Nisus Writer Pro - Manual (Page 43)

Creating Documents
Now that you’ve had a grand tour and a brief description of the menu commands of the Nisus Writer
Pro working environment you are ready to begin creating and editing your documents.
This is the major portion of the documentation. It describes all the tools you need to create basic
printable documents.
Writing and Editing 23
Formatting Documents 73
Setting Up a Document’s Page 115
Headers and Footers 135
Graphics: Images and Shapes 147
Book Tools 187
Working with Bookmarks and Cross-references 217
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Writing and Editing
This portion of the manual introduces you to Nisus Writer Pro and shows you basic word processing
tasks. Review the information here to get a feel for the application and how easy it is to learn and
use. The sections include
Entering (Typing) Text 23
Writing in Multiple Languages 27
Selecting Text 36
Copying Text 38
Drag and Drop 38
Cutting Text 39
Pasting Text 39
Moving, Deleting, and Replacing Text 40
Using the Clipboards 40
Copying and pasting styled text 41
Creating Lists 41
Recovering From Mistakes 51
Managing… Saving and Opening Your Files 53
Entering (Typing) Text
At first blush, the Macintosh seems a little like a typewriter (if you can remember what that was) 1 . It
has a keyboard that looks pretty much like that of a typewriter and it enables you to put letters
together to put words on paper. However, there the metaphor ends.
On a computer you type letters and spaces, numbers and punctuation marks, combining them into
recognizable, meaningful configurations. The keyboard sends electronic signals to the central
processing unit (CPU) which then sends the signals further on to become images that appear in
thousands of points of light on the monitor in front of you.
• When you type, words that do not fit on one line automatically “wrap” to the beginning of the
next line.
• Press < only to begin a new paragraph, not when you come to the end of a line.
• Indent the beginnings of your paragraphs using the tools on the ruler (as explained in
“Structuring Paragraphs” beginning on page 75). Do not press
@ or the space bar.
For detailed information that explains how fonts work and how Nisus Writer Pro displays your text
on opening a file see “Appendix III - Displaying Fonts and Text” on page 465.
Enter special characters into your text
While the vast majority of the characters you are likely to use in a document are available easily
from the keyboard, there are a variety of others that are more unusual and it can be hard to
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1 Certain aspects of the typewriter still affect the way we do and conceive of word processing.