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Word Doctor says: "Sourceforge, your fired"

I've been hearing far too many negative things about software repositories lately to risk leaving a project so dear to me in the hands of a site that has been said to "wrap" hosted files with adware and other nasty things.

I'd like to thank all those who have supported me through the creation of Word Doctor.

To keep up to date on Word Doctor's development (it's still full steam ahead!) by visiting www.the-word-doctor.com
Download the latest version, and be sure to drop me a line at: ben@the-word-doctor.com. I love feedback, especially the good kind!... read more

Posted by Ben Bowes 2016-06-12

Word Doctors' New Home

Word Doctor has a new perch at www.the-word-doctor.com

Until otherwise the most uptodate version of Word Doctor will continue to be available here on Sourceforge.

Tune in to www.the-word-doctor.com for any news, updates and changes from this point on however.

Posted by Ben Bowes 2016-04-18

Current Development

Build Version 4 Just Released.

New Features:
Text to Speech, Speech to Text
Evaluate Writing strength
Now compatible with: txt, rtf, pdf, epub, docx

Fixed several critical bugs

For more info: http://www.the-word-doctor.com

Posted by Ben Bowes 2016-04-09

Performance Bugs

Current Build: Build 2

Let me know of any issues or performance bugs you come across, and it will be most appreciated. I'll revise this post as progress continues.

The more bugs I look for, the more I find. So maybe after I fix these issues, I'll stop looking for a while!
Give me a couple of days, and I'll have the issues corrected.

Wow. Ok here was my day so far:

Document analyzer result window not displaying up front. Fixed.
Find-All @Post value -kept giving "syntax not recognized" Fixed.
Find-All progress bar (for long searches). Fixed
Word Wrapping, now toggles elements of status bar. Fixed
Fold Search wasnt returning proper results because of case sensitive strings. Fixed.... read more

Posted by Ben Bowes 2016-03-29

Word Doctor in Development

And with the personal need for a powerful yet easy to use, uncluttered and robust text processor, Word Doctor is currently in active development.

Features To Be Included:
1) Familiar look, style and functionality of the traditional 'Notepad' application
2) The word processor staples: "Undo, Redo, Find, Cut, Copy & Paste"
3) Never before seen functions such as:
- Spell Check (in realtime)
- Dictionary Meaning (in realtime?)
- Thesaurus Lookups (in realtime?)
- Word AND Syllable Counter
- Text Analyzer

Have alot more in store for Word Doctor, but not until this list is checked off first.... read more

Posted by Ben Bowes 2015-11-20