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orizon Text & HTML Project WorkshopHorizon Software's Text & HTML Workshop provides the tools you need to manage HTML or any type of text projects. It features a Multiple Document Interface (MDI), in which you can organize your documents into projects, making it easy to make changes, add new documents, etc. It includes a full featured word processor that supports plain text and Rich Text (.rtf) formats, word & phrase Auto-Completion, functions to re-wrap & re-format text, or to quickly see how changes you've made will appear in your browser or other external application, an Often Used Text Blocks window from which you can copy often used blocks of text into your own documents, a Quote Manager which allows you to find specific or random lines of text in a quotes or tagline file for easy pasting into your documents, a Personal Notes pad where you can jot down ideas while you work, a full featured Explorer-like Disk Tree View, HTML/CSS Quick Reference, and many other features.
News (03/14/07):Version 1.44 is now available on the Downloads page! Many new features and enhancements have been added. See the What's New page for details.
News! (01/15/04): Version 1.32 adds 2 new toolbar drop down boxes, 'Font name' and 'Font size', which makes it easy to quickly change font name or size without also changing the color or emphasis of your text.
News! (12/26/03): Version 1.27 adds a 'Paste Special' dialog to paste bitmaps and other non-text objects in documents. A new 'Sort lines' option was added which will sort the selected lines of the document, in ascending order. Also, an 'Open with...' option was added to the Project List and Treeview menus.
News! (06/10/03): Version 1.23 adds all the functionality of a regular document window to the Personal Notes window, including custom colors, fonts, emphasis, auto-complete, find/replace, etc. Also, a problem was fixed where, if you added an open document to the project list (from the menu), it would append 'Line: xxx', to the list entry, causing an error if you then tried to open it from the project list window.
News! (05/08/03): Version 1.18 adds enhancements, including a new option Insert CR's at right margin, for creating fixed margins in plain text documents, & more enhancements to Find/Replace. Also, the 'Add read-only shortcut' procedure was modified to eliminate the 'Runtime error 5' message that some people experienced. Also, an option was added to download the installation package as a Windows Installer package.
News! (04/16/03): Version 1.14 adds the ability to toggle word-wrap on and off, the display of the current line #, more Find/Replace enhancements, including a new option to Goto or jump to a specific line # in the document, great for setting bookmarks (Each found line # is stored for easy recall in the dialog's combo box) and debugging javascripts, and improved logic to preserve and restore the window states when the program is closed and then re-run.
News! (04/03/03): Version 1.13 adds new enhancements, like: the ability to resize the Project List and Tree View frame, a new preferences option to add documents to Windows 'Recent Documents' Start Menu when they are opened & saved, and a new 'Project List' menu option, 'Open item(s) with external application'.
Other recent enhancements:
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Horizon Text & HTML Workshop uses a Multiple Document Interface (MDI). If you aren't accustomed to MDI interfaces, don't worry, the manual has a comprehensive MDI tutorial.
You can create (but it's not required) Project (.prj) files in which to organize your document files.
This window shows the list of documents for the currently opened project. To open an existing document, just double click it. To open a new document, double click _Open new document. If the document is already open, the window for that document will be restored if necessary, and brought to the front.
To select multiple documents, hold down the Shift or Ctrl keys as you click them.
You can also drag and drop documents from the list to a blank area on the screen, to open them.
If you want to change the font size in this and the Tree View window, click your left mouse button in the light gray area between them, and the font size will cycle between about 8 & 14 pts. If you have trouble seeing the +/- buttons on the right side of the Project List toolbar, you can right click in that area to display a larger pair of symbols.
To resize the Project List and Tree view window, position your mouse in the light gray area between them, press the left mouse button, drag left or right, and then release the button. To drag it to the right (enlarge it), there must be some empty (darker colored) space in the main document area to drag it to, so you should minimize or cascade any open documents first.
You can create as many Project files as you like, and you can include a document in more than one project. Project files are plain text files which can also be edited if needed.
Use the menu, toolbar, or right click mouse menu, to manage this window.
You can also drag and drop items between the List & Treeview windows, the document area, Windows Explorer, and other OLE programs.
You can edit any plain text or Rich Text Format (.rtf) files in Horizon Text & HTML Workshop, and you can have as many open at a time, as you wish. You can open documents associated with the current project, a different project, or associated with no project at all.
You can open documents from the List & Treeview windows, and by dragging and dropping from Explorer & other OLE programs.
There is no limit, aside from your available memory, to the size or number of documents you can open and edit. Contrast this with Windows Notepad and Wordpad which are both limited in the size of files they can be used with. Just another good reason to do all your editing in Horizon Text & HTML Workshop, instead! ;)
After opening a document, the file name and current line # are displayed in the window's caption. You can Goto or jump to a different line # by using the Find command on the Edit menu, which is great for setting bookmarks (Each found line # is stored for easy recall in the dialog's combo box), and debugging javascripts.
You can convert MS Word .doc files to .rtf files, so you can open and edit them in Horizon Text & HTML Workshop.
You can add to or remove documents from the current project, and use the editing tools, from the menus, toolbars, and right click mouse menus.
The Notes window is a handy place to jot down notes or a 'to do list' as you work.
When this window has the focus, you can press Ctrl-S or the 'Save Notes' menu option, to save it to disk.
You can specify in the Defaults dialog, that a specific notes file be opened automatically each time you run Horizon Text & HTML Workshop.
Gearheads can optionally use this window to open and manage folders and files.
Use the checkboxes to select multiple items. If you checkmark a folder, all the files within it will automatically be checkmarked too. To clear the checkmarks, uncheckmark the folder, then click 'Refresh'.
If you want to change the font size in this and the Project List window, click your left mouse button in the light gray area between them, and the font size will cycle between about 8 & 14 pts.
To resize the Project List and Tree view window, position your mouse in the light gray area between them, press the left mouse button, drag left or right, and then release the button. To drag it to the right (enlarge it), there must be some empty (darker colored) space in the main document area to drag it to, so you should minimize or cascade any open documents first.
Use the menu, toolbar, or right click mouse menu, to manage this window.
You can also drag and drop items between the List & Treeview windows, the document area, Windows Explorer, and other OLE programs.
Shown minimized here, is the Often Used Text Blocks window, which is a handy place to store often used blocks of text which you can copy (Ctrl-C) and paste (Ctrl-V) into your own documents.
You can specify in the Defaults dialog, that a specific text blocks file be opened automatically each time you run Horizon Text & HTML Workshop.
For even more flexibility, you can also create document templates to simplify new document creation.
You can optionally open a handy quotes or tagline file, from which you can select specific or random lines of text to paste into your documents.
You can specify, in the Defaults dialog, that a specific quotes file be opened automatically each time you run Horizon Text & HTML Workshop.
Use the menu, toolbar, or right click mouse menu, to manage this window.
Registered users of Horizon Text & HTML Workshop receive, among other things, 2 free bonus programs, Horizon FTP & Disk Search & Replace:
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Disk Search & Replace
Both programs are available on the Downloads page.
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