarks and Show Table of Contents toggle one another.

Status Bar Toggles on and off the Status Bar at the bottom of the document window. The Status Bar is discussed in detail beginning on page 17.

Notes Choose commands from the Notes submenu to view your notes in various ways.

▸Notes View Displays all the notes of your document. This automatically turns on the command Add Split Showing Notes though it hides the main text.

▸Add Split Showing Notes
Splits the document window to show the notes and the main text above. The two views of the document scroll synchronously so that as new not markers appear in the main text the notes scroll to display the corresponding note text.

▸Go to Note Reference When in Notes View this command closes the notes and selects the note reference in the main text. When in a split showing notes the command selects the note reference and activate the main text while leaving the split showing the notes as they were.

▸Select Next Note Selects the next note reference number in the document (this circulates to the beginning of the document after reaching the last note).

▸Select Previous Note Selects the previous note reference number in the document (this circulates to the end of the document after reaching the first note).

Comments Choose commands from the Comments submenu to view your comments in various ways.

▸Show Comments Toggles on (checked) or off (unchecked) the display of any comments that may have been added to the document. Nisus Writer Pro is initially set to display the comments in a sidebar.

▸Comment Options… Opens a window that enables you to set a wide variety of display options for your comments. The options can be set to apply differently for each document.

▸Show Comment Icons in Margin
Turns on/off the display of a small comment note icon in the margin wherever a comment has been added to your document. Double-clicking the note icon opens the Comments if they are closed. If any comments appear in the document an icon appears beside each paragraph when the pointer hovers in the margin at the paragraph’s start. The comment icons are displayed on a per-paragraph basis (one icon per paragraph no matter how many comments are attached to that paragraph), but if you click the icon the text the comments are applied to is selected, which is not necessarily the entire paragraph. Control or Right click the mouse on the icon to display a contextual menu with additional commands for working with your comments.

▸Show Comment Highlighting in Text
Turns on/off a highlight for the selected text to which a comment has been added.

▸Show Comments Sidebar
Shows the comments in a sidebar on the right or left side of the main text of the document.

▸Show Comments Split View
Shows the comments in a split view beneath the main text of the document.

▸Go to Next Comment Selects the contents of the next comment in your document. This does not circulate through and return to the beginning.

▸Go to Previous Comment
Selects the contents of the preceding comment in your document. This does not circulate through and return to the end.

Track Changes
Choose commands from the Track Changes submenu to view your tracked changes in various ways.

▸Show Changes Toggles on (checked) or off (unchecked) the display of any changes that may have been added to the document. Nisus Writer Pro is initially set to display the comments in a sidebar.

▸Track Change Options…
Opens a window that enables you to set a wide variety of display options for your tracked changes. The options can be set apply differently for each document..

▸Show Change Icons in Margin
Turns on/off the display of a small tracked change icon in the margin wherever a tracked change has been made to your document. Clicking the icon selects the area changed It also displays a contextual menu with additional commands for working with your tracked changes.

▸Show Change Highlighting in Text
Turns on/off a highlight for the text to which a tracked change has been made.

▸Show Changes Sidebar
Shows the tracked changes in a sidebar on the right or left side of the main text of the document.

▸Show Changes Split View
Shows the tracked changes in a split view beneath the main text of the document.

▸Select Next Change Selects the next tracked change in your document. This does not circulate through and return to the beginning.

▸Select Previous Change Selects the preceding tracked change in your document. This does not circulate through and return to the beginning.

Go to Page… Opens a dialog that enables you to enter any page number of your document to which you wish to jump. You can choose between the logical or physical page number. If you have multiple sections in your document jumping to the logical page number takes you to that page in the current section.

Go to Header Moves your insertion point to the closest header area and highlights all text there.

Go to Footer Moves your insertion point to the closest footer area and highlights all text there.

Page Guides Choose commands from the menu View > Page Guides to affect the functioning and display of page guides.

▸Show Page Guides When in Page View, displays a line that defines the margins in the Nisus Writer Pro document window. It also indicates where to click to add text for a header or footer.

▸Lock Page Guides When in Page View, prevents dragging the line around the margins in the Nisus Writer Pro document window. This is automatically turned on when Show Page Guides is turned off (page guides are not visible).

Show Invisibles
Displays various markings in the text to indicate location of spaces, tabs, inserted page and section breaks, and Return characters. These are explained in detail on page 589.

Show Paragraph Formatting Icons
Displays small ruler and paragraph icons similar to those that appear on the Status Bar. These icons contain all the formatting information of the current ruler or paragraph level style. They can be dragged and dropped elsewhere in your document (anywhere in a paragraph, not in the margin) thereby applying the relevant formatting elsewhere. Clicking the icon displays the same menu commands as clicking its matching icon on the Status Bar.
If a paragraph has one of the Grouping options of the Paragraph palette assigned to it, a little Paragraph Joining icon also appears in the margin. Right, or Control-clicking the icon displays a menu with the Grouping options.

Line Numbers Choose commands from the Line Numbers submenu to cause numbers to appear in Page View (outside the margin) to the left of each line of text. The commands are each exclusive of one another. Line numbers are only “meaningful” in Page View as there are no “hard” lines in Draft View and Full Screen View. When in Draft View choose Show Paragraph Numbers This Section.

▸Not Shown This Section
Prevents line numbers from appearing in the section where the insertion point appears.

▸Continue From Previous Section
Causes the line numbers to display and continue numbering from the previous section (unless the previous section does not display numbers in which case the numbers begin again at the number designated in the Line Numbers palette).

▸Restart This Section Causes the line numbers to display (in the section where the insertion point appears) beginning at the number designated in the Line Numbers palette.

▸Restart Every Page Causes the displayed line numbers to restart numbering on every page beginning at the number designated in the Line Numbers palette.

▸Show Paragraph Numbers This Section
Causes the paragraph numbers (which, depending on the width of your window, may be the same as line numbers) to display (in the section where the insertion point appears) beginning at the number designated in the Line Numbers palette.

▸Restart Paragraph Numbers This Section
Causes the displayed paragraph numbers to restart numbering in the selected section.

▸Show Pleading Page This Section
Displays line numbers for the designated section appropriate for a legal “Pleading Page” as explained on page 417.

▸Show Line Numbers Palette
Opens the Line Numbers palette so you can customize the appearance and other settings of the line numbers.

Format menu

Choose commands from the Format menu to alter the display of text of your document. Using styles to format your documents is explained in detail beginning on page 136.

Remove Formatting Except Styles
Removes all formatting, except “language” from selected text except for applied Styles.

Remove Formatting and Styles
Removes all formatting (both character and paragraph, but not “List” styles and not language) from selected text and applies the “Normal” style to the selection.
When in the Find & Replace window this command displays as Any Formatting. In this instance it functions the same as having the Formatting Sensitive checkbox unchecked.

Character Style
Choose commands from the menu Format > Character Style to create and apply styles to your document. This is the easiest way to control the formatting of your document. The styles that appear beneath the second dotted line are those that exist in the document (the ones described here exist in the Nisus New File shipped with Nisus Writer Pro). You can add or remove these styles. The styles are based on standard HTML editing conventions.
In addition when you add a hyperlink to your document Nisus Writer Pro creates a new style called Hyperlink which makes the selected text look like a classic hyperlink in a Web document.

▸New Character Style… Functions the same as the menu command: Insert > New Style > Character Style by changing the view of your document to Style Sheets and creating a new character style.

▸New Character Style Based on Selection
Functions the same as the menu command: Insert > New Style > Character Style Based on Selection by changing the view of your document to Style Sheets and creating a new character style.

▸Redefine Style from Selection
When chosen the formatting of the selection which is controlled by a style sheet, applies any modifications that have been made to the formatting to all text with that style.

▸Remove Character Styles
Removes the Character Style that matches that of the selection.

▸Go to Text in Style Opens a variant of the Go to Content dialog that can quickly search for, or jump to, text using a particular style.

