README.TXT for NoteTab® 7 (Trial Version)
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Welcome to NoteTab! A leading-edge, award-winning text and HTML editor.

If you are reading this file from your new NoteTab program, open the special file Readme.otl to quickly discover some of its most original features. If you are not familiar with technical terms, you will find help by viewing the Glossary.otl file that can be accessed from the Help menu. See the WhatsNew.txt file for information on the most recent changes made to the program. Tip: put the cursor on any of these file names and hit the F7 function key to open it immediately.


Contents
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 1. Introduction
 2. Installation
 3. Trial Limitations
 4. Ordering Information
 5. Upgrade Policy
 6. Window 95 and NT4 Compatibility Pack
 7. Anti-Virus Warnings
 8. Technical Support


1. Introduction
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NoteTab is a leading-edge text editor and HTML coding tool, and an ideal Notepad replacement. Winner of top Shareware industry awards since 1998, this elegant application does it all: you can handle multiple large files with a simple tabbed interface, use a spell-checker and thesaurus, format text, use multiple undo, and bookmark documents. You can build templates, use powerful system-wide searches, and do global multi-line replacements.

Its Clipbook feature lets you create and organize clips, which can range from text macros 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 love the HTML-CSS 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, and tools for adding links and color codes.

There's a lot more to NoteTab – and it's a great value at US$39.95.


2. Installation
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Do not install this trial version over a registered copy of NoteTab; once the trial version times out you will not be able to run the program again until you reinstall your registered copy. NoteTab does not use registration keys to unlock trial versions.

If you have an earlier trial or beta version of NoteTab on your computer, uninstall it before installing this trial copy.

To install NoteTab Trial, just extract the Setup.exe file from the .zip package and execute it.

How to Uninstall
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You can uninstall NoteTab by using the Control Panel's Add/Remove Programs dialog box or the Uninstall NoteTab icon in the Start menu. Note that this will delete your program settings if they are stored under the NoteTab program folder.

IMPORTANT: If NoteTab was installed with Administrative privileges, you should then also uninstall NoteTab under these conditions. Otherwise, NoteTab might not be completely removed from your system.


3. Trial Limitations
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This NoteTab trial version will run for 30 days starting from the moment you first execute the program. Make sure that your system clock is set to the correct date before you run NoteTab. Altering the system clock during the evaluation period may reduce the days you can use NoteTab or even end the trial.

* One month trial period.
* No spell-checker and thesaurus feature.
* Startup time less fast than full version.


4. Ordering Information
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You can easily order the commercial versions of NoteTab from the following link:
http://www.notetab.com/store.php

Site licenses are available and purchase orders are accepted from approved companies and organizations (see Web page or Help file for more details).


5. Upgrade Policy
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Minor updates and maintenance releases are free for users of the corresponding major version. In other words, if you purchased NoteTab v7.0, all updates up to v7.9 inclusive are available for free. Major upgrades (version 8.*, 9.*, etc.) are available to registered users of previous versions at a 50% discount.


6. Window 95 and NT4 Compatibility Pack
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Window 95 and NT4 don't support HTML Help, which is the Help file format distributed with NoteTab. Furthermore, if you are using NoteTab under Win95/NT4 and use Clips with the ^!Keyboard and ^!PlayBack commands, then you may need to install a special DLL file. To remedy these compatibility issues, please download the "NoteTab Window 95 and NT4 Compatibility Pack" from the following link:
http://www.notetab.com/ftp/Win95-NT4.zip
Once you've downloaded it, simply unzip the file's contents into your NoteTab program folder.


7. Anti-Virus Warnings
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Unfortunately, certain anti-virus products  – especially those using proactive protection – frequently generate false positives when scanning programs. In other words, they think a file contains a virus or other malware when there is none. You may experience this issue with our products too.

All our products are uploaded to the Internet virus-free. NoteTab was scanned by more than 40 different anti-virus products and all showed it to be clean. If you have downloaded the software from our website, our online store, or a reputable software repository, then you can be confident it did not come with a virus. However, a virus on your computer may have infected our software after installation. If you are sure your computer has no virus, then any warning you are getting on our software is probably a false positive.

If you encounter a false positive, make sure you inform the company of your anti-virus product so they can fix the issue in their next maintenance release. Until the issue is fixed, you may be able to white-list the software that is affected by the false positive, or turn off proactive protection in your anti-virus product.


8. Technical Support
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Answers to most of the questions we receive already exist in our documentation. Before contacting us, we suggest you first look through our Help files and online FAQs; this will help you get a solution in the shortest time possible. Please also verify that you are using the latest software update before reporting a problem.

Technical support is provided by email, on business days from Monday to Friday. We usually reply within 24 hours, but on occasions it may take up to 3 business days. Please take into account that your "urgent" message may reach us in the middle of the night – we are based in Switzerland (UTC+1). To email us, please use our mail form:

http://www.notetab.com/support.php

Please note that Fookes Software representatives cannot provide in-depth end-user training for free. We are able to assist you if you are having a problem that is not covered in the documentation, but we cannot teach you how to use the software, how to make or modify templates, how to create regular expression searches, or how to develop NoteTab Clip scripts.

We reserve the right to terminate support to users who in our judgment are unreasonable or abusive, or who have problems which transcend the scope of this software.

If you have questions about using or learning NoteTab, and cannot find an answer in the Help file or FAQ, then please refer to one (or more) of our discussion groups, even if it is just for one question:

http://www.notetab.com/groups.php


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