Introduction

EazyPaper is a family of software products that integrate as a plug-in to Microsoft® Word^[1].  It offers the tools and flexibility for writing professional documents according to the Turabian 7^th edition^[2] / Chicago Manual of Style 15^th edition^[3], APA 5^th edition^[4], and MLA 2^nd edition^[5], and with EazyMedical, AMA 9th edition^[6] formats.

If your papers need to be formatted in the Turabian / Chicago Manual of Style, APA or MLA formats, then you know how long it takes to get the title page, table of contents, footnotes, bibliography, etc. in the correct format. EazyPaper does the formatting for you.

EazyPaper generates references that look like this:

Turabian Examples
Book, one author: footnote entry

Kate L. Turabian, A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, 7th ed. (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2007), 23.

Book, one author: bibliographic entry

Turabian, Kate L. A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, 7th ed. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2007.

Journal, two authors: footnote entry

Lawrence P. Smith and John Doe, “Sailing Close to the Wind,” Politics in Action 10, no. 4 (1993): 80, 99-100.

Journal, two authors: bibliographic entry

Smith, Lawrence P., and John Doe. “Sailing Close to the Wind.” Politics in Action 10, no. 4 (1993): 80-102.

APA Examples
Book, one author: reference entry

Turabian, Kate L. (2007). A Manual for Writers of Term Papers (theses, and dissertations, 7th ed., p. 23). Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

Journal, two authors: reference entry

Smith, Lawrence P., & Doe, John. (1993). Sailing Close to the Wind. Politics in Action, 10(4), 80-102.

MLA Examples
Book, one author: reference entry

Turabian, Kate L. A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations. 7th ed. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2007.

Journal, two authors: reference entry

Smith, Lawrence P., and John Doe. “Sailing Close to the Wind.” Politics in Action 10.4 (1993).

AMA Examples
AMA is supported only with the EazyMedical module, and generates references that look like this:

Book, one author: reference entry

Gray H. Anatomy of the human body, 28th ed, edited by Charles Mayo Goss. Philadelphia: Lea & Febiger; 1966.

Journal, two author: footnote entry

Leach DC, and Philibert I. High-Quality Learning for High-Quality Health Care: Getting It Right. The Journal of the Americal Medical Association. 2006;296:1132.

Install EazyPaper

Installing EazyPaper is as easy as downloading the trial version and double clicking on the installer stub.  The EazyPaper system requirements are:

  • Microsoft Windows Vista 32 bit editions, XP, 2000, ME, or 98

  • Microsoft Word 2007, 2003, XP (aka: 2002), or 2000

License EazyPaper

The EazyPaper two-day trial version is a free download and can be redistributed. To start your trial, simply enter your name and email as shown in Fig. 1:

Fig. 1. Welcome to EazyPaper form

You will only be prompted with this welcome form on the first time you launch EazyPaper. You can then use all of the EazyPaper and EazyPaper Pro features free of charge for two days.

EazyPaper Pro has all the features of EazyPaper, plus support for:

  • All three formats (Turabian, APA, and MLA)

  • Writing journal articles

  • Citing emails

  • Searching references from libraries around the world (EazyLibrary)

EazyPaper Pro has all the features of EazyPaper, plus support for:

  • All three formats (Turabian, APA, and MLA)

  • Writing journal articles

  • Citing emails

  • Searching references from libraries around the world (EazyLibrary)

EazyMedical has all the features of EazyPaper Pro, plus support for:

  • AMA, the American Medical Association's format

Also, EazyPaper can only be licensed by students, professors and teaching assistants, and only for academic uses. All other users of EazyPaper, and all other uses of EazyPaper (including professional research) require you to license the Pro edition. EazyMedical can by licensed by anyone, for any personal, academic or professional use.

