Whizfolders Deluxe

Posted by Derek Cornish
Jul 12, 2007 at 02:55 PM

Graham -

I must say that Whizfolders did give potential buyers plenty of notice about the price hike, and offered a generous upgrade to existing users earlier this year. But there seems to be some question hanging over the long-term future of the Pro version. Maybe this is a misleading impression, though.

One interesting really interesting new feature I noticed on the WF blog is:

“Export to MS Word Outline RTF: On the menu “Tools–Export selected topics,” a new menu item appears that allows you to export the RTF in a Word Outline format. You need to open the resulting file in Microsoft Word to appreciate how this feature works.”

For those who are happy with outlining the two-pane way, it’s good news that these outlines can now be properly transferred into Word’s outline view.

Single-pane editing in a WF editor window is a different matter - and something that many users might also like to see implemented. I noticed that it is WF’s stated intention to keep using standard MS richtext editors (now at RichEdit4). If RE4 is anything like earlier editions, there is no built-in outlining facility. Do you know if the WF people have any plans to develop single-pane outlining? Since they have managed the new Tables support using a different editor-control and interfacing it with the new WF RT4 editor - see the blog comments: http://whizfolders.com/blog/index.php/2007/03/01/table-tool/ - could they not do the same for single-pane outlining?

Here’s hoping. That would certainly make me open my wallet (I am already sorely tempted having just read through the WF blog).

Derek