If Grammatik finds something that breaks the rules of grammar using the current settings, it displays an explanation of the problem next to the name of the broken rule—the “Rule Class” that has been broken. Grammatik may make one or more suggestions of better grammar, and if you click an option, the new sentence is shown so that you can decide if that’s what you meant to say. Click Replace to apply the change and continue checking. Turning Grammatik’s Rules On and Off When Grammatik finds fault with your grammar, you might not always agree with its suggestion. If you don’t want Grammatik to check a certain kind of grammatical error, you can tell it to ignore it. As soon as Grammatik pops up a grammar query, the Add button in the Writing Tools dialog changes to Turn Off. If you click Turn Off, the specific grammar rule that is currently being used will be deactivated for as long as the Writing Tools dialog is open. If you want to turn it back on again, choose Options | Turn On Rules, which brings up the Turn On Rules dialog. Choose those rules that you want to reactivate and click OK. The next time you perform a check, these rules are included. After you have pared down the rules to the ones you want to keep, you can save this new “profile” for future use: Choose Options | Save Rules. The Save Rules dialog opens, and you can either click the Save button to update the current style or click Save As to create a new checking style. Using the Thesaurus When the word you’re using doesn’t convey exactly the right shade of meaning or if you’ve already used it three or four times, check out the available synonyms with the Thesaurus writing tool. Right-click with the Text tool on the word you want to replace with a better word, and then choose Thesaurus from the pop-up menu. Alternatively, choose Text | Writing Tools | Thesaurus. The Writing Tools dialog opens with the word in the word look-up box, as shown here: Ill 14-6 414 CorelDRAW X5 The Official Guide Word look-up box Suggestions area: similar words and phrases, opposite meanings The word look-up box contains the word that you want to look up. The suggestions area of the dialog contains a folder-like tree view list of alternative words and meanings for the word you are looking up. Find one that matches the message you are trying to present, and click to expand the entry. If you find the word you want to use, select it and click the Replace button to insert the word into your text. You can also choose the opposite meaning of a word in case inverting a sentence is a style of writing you like—antonyms are available for the word you chose in the expandable tree in the suggestions area. If you find a word that is close, but not exactly the right word for you, double-click the word to automatically open another suggestion area in the dialog that makes suggestions for words that are similar to the selected word. Up to three panes of suggestions are visible at once, but you can keep clicking suggestions and open more panes that you can navigate through using the left and right navigation buttons at the top of the dialog. To use a word in one of the alternate panes as your replacement word, select it and click the Replace button. Setting Thesaurus Options You can set various options for the Thesaurus by clicking the Options button in the Writing Tools dialog and clicking the Thesaurus tab to view the drop-down menu; the most useful ones are described here: ● Auto Look Up This option speeds up your work by starting the process right away. ● Auto Close When turned on, it closes the dialog as soon as the Replace button is clicked. ● Spelling Assist When enabled, if the word that you selected to check in the Thesaurus is not recognized, a list of similar words from the Thesaurus is shown. Click the word that best matches the correct spelling of the word you typed, and then click Look Up. The suggestions area will contain alternatives. ● Synonym This option displays synonyms of the look-up word in the list of suggested alternatives. ● Antonym This option displays antonyms of the look-up—a lifesaver for those times when you can’t think of an opposite for the word you want. ● Language Choose this to change which language’s Thesaurus is used for the current session. This does not change the language of the text in your document, but any replacements will be set to the new language. This only works with languages you have currently installed. CHAPTER 14: Getting Your Words Perfect 415 14 Using QuickCorrect QuickCorrect is a dynamic part of CorelDRAW’s writing tools. QuickCorrect works with you as you type, much like Auto Spell; it replaces words that you commonly mistype or misspell with the correctly spelled versions. It can also be used to replace an abbreviation with the full-word form to save you having to type a word or phrase each time. How QuickCorrect Works While you are typing, every time you “leave” a word by typing a space, period, tab, comma, or linefeed, QuickCorrect compares that word with its user word lists. If it finds the word— or possibly a phrase in one of its lists—it replaces that word or phrase with the replacement in the list. For example, people often mistype the word the when typing quickly; the English word lists already include an entry to change teh to