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If you want to write business letters, school papers (including papers with extensive notes, graphics, and tables), or simply do basic text editing, Nisus Writer Express will do a great job. If you work with right-to-left languages like Arabic or Hebrew, Nisus Writer Express may be perfect for you (although you might want to considerĮven if you don’t need those advanced, high-powered features, Nisus Writer Express is a very decent basic word processor. You can give the clipboards names and you can even edit the content of a clipboard directly.But if you need to manipulate text in this fashion on a regular basis, you should, at a minimum, consider Nisus Writer Express’s big brother, Not so easy to do with most other word processors.Īll You Can Eat Clipboards: Nisus Writer Express (and its big sister Nisus Writer Pro) let you store cut or copied text or images in as many different clipboards as you need. It took a few minutes and a trip to the users guide, but my brain didn’t overheat and yours won’t, either.

For example, I was able to take an address list and clean it up so that two-line addresses became one-line addresses, “Street” was changed to “St” and the spelled-out state name “Texas” was converted to the post office’s preferred abbreviation “TX”. The PowerFind feature makes it possible with just a little effort to create complex, context-sensitive find and replace routines, and you don’t have to take a college course in Regular Expressions. If you need or want Nisus Writer Express’s special features-in particular, its programmability and/or its fabulous multi-level find and replace tools-then it’s capable of doing a couple of jobs that no other word processor on the market can do.

Version 3.4: ability to insert images in a document by reference support for hyperlinks improved table formatting and organization finer control over hyphenation control over padding around images improved pagination with end notes and (one of my favorites) the ability to stop numbering in lists (for example, to insert a comment paragraph) and then resume it.

(It allows you to jump backwards and forwards to prior editing locations.)

Version 3.3: a new Document Manager and style library and a selection history feature that is fun to use and sometimes useful.

Version 3.0: text wrap around images glossaries widow and orphan control, “keep with next” and “keep together” paragraph options improved note formatting.

Version 2.7: multi-key keyboard shortcuts (great for keyboard control freaks) and leader tabs.

Version 2.5: support for right-to-left text input list styles (bullets and numbering) and improved resizing of images.

Seven years is a long time in the computer biz, and while Nisus Writer Express doesn’t look very different on the surface (and it still has the features I mentioned), it has improved in lots of ways. That description is still accurate with the latest version of Nisus Writer Express, 3.4.1 ( I described it then as “sleek, flexible and a bit geeky.” It also had the trademark Nisus Writer features, which include its commendable use of Rich Text Format (RTF) as its native file format the ability to customize the user interface extensively selection of non-contiguous blocks of text multiple editable clipboards an insanely powerful find and replace feature and an equally insane willingness to be pushed around via macros and other programming methods.

It had powerful formatting via styles (character and paragraph), tables, images, columns, footnotes and endnotes, and other basic word processing features. When I last reviewed Nisus Writer Express (version 2.1)īack in 2005, it was a pretty decent writing tool.