The latest version of Spartan is 7.16

Upgrades.... Upgrades to the latest version of Spartan can be purchased here.

3 Feb 2012 - V7.16
Fixes bug where large clips from MS Excel created unreadable files.

4 Jan 2012 - V7.15
Fixes conflict between hot keys and accent characters on non English keyboards.

2 Dec 2011 - V7.14
Installer change only. Installer now adds shortcuts to the all users desktop and start menu.

22 Nov 2011 - V7.122
Fixes bug in trial versions where clicking links in the "About" dialog could unload the program.

30 Oct 2011 - V7.12
Fixes bug where the second of two consecutive macro clips did not paste.

29 Oct 2011 - V7.11
Fixes conflict with the ^ key on French keyboards
Adds option to save large graphic clips in Bitmap format

12 Oct 2011 - V7.10
The text clean up functions previously only available via the Txt buttons can now be applied directly to the Windows clipboard. You can now copy formatted text, say from a Web page, and paste only the plain text directly with Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V.

Spartan V7.00 - Released 18 Sep 2011 - What's New in 7

10 August 2011 - V6.05
Fixes conflict between Excel and Spartan image size reduction pasting.

27 Jun 2011 - v6.04
Fixes a bug which prevented changing the clipboard from "Show Vertical"
Fixes sorting A to Z bug in Lite version.
Enables hot key clips in Lite version.

26 Jun 2011 - v6.03 (Full versions only Lite versions still v6.02)
Fixes a bug which grayed out the "View 9 Hot Key Clips" menu item.

20 Jun 2011 - v6.02
Fixes a bug in the picture browser which could crash the program when the mouse wheel was used.

2 May 2011 - v6.01
Fixes a minor bug in the picture browser which prevented any unreadable image file from being deleted.

Spartan V6.00 - Released 16 Apr 2011 - What's New in 6

14 Jan 2011 - v5.02
Fixes a minor bug in the logon dialog.(Back and Forward buttons did not work on some machines)

5 Jan 2011 - v5.01
Fixes a minor bug in the way time is displayed in the window caption.(06.00 was displayed as 60.00)

Spartan - V5.00 - Released 28 Dec 2010.... What's New in 5....

Date / Time Clips. You can now create clips which include codes for all elements of the system date and time. When you paste these, Spartan replaces the codes with the actual date time data at the time of pasting.

10 Dec 2010 - v4.07

When Restoring with the inbuilt backup and restore system, the dialog asking what to restore is now correctly captioned "Restore What?". In previous versions the caption read "Backup What?" .

24 Nov 2010 - v4.06

Fixes a minor bug which could cause the program to freeze if "New Text Clip" were selected in a view set to "Keep on top of other windows".

26 Sep 2010 - v4.05

Fixes a minor bug which could cause the program to freeze if items from the Pictures menu were selected in a view set to "Keep on top of other windows".

8 Aug 2010 - v4.04

Minor compatibility fix. Previous versions could be crashed when a program called "Snappy Spy" was running.

22 May 2010 - v4.03

Minor bug fix. In v4.02 it was possible to crash the program by launching the year planner from the system tray while one of the main window editors was open. This has been fixed.

30 Mar 2010 - v4.02

1. New option to minimize to tray. With this selected, closing the main window leaves the program running. It can be shut down from the tray icon.
2. Year planner now minimizes to the system tray instead of the task bar.
3. New options to have the year planner start automatically when Spartan starts (either on screen or in the system tray).
4. The year planner no longer shuts down during backup or restore.
5. Open and Run buttons now recognize filenames which have quotation marks.
6. In previous versions, Spartan could hang up when a corrupt graphic file had been captured. This has been fixed.

14 Feb 2010 - v4.01
Minor bug fixes
The following minor bugs have been corrected in v4.01.
1. The paste letters no longer disappear after using the text or graphic editors
2. Ctrl+O and Ctrl+B work correctly when using Ctrl + a pasting letter.
3. When Minimize after paste is selected, the program minimizes correctly after the Txt, Uc or Lc buttons have been used
4. When the Deleted Clips or Windows Clipboard History sheets are full, new additions overwrite the old ones and in previous versions it was difficult to see where the latest addition was on the sheet. In v4.01 a black bar has been added as a marker.

