Shabash Merops version history

Shabash Merops 2.8

It's our biggest upgrade ever, with 100s of new features and enhancements

Much more powerful automatic text correction

Over 175 new customizable rules, including:

• Retrieve missing reference data from PubMed
• Alert/correct references discrepancies with PubMed
• Name/date to numeric reference conversion
• Numeric to name/date reference conversion
• Add hyperlinks on references to Amazon or WorldCat
• Alert duplicate references
• New 'Abbreviations' sub-module
• Delete repeated header items
• 14 new preferences for correspondence information
• 38 new individual word preferences
• 20 new non-English term preferences

Merops also now ships with two new Standard Sets: Chicago Manual of Style, and AMA Manual of Style.

Easier, faster, and more intuitive processing

• New flexible processing queue: add more files to the queue while others are being processed
• Merops automatically reconnects a lost connection, while processing continues on the server
• Improved Standard Set Editor:

• Improved handling of new rules: Leave all unset, then click a button to search through them in your own time
• Undo/Redo buttons added
• New 'Compare Standard Sets' and 'Send in Email' features
• Improved 'Find Setting' feature

Improved reviewing interface

• Brand new reference renumbering tools
• Brand new 'Insert Document Part' tools
• New improved 'Insert Symbol' menu, with many more symbols
• Watchfolder system now handle multiple files at once
• Create your own custom Look Ups
• New 'Abbreviation' property for custom terms
• Improved right-click menu in Microsoft Word
• Improved Merops Ribbon in Word 2007 and Word 2010

Shabash Merops 2.7

Our biggest upgrade ever!

• Now 1300+ standards! Over 400 new rules including:
• alerting unlinked table footnotes
• alerting jumps in list ID numbers
• unit conversions
• splitting of table cells
• sorting of table footnotes
• alerting unlinked author footnotes
• independent symbol style preferences for different author footnote types
• Amazon, OneLook and Dorland’s Online Medical Dictionary added to Look Up feature.
• ‘Active Standard Set’ is replaced with ‘Document Standard Set’, so documents remember which Standard Set was used.
• Merops Symbols toolbar now shows 20 most recent symbols.
• Brand new and improved Merops Options program is independent of Microsoft Word.
• Now over 2 million terms in the recognition system.
• You can now create up to 50 user-defined comments.
• You can now add any number of spelling errors to each custom dictionary term.
• Merops now tracks paragraph and character style changes.
• Brand new Merops Process Log stores reports for the 200 most recent files.
• Merops Standard Set Editor has new Find Setting feature.
• Easier and more stable installation process.
• All bugs identified in Merops 2.6 have been fixed.
• Merops Watchfolders – files are automatically processed when files are placed in designated folders.

Shabash Merops 2.6.1

• New feature: Finish document differentiates comments made by Merops from other comments, meaning it can remove all Merops comments, but preserve yours.
• Faster: Finish document is considerably faster than before, and gives you much more detailed information on its progress in the status bar.
• Better error handling: Finish document has vastly improved error handling - if a particular feature fails, it allows you to continue without it.
• Better error handling: Finish Document has detailed real-time logging, making trouble-shooting much easier - simply email a log file to support. Merops also logs its start-up progress in real time.
• Bug fix: "The requested member of the collection does not exist." error in Word 2007 requiring the MeropsRibbon.dotm template to be added in manually is now fixed.

Shabash Merops 2.6

• New 'Output Word Document to XML' tool.
• 'Send in Email' feature added to Finish Document tool.
• Improved Merops Report.
• New alert tells you when your output files are ready, without interrupting your work in Microsoft Word.
• Improved Merops Review – faster and smoother.
• 6 new websites added to Look Up tool: 3 thesauri, Google Images, Google Maps (UK), and Cambridge Dictionary of American English.
• Process documents from within all versions of Microsoft Word from Word 2000 to Word 2007.
• All bugs identified in version 2.5 have been fixed.

