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- Price: Free to try (15-day trial); $19.95 to buy (Buy it now)
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000
- Date added: June 01, 2008
- Total Downloads: 926
- Downloads last week: 11
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A newer version of Rider 8 Tools is available.
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
Rider 8 Tools was written by a lawyer with other lawyers in mind, but in truth the well-designed text-searching application is versatile enough for anyone who frequently authors or refers back to long or technical documents--business professionals, academics, researchers, and so on.
The application bundles three search tools into one. ProxFind searches one or more documents for specific words and characters within a number of parameters you set--the proximity to other words; whether you're searching for a whole word, case, or root (wild card); a dates bracket; even part of the file name. ParaFind performs the same service for multiple words; DefFind scrounges for defined terms and their definitions, and can also seek out capitalized phrases that may have slipped your notice.
We appreciate being able to search from recent files or from documents or folders in the file tree. We furthermore like being able to scroll through each finding and view or edit it in the original document. In a welcome addition, Rider 8 Tools now scans and saves text from PDF documents. We'd still like to be able to search Excel documents and see a tutorial showing new users how to get started--your best bet is to begin at the upper left of the interface and work your way clockwise.
Publisher's description
From Rider 8 Software :Three tools are included--ProxFind, ParaFind and DefFind. ProxFind and ParaFind allow the user to search for and display the use of words and phrases in one or multiple text documents. When ProxFind or ParaFind finds text meeting the specified search parameters, it displays selections from the relevant document, with the search text highlighted. ProxFind and ParaFind also show a list of the displayed selections, together with the location of the selection within the document where the selection was found. DefFind retrieves all the defined terms from a selected document and displays the defintion and the uses of the definition, with the defined term highlighted. Rider 8 Tools operates independently of other applications (including Microsoft Word), and searches Microsoft Word (.doc and .docx), Rich Text Format (.rtf), Text (.txt) and HTML (.htm) documents. A user does not need Microsoft Word installed on his or her computer in order to search Microsoft Word (.doc) documents.
Version 1.6.1.1 has native search capabilities for Word 2007 documents and includes the new tool ParaFind.
What's new in this version:
Version 1.6.1.1 has native search capabilities for Word 2007 documents and includes the new tool ParaFind.
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