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July 18, 2019:
After 24 years of greglove@oz.net as my primary email -- my only personal email before that was with Compuserve -- I'm finally joining the modern world and transitioning to gmail. My new email is greg.j.lovern@gmail.com. This should cut down on my emails going to your spam folder.

November 20, 2015:
inspector text has been tested with the Excel 2016 (32-bit). It worked perfectly, with no problems of any kind.

Although inspector text works with 32-bit Excel 2016, it will need to be updated to work with 64-bit Excel 2016.

September 14, 2015:
inspector text has been tested with Windows 10. It worked perfectly, with no problems of any kind.

November 4, 2013:
inspector text has been tested with Windows 8.1. It worked perfectly, with no problems of any kind.

July 12, 2013:
inspector text has been tested with Excel 2013 (32-bit). It worked perfectly, with no problems of any kind.

Although inspector text works with 32-bit Excel 2013, it will need to be updated to work with 64-bit Excel 2013.

December 8, 2012:
inspector text has been tested with Windows 8. It worked perfectly, with no problems of any kind.

January 9, 2010:
inspector text has been tested with the Excel 2010 beta (32-bit). It worked perfectly, with no problems of any kind.

Although inspector text works with 32-bit Excel 2010, it will need to be updated to work with 64-bit Excel 2010.

May 15, 2009:
inspector text 2.0.2 is released. inspector text 2.0.2 fixes a bug reported today where if Excel was started by opening an Excel workbook that had a file-open password, inspector text returned error 50290.

inspector text 2.0.2 is a free upgrade on request for owners of inspector text 2.x.

The Free Edition has been upgraded to version 2.0.2.

May 10, 2009:
The Free Edition has been updated to version 2.0.1.

In addition, the Free Edition has been made much easier to use.

Get inspector text and future upgrades for FREE. Here's how.

March 26, 2009:
inspector text 2.0.1 is released. inspector text 2.0.1 fixes a bug reported today where under some circumstances, itFUZZYMATCH and itFUZZYCOMPARE would not complete all submatch passes, resulting in a lower fuzzy comparison score.

Version 2.0.1 is a free upgrade for version 2.0 users on request. Versions earlier than 2.0 are not affected because they did not have the affected functions.

April 30, 2008:
inspector text 2.0 is released! Download the Free Edition now!

Read about the new features in inspector text 2.0 here.

Upgrades from version 1.x are only $6 for the Express Edition, or $7.50 for the Research Edition. See the Buy Page.

April 8, 2008:
My email at gregl@gregl.net has been bouncing. I apologize for the inconvenience for those of you who tried to email me recently. Until the problem is fixed or I switch providers, you can reach me at greg.j.lovern@gmail.com. I've updated all email links here.

August 13, 2007:
After over four years using Digital Candle as my payment provider, I have switched to PayPal. Digital Candle has gone out of business. You do not need to have a PayPal account to buy inspector text through PayPal.

May 31, 2007:
inspector text has been tested with the final release versions of Excel 2007 and Windows Vista. It worked perfectly, with no problems of any kind.

March 16, 2006:
Version 1.5 now available on request. It's a free upgrade for 1.x owners. Free Editions can also be upgraded to 1.5.

Version 1.5 adds six new functions:

itREVERSE
Accepts a single text argument and reverses the order of its characters right to left.
itFINDR
Same as Excel's built-in FIND function, but searches from right to left.
itSEARCHR
Same as Excel's built-in SEARCH function, but searches from right to left.
itREPLACER
Same as Excel's built-in REPLACE function, but counts from right to left.
itSUBSTITUTER
Same as Excel's built-in SUBSTITUTE function, but counts from right to left.
itMIDR
Same as Excel's built-in MID function, but counts from right to left.

I won't be able to upgrade the download to 1.5 for a while. If you want to upgrade to 1.5 (either paid edition or free edition) send me an email.

March 10, 2006:
The bug reported earlier today has been fixed. Ask for version 1.0.2.

March 10, 2006:
A bug has been reported and confirmed: inspector text functions sometimes return an error if the find_text argument is a cell reference.

March 9, 2006:
The bug reported earlier today has been fixed. Ask for version 1.0.1.

March 9, 2006:
A bug has been reported and confirmed: sometimes Excel hangs when starting after inspector text has been installed. Does not appear to happen on Excel 2003.

January 25, 2006:
inspector text 1.0 released! Watch this space for future news about inspector text.

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