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5 Click OK.
To set hyphenation options:
1 Choose Edit > Preferences > Hyphenation (Windows and Mac OS 9) or Illustrator >
Preferences > Hyphenation (Mac OS X).
2 If desired, choose the language in which the hyphenation rules apply (to new text
typed) from the Languages pop-up menu. When you select a different language, the rules
for hyphenating words change to match that language's rules.
You can also change the hyphenation language for just the selected text by using the
Languages pop-up menu in the Character palette. (If the pop-up menu isn't visible, choose
Show Multilingual from the Character palette menu.) Doing so is useful for hyphenating
multilingual projects easily, such as a brochure with instructions in several languages.
3 Enter the word for which you want to specify hyphenation characteristics. If you enter
the word with no hyphens inserted, Illustrator never hyphenates the word. If you enter
the word with one or more hyphens inserted, Illustrator hyphenates the word only at
those places.
4 Click Add.
5 To remove a word from the hyphenation list, click the word to select it, and press
Backspace or Del (Windows) or Delete (Mac OS).
Note: Hyphenation information is saved with the application, and not with the file.
For example, if you use the file on a different computer that has different hyphenation
exceptions, your text may hyphenate differently.
Editing text
Once you have selected type, you can use any standard word-processing method to edit
the text.
You can use the Cut, Copy, Paste, Clear, and Select All commands in the Edit menu to copy
type from Illustrator to other applications, to bring type from another application into an
Illustrator file, or to edit type within an Illustrator file. When you use the Copy command to
copy type to and from other applications, you copy only the characters, not the styles.
Illustrator also includes commands designed specifically for editing blocks of type. These
tools enable you to check your spelling, find and replace text, modify capitalization, and
add typographically correct punctuation marks in your text.
Checking spelling
The Check Spelling command compiles a list of misspelled words in a file and offers a list
of alternative spellings. If Illustrator has incorrectly identified a word as misspelled, you
can either skip the word without changing it in the file or add the word to the dictionary
list. These new words are then added to the custom file AI User Dictionary in the Text
Filters folder in the Plug-ins folder. You can edit this list of words as well.
Note: The Check Spelling command can be used only with Roman fonts; CJK fonts cannot
be spell checked with the Check Spelling command.
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