▸Select Next in Style Selects the next occurrence of text in the document with the current format(s).

▸Select All in Style Selects all text in the document with the current format(s).

▸Emphatic A style supplied in the shipped Nisus New File, applies the user defined characteristics of the emphatic style (usually Italic in HTML documents) to selected text.

▸Note Reference A style supplied in the shipped Nisus New File, applies the user defined characteristics to the Footnote or Endnote Reference marker in the text area of the document.

▸Note Reference in Note A style supplied in the shipped Nisus New File, applies the user defined characteristics to the Footnote or Endnote Reference marker in the notes area of the document.

▸Strong A style supplied in the shipped Nisus New File, applies the user defined characteristics of the strong style (usually Bold in HTML documents) to selected text.

Paragraph Style
Choose commands from the menu command: Format > Paragraph Style to create and apply styles to your document. This is the easiest way to control the formatting of your document. The styles that appear beneath the second dotted line are those that exist in the document (the ones described here exist in the Nisus New File shipped with Nisus Writer Pro). You can add or remove these styles. The styles are based on standard HTML editing conventions.
In addition when you add a table to your document Nisus Writer Pro creates a new style called Table Cell; when you add a comment to your document Nisus Writer Pro creates a new style called Comment.

▸New Paragraph Style… Functions the same as the menu command: Insert > New Style > Paragraph Style by changing the view of your document to Style Sheets and creating a new paragraph style.

▸New Paragraph Style Based on Selection
Functions the same as the menu command: Insert > New Style > Paragraph Style Based on Selection by changing the view of your document to Style Sheets and creating a new paragraph style.

▸Redefine Style from Selection
When applied to a selection the formatting of which is controlled by a style sheet, any modifications to the style’s characteristics are applied to all text with that style applied.

▸Remove Paragraph Styles
Removes the Paragraph Style(s) that matches that of the selection.

▸Go to Text in Style Opens a variant of the Go to Content dialog that can quickly search for, or jump to, text using a particular style.

▸Select Next in Style Selects the next occurrence of text in the document with the current format(s).

▸Select All in Style Selects all text in the document with the current characteristic(s).

▸Block Quote A style supplied in the shipped Nisus New File, applies the user defined characteristics of the Block Quote style to selected text.

▸Footer A style supplied in the shipped Nisus New File, applies the user defined characteristics of the Footer style to selected text.

▸Header A style supplied in the shipped Nisus New File, applies the user defined characteristics of the Header style to selected text.

▸Heading 1 A style supplied in the shipped Nisus New File, applies the user defined characteristics of the Heading 1 style to selected text.

▸Heading 2 A style supplied in the shipped Nisus New File, applies the user defined characteristics of the Heading 2 style to selected text.

▸Heading 3 A style supplied in the shipped Nisus New File, applies the user defined characteristics of the Heading 3 style to selected text.

▸Heading 4 A style supplied in the shipped Nisus New File, applies the user defined characteristics of the Heading 4 style to selected text.

▸Heading 5 A style supplied in the shipped Nisus New File, applies the user defined characteristics of the Heading 5 style to selected text.

▸Heading 6 A style supplied in the shipped Nisus New File, applies the user defined characteristics of the Heading 6 style to selected text.

▸Normal A style supplied in the shipped Nisus New File, applies the user defined characteristics of the Normal style to selected text. This is the style of text in your Nisus New File when you first start typing in Nisus Writer Pro.

▸Title A style supplied in the shipped Nisus New File, applies the user defined characteristics of the Title style to selected text.

Note Style Choose commands from the menu Note Style submenu to apply styles to your document. This is the easiest way to control the formatting of your document. These styles are based on standard HTML editing conventions. These styles only appear when and if you insert an endnote or footnote in your text.

▸Redefine Style from Selection
This command is enabled when the selection is a note marker or note text the characteristics of which are controlled by a style sheet. When chosen, any modifications to the formatting are applied to all text with that style applied.

▸Set Custom Note Reference…
Displays a sheet that enables you to use an asterisk or other custom character to mark several or all footnotes or endnotes with the same symbol.

▸Remove Custom Note Reference
Removes whatever custom character you used to mark any footnotes or endnotes.

▸Select Next Note Selects the next note reference number in the document (this circulates to the beginning of the document after reaching the last note).

▸Select Previous Note Selects the previous note reference number in the document (this circulates to the end of the document after reaching the first note)

▸Select Next in Style Selects the next occurrence of text in the document with the current formatting.

▸Select All in Style Selects all text in the document with the current formatting.

▸Endnote A style supplied in the shipped Nisus New File, applies the user defined characteristics of the Endnote style to selected text.

▸Footnote A style supplied in the shipped Nisus New File, applies the user defined characteristics of the Footnote style to selected text.

Language Choose from available languages to have Nisus Writer Pro check spelling, etc. according to that language. Those above the first separator line refer to your most recently used languages. The next list of languages represent those you have included in your Languages preferences in Nisus Writer Pro. Below that are user defined languages. Below Edit Languages… you may see additional languages. If you receive a file with a User Language from someone and that User Language does not match one you have added to your copy of Nisus Writer Pro, that Language name appears at the bottom of the Language submenu.
“Language” is an attribute of your text, not the document. If done correctly, changing the language of a part of the text changes the input method (keyboard), dictionary and/or thesaurus (if available) as well as the font and size (if appropriate).

▸Any Language When in the Find & Replace window this command is available and functions the same as having the Formatting Sensitive checkbox unchecked (for that particular characteristic).

▸Remove Language Formatting
Removes any user applied languages, allowing the system language or languages defined by styles to be used instead.
The command is enabled whenever the selection has a particular language attribute applied.

▸Select Next in Language Selects the next occurrence of text in the document with the current language formatting.

▸Select All in Language Selects all text in the document with the current formatting.

▸Edit Languages… Opens the Languages preferences dialog in which you can modify existing or create new language settings.

Font Choose commands from the Font submenus of the Format menu to apply to your text any of the fonts you have that your version of the OS can display. These are generally in one of these three folders
~/Library/Fonts
/Library/Fonts
/System/Library/Fonts

☞ The safest way to handle your fonts is to use Apple’s Font Book application.
Choose a font from the various submenus of the Font submenu to apply it to the current selection. If you have no text selected, Nisus Writer Pro applies the font change at the insertion point, and as you type, the text displays in the font you have chosen.
The fonts appear in the list displayed in their own font (WYSIWYG) if you set your Appearance Preferences of Nisus Writer Pro to do this (see “Appearance Preferences” on page 570). Displaying the Font submenus this way causes initial activation of the application to take longer.

▸Show Fonts Opens the Fonts panel which allows you to choose from various sets of fonts or font families, the typefaces they support, and their various sizes.

▸Show Font Previews… Opens a list of previews showing the selected text using all available fonts. See the section “Preview font changes”.

▸Show Typography Panel Opens the System Typography panel. Depending on the characteristics of the font of selected text various options become available. You can learn more at the Apple Support site.

▸Remove Font Formatting
Removes any user applied fonts from the selection, allowing the System font or the underlying font defined by styles and/or the Nisus New File to be used instead.
The command is enabled whenever the selection has a particular font formatting applied.
When in the Find & Replace window this command displays as Any Font. In this instance it functions the same as having the Formatting Sensitive checkbox unchecked (for that particular characteristic).

▸Select Next in Font Selects the next occurrence of text in the document with the current formatting.

▸Select All in Font Selects all text in the document with the current formatting.

▸All Fonts Displays all the fonts you have that your version of the macOS can display.
Nisus Writer Pro lists all available fonts in the submenu which you can apply to the current selection. A check mark precedes the currently selected font. If you select a range of text displaying multiple fonts a dash appears before those fonts which are present in the selection.

▸Document Fonts Displays all the fonts you are using in the active document.

▸English Displays all the English language fonts you have that your version of the macOS can display.

▸Favorite Fonts Displays the fonts you have added to your Favorites collection using the menu command: Gear > Add to Favorites in the Fonts panel.

