To access a standard spelling checker, you need to select Spelling instead. Unlike typical spelling checkers, this one doesn’t suggest an alternative word or offer to replace a possibly misspelled word. If you select Check Spelling from the Edit: Spelling menu, the program scans your document and highlights questionable words - and that’s all. Nisus Writer Express’s spelling checker uses the squiggly red underlines familiar to anyone who has used TextEdit, Mail, many Cocoa applications, or Word, but it also includes two confusing options. Also, Nisus Writer Express provides no support for tables, footnotes, or endnotes - omissions that may surprise students working on term papers. But if you set up a style that formats documents this way, the line spacing gets lost in the translation. For example, if you create a document in Word’s default style and then format the text as boldface, Nisus Writer Express can open the document and display it all without a problem. Although you can convert and read Microsoft Word documents, any line spacing and paragraph formatting set by a Word style doesn’t translate well. For instance, it provides no support for style sheets. Stuck in the Lowdownįor all its capabilities, Nisus Writer Express is fairly deficient in ways that will irk you if you plan on using it for anything other than basic documents. You can also save your custom searches for future use. The program includes a very powerful Find feature with which you can use a multitude of predefined expressions for finding and replacing words, sentences, and phrases within a document. In short, Nisus Writer Express is a word processor for people who want to type, save, and print documents, with no fanfare whatsoever. Back to BasicsĪccording to the company, Nisus Writer Express is for “users who don’t want or need a lot of features that they can’t or won’t use.” It’s kind of like the original Volkswagen Beetle: a solid engine, limited features, and a low price. But because it’s essentially a brand-new program, Nisus Writer Express doesn’t yet include all the features that were available in Nisus Writer it will need them in order to be a tenable replacement for your current word processor. As such, the program sports a new interface with features - such as drawers containing the program’s tools - typical of Cocoa applications. Nisus Writer Express marks Nisus’s entry into the world of OS X–native applications, and the end of updates to Nisus Writer. The future, Apple Computer has declared, belongs to OS X, and this program is a good component for that future.Į-mail aol.com or visit the writer’s Web page at applications have been able to overcome Microsoft’s word processing juggernaut, but Nisus Writer has maintained a respectable following in a field littered with also-rans. Those who are accustomed to the earlier Nisus Writer products - word processors of combined heft and grace that claimed a loyal, persistent core of users over the years - may bristle at the lack of some features. And along with the Microsoft Word format, the program defaults to saving documents as “rich text format,” or RTF, files, and can edit and save text files. It is a good way to avoid a total loss of work should things go awry. Nisus will also “auto-save” your work in a “document manager” that lets you preview (and rename) files. Document headers and footers can be created, although such features are applied to all pages, not just individual ones, so you can’t create one header for page one, another for page two and so on. The software’s spell checker taps into a dictionary that’s a part of OS X, and this seems to work rather well. Other major features are straightforward, such as cutting, copying and pasting text, as is an undo and redo function. Another concentrates on the formatting tools (good for putting the finishing touches on a print document) and a third will track the details of various sections in a document. One palate is for writing tasks, including formatting text and paragraphs as well as tracking the number of characters and words in a document. The Nisus screen is clear and uncluttered there is a palate of tools that slides out at the right side of the screen.
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