#Word writer pro manual#
#Word writer pro pro#

Outline: Nisus Writer Pro offers a styles-based “table of contents” pane that shows the structure of your document in outline format.

Even with the help, this is an advanced option and making use of it involves a little study.Īnd here’s what the dialog looks like if you build it in ordinary PowerFind (not PowerFind Pro). You can type your regular expression into the find and replace fields if you know how to, or you can use the drop-down menus attached to the gear icons to get help from a menu. Power Find Pro: Nisus Writer Pro supports regular expressions, a technology for defining complex finds in text documents. Pictured below is the Find/Replace dialog using PowerFind Pro and a conventional regular expression. But Nisus Writer Pro makes it a little easier by giving you a way to construct your find using menus.

#Word writer pro manual#

The Nisus Writer Pro user manual provides a pretty good reference guide on the subject, if you want to learn. Now, basic regular expressions like the example above are fairly easy. But most of us don’t and regular expressions can be daunting-there are long, challenging books on the subject. This would fix the problem in a 200-page document in a second or two. Using PowerFind Pro and a technology called “regular expressions,” you’d look for texas( (d)), which means “find ‘texas’, then a block of text starting with a space and followed by five numbers in a row.” And you’d replace it with TX1, which means “TX” followed by everything found by the first pair of parentheses in the find expression (that is, the space and the five numbers). Say you want to find places in your text where “Texas” is followed by a zip code, so you can correct those addresses to use the two-letter abbreviation for the state (“TX”). These tools let you create complicated finds by using markers that indicate things like position, number of times some letter or word is repeated, and so on. Using PowerFind or PowerFind Pro is a whole ‘nother ball game. Pages ( ) or TextEdit-to find “Texas” in the document, you look for “Texas”. Normal Find is what you’d expect, the basic find you have in Apple’s Nisus Writer Pro has not one but three find and replace modes: Normal Find, PowerFind, and PowerFind Pro. I said a little about this in the Nisus Writer Express review but I want to expand on this, as it’s one of the really distinctive features of Nisus Writer and something that Nisus Writer Pro users in particular truly may find useful.