As-U-Type v2.2
Copyright (C) 2000-2003 Fanix Software
All Rights Reserved
Website: http://www.asutype.com
E-mail: support@asutype.com


For a list of changes in this version, see the file HISTORY.TXT.


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Readme.txt content:

1. Overview
2. Requirement
3. Installation
4. Price/Order
5. Contact

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OVERVIEW

    The Instant Spell Check and Speed Typing Software

As-U-Type is a smart OS-level, instant spell check and speed typing software that works with all Windows programs to increase your typing accuracy and productivity. The software can adapt itself to your keyboarding habits, detect and correct any spelling mistakes as you type and speed typing up. This innovative and award-winning software brings a brand new solution to protect you from making mistakes and save you lots of time, giving you accurate and fast typing.

As-U-Type protects you from mistakes by detecting and correcting spelling errors on the fly. Working in the background of all applications, As-U-Type is continuously watching all keys you are typing in, checking them and correcting all typographical mistakes such as misspelling words, mispressing keys, TWo INitial CApitals, lowercasing of days of the week (monday etc.), first letter capitalization of sentences and accidental cAPS LOCK being held down etc. without having to run a spell checker. Both the mistake detection and correction can be automatically processed without any intervention from your side.

As-U-Type can adapt itself to your keyboarding habit and becomes more intelligent with use. Along with correcting mistakes in real-time, As-U-Type also memorizes the mistakes in a list for a later review. From the mistake review list, you can learn about your own mistake pattern and typing habits. It gives you a clear feedback to improve both your typing and writing ability. Applying the mistake review also lets the software adapt itself to your specific typing style and makes its correction more effective. As a result, the more you use the program, the more intelligent it becomes and the more your typical errors can be detected and corrected automatically.

As-U-Type is always ready and available anywhere, anytime. Thanks to its OS-level support, you can use As-U-Type to ensure mistake-free writing in all applications which do not support spell check feature such as NotePad, WordPad, Internet Explorer, many e-mail composers and instant messenger applications etc., or everywhere else that traditional spell checkers cannot access to such as in dialog boxes, data entry fields, feedback forms etc.  If your application already has a built-in spell checker, you can still use As-U-Type to automatically learn and fix your frequently made mistakes as you type and tremendously reduce the total number of mistakes need to be corrected when you run the built-in spell checker later. It saves you time and gives your writing a double check.

As-U-Type speeds up your typing by expanding any short sequence of text into a long text string. For example, you can customize As-U-Type to map "tyvm" to "thank you very much" so that every time you type "tyvm", As-U-Type will expand it to "thank you very much" automatically. The expanded text can be up to 32,000 characters long (about 20 pages), and the number of shortcuts that you create is unlimited (limited only by your system resources). As-U-Type saves time by reducing the need to retype difficult or repetitive text. It also increases accuracy by allowing you to type things carefully once, and letting you retype them with just a few keystrokes. With As-U-Type, you have a chance to concentrate on your main task without concern about the typing accuracy and the pain of physical typing.

As-U-Type saves you effort and makes more efficient use of your time by supporting multiple clipboards. Windows comes with only a single clipboard. As-U-Type lets you have many clipboards -- one for every key on your keyboard!  For example, you could store your name in the "A" key clipboard, your street address in the "F1" key clipboard, your phone number in the "1" key clipboard, etc. and paste any of them to your document at any time with a single keyboard shortcut.  With the multiple-clipboard feature, As-U-Type makes your copy and paste editing easier and more convenient. It also saves your clipboards to a file and lets you re-use them the next time you start the software.

As-U-Type is very powerful yet compact and easy-to-use.  It requires no prerequisite skill, comes with preset settings and supports automatic working modes, so you can get the software up and running in no time.  Whether you are a hunt-and-peck typist or a touch-typing power user, As-U-Type will minimize your mistakes, speed up your typing, save you effort and make more efficient use of your time.

As-U-Type's main features:

* Spell check as you type
  As-U-Type spell checks and immediately alerts you to any mistake that you may make on the fly. It beeps on every mistake by a default ding sound or any other sound of your choice as well as underlines the mistake by a red underline.

* Automatic spelling correction of recognized mistakes
  If a mistake is a recognized mistake (e.g. mistake that you know you make it such as "teh" -> "the", "don;t" -> "don't" etc., and therefore train the software to recognize it by adding it along with its unique correction to the software's correction database), As-U-Type automatically and silently corrects it without disturbing you. This kind of automatic correction is both time saving (since you don't need to stop typing and go back top fix the mistake yourself) and safe (since the mistake is well-known and there is only one possible correction that already defined in the correction database). 
 
* Rich options to handle unrecognized mistakes
  For all other unrecognized mistakes (e.g. mistakes that you don't realize you make it -- for example, when you accidentally slip your fingers -- or don't bother to train the program to recognize it), As-U-Type offers a range of options to handle them instantly as they occur and you can easily choose the best option for you:

  + Manual correction: As-U-Type red underlines the mistake. At any time, you can easily spot the mistake and correct it yourself.

  + Interactive correction: As soon as you make the mistake, As-U-Type stops your typing, shows you some choices and have you choose or not choose one to continue.

  + Automatic correction: As-U-Type guesses at a fix and makes the change automatically. 

