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INSTALATION
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INSTALATION: If you are running XP, make sure that Microsoft .NET framework 2.0 (or higher) is installed on your computer. If not, download it using the link below and install it. If you are running Vista or Win7 beta, the framework is already there.

Unzip all files and folders from wmXXXX.zip and put them in any folder. Run WriteMonkey.exe file and that's it.

.NET Framework
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/


WHAT'S NEW
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version 0.9.0.2 [beta], January 26th 2009
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- fixed: User settings were not kept when upgrading from previous version.


version 0.9.0.1 [beta], January 25th 2009
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- fixed: Compatibility issues with irrKlang sound library on 64bit systems. 

This release does not include any new features. No need to update if running on 32bit system.


version 0.9.0.0 [beta], January 13th 2009
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- added: Finally ability to set paragraph indentation (normal or hanging). See Preferences / Layout.

- added: Jump masks. You can use predefined or create custom regular expression mask. Predefined masks include: headlines, comments, numbering, quotes, tags and links. You can provide your own masks that match your text formatting style, but some knowledge of how regular expressions work is required. New jump masks will be available on wm web site as users provide them. See Preferences / Jumps and Jumps dialog to play around. 

- added: Ability to set typing sounds volume. The volume is independent of the main win volume control, so you can adjust key sounds loudness to the music you are listening in the background ...

- changed: Version 0.9 brings you new default color scheme "Shades of green". Easy on your eyes.

-fixed: nasty typing sounds lag on some systems.

- fixed: Overhead red progress bar line was invisible in some cases.


version 0.8.9.0 [beta], December 13th 2008
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- added: Numeric progress bar. You can now choose the type of progress bar - visual or numeric. Numeric progress count has been one of the most requested features in WM. And here it is ...
(tip: Select portion of your text to see count for selected text only. This option is available only with numeric type.)

- changed: Due to compatibility issues progress bar can not be positioned to the left side of the screen any more. Only to the top or bottom.

- added: Support for *bold* and _italic_ markings. This is as far as WM will go with basic formatting options. Many users requested them, but WM is and will stay a *text* editor for writers. No real rich text, sorry. You can use bold and italic marks as you write (standard CTRL+B, CTRL+I commands) and then apply AutoFormat / AutoCorrect command in Microsoft Word, OpenOffice or other programs with that feature to replace them with real formattings.

- fixed / changed: Esc closes the Preferences dialog, preferences dialog remembers last opened tab, find and replace dialog remembers searching parameters ... some other fixes and refinements.


version 0.8.8.0 [beta], November 13th 2008
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- added: Sprint writing mode. You can set timer and put the mark on the progress bar. That gives you the info on how much you have written and is there enough time left to achieve your goal. Hit F12 (Progress dialog) for settings.

- added: Progress bar position setting (left - default, top or bottom of the screen). 

- added: Page break string. Use *** (or set different string) to force page break. This only applies for printing.

- added: You can monitor your progress based on number of paragraphs written.

- fixed: Word count is now accurate.

-added: Optionally hide mouse pointer to the bottom right corner of the screen when writing. Due to flickering problems on some systems. This setting is on by default (Preferences / Misc).

- added: Help for date/time formatting.

- changed: Different default values for number of settings. If you are upgrading from previous version it won't have any effect.

- changed: Progress dialog is now toggable. Hit F12 to show and F12 again to hide.

- fixed/changed: Some other fixes and refinements.


version 0.8.7.0 [beta], October 5th 2008
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- added: Auto replacements - a tool that can be used in at least two different ways: you can use it as a special character replacement or as a shorthand to insert predefined strings of text such as signatures, addresses, date-time stamps etc. Go to Preferences / Replacements to add your own trigger/replacement pairs. 

- changed: Complete rewrite of Jumps tool. You can now browse by bookmarks and by all paragraphs using wild card (* and ? characters) enabled filtering. The Headlines option was removed due to lack of consistency. 
Tricks: 
Right click on item -> jump and close
CTRL + BACKSPACE -> close and return to start caret position
Hold CTRL -> jump on mouse hover

- added: Ability to set date-time format which can be used with replacements tool. For example use trigger "/dt" to insert current time stamp.

- added: Insert symbol dialog with collection of recently used items.

- added: Paragraph count in Stats dialog.

- added: Ability to set standard page parameters in Stats dialog.

- added: New delete/backspace sound for both bundled typing sound schemes.

- added: Insert bookmark menu item. Many users didn't know how to use bookmark string ;-)

- fixed: Current selection was lost when scrolling.

