Notetab_doc

Contents

  1. Create Outline docs
  2. Use Web Links
  3. Options | Outline
  4. Outline Headings
  5. Convert to Outline
  6. Edit Menu
  7. File Menu
  8. Document Menu
  9. Edit Documents
  10. Help Menu
  11. Create Web Pages
  12. Keyboard Shortcuts
  13. Tips and How to..
  14. Introduction
  15. Time Saving Features
  16. View Menu
  17. Search Menu
  18. Conventions
  19. Accessibility Mode
  20. Options | Clipbook
  21. Comparison Chart
  22. Options Dialog Box
  23. Modify Menu
  24. Options | General
  25. Web Links


1. Create Outline docs

[Create Outline Documents]
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Outline documents make it easy to organize your information in a structured format without using a database application or splitting your text into multiple files. An Outline document is composed of two parts: the Headings list (or table of contents) on the left and the Contents editor window on the right. When you select a heading, its content is displayed in the editor window. Open the accompanying Readme.OTL file in NoteTab to see an example of an Outline document.

You can have up to about 5400 headings per Outline document and a heading can contain many megabytes of information. An Outline file can theoretically have a maximum capacity of 2GB.

You can create your own outline documents by choosing the "New Outline" command from the File menu. Unlike standard documents, you must choose a name before it is created. You will also be prompted to enter a name for the first heading. Once you have completed those steps, you are ready to enter content for your first heading.

To create a new heading, just press Shift+Ctrl+A. You will then be prompted to enter the name for the new heading. Note that you do not need to save the content of modified headings as you move through the list – this is automatically taken care of by NoteTab. Shift+Ctrl+R will remove the current topic. If you can't remember these shortcuts, just place the mouse cursor over an empty part of the Headings window and look at the hint in the status bar. You will find more commands and shortcuts listed in the "Documents | Outline Heading" submenu. You can also invoke the shortcut menu from the Headings window.

You can add hyperlinks to other headings. When activated, the content of the linked heading is displayed. Use the "Documents | Outline Heading | Make Heading" menu command (or the keyboard shortcut Shift+Ctrl+B) to easily create a new heading based on selected text in your outline document. This command automatically inserts square brackets around the selection, adds the heading to the list, and opens it for input.

The PageUp/PageDown keys let you easily scroll from one heading to the next. If the cursor is at the beginning of the heading's content, pressing PageUp will display the previous heading. Pressing PageDown when the cursor is at the end of the heading's content will display the next heading. If the last heading is already selected, NoteTab will ask you if you want to add a new heading. You can reorder headings by simply dragging them with the mouse to a new position.

Just like any other document, you can have multiple Outline documents open simultaneously. Outline files are very similar to Clipbook libraries and do not contain any control codes other than plain text characters (i.e. no binary characters). As a result, you can easily open them in any text editor or word processor (although you won't benefit from the outline layout), or send them in email messages.

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2. Use Web Links

[Use Web and Document Links]
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If your text contains an Internet link, holding the Control key down and double-clicking on the link will open it in your default web browser. Also hold the Ctrl key down if you want to open a link in a new web browser window (this feature may not work with all browsers). If this feature does not work, you will have to fill in the path and file name of your browser in the "Options | Internet | Default Browser" field. If the editor cannot resolve the URL from the text you double-clicked, it will open a dialog box so you can complete the address if necessary.

NoteTab also supports links between documents, Outline headings, and even words within a document. These types of links are referred to as "Hyperlinks".

Hyperlinks must be placed between square brackets "[]". You can jump to a hyperlink topic by holding down the Control (or Ctrl) key while you double-click on the text between the brackets. Or, if you prefer, place the cursor anywhere between the brackets and press Ctrl+H to go to the matching topic. If you set the menu option "Tools | Quick Open Links", you do not need to hold down the Control key when clicking on a hyperlink.

Hyperlinks can be inserted in any kind of document. They can represent a heading in the active Outline document, or another Outline document, or the name of a file, or an Internet link, or a program to launch, or a line number, or a text search criteria. Character case is not important unless you use the search criteria feature with case sensitivity enabled.

Examples:

· If you activate the introduction hyperlink, the content of that Outline topic will be displayed.

· If you have another Outline file called "Important.OTL", you can create a hyperlink that will display it and select the topic you specify. For example, [important.otl::meetings] will display the "meetings" heading. Note the use of the double colon to separate the main link criteria from the secondary criteria.

· The accompanying "WhatsNew.txt" file can be opened with this hyperlink: WhatsNew.txt.

· The following command [explorer.exe] will launch Windows Explorer. You can also specify parameters as long as you place the program's file name between double quotes ["explorer.exe" /e,/root,C:\]. Note that the program name must include the extension too (usually .exe).

· The following hyperlink readme.txt will display the "readme.txt" file. As it is not an Outline file, NoteTab assumes the second criteria "outline" is text criteria to search and will select the first occurrence of the word "outline". Note that you will have to specify the full path name if the file is not in the same directory as the document containing the hyperlink.

· If you want to apply the search criteria type of hyperlink on the active document, just omit the file name. For example, [::NoteTab] will find the next occurrence of the name NoteTab. Since the double colon does not necessarily look very nice in this case, the following format with a blank space on each side of the search criteria is also valid: [ NoteTab ].

· By default, the search feature is case sensitive, only matches single words, and searches forwards. However, you can change this behavior by using extra parameters: "I" indicates that the search should not be case sensitive, "T" indicates that any text is acceptable, and "B" tells NoteTab to search backwards. Use the "^" character to separate the search criteria from its parameters. For example, [ tab^ITB] will select the "Tab" part of the name NoteTab preceding the hyperlink. And readme.txt will find the last occurrence of the word "NoteTab" in the Readme.txt file.

· To jump to a specific line number in a document, the format of the hyperlink is similar to the search criteria. You use the line number instead of the search text and use the parameter "L" so that NoteTab knows it is the line number you want and not text to search. For example, readme.txt will display the Readme.txt file with the cursor at the beginning of the 5th line. If you specify "-1", the cursor will be placed on the last line: readme.txt.

· URLs are also valid. However, if the link does not start with the typical "www.", then you must fully qualify the URL (add "http://", or "ftp://", etc.). The following will connect to the NoteTab site through your default web browser www.notetab.com. Hold the Ctrl key down if you want to open the document in a new web browser window (this feature may not work with all browsers).

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3. Options | Outline

Options | Outline
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Font: Font used for the Outline list box.

Color: Background color used for the Outline list box.

Show Heading in Editor: Set this option to display outline headings in the editor window (useful for editing the heading).

Underline Headings: Underlines headings when exporting or printing outline documents.