▸Recent Fonts Displays the ten fonts you have used most recently.

▸Clear Menu Clears the Recent Fonts submenu.

▸Fixed Width Displays all the fixed width fonts you have that your version of the macOS can display. These may include: Andale Mono, Apple Color Emoji, Consolas, Courier, Courier New, Menlo, Monaco, and PT Mono.

▸Fun Displays all the fun fonts you have that your version of the macOS can display. These may include: American Typewriter, Herculanum, Marker Felt, Papyrus, and Zapfino.

▸Modern Displays all the modern fonts you have that your version of the macOS can display. These may include: Futura, Gill Sans, Helvetica Neue, and Optima.

▸PDF Displays all the PDF fonts you have that your version of the macOS can display. These may include: Courier, Helvetica, Symbol, Times, and Zapf Dingbats.

▸Traditional Displays all the Traditional fonts you have that your version of the macOS can display. These may include: Baskerville, Big Caslon, Cochin, Copperplate, and Didot.

▸Web Displays all the Web fonts you have that your version of the macOS can display. These may include: Andale Mono, Arial, Arial Black, Brush Script MT, Comic Sans MS, Georgia, Impact, Times New Roman, Trebuchet MS, Verdana, and  (Webdings).

Font Face Choose commands from the Font Face submenu of the Format menu to alter the display of the selected font.

▸Bold Displays selected text in bold face.

▸Italic Displays selected text in italic face.

▸Outline Displays selected text with an outline.

▸Shadow Displays selected text with a shadow you can customize in the Font panel (opened by choosing the menu command: Format > Font > Show Fonts).

▸Regular Removes bold face, italic face and bold italic face from selected text.

▸Bold Italic Displays selected text in bold italic face. The command appears only if the selected font supports this face. Lucida Grande does not Bookman Old Style does.

Size Choose a point size from the Size submenu to apply that size to the current selection. If you have text selected, Nisus Writer Pro applies the size change at the insertion point, and as you type, the text displays in the size you have chosen. The menu lists a number of sizes: 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 18, 24, 28, 36, 48, and 72 to which you can add keyboard shortcuts using the Menu Keys preferences of Nisus Writer Pro, offering you quick and easy access to those sizes.

▸Other… Enables you to set the point size of your text to any point size.

▸Remove Font Size Formatting
Removes any user applied sizes from the selection, allowing the size defined by any underlying styles to be used instead.
When in the Find & Replace window this command displays as Any Font Size. In this instance it functions the same as having the Formatting Sensitive checkbox unchecked (for that particular characteristic).

▸Increase Enlarges the size of the current selection in one-point increments.

▸Increase By… Enlarges the size of the current selection by a specified number of points.

▸Decrease Diminishes the size of the current selection in one-point increments.

▸Decrease By… Diminishes the size of the current selection by a specified number of points.

Letter Case
Choose commands from the Letter Case submenu to alter the appearance of the case of the current selection. If you have text selected, Nisus Writer Pro applies the case change at the insertion point, and as you type, the text displays in the “style” you have chosen.
These commands are not to be confused with the commands with similar names that appear in the menu Edit > Transform Text. These alter the appearance of the characters but not their Unicode values. If you copy and/or paste the text only at a different location (either in Nisus Writer Pro or some other application) the underlying character cases will display.

▸Remove Case Change Formatting
Causes text to display according to the physical settings of the keyboard (⇧ pressed or not, etc.).
When the Find & Replace window is active this command displays as Any Case Change. In this instance it functions the same as having the Formatting Sensitive checkbox unchecked (for that particular characteristic).

▸Display as lowercase Causes text to display as lowercase despite the settings of the keyboard (⇧ pressed or not, etc.).

▸Display as UPPERCASE Causes text to display as UPPERCASE despite the settings of the keyboard (⇧ pressed or not, etc.).

▸Display as Capitalize Causes text to display with each word capitalized despite the settings of the keyboard (⇧ pressed or not, etc.).

▸Display as Small Caps Causes all lowercase text to display as if it were in a smaller size of the upper case characters of the font.

Underline Choose commands from the Underline submenu of the to apply and/or remove various underline formatting to or from selected text.

▸None Removes any and all Underline formatting from selected text whether the underline is part of the style’s definition as set in the Style Sheet view or applied in addition to the style.

▸Remove Underline Formatting
Removes any additional underline formatting applied to the text that are not part of the style’s definition as set in the Style Sheet view.
When in the Find & Replace window this command displays as Any Underline. In this instance it functions the same as having the Formatting Sensitive checkbox unchecked (for that particular characteristic).

▸Single Draws a single line under selected text.

▸Double Draws a double line under selected text.

▸Dotted Draws dotted line under selected text.

▸Dashed Draws dashed line under selected text.

▸Show Underline Colors Opens the Colors panel enabling you to set the color of the Underline.

Strikethrough Choose commands from the Strikethrough submenu to apply and/or remove various strikethrough formatting to or from selected text.

▸None Removes any and all Strikethrough formatting from selected text whether the strikethrough is part of the style’s definition as set in the Style Sheet view or applied in addition to the style.

▸Remove Strikethrough Formatting
Removes any additional strikethrough formatting applied to the text that are not part of the style’s definition as set in the Style Sheet view.
When in the Find & Replace window this command displays as Any Strikethrough. In this instance it functions the same as having the Formatting Sensitive checkbox unchecked (for that particular characteristic).

▸Single Draws a single line through selected text.

▸Double Draws a double line through selected text.

▸Dotted Draws dotted line through selected text.

▸Dashed Draws dashed line through selected text.

▸Show Strikethrough Colors
Opens the Colors panel enabling you to set the color of the Strikethrough.

Baseline Choose commands from the Baseline submenu to raise or lower selected text.

▸No Super/Sub Returns the selected Super or Subscripted text to the baseline of the surrounding text (unless some other baseline format has been added).

▸Remove Super/Sub Formatting
Returns the selected Super or Subscripted text to the baseline of the surrounding text (unless some other baseline format has been added).
When in the Find & Replace window this command displays as Any Super/Sub. In this instance it functions the same as having the Formatting Sensitive checkbox unchecked (for that particular characteristic).

▸Superscript and Subscript
Places the current selection five points above or below the baseline of the surrounding text and makes the text appear smaller (without changing the actual size).

▸Remove Baseline Formatting
Returns the selected text to the baseline of the surrounding text (unless some other baseline format has been added).
When in the Find & Replace window this command displays as Any Baseline. In this instance it functions the same as having the Formatting Sensitive checkbox unchecked (for that particular characteristic).

▸Raise Baseline and Lower Baseline
Raises or lowers the current selection in one point increments above or below the current height.

▸Raise Baseline By… and Lower Baseline By…
Enables you to raise or lower selected text by a specified number of points.

Ligature Choose commands from the Ligature submenu to cause selected text to use ligatures (characters (such as æ) consisting of two or more letters or characters joined together). Various fonts support more or less ligatures.

▸Use Default Uses the basic set of ligatures built into “most” fonts.

▸Remove Ligature Formatting
Removes the ligature formatting from selected text (unless some other ligature format has been added).
When in the Find & Replace window this command displays as Any Ligature. In this instance it functions the same as having the Formatting Sensitive checkbox unchecked (for that particular characteristic).

▸Use None Prevents any connecting of characters.

▸Use All Uses the greatest available number of ligatures built into a font.

Kern Choose commands from the Kern menu to cause selected text to be squeezed closer or spread further apart. Kerning affects the space to the right of the character(s) selected.

▸Use None Removes any squeezing or spreading of selected text (unless some other baseline format has been added i.e. based on a style defined in Style Sheet view).

▸Remove Kern Formatting
Removes any squeezing or spreading of text.
When in the Find & Replace window this command displays as Any Kerning. In this instance it functions the same as having the Formatting Sensitive checkbox unchecked (for that particular characteristic).

