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       PractiCount and Invoice for Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP 
 	             Version 2.4
         © Practiline Software, 2002-2004
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January 21, 2004

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CONTENTS
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1. About PractiCount and Invoice
2. What's New
3. System Requirements
4. Installation
5. Deinstallation
6. Order Information
7. Contacting Us

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1. About PractiCount and Invoice 
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PractiCount and Invoice is the complete quoting and billing software 
for language professionals who invoice on the text count basis. 
PractiCount counts words, characters, lines, pages in Word, Excel, 
PowerPoint, WordPerfect, PDF, HTML and XML files. It can count single files, 
folders, subfolders. It also counts text usually missed by MS Word - 
textboxes, autoshapes, headers, footers, annotations, footnotes, endnotes. 
PractiCount can generate detailed reports which can be printed or exported 
to Word or Excel and make invoices using convenient customer database. 

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2. What's New
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Version 2.4 

- Count in embedded and linked objects: Microsoft Word Documents, 
Microsoft Word Pictures, Microsoft PowerPoint Presentations, 
Microsoft PowerPoint Slides, Microsoft Excel Worksheets that 
are inserted in MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents
- XML, SGML, ASP, PHP support
- Ability to add PractiCount options in the Windows Explorer context menu
- Automatic unzip function
- Formatting count option (charging extra for making text bold,
underlined, italic etc.)
- Hours added to the pricing options
- Ability to send invoice by e-mail
- Option 'Count 2 or more successive spaces/tabs as 1 character'
- Option 'Count hard returns (Enter) as characters'
- Ability to choose between the following options for counting 
headers and footers: once per section, first page only, on each page
- Ability to count text that is in clipboard or in a selection with a hotkey
- New report editing options add new rows, edit cells, write your own figures, 
hide a column with a double-click on the column header etc.
- Bug with the admin>user registration under Windows 2000 and XP corrected
- Ability to invoice by totals
- Ability to view the count history by date, by client etc.
- Ability to extract editing time from MS Word and PowerPoint documents
- Ability to exclude tabs from character count
- Ability to include/exclude in/from count TITLE tags in HTML files
- Ability to count text in JavaScript and VBScript in HTML files
- Ability to round the report/invoice total to a specified number of 
decimal places
- File creation date column is added to the report
- Minimizing into the system tray
- Autoupdate module
- + about 50 minor corrections and improvements


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3. System Requirements
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Required Software:
- Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP
- MS Office 97, 2000, XP (Word, Excel, Power Point)
- Adobe Acrobat 5.05-6.0 or Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.1 for text count in PDF

Required Hardware:
- 166 MHz Intel Pentium processor (higher recommended)
- 32 MB RAM (more recommended)
- 2 MB of hard-disk space for program installation

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4. Installation
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- Start the installation file and follow the automatic instructions
- By default the program installs into the following directory: 
C:\Program Files\PractiCount and Invoice\. You can replace the default installation directory 
with an alternative directory of your choice. 

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5. Deinstallation
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- Start>Programs>PractiCount and Invoice>Uninstall PractiCount and Invoice, or
- Control Panel>Add/Remove Programs>Remove PractiCount and Invoice.

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6. Order Information
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For other and pricing information please visit: 
http://www.practiline.com/order.htm.

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7. Contacting Us
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Website
http://www.practiline.com

E-mail
Technical support: support@practiline.com
Sales: sales@practiline.com
General information: info@practiline.com