Highlight Links: Highlight hyperlinks in text. Turning this option off will increase the speed of screen updating (only noticeable on slower systems). This setting is only available in NoteTab Pro.

Show Table-of-Contents: Creates a table-of-contents in the HTML file produced by the "Document to HTML" command.

Number Headings: Numbers headings in order of appearance. This setting is used by the "Document to HTML" command.

TOC Title Format: Defines the format and text used to create the table-of-contents. This setting is used by the "Document to HTML" command.

Title-Section Format: Defines the format used to create the title section of the HTML document created by the "Document to HTML" command. The code "^1" is used to mark the position of the Title element and "^2" marks the position of the table-of-contents element.

Topic Format: Defines the format used to convert Outline headings to HTML. The code "^1" is used to mark the position of the Heading element and "^2" marks the position of the Content block.

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4. Outline Headings

[Outline-Headings Submenu]
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This submenu can be found under the Document menu. It is not available in the Freeware version of NoteTab Std (unless the "View | Commercial Features" menu command has been activated).

Add Heading
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Adds a new outline heading.

Make Heading
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Creates a new outline heading based on the selected text in the active document.

Remove Heading
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Deletes the active outline heading.

Edit Heading
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Lets you edit the current outline heading.

Sort Headings
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Sorts outline headings in ascending order.

Move Next
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Moves to the next heading.

Move Previous
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Moves to the previous heading.

Move First
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Moves to the first heading.

Move Last
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Moves to the last heading.

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5. Convert to Outline

[Convert a Normal Document to Outline]
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There is a relatively quick way to convert an existing document into an outline. Basically, an outline file uses the same structure as a Clipbook library. To start off, create a new library file by using the Tools | Clipbook | New Library menu command. This will create a new document with the appropriate Clipbook header. Add the keyword Outline to the header. Next, copy the document that needs converting into the new library file (You can use the Document | Insert File command). Then, change all the topic headings so they use the following format:

[Blank Line]

..H="Topic Heading"

[Topic Content]

You can use the Clipbook tool to help you with this task if you have many headings. Create a Clip with the following text (note that it should not start or end with a blank line; otherwise the Clipbook tool will be confused):

..H="^&"

Once you've added this Clip, all you need to do now to convert a heading is select it and double-click on the Clip.

The following is an example of an outline file with three headings:

..= V5 Outline MultiLine NoSorting TabWidth=30

..H="Heading #1"

Content #1

..H="Heading #2"

Content #2

..H="Heading #3"

Content #3

Once you've finished converting the document, choose Save As and rename the file so that it uses the ".otl" extension. Close and then reopen the document... That's it.

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6. Edit Menu

Edit Menu
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Undo
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Reverses the last edit action. Undo is not available across Outline headings and only applies to text operations in a document.

Redo
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Redo the previously undone action. This command is only available in NoteTab Pro.

Reload
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Reloads last saved version of the current document. This operation cannot be undone!

Reload All
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Reloads last saved version of all modified documents. This operation cannot be undone!

Cut
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Cuts the selection and puts it on the Clipboard.

Copy
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Copies the selection and puts it on the Clipboard.

Paste
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Inserts Clipboard contents. Use CTRL+ALT+V to paste HTML format.

Paste New
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Creates a new document and inserts the Clipboard contents.

Delete
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Erases the selection.

Clear All
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Erases the selection or the entire document if no text is highlighted.

Select All
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Selects the entire document or the content of the current Outline heading.

Copy All
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Copies the entire document and puts it on the Clipboard. With Outline documents, you are prompted if you want to copy the whole outline or just the current topic.

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7. File Menu

File Menu
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New
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Creates a new document. The new name format can be customized by changing the "New Name Format" field on the General tab of the Options dialog box.

New Outline
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Creates a new Outline-type document. This command is not available in the Freeware version of NoteTab Std (unless the "View | Commercial Features" menu command has been activated).

Open
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Opens an existing document. If the file uses the UNIX or Mac line-break format, it is automatically converted to the Windows format. You can specify through the "Save Format" field in the Options dialog box on the Documents tab how such files should be saved. Choosing the "Original" option restores the original format when you save the document.

If you open a Unicode, UTF-8, or web-page file, NoteTab can usually automatically determine the appropriate code page for the text. However, in some cases when you open a file that is based on a different code page from your current Windows system, NoteTab sets the wrong code page. When this happens, some characters may display incorrectly or may be lost (changed to a "?" in Unicode and UTF-8 text). In this case, you should select the appropriate language setting from the Code Page field in the File Open dialog box. See the File Open Dialog Box topic for more details.

Reopen
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Maintains a list of recently used files. Quickly reopen a recently used file. The most used ones are at the top of the list and the least used ones get gradually pushed to the end of the list. When they are pushed beyond the 16th position, they are automatically removed from the list.

Template
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Save
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Saves the active document. The file format used will depend on the setting in the "Save Format" field in the Options dialog box on the Documents tab. Choosing the "Original" option restores the original format when you save the document.

Save As
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Saves the active document with a new name. The file filter does not influence the output format. It is only useful for displaying the corresponding files in the Explorer window.

Save All
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Saves all the modified documents. This command also applies to modified Clipbook libraries when the [Clip] editor is open.

Export
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Saves the text selection or the active document in a different format: ASCII/ANSI, DOS, UNIX, EBCDIC, or Mac. Using this command on an Outline document will produce a normal text file from it. By default, headings are underlined. This setting can be turned off through the "Underline Headings" field in the Options dialog box on the Outline tab.

Close Document
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Closes the active document.

Close All Documents
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Closes all the documents.

Printer Setup
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Changes printer and/or printer options.

Print
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Prints the active document or selected text. Hold down the Shift key when selecting this command to print only selected text.

Print All
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Prints all the open documents.

Print Preview
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Displays full pages. Hold down the Shift key when selecting this command to print only selected text.

Page Setup
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Changes page layout settings.

Send
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Sends the document through electronic mail (MAPI). If your email program supports MAPI (for example Eudora), you can configure it to act as your MAPI server. Check your software's Help file or manual to see how you can make it the default server. If you get an error message when you try to use the Send command, check that you have "Microsoft Exchange" properly installed from the Windows install CD.

Exit
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Quits the application; prompts you to save modified documents.

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8. Document Menu

Document Menu
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Properties
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Sets properties for the active document. Changing these properties turns off the "Default Properties" setting. As a result, changes made to the Document settings in the Options dialog box will not affect the current document.

Default Properties
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Use default settings in active document as defined in the Options dialog box on Documents tab.

Disk File Properties
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Shows the Windows "File Properties" dialog box for the current document.

Auto Indent
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Enables or disables automatic indentation. Changing this option turns off the "Default Properties" setting.