▸Tighten Squeezes selected text closer together.

▸Loosen Spreads selected text further apart.

▸Tighten By… Squeezes selected text closer together by a specified number of points.

▸Loosen By… Spreads selected text closer together by a specified number of points.

Highlight Use commands of the Highlight submenu to add highlight color to selected text. Unlike the Highlight button on the Toolbar, the Highlight submenu does not have an associated default highlight color. It is primarily intended for assigning Keyboard Shortcuts to the colors you use most often. The colors available are White (which clears any highlighting present), Yellow, Pink, Blue, Green, Cyan and Gray.

▸Remove Highlight Formatting
Removes any highlighting present in selected text.
When in the Find & Replace window this command displays as Any Highlight. In this instance it functions the same as having the Formatting Sensitive checkbox unchecked (for that particular characteristic).

▸Show Highlight Colors
Opens the Colors panel enabling you to change the color of the highlight to any color you can point to).

Text Color Use commands of the Text Color submenu to add color to the characters of selected text. The default colors available are: Black, Brown, Dark Red, Red, Purple, Orange, Fuchsia, Dark Green, Green, Yellow, Dark Blue, Blue, Teal, Cornflower Blue, Cyan, Dark Gray, Gray, and Light Gray.

▸Remove Text Color Formatting
Removes any text color present in selected text.
When in the Find & Replace window this command displays as Any Text Color. In this instance it functions the same as having the Formatting Sensitive checkbox unchecked (for that particular characteristic).

▸Show Text Colors Opens the Colors panel enabling you to change the color of selected text to any color you can point to.

Background Color
Use commands of the Background Color submenu to add printable color to the background of any selected text in your document. The default colors available are: Black, Brown, Dark Red, Red, Purple, Orange, Fuchsia, Dark Green, Green, Yellow, Dark Blue, Blue, Teal, Cornflower Blue, Cyan, Dark Gray, Gray, and Light Gray.

▸Remove Background Color Formatting
Removes any background color present in selected text.
When in the Find & Replace window this command displays as Any Text Color. In this instance it functions the same as having the Formatting Sensitive checkbox unchecked (for that particular characteristic).

▸Show Background Colors
Opens the Colors panel enabling you to change the background color of selected text to any color you can point to.

Paragraph Choose commands from the Paragraph submenu to control the shape of paragraphs.

▸Remove Paragraph Formatting
Removes any formatting assigned to the selected paragraph that are not part of that paragraph’s Style Sheet.

▸Align Left Aligns text along the left edge of the line wrap area.

▸Align Right Aligns text along the right edge of the line wrap area.

▸Align Center Centers text around an invisible line between the left and right line wrap indicators.

▸Align Justified Spreads text “evenly” between the left and right line wrap indicators so that it touches both sides.

▸Natural Writing Direction
Causes text to flow in the “natural” direction for the language associated with the text.
Text direction is a function of the language selected. Each language has a “natural” direction of its own. You can override this direction of a paragraph within a section of text designated as being in a particular language (and therefore flowing in a particular direction) by using this and the following controls.

▸Left to Right Direction Causes the primary direction of the paragraph to flow from left to right.

▸Right to Left Direction Causes the primary direction of the paragraph to flow from right to left.

▸Prevent Widows & Orphans
Causes the text of the first and last lines of a paragraph to appear with at least one other line of that paragraph if it would otherwise appear on a page or column by itself. This command only displays its effects in Page View.

▸Keep Paragraph Together
This causes the selected paragraph to appear on one page, moving the entire text of the paragraph to the following page, if as much as one line of it must display on that page. This command only displays its effects in Page View.

▸Keep With Next Paragraph
Causes the selected paragraph to stay with the succeeding paragraph (if that paragraph must move to the following page). This command only displays its effects in Page View.

▸Don’t Ensure Break Before Paragraph
The Paragraph palette has a checkbox with two options comparable to the commands: Ensure Page Break Before Paragraph and Force Page Break Before Paragraph. This command (Don’t Ensure Break Before Paragraph) is the equivalent of unchecking that box, or turning off ensuring or forcing a page break before the selected paragraph.

▸Ensure Page Break Before Paragraph
Nisus Writer Pro will make sure (i.e. “ensure”) a page break exists before the paragraph. It will first check if there is a manually inserted break, and if so just let it stand. If no break character exists, then a break will be forced. No actual page break character (Unicode: U+000C) is inserted in the text.

▸Force Page Break Before Paragraph
Nisus Writer Pro will always add a break no matter what, regardless of what comes before it. Even if there's a manual break character (Unicode: U+000C), a break will be added, resulting in two breaks.

▸Show Paragraph Borders Palette
Opens the Paragraph Borders palette so you can add and modify borders of selected paragraphs.

▸Show Paragraph Shading Palette
Opens the Paragraph Shading palette so you can add and modify shading of selected paragraphs.

Paragraph Spacing
Choose commands from the Paragraph Spacing submenu to cause lines of selected text to spread themselves vertically in various ways. Line height, known to typesetters as leading (because of the pieces of lead placed between the lines of type) refers to the vertical distance between the top of one line and the top of the following line.
You can achieve more precise spacing by using the Paragraph palette.

▸Single Space Lines Spaces the lines so that the minimal amount of leading is used.

▸1.5 Space Lines Spaces the lines so that the minimal amount of leading plus one half line more is used.

▸Double Space Lines Spaces the lines so that double the amount of leading in Single is used.

▸Triple Space Lines Spaces the lines so that triple the amount of leading in Single is used.

▸Fixed Line Spacing Toggles on or off preventing selected paragraphs from spreading if taller characters appear in a line of text.

▸Increase Fixed Line Spacing
Increases the space between lines one point at a time.

▸Decrease Fixed Line Spacing
Decreases the space between lines one point at a time.

▸Increase Space Before Paragraph
Increases the space before the selected paragraph one point at a time.

▸Decrease Space Before Paragraph
Decreases the space before the selected paragraph one point at a time.

▸Increase Space After Paragraph
Increases the space after the selected paragraph one point at a time.

▸Decrease Space After Paragraph
Decreases the space after the selected paragraph one point at a time.

Paragraph Indents
Choose commands from the Paragraph Indents submenu to modify the front and rear indents of selected paragraphs.
You can achieve more precise spacing by using the Paragraph palette.

▸Increase First Line Indent
Increases the first line indent of the selected paragraph(s) by quarter-inch intervals, whether the ruler displays inches or any other measurement option.

▸Decrease First Line Indent
Decreases the first line indent of the selected paragraph(s) by quarter-inch intervals, whether the ruler displays inches or any other measurement option.

▸Increase Hanging Indent
Increases the hanging indent of the selected paragraph(s) by quarter-inch intervals, whether the ruler displays inches or any other measurement option.

▸Decrease Hanging Indent
Decreases the first line indent of the selected paragraph(s) by quarter-inch intervals, whether the ruler displays inches or any other measurement option.

▸Increase Both Left/Right Indents
Depending on whether the direction (not alignment) of selected paragraph(s) are left to right or right to left, increases both the left or right indents by quarter-inch intervals, whether the ruler displays inches or any other measurement option.

▸Decrease Both Left/Right Indents
Depending on whether the direction (not alignment) of selected paragraph(s) are left to right or right to left, decreases both the left or right indents by quarter-inch intervals, whether the ruler displays inches or any other measurement option.

▸Increase Right/Left Indent
Depending on whether the direction (not alignment) of selected paragraph(s) are left to right or right to left, increases the right or left indent by quarter-inch intervals, whether the ruler displays inches or any other measurement option.

▸Decrease Right/Left Indent
Depending on whether the direction (not alignment) of selected paragraph(s) are left to right or right to left, decreases the right or left indent by quarter-inch intervals, whether the ruler displays inches or any other measurement option.

▸Remove Tab Stops Removes all tab stops on the ruler from selected paragraphs. The ruler does not need to be displayed for this to work.