Buying a License to EazyPaper

You can buy a license for EazyPaper or EazyPaper Pro, or uninstall the program to remove it from Word. However, you will need to license EazyPaper after the two-day trial is over. There are several ways to “buy EazyPaper through EazyPaper”; you could:

  • Select the "Buy EazyPaper/Add features..." entry from the EazyPaper menu as shown in Fig. 2, or

  • Click the “buy” button of Fig. 3 by going through the "About eazyPaper/Login to EazyPaper" menu entry of Fig. 2

You could also buy a license through the website and manually install it by following the steps in the “Logging into EazyPaper” section. This involves extra steps, so it’s recommended that you “buy EazyPaper through EazyPaper” and let it install the license for you.

Fig. 2. How to show the “About EazyPaper/Login to EazyPaper” form

Fig. 3. “About EazyPaper/ Login to EazyPaper” form

All of these ways bring up the form of Fig. 4. You can use this form to buy or upgrade EazyPaper. Enter your Contact and Payment information, and click “Buy”. That’s it!

Fig. 4. Buy EazyPaper/Add Features

Logging into EazyPaper

After you buy a license, you may need to login to EazyPaper in order to activate your license for a particular computer. you could either manually login by entering your email and password into Fig. 3, or automatically login by checking the "Automatically log me in next time" box in Fig. 1 or Fig. 5.

Fig. 5. Login to licensing server

If you want to return to manual logins, you can always manually bring up Fig. 3 by going to the EazyPaper menu>About EazyPaper / Login to licensing server, and uncheck the "Automatically log me in next time" box.

Moving Your EazyPaper License

EazyPaper is licensed on a per computer basis, so if you bought one license, you can only use EazyPaper on one computer. However, you may move your license to another computer by simply installing EazyPaper on the new computer and logging in. EazyPaper will show you Fig. 6, giving you the opportunity to buy a license for this new computer, or move your license from the old computer.

Fig. 6: Moving an EazyPaper license

Buying a license will allow you to use EazyPaper on both computers, while moving your license will disable EazyPaper on your old computer as shown in Fig. 7:

Fig. 7. Warning that you cannot move your license back to the old computer

Clicking 'No' will dismiss the dialogue box without any changes. Clicking 'Yes' will move the license from the old computer to the new one and allow you to use EazyPaper on the new computer. When you try to use EazyPaper on the old computer, it will show Fig. 8:

Fig. 8. You cannot move your license back to the original computer

Special case: When there is no Internet connection

If EazyPaper cannot contact the licensing server for the initial login, it will show Fig. 9. You can either connect to the Internet and try again, or use another computer with Internet access to obtain your licenseId. Enter that licenseId and click "Go!" Thus, you can install EazyPaper on a computer without an Internet connection.

Fig. 9. Logging into EazyPaper without an Internet connection

You only need to log in once per computer as long as you check Fig. 5 “automatically log me in next time.” EazyPaper will then no longer need an Internet connection to operate for the life of that computer unless you reinstall the program.

How to Use EazyPaper

There are four steps to writing an EazyPaper:

1.     Start your EazyPaper

  • Apply EazyPaper

  • Configure EazyPaper

2.      Outline your paper

  • Navigate to section headings

  • Update your Pages, Figures, and Tables

3.      Write your paper

  • Use quick bookmarks: a navigation shortcut

  • Goto page

  • Insert figures and tables

  • Format quotations

4.      Insert Reference

  • Cut and paste references

  • Drag and drop References

  • Manually enter references

  • Edit or reuse previously entered references

  • Manually edit references

  • Manage the reference database

All of the EazyPaper features are available from the EazyPaper toolbar and menu, as shown in Fig. 10:

Fig. 10. The EazyPaper toolbar and menu

Step 1) Start Your EazyPaper

The easiest way to create a new EazyPaper document is to start a blank Word document, and click on the EazyPaper icon or menu item to apply EazyPaper as shown in Fig. 11. You can also follow these steps to apply EazyPaper to an existing document.

