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Release History

This page gives a brief description of the issues addressed by each published version of ChronoLator.

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Version 2.1 - released September 15 2010

Bugs fixed

• Runtime Error -2147418113 (8000ffff)  - ... Could not set the Curline Property ... when opening a ChronoLator document.
  • This error was encountered when opening an unlicensed document, or when trying to view the licence in a licensed one. ChronoLator now circumvents the underlying bug in some word versions.
• Word 2010: 64-bit version crashes or hangs when opening a ChronoLator document.
  • ChronoLator 2.1 issues a message that 64-bit Word 2010 is not supported, and then allows the user to close the document normally. Full support for 64-bit Word 2010 will be included in ChronoLator Release 3.0.
• Word 2010: Runtime Error 5891 - That property is not available on that object when opening the Online Workbench .
  • Word 2010 withdrew one of the commands ChronoLator used when opening the Online Workbench. ChronoLator now uses the command which replaced it.

Other changes

Version 2.1 includes support for the 32-bit version of Word 2010 and helps prevent a number of problems which customers have reported since Version 2.0. A complete description can be seen in this document.

The following paragraphs summarise the most significant changes.

• Enforcement of the Word 97-2003 file format, which provides maximum compatibility between organisations who circulate ChronoLator documents. Please note that Word 2007 and 2010 are perfectly happy to process the Word 97-2003 file format.
• Improved processing of files stored on Network Drives. ChronoLator 2.1 encourages and simplifies setting a Word option which was introduced in Word XP. Using this option has been found to improve performance and prevent problems experienced by some customers. 
• Suspension of ChronoLator processing when Word's Tracked Changes feature is active. Tracked Changes can corrupt any Word table, not just a ChronoLator one. ChronoLator 2.1 detects when the feature is active and will not make potentially dangerous changes while it is. It also provides an easy way to accept all changes and turn the feature off.

Version 2.0 - released August 20 2007

Bugs fixed

• Runtime error 5991 when checking or merging tables.
  • This error was encountered if a table included vertically merged cells. ChronoLator now checks for vertically merged cells and highlights them along with other errors.

Other changes

Version 2.0 is a major release including extensive enhancements. A complete list can be seen in this document. The following paragraphs summarise the most significant changes.

• The Online Workbench now includes a Wizard to help produce new Internal Chronology documents. The Wizard simplifies the process in several ways: for example, you can model a new chronology on an existing one, and changing the order of columns is much easier.
• ChronoLator Documents include a number of new features:
  • they can include a Glossary of Abbreviations. A column can be designated which can only include abbreviations which are defined in the Glossary;
  • duplicate rows can be highlighted or deleted, making it much easier to incorporate updates to agency chronologies which have already been imported into Composite Chronologies;
  • a handy Age and Interval calculator is included on the Toolbar.
• Animated Tutorials demonstrate the principal features of the product.

Version 1.3 - released May 22 2006

Bugs fixed

• Certain maintenance levels of Word 2000 fail to sort a table correctly.
  • The changes to VBA table processing included in Word maintenance KB824936 fix this problem. However, rather than expecting customers to ask their IT departments to apply maintenance to Word, we developed a circumvention in this release. Affected users can change the dates to the ISO date format before sorting. The dates can be redone as 'dd mmm yyyy' after the sort if desired.

Other changes

• Dates can be formatted to the International Standard Date format (ISO 8601) as well as 'dd mmm yyyy'. The ISO standard is 'yyyy-mm-dd', for example 2006-05-22.
• Tables can be sorted in Descending order as well as Ascending.

Version 1.2 - released February 3 2006

Bugs fixed

• Errors are not highlighted, or corrected errors stay highlighted after pressing 'Check Tables'.
  • This could be circumvented by scrolling up or down until the highlighting is off the page, then scrolling back.

• Occasionally when merging tables, a row would split into two or more rows.
  •  The most likely symptom you would notice is that the resulting rows are marked as errors because they do not have a valid date.

Other changes

• An error message is now issued if the Word version is lower than 2000.
• Documentation about setting macro security has been improved, it being made clear that Word must be shut down and restarted after making changes.

Version 1.1 - released June 2005

First publicly released version.