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We have reduced the entry level and upgrade prices for WhizFolders editions from January 22, 2010. We were able to achieve that by reducing the free upgrade (or maintenance) period to 1 year. To see the new prices, please visit the Buy Now page of WhizFolders.

The customers who made the full or upgrade purchases before January 22, 2010 will get free upgrades for two years from the date of their purchase, as promised at the time of their purchase.

This price reduction was done on the request of many users who suggested a lower entry level price with reduced maintenance period. They didn’t see a value in the 2-year free upgrade period.

The self-support web site support.whizfolders.com was down for a few hours today. The problem has now been fixed. If you were unable to login today, please try a login again. We apologize for the inconvenience.

A new version of WhizFolders is about to be released. The pre-release version 6.3.4.2 is now available in the paid user support area.

A summary of all the new features in version 6.3 so far are described at:
http://whizfolders.com/whizfolders63.aspx

For those of you, already using the Beta 6.3 version, the exact changes in this version are documented at:

• Version 6.3.4.2
• Version 6.3.4

Occasional hang fixed on clicking direct links: We had to code a workaround for a bug in RichEdit that sometimes caused a nasty hang when processing the directly typed links. Since this is an important fix, we had to release this version soon after version 6.3.4.

Improved processing of links to network locations in the topic list: When links were put in the topic list pointing to files or documents on network locations, some delay was introduced in the list, especially during scrolling. This has been fixed.

Note: There is a newer version 6.3.4.2 that fixes a link clicking problem in the editor.

Improved Help Window: Now Help is an independent application so that when you launch help, it doesn’t overlay document windows. Moreover, the help can be independently started from the Start menu icons for WhizFolders.

Improvement, new operation to open a set of documents together: You will see two new operations on the File menu of the Main WhizFolders window as shown below. If you always like to work on a set of documents together, you can open them first and then use the operation “Save list of documents to group…” Later, when you want to open all the documents in a group, you use the operation “Open documents in group” and they will be opened together. This is especially useful in the Tabbed mode. Note that these operations are only available on the main window’s File menu.

Improvement, “Document options” button below the list: Some users didn’t realize the options they could change in the File or Document options because the operation to change the File Options was not easily located in the menu or the toolbar. The button “Document Options” now appears below the list.

Tabbed interface, more fixes: Some more keyboard and menu problems were found and fixed in the new tabbed document interface.

Paste plain text, fix: The “Paste Plain Text” operation to paste a jump link incorrectly brought up Insert Link screen in the editor. Paste plain text should actually be a way to avoid this screen for the links. Fixed.

Search/Find Text, fix: Sometimes the search started in the quick editor didn’t stop at the end of the current topic. Fixed.

Opening WhizFolder documents from the shell, fix: When documents were opened from command line or shell, they didn’t get properly added to the recent documents or to the main document list. Fixed.

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Yet another tabbed mode fix: This version fixes a problem with the Return and Delete key in the Quick Editor when working in “tabbed” document mode.

For a complete history of improvements and fixes through 6.3 beta, please see History of versions

Sale is now over and this article is closed.

The new WhizFolders beta release, available to paid users, has been updated to version 6.3.3. This version fixes many problems in the new “tabbed” documents feature. Still, there may be more problems, for example, some keyboard shortcuts do not work in tabbed mode. We are working on these. In general, if you see any unusual behavior when using tabbed mode, please switch it off.

Those of you, already using the beta version, can click on the menu “Updates–Check for Updates” to get the details and the download link. If you are a paid user and haven’t tried the 6.3 beta yet, you can get it from the automated paid user support area at support.whizfolders.com. The new features are described at: http://whizfolders.com/whizfolders63.aspx

Apart from the “tabbed” document problems, no other problems have been reported in the new beta version. Hence, we will soon be moving to a pre-release version.

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Known problems in tabbed documents: Although, we have fixed many problems in the new “tabbed” documents feature, we are discovering new ones. For example, some keyboard shortcut keys do not work when in tabbed mode, especially in the editor. So we recommend that if you see any unusual behavior when using tabbed mode, please switch it off.

Improvement, Expand, Collapse selected: New menu items are available on the Edit menu and right-click menu of the topic list. These allow you to expand and collapse only the selected topics.

Improvement, Auto-expand: When you clicked on a topic list topic, it was expanded automatically and the previous item was collapsed. This feature could also be put off on the General Options–Misc page. But this feature made it difficult to do a multi-select with those auto exapands/collapses occurring. Now it doesn’t do an auto-expand on multi-selects.

Improvement, Make link warning switch off: When you right-click to make a link out of selected text, you get a warning about loss of formatting in the link text. Now this warning can be switched off for the session.

Fix, Make linked topic: The right-click operation on the quick edit to make a linked new topic automatically didn’t work for the choice “add the topic as first child.” This is fixed. Moreover, the program now remembers your choice for the next repeat of this operation.

Please do not use “Tabbed” documents mode till further notice:

Some operations like Search menu do not work well in “Tabbed” documents mode. This mode is enabled when you click on the “Tabbed” switch on the main window to switch it ON. I’d recommend not using the tabbed mode till the next update.