Fig. 11. Applying EazyPaper to a document

If you want to start EazyPaper without first starting Word, double-click the EazyPaper icon that was placed on your desktop and start menu as shown in Fig. 12:

Fig. 12. The EazyPaper icon

Apply EazyPaper

After starting EazyPaper, it will display the startup form of Fig. 13:

Fig. 13. EazyPaper Startup Form

Four formatting styles are supported: AMA, APA, MLA or Turabian/Chicago Style, with APA as the default. Select the formatting style you wish to use, and the sections you want to have in your paper. Some sections are only in Journal Articles, and are therefore only available in the EazyPaper Pro or EazyMedical edition.

You can also fill in the name of the document, author, and college under the section “Enter the title page information (optional)” as illustrated in Fig. 13. This information will be stored between papers, so that you do not have to enter your college or degree’s name for every paper that you write.

Click OK to generate a paper with the sections that you selected, and then move to Step 2) Outline your Paper.

Configure EazyPaper

If your institution requires modifications to your AMA, APA, MLA or Turabian papers, you can configure EazyPaper to handle these customizations by clicking the ‘Configure…’ button of Fig. 13, or selecting the option from the pull down menu of Fig. 14:

Fig. 14. Selecting to Configure EazyPaper documents

Fig. 15 shows the resulting configuration form for configuring your EazyPaper:

Fig. 15. Configuring EazyPaper

Settings that affect all EazyPaper documents

    Show Outline in left hand pane: Toggles the outline pane for your paper. As you add headings to your paper, an outline is automatically generated in the left hand outline pane. You can click on any of the section headings in this outline to jump to that section heading in your document. See Fig. 17 for a screenshot of the outline pane.

    Show Quick Bookmark location: Toggles the I beam that shows you where you put the quick bookmark. See “Use quick bookmarks: a navigation shortcut” for more details.

Settings that affect only this EazyPaper document.

  Set Margins: You can set the page margins to your institution’s specifications. Turabian allows for 1” to 2” page margins for your papers, and recommends that the top margin for the start of new sections to be wider than the rest of the paper. AMA, APA and MLA require 1” margins all-around, but many institutions prefer a wider left page margin when the document is to be professionally bound.

  Place page numbers at: Turabian allows for setting the page numbers at the upper center of the page, or the upper right hand corner for the start of new sections. All other page numbers must be at the bottom center of the page. AMA, APA and MLA require page numbers to always be at the upper right hand corner, and vary the distance between the edge of the page and the page number. This section allows you to customize these default settings to your institution’s specifications.

  Change heading: Turabian allows for a range of heading styles for each section, but AMA, APA and MLA are stricter in their specifications. You can customize these headings to the style that you prefer.

Step 2) Outline your Paper

Section headings are encouraged for most papers, but should only be used sparingly, and to at most, four heading levels, not including chapters. These headings form the outline for your paper. To create a heading, select the text that you wish to be a heading in your document and apply the appropriate heading level: chapter heading (Alt+C), heading 1 (Ctrl+1), heading 2 (Ctrl+2), heading 3 (Ctrl+3), or heading 4 (Ctrl+4) as shown in Fig. 16:

Fig. 16. Applying a heading level

Navigate to section headings

Fig. 17 shows a document with all the headings on one page and the resulting outline in the outline pane. You can click on any of the section headings to jump to that section in your document. To toggle the outline pane, refer to “Configure EazyPaper”.

Fig. 17. Sample document with the headings and outline pane on one page

Update your Pages, Figures, and Tables

EazyPaper can generate a Table of Contents from your section headings, and a Table of Figures and Tables from your figure and table captions. EazyPaper will update these tables, as well as the page numbers each time you run the update command (Ctrl+Shift+U) as illustrated in Fig. 18:

Fig. 18. Update Pages, Figures, and Tables toolbar icon

Since it is quite common to forget to update your Pages, Figures, and Tables before printing the document, EazyPaper will automatically update these settings for you when you print the document (File >Print).

Step 3) Write your paper

Unfortunately, EazyPaper cannot write the paper for you :-).  However, it does have some features that make writing the paper a little easier.

