Corel’s proofing engine is also capable of proofing text to meet the spelling and punctuation standards of different regional and national variations for a number of major languages. This ensures, for example, that text that has been tagged as French Canadian will be checked using the French (Canadian) proofing set and rules that reflect correct French Canadian spelling, grammar, and word choice. If the French text in the document is intended for French speakers in Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Monaco, or Switzerland, instead of Canada, you would tag the text to match French (Belgium), French (France), French (Luxembourg), French (Monaco), or French (Switzerland) so that the appropriate proofing tools would be called into use by CorelDRAW. Using the Proofing Tools To use CorelDRAW’s spell checker, thesaurus, or grammar check on text in your document, select the text with the Pick tool or the Text tool, and then choose the appropriate writing tool from the Text | Writing Tools menu. Alternatively, you can right-click a text object with the Text tool and then choose a proofing tool from the pop-up menu. You can also right- click with the Pick tool and choose Spell Check, or press CTRL+F12. This opens the Writing Tools dialog to the Spell Checker tab, as shown here: Ill 14-2 If you have the WordPerfect Office suite installed on your computer, you will also have a Dictionary tab to the right of the Thesaurus tab in the Writing Tools dialog. 404 CorelDRAW X5 The Official Guide Incorrectly spelled words List of alternative words Range to check Suggested replacement and spelling Common Buttons The Spell Checker and Grammatik tools share common buttons in the Writing Tools dialog. These buttons perform the functions described here: ● Start The Start button starts the Spell Checker or Grammatik. This button is visible only if Auto Start is off—it is on by default. To enable or disable the Auto Start option, click the Options button in the Writing Tools dialog, and make a selection from the drop-down menu. ● Replace As the check is performed, when a misspelled word or grammatical error is found, the Start button changes to Replace, and the misspelled word or grammatical error is highlighted. Select the suggested correction from the list, and click Replace to apply it. You can also edit the replacement word in the Spell Checker’s Replace With box, or type in a new word before replacing it. After the replacement has been made, the checker rechecks the replacement and continues checking. ● Undo The Undo button reverts the last correction to its previous state. ● Resume After you correct a mistake, if you move the insertion point—for example, to a different part of the text—the Start button changes to the Resume button. Simply click it to recheck any selected text and to continue checking from the insertion point. ● Skip Once and Skip All If the word or sentence that a checker has queried is actually correct—for example, a brand name such as Pringles or Humvee—you can click one of the Skip buttons to have the checker ignore it. Skip Once causes the check to continue, but future instances of the same problem will stop the checker. Skip All tells the checker to ignore all instances of this spelling or grammatical error. ● Add Add allows you to add a word to the current user word list. Many unusual names and technical terms are not included in the Spell Checker’s dictionary, and these can be added to the user word list for the current language. In the future, these added words will not be queried. If a word appears in the Replace With box or in the Not Found box, clicking Add immediately adds the queried word to the default user word list. Otherwise, if no word appears in either box, clicking the Add button opens an input box, where you can type the word you want to enter into the user word list. ● Auto Replace If you choose an alternative spelling for a queried word, the Auto Replace button becomes active. Clicking this button will add the misspelled word and its replacement to the default user word list, and if QuickCorrect is enabled, then the next time you type the same mistake, the correct word will be automatically substituted. CHAPTER 14: Getting Your Words Perfect 405 14 ● Options The Options button displays a drop-down menu that contains various settings for the current Writing tool. ● Check By using the options from the Check drop-down list, you can set the range of text for performing a spell check or a Grammatik check. The available options depend on whether text is selected with the Text tool or the Pick tool. When Auto Start is enabled, so spelling and grammar checks are performed as soon as the dialog is opened, you cannot choose the range before the check is performed. Disabling Auto Start means that CorelDRAW does not perform the check until you click the Start button, so you can change settings before the check begins. Setting Spell Checker Options You can click the Options button on the Spell Checker page of the Writing Tools dialog to access various settings that affect how the Spell Checker works. The Options drop-down menu is shown here: Ill 14-3 Setting the Checker’s Language The Language option sets the current language for the Spell Checker. When you click Language, the Select Language dialog appears, as shown next, in which you can select the language for the checker to use. By checking Show Available Languages Only, you reduce the list to those languages for which dictionaries are installed. 