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Install  Can you tell me how to install the new version of EmEditor?  How can I change the install folder?  I am using a new version (or a new beta version) of EmEditor. Can I install an older version of EmEditor without uninstalling the new version?  How can I install an EmEditor syntax file?  How can I install EmEditor without displaying dialog boxes?  How can I remove the EmEditor Tray Icon permanently?  What do I do if EmEditor crashes when starting or editing?  Installation folder is set to C:\Program Files\EmEditor3. Is this correct?  I am using a previous version of EmEditor. Can I install a newer version of EmEditor without uninstalling the previous version?  Can both the old version of EmEditor and new version of EmEditor coexist on the same computer?  When EmEditor Professional is installed, the associated text file icon does not become one of EmEditor's icons.    Plug-ins  Why do I need to click the FindBar plug-in button twice in order to close the FindBar?  How can I enable the Outline Guide (Code Folding) while hiding the Outline Custom Bar?    Uninstall  I was using EmEditor on a trial basis and decided I don't want to purchase it. How do I uninstall EmEditor?  I have uninstalled EmEditor. When I double click a file to open the file, my computer looks for EmEditor. Since EmEditor does not exist in my computer anymore, I can't open the file. How do I open such a file?  After I uninstalled EmEditor, why isn't the source code displayed in notepad when I select View Source from the context menu in Internet Explorer?  After I uninstalled EmEditor, emedtray.exe and emedres.dll are still in the folder C:\Program Files\EmEditor. How do I delete them?    Purchase  If I purchase EmEditor, can I get the newer version for free? Or do I have to pay for the registration fee every time I get a new version?  How can I find whether the currently installed EmEditor is Professional or Standard?    Window  What is the split window for?  How can I save the EmEditor window size, and always open EmEditor windows at the same size?  How can I always open EmEditor windows at the maximized size?  How can I save the current positions of all EmEditor windows, and open all the windows at the same positions next time?  How can EmEditor display as if it were a tabbed window?  Why doesn't the Cascade or Tile command work?  How can I make the EmEditor window stay open when I close the last open document?  Is there a way to make EmEditor move through document tabs in sequential order from left to right?    Tools  How can I do a Google search for the word at the current cursor position?  I want to compile the opened file with an external tool in Command Prompt, but how can I keep the Command Prompt window from closing after the compilation is finished?  What are examples of External Tools configuration?  How can I run an external compiler from EmEditor to compile the current file?  Can I save multiple macros to files?    Macros  Can I use the VBScript MsgBox function?    Customize  How can my favorite mail software run when clicking mail address?  After updating EmEditor to the newest version, how can I add the new commands to a menu or add the new keyboard shortcuts?  There is no encoding available in the Reload sub menu under the File menu except Same Encoding, Detect All, System Default, UTF-16LE, UTF-16BE, UTF-8, and UTF-7. How can I add more code pages?  Can EmEditor encode Unicode characters as "Numerical Character References" (NCRs - those &#xxx; codes) when saving HTML or XML files?  What is "HTML" and "HTML-Embedded" in Special Syntax combo box on the Highlight (2) tab of Properties?  Why is there no ASP configuration?  How can I copy configuration properties on one machine to another?  How can I open the Input Method Editor (IME) automatically when running EmEditor?  How can I make the year 4 digits when you insert dates?  Clicking URLs will not run my favorite web browser.  How can I define two-keystroke keyboard shortcuts?    View  The cursor shape used to look like 'I' but now it looks like a solid rectangle. When I type a letter, it is not inserted but overwrites an existing character. What happened?  How can I add the Marks button to the Toolbar?  How can I find the return type (e.g. CR, LF, CR+LF) for each line?  How can I decode Numeric Character References ("&#xxx") in Unicode characters?  How can I find the number of the words in the selection?  The cursor vertical line is thin. Can it be thicker?  How can I display URLs without breaking at specific characters (such as , (comma))?  How can I display an underline at the cursor position?  How can I highlight previously searched strings more than once with different colors?  Can I change the Tray Icon on the Task bar to my favorite icon?  I don't like the new toyish Windows XP style toolbars. Can I use the old toolbar buttons?  I display line numbers on the left edge of EmEditor window. When a line is wrapped, I do not want to see the line number incremented within the logical line. How do I configure this behavior?  What are logical coordinates and display coordinates? What is a logical line?  How can I display continuous line numbers from page to page? I never had this problem, but now something changed in my configuration.  When do I use Font Category under the View menu?  When I open a file using the default settings, it becomes unreadable, and if I choose another character set from the Font Category sub menu under the View menu, it becomes worse. But if I select a proper encoding when I open the file, it works. Why?  Can I display single-byte spaces as any marks?  How can I display line numbers?    Search  How can I erase all the previous words in the Find box?  In the Find in Files dialog box, can I search for a string in Japanese JIS or EUC files?  Can I use regular expressions to search or replace?  How can I search for a word at the beginning of lines or a word at the end of lines?  What are examples of regular expressions?  Why doesn't EmEditor highlight multi-line strings?  Why is the Find/Replace dialog box so big?  How can I enter a multiple-line string as a search string in the Find/Replace dialog box?    Edit  How can I select the text with the keyboard?  How can I check spelling?  How can I sort lines in alphabetical or numerical order?  How can I undo inserted strings character by character using the Undo command?  Where can I download Microsoft Global IME?  How can I select a column block of text?  How do I insert special characters?  I cannot paste text correctly when the content in the Clipboard has been copied from another application such as Netscape Navigator.  Can I insert control characters such as form feeds?  How can I assign a shortcut key to insert a special character?    File  When I try saving a file as a file name without an extension, ".txt" will be added automatically. How can I prevent an extension from being added to a file name?  Can I open GB18030 files?  How can I convert file encodings by the command line?  How can I open a file with a certain file extension by double clicking in Explorer?  EmEditor is specified as an external text editor from another application. Why doesn't the change made by EmEditor reflect the application?  How can I start a new Java file or XML file as Western European, not as UTF-8?  How can I open an XML file as Western European, not as UTF-8?  How can I paste a Japanese (or Korean, Chinese, etc.) Word document into EmEditor and save as a text file?  What can I do to speed up opening a very large file?  How do I print my document in color or in black and white?  When using a shared folder on a network, is it possible to prevent other users from making changes to a file that I have open and I am working on?  What are three invalid characters at the beginning of my file?  When reading Macintosh text files, some characters are converted to different characters. How can I read Macintosh text files correctly?  Printing font size is too small.  How can I save an empty file?  How can I open from the same folder in the open dialog?  How can I close all windows at the same time?  When opening a file, EmEditor detects the file as a Western European even though it is actually a Japanese (Shift JIS) file.  How can I open a file exclusively?    Troubleshooting  How can I create a Dr. Watson log?