![]() docx, Microsoft’s newer Office Open XML file format, is more limited. Nisus Writer Pro (as well as Express) also provides excellent import and export support for Microsoft Word’s widely used. (In the early days, Nisus Writer “Classic,” as it’s now called, used a text format.) ![]() RTF isn’t proprietary and is supported by nearly all word processors and even by more basic programs like OS X’s Text Edit application, so if you need to open a Nisus Writer Pro file and the only program you have handy is, say, Microsoft Word, you will be able to do it. Fortunately, both Nisus Writer Pro and Express preserve one of Nisus’s original 1989 strokes of genius-namely, saving documents by default as RTF (Rich Text Format). If you share your documents with anybody else, file-format compatibility may be an important issue. While it didn’t make me yearn to be cloistered once again in the research library, I will admit that I was very impressed at how nicely the two programs work together. Back in my previous life as a university professor, I did all my bibliographies and footnotes “by hand.” For this review, I tested Nisus Writer Pro 1.4 with Bookends 10.6.1. For the kinds of merges that most of my clients have done over the years, Nisus Writer Pro does a terrific job and I can’t see how it could be made any easier.įor scholars, Nisus Writer Pro provides hand-in-glove integration with the very popular citation management program for Mac users,īookends from Sonny Software. (Tip: Use one-word placeholders, for example, FirstName instead of First Name.) And like Word, Nisus Writer Pro can also enter placeholders based on the evaluation of conditions, although this takes a wee bit of macro coding. It was a snap to pull data from a single group in my Address Book (or multiple selected groups, or all the records), but it was only slightly more difficult to export a merge (.mer) file from FileMaker Pro or a comma-separate value (.csv) file from Excel. I found creating my first simple merge document in Nisus Writer Pro much easier than doing the same thing in Microsoft Word. When it comes to merge tools, you may find that with Nisus Writer Pro you may not even need to read the documentation to merge. Want to add bookmarks and cross-references, so you (or your readers) can find their way around in long documents? No problem. Nisus Writer Pro can also lets you create an index and a table of contents. Nisus Writer Pro supports comments, and in my testing, I was able to move a commented document back and forth between Nisus Writer Pro and Word. Pro is designed for writing professionals and has the advanced document management features that are required by users who are not just writing, but producing documents. ![]() ![]() ($65 new with a 25% discount for TidBITS members from Nisus Software and the Mac App Store, free update from version 3, $45 upgrade, 244 MB, release notes, 10.If Express as good as Pro in all those respects, why would anyone bother with Pro? Express is designed for students, business users, and, well, ordinary writers (which is to say, most users). The release updates the DOC/DOCX file converter to use the LibreOffice codebase to solve issues with floating text boxes, improves responsiveness when working in files with many or large tables, adds table menu commands to control most aspects of table cell borders and shading, works around an Apple bug that incorrectly flags words as misspelled in macOS 10.14 Mojave, resolves several issues with automatic numbers, adds an export file format called “Rich Text Format (limited features)” that improves compatibility with InDesign, and fixes a bug that could cause HTML and EPUB exports to produce invalid hyperlinks for footnotes and endnotes. Nisus Software has issued Nisus Writer Pro 3.0.2 with a lengthy list of changes for the powerful word processor (see “ Nisus Writer Pro 3.0 Hits New Levels of Word-Processing Power,” 29 October 2018). #1651: Dealing with leading zeroes in spreadsheet data, removing ad tracking from ckbk.#1652: OS updates, DPReview shuttered, LucidLink cloud storage.#1653: Apple Music Classical review, Authory service for writers, WWDC 2023 dates announced.1654: Urgent OS security updates, upgrading to macOS 13 Ventura, using smart speakers while temporarily blind.#1655: 33 years of TidBITS, Twitter train wreck, tvOS 16.4.1, Apple Card Savings, Steve Jobs ebook.
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