406 CorelDRAW X5 The Official Guide Selecting a different language and checking Save As Default Writing Tools Language causes both the Spell Checker and Grammatik to use this language by default in all future checks. Ill 14-4 Although you can change the Language of the Spell Checker, it is much better to select the text and then to set the language of the text via Text | Writing Tools | Language, than to change the language from the Writing Tools dialog. When you change the language of the text, the checker language is automatically changed to match, but the reverse doesn’t happen. Changing the Language option of the text saves the change to the file so that the proper proofing tools will be used without additional user intervention. You can also add new language codes by clicking the Add button to open the Add Language Code dialog, as shown: Ill 14-5 Adding a new language code does not create or install a dictionary or user word list to go with it. CorelDRAW does not come with a utility to create or edit main dictionaries, but if you have WordPerfect, you can use the Spell Utility that comes with it to create main and user dictionaries to use with your custom language code. CHAPTER 14: Getting Your Words Perfect 407 14 Using Word Lists CorelDRAW’s writing tools maintain word lists that contain all the valid words and phrases for spelling checks. If a word in your document is not in one of the active lists, it is flagged as being incorrectly spelled. CorelDRAW has two types of word lists: ● Main word lists These lists are provided by Corel and contain the most common words and spellings in each language. One main word list exists per language and this list is not editable. ● User word lists These lists contain words that are not in the Corel-supplied lists but rather are made up of words you have added during a spell check by clicking the Add button. It is up to you to ensure that the words you add to a user word list are spelled correctly! User word lists also contain the QuickCorrect entries for the text’s language. Each language has at least one user word list. You can create your own user word lists with the WordPerfect Spell Utility, or you can use third-party created lists. Specialized user word lists such as those containing medical, legal, engineering, scientific, or other words and phrases that are common to an industry are very useful to create. The Spell Checker compares each word in your text to those in the main word lists and then to the user word lists that you have chosen for that word’s language. You should include the user word lists in your regular data backups. That way, if you have to reinstall CorelDRAW, you can also reinstall the latest versions of your user word lists. User word list filenames have the extension .UWL, and main word lists files use .MOR. When running Windows 7, the UWL files can be found in [USER]/AppData\Roaming\Corel\CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X5\WritingTools, and the MOR file(s) in C:\ProgramFiles (x86)\Corel\CorelDRAW Graphic Suite X5\ WritingTools. Using Main Word Lists The main word lists are predefined by Corel and cannot be edited by CorelDRAW. Main word lists contain only words used by the Spell Checker—no QuickCorrect word pairs are included. Which main word list is currently being used changes according to the Language setting. After pressing CTRL+F12 to display Writing Tools, click Options, and then choose Main Word Lists, select a different language, and CorelDRAW will use the main word list for the new language you chose. Changing which word list CorelDRAW is currently using does not change the language code of the selected text but rather temporarily proofs that text using the new main word list. 408 CorelDRAW X5 The Official Guide You can also add extra main word lists to a language by using the Add List button. For example, some U.S. English users might want their U.S. Spell Checker to include Spanish words. By adding the Spanish word list, the Spell Checker will first check words against the English lists. Then, if the words are not found in the English list, the checker compares against the Spanish list. Only if the check fails against both lists will the Spell Checker display an error. Using this method, you don’t have to specifically set a language code for the Spanish text. Setting Options in User Word Lists To choose which user word list is used, and to edit entries in a user word list, open the User Word Lists dialog. From the Writing Tools dialog, click the Spell Checker tab, and then click the Options button; then choose User Word Lists from the drop-down menu. From the User Word Lists dialog, shown in Figure 14-1, you can add existing user word lists you might have, set