word processors (2 products)

Book Writer 2.00.2 (Shareware, $34.95)

Book Writer is a Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP writing environment for creative writers. To give the writer a central hold on a project of multiple chapters, Book Writer provides a Project Manager and a Project Commander. With these, the project is more like a book or manuscript held in the hand than a number of files scattered in the dark of electronic space. Book Writer provides visual interfaces to manipulate a project's files by dragging or clicking book and chapter icons. Book Writer can copy, move, and zip all or selected files in the project all at once. Book Writer can search all files in a project, replace text in all project files, index the project for instant text retrieval, and move from file to file to show the findings. Advanced search features include four ways to search files: plain-text search, regular expressions, approximate, and sound-alike. Find words even if they are misspelled. Instantly find all the lines in your project where you mentioned a particular name, or any word, and move fr

TabPad 1.51 (Shareware, $22.95)

A tabbed notepad with quick-key tool buttons for fast and easy note taking. Organize notes into as many notepads as you need. Each notepad can contain up to 255 tabbed pages. Assign a hot key to recall each notepad. Print a page/notepad to the printer or generate the RTF text to open in a word processor, or export raw text (with bullets) to a CSV text file. Customize by changing tool button colors, changing document area color, hiding the menu, etc. TabPad's auto-save feature saves changes whenever focus is lost. Use TabPad to store notes, and lists, including research notes, project notes, to-do lists, trip check lists, ideas, goals, music to try, books to read, recipes, etc. Palm™ handheld owners can use TabPad as a desktop companion for the build-in Memo Pad application.