▸Add Tab Stop… Displays the Edit Tab sheet enabling you to add a tab at any location on the ruler.

Lists Choose commands from the Lists submenu to cause selected text to have bullets or various sequences of numbers or letters before it (or to remove those numbers). Additional list styles you create appear in alphabetical order above New List Style…. Creating and using lists in your documents is explained in detail beginning on page 59.

▸Restart Numbering Restarts the numbering sequence for every paragraph that is selected.

▸Continue Numbering from Previous
Resumes the numbering sequence from the last number or letter before any break was introduced.

▸Use None Removes any of the numbers that have been automatically created.

▸Select Next in Style Selects the next occurrence of text in the document with the current format(s).

▸Select All in Style Selects all text in the document with the current format(s).

▸Bullet List Uses single bullets to begin each paragraph.

▸Headings Uses (European) Arabic numerals (1, 1.1, 1.1.1, etc.) to number and causes the numbers to appear at the far left (or right in right to left sections), i.e. along the margin. Designed to be used in conjunction with the Heading 1, etc. styles.

▸Lettered List Uses letters to begin each paragraph.

▸Number List Uses numbers to begin each paragraph.

▸Outline Makes the numbering sequence like an outline.

▸Tiered List Resembles the Headings list, but is not designed to work in conjunction with the Heading 1, etc. styles.

▸New List Style… Creates a new list style.

▸Edit List Styles… Changes the view of your document to Style Sheets and enables you to edit the selected list style.

Increase Indent Moves the left indent and first line indent markers in at quarter inch increments. If you choose this command repeatedly, the indents continue in one-quarter inch increments. If you have your ruler set to something other than inches, the increment is appropriate for the ruler’s unit type.

Decrease Indent Moves the first line indent and left line indent out a quarter inch. If you choose this command repeatedly, the indent and the left line wrap continue in one-quarter inch increments (until both are flush left). If you have your ruler set to something other than inches, the increment is appropriate for the ruler’s unit type.

Vertical Layout Orientation
For Asian language scripts in particular, this command is enabled only when you have text in any one of the text or callout boxes available from the menu Tools > Insert Shape. The command rotates a text box and the text within it clockwise 90º. You can learn more about editing vertical Asian text in the section “Use Text Boxes to write vertical East Asian text” beginning on page 229.

Hyphenation The commands in this menu control how your document text is hyphenated when line wrapping occurs. For more details see the section Hyphenate your text.

▸Disabled Disable all hyphenation for the entire document.

▸Manual Disables automatic hyphenation for the entire document; only manual hyphenation points are consulted.

▸Automatic - Normal Enables automatic hyphenation for the entire document.

▸Automatic - More Often Triggers automatic hyphenation more often.

▸Prevent in Selected Paragraph
Disables hyphenation on a per-paragraph basis.

Table menu

Use commands of the Table menu and its submenus to insert and modify your tables in Nisus Writer Pro. Working with tables is explained in detail beginning on page 265.

New Table… Inserts a new table.

Convert Text to Table
Converts selected tab delimited text to a table.

Convert Table to Text
Converts selected table to tab delimited text. This command works on only one table at a time.

Copy Table Text
Copies all the text in selected cells of a table and enables you to paste elsewhere the information as text (without its table formatting).

Insert Choose commands from the Insert submenu to insert columns and/or rows to existing tables.

▸Column to the Left Adds a column to the left of the column in which the insertion point appears.

▸Column to the Right Adds a column to the right of the column in which the insertion point appears.

▸Row Above Inserts a row above the row in which the insertion point appears.

▸Row Below Inserts a row below the row in which the insertion point appears.

Select Choose commands from the Select submenu to select an entire table or various portions of it.

▸Table Selects the entire table.

▸Rows Expands the selection to include all the rows in which the insertion point appears.

▸Columns Expands the selection to include all the columns in which the insertion point appears.

▸Cells Expands the selection to include all the text in all the cells in which the insertion point appears.

Delete Choose commands from the Delete submenu to delete an entire table or various portions of it.

▸Table Deletes the entire table.

▸Rows Deletes all the rows in which the insertion point appears.

▸Columns Deletes all the columns in which the insertion point appears.

▸Cells Deletes all the content from cells in which there is a selection. If an entire row or column’s text is selected, this removes the designated row or column, not only the text.

▸Clear Cell Content Deletes all text from selected cells. If an entire row or column’s text is selected, this removes only the text and not the designated row or column.

Sort Rows Choose commands from the Sort Rows submenu to sort the rows of a table based on a selected column.

▸Sort By Selected Column Ascending (A-Z)
Sorts rows so that the lowest value appears at the top and highest at the bottom.

▸Sort By Selected Column Descending (Z-A)
Sorts rows so that the highest value appears at the top and lowest at the bottom.

▸Reverse Reverses the sequence of selected rows so that the last appears first, etc.

▸Randomize (shuffle) Changes the sequence so that selected rows appear in a random shuffle.

Merge Cells Merges selected cells.

Split Cells… Presents a dialog that allows you to determine how you want to split selected cells.

Align Table Choose commands from the Align Table submenu to set the horizontal alignment of the selected table on the page.

▸Align Left Aligns the table along the left line wrap indicator.

▸Align Right Aligns the table along the right line wrap indicator.

▸Center Aligns the table centered between the two line wrap indicators.

Align Cells Choose commands from the Align Cells submenu to align the contents of cells.

▸Align Left Aligns the contents of a cell along its left edge.

▸Align Right Aligns the contents of a cell along its right edge.

▸Center Aligns the contents of a cell along its imaginary center line.

▸Justified Spreads the contents of a cell so that its contents fill the cell evenly.

▸Top Suspends the text from the top of the cell.

▸Bottom Rests the text just above the baseline of the cell

▸Middle Centers the text evenly between the top and the baseline of the cell.

Sizing Choose commands from the Sizing submenu to alter various aspects of the size of your table.

▸Distribute Rows Evenly Resize selected rows so they are all the same height.

▸Distribute Columns Evenly
Resize selected columns so they are all the same width.

▸Fit to Contents Resize the table so that the cells are no larger than they need to be to display their contents (including “padding”).

▸Fit to Page Resize the table so that the cells expand to fill the entire page regardless of how much space each cell needs to display its contents.

▸Resize Table… Displays a sheet that enables you to numerically set the width and height of the table.

▸Resize Rows… Displays a sheet that enables you to numerically set the height of the selected rows.

▸Resize Columns… Displays a sheet that enables you to numerically set the width of the selected columns.

▸Resize Cells… Displays a sheet that enables you to numerically set the width and height of each of the selected cells to the same size.

▸Resize Selection… Displays a sheet that enables you to numerically set the width and height of selected cells so that the entire selection matches the set amount, in total.

Cell Padding… Opens a sheet that enables you to set the padding for any or all sides of selected cells.

Tools menu

Choose commands from the Tools menu to add comments to your document, track changes that you or others make to your document, add tables of contents, indices and bibliographies to your document as well as add and manipulate various floating shapes (graphics) to your document.

Comments Choose commands from the Comments submenu to add comments to and manage comments in your documents. Comments are explained in detail beginning on page 497.

▸Comment Options… Opens a floating windoid that enables you to set a variety of display options for your comments.

▸Add Comment Adds a comment to your document, opening the Comments sidebar if it is hidden.

▸Reply to Comment Enabled only when the insertion point is in an existing comment, adds a reply to that comment.

▸Remove Comments in Selection
Removes all comments associated with selected text.

▸Show Comments Alternately either shows or hides the Comments sidebar (and any indication that comments appear in your document).

▸Show Comment Icons in Margin
Alternately shows/hides a small Comment icon in the margin of your document where you have added a comment. Similar icons then appear when you hover your pointer opposite the beginning of any paragraph. Clicking the icon selects the text to which the comment is attached (or if there is not comment, the entire paragraph) and gives quick access to the Comments submenu of the Tools menu.

