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Crystal Software Newsletter Vol. 2 www.crystalsoftware.com.au
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Wednesday October 6, 2004

Several very busy months have passed since our last 'monthly'
newsletter; we're hoping to be a bit more regular.

If you have an interesting story, tip or use for TextPipe please
send it our way!

Regards,

Simon Carter
CEO, Crystal Software
simon.carter@...

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THIS ISSUE INCLUDES:

1) Filter for Google Adwords

2) Make Global Changes to a Filter In Your Text Editor -
and Migrate Filters To Older TextPipe Versions

3) Other Updates and New Products

4) WANTED: Professional Information Consultants to resell TextPipe

5) Download the Latest TextPipe Pro 7.1.2

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FILTER FOR GOOGLE ADWORDS

If you're using Google Adwords, you may find it tedious to
generate all the broad match, phrase match and exact match terms.
e.g. from
parse text
you want to generate
[parse text] and
"parse text"

We've designed a filter to assist with this process! Simply
paste all your terms into the Trial Run area, run the filter,
and then Add all the new terms back. The filter also takes care
of removing duplicates, but Google does this as well.

Download now:
http://www.crystalsoftware.com.au/textpipe/user_filters.html

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MAKE GLOBAL CHANGES TO A FILTER IN YOUR TEXT EDITOR -
AND MIGRATE FILTERS TO OLDER TEXTPIPE VERSIONS

It seems that only Power Users have found TextPipe's ability to
export code to VBScript and JScript from the File Menu\Export
function. This is really handy for creating filters on the fly
from within your own programs, or even for running TextPipe
from a simplified web page front end.

And there are other ways to use it too:

Let's say you need to make changes to a large number of TextPipe
filters. You could either do this by hand, or you could
1) File Menu\Export the filter to a .vbs or .js file
2) Edit the code using a text editor (or TextPipe!)
3) Use the modified .vbs or .js code to regenerate the filter
in TextPipe. To do so, you'll need to add three lines to the
end of the (.vbs) file:

vb_connectTextPipe
vb_TextPipeApp.visible = true
vb_build_filter( vb_TPWindow )

4) When you double-click on the .vbs file, TextPipe will open,
build the new filter, and then stay open for you to save it.

You can also use this approach to move a filter to an OLDER
copy of TextPipe. Simply export to .vbs or .js, edit the file back
to the API that the older version expects, then load it up. Note -
you'll need to run the old version prior to double-clicking on
the file, so that the old version registers itself in the registry
in preference to the newer version.

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OTHER UPDATES AND NEW PRODUCTS

We've released PowerPointPipe - the companion tools to WordPipe
and ExcelPipe for search and replace in Office documents.

We've also released TextPipe Pro 7.1.2, and EasyPattern Helper
1.5 to go with it.

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PROFESSIONAL INFORMATION CONSULTANTS WANTED TO RESELL TEXTPIPE

If you have clients who may benefit from TextPipe, we would love to
hear from you. We have a dedicated and friendly support staff, highly
reputable products and a generous commission structure.

If interested in receiving more information, please see:
http://www.crystalsoftware.com.au/resellers

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DOWNLOAD THE LATEST TEXTPIPE PRO 7.1.2

http://www.crystalsoftware.com.au/textpipepro2.exe

- to be announced shortly.

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This newsletter is sponsored by Crystal Software.

It can be reprinted and redistributed as long as the
author and sponsor are acknowledged.