What's new in SmartEdit Writer 9.0
Apr 7, 2021
- New feature: Document Drafts:
- Create a Draft of your Document tree and all scenes in your Document
- New Drafts Toolbar
- Read-only Draft tree and read-only draft scenes
- Right click menu for scenes listing all Drafts of scene
- Export Draft as a single document
- Full details in the Knowledge Base here
- New feature: Scene Properties:
- Properties dialog for scenes listing scene meta information
- Description field added to scene
- Checkboxes to exclude scene from various actions
- More information here
- Various bug fixes
New in SmartEdit Writer 8.8 (Mar 15, 2021)
- Option to insert page breaks when exporting as a single document
- Warning when project is inside a Cloud folder
New in SmartEdit Writer 8.7 (Jan 28, 2021)
- Various bug fixes
- Removal of monthly charts and graphs feature
New in SmartEdit Writer 8.6 (Dec 18, 2020)
New in SmartEdit Writer 8.5 (Nov 12, 2020)
- New feature: Export all files in selected folder (Export as Single Document button drop down)
- New feature: Word count for all scenes in selected folder (Word count button drop down)
- Bug fix: Google Docs smallcaps export issue
- Bug fix: ‘Export as’ button not always working
- Bug fix: Search results highlighting issue
- BUg fix: Control and Alt key shortcuts issue
- Various unreported bugs
New in SmartEdit Writer 8.4 (Jul 30, 2020)
- Bug fix: Ctrl+N shortcut in Document tree disabled
- Bug fix: Research tree was not always explanding when the Research button was clicked
- Error message now appears when you try to open a project inside a zipped archive without first extracting the project from the zip file
New in SmartEdit Writer 8.3 (Jun 28, 2020)
- Bug fix: Ctrl+N in active Note deleted contents of that note
New in SmartEdit Writer 8.2 (Jun 15, 2020)
- Bug fix: Default fonts not working correctly
- Left and right sections have new tabs and close options at the bottom of the page
- Multi line word processor tabs option (Settings dialog)
- Default theme changed. Old theme to revert to if required is "Office 2013 White"
New in SmartEdit Writer 8.1 (Jun 7, 2020)
- Copied scenes excluded from Document word counts
- Bug fix: Height maximized window was not saving its start position
New in SmartEdit Writer 7.9 (Apr 9, 2020)
- Spanish spell checking dictionary added.
New in SmartEdit Writer 7.8 (Feb 26, 2020)
- Fix to problem with the Document tree whereby folders and scenes closed automatically after a deletion.
New in SmartEdit Writer 4.3 (Jun 1, 2018)
- SmartEdit: Paragraph number column added to word and phrase repetition results.
- Optional setting, switched off by default. It can be switched on in the SmartEdit Settings dialog.
- Indicates the proximity of repetitions to each other.
- SmartEdit bug fix: dialogue was not recognised in scenes that used straight quotes.
- Smaller bug fixes and cosmetic changes.
New in SmartEdit Writer 4.2 (May 11, 2018)
- Bug fixes to renaming scenes and notes
- Bug fix to error when deleting a note after renaming it
- Display fixes to buttons
New in SmartEdit Writer 4.1 (May 10, 2018)
- Bug fix to enable rename of scene after creating the scene
- Bug fix to error when deleting a note after renaming it
- Display fixes to buttons
New in SmartEdit Writer 4.0 (May 5, 2018)
- SmartEdit Add-In added — full functionality of SmartEdit for Word
- Automatic check for updates
- Core functionality now free, with optional SmartEdit Add-In
New in SmartEdit Writer 3.10 (Mar 14, 2018)
- A new dark theme has been added. Switch it on from the Settings dialog.
- Daily word counts are now recorded and displayed in a new section.
- New word count options added to the Actions & Tools menu.
- The bookmark icon has been changed.
- Various bug fixes.
New in SmartEdit Writer 2.30 (Feb 23, 2018)
- Drag and drop to move tabs around
- Current tab is highlighted with blue text
- Shortcut keys to navigate quickly between open tabs (Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab)
- New right click menu to close tabs in bulk
- Single click open for scenes and notes (option on Settings dialog)
- Word count dialog expanded to show character count as well
- New links on the Help toolbar to Knowledge Base articles
- Super and subscript buttons removed from the word processor toolbar
- Previously open Research tree scenes and notes remembered when opening a project
- Various bug fixes as reported by users
New in SmartEdit Writer 2.20 (Dec 4, 2017)
- Additions to the Settings dialog to allow configuraion of default paragraph settings for new scenes and notes
- Paragraph Settings button added to the Word Processor toolbar
- The caption text now displays the Project name, followed the name of the currently active scene or note and its parent — Example: “Huckleberry Finn — Chapter 3 | Rubbing the lamp”
- New icon in the Document tree to highlight the currently active scene or note
- Adding a new scene now creates the new tab next to the currently opened tab, not at the end
- New shortcut key to close the currently active scene (Ctrl+W)
- Shortcut keys button added to the Help toolbar
- A new Shortcuts page has been added to the website listing useful shortcut keys
- The find dialog is now refreshed when the active scene changes
- Indent first line option removed from the Settings dialog — superseded by paragraph default changes
- Simple View and Print Layout buttons now always enabled on the Actions & Tools menu
- Icon colour changes
New in SmartEdit Writer 2.11 (Nov 14, 2017)
- Fix to display issues with the Document tree
- Fix to “Export as Single Document” scene order
- Fix to non-Calibri default font not being remembered after closing
- Fix to spell checking issue with em dashes
- Fix to spell checking dialog not appearing
- Scene “Save as” button renamed to “Export as”
- Improvements to start up time for application
- Improvements to display on high resolution monitors
- Minor cosmetic changes — some icons on the word processor toolbar