If you find the word you want to use, select it and click the Replace button to insert the word into your text.. Entries to a language’s QuickCorrect or directly into a user word list we
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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:
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Suggestions area: similar words and phrases, opposite meanings
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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
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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 theSHIFTkey 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
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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
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FIGURE 14-3 Use this dialog to choose your QuickCorrect settings
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If you need to use prime symbols for foot-and-inch measurements (such as 1' or 12"), copy the prime (or straight apostrophe) or 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:
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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
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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
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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
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FIGURE 14-4 Use this dialog to give the properties of the text that needs to be located
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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
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FIGURE 14-5 Set the Find and Replace With properties for your text