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Utilities menu
The Utilities menu includes the following commands:
• Insert Character: Lets you easily insert special characters, including special breaking
and nonbreaking spaces.
• Content Variable: Lets you insert a content variable as well as create new, edit, remove
(not delete) and convert to text..
• Check Spelling: Use the submenu to display the Check Spelling palette to check the
spelling of a word, a selection of text, a story, a layout, or all master pages in a layout.
On Mac OS X, Auxiliary Dictionary and Edit Auxiliary are part of Check Spelling
submenu.
• Auxiliary Dictionary (Windows only): Lets you specify an auxiliary dictionary for use
in spell checking.
• Edit Auxiliary (Windows only): Lets you edit the auxiliary dictionary associated with
the active layout .
• Word and Character Count: Displays the Word and Character Count dialog box.
This dialog box displays the number of full-width characters, half-width characters,
and various other kinds of characters in the active text component.
• Line Check: Displays a submenu that lets you find widows, orphans, loosely justified
lines, lines that end with a hyphen, and overflow situations.
• IME Reconversion: IME Reconversion is supported in the following ways:
1
On Mac OS X: IME Reconversion is supported through the IME Menu. However it
works for Japanese IME Only.
2
On Windows: IME Reconversion is supported through the IME Reconversion menu
option on the QuarkXPress Utilities Menu, as well as the Context Menu. It works for
all Japanese IME, Korean IMEs and a few Simplified and Traditional Chinese IMEs.
IME Reconversion is also supported through the keyboard on both Windows and Mac
OS X.
• Suggested Hyphenation: Displays the suggested hyphenation for the word containing
the text insertion point.
• Hyphenation Exceptions: Displays a submenu that allows you to edit the exceptions
and also import and export .xml files containing lists of language-specific hyphenation
exceptions. Displays the Hyphenation Exceptions dialog box.
• Convert Project Language : Lets you convert all of the characters in the active project
that use a particular character language to a different character language.
• Usage: Lets you view and update the status of fonts, pictures, color profiles, tables,
Composition Zones, and assets used in layouts. Multiple missing digital files can be
updated all at once using the Usage dialog.
• Item Styles Usage: Lets you view and update applied item styles.
• Job Jackets Manager: Displays the Job Jackets Manager dialog box.
• Build Index (Windows only): Lets you create an index from the contents of the Index
palette.
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