Nisus Writer Express - Manual (Page 239)

Customizing & Automating Solutions
You can customize almost everything about Nisus Writer Express 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 Express allow you to customize the way you find and replace
text. The section beginning on page 224 discusses this capability in detail.
You can combine any Nisus Writer Express 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 245.
This portion of the documentation details three aspects of how to customize your version of Nisus
Writer Express 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 Express documents. Choose preferences that fit
your personal working style. You can set a variety of preferences for Nisus Writer Express from the
commands in the Preferences dialog.
Setting Preferences 219
Macros, Skimming the Surface 245
Macros, the Deeper Workings 249
Writing Perl Scripts 250
Writing AppleScripts 252
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Setting Preferences
This portion describes the various preferences you can set that affect how Nisus Writer Express
works.
Using the General Preferences to Control the Application 219
Determine What Happens at Activation 220
Document Manager 220
Choose the Way in Which Files Save 221
Choose Measurement Display Options For New Documents 233
Customize Your Clipboards 234
Assign Menu Keys to Menu Commands 235
Set Your Language Preferences 236
Determine What QuickFix Fixes 237
Change the Display of the Toolbar 240
Create Your Own Set of Palettes for the Tooldrawer 240
Save Preferences 243
Return All Preferences to Their Original (Shipped) Settings 243
Using the General Preferences to Control the Application
Each of the following sets of preferences deals with a certain aspect of Nisus Writer Express. 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 Express. Most of these are illustrated in Figure 81 and described in “Set “defaults” for new
files” on page 95.
Nisus Writer Express saves the document the way in which it appeared on your monitor the last
time you used it and uses those settings the next time you activate it.
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