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SAI Shortcuts

Context Menu

The SAI adds several feature shortcuts and tools to the context menu. The context menu is opened in Word by selecting text and right-clicking (Ctrl + [click] on a Mac). Some of these are simply shortcuts to other tools, while others are distinct features that exist primarily through this menu. Effective use of these tools can speed up your scribing and copyediting.

Get Character Code

Supplies the decimal and hexadecimal codes for symbols and special characters; also provides a link to more information (requires an active internet connection).

Select a symbol or special character, right-click it, and select this from the context menu. A window will pop up showing the character’s decimal and hexadecimal codes. Clicking Yes opens an internet browser window (requires an internet connection) that provides more information from fileformat.info about the symbol/special character.

Find This Style Using Find and Replace

Opens up a Find and Replace window with the style of the selected text in the find format field.

Find This Formatting Using Find and Replace

Opens up a Find and Replace window with paragraph formatting of the selected text in the find format field. The formatting loaded to the format field includes the following:

  • Font info: font size, italic/bold/underline
  • Paragraph formatting: first line indent, left indent, alignment, paragraph style

Replace with This Style Using Find and Replace

Opens up a Find and Replace window with the style of the selected text in the replace format field.

Articulate Selected Paragraphs from Blanks

Select several ScML paragraphs, then run this utility. This utility checks whether there are blank paragraphs before an unarticulated ScML paragraph. If there are, it deletes the blank paragraphs and adds the appropriate “first” paragraph style (e.g., bqf, slf, etc.). The tool will delete empty paragraphs where a first style has been added successfully. Use on selected text where whitespace paragraphs have been used to denote spacing distinctions for a structural reason, such as to add <slf> within poetry to designate stanza breaks.