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Release History

This page gives a brief description of the issues addressed by each published version of ChronoLator.

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Version 2.0 - released August 20 2007

Bugs fixed

• Runtime error 5991 when checking or merging tables.
  • This error was encountered if a table included vertically merged cells. ChronoLator now checks for vertically merged cells and highlights them along with other errors.

Other changes

Version 2.0 is a major release including extensive enhancements. A complete list can be seen in this document. The following paragraphs summarise the most significant changes.

• The Online Workbench now includes a Wizard to help produce new Internal Chronology documents. The Wizard simplifies the process in several ways: for example, you can model a new chronology on an existing one, and changing the order of columns is much easier.
• ChronoLator Documents include a number of new features:
  • they can include a Glossary of Abbreviations. A column can be designated which can only include abbreviations which are defined in the Glossary;
  • duplicate rows can be highlighted or deleted, making it much easier to incorporate updates to agency chronologies which have already been imported into Composite Chronologies;
  • a handy Age and Interval calculator is included on the Toolbar.
• Animated Tutorials demonstrate the principal features of the product.

Version 1.3 - released May 22 2006

Bugs fixed

• Certain maintenance levels of Word 2000 fail to sort a table correctly.
  • The changes to VBA table processing included in Word maintenance KB824936 fix this problem. However, rather than expecting customers to ask their IT departments to apply maintenance to Word, we developed a circumvention in this release. Affected users can change the dates to the ISO date format before sorting. The dates can be redone as 'dd mmm yyyy' after the sort if desired.

Other changes

• Dates can be formatted to the International Standard Date format (ISO 8601) as well as 'dd mmm yyyy'. The ISO standard is 'yyyy-mm-dd', for example 2006-05-22.
• Tables can be sorted in Descending order as well as Ascending.

Version 1.2 - released February 3 2006

Bugs fixed

• Errors are not highlighted, or corrected errors stay highlighted after pressing 'Check Tables'.
  • This could be circumvented by scrolling up or down until the highlighting is off the page, then scrolling back.

• Occasionally when merging tables, a row would split into two or more rows.
  •  The most likely symptom you would notice is that the resulting rows are marked as errors because they do not have a valid date.

Other changes

• An error message is now issued if the Word version is lower than 2000.
• Documentation about setting macro security has been improved, it being made clear that Word must be shut down and restarted after making changes.

Version 1.1 - released June 2005

First publicly released version.