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THE USER INTERFACE
Show/Hide Notes: Allows you to hide or show notes in your project. •
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. Auxiliary Dictionary and Edit Auxiliary are also part of
Check Spelling submenu.
Check Spelling: Use the submenu to display the Check Spelling palette to •
check the spelling of a word, a selection of text, a component, or an article. The
submenu also allows you to specify and edit the auxiliary dictionary for use in
spell checking.
Word and Character Count: Use the submenu to display the Word and •
Character Count for a layout, story or selection. This dialog box displays the
number of full-width characters, half-width characters, and various other kinds
of characters in the selection, active story or in the layout.
Line Check: Displays a submenu that lets you find widows, orphans, loosely •
justified lines, lines that end with a hyphen, and overflow situations.
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 the characters in the active •
project that use a particular character language to a different character language.
IME Reconversion: IME Reconversion is supported in the following ways: •
On Mac OS X: IME Reconversion is supported through the IME Menu. 1.
However, it works for Japanese IME Only.
On Windows: IME Reconversion is supported through the IME Reconversion 2.
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.
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.
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