Text Counting Utility for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, WordPerfect, HTML and PDF. Version History.

- Support of OpenOffice file formats (ODT, ODS, ODP)
- PractiCount Toolbar for MS Office added to the PractiCount and Invoice bundle at no additional cost
- Variety of major and minor internal changes and improvements

Version 3.2

Support of Windows 64-bit in one installation
Minor internal improvements and bug fixes
Japanese language added

Version 3.1

Support of MS Visio files
OLE interface added (in Enterprise Edition)
Ability to count physical file size
Chinese Simplified added
Minor internal improvements and bug fixes

Version 3.0

Multi-language interface support
Support of double-byte languages such as Japanese, Chinese, Korean
Support of new file formats - .MIF (Adobe FrameMaker) and help (CNT, HHC,
HPJ, HHK, HHP) files
Direct count of PDF files - no Adobe software required
Report export into 8 different formats (DOC, XLS, HTML, RTF, PDF etc.)
Export of invoice to PDF
PDF to TXT file conversion
Detailed report view - shows the amount of text in each document section
Additional tools: word frequency count module, integrated Match Calculator (CAT pricing calculator), offline currency converter
Calculating CRC checksums for counted files
Ability to count revisions in Word documents (inserted or deleted text in the revised document (track changes))
Ability to add custom file formats
A lot of other small changes, improvements and bug fixes

Version 2.8

Ability to make invoices in different languages
Ability to save RTF copies of text extracted from HTML, XML, SGML, ASP, PHP files
Address bar for quick file browsing (Business version)
Website download interface (Business version)
Folder shortcut support
A lot of other small changes, improvements and bug fixes

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 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, 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 log (previous count results) by date, by client and combined.
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
Automatic update module
+ about 50 minor corrections and improvements

Version 2.05

Option to count gross pages according to the rules of the corresponding application
Option to exclude blank lines from the gross line count
Option to round up the line and page counts
Option to keep the count log
More report customization options
Drag-and-drop function for adding files from Windows Explorer into PractiCount
Textbox count within headers/footers
Data delimiter bug corrected

Version 2.0

Match Calculator for invoicing jobs based on discounts for repetitions and fuzzy matches
Text count in PDF files
Text count in CSV files
Import/Export of the client database
More client database editing options
More HTML count options
More report customization options
More pricing options
More invoicing options
Ability to round line and page counts

Version 1.1

Ability to store settings per client
Ability to set specific price for each supported file type
"hidden text" bug corrected
.PPS file type added
Text count in annotations (comments)
Editable tax field
Discount option
Enhanced export function
Editable currency list

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