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Version 2023.08.11.1527

New features

• None.

Bugs

• None.

Version 2023.04.06.2125

New features

• Company name changed to 'Rons Place Software Inc.'.

Bugs

• None.

Version 2022.07.22.1402

New features

• None.

Bugs

• Occasional license deletion bug fixed.
• Reported bugs fixed.

Version 2022.06.13.0738

New features

• None.

Bugs

• Reported bugs fixed.

Version 2022.05.23.1713

New features

• Pro Evaluation 30 license removed.

Bugs

• None.

Version 2022.03.15.1205

New features

• Signing certificate updated.

Bugs

• Unicode start edit bug fixed.
• Off-line license validation bug fixed.

Version 2021.09.07.0749

New features

• Updated to use .net Framework 4.8.
• Computer ID improved to ignore WiFi adapters.
• 'Fill Expression' removed.

Bugs

• Quick Find refresh (blanking) bug fixed.

Version 2021.03.03.1329

New features

• 'Remove Empty Columns' added.
• CSV 'Escape Character' support added.

Bugs

• None.

Version 2021.01.26.1742

New features

• None.

Bugs

• License validation issue fixed.

Version 2020.11.16.1001

New features

• Multi-line text color added.
• Paste Transparent added to Cell Fill Lookup.

Bugs

• License check auto-close fixed.
• Fix in cell newline handling.
• 'Show Detail' in 'Summary View' case handling fixed.

Version 2020.06.11.0943

New features

• None.

Bugs

• Crash at startup fix.
• 'Show Detail' in 'Summary View' not opening fixed.

Version 2020.05.29.0454

New features

• Replace regular expression handling improved for empty matches.
• Copy HTML in Page per Row view improved.

Bugs

• Empty 'Fill Value' now honored in 'Cell\Fill Lookup...'.
• Adjustment made to whole word match in 'Cell\Replace Lookup...'.
• Proxy port not being saved in Options fixed.
• Maximum cell size before parsing error now configurable - added to the options.
• Default paste format honored for all paste operations.
• Various bug fixes.

Version 2019.10.22.0827

New features

• None.

Bugs

• Proxy port bug fixed.

Version 2019.09.29.1211

New features

• Reverted due to functional issues: clarity improved for high DPI screens.
• 'Ctrl-Insert' shortcut assigned to ToolBox Update button.

Bugs

• None.

Version 2019.09.19.2013

New features

• Updated to use .net Framework 4.7.
• Clarity improved for high DPI screens.
• Portable version introduced.
• Header refresh handling improved.
• XML export removed.
• Proxy settings added.
• Shortcut 'Ctrl-R' re-assigned to Refresh and 'Ctrl-F10' assigned to Sort.

Bugs

• Row delete with Page per Row window bug fixed.
• Export HTML bug fixed.
• Excel detection bug fixed.
• Adjustment made to whole word match.

Version 2019.05.01.1504

New features

• Code signing certificate changed to 'Rons Place Software'.
• 'Cell\Fill Calculated..." expression function added for free form calculations.

Bugs

• None.

Version 2019.03.18.1432

New features

• Column sort window adjusted to work in a more intuitive way.

Bugs

• Column format validation crash fixed.
• Multi column sort issue fixed.
• Arbitrary length limit removed from Toolbox rules.

Version 2019.03.08.1742

New features

• Specific text encoding added to Import.
• Excel large text handling improved.
• Cell large text handling improved.

Bugs

• Excel formula text handling fixed.
• Page per Row large font view fixed.
• Filter window system font handling improved.
• Sort stabilized.

Version 2019.02.20.0932

New features

• 'Match Case' added to Row Delete Duplicates and Row Merge.

Bugs

• Bug fix in regular expression replace handling.
• Header overridden by Save As fixed.
• Various bug fixes.

Version 2019.02.02.1056

New features

• File locks on load reduced.
• 'Text Remove' toolbox updated to include missing option.
• Wild card and regular expression added to filter.
• Regular expression added to Column and Row split.
• Document Summary significantly improved.
• Separator formats overhauled and streamlined.

Bugs

• Various bug fixes.

Version 2018.03.29.1544

New features

• Filter added to Go to Column window.
• Fixed width column positions can be saved and loaded on import.
• Empty column names now allowed.
• Search(s) can now ignore accented characters.
• More character encodings added to Export.