* Training the software about your own mistakes the smart way
  As-U-Type logs all mistakes along with their frequency to a file and lets you review them at any time. The frequency numbers clearly show you which mistakes are likely common and which are just occasional so you can train the software accordingly and hence make it smarter with use.

 * Automation of difficult and repetitive typing
  You can assign a short sequence of text (text shortcut) for a frequently used boilerplate text (e.g. a common phrase, an e-mail signature, your own address etc. or even a whole template document) or a long and difficult spelling text piece (e.g. a technical term, a foreign name etc.) and whenever you want to type the text, just type in its assigned shortcut and As-U-Type will immediately replace it with the complete, original text.

 * Variable text shortcuts
  You can insert variables into text shortcuts along with other code to make them more dynamic. As-U-Type will ask you to enter a specific value for a variable at run time. Variable text shortcuts help you build text templates that can then be used to answer repetitive questions a great deal.
  
 * Multiple clipboards support
  As-U-Type supports tens of simultaneous clipboards at a time. You can copy and paste multiple text snippets simultaneously with a single keyboard shortcut.

 * Multilingual environment support
  As-U-Type's dictionaries support unlimited number of entries and you can open as many dictionaries to work with at a time as you wish.

* Global availability
  As-U-Type works with all Windows applications to give you spell check and speed typing services at any time and everywhere, even in dialog boxes.
  
 * Extremely easy-to-use for a novice
  In fact, As-U-Type works in an automatic and transparent manner, so you don't need to do anything, just install and go; it's that easy!

* Fully customizable for an expert
  You have complete control over every aspect of As-U-Type's behavior through its neatly organized user interface and dialog boxes.

* And much more...
  

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REQUIREMENT

* PC with Pentium 166 MHz or higher processor. 
* Microsoft Windows 95, 98, 98SE, ME, NT, 2000 and XP. 
* 32MB RAM or more. 
* 10MB or more of available hard-disk space. 
* Keyboard
* Mouse
* SVGA monitor supporting 800x600 resolution or higher


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INSTALLATION

Installation will install all the files needed to run As-U-Type into your computer and create a program group called "As-U-Type". 
 
* Install from a floppy disk/CD-ROM 
If you received this version of As-U-Type on a floppy disk or a CD-ROM, follow the instructions on the disk label for installation. 

* Install from a self-extracted file 
If you received this version of As-U-Type through a self-extracted executable file (for example, ASUTYPE-SETUP.EXE), you may install it as: 
1. Select "Run" from the Taskbar Start menu. 
2. Type the full name of the file (for example, C:\DOWNLOAD\ASUTYPE-SETUP.EXE). 
3. Press the key, and follow the prompts. 


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PRICE/ORDER

Trial Version vs. Release Version
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As-U-Type has two versions: a 30-day trial version and a release version. The trial version is for evaluation purposes only. It is fully functional except it cannot save data changes permanently and will expire after 30 days. You are required to purchase As-U-Type for $29.95 if you wish to use the product beyond the trial period. Purchasing is quick and easy. 

  Go to our website at http://www.asutype.com and buy the product now!

Purchasing As-U-Type gives you:

* A fully functional release version with no limitation and reminder screens.
* Free technical support.
* Free lifetime upgrades.
* 30-day unconditional money back guarantee.


100% Unconditional Risk-Free Money-Back Guarantee
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We are sure that you will be completely satisfied with the results and quality of As-U-Type.  However, should the product fail to meet your expectations for any reason whatsoever within the first 30 days, we will cheerfully provide a 100% total unconditional refund.  So there's nothing to lose!
(Note: Refund is available for credit card orders only)


Pricing
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  * A single user license for As-U-Type is $29.95 (US)
  * Site licenses are available at our website at http://www.asutype.com

(Please note that the latest prices are listed in our web site at http://www.asutype.com.  The current price of US$29.95 is valid as June, 2003. We often have special offers from time to time, so check out the latest prices at our web site address above.)


Distribution
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As-U-Type is distributed electronically.  After your payment is confirmed, you'll be sent an e-mail receipt with important order and customer service information. A full version download link and a registration code will be e-mailed to you within 24 hours, which you will use to download the release version of As-U-Type and register it.  For multi-user and site licenses the registration code can be used by multiple users (up to the number of licenses purchased).


Online Ordering
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You can place your order online from our secure server by using any major credit cards.  Once your order is accepted, you will receive an e-mail confirmation of the order.  A full version download link and a registration code will be e-mailed to you within 24 hours, which you will use to download the release version of the software and register it.

Please go to our website at http://www.asutype.com to place your order now!


Phone/Fax/Mail Ordering
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If you don't want to place your credit card details over the Internet, you are welcome to purchase As-U-Type by phone, fax or postal mail.  Please go to our website at http://www.asutype.com to get the phone, fax and mail address nearest you and place your order the way you want.


Purchase Order
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If you are ordering for a company that does not allow online credit card purchases, our online ordering service enables you to place a purchase order instead.  Please go to our website at http://www.asutype.com to get more details about this option.


Other ordering methods
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Please go to our website at http://www.asutype.com.


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CONTACT

The latest information about As-U-Type is available online at http://www.asutype.com.

If you have any questions, and/or suggestions, please write us to support@asutype.com.

Thank you for your continuing support.


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