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Glyphs Panel and Spellcheck

we're gonna go through. And we wrapped up a lot of items with text on the second segment. So we are going to show you a couple other items of text and jump right into containers and smart guides. And so maney awesome things. So we showed you how to float, type in containers, put type on a path, select the different fonts, change the paragraph Settings were to introduce a few other items here. One of the things we're going to show you is under the tight menu, and we have cliffs, and the cliffs panel is where you can find all of your extra characters that you can't find in your normal thought. So if I'm looking for very specific characters in a particular font, and I would like to find them and draw my type container and I can go through my glass panel and I can scroll through my glass panel, I choose the font, which I'm searching for, get the bottom of the cliffs, pale and inside that I can actually see all the different characters that I couldn't normally access from my keyboard, and I...

may be doing a cookbook where I want fractions or I want certain symbols, and I want to be able to find those symbols, and I don't know what my keyboard shortcuts are on my keyboard in order. Access those. But say, for instance, I've doing a cookbook, and I need to access my quarter my half of my 3/4 measurements through news Gothic on I've got that selected as my thought. So as long as I have my type container active, I can simply click on any one of my items here in NYC Lifts panel and that will put it into the active text container. So if I need 3/4 of a cup of flour, I've got that 3/4 now. I don't know how to access that via the keyboard, which is why the Cliffs panel comes in so handy. Every font that we have installed on the machine here is going to have all of our basics sets of characters that we normally access the keyboard, and some of them may have a short list. Some of them may have a very long list of all the extra characters that are built into the font. For instance, if we go through and we're using Apple has like apple symbols. It has, of course, that's the normal typeface that they use for everything on the computer. But then they have every single symbol that's possibly imagine for the entire computer. All these little icons. Now it isn't uncommon where you're looking for a particular Web, ding or wingding, and this works out great. So if you click on your list at the bottom of your cliffs panel, you can go all the way down to your wing, dings your Web dings, and you can see all of the different icons that pop up on your back down to my second set of wing dings here. So there's wing dings Number two. These are all the light cottons, and you can just go in and double click, and it shows them right there. Now I know when people go in and the search for, like, Web dings, wing dings and they need a certain character. Um, let's do Web dings. There we go and you want, like the cloudy sky. You want a bed, you need a rocket launcher, an airplane. You know, a little kitty cat. Of course, what you do is you select the font. And then you take your fingers and you go like this over the keyboard. Yes, and because then you hope that you can actually come up with their particular characters. We don't need to. You just go into your cliffs panel, choose your font and double click on whatever icon that you want to use for that particular thought. So you can pick and choose and you can see and scroll through and get those items readily available, which is really quite nice. And this also works really well when you're dealing with items that require, like certain accents or things when you're using a different language. And so we have basically our little accents in our own labs and it'll grow vase and our little said villas and things like that on the letters. So you want to type in a different language, and you need those particular characters. This is where you're going to find them in the glass panel, but a couple shortcuts. If you want to get the basic shortcuts for a lot of the keys here, you don't need to access the Cliffs panel, so I'm just going to run through some of the things that you may use in a fairly regular basis that you don't have to hunt down through the glass panel. This is kind of easy to figure out and understand once you see the pattern of how this works. So if I go to my keyboard, I know if I type in 12345 Sure, but if I hold down my shift key, I get my exclamation mark, my abs symbol, my pound symbol, my dollar side. And we all know how to do that. But if I go in and I hold down my option key when I do 1234 and five I get a whole bunch of different symbols. So this isn't uncommon to do this. People always know how to hold down the shift key to get all of their upper case letters or all the numbers they get all those symbols. But very few people actually realize that you can go in and you can access those just by holding on your option key. Well, the great part is is that when you have shift four is obviously the dollar sign, but option for is the scent sight shift three is the pound sign. Option three is the British pound side. You see a little trademark symbol. Great option to his trademark. So trademark copyright in registered trademark simple option two trademark option are is going to be your registered trademark