A significant update has been released for SpinChimp. The update adds several new features and addresses many usability issues.

The following features have been added to SpinChimp:

• Added ability to view original and spun text as: text, raw html or browser view. In browser view, the text will be displayed exactly as it would appear within a browser.
• Added dynamic selection using CTRL and left mouse click. This will automatically select an entire sentence or a synonym replacement phrase depending upon the surrounding text. The selection is spin aware.
• Added a “Match case” and “Find Whole Word” options to the find and replace forms.
• The editor now includes automatic matching spin brace highlighting.
• Added ability to identify multi word synonyms. The new “Identify multisyns” button will automatically identify synonym replacement phrases using a blue squiggly underline.
• Installer now adds a video link and PDF help manual to the start menu.
• User added synonyms can now include Unicode text, allowing multilingual replacements and special characters (for example left quote).
• Added a “disable all coloring” option to enable auto syntax highlighting to be disabled on slow computers.
• Double clicking the project field within the status bar now opens the project selection form.

The following usability issues have been addressed:

• Add an “Are you sure?” prompt to forms if changes made and user cancels or presses exit before committing the change. Disable if warnings not enabled.
• Tag import form should automatically close after import button is pressed.
• Allow every column of each data grid to be resized. For example, in project manage form, keyword is not resizable.
• Signatures don’t need a name. Remove the name field from the manage signatures form.
• Tag manager to add column when hit enter in column textbox.
• Fix license details form to remove ambiguity re subscription expiry.
• Import CSV file to handle quotation marks. Allow imports containing separator character between quotes. Allow two successive quotes to be treated as a single quote.
• Show currently selected option and selected color in option button tooltip text.
• Exporting special characters to text or html does not work.

The following bugs have been resolved:

• Sentence spin causes new sentences to incorrectly replace the very first sentence in the document.
• After using the right arrow in rapid spin, the document loses its position and adds spin to the wrong place.
• Rapid spin loses its place when you use quick spin to add a word in the middle. If you re click somewhere though after you click “Add”, it works.
• Some ALT selection keys are duplicated on some ribbons.
• Save As shortcut key (F12) doesn’t work. Replace with F9.
• When using auto learn, SpinChimp should not learn words that are in the ALL project if all project is not selected.
• When a new profile is created or a profile name renamed, the profile name does not update in the left list view until you close and reopen.
• When ALL project selected, all manage forms should show words/sites/sigs etc from every project when selected. They should be greyed out if not in all project.
• Spelling and synonym check form should not auto colour URLs in top textbox as this hides the selected word highlighting.
• Profiles form to enable all spin syntax text boxes if set to 0 and spin type selected.
• Tags can only be one word long, cannot start with a number. Don’t highlight if invalid and don’t allow a column to be added if invalid.
• Fix license subscription from expiring whenever it can’t access the internet. This is an intermittent fault and does not always occur.
• Current editor style is not correctly identified within the Style menu after SpinChimp is restarted.
• Rapid spin forward button skips two sentences at a time.
• Rapid and quick spin lists incorrectly highlight multiple entries if the only difference between the entries is the synonym case. For example, the and THE will both be highlighted.
• Quickspin incorrectly removes deeper spin from selected synonyms.

The update is not mandatory however it is recommended that this update be applied as soon as possible.

Note that new users will not need to update as all patches are rolled into the latest version available via the download page.

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