Bugs

• None.

Version 2018.01.25.0833

New features

• Date matching improved to include month names in 'Date Replace' rule.
• Quick Find expanded to span rows.

Bugs

• License entering issue fixed.
• Column header sort undo issue resolved.
• Terminal Server logging issue fixed.
• Quick Find Tool Box functionality smoothed.
• Running instance detection changed to work on shared server.
• Various bug fixes.

Version 2017.12.04.1307

New features

• Fill replace added to replace from a lookup table.
• Row move added.
• Toolbox rule added for HTML and URL encoding and decoding.
• Columns with the same name are now allowed.
• 'Duplicate To' added to compliment 'Duplicate From'.
• Toggle cell selection added to toggle between selecting the cells in a row or column and the whole row or column.
• 'Match Case' option added to filter.
• Quick filter now ignores word order.
• Cell edit put the cursor at the end of the text, rather then selecting it all.
• Shortcut keys for 'Alt+Home' for going to the first cell of the current column and 'Alt+End' for going to the last cell of the current column added.
• Search 'Enter' behavior changed to move to next match.
• License check added in preparation for portable version.

Bugs

• Cell deletion when editing filter in Quick filter fixed.
• Various reported bugs fixed.

Version 2016.09.08.1526

New features

• Text padding tool added to the Toolbox.

Bugs

• Tabbing between fields in 'Page per Row' fixed.
• Various reported bugs fixed.

Version 2016.09.01.1655

New features

• Memory handling improved to handle larger files.
• Text encoding header support added ('ASCII','ANSI' and 'UTF-8').
• Text encoding handling improved.
• Command line support added (run the Editor with /? for options).
• Thousands added to number format.
• Parser more resilient to badly formatted CSV.

Bugs

• Computer ID failing on some machines fixed.
• 'Title Case' and 'Capitalize' apostrophe handling fixed.
• If an error occurs on save the Editor does not exit.
• Strange screen re-sizing issue when document opened whilst minimized fixed.
• Always surround bug fixed.
• File with no extension defaults to CSV.
• Undo row positioning improved.

Version 2015.09.27.1325

New features

• 'Fill Process..' changed to 'Fill Calculated...'.

Bugs

• Handling of long column names on file open improved.
• Cell Editor positioning problem solved.
• Various reported bugs fixed.

Version 2015.09.18.1501

New features

• 'Fill Process' added to the 'Cell' menu, to add more complex fill scenarios.
• Text encoding added to the 'Import' window.
• Weight column added to 'Summary' panel.

Bugs

• Various reported bugs fixed.

Version 2015.07.30.1830

New features

• 'Trailing New Line' default option added to the 'Options' window.

Bugs

• Settings not being loaded correctly in 32 bit versions of Windows problem fixed.
• Character encoding issue fixed in 'Change Case' Toolbox rule.

Version 2015.06.30.1925

New features

• File encoding auto detect now defaults to that set in the 'Options' window.

Bugs

• Internal problem with structure after paste fixed.
• Setting storage international issue fixed.

Version 2015.05.21.1851

New features

• Reset style button restored to 'Options' window.

Bugs

• Auto refresh bug for files stored on One Drive/SharePoint fixed.
• Paste cells bug fixed.
• 'Page per Row' editing crash fixed.
• Filter after editing cell bug fixed.
• Font size bug fixed.

Version 2015.05.03.1011 - Markus Build III

New features

• Summary panel improved to select the current column when opened, given a shortcut and tool bar button.
• Editing improved to eliminate the possibility of double cell edits simultaneously.
• Sorting improved to include removing column in the sequence.
• 'Cell Content Viewer' not closed when cell editing and updates automatically shown.
• 'Cell Content Viewer' improved to select the current column when opened.
• Keyboard shortcut added for cell 'Clear Contents' (Backspace).
• Filter window layout improved.

Bugs

• Wrap search now wraps when started from both button and keyboard.
• Column paste positioning bug fixed.
• 'Cell Content Viewer' new properly detects text encoding.
• Double shortcut removed (CTRL+G).
• 'Make Row Header' bug fixed.
• Refreshing locked file (open on another program) bug fixed.

