Creating documents 35 writing and editing 35 – Nisus Writer Express User Manual
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Change the font
15
Scroll through a longer list of fonts
15
Change the typeface or color
16
Change the size
16
The Paragraph Palette
16
Change the alignment
16
Change the direction text flows (for right to left languages)
16
Change the space between lines of text (“leading”)
17
Multiple/Fixed
17
Change the amount of space that appears above (before) a paragraph
17
Change the amount of space that appears below (after) a paragraph
17
Control for widows and orphans
17
Prevent a paragraph (or paragraphs) from splitting across page or column breaks
17
Keep one paragraph with the one that follows it
17
The Statistics palette
17
The Page Palette
17
Show the Page palette
18
Magnify, or, zoom in and out of your document
18
Show the maximum width of your document in Page View
18
Show the entire width and height of your document in Page View
18
The Columns Palette
18
The Headers and Footers Palette
18
The Image Palette
18
The Language Palette
18
The Lists Palette
18
The Margins Palette
18
The Page Borders Palette
18
The Section Palette
18
The Styles Palette
18
The Table Palette
18
The Table Cell Borders Palette
18
The Table Cell Shading Palette
18
The Table Cells Palette
18
The Nisus Writer Express Menus
19
Conventions
19
Nisus Writer Express Menu
19
File Menu
20
Edit Menu
20
Insert Menu
23
View Menu
24
Format Menu
25
Table Menu
32
Macro Menu
33
Window Menu
33
Help Menu
34
Creating Documents
35
Writing and Editing
35
Entering (Typing) Text
35
Writing in Multiple Languages
36
Set up language support in Nisus Writer Express
36
Choose a language in which to write
39
Write in a different language (to switch languages)
40
Enter right to left text in your document
40
Mix right to left and left to right text… some common errors and fixes
41
Have an exclamation point appear correctly in a left to right string of right to left text
41
Have the period appear correctly in a left to right sentence that ends with a right to left word
42
Insert a right to left table in a left to right section
43
Selecting Text
43
Select text using the mouse
43
Select a column of text (rectangular selection)
43
Select text from different places in the document (noncontiguous selection)
43
What you can (and cannot) do with noncontiguously selected text
43
Select using the keyboard
44
Other methods of selection
44
“De-select” text from a selection
44
Copying Text
44
Copy text
44
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