Hello frew,

> I'm using Version 4.2, and before I go about downloading the latest
> version, I was hoping to be able to find a list of changes (ie a
> version history,etc) somewhere online to wee if I really want/need  to
> install a newer version. Any idea where I can find an online version
> history for Power Pro?

That does not exist for two reasons:

A: All new versions after the latest major release 4.4
are only for beta testers who read messages in this group.
That's why they are not linked to from the main Powerpro
web page at http://powerpro.webeddie.com

Whenever Bruce announces a new beta version here, 
he mentions the new features and they are discussed
in the same thread, for example "Re: Beta 4.4.14",
or in recent threads such as feature requests.

Nobody has volunteered their time to copy extracts from
those discussions into a separate document.


B: An up to date version history outside of Help
would be a lot of work to provide because PowerPro
is more complicated than most programs and all its 
new and old features are so closely inter-related.

Therefore the only What's New list is a topic in Help.
It needs to be there so each item can be linked from 
its brief mention in the "New for this Release" topic 
to the longer description in the relevant topic.

It would be very time consuming to create a separate doc
or web page which is only about What's New.
Somebody would have to choose selections from the Help 
topics which "What's New" links to, then format the new 
document as html or a downloadable format such as .doc 
or .pdf.
That would have to be updated every time a new beta is released.

Some of those new selections from Help would make little sense 
anyway when removed from the context of older related commands.

Unless somebody volunteers to take on that work,
you can easily read a new beta's Help yourself,
without installing the new executables:

- download the latest version (which is a .zip file)
- extract it to a folder
- it contains ppro<number>.dat (which is actually zip format)
- extract that to a new folder (you may need to change its
extension to .zip first, depending on your unzipping program)
- it contains the new powerpro.hlp (and the new powerpro.cnt
which must be in the same folder to make it work).
Then you can run it, read What's New, and follow the links
to the detailed descriptions.

Caution: do not use any other files which you extracted
from ppro<number>.dat. They need to be installed together
by setup.exe.



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