SmartEdit Update History

November 2024, Withdrawn from sale

1. SmartEdit for Word and SmartEdit Pro are no longer available to purchase
2. Editing functionality still exists in the free app SmartEdit Writer

Version 8 (April 28th, 2021)

1. Changes to Dialogue Tag check to handle different tenses
2. Improvements to functionality around dialogue to handle UK as well as US quotes
3. Various bug fixes

Version 7.2 (July 20th, 2019)

1. No new functionality in this release.
2. Microsoft .Net framework has been rolled back to an earlier version that is installed on more PCs.

Version 7.1 (February 24th, 2019)

1. New section on the SmartEdit toolbar where you can select what to run any checks against — Dialogue and Prose, Prose Only or Dialogue Only.
2. Drop down menu removed from the Run all Checks button, superseded by the new toolbar section and buttons.

Version 7 (January 19th, 2019)

1. Support for Word 2019.
2. Updating of the Microsoft .Net framework used by SmartEdit.
3. Change to the operating system requirements. SmartEdit now requires Windows 10, Windows 8.1 or Windows 7. It will no longer run on Windows 8 PCs that have not been updated to Windows 8.1.

Version 6.7 (October 19th, 2018)

1. Bug fix for SmartEdit Pro users. Small number of Word 2016 users were experiencing startup issues.

Version 6.61 (August 18th, 2018)

1. No extra functionality in this release. Addresses intermittent issues with Windows 10 installs where the SmartEdit tab disappeared.

Version 6.6 (July 2nd, 2018)

1. Improvements to sentences displayed next to results. In some cases more than a single sentence was being displayed (expected behaviour for dialogue, but not for prose).
2. Bug fix: Running dialog only checks on a document that used straight quotes was not returning results.

Version 6.5 (June 27th, 2018)

1. Improvements to SmartEdit display on high DPI monitors for recent versions of Word
   • Word 365 users using the latest versions of Word should install this update
   • Users with high DPI monitors should install this update

Version 6.4 (May 31st, 2018)

1. Paragraph number column added to word and phrase repetition results.
   • Optional setting, switched off by default. It can be switched on in the Settings dialog.
   • Indicates the proximity of repetitions to each other.
2. Bug fix: dialogue was not recognised on documents that used straight quotes.
3. Smaller bug fixes and cosmetic changes.

Version 6.3 (May 21st, 2018)

1. Launch of SmartEdit Pro, an expanded version of SmartEdit for Word for Professional Editors, containing:
   • Report generation to Word, PDF, RTF and Open Office
   • Condensed and expanded reports
   • Branded reports — Add your own logo and name
   • Projects that allow different Monitored Words and Exclusion Lists to be used for different documents
2. Right click menu in results lists to add result to exclusion list

Version 6.2 (May 5th, 2018)

1. Bug fixes

Version 6.1 (April 13th, 2018)

1. Redesigned user interface with single results section to the left of the open document
2. Complete sentence or paragraph shown for each result
3. Specific result’s word or phrase highlighted in bold in the sentence context
4. Improvements to the Dialogue Tag results list
5. Improvements to the Proper Nouns results list
6. Sentence Length Graph replaced by list of sentences, sorted by word count, allowing you to quickly see and apply changes to long sentences
7. New buttons and drop down menus to enable running individual checks or groups of checks
8. Refresh button to re-run a single check
9. Addition of semi-colons and colons to the punctuation checks
10. Direct links on the toolbar to the new online Knowledge Base and User Forum
11. Menu option to quickly run all checks on dialogue only
12. Automatically checks for updates every 5 days
13. Numerous bug fixes and minor enhancements