Options Dialog

Select this check box if you want Analyzer to reload documents automatically.

You can have multiple files of all types open in the interface at the same. By default, when you open a new file, other documents that are already open remain open. However, you can change this behavior so that files already open in the interface are automatically closed when you open a new document.

You can use any of the following options:

• Close others This option automatically closes all other open documents.
• Close others with no changes This option automatically closes all other open documents that do not have unsaved changes. If you have files open where changes have been made but not saved, those files will remain open until you save and close them.
• Close others with same extension This option automatically closes all other open documents that share the same file extension.
• Close others with same extension and no changes This option is the same as the previous option, except that files with unsaved changes will not automatically be closed. Those files remain open until you save and close them.

There are some dialogs in Analyzer that open just once to give you a message or warning when something changes or you switch modes. These dialogs have a check box labeled "Show this dialog." If you deselect that check box, you will not see the dialog again. However, you can use this reset feature to display that dialog (and all other "Show Once" dialogs) again the next time.

You can select an option to display the interface with ribbons or with the classic tool strip. See Switching Between Ribbons and the Tool Strip.

Select this check box to automatically check the file out from source control when you save changes to it.

Select this check box if you are using source control integration in Analyzer and you want the application to check for frequent status changes automatically. You can specify the number of minutes and seconds when you want Analyzer to ping the source control repository and get status changes for files that have been checked out, checked in, moved, deleted, etc. The upside of this feature is that you can ensure that the source control status information is always up to date. The downside is that you may experience slower performance due to this constant communication over the network. See Enabling Source Control Status Checks.

Select this if you want to automatically be reminded to check in files when you close a project that is bound to source control.

Place a check mark in this check box to enable the drag-and-drop feature. When enabled, you can highlight and drag text to move it within topics.

Select this check box to automatically add an empty alt tag to images when you insert them into a topic or snippet (unless you specifically add an alt tag to an image). See Applying Empty Alt Text.

Displays text in a "ClearType" font, which appears to "smooth out" the words and make them easier to read. ClearType is a software technology developed by Microsoft that improves the readability of text on existing LCDs (Liquid Crystal Displays), such as laptop screens, Pocket PC screens, and flat panel monitors. With ClearType font technology, the words on your computer screen look almost as sharp and clear as those printed on a piece of paper. ClearType works by accessing the individual vertical color stripe elements in every pixel of an LCD screen. Before ClearType, the smallest level of detail that a computer could display was a single pixel, but with ClearType running on an LCD monitor, we can now display features of text as small as a fraction of a pixel in width. The extra resolution increases the sharpness of the tiny details in text display, making it much easier to read over long durations.

Select this check box if you want Analyzer to collect segments of text while scanning your project. Segment collection allows you to view information about your project such as frequent segments found and index keyword suggestions.

Select this check box if you want Analyzer to look for text that you might want to convert to snippets.

Select this check box if you want Analyzer to look for style information (embedded styles in <style> elements) in your topic files. Disabling this scan limits the results found in the style reports.

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Note: You should select this option if you have imported topics that have embedded styles. Otherwise, it is not usually necessary to select this option.

Select this check box if you want Analyzer to look for a variety of XHTML markup issues in your content (e.g., extra spaces, empty attributes). You can open the affected files and "clean up" the markup in them. You may be able to fix some issues in the XML Editor, but other issues may require you to open the behind-the-scenes code in the Internal Text Editor. See Internal Text Editor.

Select this to enable the entire Auto Suggestion feature. See Enabling and Disabling Auto Suggestion.

Enter the maximum number of suggestions that you want to be displayed in the popup at any given time. You can enter a number from 1 to 25. See Specifying Auto Suggestion Details.

A global dictionary means that any Analyzer project you open on your computer can use it for spell checking. This is a convenient way to ensure that all of your projects are using the same spellings for terms.

By default, a new global dictionary is stored in your AppData folder, like all of your built-in dictionaries.

However, you can select Use custom location to choose a different location for your global dictionary. For example, you might be working with a team of writers and want to make sure you are all using the same spellings for certain terms. By choosing a network directory, your entire team can use the same global dictionary. After selecting this option, click to choose the location. See Choosing the Location for Global Dictionaries.

As you enter index keywords in the Index window pane, the application recognizes if you have created a similar index keyword. The similar keywords appear in a list just below the entry field. You can quickly select one of the keywords from the list instead of typing the entire word manually. This option turns this feature on and off.

Displays the name of the plugin, based on the DLL file you have created and added to the Analyzer installation folder in Windows.

Displays the version number of the plugin.