Hi All, The new version of WinBMD is now available to download from http://winbmd.rmhh.co.uk Please download this file into a separate folder (DO NOT NOT NOT download into your current WinBMD folder - anywhere but there!) then double-click it to install (you can (and should) safely install it into your existing WinBMD folder - ie normally accept all the default answers unless you originally installed it elsewhere). It had been my intention to release this as version 2.1 and a number of people are expecting that version, however the number of changes in this release made it seem more sensible to jump to version 3. There are some 25 changes or bug fixes in this release and some of these are significant - particularly for transcribers from Fiche or Film. Here is a complete list (not in any particular order) which I suggest everyone reads (especially number 25 for Fiche/Film). 1. Introduced the new scan viewer. It's worth downloading just to get this!! 2. Blank lines are now allowed in the District files and invalid lines no longer cause the program to crash. 3. Fixed bug where 2nd +PAGE was always invalid. 4. Changed forename box so that a tab when the box is empty copies the field above rather than the 1st Picklist entry. 5. Fixed bug where a District/Volume entered as ",*" generated too many commas in output file. 6. Apostrophe added to characters allowed in Forename. 7. Forenames Male and Female no longer count as sequence errors. 8. Sequence checking now allows for special characters. 9. Introduced Fill-Up. 10. Fixed problem with right mouse button not working correctly. 11. Improved validation of Districts. 12. Fixed problem that didn't allow 9z format in the Page field 13. Fixed problem that district format ",x" didn't match properly. 14. Fixed problem with Edit Header when Romans wrongly changed to Arabic. 15. Program now remembers the scan zoom factor and the size of the scan view window. 16. Removed Fiche/Film Menu and Scan-Start New Batch, Added File>New Page. 17. Tab in an empty Surname now ignores previous lines that are Comments or +PAGE when copying the preceding name. 18. () now allowed in forename. 19. Fixed problem where ending the program while the scan view was minimized would cause incorrect sizes to be remembered for the scanview which could cause a later crash. 20. Default is now to not show auto-complete text. 21. Changed the way Save reminders are generated - this fixes a crash in Windows NT. 22. Changed AaD to allow yy-yy (a year range) and/or a trailing "m". 23. Fixed problem where a Tab in an empty Aad copied the surname. 24. (Hopefully!) fixed problem where 2 messages could appear at once (eg New Forename + 10 minute warning) which caused the program to crash. 25. For Fiche/Film the value you type in the Header Form "PAGE" field is now entered both in the first +PAGE line and in the filename. The Header Form field "Batch" is now ONLY used if/when generating SpeedBMD format filenames. The Header Form field "Fiche/Film Number" is now NEVER used (although something needs to be entered in it) and will be removed in the next version (sorry - there was too much to do to get it done in this version). If anyone has suggestions for changes I am always happy to receive them - I still have a number that people have requested and these will appear in the next version. Regards Ian