Word Wrap
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Sets or turns off word wrap in active document. Changing this option turns off the "Default Properties" setting.

Update Column Wrap
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Updates lines in current document so that they wrap at defined column. This option is only available in NoteTab Std and is enabled when the column wrap option is set for the current document. NoteTab Pro does not need this feature because it handles column wrap in real time.

Font
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Change the current document font, or increase/decrease its size. Using these commands turns off the "Default Properties" setting.

Insert File
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Inserts the content of the specified file at the cursor position.

Insert Date/Time
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Inserts current date and time at the cursor position. The date format is determined by the Date filter in the Options dialog box on the Tools tab.

Insert Document Name
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Inserts active document name at the cursor position.

Insert HTML Color
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Inserts chosen HTML color code at the cursor position.

Insert HTML Link/Image
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Insert HTML links and images by way of the File Open dialog box. If text is highlighted when the command is chosen, the tags wrap around it. Note that the File Open dialog box always points to the last used directory.

Insert Page Break
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Inserts a page break character at the current line.

Outline Headings
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This submenu is not available in the Freeware version of NoteTab Std (unless the "View | Commercial Features" menu command has been activated).

Second Window
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Shows active document in a second fixed window pane. You can resize the windows by dragging the splitter bar between them. The tab representing the left window is labeled "1." and the one for the right window "2.". Clicking on the tabs of other documents will display them in the left window. Pressing Ctrl+Shift+W in the left window swaps them around. Pressing Ctrl+Shift+W in the right window toggles off the Second Window feature. Note that showing Outline documents in the second window does not change the position of the Outline-headings list.

Use as Paste Board
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Makes the active document capture all Clipboard text cut and copy operations. New text is appended to the end of the document. Sometimes this feature fails to work because another application has hooked itself incorrectly in the Windows Clipboard chain. Turning the Paste-Board feature off and then back on should fix the problem when this happens; if not it may be necessary to reboot your computer.

Rename
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Renames the active document. The disk file is also renamed if it exists.

Delete
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Deletes the active document. Erases corresponding disk file if it exists (the deleted file goes to the recycle bin).

Read-Only
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Sets or turns off the read-only status of the active document. When a document is "read-only", you cannot modify its content. As a result, many menu and toolbar commands are not available.

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9. Edit Documents

Edit Documents
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NoteTab lets you open many documents at once and makes them available to you through the tab bar. You can configure the tab bar to show or hide the extension part of the name. When you choose the "File | New" command, NoteTab automatically creates a name for the new document. You can change the format of this name by editing the field "Options | General | New Name Format".

When you modify a document, its little disk icon in the tab turns red. This visual cue makes it easy to identify documents that need saving if you want to preserve the changes. When you save the document, its disk icon becomes gray again.

You will find many useful commands in the Modify menu that help you process your text. These commands make it easy to join or split lines, sort lines, indent or unindent lines, change alignment and character case, insert bullets or line numbers, strip HTML tags or convert text to HTML, etc.

NoteTab offers many features and tools to help you write documents efficiently. If used properly, the Editor Clipbook is probably the feature that will save you the most time. It lets you store and reuse boilerplate text, which can be anything from a single character to complete multi-megabyte documents. Document templates are another time-saving feature. A template is a special kind of document that provides content for shaping a new document. You can use several templates to create many common types of documents such as letters, web pages, etc.

Use the "Tools | Text Statistics" command to get a detailed count of the whole document or highlighted text. The dialog box will indicate how many characters and words it found and by clicking on the More button, you get the count for individual words.

People often organize their information/notes in individual documents. If you have many such documents, they can become hard to manage and occupy more space than necessary on your disk. Outline documents are the ideal solution in this case. They make it really easy to organize your information in a structured format. You can copy the content of each file under its own Outline heading. The result is a single document containing all your notes organized into clear and easily accessible categories.

NoteTab lets you view two documents side-by-side by using the "Document | Second Window" command (the active document is placed in the right window). With NoteTab Std, you can drag-and-drop highlighted text between the two windows.

You can customize the editor's main shortcut menu by choosing the commands you find most useful from the "Options | Shortcut Menu" list box. Your important commands will be just a mouse-click away. See the topic on Keyboard Shortcuts for a detailed list of keys you can use to speed up your work.

Since version 6, NoteTab can handle documents based on different character sets, or ANSI code pages. You can experiment with this feature by using the "Open Sample File" Clip in the SampleCode library. It lets you open a selection of sample plain text and HTML files containing text based on a variety of character sets (Arabic, Chinese, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, etc.)

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10. Help Menu

Help Menu
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Help Topics
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Opens the Help Topics window.

Help on Clip Programming
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Opens the Help topic on Clip programming.

Search for Help On
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Searches for a help topic.

Show Tip of the Day
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Shows the Tip-of-the-Day dialog box.

NoteTab Glossary
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Shows NoteTab's "Glossary.otl" file. Provides definitions for all the technical vocabulary used in the documentation of NoteTab.

Outline Tutorial
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Shows NoteTab's "Readme.otl" file with useful information about Outline files.

Readme File
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Shows NoteTab's "Readme.txt" file.

What's New
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Shows NoteTab's "WhatsNew.txt" file. This file contains information about the latest changes made to the NoteTab editor.

Replace MS Notepad
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Once this command has been activated, it causes NoteTab to execute whenever MS Notepad is invoked. When you choose that command, NoteTab will first rename Notepad by adding the extension ".MS" to the program file. Then, it will copy a special little program called NOTEPAD.STB to the Windows or System directory. Whenever this program is executed, it launches NoteTab instead of Notepad. If you want to restore MS Notepad after this operation, just use the command "Restore MS Notepad", which is also available under the Help menu.

Restore MS Notepad
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Reverses the changes made by the "Replace MS Notepad" command. This command is only available after you have used the "Replace MS Notepad" command.

Order NoteTab
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This command connects you to the order page on the web. It is only available in NoteTab Light and the trial version of NoteTab Pro.

Check for Updates
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Checks the Internet for news and software updates. This feature also makes it easy to download and install program updates.

Poll for News
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Automatically checks the Internet for news and updates from Fookes Software. When new news items are detected, NoteTab will automatically show the News and Updates window.

About
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Displays the NoteTab "About" dialog box.

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11. Create Web Pages

Create Web Pages
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NoteTab has many features that make it easy to create or convert documents to web pages. Note, however, that only NoteTab Pro offers HTML-syntax highlighting. Support tools include the Editor Clipbook, the Quick List, and the Modify menu which offers powerful commands to convert characters, selected text, or entire documents to HTML.