Spartan - V4.00 - Released 2 Apr 2009.... What's New in 4....

1. Year Planner. Note that for birthdays and anniversaries, you can elect to have the entry repeated automatically each year.

2. Window 7 compatible.

Updates to V3

29 Nov 2008 - v3.10
New Feature
All the text cleanup facilities available in the text clip editor can now be applied automatically when you paste. This is achieved by applying user selected clean up routines whenever a clip is pasted by clicking the TXT (Unformatted Text Button) instead of the clip name. To select the clean up routines you want performed, click "Txt Button Options" in the view options dialog on the view menu.

9 Dec 2008 - v3.11
Minor Bug Fix
Fixes double spacing bug when printing from the text editor.

4 Mar 2009 - v3.12
Minor Bug Fix
Fixes bug of the "Do you want to overwrite the existing clip ?" dialog not appearing when the "Keep on top" option is selected for the current view.

Spartan - V3.00 - Released 7 Nov 2008

1. Digital Photo Utilities. There is an import routine for graphics. Point it to a folder with JPEG digital photos and they are imported as clip files ready to paste into your emails and documents. There is also a full screen picture viewer where you can browse or slide show your pictures. There are tools to print, rotate, fix red eye, and basic brightness / contrast adjustments.

In the graphics editor, you can now select inches or centimeters as well as pixels for the size units. This allows you to size or crop to real sizes for example to create passport size pictures.

2. There are two book marks in the shape of finger pointers. One is a freehand bookmark that you just drag to wherever you want to remind yourself of something. The other is a "last used" bookmark. It points to the clip that was last pasted, edited or viewed in the new picture browser.

3. The inbuilt backup now has the option to backup or restore a single sheet.

IMPORTANT NOTICE TO USERS OF V1 or V2
To cater for digital photos, V3 saves large graphic clips as JPEGs rather than the clipboard native format. While v3 will read the graphic clip files from previous versions, previous versions will not read the graphic clip files created by V3. If you have already purchased a previous version, try V3 then decide to revert to your previous version, you will need to delete all graphic clips created in or edited in V3.

Updates to V2

16 Oct 2008 - v2.11
Fixes hang up bug when right clicking on an empty clipboard.

16 Sep 2008 - v2.11
Minor maintenance release.
1. Plain text can now be pasted in "Arrow Keys and Enter" keyboard mode by using Shift + Enter to paste.
2. Turn off Recycling menu check mark now displays correctly after a restart.
3. Graphics editor can be exited using the Esc. key.

30 Jul 2008 - v2.10
Adds "Hot Key Clips". You can now assign clips to hot keys and paste them from the keyboard without activating the main window..

16 Jul 2008 - v2.03 / v2.04
Changes to the default option settings only. Now defaults to starting up minimized and not shown in the Windows taskbar.

11 Jun 2008 - v2.02
1. Allows pasting either way between editions. If you keep hard disk and portable versions synchronized, you can paste new clips from one to the other without going through a full backup and restore.
2. The clipboard capture off notice now correctly positions over the clipboard when "Show Clipboard Vertically" is selected.
3. In previous versions, if "Arrow Keys and Enter" was selected as the keyboard pasting method and Enter was used to action a menu item, the highlighted clip was also pasted. This is now fixed.

23 May 2008 - v2.01
Allows shutdown from right click menu on taskbar when minimized.
Fixes Rename / Highlight dialog position at top of screen.
Adds a "Reset text editor position" item to the right click tray icon menu.

Spartan - V2.00 - Released 16 May 2008

What's New in 2
1. The matrix of clip cells has been expanded from 5 columns by 35 rows to 9 columns by 62 rows.
2. The main window is now sizable over this matrix.
3. A new keyboard option allows all aspects of the program to be operated without recourse to the mouse.
4. The 25 clip clipboard can be displayed as a single column as well as a 5 by 5 matrix.
5. Hot keys upgraded. (Win 2000, XP and Vista only)
7. Showing in taskbar when minimized is now optional. (Allows activation by Alt + Tab)
6. V2 introduces the concept of "Views".

