AceText 4 Help

AceText is a versatile text manager. A companion that eases and speeds up your everyday computer activities, whether that is writing, text editing, programming, searching and collecting information, sending and responding to email, messaging and chatting, or any or all of those.

What these activities have in common is that you are working with text. AceText simplifies working with text by enabling you to store, manage, edit and reuse text from a central location. For maximum convenience and ease of use, AceText enables you to accomplish these four basic tasks in many different ways. Which ways you follow depends on your habits, and the software you are working with. As you become more experienced with AceText, you will find that all these abilities make AceText a very transparent and helpful tool, indispensable when working with text.

If you are upgrading to AceText 4 from AceText 3 or prior, take a moment to learn what’s new in AceText 4. If you’re only evaluating whether you should upgrade, make sure to back up your AceText collection files. AceText 4 will read collection files saved by all older versions. But AceText 3 and prior cannot read collections that were modified by AceText 4.

Below are some of the more popular applications for AceText. I am sure you will come up with many more ways to use AceText that speed up the particular things you do with your computer.

• Getting Started with AceText
• Extending the Windows Clipboard
• Write Down and Store Notes and Ideas
• Quickly Respond to Email with Informative Replies
• Use Colorful Messages Instead of Cryptic Abbreviations when Chatting
• Speed Up Writing and Developing
• Edit Complex Documents Quickly and Easily
• Keep a Digital Scrapbook or Diary
• Gather, Research and Compile Information
• Create and Publish a Knowledge Base
• Keep Your Secrets Safe

Everything you can do with AceText can be categorized in four basic tasks:

• Enter and store text. Capture text from any application, or enter it directly into AceText.
• Manage stored text. Archive clippings, arrange text for quick lookup, and instantly find the snippet you need.
• Edit stored text. Edit text all you want with AceText’s comprehensive built-in text editor.
• Reuse stored text. Never again type in text twice, but extract it from AceText directly into your document or message.

AceText Reference

• Main Toolbar
• Collection Toolbar
• Tab Pages
• Main Menu
• Tray Icon
• Searching and Replacing
• Parameters
• Preferences
• AceText-Aware Applications