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- Use the "hot text" commands (in the Edit menu) to save favourite
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- names or phrases and enter them quickly at any later stage.
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- When entering text you can use "*" as a wild card for all 26 letters.
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- Entering "cat*" is like typing "catabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz".
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- This can be useful when searching for alternatives to "the quick brown
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- fox jumps over a lazy dog". The search text has a limit of 255 letters,
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- so the program will warn you if it has to ignore extra letters.
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- Spaces in the entered text are ignored and letter case is not significant.
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- Below the "Find Usable Words" button are two edit boxes that let you
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- set the minimum and maximum lengths of words that will be generated
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- the next time you click on the button.
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- Below the "Find Anagrams" button are two edit boxes that let you
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- set the minimum and maximum number of words in the anagrams that
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- will be generated the next time you click on the button.
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- The small radio buttons make it easy to change various options:
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- - You can list usable words alphabetically or by length.
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- The alphabetical listing makes it easier to find known words.
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- - You can display usable words and anagrams in upper or lowercase.
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- Note that dictionary words are stored in uppercase, so it is a bit
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- faster to display/copy/save words and anagrams in uppercase.
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- - You can list anagrams by increasing or decreasing word lengths.
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- It is usually faster to find anagrams with decreasing word lengths
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- although there are some rare cases when the reverse is true.
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- Use command-click to delete a usable word or anagram.
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- If a usable word is deleted, all anagrams containing that word will
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- also be deleted. This might be a bit slow if there are thousands of
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- anagrams, so it is a good idea to delete all anagrams (see below)
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- before deleting lots of usable words.
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- Use shift-command-click to delete all usable words or anagrams.
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- Note that if all usable words are deleted then all anagrams are also
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- deleted.
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- The progress bar is not a very accurate estimator for the time
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- required to complete a given anagram search. The search algorithm
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- is recursive with a number of pruning techniques, so it is difficult
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- (impossible?) to implement a smooth progression indicator.
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