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SAI Other Features

Add to Stylesheet

Adds selected text to the open style sheet.

Make sure the document’s style sheet is open, then select a word (or phrase) in the main document and right-click it to open the context menu. Click this option, and the selected text will be added to the style sheet, correctly alphabetized.

Add Name to Stylesheet

Adds selected text to the open style sheet as an inverted name.

Make sure the document’s style sheet is open, then select a name in the main document and right-click it to open the context menu. Click this option, and the selected text will be added to the style sheet, inverted around the last space and correctly alphabetized. Names that already contain a comma will be inserted as-is.

Add Title to Stylesheet

Adds selected text to the open style sheet.

Make sure the document’s style sheet is open, then select a title in the main document and right-click it to open the context menu. Click this option, and the selected text will be added to the style sheet, inverted around its article and correctly alphabetized. Titles that don't being with an article will be inserted as-is.

Apply Real Title Case

Applies “intelligent” capitalization to selected text (feature also found as a button in SAI’s Editorial section of the ribbon).

Select the text to be capitalized, and then click this option from the context menu. Title case preferences and dictionaries can be managed under the Preferences tab of User Settings (in the SAI’s User Options section).

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.

Insert Structure Indicators

Inserts structure indicators useful for conversion purposes (feature also found as a button in SAI’s Styles section of the ribbon).

Select the content that will fall within the structure indicators, then select from the context menu which structure indicator you would like to apply (feature also found as a button in SAI’s Styles section of the ribbon).

Merge Paragraphs

Joins selected paragraphs on a space character.

This is useful for documents which have been authored with hard returns within paragraphs (typewriter style). Select a sequence of paragraphs and select this option to join them with a space character.