the default list to which new entries are added, as well as add, delete, and edit entries in any existing user word list. Also, you can edit the AutoCorrect entries contained in the selected list and manually add new entries to the currently selected user word list. CHAPTER 14: Getting Your Words Perfect 409 14 FIGURE 14-1 Use the User Word Lists dialog to set options for new lists. Setting Current Language User word lists are language dependent, and at least one list is created for each language. You can choose which language’s user word lists to edit with the Change button, located at the top right of the dialog. The Change button opens the Select Language dialog shown in the earlier section, “Setting the Checker’s Language.” This does not change the language of the text or of the writing tools—it changes which language’s settings are shown in the dialog. Changing the current language offers you the chance to edit the user word list of other languages. Adding User Word Lists Clicking the Add List button in the User Word Lists dialog adds new lists to the current language; each language can have more than one list. This is useful, for example, for adding company- and industry-specific word lists to everyone’s installation of CorelDRAW without having to enter the words individually on each computer. To choose which user word list will be the one that is used to store new words added when you spell check, choose the list you want to use in the User Word Lists field, and then click the Set Default button to the right. Browsing and Editing User Word List Contents You can browse and edit the user word list contents. Just scroll up and down the list to view the contents, or enter a word or the first few characters of a word into the Word/Phrase box to scroll to a certain point in the alphabetical list. The list contains words that you have added. It also contains QuickCorrect entries that you have added with either the Spell Checker’s Auto Replace button or in the QuickCorrect section of CorelDRAW’s Tools | Options dialog. 410 CorelDRAW X5 The Official Guide Hacking a User Word List If you don’t have the Spell Utility, you can create a user word list by use of a little backdoor maneuvering. Close CorelDRAW. In Windows 7, go to the Users\current user\AppData\Roaming\Corel\CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X5\Writing Tools folder on your hard disk. Locate the user word list that corresponds to the default language you use; for example, WT15US.UWL is the U.S. English user word list file. Press CTRL+C and then CTRL+V to copy and paste the copy into the same directory. Select the copied file and rename it to a descriptive name with a .UWL file extension, for example, “Aereospace.UWL.” Next time you open CorelDRAW, you can use Aereospace.UWL—add it to your list, add to or delete entries from it—as you would any other user word list. You can scroll through the list to view any particular word. Each entry has two parts: the word or phrase for which CorelDRAW checks (Word/Phrase), and the word or phrase with which CorelDRAW replaces the incorrect word (Replace With). Adding a New Entry If you want to add a new word or phrase to the user word list, enter the word or phrase that you want replaced into the Word/Phrase box. In the Replace With box, enter the text you want to use to replace the Word/Phrase, or leave the box empty if you want CorelDRAW to ignore the spelling of the word or phrase. Click the Add Entry button to add the new word to the list. For example, if you perennially type Ive instead of I’ve, enter Ive in the Word/Phrase box, enter I’ve in the Replace With box, and click Add Entry. To add a word that is spelled correctly but that is not in any list, type the word in the Word/Phrase box and then type it in the Replace With box. If you put the correctly spelled word in both boxes, Corel will not put the red squiggle under the word. If you leave the Replace With box empty, CorelDRAW adds “<skip>“ to the Replace With column, which tells QuickCorrect and the Spell Checker to ignore this word. Deleting Entries If you have an entry in the user word list that is misspelled or simply not what you want, you can delete it. Select the item and click the Delete Entry button. You’ll see a confirmation box asking whether you really want to delete the word—yes, you do— just confirm it and it’s history. Editing Entries You can also correct or edit any entry. Click the entry in the list to select it, make your changes in the Replace With box, and then click the Replace Entry button. Setting Entry Properties The property set for each word in your user word list is important to consider and may need tweaking to get the results you want for the particular entry. With the word or phrase selected in the list, click on the Properties button to display the Entry Properties dialog. From here, the Entry Type can be set to Skip Word, which causes the proofing tools to ignore the word. Choose Auto-Replace Entry to have CorelDRAW substitute what you typed with what you’ve entered in the Replace field. Other Spell Checking Options Some other options