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Introduction

Turabian Examples

APA Examples

MLA Examples

AMA Examples

Install EazyPaper

Buying a License

How to use EazyPaper

Apply EazyPaper

Configure EazyPaper

Update your Pages...

Use quick bookmarks

Go to page

Insert figures and tables

Format quotations

Insert Reference

Cut/paste references

Drag/drop references

Manually enter references

Edit/reuse references

Manage references

How to use EazyImporter

How to use EazyHunt

EazyDatabase

How to use EazyXray

EazyXray in Outlook

EazyTyper

How To Use EazyEditing

Uninstall EazyPaper

BIBLIOGRAPHY

User Manual

Preamble

If you prefer, you can download the user manual, or view the product demo instead of reading this HTML version of the manual.

Although this manual refers only to EazyPaper, it is completely applicable for EazyMedical also.

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 7th edition[2] / Chicago Manual of Style 15th edition[3], APA 6th edition[4], MLA Handbook 7th edition[5], MLA Style Manual 3rd edition[6], and with EazyMedical, AMA 10th edition[7] 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

     1. 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

     2. 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.

     23. Print.

Journal, two authors: reference entry

Smith, Lawrence P., and John Doe. “Sailing Close to the Wind.” Politics in

     Action
10.4 (1993). Print.

AMA Examples

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

Book, one author: reference entry

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

Journal, two author: reference entry

2. 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 7, Vista, XP, 2000, ME, or 98

  • Microsoft Word 2010, 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 Figure 1:

Figure 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 formats (APA, MLA, and Turabian / Chicago)

  • Writing journal articles

  • Citing informal eSources

  • 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:

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

  2. Click the "buy" button of Figure 3 by going through the "About EazyPaper / Login to EazyPaper" menu entry of Figure 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.

Figure 2. How to show the “Buy EazyPaper” and “About EazyPaper” forms

Figure 3. "About EazyPaper / Login to EazyPaper" form

All of these ways bring up the Buy form of Figure 4. You can use this form to buy or upgrade a permanent license, or an annual subscription to EazyPaper. The annual subscription is 25% cheaper than the permanent license and will email you a reminder every 12 months of its auto-renewal, but is cancelable at any time. Enter your Contact and Payment information, and click "Buy". That‘s it!

Figure 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 Figure 3, or automatically login by checking the "Automatically log me in next time" box in Figure 1 or Figure 5. Click the help link of Figure 3 for answers to frequently asked questions about activating your license.

Figure 5. Login to licensing server

If you want to return to manual logins, you can always manually bring up Figure 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 Figure 6, giving you the opportunity to buy a license for this new computer, or move your license from the old computer. Click the help link of Figure 6 for answers to frequently asked questions about moving your license.

Figure 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 Figure 7:

Figure 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 Figure 8:

Figure 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 Figure 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.

Figure 9. Logging into EazyPaper without an Internet connection

You only need to log in once per computer as long as you check Figure 5's "automatically log me in next time" checkbox; 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 Figure 10 for Word 2003 or earlier:

Figure 10. The EazyPaper toolbar and menu for Word 2003 and earlier

Word 2007 or later exposes the same features through the EazyPaper ribbon, as shown in Figure 11:

Figure 11. The EazyPaper ribbon for Word 2007 and later

Step 1) Start Your EazyPaper

The easiest way to create a new EazyPaper document is to start a blank Word document, and click the EazyPaper icon or menu item to apply EazyPaper as shown in Figure 12. You can also follow these steps to apply EazyPaper to an existing document.

Figure 12. 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 Figure 13:

Figure 13. The EazyPaper icon

Apply EazyPaper

After starting EazyPaper, it will display the startup form of Figure 14:

Figure 14. 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 Figure 14. 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.

You can decide whether to generate short instructions from the formatting manual and/or Professor Randy on how to write each section of your paper. Click OK to generate a paper with the sections that you selected, and then move to Step 2) Outline your Paper.

The 'Delete' and 'Delete all' buttons for Professor Randy's hints will look slightly different depending on your version of Word as shown in Figure 15, but their functionality is identical: you can delete that particular hint, or all of Professor Randy's hints with a single click of a button.

Figure 15. Deleting Professor Randy's Editing Hints

You can always click the help link of Figure 14 to view an online demo on how to apply EazyPaper to your document.

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 Figure 14, or selecting the option from the pull down menu of Figure 16:

Figure 16. Selecting to Configure EazyPaper documents

Figure 17 shows the resulting configuration form for configuring your EazyPaper. You can always click the help link of Figure 17 to view an online demo on how to configure EazyPaper.

Figure 17. 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 any of the section headings in this outline to jump to that section heading in your document. See Figure 18 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. AMA, APA, MLA and Turabian 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, upper right, or bottom center of the page, as long as it is consistent. 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.