You can produce web pages from Outline documents, complete with a table of contents, headers for each topic, and links between them. To see for yourself, open the Readme.OTL document and use the menu command "Modify | Document to HTML | With Paragraph Tags". Once the new HTML document is created, hit the F8 shortcut key to view it in your browser. Edit the settings on the "Options | Outline" tab to configure the format of the web page. Creating this type of HTML document has never been easier. Webmasters maintaining FAQ lists will find this feature particularly useful.

The Editor Clipbook is a powerful tool for adding HTML tags to your text. Most HTML editors let you add tags through toolbars loaded with buttons or cascading menus. This approach is awkward to say the least. With the Clipbook, tags are clearly identified by meaningful names, the list is always in view once you open it, and it can contain a virtually unlimited number of items (tags or frequently used text). You can easily customize the Clipbook HTML libraries to suit your needs. A little icon next to each item indicates whether it contains a tag that can wrap around selected text (a "+" symbol) or not (a circle). Some Clips even accept user input before they are pasted in the document (see the topic Clipbook Wizards for more information). You can insert Clips by double-clicking on them, by dragging them into the document, by typing the first matching characters and hitting the F2 function key, or by invoking the In-Context Clipbook using the ESC key. Use Ctrl+Spacebar as a shortcut to insert the highlighted Clip.

Adding links to other web pages or images stored on your computer is really easy when you use the Quick List tool. When it is configured to display disk files or Favorites, file names can be dragged from the list into the document. If the extension of the document is listed in the "HTML File Extensions" list box (Options dialog box), the appropriate link tag is inserted at the point where you drop the file. Tags for image files (GIF, PNG, JPG, and BMP) will even have the correct size attributes completed. You can also insert links to other web documents or images by using the "Document | Insert HTML Link/Image" menu command (Shift+Ctrl+F5). Color codes can be inserted by using the "Document | Insert HTML Color" menu command (Ctrl+F5).

Changing a URL or any other type of text (even multiple lines) across many web pages is also easy with NoteTab. Two methods are available: either you open all the files that are likely to contain the searched text and then use the "Search | Replace" command (Ctrl+R) to scan through them, or use the "Search | Search Disk" command (Ctrl+D) to scan your disk files.

Use Document Templates to create new documents that already contain the framework of your web page layout. This feature will save you a lot of typing when you add web pages to your project. Sample HTML templates are provided with NoteTab.

You can view your HTML document in your main web browser by using the F8 function key. Hold the Ctrl key down if you want to open the document in a new web browser window (this feature may not work with all browsers). There is no need to save your changes when you use this feature. If NoteTab detects that your document has been modified, it stores the changes in a temporary file and sends it to the browser. Temporary files are automatically deleted when you exit NoteTab.

You can organize your HTML documents in multiple categories by using the flexible Favorites dialog box (Shift+F2). The Favorites feature can exploit an unlimited number of categories. Items in the list can represent file names (including wildcards), directories, and the names of other categories.

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12. Keyboard Shortcuts

Keyboard Shortcuts
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The left column shows keyboard shortcuts and the right column shows the corresponding action. Menu commands are capitalized and other types of actions are in lower case. The letter following Ctrl or Shift+Ctrl is not case sensitive. Note that some the listed shortcuts may not apply if you have changed them.

Function Keys
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F1 context sensitive help

F2 expand text

F3 search again

F4 open/close Clipbook

F5 insert date and time

F6 open/close Quick list

F7 open file at cursor

F8 view in browser

F9 open link

F10 focus main menu

F11 check spelling (NoteTab Pro and Std only)

F12 open thesaurus (NoteTab Pro and Std only)

Document
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Ctrl+N New

Ctrl+O Open

Ctrl+S Save

Shift+Ctrl+S Save As

Shift+Ctrl+N Export

Ctrl+F4 Close Document

Shift+Ctrl+F4 Close All Documents

Ctrl+P Print

Shift+Ctrl+F11 Rename

F5 Insert Date/Time

Shift+F5 Insert Document Name

Ctrl+T Launch Document

Ctrl+W Word Wrap

Shift+Ctrl+F12 Change Font

Shift+Ctrl+W Second Window

Shift+F12 Nonprinting Text (NoteTab Pro only)

Cursor Movement
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Ctrl+Right word right

Ctrl+Left word left

Ctrl+End end of document

Ctrl+Home start of document

Ctrl+Up start of previous paragraph

Ctrl+Down start of next paragraph

Ctrl+PageUp top of edit view

Ctrl+PageDown bottom of edit view

Text Selection
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double click select word

Ctrl+double click toggle word selection method

Extend Text Selection
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Shift+[any nav. key] select text

Shift+Ctrl+Right word right

Shift+Ctrl+Left word left

Shift+Ctrl+End end of document

Shift+Ctrl+Home start of document

Shift+Ctrl+Up start of previous paragraph

Shift+Ctrl+Down start of next paragraph

Edit
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Ctrl+Z Undo

Alt+BkSp undo

Shift+Ctrl+Z Redo (NoteTab Pro only)

Ctrl+X Cut

Shift+Del cut

Ctrl+C Copy

Ctrl+Ins copy

Ctrl+V Paste

Shift+Ins paste

Ctrl+Alt+V Paste HTML format

Shift+Ctrl+V Paste New

Ctrl+A Select All

Ctrl+Enter Insert Page Break

Ctrl+I Indent

Shift+Ctrl+I Unindent

Ctrl+B Insert Bullets

Ctrl+J Join Lines

Shift+Ctrl+J Split Lines

Shift+Ctrl+M Reformat Lines

Shift+Ctrl+Y Compress

Ins insert/overwrite

Del delete current char or selection

Ctrl+Y delete current line

Ctrl+BkSp delete to start of current word

Ctrl+Del delete to start of next word

Ctrl+. inserts the ellipsis character …

Ctrl+- inserts the n-dash character –

Ctrl+, inserts “smart quotes” around selected text or a proper apostrophe ’

Change Case (must select text)
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Ctrl+K Invert Case

Ctrl+U Upper Case

Ctrl+L Lower Case

Shift+Ctrl+K Capitalize

Shift+Ctrl+U Sentence

Search
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Ctrl+F Find

Ctrl+R Replace

F3 Search Again

Shift+F3 Search Reverse

Ctrl+F3 Quick Find

Ctrl+D Search Disk

Ctrl+H Go to Hyperlink

Shift+Ctrl+L Go to Line

Ctrl+M Match Brackets

Bookmarks (NoteTab Pro only)
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Shift+Ctrl+[0-9] toggle bookmark

Ctrl+[0-9] go to bookmark #

Ctrl+Alt+F3 Next

Shift+Ctrl+F3 Previous

HTML
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Ctrl+F5 Insert HTML Color