symbol an option g no, not option C Option G gives your copyright symbol works pretty good. So the normal items that you hold down shift for Try holding down your option key and see what happens. One of my favorites is if you want to bake something at 350 degrees. Well, if you didn't know Option eight is a bullet. OK, but if you want a little degree, symbol its shift option eight. Now again, you can get these all through your glitz panel, but it's nice to know these shortcuts as you go through, so just accessing normal accents in here. So I had my friend Renee, who always insisted that on her second e, she had to have that little accent. So I was young and crazy at that time, and I would go ahead and put in my little apostrophe right there, and I knew how to Kern. So it turned that all the way back over to get that little accent right over that letter, and I just thought that was brilliant. But if you want to go in and you want to get the accent over any of your letters, if you type in Option E and then whatever letter it puts the accent on top of that, it's a two stage process. So if I do Option E and then a I get my accent over the A Option E and then I type in I Option E and then you see a little dash. It's waiting for your input. So that's how I get an accent above any of my letters. It's Option E. And then the letter without the option key held down. So that's going to give me all my accents right there. If I do option you that's going to give you my little room loud over there, so option you and then any character that you have after that option C is gonna be my Sevilla or my Sadiyah depends on how you pronounce it where you is. Um, so a lot of different ways you can access thes if I do option A That gives him a little accent over that If Ideo option Oh, we can do it that way. Option I gives him a little. I think that's a gravity who knows, But a lot of different ways we can access Jesus. Well, also, when you're doing mathematical equations, if I want to say three divided by five I actually like the division symbol, the actual division symbol itself little line with the dots right above it. So because I would go to my normal slash key right here. If I hold down my option slash it will literally give me my division symbol and then three divided by five we all know equals. But if I want not equals, I can hold down my option and do my equals so I can put that in. I know how to do my equals in my plus right here. But if I want my plus or minus, I do my option shift plus and it goes in my standard deviation right there a lot of different things you can access. So keep in mind not just holding down the shift key but holding down your option key to access a lot of these shortcuts works really well years ago, in the back of the books that used to publish all these shortcuts. Now I don't know that they publish these shortcuts in the books anymore, but luckily I had learned a lot of those. Give it a shot. Sometimes go down your option or your old key. When you're typing some of these things, see how it comes up. So with that, there's a couple other items that air real pet peeves of mine and people who like to use dashes when they hyphenate something. So when Hugh Hyphen eight, you go ahead and you put in your old dash there. It's a nice little hyphen. Well, you'll notice. Sometimes we've got different lengths of hyphens. We have our normal hyphen, and then we have our N dash, and that's literally E n. That's an en dash. And then we have our em dash, which is like that little tip bits and tricks and pieces here. But this is all part of knowing how to use type correctly. So when you want to literally hyphenate a word, you can just put a hyphen in their hyphen. Some people call it a dash on N dash is used when you are dealing with spans of time. So if I'm going to have, like April 2nd through April 6th, then I can go in here and I can use my end ash and that N Dash is actually accessed by going in and holding down my option. Dash to slightly longer one, but it's more correct on em Dash is when you have kind of a different thought in the sentence. So you come to a thought. You interject something, you go on with your next thought. Those sections air divided by an em dash and em dashes a shift option dash. So those of the difference between dashes an en dash and an em dash. If you don't remember a lot of these basic shortcuts here for the simple bullet registered trademark and dash em dash, things like that we have already built in in the cliffs, but also under the tight menu as well. We have insert special characters, and under the special characters, we've got hyphens and dashes right there. So if you want to go in and use an M or an in dash and you can't remember the shortcut. There you have it. We can also do basic symbols if you want a bullet symbol or you want a copyright character or an ellipsis. There we have our registered trademark symbol. You can access those without going to your cliffs panel. These are the basic ones that people are going to use quite often, so a couple different ways to do it. Understanding those shortcuts how to work them makes it really nice and handy to have on every once in a while I climb upon myself box here because I've been doing this so long that those little things it's like those nuances are really nice to have a lot of people like you already knew that and other