Version 2015.04.07.0842 - Markus Build II

New features

• Summary panel improved to summarize over whole document/selected rows, summarizing with no change of column and allow change of column content data type.

Bugs

• Tabs sometimes did not redraw under certain conditions.
• Text length update bug when there is only one column bug fixed.

Version 2015.04.02.1845 - Markus Build I

New features

• New Toolbox tool added: 'Extract text from HTML'.
• Wrap search added to Toolbox.
• Search format added in Toolbox 'Find/Replace - Date/Time' tool.
• Extra details added to the tool bar.

Bugs

• Saving '.columns' file when not needed bug fixed.
• Lines as end of document not being written to file correctly bug fixed.
• Trailing line now detected at the end of documents generated from the Clipboard.

Version 2015.02.25.2127

New features

• Control over headers added to 'Document Properties' window and updated with 'Make Row Header' and 'Make Header Row'.
• 'Refresh' document reviewed.
• Move column to the top and bottoms added to 'Edit Columns' and 'Column Layout'.
• Number formatting in 'Find/Replace - Numbers' rule improved.
• Height calculation improved when editing cells.
• Menu entry for 'Find Next' added for clarity.

Bugs

• Multiple document opening from Explorer bug fixed.
• Internal index out of range bug fixed.

Version 2014.12.03.0808

New features

• Options window tidied up.
• New document text encoding defaults added to options.
• Column sizes now configurable in centimeters and inches.
• Editing options added to column header context menu.

Bugs

• Various bugs fixed.

Version 2014.11.23.1443

New features

• Always use field open/close option added to custom save formats, and custom copy formats.
• Various layout items improved.

Bugs

• Display of incorrect license in the title after purchase fixed.
• Clipboard access error (OS) handled.
• Toolbox text replace: regular expression crash fixed.
• Toolbox date replace: out of range crash fixed.

Version 2014.11.16.1257

New features

• Pro and Lite licensing model introduced.
• Icons and images updated.

Bugs

• Various bugs fixed.

Version 2014.05.26.2129

New features

• Read only columns introduced.
• Filter editors improved.
• End of file new lines now handled as a document property that can be set, or removed.

Bugs

• Bug in Make Row Header fixed.
• Bug in filter description fixed.

Version 2014.05.13.1911

New features

• Install updated to work in a .net 4.0 only environment.
• Copy and paste formats made configurable.
• Empty find text now finds empty cells.
• Find/replace numbers can now use non numerical text as the replace value.

Bugs

• Activating find (Control+F) now sets the focus to the find text box.
• Close all documents bug fixed.
• Drag/drop multiple documents bug fixed.

Version 2014.02.17.1903

New features

• Application brought in line with new website release.

Bugs

• Problem processing non-English licenses fixed.

Version 2013.11.03.1339

New features

• Large data support added.
• Filter and Quick Filter views are now editable.
• Duplicate cell functionality added.
• GUI enhancements made.
• Moved to .net framework 4.0.

Bugs

• Moved to .net framework 4.0 to fix stability issues on 64 bit Windows 7 machines.
• All reported errors fixed.

Version - 2013.09.09.2018

New features

• Help file removed. (To be implemented on the website).
• Preview cell contents window added.
• Goto column window added.
• Summary panel updated to allow multiple columns for summary grouping.
• Print headers can now be customized.
• Import updated and the ability to import to new columns added.
• Links made active in export/copy to HTML.
• Save performance improved.
• System font used through out.
• Error reporting improved.

Bugs

• .net 3.5 installation removed from the install after causing OS stability issues.
• Incorrect Refresh behavior after column structure changed fixed by disallowing it.
• Bug in filtering fixed.
• All reported errors fixed.

Version - 2013.02.07.2042

New features

• External cell editors can be configured and used.
• You can now configure the row header to not sort in 'Tools\Options'.
• Multi file open through drag/drop or open dialog.
• All cells updated when more than one cell selected during edit.
• Title reflects save state.

Bugs

• Correct number of lines shown when lines set to auto-expand.
• Files configured to have no header are not saved without one.

Version - 2012.12.04.1959

New features

• Carriage return/new line handling made transparent and added to document properties and export.
• Output encoding options added to XML and HTML export including CDATA and no encoding.
• Toolbox enabled in filter views.
• Edit panel keyboard handling improved.
• Copy single, paste many added.