Shift+Ctrl+F5 Insert HTML Link/Image

Shift+Ctrl+T Remove All Tags

Shift+Ctrl+H Characters to HTML: Extended Characters

Ctrl+F7 Tidy HTML Code (requires HTML Tidy)

Shift+Ctrl+F7 Validate HTML (requires CSE HTML Validator)

F8 View in Browser

Shift+F8 Other Browser

F9 Open Link

Ctrl+double-click open link

Email
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Ctrl+Q Quote Text

Shift+Ctrl+Q Unquote Text

Outline
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Shift+Ctrl+A Add heading

Shift+Ctrl+B Copy heading

Shift+Ctrl+R Remove heading

Ctrl+Alt+Down Move next

Ctrl+Alt+Up Move previous

Ctrl+Alt+Home Move first

Ctrl+Alt+End Move last

Clipbook
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F4 Open Clipbook

Ctrl+F2 Add New Clip

Shift+Ctrl+F2 Add from Clipboard

Ctrl+Spacebar Paste Current Item

Shift+Ctrl+C Copy Selection

Shift+Ctrl+X Cut Selection

Shift+Ctrl+E Clip Editor

F2 Expand Text

Esc toggle In-Context Clipbook

Shift+F4 focus Clipbook/document

Alt+[1-9] open Clipbook library #

Shift cancel Clip even

Ctrl+Alt interrupt Clip, console, or loading of many documents

Favorites
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Shift+Ctrl+D Add Document to Favorites

Shift+Ctrl+F Add Path Name to Favorites

Shift+F2 Go to Favorites

Other Tools
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F6 Quick List

F7 Open File at Cursor

F7 open URL at cursor

Ctrl+E Calculate Expression

Ctrl+F9 Text Statistics

F11 Spelling (NoteTab Pro and Std only)

F12 Thesaurus (NoteTab Pro and Std only)

Shift+Ctrl+P Use As Paste Board

Window Navigation
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Ctrl+Tab Go to Doc. Tab: Next

Shift+Ctrl+Tab Go to Doc. Tab: Previous

Ctrl+G Go to Doc. Tab: Current

Shift+F4 focus Clipbook/document

Shift+F6 focus Clipbook/Quick list/document

Shift+F7 focus Quick list/document

Ctrl+F6 focus combobox/listbox

Shift+Ctrl+G focus first/second document (Second Window option)

Alt or F10 or Ctrl+F10 focus main menu

Alt+[underlined letter] select menu command

Miscellaneous
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Spacebar toggle checkbox

Alt+Spacebar open System menu

Alt+F4 close NoteTab

Shift+F10 open context menu

Right Mouse Button
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click right mouse button to open context-sensitive menu.

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13. Tips and How to..

[Tips and How to...]
==================

When the real-time word-count feature is enabled, you can click on the corresponding panel in the status bar to see more detailed text statistics. You will see the word count based on the NoteTab method, the average number of characters per word, the number of sentences, and the average number of words per sentence. This information is particularly valuable to copywriters, bloggers and journalists.

In NoteTab Pro, double clicking on a word with the mouse selects it together with all blank spaces following it. If you only want the word selected, just hold down the Alt key while you double click on the word.

In NoteTab, you can drag-and-drop selected text. To move text to another part of your document, first select it, then click on the selection with the left mouse button and drag it to the desired location. If you want to duplicate text rather than move it, follow the same procedure but with the Control key pressed down.

When you have several documents open, you can drag-and-drop page tabs to reorder them any way you like. If the tabs are stacked, you will first have to enable drag-and-drop by double clicking on the tab before moving it.

If you use the system tray and always want the program available, don't exit the editor but minimize it instead. The program will minimize to the system tray and reappear next time you click on its icon.

If you use Explorer and would like to open a selection of documents in NoteTab, make sure you use "Send To" instead of the "Open" command. The "Open" command tries to launch a new instance of NoteTab for each selected file. Due to a feature that causes NoteTab to check for previous instances of the program, only some of the files may be loaded. Furthermore, this process is considerably slower than using the "Send To" command.

The ruler can display measurements in characters (only accurate with fixed-width fonts), inches, and millimeters. Click on the ruler to toggle between the different units. When you place the mouse cursor over the ruler, the measurement at that position is indicated in the hint bar. Note that the ruler measurements do not scroll horizontally with the editor window.

Simply select one character in the current document to see its decimal and hexadecimal value in the status bar.

Use the View | Multiple Instances menu command if you want to open multiple copies of the editor in memory.

The Clipbook can be used to launch other programs, open the current document in its associated application, open the current document in the specified program, and open URLs. Clips with this capability have a little exclamation "!" symbol on their left side.

Open a local file by placing the cursor on its name in a document and pressing the F7 key (or through the menu: Tools / Open File at cursor).

The "Go to Line" command is activated when you double-click on the cursor-position pane in the status bar.

NoteTab Pro: You can toggle between insert and overwrite mode by double-clicking on the Insert/Overwrite pane in the status bar.

Use CTRL+ALT+V to paste Clipboard data in HTML format (if available).

Double-clicking on the hint line in the status bar selects all the text in the current document.

You can copy the content of the Clipbook and Outline list to the Clipboard (see the list box shortcut menu). In the Hint bar, you can see how many items are contained in the list when you select the "Headers to Clipboard" or "Headings to Clipboard" command.

Pressing the Tab key when you have several lines of text highlighted (starting at the beginning of the first line) will now act as if you have chosen the indent command. Holding the Shift key down will unindent the highlighted lines.

When the Quick List is used to display open documents, double-clicking or pressing Enter on a name in the list will set the focus to the corresponding document.

If you are very familiar with INI files, you can edit NoteTab's own INI file like any other document. To have your changes taken into account when you reopen NoteTab, you must rename the file by adding an exclamation mark in front of the name (e.g. !NoteTab.INI). Next time you run NoteTab, the content of the renamed INI file will be used.

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14. Introduction

Introduction
============

NoteTab™ is a leading-edge Windows text editor and HTML coding tool, and an excellent Notepad replacement. Winner of top software industry awards since 1998, this application does it all: you can handle multiple large files with a simple tabbed interface, use a spell-checker and thesaurus (*), format text, extract detailed word statistics, and bookmark documents. You can build document templates, use powerful system-wide searches, and do global multi-line replacements. NoteTab has a fully configurable toolbar with more than 90 commands available, and a Clipbar feature that lets you create your own toolbar buttons to execute custom scripts and wizards.

Its Clipbook feature lets you create and organize clips, macros that can range from text replacement to complete mini-applications, using a simple scripting language with enough features to satisfy any power user; a bunch of handy clip libraries is included. Web authors will love the HTML clip library, just one of a load of features that make NoteTab a great code-based HTML editor. Other gems include text-to-HTML conversion, tag stripping, searching for words with wildcards, powerful regular expression handling, and tools for adding links and color codes.