- changed, fixed: Some other minor changes and fixes.


version 0.8.6.0 [beta], August 17th 2008
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- added: Scroll position indicator - a little dot at the right edge of the screen is visible only when needed i.e. when scrolling, or navigating by pressing PgDn/PgUp or Up/Down arrow keys.

- added: When blind scrolling with right mouse click, hit Control key to jump page up or page down. Release to scroll one line again.

- added: Stats (F12) now include sentence count and average characters per sentence. The algorithm is not perfect - the sentence is any block of text, that is ended by . ! ? or ;. 

- added: You can set progress bar to be visible only when idle for certain number of seconds. Check Preferences / Misc / Progress bar.

- changed: PageUp and PageDown keys are scrolling text and not moving the caret. You can return to starting point by hitting ALT+C.

- added: Some additional monkey wisdoms.


version 0.8.5.5 [beta], August 8th 2008
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- added: Finally decent Find and Replace tool. You can search using wild characters or even regular expressions.

- added: The ability to set number of spaces to use instead of tabs. Check Preferences/misc.

- added/changed: CTRL + Mouse wheel: text area width and text zoom factor are changed proportionally; ALT + Mouse wheel: change text area width; SHIFT + Mouse wheel: change text zoom factor only. 

- changed: Screen zoom factor is maintained between sessions. When you come back, the screen will look exactly as you leave it.

- fixed: Inconsistencies with auto save when toggling recent files with CTRL+TAB.

- fixed/added: The caret *and scroll* position are maintained when switching between main and repository text.

- fixed: Blind mouse scrolling is now consistent with top and bottom margins in full screen mode.

- fixed: Some potential problems with typing sounds buffering. Especially on Vista machines.

- fixed: Some other minor fixes and changes.



version 0.8.5.0 [beta], July 20th 2008
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- added: Ability to set top and bottom margins of writing area in full screen mode. Handy when using WriteMonkey on large screens. You can, for example, increase bottom margin to avoid looking at the very bottom of the screen. Helpful for your eye and neck comfort.

- added/changed: Lock background or text color when using Try luck button in Preferences / Colors&Fonts. Hold Control key to change only text color, hold Alt to change only background color.

- fixed: If Windows shutdown (or log off) is forced, Writemonkey saves the current document before system closes it. In case of blank unsaved document (Scratch.txt), the file WriteMonkeyRecovery.txt is saved to the user desktop.

- changed / fixed: New splash screen and some other minor fixes and changes.


version 0.8.4.2 [beta], July 16th 2008
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- fixed: Potential problems with system fonts when running on Vista.


version 0.8.4.1 [beta], July 8th 2008
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- fixed: Some potential problems with typing sounds when upgrading from older versions.

- added: Quick peep function to briefly hide Writemonkey. Useful to see what's happening behind without unnecessary fuss. Press F3 to hide, release to bring back. Suggested by Mike.

- fixed: Some other minor fixes and changes (new about box).

version 0.8.4.0 [beta], July 4th 2008
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- changed: Typing sounds were completely redone and are now much more realistic. There are three different sounds - key sound, space sound and enter/new paragraph sound. You can use different sound schemes - some are available on Writemonkey web site, but you can create your own. Just add appropriate wave files in "sounds" directory. If you are happy with your scheme, please send the files to me, so I can make them available for other users to download. Thanks.

- added: Text area markers for better onscreen orientation. They are optional. Turn them on / off (or customize them) in Preferences / Layout tab.

version 0.8.3.5 [beta], June 15th 2008
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- added: Drag and drop file into text area opens that file.

- added: CTRL + TAB: toggle recent files (Windows ALT + TAB style).

- added: Setting for maximum number of recent files items (Preferences / Open&Save tab).

- changed: Shortcut for toggling bookmarks is now ALT + B (instead of CTRL + TAB).


version 0.8.3.1 [beta], May 27th 2008
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- fixed: Netspell library was fixed and rebuild and now supports languages like Slovenian, Croatian, Russian, Greek ... Some new dictionaries are available for download. Request more!


version 0.8.3.0 [beta], May 26th 2008
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- added: Advanced backup/history system. Writemonkey will automatically create multiple, time tagged backup files of your work. Each document you are working on has it's own folder in WriteMonkeyBackups directory (on your Desktop by default). You can set maximum number of backups for both - manual and automatic save. There is also "LastSave_filename.txt" file which always contains last saved version. The backup files are out of your way (no annoying .bak files in working directory!), but you can browse them easily if necessary. Cure for accidental deletes and save based disasters. The backups are off by default - use Preferences / Open&Save tab to enable them.