Use quick bookmarks: a navigation shortcut

Have you ever wished that you could bookmark your place in the document, so that you could quickly refer to it?  EazyPaper fulfils that wish; first, set a quick bookmark (Ctrl+F2), navigate to any place in the document, and then return to your place in the document (F2) as shown in Fig. 19:

Fig. 19. Setting and Returning to a Quick Bookmark

Go to Page

If you know which page you would like to go to, select "Go to Page..." (Ctrl+G) as shown in Fig. 20.

Fig. 20. Go to Page

Insert figures, tables, and cross-references

To insert a figure (Alt+F), a table (Alt+T) or a cross reference^[7] (Ctrl+Shift+C), select the appropriate entry from the EazyPaper menu as shown in Fig. 21:

Fig. 21. Insert a figure, a table, or a cross-reference

EazyPaper will insert the figure or table and caption it according to your paper’s style (AMA, APA, MLA, Turabian/Chicago).  You can update these captions by running the update command (see ‘Update your Pages, Figures, and Tables’).

Format quotations

There are two types of quotations: inline quotations and block quotations.  Inline quotations must be surrounded in quotation marks and are 3 lines or less, such as, “Do unto other as you would have them do unto you.”  A block quotation must be footnoted to credit its source.

Block quotations are three lines or longer like this quotation; otherwise, inline it with the text.  Quotations should be footnoted to indicate where you got it from.  For instance, this quotation rule is taken from the Turabian manual.^[8]

To format a block quotation, click in the paragraph that contains the quotation and select “Set as Quotation” from the EazyPaper menu (Ctrl+Q).  (Ctrl+Q).  To format a paragraph back to the normal paragraph format, select “Set as Paragraph (Ctrl+Shift+P) as shown in Fig. 21:

Fig. 22. Formatting Text as a Block Quotation or a Paragraph

Step 4) Insert Reference

Referring to Fig. 23, EazyPaper supports:

  • AMA, APA, MLA, Turabian/Chicago references

  • Footnotes, endnotes, citations and reference / bibliography entries

  • Books, periodicals (journals, magazines, and newspapers), reference works (encyclopedias, dictionaries, and atlases), and web addresses.  The EazyPaper Pro and EazyMedical editions also include support for citing emails.

Fig. 23. The EazyPaper reference dialog

Whenever you insert a footnote or endnote (used in the Turabian style), EazyPaper will also create the corresponding bibliography entry, and sort the bibliography.  EazyPaper will also detect and generate the Ibids and ________.’s in the footnotes and bibliography respectively, even if you entered them manually.  Similarly, whenever you insert a citation (used in the APA and MLA styles), EazyPaper will create the corresponding reference entry, and sort the references.

To give you more flexibility in dealing with special cases such as multiple authors, a detail form will popup on the right to provide you with the extra fields as shown in Fig. 24:

Fig. 24. Entering Extra Information

Cut and paste references

Let’s enter the following Turabian footnote into EazyPaper as an example:

Ann Light, and Des Watson. Enhancing your Website. (New York: Dorling Kindersley, 2000).^[9]

1)       Select the above footnote with your mouse and press Ctrl+C to copy the footnote. 

2)       Move the cursor to where you want to insert the footnote.  This can be within this user manual; any other Windows program, such as your browser,.pdf files; and other Office applications.

3)       Go to eazypaper → Paste Footnote or Bibliography entry… (Alt+P), or click on the Paste footnote toolbar icon as shown in Fig. 25:

Fig. 25. Pasting a footnote into EazyPaper

4)      You should see a reference entry dialog box similar to Fig. 26. with your reference filled in for you:

Fig. 26. Reference dialog box: Enhancing your Website example

5)      Click ‘Add’ to add the footnote entry to the database, whereupon you can enter a new footnote entry. Alternatively, you can click ‘Insert’ to enter the footnote and bibliography entry into the document, or ‘Insert and Close’ to also close the reference dialog box. If you do not want to enter the footnote or bibliography entry into the document, uncheck the ‘Generate this footnote’ or ‘Generate this reference entry’ checkbox respectively before clicking ‘Insert.’ This feature is useful if you would rather complete your bibliography before entering the footnote citations.