▸Show Comment Highlighting in Text
Alternately either shows or hides the highlight of text where comments are attached without opening the Comments sidebar.

▸Show Comments Area Choose commands from the Show Comments Area submenu to hide or show your document’s comments either in a sidebar or split view.

▸None Hides your document’s comments whether they appear in a sidebar or a split view.

▸Sidebar Displays your document’s comments in a sidebar on either the right or left side of the main text (depending on your setting in the Comment Display Options window).

▸Split View Displays your document’s comments in a split view beneath the main text.

▸Show Authors Choose commands from the Show Authors submenu to determine which author’s comments are displayed in the sidebar or split view. Beneath All Authors appear the names of any users who have added comments to your document. Choose any one or as many as you want to display only those comments.

▸All Authors When checked, this Nisus Writer Pro will display comments from all users who have added comments to your document.

▸Export All Comments… Creates a new Nisus Writer Pro document with the name “‘Filename’ - Comments” containing all the comments added to your document, including the author of the comment and the date it was added.

▸Go to Comment Text Moves your insertion point from a selected bit of commented text in your document, to the Comments sidebar (opening it if necessary) and selecting the appropriate comment. This command toggles with Go to Marked Text.

▸Go to Marked Text Moves your insertion point from a selected bit of text in your comments, to the text to which it is associated in the main portion of the document. This command toggles with Go to Commented Text.

▸Go to Next Comment Moves your insertion point to the next comment in your document, scrolls the document to display that page and highlights the commented text.

▸Go to Previous Comment
Moves your insertion point to the previous comment in your document, scrolls the document to display that page and highlights the commented text.

▸Collapse Comments Collapses the current comment(s) in the selection.

▸Collapse All Comments Collapses all comments in the document.

▸Expand Comments Expands the current comment(s) in the selection.

▸Expand All Comments Expands all comments in the document.

Track Changes Choose commands from the Track Changes submenu to monitor alterations to and manage changes to your documents. Track Changes is explained in detail beginning on page 521.

▸Track Changes Turns on/off the monitoring of changes to your document and opens the Tracked Changes sidebar.

▸Tracking Change Options…
Opens a floating windoid that enables you to set a variety of display options for your tracked changes.

▸Review Changes… Opens a window and scans the document for changes, enabling you to appraise the changes made to the document and accept or reject them without opening the Tracked Changes sidebar.

▸Accept Changes in Selection
Accepts the changes in the selection, removing the change highlight and corresponding note in the Tracked Changes sidebar.

▸Accept All Changes… Accepts all changes in the document, removing the change highlights and corresponding notes in the Tracked Changes sidebar.

▸Reject Changes in Selection
Rejects the change in the selection, restoring the original text and/or formatting and removes the change highlight and corresponding note in the Tracked Changes sidebar.

▸Reject All Changes… Rejects all changes in the document, restoring the original text and/or formatting and removing the change highlights and corresponding notes in the Tracked Changes sidebar.

▸Show Changes Alternately either shows or hides the Tracked Changes sidebar (and any indication that changes appear in your document).

▸Show Change Icons in Margin
Alternately shows/hides a small Changes icon in the margin of your document where you have made a change. Clicking the icon selects the text that was changed and gives quick access to the Track Changes submenu of the Tools menu.

▸Show Change Highlighting in Text
Alternately either shows or hides the changes in your text without opening the Tracked Changes sidebar.

▸Show Changes Area Choose commands from the Show Changes Area submenu to hide or show your document’s changes either in a side sidebar or split view.

▸None Hides your document’s changes whether they appear in a sidebar or a split view.

▸Sidebar Displays your document’s changes in a sidebar on either the right or left side of the main text (depending on your setting in the Track Change Options window).

▸Split View Displays your document’s changes in a split view beneath the main text.

▸Show Authors Choose commands from the Show Authors submenu to determine which author’s changes are displayed in the sidebar or split view. Beneath All Authors appear the names of any users who have made changes to your document. Choose any one or as many as you want to display only those changes.

▸All Authors When checked, this Nisus Writer Pro will display changes from all users who have made changes to your document.

▸Export All Tracked Changes…
Creates a new Nisus Writer Pro document with the name “‘Filename’ - Tracked Changes” containing all the changes made to your document, including the author of the change and the date it was made.

▸Select Next Change Moves your insertion point to the next change in your document, scrolls the document to display that page and highlights the changed text.

▸Select Previous Change Moves your insertion point to the previous change in your document, scrolls the document to display that page and highlights the changed text.

Table of Contents
Choose commands from the Table of Contents submenu to mark text for, and to create a table of contents of and for your document. Tables of contents are explained in detail beginning on page 313.

▸Include in TOC Marks the selected text for inclusion in a table of contents. You can mark text for the Table of Contents to nine levels deep.

▸Remove from TOC Removes the selected text from inclusion in a Table of Contents.

▸Show TOC in Navigator Displays all text marked for the current Table of Contents in a hierarchical and collapsible list to the left of the document window. Clicking one of the items in the list moves the selection to that marked text.

▸Go to Text in TOC… Shows a variant of the Go to Content dialog that allows you to quickly jump to, or search through, text in the TOC.

▸Select Next in TOC Selects the next string of text in your document that is marked for inclusion in the current Table of Contents.

▸Select Previous in TOC Selects the previous string of text in your document that is marked for inclusion in the current Table of Contents.

▸Insert TOC Generates the Table of Contents using marked text and places it at the insertion point.

▸Rebuild TOC… Rebuilds the Table of Contents in your document.

▸Configure TOC Styles…
Presents a dialog enabling you to create additional tables of contents and determine their formatting.

▸Default TOC The command checked beneath Configure TOC Styles… indicates the name of the current Table of Contents among those that exist in the document. This is the Table of Contents that is active, highlighted (in the text), and will be inserted when you choose Insert TOC. The active Table of Contents is the one to which text will be included when you choose one of the various levels of the submenu Include in TOC.

Index Choose commands from the Index submenu to mark text for, and to create an index of and for your document. Indexing is explained in detail beginning on page 326.

▸Index Marks the selected text for inclusion in an index.

▸Index As… Presents a dialog enabling you to index the selected text (or all expressions that match it) as a different term.

▸Additional Index As…
Allows you to add an additional “Index As” reference to selected text.

▸Index Using Word List…
Presents a dialog enabling you to open a “word list” file. Nisus Writer Pro then uses the terms of the word list to search your document. When items in the word list are found every occurrence is marked for the index.

▸Don’t Index Removes the selected text from inclusion in the index if it has been automatically included as part of a style sheet.

▸Remove Indexing Removes the selected text from inclusion in the index if it has been added to the index using the Index, or Index As… commands.

▸Go to Indexed Text… Shows a variant of the Go to Content dialog that allows you to quickly jump to, or search through, text in the index.

▸Select Next Indexing Selects the next string of text in your document that is marked for inclusion in the current index.

▸Select Previous Indexing
Selects the previous string of text in your document that is marked for inclusion in the current index.

▸Insert Index… Presents a dialog enabling you to determine which index to display and in how many columns. It then places the generated index at the location of the insertion point.

▸Rebuild Index Regenerates the index adding text newly marked for the index.

▸Configure Index Styles…
Presents a dialog enabling you to create additional indexes and determine their formatting.

▸Default Index The command checked beneath Configure Index Styles… indicates the name of the current Index among those that exist in the document. This is the Index that is active, highlighted (in the text), and the one that will be inserted when you choose Insert Index…. The active Index is also the one to which text will be included when you choose Index, Index As…, Additional Index As… or Index Using Word List….

Bibliography Choose commands from the Bibliography submenu to manage the bibliographical references for your document. These tools are explained in detail beginning on page 345.

▸Activate Bookends Brings Bookends to the font, making it the active application.

▸Find Reference Brings Bookends to the font and presents a dialog enabling you to search your Bookends database for any particular reference.

▸Insert Citation Enters the Bookends citation in your document at the insertion point location.

