Nisus Writer Express - Manual (Page 63)

Creating Documents 43
Insert a right to left table in a left to right section
You can adjust the direction of the tables using the Paragraph palette.
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New tables derive their direction from the direction you have set for your section (or the document if
you only have one section). Therefore, if you insert a table while in right to left text of a left to right
section or document, the insert table pop-up menu and the actual table display in left to right.
1. Select all the cells in the table.
2. Choose the right to left language you want to use from the Language tab on the Statusbar or
the Language button on the Toolbar or the Language pop-up menu in the Language palette (not
simply the input method from the flag at the top of the menu bar.
Nisus Writer Express presents a dialog asking if you want to change the direction of the table.
Selecting Text
Select text using the mouse
▶ Drag across text to select it.
▶ Double-click to select a word.
▶ Triple-click to select a paragraph.
Select a column of text (rectangular selection)
1. Press 4 .
2. Drag across the text to select it.
Select text from different places in the document (noncontiguous
selection)
1. Drag across the text to select it.
2. Press A as you select each additional character or passage.
What you can (and cannot) do with noncontiguously selected text
Almost anything you can do with contiguously selected text you can do with noncontiguously
selected text. Certain commands and actions are disabled for practical reasons. (Which selection
should the command affect the most recent selection or the first selection, the selection closest to
the top of the document, or closest to the bottom?)
▶ Commands disabled in the Edit menu (and its submenus) are
• Paste
• Complete
▶ All the Commands in the Insert menu.
▶ You cannot enter text from the keyboard when you have noncontiguous text selected.