NoteTab has won many prestigious awards over the years. These include the PC Magazine Shareware Awards (winner Best Application category), the Microsoft & WUGNET Best Choice Shareware, 3x winner of the Shareware Industry Awards, and 6x winner of the SIAF People's Choice Award.

* The spell checker and thesaurus tools are not available in NoteTab Light and the trial versions of NoteTab.

If you are not familiar with technical computer terms, open the outline file Glossary.otl in NoteTab (available from the Help menu). You will find all the important words defined in it.

Highlights
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• Easy-to-use, reliable, fast, and very flexible.

• Open, navigate and edit many documents at once, even huge files.

• AutoCorrect/Auto-replace mode, thesaurus, and spell checking with 13 dictionaries available.

• Formatting and conversion commands galore: text case, alignment, strip tags, convert to HTML, unquote emails, and much more. Can automatically capture and save text sent to the Clipboard from any application.

• Supports many file formats: DOS, MAC, UNIX, ANSI, ASCII, Unicode, UTF-8, and EBCDIC.

• Can open files and display text based on different ANSI code pages (e.g. Cyrillic, Greek, Thai, etc.)

• Can automatically save web files with the appropriate encoding (ANSI, UTF-8, Unicode).

• Calculates the results of mathematical expressions and inserts them in your text.

• Easily search for words using wildcards.

• Includes regular expression's engine based on PCRE (Perl 5 compatible) for wildcard searches and replacements.

• Powerful Search Disk feature that lets you find and replace text in an unlimited number of files.

• Powerful Clipbook tool makes it easy to access handy macro functions and boilerplate text.

• Programmable – add your own custom commands using an easy-to-learn, full-featured script language.

See the Key Features topic for a more detailed list of features.

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15. Time Saving Features

[Time-saving Features]
====================

NoteTab offers many time-saving features. The most important are:

• Editor Clipbook: lets you store and paste any kind of text.

• Auto-replace mode.

• Favorites: quickly open your favorite files and directories.

• Templates: save time in creating many common types of documents.

• Paste Board: copies all text received by the Clipboard into a chosen document.

• Customizable shortcut menu: choose the commands you find most useful for the main shortcut menu.

• Clipbars: user-created toolbars with buttons that run Clips.

• Third-party products: useful programs that integrate with NoteTab.

And here is a non-exhaustive list of additional helpful features:

• Open and edit many documents at once, even huge files (only limited by system resources).

• Edit Unicode, UTF-8, and ANSI files based on different character sets (Cyrillic, Greek, Thai, etc.)

• Can automatically save web files with the appropriate encoding (ANSI, UTF-8, Unicode).

• AutoCorrect/Auto-replace mode similar to Microsoft® Word.

• Supports Microsoft Office sound events.

• Fully configurable toolbar with flat or standard style buttons (more than 90 commands available).

• Retail versions of NoteTab: Clipbars let you create your own custom toolbars.

• Fully configurable shortcut menu.

• Programmable. Add your own custom features using an easy script language.

• Web enabled: can open links and HTML documents in browser.

• Supports third-party web tools: HTML Tidy, and CSE HTML Validator.

• Powerful Clipbook tool makes it easy to memorize and insert any kind of text in your document. Includes libraries for HTML tags, acronyms, smilies, etc. Can also be used for "shorthand" glossaries or to launch other applications.

• Innovative In-Context Clipbook reduces mouse movement and speeds up work.

• Integrates support for Perl and Gawk interpreters; scripts can be stored in NoteTab and applied directly to highlighted text or whole document.

• Can calculate – type a mathematical expression and a NoteTab shortcut will calculate the result.

• Each document can have different settings such as font, tab widths, word wrap.

• Supports outline-type documents that help you organize your notes or any kind of information.

• Supports document templates.

• Can search/replace text in all open documents or disk files; accepts search tokens and regular expressions.

• Functions to convert text files to web documents, strip HTML tags, sort lines, change case, process text in blocks, etc.

• Drag-and-drop image files from the Quick List tool into an HTML document creates image tags with the correct size attributes.

• Retail versions of NoteTab: spell checker and thesaurus (requires the appropriate dictionary files).

• NoteTab Pro: insert up to 10 bookmarks per document.

• Automatic scrolling for hands-free reading of documents.

• Options to set margins, page numbering, headers and footers for printing jobs.

• Reformat text, including left and right justification.

• Text statistics (counts number of characters, words, and frequency of each word).

• Drag-and-drop files from File Manager or Explorer.

• Accepts multiple file names, including wildcards, passed as command-line parameters to the program.

• Quickly open files or directories from the Favorites list.

• Can capture text copied to the Clipboard from any application.

• Can read and write files in DOS ASCII, UNIX, EBCDIC, and Mac formats.

• Covers all essential features available in Notepad (including LOG).

• And lots more...

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16. View Menu

View Menu
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Toolbar
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Shows or hides the main toolbar.

Clipbar
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Submenu commands to create, open, or hide the Clipbar.

Ruler
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Shows or hides the document ruler.

Line Numbers (only NoteTab Pro)
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Shows or hides the line-number ruler.

Libraries Bar
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Shows or hides the Clipbook libraries button bar above the status bar.

Status Bar
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Shows or hides the Status bar, which displays hint information and the cursor coordinates.

Nonprinting Text (only NoteTab Pro)
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Shows or hides nonprinting characters like paragraph marks, spacebar and tab characters, and page breaks.

Word Count (not in NoteTab Light except during trial mode)
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Shows or hides real-time word count in the status bar next to the Ins/Ovr info panel. Word-count is based either on selected text or the whole document (or topic with Outlines).

The MS Word method returns a count that should be a close match to the word-count result in Microsoft Word. The NoteTab method is more sophisticated and counts words using a more extensive set of word delimiters. MS Word mostly counts words delimited by space characters. In the following examples, MS Word counts one word per line whereas NoteTab counts three words in each:

info@fookes.com

http://fookes.com/

help-me-please

2x10x250

When this feature is enabled, you can click on the word-count panel in the status bar to see more detailed text statistics. You will see the word count based on the NoteTab method, the average number of characters per word, the number of sentences, and the average number of words per sentence.

Stack Document Tabs
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Shows document tabs stacked or unstacked.

Multiple Instances
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Allows multiple instances of NoteTab to run.

Icon in System Tray
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Minimizes NoteTab to the system tray instead of the task bar.

Stay-on-Top
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Makes NoteTab stay on top of other applications.