people like I never knew the difference. Well, there you have it. That's just one, a little nuggets of goodness that you get from taking these classes. So any other types of things that you'd like to access. We also have under the bottom of the tight menu, and we have some really interesting characters that we're gonna go through as we get into more paragraph and character formatting later on during this class. But those were just a couple things using the lifts panel to search for items that you don't normally see in your font and then just a few extra items. Play with it, see what you can come up with, and you'll find a lot of really cool hidden characters in there that maybe a little bit more easily accessible for you as well. Ready for cute? Absolutely. A Maui would like to know. Can you show us how to get the power of a number like a 2/2 squared? Oh, absolutely. So with that, that's just something very basic. So if we want to do, like, three squared here so we can type in three and then when we do the square weaken goto our character formatting and we can actually do our superscript which allows us to go in and superscript that literally putting that right up there and this is it makes a really good point. When we do this and I use the superscript, it kind of puts it up a little bit higher. But then we may want to move it up a little bit higher than that. And same is true when we do like a trademark symbol. When we do this, it puts it in there, but it doesn't seem like it's quite high enough. That's when we would go in. And I haven't talked about this. I don't get into this when we're talking about basic formatting. This is where we do the baseline shift right here. And this isn't the character formatting. And the baseline shift is when we want to take something and we want to shift it off the basic baseline where all the type sits. This is not a substitution for letting some people think, Oh, it does the same thing. Well, it looks like it does the same thing, but it actually doesn't Baseline shift is actually moving everything up off the baseline, just thinking, going up stories of a building. It's very handy to have when you want something super scripted like this, or if you do something where you've got you know something and you want Teoh set this back to zero that we have this and then I want to use my trademark. So I do. Option two on. I'd like t sit just a little bit higher right here. So if it looks like this and it's like, Okay, you know, this doesn't sit where I want it. Teoh. That's where the baseline shift can work really well to move that up and down because letting isn't going to work for it, right there is going to do the entire line of copy cause letting a space between lines. But baseline shift is to specifically position something. If whatever you're doing doesn't match the line of copy and depending on the font, you are going to get different placements of these items as well. So some fonts, it may be right in the right position. Other fonts you may need to go in and use the baseline shift to do that keyboard shortcut for the baseline shift is shift option up or down Arrow. Okay, so those are quite handy to have and no, we do it all the time. Sometimes a T M's look really big or the registered. I wanted nice and small up in the corner because if we did something like this and we did the registered trademark symbol that looks huge and even with the baseline shift, it's like, OK, you know, that may not be big enough and may reduce the size of it and then baseline shift a little bit higher just to make it look just right. Works out great. Okay. And the other thing that we dio and we're gonna get into this mawr when we format copy is being able to go in and have your spell check on all the time. I don't have any copy in here yet because I didn't want to focus directly on the content. I want to just flow in copy, but when we have copy in here and spell checking is extremely important, we wanna have this readily available to us so we can make sure that we have no spelling. Mistakes are spelling is under our edit menu. We could go down to spelling and we have multiple options. I can always go through and just spell check my document at any time and see if everything's misspelled. However, I would like it to happen every time I put copy in or when I'm typing. I would like it for dynamically to happen if I just go in and run the spell check. It's very similar to any other spell check feature that we have in any other applications where we can go in and it will ask us if we want the words, it'll give us some suggestions. We click on what it is and we click change, and it changes that instance right there as we go through, we can ignore certain items, too. And look at certain items. The way we check this, we have several different parameters, and this is something when we get into the fine to change as well. And we're going to revisit this yet again, is when we're doing this and I want to spell check something. I have to be very careful of what it is that I'm spell checking right now. I'm spell checking my story, which means I have my container and my type inside my text cursor inside the container and so on. I spell check the story. A story is a text container or any containers that are linked to it. If I have two containers that are not linked together, it's only going to do the story that