If the box is checked, TextMangler will start building the mangled text with the first two 'words' in the original text. This is usually best. Note that TextMangler counts a 'word' as any series of characters that have a space (or tab or carriage return) at the beginning and the end of it. (TextMangler would say the last word of the previous sentence was 'it.', INCLUDING the period.)
Sometimes you might want to start with a pair of words that are not at the beginning of the text. If so, the box should be unchecked. Then when the text is about to be mangled, TextMangler will ask you for the two starting words, one at a time. You must type the words EXACTLY as they occur in the text, including any punctuation at the end of the word such as a comma or period. The only exception is a word seventeen letters long or longer. This is because TextMangler has a storage limit of eighteen letters, so when seventeen is reached a hyphen is inserted and the word is continued. For example, you cannot start with the words 'Antidisestablishmentarianism is'. The first word contains 28 letters and would be broken up into 'Antidisestablishm-' (17 letters and a hyphen) and 'entarianism'. You could start with these two, or with 'entarianism' and 'is'.
Also, you cnnot start with the very last two words of the text, unless they appear as a word pair elsewhere in the text.
If TextMangler cannot find the words you have selected, it will let you know and give you another chance to specify the starting words. If you select the 'Use Default' button, TextMangler will automatically use the original starting pair of words. The 'Cancel' button will immediately cancel the mangling process.
