More advanced teaching and learning features of KEY:

• Annotations on special items in Chinese text, including the marking of grammatical structures
• Timed reading: KEY creates interactive dynamic lessons from static Chinese text
• Authoring of teaching materials: KEY creates a multi-lesson textbook with incremental vocabulary lists
• Vocabulary statistics: KEY generates comprehensive statistics for your lesson files
• Cloze exercises: KEY automatically creates a fill-in-the-blanks exercise
• Cantonese fully supported: Yale, Jyutping, Govt. Standard, and Sidney Lau transcriptions
• Save in HTML format to publish your Chinese web page in UTF-8, Big Five or GB
• Japanese and Korean word processing capabilities included
• Linguistic reconstruction for Chinese text copied from outside sources
• Copy & paste between KEY and other applications (e.g. MS Office), including tables

New Features:

• NEW IN 2012: Digraphia export - create a browser-readable Pinyin/Hanzi file in HTML format. Publish your Chinese text in Pinyin with a built-in Hanzi tool tip for easy comprehension.

• Pinyin Proofing (PP) assistance: with pinyin text displayed, pressing the PP button on the toolbar will colour the background of ambiguous pinyin passages blue; right-clicking on such a blue-background pinyin passage will display the available options

• Copy Special: a highlighted Chinese character passage can be copied & pasted automatically in various permutations

• Improved number-measureword system: it now works with Chinese-character, pinyin and Arabic numerals

• Showing different tones through coloured characters (Language menu under Preferences)