▸Insert Bibliography Placeholder
Much like insert Index and insert Table of Contents, this command inserts a “placeholder” where the bibliography generated by Scan Document will be placed.

▸Scan Document Looks inside the document text for plain text citations, enclosed in {curly braces}, and replaces them with special formatted references, eg: “(1)” or “(Barnes)”. It also generates a bibliography that matches each such numeric reference to the citation. If no placeholder exists (see Insert Bibliography Placeholder, the bibliography will be put at the end of the file.

▸Unscan Document Replaces any special numeric bibliographic references, inserted by Scan Document with plain text citations enclosed in curly braces. It also removes the generated bibliography from the document.

Automatic Content Choose commands from the Automatic Content submenu to control the way in which automatic content (cross-references, automatic numbers, date and time variables, as well as various document properties appear in your document.

▸Update All Stale Content
In order to save your computer’s processor from constantly recounting the number of words, etc. Nisus Writer Pro permits “automatic content” to become “stale”. This command forces the application to update all that information.

▸Update Selected Stale Content
In order to save your computer’s processor from constantly recounting the number of words, etc. Nisus Writer Pro permits “automatic content” to become “stale”. This command forces the application to update all such information in the selection.

▸Automatic Content Update Preferences…
Opens a dialog that lets you determine how frequently automatic content is updated and whether or not stale content has a highlight, as well as set the color of that highlight.

▸Convert to Fixed Content
Converts selected automatic content to normal text.

Watermark… Displays the Watermark dialog from which you can enter and manipulate the display of watermarks in your document.

Insert Shape Choose commands from the Insert Shape submenu to create the designated shape in the active window. Each shape is illustrated beside the text of the command that inserts it. The submenu has five sections, each with a different primary use. The first enables you to enter text or callout boxes of different types: Text Box: Callout; Callout, Accent Edge: Callout, Speech Box: Callout, Rounded Speech Box. The second section enters arrows and lines: Line, Arrow, Double Arrow, Block Arrow Left, Block Arrow Right, Block Arrow Up, Block Arrow Down. The third forms various geometric (and similar) shapes and brackets: Circle, Triangle, Right Triangle, Rectangle, Rounded Rectangle, Diamond, Pentagon, Hexagon, Octagon, Star, Seal, Explosion, Bracket Pair, Brace Pair. The fourth creates a Canvas in which you can add shapes and move them as a group. The final section consists of more general commands:

▸Use Selected Shape Appearance As Default
Uses the characteristics of whatever shape you have selected as the model for succeeding shapes (and changes the appearance of the shapes in the menu accordingly).

▸Show Shapes Palette Opens the Shapes palette which gives you one-click access to additional tools.

Shapes Choose commands from the Shapes submenu to create and manipulate a wide variety of shapes in your document.

▸Select Next Shape Selects the next shape in sequence in the document. Note this is not the next shape in the sequence in which they were created, but as they appear in the document.

▸Select Previous Shape Selects the previous shape in sequence in the document. Note this is not the previous shape in the sequence in which they were created, but as they appear in the document..

▸Shape Placement Choose commands from the Shape Placement submenu to determine how your shapes flow with your text.

▸Inline with Text Converts a floating image to a an image that functions as if it were a character in your text.

▸Floats with Paragraph
Converts an inline image, or a floating image that is fixed to a page to an image that floats with the paragraph to which it is anchored.

▸Text Wrapping Choose commands from the menu Tools > Shapes > Text Wrapping to control the way in which the text wraps around your shapes.

▸No Wrapping Removes any wrapping formatting that may be applied to the selected shapes.

▸Wrap Box Wraps the text around the imaginary rectangle defined by the position of the four blue square “handles” that surrounds the shape.

▸Wrap Tight Wraps the text inside the imaginary rectangle defined by the position of the four blue square “handles” that surrounds the shape.

▸Text Behind Shape
Allows the shape to float above the text, causing the text to appear hidden.

▸Shape Behind Text
Allows the shape to appear behind the text, allowing the text to appear as though written on top of the shape.

▸No Text on Left Side
Causes all text to appear above, below, and to the right, but on the left of the shape.

▸No Text on Right Side
Causes all text to appear above, below, and to the left, but on the right of the shape.

▸No Text on Either Side
Causes all text to appear above and below, but on the right or the left of the shape.

▸Shape Padding… Opens a dialog enabling you to determine the amount of white space padding surrounds a shape you want on any of the four sides of the bounding box of a shape that has text wrapped around it.

▸Bring to Front Moves selected object so that it is in front of all other objects.

▸Send to Back Moves selected object so that it is behind all other objects.

▸Adjust Anchor When Shape Repositioned
When turned on causes the anchor to which the shape is attached to move to the paragraph to which the shape is moved.

▸Group Shapes Causes selected shapes to be affected as if they were one unit.

▸Ungroup Shapes Causes grouped shapes to revert to their ungrouped state so they can be manipulated individually.

▸Duplicate Shape… Displays a sheet that enables you to determine a variety of aspects of how a selected shape should duplicate.

▸Copy Shape Appearance Copies, with certain exceptions, the characteristics associated with the selected shape.

▸Paste Shape Appearance Pastes, with certain exceptions, the characteristics copied by Copy Shape Appearance onto the selected shape.

▸Use Selected Shape Appearance As Default
Causes succeeding shapes created to use the appearance of the selected shape.

▸Add Caption to Image Adds a text box to the bottom of the selected image. If the image is inline, it converts the image to a floating image.

▸Enter Shape Selection Mode
Enters a mode in which it is easier to click and drag to select shapes rather than text.

▸Enter Text Box Linking Mode
Enters a mode in which choose which text box should accept overflow text.

▸Show Shapes Palette Opens the Shapes palette which gives you one-click access to additional tools.

Shape Metrics Choose commands from the Shape Metrics submenu to set the alignment, size and rotation of selected shapes. Some of the matching controls appear in the Shape Wrap palette; others in the Shape Metrics palette.

▸Align Left Causes the selected shape(s) to align along the left edge of the document window.

▸Align Center Causes the selected shape(s) to align along an imaginary center line through the length of the document window.

▸Align Right Causes the selected shape(s) to align along the right edge of the document window.

▸Align Top Causes the selected shape(s) to align along the top edge of the document window if it is set “Position on page of ¶”. However if the image is set as “Moves with paragraph” the top edge of the shape aligns along the top of the paragraph to which it is attached.

▸Align Middle Causes the selected shape(s) to align along an imaginary line along the horizontal center of the document window if it is set “Position on page of ¶”. However if the image is set as “Moves with paragraph” the center of the shape aligns along the top of the paragraph to which it is attached.

▸Align Bottom Causes the selected shape(s) to align along the bottom edge of the document window if it is set “Position on page of ¶”. However if the image is set as “Moves with paragraph” the bottom of the shape aligns along the top of the paragraph to which it is attached.

▸Shift Left Nudges selected shapes leftward by the amount set in the Adjustment Settings dialog available when choosing the menu command: Tools > Shape Metrics > Set Adjustment Amounts….

▸Shift Right Nudges selected shapes rightward by the amount set in the Adjustment Settings dialog available when choosing the menu command: Tools > Shape Metrics > Set Adjustment Amounts….

▸Shift Up Nudges selected shapes upward by the amount set in the Adjustment Settings dialog available when choosing the menu command: Tools > Shape Metrics > Set Adjustment Amounts….

▸Shift Down Nudges selected shapes downward by the amount set in the Adjustment Settings dialog available when choosing the menu command: Tools > Shape Metrics > Set Adjustment Amounts….

▸Increase Size Increases the size of selected shapes by the percentage designated in the Adjustment Settings dialog opened by choosing the menu command: Tools > Shape Metrics > Set Adjustment Amounts….

▸Decrease Size Decreases the size of selected shapes by the percentage designated in the Adjustment Settings dialog opened by choosing the menu command: Tools > Shape Metrics > Set Adjustment Amounts….