Configure footnotes: Turabian 6th edition specifies superscripted footnote numerals, but 7th edition does not. You can also change the font size and whether footnote numbering restarts at every section (i.e. chapter) or continues from the previous section.

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 Figure 18:

Figure 18. Applying a heading level

Navigate to section headings

Figure 19 shows a document with all the headings on one page and the resulting outline in the outline pane. You can click any of the section headings to jump to that section in your document. To toggle the outline pane, refer to "Configure EazyPaper".

Figure 19. 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 Figure 20:

Figure 20. 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 Figure 21. Need a second bookmark? Use (Ctrl+F3) and (F3) instead.

Figure 21. 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 Figure 22.

goto page

Figure 22. Go to Page

Insert figures, tables, and cross-references

To insert a figure (Ctrl+Alt+F), a table (Ctrl+Alt+T) or a cross reference[8] (Ctrl+Shift+C), select the appropriate entry from the EazyPaper menu as shown in Figure 23:

Figure 23. 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).

When inserting tables, EazyPaper provides a list of table templates that are appropriate for your paper's style. The APA-specific list of tables is shown in Figure 24. Simply click a table template to insert it into your document.

Figure 24. Insert Table form for APA

Format quotations

There are two types of quotations: inline quotations and block quotations.  Inline quotations must be surrounded in quotation marks and are four 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 five 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.[9]

To format a block quotation, click in the paragraph that contains the quotation and select “Set as Quotation” from the EazyPaper menu (Ctrl+Q). To format a paragraph back to the normal paragraph format, select “Set as Paragraph” (Ctrl+Shift+P) as shown in Figure 25:

Figure 25. Formatting Text as a Block Quotation or a Paragraph

Step 4) Insert Reference

Referring to Figure 26, EazyPaper supports:

  • AMA, APA, MLA, Turabian / Chicago references

  • Footnotes, endnotes, citations, numbered references, 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 informal eSources.

Figure 26. 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. Click the help link of Figure 26 to view an online demo on how to insert references with EazyPaper.

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 Figure 27:

Figure 27. 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).[10]

1) Select the above footnote with your mouse and press Ctrl+C to copy the footnote. You could have copied a reference from any Windows program, such as your browser, pdf files, or other Office applications.

2) Place your cursor where you want to insert the footnote into your document.

3) Go to EazyPaper → Paste Footnote or Bibliography entry… (Alt+P), or click the Paste footnote toolbar icon as shown in Figure 28:

Figure 28. Pasting a footnote into EazyPaper

You should see a reference form similar to Figure 29. with your reference filled in for you:

Figure 29. Reference dialog box: Enhancing your Website example

4) 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. To try out this feature,

1) Open the reference dialog box (Ctrl+Shift+F) through the toolbar icon or menu item as shown in Figure 30:

Figure 30. Insert a footnote, citation, or reference entry

2) You should see a dialog box similar to Figure 29. Ensure that ‘Book’ and ‘Turabian / Chicago Manual of Style’ are selected in the drop down menus, also illustrated in Figure 29.

3) Select:

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

4) With your mouse, and drag and drop it it into the background area of the EazyPaper reference form, as shown by the circled last arrow in Figure 31:

Figure 31. Dragging and dropping a reference into EazyPaper

You should now see a dialog box similar to Figure 32.

Figure 32. 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 and/or Reference entry... (Ctrl+Shift+F).

3) Click the “New” button, or select the <current unsaved 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, “Ann 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 Figure 33:

Figure 33. Expanded Author Options

  • Title: Enhancing your Website

  • Publisher: Dorling Kindersley

  • Place: New York

  • Year: 2000

  • Page: 23

The reference dialog should now look like Figure 29. Note that you can consult (i.e.: click) other entries in the table while working on the <current unsaved entry> EazyPaper will remember what you have typed in so far when you click <current unsaved entry> again.

5) Press ‘Insert’ to insert the footnote and bibliography entry into your document.

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 Figure 34:

Figure 34. 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 Figure 35:

1) Select the entry you want to remove

2) Click "Remove"

Figure 35. Remove database entries

And sort references by title, author, or date by clicking on a column header, as shown in Figure 36:

Figure 36. 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.[11] 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 the background of the Reference form as shown in Figure 31. 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 as a part of EazyPaper Pro. Collectively, these add-ons form EazyHunt, which has the single unified interface of Figure 37.

Figure 37. 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 Figure 37.  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 Figure 37.  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 Figure 36.
    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. Click the help link of Figure 37 to view an online demo on how to use EazyHunt.

The power of EazyDatabase

    Did you notice the “votes” column in Figure 37?  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 Figure 38 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.

sync

Figure 38. 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 Figure 37. 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 eSource 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.  Figure 39 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.

EazyXray

Figure 39. 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.  Figure 40 shows EazyDictionary’s popup for the same word.

EazyXray with Dictionary

Figure 40. 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 Figure 41:

Misspelled

Figure 41. 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 Figure 42.