Commercial Features (only NoteTab Light)
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Use this command to enable some of the commercial features for a trial period of one month.

Spell-Checker Options
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Sets spell-checker options (dictionaries, correction preferences, etc.). This command is only available in the commercial version of NoteTab. To keep the distribution file size small, the commercial package does not include any dictionaries. However, you can download the thesaurus file and dictionaries for several languages for free by visiting one of the NoteTab websites.

Options
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Sets program options.

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17. Search Menu

Search Menu
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Find
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Finds the specified text. The search criteria can represent multiple lines.

Replace
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Replaces specific text with different text. The search and replace criteria can represent multiple lines.

Count Occurrences
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Counts occurrences of search-text criteria.

Search Again
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Repeats the last search.

Search Reverse
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Repeats the last search in reverse direction.

Quick Find
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Finds the next occurrence of the highlighted text. Note that this command uses the current settings of the Find dialog box (search direction/match case/whole word/scope)

Search Disk
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Finds/replaces the specified text in files on the disk. The replace feature is not available in the Freeware version of NoteTab Std (unless the "View | Commercial Features" menu command has been activated).

Set Bookmark
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Sets or turns off bookmark at cursor position. This submenu is only available in NoteTab Pro. Currently, bookmarks cannot span across Outline topics and are lost when you move to another topic.

Go to Bookmark
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Moves cursor to the specified bookmark. This submenu is only available in NoteTab Pro.

Go to Tab
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Activates the specified document tab.

Go to Line
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Jumps to the specified line. In NoteTab Pro you can jump to a paragraph by preceding the number with a letter "p".

Go to Hyperlink
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Opens the document or heading corresponding to hyperlink under the cursor.

Match Brackets
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Finds the matching bracket or double quote. The following characters are supported by this feature:

(<[{“«" ' ' "»”}]>)

Place the cursor inside the bracketed or quoted area and NoteTab will select the matching characters and all the text between them. The algorithm that performs the search has been optimized for speed. Under some rare situations it will not find a matching bracket, double quote or single quote. However, if you select one of the brackets or smart quotes before selecting this command, the search will always return the correct result. When searching for straight double or single quotes, place the cursor in the text between them instead of selecting the quote character.

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18. Conventions

Conventions
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Conventions
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The name NoteTab is used to refer to either NoteTab Light or NoteTab Std or NoteTab Pro. The Editor Clipbook tool is often referred to as just Clipbook.

The pipe symbol "|" is used to separate imbedded menu names or dialog box elements. For example:

"Modify | Change Case | Capitalize"

refers to the Capitalize command in the Change Case submenu situated under the Modify menu.

"Options | Clipbook | Indent on Paste"

refers to the Indent on Paste setting on the Clipbook tab in the Options dialog box.

If you are not familiar with technical computer terms, open the outline file Glossary.otl in NoteTab (available from the Help menu). You will find all the important words defined in it.

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19. Accessibility Mode

Accessibility Mode
==================

NoteTab has been developed with accessibility in mind. All program features are accessible through the keyboard and most keyboard shortcuts can be customized. Furthermore, NoteTab detects whether Windows is set to High Contrast mode and whether a screen reader is running. In these situations, NoteTab starts up in a special Accessibility Mode that affects the display of menus as well as the selection of the first control receiving input focus when the wizard screen changes or a dialog is opened. The text "(Acc)" appears in the program title bar when it is turned on.

When NoteTab runs in Accessibility Mode, the "Blind User Mode" setting in the Options dialog box is automatically turned on. When set, Blind User Mode makes the following changes to the user interface: Autoscroll hides dialog when active and message dialog boxes make a sound when displayed. The Find dialog box will automatically close after a search operation and the Replace dialog box will close after a "Replace All" operation. When an item is selected from the Quick List, Outline, or Clipbook list, the focus remains on the list control instead of jumping back to the document. This makes it easier to use NoteTab with screen readers.

NoteTab includes configuration files for the three most popular screen readers: Dolphin Hal, JAWS for Windows, and Window-Eyes. These files improve recognition of NoteTab user-interface elements and can be installed to the appropriate location by running NoteTab with the following command-line parameter:

NoteTab.exe /acc=install

or

NotePro.exe /acc=install

Note that you may have to restart your screen reader to have it pick up the installed configuration file.

If for some reason, NoteTab does not set itself in Accessibility Mode, or if you wish to turn it off, use the /acc command-line switch to turn it on or off. Example:

NoteTab.exe /acc=on

NoteTab.exe /acc=off

or

NotePro.exe /acc=on

NotePro.exe /acc=off

Section 508 Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT)
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The Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT) is a document that contains a list of requirements needed for a product to conform to Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act. The template format allows vendors to state their products' conformance to Section 508, requirement by requirement. For more information on Section 508 visit www.section508.gov

The NoteTab VPAT is available for download in the Adobe Acrobat (PDF) and Microsoft Word (DOC) formats:

Download VPAT in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format

· Download VPAT in Microsoft Word (DOC) format

NOTICE: The VPAT document is provided for market research purposes only and its contents are subject to change without notice. The information in this document does not constitute legal advice, warranty, or guarantee regarding a person's ability to comply with applicable accessibility requirements. Such a determination is the sole responsibility of the purchaser.

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20. Options | Clipbook

Options | Clipbook
==================

Dock Left Side: Set this option to display the Clipbook on the left side of the editor window.

Dock Right Side: Set this option to display the Clipbook on the right side of the editor window.

Prompt for Header: Prompt for header name when a new item is added to the list. If this option is turned off, the Clip text or its first line is used to determine the header name.

Single Click to Paste: Setting this option will make the Clipbook insert items on a single mouse click instead of a double-click.

Indent on Paste: Set this option to automatically adjust the indent of pasted items with multiple lines.

Save Without Prompt: Automatically saves changes to Clipbook libraries without prompting.

List Color: Background color used for the Clipbook list box.

Header Color: Color used to indicate items in the Clipbook list that are executed instead of pasted in the document.

Icon Color: Color used to draw the Clipbook item icon.

Clipbook Font: Font used for the Clipbook list box.

Match Document Font: Sets Clipbook font to active document font.

Show Clip Icons: Set this option to display little icons next to wrappable or executable Clip items.

Show Headers: Set this option to display outline headers in the editor window (useful for editing the header).

Show Button Icons: Set this option to display the little icons in the buttons.

Stack Buttons: Set this option to stack the buttons if they don't all fit in the button bar.