- changed: Properties dialog was rearranged.

version 0.8.2.0 [beta], May 7th 2008
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- added: Small and simple icons for both - main and context menu. Hope you like them.


version 0.8.1.0 [beta], April 30th 2008
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- changed: Printing was completely rewritten. You can now preview before printing and set page properties (i.e. paper size, orientation and margins). There is a new tab in Preferences dialog, where you can choose to print page numbers (top or bottom) and save preferred printing style. You can print with current screen settings or use print specific formatings - font, line spacing, paragraph spacing and text alignment. For example - you can always print with basic Courier type and double line spacing, but use more appropriate font and spacings when editing text on screen. Printing is "selection aware" i.e. you can print only currently selected text.

- added: 100+ new monkey wisdoms for your amusement.

version 0.8.0.0 [beta], April 11th 2008
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- added: Integrated spell checking for many languages (using powerful Netspell engine). The program file comes with English dictionary, other are available for download in separate zip file. You can spell check whole document or just current selection. Just hit F7. See also Preferences / General settings for some other options.

- added: Writemonkey is now compatible with great Firefox extension It's All Text (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4125). Use it when writing text for your blogs, for web based e-mail ... It works with any textarea on any web page. To use this extension set Writemonkey default character encoding to UTF-8 and check out Always save on exit (Preferences / General settings).

- added: Two shortcuts for changing the case of selected text: ALT+up - from lower to upper, ALT+down - vice versa.

- changed: The default character encoding is now set to UTF-8. For greater compatibility.

- changed: "Monkey says" will never pop up when opening existing file using Open with Writemonkey in Windows context menu.

- changed: Preferences dialog was rearranged. Other settings is now named General settings. There is also a new tab - Spelling.

- fixed: some other performance issues and bug fixes

version 0.7.9.7 [beta], March 26th 2008
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- added: Quick find in Jumps dialog.

- fixed: Some inconsistencies in Jumps dialog.

- changed: In Jups dialog: CTRL + Backspace = return back to starting point and close (instead of just Backspace)

version 0.7.9.5 [beta], March 1st 2008
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- added: Left click "blind scrolling" is improved: if you click at the very top or very bottom of the screen / window, the text is scrolled to the top / bottom. Same as "Home" and "End" buttons.

- added: Basic support for multiple monitors. You can use extended Windows desktop feature (in Windows display properties) and run Writemonkey in full screen on any monitor connected to your computer. This is also a fix - there were some problems when using monitors with different resolutions. Thanks to Jeff.

- fixed: The user settings are now preserved when upgrading to new version of Writemonkey.

- added: Ability to restore all settings to their default values. See: preferences / restore defaults.

version 0.7.9.1 [beta], February 18th 2008
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- fixed: The text in repository is now safe even when using Windows new lines (default in preferences / other settings). Thanks to Mike and his quick insight.

version 0.7.9.0 [beta], February 17th 2008
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- added: New Layout tab in preferences dialog. Ability to set text column width (moved from Other settings), line spacing, paragraph spacing and text alignment (left, right, centered or justified). Beware that these settings do not apply when using built in printing. Not yet anyway.

- changed: Scroll buttons were removed, because there is no need for them. You can still scroll by clicking next to the text area. Upper half will scroll up, bottom half will scroll down. You can disable this feature in preferences / other settings.

- added: Jump back to caret shortcut (ALT+C). Useful when scrolling through text and want to quickly return to the current writing position.

- added: Option to save files with Unix line breaks. \n instead of \r\n which is Windows standard. Unix line breaks are recognized by majority of Windows programs, but not by Notepad. Good for greater portability to other platforms.

- added: Now you can choose weather to use regular tabs (\t) or plain spaces instead of them.

- fixed: Text modification state is now preserved when changing preferences or colors. Ask to save dialog is shown only when needed.

- fixed: Open with Writemonkey check box state in preferences dialog is now correct even when upgrading to higher version of WM.

- changed / fixed: URL addresses are now clickable in repository and main text. This is due to reported framework bug - you can not change the DetectUrls at runtime. See: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/814310

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- BUG!!!: in some circumstances the repository text looses line breaks. It has something to do with Windows line breaks \r\n. It seams that this is a framework bug, but I'm not sure if that really is the case. There is a dirty workaround: the bug will disappear if you use Unix line breaks. I'll fix that in the future. PLEASE REPORT YOUR INSIGHTS.



version 0.7.8.1 [beta], February 10th 2008
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- fixed: backgrounds of all icons are now transparent as they should be.