available from the Options drop-down menu of the Writing Tools dialog are described here: ● Auto Start The Spell Checker and Grammatik start the check automatically when the Writing Tools dialog is opened or when that checker’s page is opened in the Writing Tools dialog. ● Check Words With Numbers Checks or ignores words that include numbers. ● Check Duplicate Words Flags words that appear twice in succession. CHAPTER 14: Getting Your Words Perfect 411 14 ● Check Irregular Capitalization Checks for words that have capital letters in places other than the first character. ● Show Phonetic Suggestions Makes phonetic suggestions—replacement words that sound like the unrecognized word. Main Spell Checking Options The Workspace | Text | Spelling section of CorelDRAW’s global Options dialog (CTRL+J) also includes various options that modify how the writing tools work. ● Perform Automatic Spell Checking Check this if you want to check spelling as you type. When it is turned on, unrecognized words are underlined with a red zigzag line while you’re editing text with the Text tool. ● Visibility Of Errors Choose here to have all errors underlined in all text objects or just the text object being edited. ● Display Spelling Suggestions Set the number of suggestions to display in the pop- up menu after you’ve right-clicked a misspelled word with the Text tool. The maximum and default number of suggestions is 10. ● Add Corrections To QuickCorrect When this option is checked, CorelDRAW will add a correction pair to the user word list based on a correction made from the right-click pop-up menu. ● Show Errors Which Have Been Ignored When you right-click a word, the pop- up menu includes an Ignore All command, which tells the Spell Checker to ignore this word. With this option set, CorelDRAW will still show ignored errors, but it will use a blue zigzag line to indicate that they have been ignored. Using Grammatik Spelling errors aren’t the only proofing goof that can make your work look unprofessional. Poor grammar is a big, red flag that reflects on your education and communication skills. To make you look in print as smart as you are in person, CorelDRAW includes the Grammatik grammar checker, in many of the languages that spell checkers are available in. Grammatik is a flexible, powerful tool for checking your work. Grammar checking is a much harder task than spell checking; no program can serve as a proxy for an educated, native speaker’s judgment. What Grammatik excels at is calling your attention to parts of your text that might be grammatically incorrect; it second-guesses you, and it’s always good to have this resource at 1 A.M. when all your coworkers are sensibly asleep at home! Grammatik encourages you to stop and think about what you’ve written and offers helpful suggestions to fix the problem it thinks is a thorn in your rosy prose. Grammatik has different sets of rules that it uses to judge the correctness of your grammar. When you use Grammatik, you should choose the rule set that corresponds to the 412 CorelDRAW X5 The Official Guide level of formality and complexity of your writing. You can also edit any of Grammatik’s rules to suit a specific situation. Mastering every in and out of Grammatik combined with the intricate nature of grammar for a given language is beyond the scope of this book. However, the day-to-day operation of Grammatik is not difficult to manage, as you’ll see in the next section, where the basics are covered. Checking and Correcting Grammar To check your grammar, select the text objects to check with the Pick tool, or select sentences with the Text tool; in the Writing Tools dialog open the Grammatik tab, shown in Figure 14-2, by choosing Text | Writing Tools | Grammatik. As with all of the other writing tools, you can also select text and then use the right-click pop-up menu to launch the tool you want to use. It’s common to use a word that sounds like the word you want: in this figure “affects” is indeed a real word, correctly spelled, but it’s a homonym—a word that sounds like the intended word—”effects.” Grammatik literally highlights potential grammar problems. If Auto Start is enabled, Grammatik will immediately start checking the text; otherwise, you must click the Start button. CHAPTER 14: Getting Your Words Perfect 413 14 FIGURE 14-2 Grammatik catches errors in your writing that spell checking wouldn’t alert you to. Suggested replacement Preview of selected replacement Name of broken rule Explanation of broken rule . found in [USER]/AppDataRoamingCorel CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X5 WritingTools, and the MOR file(s) in C:ProgramFiles (x86)Corel CorelDRAW Graphic Suite X5 WritingTools. Using Main Word Lists The. checked, CorelDRAW will add a correction pair to the user word list based on a correction made from the right-click pop-up menu. ● Show Errors Which Have Been Ignored When you right-click a word,. Tools menu. Alternatively, you can right-click a text object with the Text tool and then choose a proofing tool from the pop-up menu. You can also right- click with the Pick tool and choose Spell