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21. Comparison Chart

Comparison Chart
================

NoteTab Pro, NoteTab Std, and NoteTab Light features compared:

1. Text editing
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Pro
Std
Light

Wildcard searching
Yes
Yes
No

Disk search & replace
Yes
Yes
No

Real-time word count
Yes
Yes
No

Advanced word statistics
Yes
Yes
No

Create "Outline" (multi-section) documents
Yes
Yes
No

Thesaurus (English)
Yes
Yes
No

Spell checker (10 languages)
Yes
Yes
No

Pasteboard (capture Clipboard text)
Yes
Yes
Yes

Create and reuse text snippets
Yes
Yes
Yes

In-text calculations
Yes
Yes
Yes

Multi-level undo/redo
Yes
No
No

Use variable-width fonts
No
Yes
Yes

Print preview
Yes
Yes
No

URL highlighting in plain text files
Yes
No
No

2. Web development
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Pro
Std
Light

Syntax highlighting for HTML & CSS
Yes
No
No

Support for HTML5 & CSS3
Yes
Yes
Yes

HTML & CSS code libraries
Yes
Yes
Yes

Twitter Bootstrap code library
Yes
Yes
Yes

Autocomplete HTML code
Yes
Yes
Yes

Web page templates
Yes
Yes
Yes

Group project files together
Yes
Yes
Yes

Improve your code with HTML Tidy
Yes
Yes
Yes

HTML to Text conversion
Yes
Yes
Yes

Text to HTML conversion
Yes
Yes
Yes

3. Advanced users
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Pro
Std
Light

Scriptable
Yes
Yes
Yes

Custom toolbars for scripts
Yes
Yes
No

PCRE Regular Expressions
Yes
Yes
Yes

Show non-printing characters
Yes
No
No

Bookmarks in text
Yes
No
No

Customizable keyboard shortcuts
Yes
Yes
No

Wordstar keyboard shortcuts
Yes
No
No

Save in EBCDIC format
Yes
Yes
No

Wrap text to column in real time
Yes
No
No

Line number toggle
Yes
No
No

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22. Options Dialog Box

Options Dialog Box
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This dialog box lets you configure the main program settings. Use the Options command under the View menu to open it. The settings are automatically saved when you quit NoteTab.

Options | View

Options | General

Options | Files

Options | Documents

Options | Internet

Options | HTML Files

Options | File Filters

Options | Associations

Options | Colors

Options | Toolbar

Options | Shortcut Menu

Options | Tools

Options | Clipbook

Options | Tab Bar

Options | Outline

Options | Quick List

Options | Advanced

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23. Modify Menu

Modify Menu
===========

Lines

Alignment

Changes the alignment (left/center/right/justify) of selected paragraphs based on the size of the document window or column wrap. This feature only works correctly with fixed-width fonts. The "justify" command is not available in the Freeware version of NoteTab Std (unless the "View | Commercial Features" menu command has been activated).

Block

Text Case

Spaces

Strip HTML Tags
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Use this command to remove all HTML tags from selected text or the whole document. Control and other special characters are converted during this process. This command also attempts to format text in tables by separating each cell with a tab character and by placing each row on a separate line. Use the submenu command "Preserve URLs" if you want to keep links.

Change HTML Tags
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Use the submenu commands to convert HTML tags in your text selection or the whole document to uppercase, lowercase, or XHTML format.

Document to HTML
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Converts highlighted text or the active document to HTML format. Special characters are converted to the HTML equivalent tag. Choose the "No Paragraph Tags" command if you do not want NoteTab to insert <P></P> and <BR> tags when it encounters new lines. Choose the "No Character Conversion" command if you do not want special characters converted to HTML entities. If you apply either of these commands to the whole document, NoteTab will create a new HTML page with the header and footer defined in the Options dialog box on the Internet tab. Outline documents are converted complete with a table of contents and links between the topics.

Characters to HTML
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This command will convert all extended and special characters it encounters in the selected text (or whole document if no text is selected) to their corresponding HTML entities. Choose "Extended Characters" if you do not want tag elements such as <,>, and " to be converted.

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Convert to Ascii/Ansi text
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Converts document text from ASCII to ANSI character set or reverse. Only extended characters are affected by this command. Note that this feature is only available for documents based on the Western ANSI character set (code page 1252).

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24. Options | General

Options | General
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Save Position and Size: When you enable this option, the editor will always restore its previous position and size when you start it.

Reload Open Documents: Use this option if you want the documents that were open when you closed the editor to be reopened next time you start the editor. Files that no longer exist are ignored by this feature.

Load Favorites on Startup: Loads the documents listed in the Favorite Files list (from current list or an alternative list indicated through the command line) whenever you start the editor.

Allow Multiple Instances: Set this option if you want to allow multiple instances of the editor in memory.

Check Changes on Activate: Checks if documents have been modified by other applications when focus returns to NoteTab. Turning this option off may significantly speed up the readiness of NoteTab after activation when it has floppy disk or network files open. The downside is that you are no longer warned if files have been modified by other programs.

Full Names in Favorites: Set this option to display full file names in the Favorites menu.

Clip Event Warnings: This field offers a choice of three options that determine what happens when a Clipbook library containing event headings is opened. When "Disable Clip Events" is set, Clip events such as OnOpen, OnClose, and OnClipboard are never triggered automatically. You have to launch them manually. With the "Prompt First" option, the OnOpen and OnCloseClip events are only executed if you allow them by responding to a prompt. When "No Prompting" is set, Clip events are automatically triggered without prompting you.

Display Prompts: Show warning prompts when you choose the Reload and Delete commands, and when you choose the Search Disk command when NoteTab contains unsaved changes.

Protect Unicode Files: When NoteTab opens Unicode files, it has to convert them to the ANSI character set, which handles much fewer characters. As a result, the conversion process may drop non-ANSI characters and cause loss of information. When this setting is checked, Unicode files that fail to fully convert to ANSI are opened in Read-Only mode, which protects the file from changes. If you know that your Unicode documents will not loose important information during the conversion process, you can uncheck this option in order to open such files in editable mode.

Blind User Mode: Autoscroll hides dialog when active and message dialog boxes make a sound when displayed. The Find dialog box will automatically close after a search operation and the Replace dialog box will close after a "Replace All" operation. When an item is selected from the Quick List, Outline, or Clipbook list, the focus remains on the list control instead of jumping back to the document. This makes it easier to use NoteTab with screen readers.

New Name Format: The name format is used when new documents are created. The code "%d" indicates where the incremental numbering is inserted in the name. In the following example, the "0.2" between the % and d tells NoteTab to format numbers smaller than 2 digits with leading zeroes: NoName%0.2d.txt

Bullet Character: Defines character used by the "Modify | Lines | Bullet Insert" function.

Number Separator: Defines characters used by the "Modify | Lines | Number Lines" function to separate the numbers from the text.

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25. Web Links

[Weblinks]

Here are some interesting and relevant webpages

Taking Note

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