A view is the size shape and position of a Spartan window together with the sheet (Group) that is displayed and all the commonly changed options like which special function buttons, which keyboard option and which preview window position is in use. There are 8 views and you can switch view with a single function key.

The introduction of views allows you to set up Spartan just the way you want it for up to eight different tasks and switch between tasks with a single key press.

Updates to V1

3 Apr 2008 - V1.70
1. New sizable text editor with undo, redo, search and print.
2. Change view from the keyboard with F12

1 Mar 2008 - V1.63
Fix for compatibility with Vista Snipping Tool. (Also cures "Run Time 380" Errors)

15 Feb 2008 - V1.62
Fixes hang-up bug in the text search facility.

13 Feb 2008 - V1.61
Fixes the graphics editor problem of text items with more than one paragraph having the second and subsequent paragraphs aligned with the left edge of the graphic clip after saving.

7 Feb 08 - V1.60
1. Option for a one second delay before edge buttons appear.
2. Outlook pasting format for graphics is now optional.
3. Creating a graphic clip when a graphic file is copied is now optional.
4. Single click "Clear the Clipboard" item now on the right click menu.
5. Right click on a form filling button sends the TAB key.
6. Ctrl+C now works in clip preview.
7. Deleted clips are now moved to a "Deleted Clips" group.
8. If you drop a new clip from the clipboard on an existing clip in a group, the
    clip contents are replaced but the old clip name and highlight color are retained.

8 Dec 07 - V1.50
Fixes bug when copying from Microsoft Excel under the Vista operating system.

27 Nov 07 - V1.49
1. Fixes bug of edit and highlight window appearing behind main window in floating column mode.
2. Program now starts at same screen position even if it was shutdown in floating column or strip mode.
3. Fixes problem of not always restarting after shutdown under Vista Aeroglass Theme.

11 Nov 07 - V1.48
1. Activation buttons do not appear within 1 Inch of screen corners.
2. Clicking the system tray icon during a backup no longer interrupts it.
3. If clip preview is turned off, you can still pick from clips in the graphics editor.

25 Oct 07 - V1.47
Fixes bug of program occasionally popping up when only one of the hot keys is pressed e.g. pressing S when Ctrl+S is the hot key.

12 Oct 07 - V1.46
Fixes problem copying from the reply window in MS Outlook.

3 Oct 07 - V1.45
Further fix for Excel problems.

30 Sep 07 - V1.44
Fixes the problem of MS Word creating bookmarks during the copy process.

29 Sep 07 - V1.43
Fixes "File not found" error when displaying the options window under Windows 98.

12 Sep 07 - V1.42
Fixes bug when copying from Microsoft Excel.

5 Sep 07 - V1.42
You can now choose a font for the main display. There are shortcut keys to change groups.

21 Aug 07 - V1.41
There are now 3 options for the positioning of the preview window:
   Automatically in the screen corners as previous versions
   Automatically in the main window corners
   Manual positioning.
Also corrects display bug in V1.40 (Not showing XP and Vista style buttons)

23 July 2007 - V1.31
 Minor bug fix

20 July 2007 - V1.30
New Feature:
You can now elect to ignore clips from selected programs.

9 July 2007 - V1.20
New Features:
1. Activation hot keys now include all letters as well as function keys.
2. New special function button "DOS" allows pasting text into DOS windows.
3. Automatic starting at boot up is now an option.
4. New option to delete clips without confirmation dialog.
5. Preview window is now scrollable.
6. Upper, Lower, Proper and Sentence case utilities added to the text clip editor.

14 Dec 2006 - V1.10
Adds function buttons to paste text clips converting them to upper case or lower case during the paste process.

28 Nov 2006 - V1.02
Fixes bug changing font size.

26 Nov 2006 - V1.01
Fixes minor bug in the graphics editor.

Spartan - V1.00 - Released 16 Nov 2006