the. Similarly, don’t is the QuickCorrect replacement for dont, misspell for mispell, you’re the for your the, and weird for wierd. QuickCorrect also manages other automated text-correction features, such as capitalization of the first words of a sentence and the names of days, correcting consecutive capitals, and adding typographic or “smart” quotation marks. To remove an unwanted QuickCorrect change, choose Edit | Undo or press CTRL+Z. The QuickCorrect change is undone without undoing any other typing. You then continue typing and the word that you typed is as it is. Setting QuickCorrect Options To set QuickCorrect’s options, open CorelDRAW’s global Options dialog (CTRL+J), and navigate to the QuickCorrect section of the tree, as shown in Figure 14-3. The available options are listed here: ● Capitalize First Letter Of Sentences Does exactly that. If you use a lot of symbol fonts in your text, the sentence capitalization option is notorious for capitalizing those symbols when you don’t want this. In these instances, you might want to disable this feature. ● Correct Two Initial, Consecutive Capitals This option automatically corrects for holding the SHIFT key down too long when typing. ● Capitalize Names Of Days This option capitalizes the first letter of days of the week. ● Automatically Hyperlink When this option is enabled, typing www (followed by the rest of the URL) creates an Internet hyperlink. You might not want this if you’re creating flyers, but if you are creating Acrobat PDF documents, it’s a welcome option. 416 CorelDRAW X5 The Official Guide This next Language section of the dialog is used to customize how a specific language deals with single-quote (apostrophe) and double-quote marks. Different languages use different glyphs to mark quotations. When you choose a language in the Language drop- down list, CorelDRAW automatically displays the traditional characters that language uses if they are available. To change which characters are used when working with a specific language, choose from the drop-downs. All of the settings are language specific, and you will need to set them for each language you use. ● Change Straight Quotes To Typographic Quotes QuickCorrect changes single- and double-quotation mark characters from the plain typed form to the appropriate left or right typographic quotation mark. CHAPTER 14: Getting Your Words Perfect 417 14 FIGURE 14-3 Use this dialog to choose your QuickCorrect settings. ● Use Straight Quotation Marks After Numbers -6' Choose this if you work with measurements a lot. It looks awkward and unprofessional to denote six inches as the number 6 with a closed double-quote mark after it instead of a double-prime. If you need to use prime symbols for foot-and-inch measurements (such as 1' or 12"), copy the prime (or straight apostrophe) or double-prime (straight double- quote) symbol to the Clipboard from the Windows Character Map (Start | All Programs | Accessories | System Tools | Character Map) or other application. When the Importing/Pasting Text dialog opens, make sure that Discard Fonts And Formatting is checked. Click OK and the character will be inserted into your document without being intercepted by QuickCorrect. ● Replace Text While Typing When enabled, QuickCorrect replaces those words in the Replace list with the corresponding word in the With list. Entries to a language’s QuickCorrect or directly into a user word list were shown earlier in this chapter, in the section “Adding a New Entry.” Finding and Replacing Text and Special Characters All too often you may find yourself in the situation of having to find a specific piece of text so you can change the font or formatting or even the content of the text itself. CorelDRAW has terrific tools for searching for and replacing text—and text attributes—regardless of whether your layout is a paragraph or a multi-page document. Finding Text To find a word, phrases, and other marks such as dashes, hyphens, and special characters like tabs, paragraph breaks, and spaces, open the Find Text dialog by choosing Edit | Find And Replace | Find Text. In the Find box, enter the word or exact phrase you want to find. You can include special characters such as an Em or En Space or Dash, a ¼ Em Space, a Non-Breaking Space, a Non-Breaking Hyphen, a Column/Frame Break, an Optional Hyphen, a Space, a Tab, or a Hard Return in your search. To enter the search tag for a special character into the Find box, click the right arrow next to the Find drop-down, and choose the character you want to include in your search. If you know the exact character case of the word or phrase, enter it and check the Match Case check box—if the Match Case check box is cleared, all matching words will be found, regardless of the case of the characters (a case-insensitive search). The Find Text dialog is shown here: 418 CorelDRAW X5 The Official Guide Ill 14-7 Click the Find Next button to find the next instance of the searched text within the document. All the text objects in the document—paragraph, artistic, and fitted text—will be searched, starting with the current page and working to the end of the document. You will be asked whether you want to continue from the start of the document when you reach the end: Clicking Yes takes the search back to page 