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[Glenn Scheper]

When I jump up and announce "Eureka!" at each new plateau
of WordsEx development, I remind myself of the man I saw
on TV who has no long-term memory: He continually writes
this one line in his journal: "I HAVE JUST BECOME AWARE!"


>...get you to guide me in using this. I'm pretty untech...


There is no need to fear the learning curve to use WordsEx.

WordsEx (Words, Extended) (or Word Sex) is meant to bring you
lots of information from the web, and make it easy to select
the choicest information and to read it quickly and easily.

Use your browser to download the WordsEx.exe program from
http://home.earthlink.net/~glenn_scheper/WordsEx.exe
and save it to your desktop.

To optimize your experience, let's now create a shortcut:
Right-click on the saved WordsEx.exe program, and choose
"Create Shortcut". Right-click on "Shortcut to WordsEx.exe"
which has appeared, and choose "Properties". Click in the
field called "Shortcut key", and type a key you can reach
with your right hand. I prefer "." (a period). Click "Ok".

Type CONTROL + ALT + . to start executing WordsEx, and again
any time you want to restore the program window after you have
quickly hidden it (minimized it), like when the boss walks in.

Type CONTROL + S, which is a shortcut for "Add, Internet Search"
in the WordsEx menu bar. Type your search keyword or phrase in
the dialog that appears, and press Enter, or click the "Search"
button. Search results will begin to appear in the main WordsEx
program screen.

Use PAGE DOWN to look over the many results summaries. You can
recognize good and relevant and novel results by their titles,
language, high score, and by a summary of the most frequently
used, most complex, uncommon words prepared for each web page.

Click on any web page summary to begin reading that web page.
All web pages have been reduced to just their text, wrapped to
fit the screen, shown in a large font, and preserving natural
paragraph block boundaries using various clues in the web page.

Now the delightful part! Press the RIGHT ARROW to start smooth
scrolling through the web page. Press RIGHT ARROW as often as
you like to read faster and faster. Or press LEFT ARROW to go
slower. Press UP ARROW at any time to stop smooth scrolling,
and after that, press UP ARROW to move backwards by one line.

Keep your thumb on the DOWN ARROW key, which is a stealth key,
ready to press it to hide the program quickly when approached.
To restore the window, use the CONTROL + ALT + . shortcut key.

When you are done reading one web page, press DELETE, which
will not delete any data, but merely remove the current page
from the screen, and you will be returned to the list of all
your search result summaries. Pick another web page to read.

With today's fast Internet access, just exit the program at
any time to stop working and abandon the gathered web pages.
Or, you can choose to save all the gathered web pages into
a folder on your local disk and reload them at a later time.

If WordsEx isn't for you, just delete the WordsEx.exe icon
and your shortcut icon from the desktop, and it's all gone.

There are many more features to discover, but trying items
listed on the WordsEx menu bar --especially "Help, Usage",
will get you familiar with them all, to use, or to ignore.

Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
http://home.earthlink.net/~glenn_scheper/
glenn_scheper + at + earthlink.net
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