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     KeyText v1.24, for Windows 95, 98, NT4 or later
         (c) MJMSoft Design Limited, 1998-1999

Program Description
===================
KeyText - the keyboard macro program with a difference!

KeyText's basic function is the storing of pieces of text,
ready to be typed or pasted into whatever application you are
working on. Autotext in your system tray! You can set up
hotkeys to all your favorite text items - one keypress and the
text is in. Your Word Processor probably has a function like
this already, but what about your database program, your
desktop publisher, your e-mail program? The beauty of KeyText
is that it's always there waiting in your tray, and works for
most applications.

Added to this keyboard macro ability are a number of features
which transform it into a multi-purpose utility.

Include in "text" commands to fill in the date (including
dates plus or minus n days / working days / months etc. from
the current date), run programs, click buttons, change
windows, select menu items, play a sound, display a message,
start an e-mail message, and more. Easy wizard-based dialogs
help you set it up. You can even specify an Internet address,
and KeyText will take you there (assuming you have modem,
etc.); hotkey it and you can launch your browser and go to the
site on one keypress.

Schedule items to start at specified times. Because the text
can include commands (fields), you can run programs at
specified times, display reminders or alarms with your choice
of sound, even have an hourly chime.

Windows automation. Tell KeyText to look out for a certain
window or dialog, and then run an item. Completely automate
password entries, repetitive dialogs, etc. KeyText itself
includes 5 password levels to protect any passwords, credit
card numbers, etc. you might store. Unlike many other
automation programs, KeyText's "window watcher" facility has
features which help it to distinguish between different
password request dialogs which have the same window title.

KeyText can operate as a multiple clipboard, and makes
collecting text easy. You can set up KeyText to monitor your
clipboard, and whenever text is copied to it, automatically
add the same text to a specified text item. This makes it easy
to gather text from various sources to put into one
destination. You don't even need to open a text file to get at
its text; select it in Windows Explorer and a couple of mouse
clicks puts a copy of it in KeyText ready for reuse.

KeyText can either paste or type your text. Pasting is faster,
but "typing", character by character, has advantages. It can
include commands, it doesn't require the clipboard, and you
can choose the speed. For the benefit of online-chat users it
includes "simulate manual typing" settings; add some pauses,
mistakes and backspaces and the person at the other end will
never know it's being typed automatically!

KeyText has a random link function. Set up your e-mail
signature in KeyText, along with a random link to a range of
quotations held in other items. Hotkey the signature if you
like. Then, every time you press the hotkey, your e-mail
signature will be typed in, followed by a quotation drawn at
random.

KeyText can display a miniature "keyboard" on your screen,
which lets you "type" with your mouse or pointing device.
This was added for the benefit of those who don't always have
a keyboard attached, and asked for the facility to key text
with KeyText. The Keypad also has a symbols tab; all those
tricky symbols like ╝, ⌐, etc. are only a click away - as are
all the accented characters.

It's very unobtrusive... It hides itself away in the tray,
near your system clock. A left-click on the icon reveals a
menu showing all your text items ready to be typed. A
right-click shows all the options available.

Installation
============
IMPORTANT NOTICE: This KeyText program and all associated
documentation are the copyright of MJMSoft Design Ltd. The
use of the KeyText program is governed by the License
accompanying this program.

KeyText requires Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT4 or
later, and needs 500kb of space on your hard drive.

Extract the files from the KeyText zip file to a (temporary)
folder, and run SetupKT.exe. Or, if you have the self-
extracting .exe version, simply run ktext###.exe (where ###
is the version number. During the install process you can
choose to have KeyText added to your list of programs which
start every time Windows starts; note that you can change
this later in KeyText.

To uninstall, select KeyText from Add-Remove Programs in
Windows control panel.

Note that the KeyText setup program SetupKT.exe and self-
extracting .exe ktext###.exe are digitally "signed" by
MJMSoft Design Ltd., using public key cryptography. This can
be confirmed with the SafenSigned Verifier - available from
http://www.securisys.com/ - and ensures that the file is
authentic and has not been modified or tampered with in the
distribution channel. Our signature ID is:
568M-XZU7-2PS42--JTXR-64J8-F5A02.

Upgrading
=========
If you already have a previous version of KeyText installed,
you can safely install this version to the same folder as
before, making sure you exit KeyText first if it is running.
Your texts, settings, and registration information (if
applicable) will all be preserved.

Distribution
============
KeyText is distributed as a "shareware program", which
indicates that it is provided at no charge to you for
evaluation purposes only, and that you may distribute it
freely, on the terms and conditions stated in the
accompanying file "license.txt".

Registration
============
When first run KeyText displays: "Evaluation Version" and has
5 text items available for you to use; you can store more text
items by making new KeyText data files (.ktt) and using the
right-click menu to switch from one to another. After 30 days
of use it automatically becomes the "Unregistered Version" and
has the same 5 text items available, but other features are
reduced. If you wish to continue using KeyText after 30 days,
you should register.

The Registered Version gives 21 new text items, making 26 in
total; and you can have several "KeyTexts" running at the same
time, giving the possibility of over 200 text items just a
click away.

You can purchase online using a credit card - and get your
registration code to unlock KeyText e-mailed to you instantly.
Go to http://www.mjmsoft.com/ktreg.htm for details.

A single user license is 25 US dollars or 15 GB pounds
(these prices guaranteed to end of December 1999). Site
licences and multi-user discounts are available. Once you have
installed KeyText, see the file "order.txt" or the KeyText
help file for details of how to register (online, by
'phone/fax or by mail).