Bugs

• Sort re-enabled for summary view.
• Focus problem after Edit panel fixed.

Version - 2012.11.19.2006

New features

• Row split and merge added.
• Tab and new line added to all split and merge functions.
• Repeat last sort option added.
• Layout template GUI improved.
• Start-up time improved.

Bugs

• Bug in undo after merge to same column fixed.

Version - 2012.10.27.1402

New features

• Layout templates introduced to allow the applying of new column layout and formatting with the single click of a button.
• Undo for column sort added.
• Find/replace separated from the Toolbox and made clearer.
• Import/export improved. Text formatting added as a final step.
• Row duplicate added.
• Edit flow refined in the main table.
• Various GUI refinements done.

Bugs

• Problem with storage of certain separators fixed.
• Filter picking up the wrong column after layout changed fixed.

Version - 2012.09.30.1415

New features

• Improved text encoding support (UTF-32, UTF-16, UTF-8, UTF-7, ASCII and auto detection of UTF-8 without BOM).

• Document properties window added.

• Toolbox tools added:

• • Add random text

• Toolbox tools improved:

• • Find and replace numbers (with regions)
  • Find and replace date/time (with regions)
  • Remove text
  • Remove space

• Insert/delete cells added.

• Rotate/shift cells added.

• Clear cells added.

• Copy without column header names added.

• GUI tidied up.

Bugs

• File separators being overwritten fixed.
• Handling of adverse files fixed.
• Many other small bugs fixed.

Version - 2012.07.25.2000

New features

• Import and Export wizards introduced for better control over getting data in and out.

• Support for fixed width text format added.

• Toolbox introduced containing the tools:

• • Find and replace text
  • Find and replace numbers (with regions)
  • Find and replace date/time (with regions)
  • Add text
  • Add space
  • Add date/time
  • Add numbers
  • Remove text
  • Remove space
  • Remove numbers
  • Change case
  • Split name

• Long running task handling introduced to further improve large document performance.

• Copy column header names added.

Bugs

• Many other small bugs fixed.

Version - 2012.06.30.1549

New features

• Printing overhauled and performance improved.
• Remove empty rows added.
• Remove duplicate rows added.
• Document load time halved.
• Redundant separators removed.
• Many performance improvements targeted at large file handling.
• Enter license window improved.
• In cell editing now expands to editor size.

Bugs

• Last cell out of window and editor out of window fixed.
• Crash in Quick Filter fixed.
• Many other small bugs fixed.

Version - 2012.05.30.2043

New features

• New license model introduced.
• Help file added.
• UTF-8 file support added.
• Buttons and menus reviewed for a more consistent interface.
• Column template support added.
• Editing columns promoted to normal editing level (cut/copy/paste etc.).
• Swap column header with row (and visa-versa) added.
• Clear Cells added.
• Change Cell case added.
• Remove Extra Space added.
• Many performance improvements.

Bugs

• Clipboard locking handled.
• Adding row whilst editing cell crash fixed.
• Exporting to different language versions of Excel now works.
• Column sorting crash in Import window fixed.
• File deleted during edit crash fixed.
• Many other small bugs fixed.

Version - 1.3.x

New features

• Undo/redo implemented.
• Editing panel added for cells with carriage returns and tabs, and multi-cell updates.
• Support for data types improved, including un-convertible cells.
• Text edit mode added for typed cells.
• Split column functionality added.
• Merge column functionality added.
• Sort window added for full control over sort.
• Refresh button (re)added.
• Drag and drop file import implemented.
• 'Start Page' shown when there is no report.
• File association moved to separate window for Windows 7 UAC.
• Set column width in Column Layout added.
• Setting for maximum column width added.
• File associations made on install (csv, psv and tsv).
• Boolean now displayed as tick.

Bug Fixes

• File load/save/import now use configured file extensions.
• Saving only surrounds a cell with field qualifier if a separator is in the cell.
• Boolean format added.

Version 1.1.X

New Features

• Editing functionality added.
• General framework updates.

Bug Fixes

• None

Version 0.4.34

New Features

• NA - Original version

Bug Fixes

• NA - Original version