Synonym (to table) visibility in Query Builder?

Hello,
I have a schema that contains a table or two, and a bunch of synonyms to other tables in other schemas. In my current Query Builder (1.1.3 MAIN-27.69), I don't see the tables represented by the synonyms -- other available tools show the tables in their visual query builder, so I'm wondering if there is some function to enable this in Oracle's SQL Developer?
Update: to be more specific, the other tool being evaluated (freeware) is QueryReporter, and its visual query builder includes synonym-table links. I'm trying to steer the staff to SQL Developer, but this is a pretty heavily used capability in QR
I apologize if this has been asked before, I searched the Forum but found no hits.
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Lee McCann
Message was edited by:
Lee McCann

No, we do not support synonyms in the query builder, but you can switch users in the drop list on the top left hand corner.
We have a bug logged for this.
Sue

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