Instant Text Revision 303 Now Available

I am pleased to announce the availability of Revision 303 of Instant Text III.

This revision comes in two forms:

• Rev303S.exe applies to the Standard version.
• Rev303P.exe applies to the Pro version.

Select the proper file and download it. After downloading it, just run Rev303S.exe or Rev303P.exe (whichever is applicable) and it will automatically find the files to be revised and update them. (If you mistakenly try to apply the wrong one, it will protest and nothing will be broken.)

To be sure that the revision has been applied, you can check the build date in Help/About Instant Text and it should now be 1999-04-10.

Other than that, a new client application is now recognized by both versions of Instant Text: the forthcoming MedPad from MedPen.

Finally, the treatment of Ctrl+Space has been changed so as not to interfere with Ctrl+Shift+Space, which is used for a nonbreaking space in MS Word. With this correction, we are back to the happy state of Zero Known Problems. (When is the last time you heard this from a software company?)

This change will be of special interest when you start an abbreviation by the first letters of the word as in the example below:

New version	Previous version

In the New version - on the left - the words that start with pam appear before other entries such as pacemaker. The Previous version - on the right - lists the same entries, but with no special ordering preference.

This change should be of special interest to former Smartype users who are quite used to start left-to-right with the initial letters of the word. At the same time, this retains the key advantage of Instant Text, which is the ability to jump ahead to the letters that make a difference: Here you can jump ahead to f and then to s and get pampiniformis by typing pamfs.

Another example:

New version	Previous version

Here the two versions show different entries because there are more matches than advisory lines. All shown entries for the New version start with pec while this is not the case in the Previous version which starts with pancolectomy.

Altogether, this revision will allow the left-to-right word-completion style of abbreviation while retaining the powerful subset approach of Instant Text.

As usual, this forum is the place for exchanging tips, techniques, suggestions and for us to announce revisions and versions. User-to-user exchanges are definitely encouraged and they give us a good way to understand your needs and formulate what is needed for the future version 4 of Instant Text - currently scheduled for the first spring of the coming century. So we hope you continue participating as we are listening to what you have to say.

Of course the forum is no replacement for an active support line! As usual, if you need any help, do not hesitate to email support@twsolutions.com or to call our support phone line. These two methods remain the best way when you need fast service.