Drag and drop references

Let’s take another example, this time a reference entry for a journal in the APA format:

Doe, John. (2005). A Sample Journal Article in the APA format. The Sample Journal, 10(4), 80-102.

Note that the name of the journal, ‘The Sample Journal’ is not in italics as specified by APA.  EazyPaper will recognize this case anyways and correct this mistake in its output.  EazyPaper’s policy is to avoid error messages whenever possible by making its best guess at what you meant, and then allowing you to correct its mistakes.

1)       Open the reference dialog box (Ctrl+Shift+F) through the toolbar icon or menu item as shown in Fig. 27:

Fig. 27. Insert a footnote, citation, or reference entry

2)       You should see a dialog box similar to Fig. 26. Ensure that ‘Book’ and ‘Turabian / Chicago Manual of Style’ are selected in the drop down menus, also illustrated in Fig. 26.

3)       Select:

Doe, John. (2005). A Sample Journal Article in the APA format. The Sample Journal, 10(4), 80-102.

with your mouse, and drag and drop it into any grey area on the EazyPaper reference dialog using Fig. 28 as an example:

Fig. 28. Dragging and dropping a reference into EazyPaper

It must be dropped onto the grey areas, as shown by the circled last arrow in Fig. 28, for EazyPaper to accept the reference. You should now see a dialog box similar to Fig. 29.

Fig. 29. Reference dialog box: A Sample Journal Article example

Manually enter references

Dragging and dropping references into EazyPaper is a convenient way to saving typing, but references that are not already in an electronic format must be entered manually.  Using the Enhancing your Website example,

1)      Move the cursor to where you want to insert the footnote.

2)      EazyPaper → Insert Footnote (Ctrl+Shift+F).

3)      Click the “New” button, or select the <new> entry in the table.

4)      Enter the following data into the corresponding text-fields:

  • Author: Ann Light and Des Watson

o       Note that when you exited the Author text-field, “Anne Light and Des Watson” became “Light, Ann, and Watson, Des.”  EazyPaper automatically converts authors into the ‘last name, first name’ format for you; there is no need to worry about reversing the author names.

o       The rules for entering multiple authors can be quite complex.  An additional popup to the right when you begin entering the author allows EazyPaper guide you through the various options as shown in Fig. 30:

Fig. 30. Expanded Author Options

  • Title: Enhancing your Website

  • Publisher: Dorling Kindersley

  • Place: New York

  • Year: 2000

  • Page: 23

The reference dialog should now look like Fig. 26.

5)      Press ‘Insert’ to enter the footnote and bibliography entry

Edit or reuse previously entered references

Say if you wanted to enter another reference to Enhancing your Website, but to a different page number, say page 45.  Instead of entering the footnote all over again, use the EazyPaper database of previously entered reference as shown in Fig. 31:

Fig. 31. Reuse a previously entered reference

1)      Select the reference

2)      Change the page number to 45

3)      Click ‘Insert’

Manually edit references

  Once you click ‘Insert,’ EazyPaper inserts the footnote and bibliography entry into the text as if you entered it manually. So to manually edit the footnote or bibliography entry after it has been inserted - just edit it in the document! EazyPaper will recognize the new footnote when generating Ibids and shortened references.

  However, if you also wanted to update the reference database for future use, it would be better to delete the footnote or citation in the text, and then immediately reinsert it through EazyPaper’s database after making the necessary changes to the reference entry.

