Nisus Writer Pro - Manual (Page 385)

Customizing & Automating Solutions
You can customize almost everything about Nisus Writer Pro to fit your working environment. These
include subjects already described in the manual such as determining how your windows appear.
The searching tools of Nisus Writer Pro allow you to customize the way you find and replace text.
The section beginning on page 301 discusses this capability in detail.
You can combine any Nisus Writer Pro commands (and include Find and Replace activities as well)
to create new commands that automate repetitive tasks. The manual discusses these macros
beginning on page 397.
This portion of the documentation details three aspects of how to customize your version of Nisus
Writer Pro, how to set preferences, how to customize your Toolbar and Tooldrawer (the Palettes),
and how to create macros.
The preferences you choose affect all Nisus Writer Pro documents. Choose preferences that fit your
personal working style. You can set a variety of preferences for Nisus Writer Pro from the commands
in the Preferences dialog.
Setting Preferences 365
Macros, Skimming the Surface 397
Macros, the Deeper Workings 401
Writing Perl Scripts 416
Writing AppleScripts 418
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Setting Preferences
This portion describes the various preferences you can set that affect how Nisus Writer Pro works.
Using the General Preferences to Control the Application 365
Determine what happens at launch or activation 366
Determine the Way the Document Manager Works 367
Choose the Way in Which Files Save 367
Choose measurement display options for new documents 381
Customize Your Clipboards 382
Assign Menu Keys to Menu Commands 383
Set Your Language Preferences 384
Determine What QuickFix Fixes 385
Change the Display of the Toolbar 391
Create Your Own Group of Palettes for the Tooldrawer 393
Save Preferences 395
Return All Preferences to Their Original (Shipped) Settings 395
Using the General Preferences to Control the Application
Each of the following sets of preferences deals with a certain aspect of Nisus Writer Pro. The General
preferences control how the application functions as a whole.
In this dialog you can determine a variety of options that control the general functioning of Nisus
Writer Pro. Most of these are illustrated in Figure 127 and described in “Set “defaults” for the
application and new files” on page 116.
Nisus Writer Pro saves the document the way in which it appeared (window shape, size and
location) on your monitor the last time you used it and uses those settings the next time you
activate it.
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