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PRODUCT OVERVIEW

sciPROOF is an add-on for Microsoft Office that streamlines the scientific proofreading process. It comes equipped with a powerful database engine that verifies scientific formatting and spelling. The program is seamlessly integrated with and used within Microsoft Office so there is no need to copy & paste text or switch between different applications. Other tools for scientific writing such as reference searching and glossaries are also included. Overall, sciPROOF improves accuracy and will save countless hours of formatting and proofreading.

SUPPORTED LANGUAGES

The sciPROOF program supports all languages that are configured during the installation of Microsoft Office. For example, if support for English, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, etc., is installed, then sciPROOF will support all of these languages. Please note that all terms in the current sciPROOF database are in English (US), however, terms in any language configured in Office can be added.

FEATURES

The sciPROOF program seamlessly integrates with Microsoft Office and works with Microsoft Word, Outlook, Outlook Express, Power Point, Front Page, Excel, Access, Visio, Publisher, One Note and Microsoft Project. The sciPROOF databases currently contain over 250,000 scientific, medical and chemical terms from the US National Library of Medicine (NLM) and the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), including all Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). MeSH is the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary list that is used for reference searching at various levels of specificity.

Spell Checker: The sciPROOF spell checker works in conjunction with the native Microsoft Office spell checker. The native Office spell checker first evaluates terms and then "sends" unrecognized terms to sciPROOF. If sciPROOF recognizes the term, it will "instruct" Office not to mark the word as unrecognized (removes the red squiggly line). If the term is misspelled, then sciPROOF will display appropriate spelling suggestion(s). It is important to note that since the Office and sciPROOF spell checkers work together, it is not necessary to re-add custom terms to sciPROOF that have been previously added to the native spell checker... learn more >>

Style Checker: In conjunction with spellchecking, sciPROOF verifies text styles, including font styles, e.g. italics, bold, underline, and font effects such as sub- and superscripting and ALL CAPS. While spellchecking a document, sciPROOF will scan a paragraph first for spelling and then for styles according to the style information stored in active sciPROOF databases... learn more >>

Greek Symbol Checker: The sciPROOF database includes the entire Greek Alphabet. This feature was designed to ensure proper use of Greek symbols and to automate their insertion. For example, if the user typed "b-catenin" or "alpha, beta, gamma-immunoglobulin," then sciPROOF would suggest "b-catenin" and "a, b, g-immunoglobulin," respectively... learn more >>

Internet Searching: Through the sciPROOF interfaces, PubMed searches can be performed within your Word document. This is facilitated through a special sciPROOF link to the US National Library of Medicine. Search results are displayed through the user's native web browser. Google, Yahoo, All the Web, and MSN search engines are also included in the sciPROOF search interface... learn more >>

Scientific Glossary: sciPROOF includes a scientific glossary of over 30,000 terms from the US National Library of Medicine. This drop-down glossary is easily accessible while proofreading with sciPROOF and can be customized by the user... learn more >>

Options: sciPROOF was designed to be a dynamic and flexible program. Through the "sciPROOF Options" dialog, any or all features or term databases (dictionaries) of sciPROOF can be activated or deactivated... learn more >>

EDITIONS

There are two versions of sciPROOF, the Workstation (WSE) and Terminal Server Editions (TSE).

Workstation Edition: This edition is designed for single and multiple non-concurrent users and is installed locally on the computer(s) with one of the following operating systems: Windows 98/ 98SE / Windows ME / Windows NT 4.0 Workstation / Windows 2000 Workstation / Windows XP.

Terminal Server Edition: This edition is designed for multiple concurrent users and can be installed on and run through any Terminal Server with Office 2000, Office XP, or Office 2003 and one of the following operating systems: Windows NT 4.0 Terminal Server / Windows 2000 Advanced Server / Windows 2003.

The Workstation Edition is ideal for personal use and is available for all local accounts. The Terminal Server Edition is cost-effective for large groups and the technical support is minimized since sciPROOF is installed on one computer only.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

The following are required for successful installation of sciPROOF:

• Microsoft Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Addition, Windows Millennium (ME), Windows NT 4.0 Workstation, Windows 2000 Workstation, Windows XP, Windows NT 4.0 Terminal Server, Windows 2000 Advanced Server, or Windows 2003.
• Microsoft Office 2000 (Word 2000), Office XP (Word 2002), or Office 2003 (Word 2003).
• 15 MB of local hard disc space in the Program Files folder to store executable components and common files.
• 20 MB in the Profiles folder to store personal databases for each account.

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