1, and it will continue through to the start position, so the whole document is checked once. If the search text is not found, CorelDRAW tells you. Replacing Text If you want to replace a word, phrase, or special character in the text with another word, phrase, or special character, use the Replace Text dialog, shown next, which is accessed by choosing Edit | Find And Replace | Replace Text. Ill 14-8 CHAPTER 14: Getting Your Words Perfect 419 14 Click for list You enter the word or phrase you want to find into the Find box, and enter the replacement word or phrase into the Replace With box using the same process as described for finding text in the previous section. Click the Find Next button to find the first instance of the search text. When the search text is found, click the Replace button to replace it with the replacement text, or click the Find Next button to skip over the found text and to find the next instance to replace. If you are sure that you want to replace all instances of the Find text in the current document with the Replace With text, click the Replace All button. The ability to search and replace special characters in addition to text is incredibly useful when you are cleaning up imported text, changing five spaces into a tab, and removing column/frame breaks (soft returns). It is also a useful feature if you want to tweak your typography; for example, you can search for a hyphen between numbers and replace it with an en dash. You can also give your text some breathing room and search for all the em dashes in your text and put ¼ em spaces on either side of the em dash. Finding and Replacing Text Properties You can also find and replace text properties using the general Find And Replace Wizard interface, invoked by choosing Edit | Find And Replace and then choosing one of the two wizards that can be used, either Find Objects or Replace Objects. Finding Text Properties Using the Find Objects Wizard, you can find text based on its type, such as Artistic, Paragraph, or Text On A Path (Fitted); on its contents; and on its styles. To find text in the current document, use these steps. A Simple Text Hunt Based on Object Properties 1. Open the Find Objects Wizard by choosing Edit | Find And Replace | Find Objects. Then choose Begin A New Search and click Next. 2. On the next page, from the Object Types tab, choose the type of text you want to find, or just check the Text box in the list, which will select all types of text. Then click Next. 420 CorelDRAW X5 The Official Guide 3. On the next page, you must provide the settings for each text type individually. Click a type in the left box to choose it, and then click the Specify Properties For button. This will open the Specific [Attribute] dialog, where you choose the properties that the text must have in order for it to be found. The Specific Paragraph Text dialog is shown in Figure 14-4. 4. The properties shown selected in Figure 14-4 must all be present for the text to qualify: For example, if you type “village” and choose the font Comic Sans MS, and then choose Normal from the Weight field, the artistic text object containing the word “village” will be selected only if it is in the correct Font and Weight (the style of the typeface); CorelDRAW will select the text object but not any words within the object. CHAPTER 14: Getting Your Words Perfect 421 14 FIGURE 14-4 Use this dialog to give the properties of the text that needs to be located. 2 3 4 5. Click Finish and use the button bar, shown here, to jump between the found instances: Ill 14-9 422 CorelDRAW X5 The Official Guide To find the occurrences of text objects containing text that uses a Text Style, check Look For Object Names Or Styles at the bottom of the first page of the Find Wizard. When this option is checked, clicking Next takes you to a page where you can choose the Style Name or a Style Type that you want to search for from a list. Replacing Text Properties The Replace Wizard replaces one set of matching text properties with another set. When you start the wizard, you can choose whether to restrict the search only to the text within the selected text objects or to search the whole document. In the first page of the wizard, choose Replace Text Properties and click Next. You can now set the search and replace criteria for text properties, as shown in Figure 14-5. You can set the Font, Weight, and Size of the text to find, and you can replace one or all of those settings with new ones. Click Finish and use the button bar to decide whether to find each match one at a time or just to replace them all in one go. CHAPTER 14: Getting Your Words Perfect 423 14 FIGURE 14-5 Set the Find and Replace With properties for your text. . in the word look-up box, as shown here: Ill 1 4-6 414 CorelDRAW X5 The Official Guide Word look-up box Suggestions area: similar words and phrases, opposite meanings The word look-up box contains. a double-prime. If you need to use prime symbols for foot-and-inch measurements (such as 1' or 12"), copy the prime (or straight apostrophe) or double-prime (straight double- quote). Acrobat PDF documents, it’s a welcome option. 416 CorelDRAW X5 The Official Guide This next Language section of the dialog is used to customize how a specific language deals with single-quote