Manage the reference database

  Thus, EazyPaper’s database of previously entered references becomes a real time-saver as you don’t have to type everything out again. There are a few things you can do to manage the database:

You can remove database entries as shown in Fig. 32:

1) Select the entry you want to remove

2) Click ‘Remove’

Fig. 32. Remove database entries

And sort references by title, author, or date by clicking on a column header, as shown in Fig. 33:

Fig. 33. Sort references

How to use EazyImporter

You can drag and drop references from any Windows program into EazyPaper and it will just handle them, doing the conversions for you. Thus, importing references from any bibliography database, including the bibliographies of your existing papers into EazyPaper is just a matter of dragging and dropping. Follow these steps to use this feature:

1) If you are importing from another bibliography program, select the references you want to import and generate a bibliography of them using that program’s features. If you have a choice of output formats, choose Turabian as it retains the most information.^[10] If you are importing from an existing paper, simply open it in Word.

2) Select all references in the bibliography.

3) Drag and drop these references onto any grey area of the Reference form as shown in Fig. 28. It is also possible to drag and drop references written in another style and use EazyPaper as a converter of one style to another. EazyPaper does all the referencing work so you can concentrate on writing the paper.

How to use EazyHunt

EazyDatabase is a subscription add-on that allows you to search for references from all your papers, as well as the reference databases of the EazyPaper users around the world.  EazyLibrary is a one-time purchase add-on that allows you to search for references from libraries around the world. You can buy it as a separate add-on module to EazyPaper or EazyPaper Pro. Collectively, these add-ons form EazyHunt, which has the single unified interface of Fig. 34.

Fig. 34 EazyHunt

To search for a reference and add it to your database:

1. Enter the author(s), title keyword, or ISBN number that you wish to search for.  For example, “MLA”.
2. Click “Hunt”
3. Click a search result to see its details in the left hand pane, and then
4. Click “Add” to add it to your database

            That was easy!  But now for the details: a search will be started for EazyDatabase and EazyLibrary when you click “Hunt,” if you have those modules licensed.  EazyDatabase actually executes two searches: it searches your computer’s reference database (My EazyDatabase) and returns results immediately.  It also searches the aggregate reference database for EazyPaper users on the EazyPaper server (EazyDatabase).
            EazyLibrary searches whatever library you chose in the library dropdown box of Fig. 34.  EazyLibrary defaults to the Library of Congress, but you can choose from dozens of libraries from around the world.  EazyLibrary searches by author, title, and subject, and includes works that were written about that author too, so the search results can be quite exhaustive.  But, you can filter/show search results by unchecking/checking the appropriate checkboxes in the right hand panel of Fig. 34.  Or if you like, you can sort search results by title, author, location, and votes by clicking on the appropriate table header, similar to the instructions of Fig. 33.
            To search for something else, just enter a new search term in the Hunt dropdown and click “Hunt.”  You can go back to previous search results by simply retyping the search term in the Hunt dropdown, or clicking the dropdown arrow and selecting a previous search term.  To clear a search result, click “Clear.”  If you are currently executing a search, click “Stop” to stop the search, and then “Clear.”   Or, you can click “Hunt” to continue where the search left off. 

The power of EazyDatabase

Did you notice the “votes” column in Fig. 34?  EazyDatabase stores the references from all your papers in an encrypted database on your computer, and backs it up to the EazyPaper server when you exit Word.  Log on to any computer with an Internet connection, and new/updated references will be uploaded to your master EazyDatabase, and existing entries will be downloaded to your new computer.  You can force this synchronization by clicking the “options” link of  Fig. 35 and then the “Synchronize with server”  button.  If your database gets corrupted, you can click “Rebuild EazyDatabase” instead.  In any case, you don’t have to worry about losing your life’s research as a copy is stored on your computer, accessible from any of your EazyPaper documents, and the EazyPaper server.