Shabash Merops 2.5

• Output file settings are now part of Standard Sets, making changing settings simpler and quicker. Standard Sets also contain a custom dictionary page, making managing House Style-specific terms easier.
• Process documents from within all versions of Microsoft Word from Word 2000 to Word 2007 Beta 2TR
• Brand new and improved Custom Dictionary Editor: independent of Microsoft Word, new 'Comment' attribute for terms and up to 2 misspellings per term, add passwords to restrict access.
• Over 120,000 terms added - total is now over 1.2 million
• Merops can now preserve footnotes
• Customization of output Microsoft Word paragraph styles
• Automatic online checking of recognized URL paths
• Now over 600 standards - new standards including more word preferences and sequence of header items
• Much faster and more reliable reviewing tools
• New Standard Set - 'APA Publication Manual'
• More accurate predicted time remaining while processing
• 'Load published dictionary preferences' makes creating Standard Sets easier and quicker

Shabash Merops 2.4

• New 'Hyperlink' property in custom dictionary adds hyperlinks to any custom term:
• Add links to websites (http://www.example.com)
• Add links to email addresses (mailto:example@example.com)
• Add links to other documents (C:/example.doc)
• 2 new options for 'Parenthetical Dash Style'
• Faster reject/accept all identical changes feature
• 11 new subject-specific modules including History, Law & politics, Religion, Health & medicine, Business and economics, and Music
• Brand new and improved Standard Set Editor can be used independently of Microsoft Word
• Intra-document linking from citations to corresponding references
• Improved and updated user interface
• More pattern-match expressions for custom dictionary
• Improved recognition accuracy – especially in document headers
• Works with Microsoft Word 2007 beta 2
• Now over 500 customizable standards! – 43 new options, including maximum Abstract length and maximum keyword count
• New and improved Symbols toolbar with many more symbols
• 3 more online dictionaries in 'Look Up' tool including Chambers

Shabash Merops 2.3

• Many new rules – including expanding/abbreviating journal titles in references
• 7 new customizable standards including the case of headings and alerts on long sentences
• New Document Statistics tool gives more intelligent word count
• Improved user interface – easier than ever to use

Shabash Merops 2.2

• Improved recognition accuracy – especially in references
• Many new rules – Merops is doing more than ever before
• 4 new customizable standards including the case of headings and alerts on long sentences
• New Document Statistics tool gives more intelligent word count
• '®', '©' and '™' added to symbols toolbar
• Improved custom dictionary, with new spelling error matches easy symbol insertion, many more pattern match terms, and dictionaries can be shared
• Improved Finish Document tool can remove all bookmarks, remove character styles and update and unlink all field codes
• Improved Merops Reviewer now handles tracked formatting changes and makes editing comments easier
• Answers.com and PubMed added to 'Look Up' tool
• New 'Invert Table' tool
• Improved user interface – easier than ever to use
• Improved reliability – a number of bugs have been fixed

Shabash Merops 2.0

• Merops 2.0 runs on a remote server to eliminate configuring time and apply rules up to 30 times faster than version 1.1.
• 400+ customizable standards - nearly twice as many as version 1.1
• 100 000+ general word dictionary
• Vastly improved recognition accuracy
• Unneeded modules can be disabled, further increasing speed
• Automatic linking to PubMed, GenBank, Entrez, CrossRef and WTO databases
• Automatically reintegrates graphics into your document
• Create and insert your own custom queries
• New improved user interface
• Improved handling of inserted symbols
• New Symbols toolbar with keyboard shortcuts makes inserting symbols easier and faster

Shabash Merops 1.1

• A new Standards dialog box enables users to select the specific standards they would like to apply. Together, these settings form a ‘Standard Set’. Multiple Standard Sets can be created, and users can choose which one to use for a particular document.
• New customizable options including the option to keep a copy of the original document open after running, the option to show or hide queries and the option to show a report after running.
• Improved recognition accuracy
• More match terms for reference types.
• Automatic sorting of lists of names in citations, reference lists, keywords and more
• Automated queries on more terms, such as gender-biased terms like ‘fireman’, and the use of first-person language
• New tools, including Save as Final Word Document tool, Open Original and Revert to Original buttons, and a Load from XML tool
• Option to save the output file in any directory
• More styles on the Merops Styles toolbar"

Shabash Merops 1.01

Shabash Merops 1.0