Latest News

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 greglove@oz.net. 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.

The reason for the switch is because I discovered today that Digital Candle has gone out of business. They did not tell me; instead, PrecisionCalc customers started seeing the message "We apologize for any inconvenience, but our system is temporarily down for maintenance" when trying to buy inspector text. When Digital Candle's system still wasn't back up after a while, and my emails to them went unanswered, and I couldn't get through to a real person by phone, I searched newsgroups for posts about them and learned what the real problem was.

I apologize for the inconvenience to those of you who tried to buy inspector text during that time. If you continue to have any trouble ordering inspector text, please let me know. 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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