Fig. 35 Syncronize with Server

Now that everybody’s EazyDatabase is in a searchable database, clicking “Hunt” will return results that anyone, anywhere has ever entered into EazyPaper. When someone adds a reference, they “vote” for it. When they remove a reference from their database, they “unvote” for it. So, when you search for something in EazyDatabase, and see that a reference has 25 votes, it means that 25 of your peers have considered that particular reference to be useful enough to be included in their bibliography. Sounds like a good candidate to look for in your local library. Note that these search results are updated in real-time on your computer. Try adding a search result, and see that the votes increment by 1. Then remove it from your database, and see that the location has been changed to “My EazyDatabase,” which means that the reference is not in any of your papers, but you want to keep it in your database of references for future use. Click “Remove” again, and the reference is deleted from your database, and votes decrement by 1. Or more subtly, enter a new reference that has your search term in the author, title, or keywords box of Fig. 34. Note that the reference is added to your search results, and that the votes have been set to one. That’s your vote for this reference, and you’ll publish it to the wider community when you synchronize your database with the server. For privacy reasons, your personal notes and email references will not be shared with other researchers, but publically available information like the title and publisher is fair game.

How to use EazyXray

EazyXray is an add-on feature that allows you to quickly view the synonyms, antonyms, spelling corrections, or underlying reference of a word under your mouse cursor.  Fig. 36 shows EazyXray in action when you hover over the word ‘action’.  Click any word in the popup or sub-popup windows to replace the word ‘action’ with your selection.

Fig. 36. Hovering over 'action' with EazyXray

You can download and install the comprehensive dictionary add-on (6 megs) to view an expanded list of synonyms and antonyms, as well as their dictionary definitions.  Fig. 37 shows EazyDictionary’s popup for the same word.

Fig. 37. Hovering over 'action' with EazyXray and EazyDictionary

If you hover over a misspelled word, then you get a list of spelling suggestions as shown in Fig. 38:

Fig. 38. Hovering over 'thier' with EazyXray

If you hover over a citation or a footnote entry, you will x-ray the underlying reference, saving you from having to scroll to the bibliography to view the whole reference; see Fig. 39.

Fig. 39. Hovering over a citation with EazyXray

Finally, you can turn EazyXray on or off through the toolbar as shown in Fig. 40, or by using the keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+Shift+X).

Fig. 40. Toggling EazyXray on or off through the toolbar

EazyXray in Outlook 2000 to 2003

As a bonus, you can also use EazyXray in Outlook 2000, 2002 (aka Outlook XP), and 2003.  These versions of Outlook allow you to use Microsoft Word as your ‘default mail editor’, and therefore run EazyPaper (with its EazyXray) in the background.  To turn it on, go to Outlook → Tools → Options as shown in Fig. 41.

Fig. 41. Turning on EazyXray in Outlook, step 1

Then, ensure that Microsoft Word is your default mail editor as shown in Fig. 42.  You should have to do steps 1 and 2 only once.

Fig. 42. Turning on EazyXray in Outlook, step 2

Now, write a new email, or reply to an existing one. The EazyPaper toolbar does not show up in Outlook by design; so, use the keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+Shift+X) to toggle EazyXray on and off. As you can see in Fig. 43, hovering over a word in Outlook will now show you synonyms or spelling corrections.

Fig. 43. EazyXray working in Outlook 2003

 

Uninstall EazyPaper

You can uninstall EazyPaper through the Control Panel in five steps:

1) Click ‘Start’ to see the Start Menu (Fig. 41)

2) Click ‘Control Panel’ on the Start menu (Fig. 41)

3) Double-click on the ‘Add or Remove Programs’ icon on the Control Panel (Fig. 42)

4) Select EazyPaper from the list of programs (Fig. 42)

5) Click ‘Change/Remove’ to uninstall EazyPaper (Fig. 41)

Fig. 44. Uninstall EazyPaper

Fig. 45. Remove EazyPaper

Documents created in EazyPaper will now behave like normal Word documents; however, if you edit the document on a computer with EazyPaper installed, all of the EazyPaper features (including your reference database) will be re-enabled for that machine. Thus, EazyPaper documents are fully compatible with computers that do not have EazyPaper installed – they just act as normal Word documents.

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