Reference

Figure 42. Hovering over a citation with EazyXray

Finally, you can turn EazyXray on or off through the toolbar as shown in Figure 43, or by using the keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+Shift+X).

Toolbar

Figure 43. EazyXray toolbar button

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 Figure 44.

ToolOptions

Figure 44. Turning on EazyXray in Outlook, step 1

Then, ensure that Microsoft Word is your default mail editor as shown in Figure 45.  You should have to do steps 1 and 2 only once.

MailOptions

Figure 45. 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 Figure 46, hovering over a word in Outlook will now show you synonyms or spelling corrections.

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Figure 46. EazyXray working in Outlook 2003

How to use EazyTyper

EazyTyper is an add-on feature that suggests word completions based on the words you have already typed in your document as in Figure 47.

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Figure 47. EazyTyper visual sample

You can now complete the word by pressing the enter or tab key. EazyTyper's intelligent completion algorithm means that you may only need to type three, or even two keys to spell a long word, increasing your typing speed and spelling accuracy.

And, as you type more letters, EazyTyper will display only the words that match the prefix you have already typed, to the point where there is only one match, as shown in Figure 48.

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Figure 48. EazyTyper with only one match

At this point you can press enter or tab to complete the word.

To toggle EazyTyper on or off, use the toolbar button as shown in Figure 49 or the keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+Shift+T).

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Figure 49. EazyTyper toolbar button

As a bonus, you can also use EazyTyper in Outlook 2000, 2002 (aka Outlook XP), and 2003. Just follow the same instructions as EazyXray in Outlook 2000 to 2003.

How To Use EazyEditing

The final step before submitting your paper is to edit it for grammar and consistency, preferably by a professor who has graded papers and knows what he is looking for. EazyPaper Inc. has teamed up with Professor Randy of Trinity Western University to bring you EazyEditing, a grade estimation and editing service built right into EazyPaper. First, select “Submit Paper for Grading or Editing” from the EazyPaper menu as shown in Figure 50, to bring up Figure 51:

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Figure 50. How to submit a paper for grading or editing

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Figure 51. Submit Paper for Grading or Editing

Then select the service you wish to purchase, enter the style and type of English of your paper, and click “Buy” (Figure 51). Clicking “More Info” will redirect you to a webpage where you can learn more about Professor Randy, the EazyEditing service, and the price per page that we charge for editing. Once you have entered your contact and purchase information in a form similar to Figure 4, EazyPaper will upload your document for grading / editing. Professor Randy will return your paper by email within the turnaround period.

Uninstall EazyPaper

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

1) Click "Start" to see the Start Menu (Figure 52)

2) Click "Control Panel" on the Start menu (Figure 52)

3) Double-click the "Add or Remove Programs" icon on the Control Panel (Figure 52)

4) Select EazyPaper from the list of programs (Figure 53)

5) Click "Change/Remove" to uninstall EazyPaper (Figure 53)

Figure 52. Uninstall EazyPaper

Figure 53. 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.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

American Medical Association, The. American Medical Association Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors, 10th ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.

American Psychological Association, The. Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 6th ed. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 2010.

Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 7d ed. New York: The Modern Language Association Of America, 2009.

Light, Ann, and Des Watson. Enhancing your Website. New York: Dorling Kindersley, 2000.

Modern Language Association Of America, The. MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing, 3d ed. New York: The Modern Language Association Of America, 2008.

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

University of Chicago, The. The Chicago Manual Of Style: The Essential Guide for Writers, Editors, and Publishers, 15th ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.

 



[1] Microsoft® is a registered trademark or trademark of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and other countries.

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

[3] The University of Chicago, The Chicago Manual Of Style: The Essential Guide for Writers, Editors, and Publishers, 15th ed. (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2003).

[4] American Psychological Association, Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 5th ed. (Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 2001).

[5] Joseph Gibaldi, MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 7th ed. (New York: The Modern Language Association Of America, 2009).

[6] The Modern Language Association of America, MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing, 3nd ed. (New York: The Modern Language Association Of America, 2008).

[7] American Medical Association, American Medical Association manual of style: a guide for authors and editors, 10th ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007).

[8] A cross reference is an automatically updated link to a heading, figure caption, or table caption. This is useful when you want to say "see figure 5 on page 23", and that figure may no longer be the 5th image or on page 23 by the time you finish your document. Just click EazyPaper‘s Update button, and these cross-references will be updated for you.

[9] Turabian, A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, 350.

[10] Light, Ann, and Des Watson. Enhancing your Website. New York: Dorling Kindersley, 2000.

[11] Compare Turabian‘s reference: ‘Kate L. Turabian, A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations. 7th ed. (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2007), 23’ to APA’s reference: ‘Turabian, K. L. (2007). A Manual for Writers of Term Papers (theses, and dissertations, 7th ed., p. 23). Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.’ The Turabian reference has the author‘s full name, whereas the APA reference only has the initials.

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