▸Increase Width Increases the width of selected shapes by the number of points designated in the Adjustment Settings dialog opened by choosing the menu command: Tools > Shape Metrics > Set Adjustment Amounts….

▸Decrease Width Decreases the width of selected shapes by the number of points designated in the Adjustment Settings dialog opened by choosing the menu command: Tools > Shape Metrics > Set Adjustment Amounts….

▸Increase Height Increases the height of selected shapes by the number of points designated in the Adjustment Settings dialog opened by choosing the menu command: Tools > Shape Metrics > Set Adjustment Amounts….

▸Decrease Height Decreases the height of selected shapes by the number of points designated in the Adjustment Settings dialog opened by choosing the menu command: Tools > Shape Metrics > Set Adjustment Amounts….

▸Rotate Clockwise Rotates the selected shape(s) clockwise by the amount of degrees designated in the Adjustments Settings dialog opened by choosing the menu command: Tools > Shape Metrics > Set Adjustment Amounts….

▸Rotate Counterclockwise
Rotates the selected shape(s) counterclockwise by the amount of degrees designated in the Adjustments Settings dialog opened by choosing the menu command: Tools > Shape Metrics > Set Adjustment Amounts….

▸Set Adjustment Amounts…
Opens a dialog that enables you to set the amounts by which shapes are shifted, resized, and rotated.

▸Show Shape Metrics Palette
Opens the Shape Metrics palette which enables you to set a wide variety of precise measurements of your shapes.

Shape Fill Choose commands from the menu Tools > Shape Fill to affect the style, color, opacity and shadow of selected shapes, as well as open the Shape Fill palette and the Shape Shadow palette.

▸Style Choose commands from the menu Tools > Shape Fill > Style to apply one of a wide variety of “styles” or patterns to the fill of selected shapes. These are the same styles or patterns available in the Table Cell Shading palette.

▸Image From File…
Displays the Open dialog enabling you to choose any image or PDF file to use as the fill inside a selected shape.

▸Color Choose commands from the menu Tools > Shape Fill > Color to add color to the fill of selected shapes. The default colors available are: Black, Brown, Dark Red, Red, Purple, Orange, Fuchsia, Dark Green, Green, Yellow, Dark Blue, Blue, Teal, Cornflower Blue, Cyan, Dark Gray, Gray, and Light Gray.

▸Opacity Choose commands from the menu Tools > Shape Fill > Opacity to set the opacity of the fill of selected shapes. The available options appear in 10% increments from 0% (Clear) to 100% (Solid). More precise increments are available in the Shape Fill palette.

▸Shadow Choose commands from the menu Tools > Shape Fill > Shadow to set the shadow of selected shapes. The available options are None, Glow, Normal and Hard. More precise increments are available in the Shape Shadow palette.

▸Show Shape Fill Palette Opens the Shape Fill palette which gives you many options for the pattern (“style”), color and opacity of the fill of shapes.

▸Show Shape Shadow Palette
Opens the Shape Shadow palette which gives you the option for turning the shadow of shapes on or off, as well as determining its color, opacity, blur and offset.

Shape Stroke Choose commands from the menu Tools > Shape Stroke to modify the perimeter line of selected shapes.

▸Line Style Choose patterns from the menu Tools > Shape Stroke > Line Style to determine the style of the perimeter line of a shape. These are the same line options that are available in the Style pop-up menu in the Table Cell Borders palette as well as all other locations where you can define a line in Nisus Writer Pro.

▸Thickness Choose patterns from the menu Tools > Shape Stroke > Thickness to determine the thickness of the perimeter line of a shape. These are the same line options that are available in the Style pop-up menu in the Table Cell Borders palette as well as all other locations where you can define a line in Nisus Writer Pro. The options range from None to Hairline, ½ pt, ¾ pt, 1 pt, 1½ pt, 2 pt, 3 pt, 4 pt, 5 pt, 6 pt, 7 pt, and 8 pt.

▸Arrowheads Choose patterns from the menu Tools > Shape Stroke > Arrowheads to select from a wide variety of arrowheads available. These are the same arrowhead options that are available in the Shape Stroke palette.

▸Color Choose commands from the menu Tools > Shape Stroke > Color to add color to the fill of selected shapes. The default colors available are: Black, Brown, Dark Red, Red, Purple, Orange, Fuchsia, Dark Green, Green, Yellow, Dark Blue, Blue, Teal, Cornflower Blue, Cyan, Dark Gray, Gray, and Light Gray.

▸Opacity Choose commands from the menu Tools > Shape Stroke > Opacity to set the opacity of the fill of selected shapes. The available options appear in 10% increments from 0% (Clear) to 100% (Solid). More precise increments are available in the Shape Stroke palette.

▸Show Shape Stroke Palette
Opens the Shape Stroke palette which gives you the options of setting selected shapes’ line style, color, thickness opacity and (if an arrow) arrowhead

Macro menu

Use commands of the Macro menu to automate aspects of how you use Nisus Writer Pro. The Macro menu supports submenus that consist of folders inside the Macro folder. Working with macros is explained in detail beginning on page 629. A listing of the shipped macros and their description appears beginning on page 632.

New Macro Opens a new Untitled document window ready for you to enter the code for a Perl Script or Nisus Writer Pro macro. When you choose Save As, navigate to the folder
~/Library/Application Support/Nisus Writer/Macros/
Nisus Writer Pro appends the appropriate extension “.nwm” (Nisus Writer Macro).

Save as Macro…
Saves the current Nisus Writer Pro document as a Macro. You should only use this command if your document contains macro instructions.

Run Selection as Macro
Executes the selected macro commands.

Run Macro from File…
Displays a variant of the Open dialog and enables you to choose any Nisus Writer Pro macro file you have on your connected hard drive(s), even if it is not listed in the Macro menu.

Choose Macros Folder…
Displays a variant of the Open dialog and enables you to choose any location for your Macros folder. The default location is in your Nisus Documents folder. You can choose this menu command to install the official shipped macros in the designated folder.

Show Macros Folder in Finder
Opens the Macros folder in the Finder. The default location is in your Nisus Documents folder.

Add Macro to Menu from File…
Presents an Open dialog that allows you to select a macro to open (load) so that it appears in the Macro menu.The default location is in your Nisus Documents folder.

Add Subfolder to Menu as Alias…
Presents an Open dialog that allows you to select a folder where you can create an alias to you Macros folder.

The name of each macro file appears in alphabetical order in the lower portion of the menu. Nisus Writer Pro comes with a number of macros. These appear in submenus, grouped according to the kinds of tasks the accomplish, beneath Add Subfolder to Menu as Alias…. These are detailed in the section: “Included macros” beginning on page 632. You can group and store your own macros in folders in a similar fashion.

Choose commands from the Window menu to manage document windows.

The names of open documents appear at the bottom of the Window menu in alphabetical order. If the document name has a bullet in front of it, the document has changed since it was last saved. If the document name has a diamond in front of it, the document is “minimized” in the Dock. Choosing a document name from the Window menu brings its window to the front. The document name with a check is the active window.

Minimize This has the same effect as clicking the Minimize (amber) button, it sends the window to the Dock.

Zoom Expands (and alternatively contracts) between the full height and width of the window and its previous display size. The fully zoomed size differs depending on whether you use Draft or Page View. This does not affect the “zoom percentage” as available from the commands of the View menu.

Document Tabs The commands of the menu: Window > Document Tabs correspond directly with those of the menu View > Document Tabs. You can learn more about them on page 677.

Palettes Choose commands from the Palettes submenu to manage your Nisus Writer Pro palettes.

▸Show Palette Dock Toggles the display of the Palette Dock.

▸Customize Palette Dock…
Opens a window enabling you to extensively customize the Palette Dock.

▸Palette Dock Placement Choose commands from the Palette Dock Placement submenu to determine where your Palette Dock appears on your screen.

▸Floating Window Causes the Palette Dock to float independently of any document windows you have open. The controls of one Palette Dock will affect any active window.