For an additional 8 US dollars or 5 GB pounds, we will send
a disk and manual (printed help file); price includes postage
and packing.

License - Terms and Conditions
==============================
See the files "license.txt" and "Vendinfo.diz" for details.

Technical Support and Contact Information
=========================================
For sales information, send e-mail to [e-mail], or
for technical support, e-mail [e-mail].

Technical support is available to unregistered users for a
period of 30 days and to registered users for a period of 90
days, both periods starting on the date on which the first
request is made to the Company for support. Note that the
support we offer relates to the operation of KeyText itself,
but we cannot guarantee to give advice on "scripts" to perform
specific tasks in other applications; however, we will
endeavor to give registered users as much help as we can in
this regard.

You can also contact us by mail at:
MJMSoft Design Ltd.
3 Johnsburn Road
Balerno
Edinburgh
EH14 7DN
United Kingdom

Telephone (UK number): [phone]
Fax (UK number):       [phone]

Recent Version History
======================
See help file for full version history.

1.24 *Fixed problem caused by new behavior in Windows 98 and
      2000, which meant that sometimes KeyText's "Activate"
      field would cause the desired window's taskbar button
      to flash, rather than the window come to the front.
     *Changed the way KeyText reacts to the end of a Windows
      session, to allow it to be used as a Windows NT service
      (using the Windows NT Resource Kit application
      SRVANY.EXE).
1.23 *Added option in the Settings / Customize dialog to
      have a left double-click on the KeyText icon open the
      Keypad.
     *Added the Windows logo key and the Application key to
      the Keypad.
     *Added ability to suspend scheduled items directly from
      the right-click menu; previously this could only be
      done from the Scheduler dialog. Note that the extra
      menu item only appears if scheduled items are set. If
      you exit from KeyText when in suspended mode, when
      re-started it will now continue in suspended mode.
     *If an item has an "On window" schedule, and that
      schedule is removed, if you now add a schedule to the
      same item the window title and other settings given
      previously will be displayed. This is useful if you
      want to remove a schedule temporarily - it can be
      restored without retyping all the information.
     *The "Welcome box", can now be turned off, until 3 days
      before the end of the evaluation period. Thereafter it
      will appear daily or at startup (but can be turned off
      again on registering).
1.22 *Fixed bug whereby the "Show graphics" menu setting in
      Settings / Customize was not remembered when restarting
      KeyText.
     *Extended browser support so that running (launching) a
      URL would work if the default browser is "Opera", or
      another non-Microsoft/Netscape browser, not previously
      recognized.
1.21 *Fixed problems in 1.2: occasional run-on of a text item
      if it finished with a carriage return, and occasional
      failure to unset a hotkey.
1.2  *Extended hotkey support to include use of the Windows
      logo key found on some keyboards.
     *Added "LinkSelect" feature to "Link / random link to
      another text item" section of the Insert field wizard
      allowing you to choose which item to link to next.
     *Added feature to "Date or time" section of the Insert
      field wizard to allow dates other than the current date
      to be included. Possibilities include n days or months
      before or after the current date, or specifying the
      first or last day of a month. In calculating days, the
      option is given to count Mondays to Fridays only,
      ignoring weekends.
     *Added a new option to the "Insert custom date or time"
      section of the Insert field wizard to automatically give
      ordinals in dates if required: for example, 1st, 2nd,
      3rd, etc.
     *Added option to Global settings to change the field
      delimiters. These are normally braces {...}, but if
      these are characters you use frequently, you can change
      the delimiters to [...] or <...>.
     *Added new "Speed" field to allow the default typing
      speed to be changed for all or part of a text item. It
      can be set using the "Insert A pause, or vary typing
      speed" field wizard.
     *Added feature to "A combination of keys" section of the
      Insert field wizard to allow repeated typing of the same
      key or combination of keys; for example, {Tab 10} will
      press the [Tab] key 10 times.
     *Extended use of included text files to allow any valid
      KeyText fields in the text file to be processed as if
      they were part of a KeyText item.
     *Added new help file section Field syntax reference
      giving the syntax for all the fields which can be
      generated using the Insert field wizard.
1.17 *Added option to Customize dialog to always display the
      left-click menu in one column; default splits it into
      two columns when sufficient items are displayed.
     *Added option to Global dialog to ignore a [Return]
      character after certain fields. This was asked for by
      many users who wanted a better layout for a series of
      fields - which previously had to follow each other with
      no [Return].
     *Added a new wizard option to have a KeyText item start
      a new e-mail message to a given recipient. (For this to
      work, a default e-mail program must be registered on
      the user's computer.)
     *Added an "Exit" field, which may be useful if you want
      to run KeyText in order to perform one function -
      possibly started with the Auto-start option - and then
      exit automatically.
     *Allowed certain hotkeys to be set in the Edit text
      items window, which could not be set before, including
      Ctrl/Shift f1 and Alt C - which previously opened the
      help file or pressed Cancel.

ASP Ombudsman statement
=======================
MJMSoft Design is a member of the Association of Shareware
Professionals (ASP). ASP wants to make sure that the shareware
principle works for you. If you are unable to resolve a
shareware-related problem with an ASP member by contacting the
member directly, ASP may be able to help. The ASP Ombudsman
can help you resolve a dispute or problem with an ASP member,
but does not provide technical support for members' products.
Please write to the ASP Ombudsman at 157-F Love Ave.,
Greenwood, IN 46142 USA, FAX [phone], or send email to
[e-mail].