- added: shortcut to minimize Writemonkey to system tray (F2). Handy when working in full screen mode.


version 0.7.8.0 [beta], February 1st 2008
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- added: Jumps - an innovative tool for navigating documents. You can jump using:

Bookmarks (the default bookmark string is ">>")

Headlines (paragraphs in capital letters not longer than 50 characters)

Paragraphs (paragraphs longer than 50 characters)

Click = jump to specific location in text
Right click = jump and close
Backspace = return back to starting point and close

There are some other controls and settings - Recent files list and Tools. Fell free to explore.

The jump window can be toggled by pressing ALT-J, or by middle clicking left or right of the text area. The window can be repositioned or resized - new settings will be saved.

Your feedback about this new feature would be appreciated!

- added: Vista icon (256x256 resizable png) and some other sizes for large screens (96x96, 72x72 bmps).

- fixed: some minor changes and fixes.


version 0.7.7.0 [beta], January 18th 2008
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- added: Simple but handy bookmark system. Insert bookmark string anywhere in your text (the default is ">>", but you can personalize this in Preferences dialog) and then toggle between bookmarks with CTRL+TAB shortcut. When the last bookmark is reached, the beep sound is played and the search continues at the top of the document. This feature will be expanded and refined in future versions. Please send feedback.

- added: Handy Help card with shortcut list. Just hit F1.

- added: New more pleasant and authentic default typewriter sound (under number 1). There are still four other to choose from.

- added: Additional shortcut for toggling repository / main text: ALT + R.

- added to the web page: Microsoft Consolas font - for best experience Monkey recommends this new free font. Visit Downloads to get it.

- fixed: Some spelling errors in Preferences dialog box. Thanks to Mats Bleikelia.

- fixed: Some other minor changes and fixes.


version 0.7.6.1 [beta], January 4th 2008
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- added: Some control over text encoding. You can set the default text encoding scheme in Preferences / Other settings. All new files (Scratch) will use it. You can choose between Unicode, Unicode big endian, ANSI and UTF-8 code tables. The preset Unicode should work Ok. for the majority of us, so if everything is Ok. and you don't know what to do with this setting - just don't bother.

Encoding of old (opened) files is preserved - the opened ANSI text will be saved as ANSI, UTF-8 as UTF-8 ...

- fixed: Because of new encoding features, text files are not always saved as ANSI text. This should prevent potential problems when saving files with international characters.

- fixed: Some other minor fixes.


version 0.7.5.0 [beta], December 18th 2007
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- added: New repository mode for each document. Now your text document can be divided into two parts. The main text part is where your writings reside. The second part is repository for storing notes, unfinished parts, data clippings or URL's which are automatically recognized as active links and are clickable. 

You can easily toggle between two modes and move parts of text back and forth. To avoid confusion the "Inverse colors in repository mode" can be set in Preferences / Other settings (already on by default).

If there is content in repository part, the text file is saved in format: 

"main text***END OF FILE DIVIDER***repository text".

You can see that if you open file in Notepad or some other text editor. This feature was initially proposed by Nikolaj Pečenko. 

- added: New icon set matching the current default color scheme (yellow on green). ICO file now includes multiple size icons (16x16, 32x32, 48x48).


version 0.7.1.0 [beta], November 16th 2007
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- added: New keyboard sound (number 5) emulating good old "click" computer keyboard. Requested by Miha.

- added: You can optionaly set default printing font. If this is enabled, the printout will allways use chosen font instead of onscreen one. If disabled the current onscreen font will be used. Go to Preferences / Other settings / Printing. Requested by Karina.


version 0.7.0.0 [beta], October 20th 2007
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- added: Killer feature for journalists! Now you can set the maximum number of characters or words and display the progress bar of your work. When limit is reached, the red overhead portion of the bar appears. This is appropriate when writing stuff which needs to be exactly of certain length, and you want to intuitively monitor your progress. The feature was proposed by Monitor magazine columnist Nikolaj Pečenko and welcomed by many of our journalist friends.

- added: "New from clipboard" command in File menu was added to quickly get your text into WriteMonkey. The new document is created with text from clipboard already in place. Of course copy and paste works well too.

-added: Shortcut for toggling progress bar on and off. Use ALT + P.

- added to the web page: WriteMonkey is still free, and always will be, but from now on you can donate through our Paypal account. It is not all about money - but if you send us some, we'll see that our efforts pay off and continue to develop this program.

- fixed: Shortcuts keys for changing screen zoom factor and text width are altered due to some conflicts with other commands. Instead of ALT + arrow keys use CTRL + ALT + arrow keys.