I have selected. So I would need to select my document here, and then I would need to do my spell check and I could skip certain things. And now I could go through when I could spell, check and do with the manual way and change what it is they need to and fix and everything else. So this is kind of a tedious way to go through and do it, but you can certainly have that done. One feature that I like about this is if I have an extremely long document, I can put my cursor in the middle of my document, say, 30 pages in and I do my search function. I have the ability to search from that point where I put my cursor in to the very end of the story instead of his re spell checking the entire story there, I started page and we'll do it from there to the end of the story. I don't know how many times I've had to do that, because you have this huge document and you don't want to keep spell checking from the very beginning. Don't But your cursor where you want to start and then choose the option from here to the end of the story. I like dynamic spelling, so I'm gonna go back under edit, go under and turn my dynamic spelling on. If you use any type of word processing program, you know what dynamic spelling is. If something isn't capitalized correctly, that underlines it. Green. If its underlying read it thinks that it's misspelled with a dynamic spelling turned on here, all of the suspect words are going to be highlighted in red when the dynamic spelling has turned on. We have one feature that we do not get unless the dynamic spelling has turned on, and that is our ability to go in and use the auto correct feature now. Before, if I were to simply go in here and right click on my text container with my type tool, I will get my contextual menu with everything to deal with the type in the container. But when I turn my dynamic spelling on and I put my cursor on top of the word that it thinks is misspelled and I right click, it will automatically go into spellcheck mode. If I right click on a word that has spelled correctly, I will just get my normal contextual menu with everything in the container that pertains the container, but with dynamic spelling turned on and I right click on a word it will come up. It'll ask me, Hey, here's the possible solutions and I can change that right there. Once that word is spelled correctly and I right click on it again, I no longer get that autocorrect feature. So any time that I click on something, I could go in, change it, but say I have a word that actually is a word. It thinks it's wrong. And I would like to add this to my dictionary so it doesn't come up every single time. If I click on something and this is a proper noun or something that I wouldn't normally see in the normal dictionary, I can simply add this to my dictionary. And therefore it will always come up now as being spelled correctly so I can choose that or K ignore every instance of it in here. Maybe I don't want to add this to my dictionary. I can just ignore this from here on out. So again, all this happens on Lee. When you're dynamic spelling is turned on here. If dynamic spelling isn't turned on, you will get none of these features. Hey, it's spelled wrong. That's great. If it's spelled right, you don't get the spell check feature. That's who. Really pretty simple. I love it because I'm great at what ideo I can't type. I can tell you my fingers just don't work, so I'm great. It's just wonderfully dyslexic when I go ahead and type. So I love this feature cause I can look at it very quickly and see what type needs to be fixed. So that's the dynamic spelling. We are going to revisit the spelling in a bit when we get more larger documents here as well under the spelling as well. We can also go in, and we can define and set up your user dictionary. Your user dictionary is when you go in and you add very specific words that you want to make sure we're going to be in your dictionary and you can go in and take them directly from your document here by right clicking on them, saying, add them to the dictionary. But if I'm dealing with a client that's got a lot of proper noun or descriptors, I can put them in here, and I can just simply import on entire list of these words from a basic word document and put them in here. That way they'll be in my user document That way I don't have to be flagged every single time I do this or add them one by one. So your dictionary you can control quick and easy, and you do that under your Edit Spelling User dictionary right there. Okay, so those are just a few other basic items trailing items there from particular type menus. Finding fonts, cliffs, hidden characters, a little paraphernalia. Can you set the standard format for a TM or register symbol rather than adjusting the baseline shift every time you use it, you can. And that's gonna come when we come into a character style character styles great, perfect by default. Everything sits on the baseline, so if you want something different, you will have to manually adjust it on a as needed basis. OK, and jasmine rain would like to know Is a dictionary document specific or documents specific or program specific? It will be programmed specific, so that's basically a top level preference, essentially great, so you can have multiple dictionaries and just use that dictionary for a particular file or a particular client. Perfect. Thank you certainly.