This release also implements some other minor features, bug fixes and cosmetic changes.


version 0.6.2.1 [beta], August 3rd 2007
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- fixed: Potential problems when adding "Open with WriteMonkey" command in Windows context menu i.e. adding right values to the registry.


version 0.6.2.0 [beta], July 31st 2007
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- added: Optional integration with Windows context menu. Right click on any file (even files with no extension) will show "Open with WriteMonkey" command. 


version 0.6.1.0 [beta], July 26th 2007
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- added: Three additional typewriter sounds to choose from.

- added: Shortcut for toggling typewriter sound on and off (ALT + S).

- added: Shortcut for generating random color scheme. The same as Try luck button in preferences dialog (ALT + L).

- added: 150 additional "Monkey says" wisdom quotes.

- added: List of all keyboard shortcuts in online help section.


version 0.6.0.2 [beta], June 16th 2007
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- added: Ability to set text width and text zoom factor using shortcuts (ALT + direction keys). 

- fixed: Some problems with typewriter sound when applying Preferences dialog more then once per session. 


version 0.6.0.1 [beta], May 15th 2007
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- added: "Try luck" button in Preferences / Colors&Fonts. This will generate random text color and background color with preserved contrast for readability.

- added: New icon (still temporary).


FEATURES
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NO DISTRACTIONS
Full-screen editing. Get free from your computer and its distractions. Writemonkey's full-screen mode hides it all away leaving just you and your text behind. Do more with less!

CUSTOMIZABLE LOOK AND FEEL
Choose your own colors, fonts, and page layout. Scale up your text for easy reading, save your favorite color schemes ...

STANDARD AND CLEAN TEXT FORMAT
For maximum portability your work is stored in standard text files. Writemonkey will recognize virtually all international characters. Choose different encodings (UTF-8, Unicode, ANSII ...)

SMALL, FAST AND STABLE
No installation necessary. Just copy files and directories on any folder on your machine. Writemonkey is very fast and responsive. The main executable is less than 500 KB in size.

ACCESSIBILITY
Open files from Windows context menu, easily switch between full screen and normal mode, toggle recent files with CTRL+TAB, quick peep behind when in full screen mode (unique feature) ...

ADVANCED STATISTICS
Check number of written words, characters with or without spaces, pages ... Check your progress.

PROGRESS BAR (unique feature)
Intuitive and pleasantly austere progress bar for those who write stuff which needs to be of certain length. Journalists, writers ...

BOOKMARKS
Simple but handy bookmark system. Insert bookmark string anywhere in your text and use CTRL+B to toggle them.

JUMPS (unique feature)
Use an innovative tool for navigating documents. Browse by bookmarks and by all paragraphs using wild card (* and ? characters) enabled filtering. 

REPOSITORY (unique feature)
Document based repository mode. Store your notes, unfinished parts, data clippings or URL's into the same text file. Simply toggle between main text and repository by pressing ALT + R.

REPLACEMENTS
Use trigger text as a special character replacement or as a shorthand to insert predefined strings of text such as signatures, addresses, date-time stamps etc.

TYPING SOUNDS
Travel back to the future with realistic typewriter sounds, use other sound schemes or create your own.

BACKUPS AND HISTORY
Never lose your work with advanced backup/history system. The backup files are out of your way (no annoying .bak files in working directory!), but you can browse them easily if necessary. Cure for accidental deletes and save based disasters.

AUTO SAVE
Set number of seconds between auto saves. 

CUSTOMIZABLE PRINTING
You can print with current screen settings or use print specific formatting - font, line spacing, paragraph spacing and text alignment. Printing is "selection aware" i.e. you can print only currently selected text. Print preview is also available.

SPELL CHECKER
Spell check whole document or selection with powerful spelling engine and OpenOffice based dictionaries. All major languages are available for download. You can even request additional dictionaries.

MULTI MONITOR SUPPORT
You can use extended Windows desktop feature (in Windows display properties) and run Writemonkey in full screen on any monitor connected to your computer.

INTEGRATION WITH FIREFOX
Writemonkey is compatible with great Firefox extension It's All Text. Use it when writing text for your blogs, for web based e-mail ... It works with any textarea on any web page. To use this extension set Writemonkey default character encoding to UTF-8 and check out Always save on exit (Preferences / Open&Save tab).

MONKEY QUOTES
Be amused by random monkey wisdoms in splash screen. More than 1000 in database and growing ...

LAST BUT NOT LEAST
Writemonkey is completely free, but you can donate by following PAYPAL icon on the web site.
