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Remove the tile menu complete by using a start menu replacement. We use OpenShell which gives us the ability to give teachers the classic windows 7 style menu.

Wishing all users of EWP a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year! 2021 can’t come soon enough...

It seems that my reply didn’t post so will write it again... here goes Short answer is it can’t be done. Simple reason is because full screen option is a direct replication of a kiosk style app that won’t allow users to deviate from it. I did look into building in a dictation module but all the free ones out there are crap and don’t come anywhere near MS Word. Wish I could offer a better answer and I would love to buy a module but they cost high hundreds, some thousands.

It’s a difficult one because you can’t monitor the students so are likely to want to use Word or Docs, we have taken the line that they should use EWP given it is what they will use in their final exams. Using anything else would go against the exam board guidelines for word processors.

You can use the insert ascents/characters sidebar menu while I investigate.

It’s all sorted, issue with my laptop not paper cut.

Version 4.3.0.0 just released folks! FIXED: When exiting the splash screen, if you have monitoring USB devices turn on, it would not shutdown the USB monitoring application. FIXED: When exiting the splash screen, if you have the option to logoff on exit turned on, a logoff would not happen. FIXED: ‘Export to DOCX’ Path is now customisable as per other paths in EWP. FIXED: If ‘PasswordOnExit’ was set and ‘AutoSave’ set to off, the application would crash. FIXED: If ‘PasswordOnExit’ was set, in some instances it would not exit the application or cancel the password box. FIXED: Attempted changes (Pause/Stop/Restart) to the timers for ‘AutoSave’ and ‘AutoBackup’ functions will now only initialise if they are active and running in the first instance. ADDED: EWP can now be run as a ‘Single Instance’ or ‘Multiple Instance’ Application for the logged in user. The default in the config using option “AllowMultipleInstances” has been set to ‘0’ = Single Instance. Set it to ‘1’ to allow Multiple instances. FIXED: The function that detects whether the current paper size can be used with the selected printer has been expanded to included more printer drivers. Download Methods Via the built in updater Via examwritepad.com Via Github

Quick update folks: Coming in next version so far: FIXED: When exiting the splash screen, if you have monitoring USB devices turn on, it would not shutdown the USB monitoring application. FIXED: When exiting the splash screen, if you have the option to logoff on exit turned on, a logoff would not happen. FIXED: ‘Export to DOCX’ Path is now customisable as per other paths in EWP. FIXED: If ‘PasswordOnExit’ was set and ‘AutoSave’ set to off, the application would crash. FIXED: If ‘PasswordOnExit’ was set, in some instances it would not exit the application or cancel the password box. FIXED: Attempted changes (Pause/Stop/Restart) to the timers for ‘AutoSave’ and ‘AutoBackup’ functions will now only initialise if they are active and running in the first instance. ADDED: EWP can now be run as a ‘Single Instance’ or ‘Multiple Instance’ Application for the logged in user. The default in the config using option “AllowMultipleInstances” has been set to ‘0’ = Single Instance. Set it to ‘1’ to allow Multiple instances. ADDED: MSI Installer now has an AUMID for those using automated deployement systems (You may still have to create your own shortcut icons after installation).

Ah I see, no worries, all borders are off by default when creating tables so it gives the user a blank canvas starting point, when adding in the borders they want. I’m expecting to release a new version next week. I’m in the process to setting up the code base so that I can transition it from Vb.net to C#, given the .net 5 news a few months ago. I’m also doing it with .net core in mind do there will be a possibility to run EWP natively on Linux and macOS. There may be some features that are windows only to start with as the transition progresses. Not sure how long it will take me but I would expect we would see a working version for 2022 exams.

If this is the default backup file path then yes, that is ok. If this is the default save path then no, because if the student clicks on open then they would have access to all the other EWP files been taken.

With regards this, the folder path is absolute, but always remember, each filename is unique and contains the name of the candidate and candidate number.

Yes, of course, read the documentation with regards "Command line Usage (Non-Windowed App – Run in Background)" page 34

This option has now been created and will appear in the next version of EWP in December.

I've exported a few tables and they are OK, how did you create yours? I'm in Word 365 and Word 2016

I can do that with the export output path no problem. Can you send me exactly how you create your tables, step by step because when I do it with or without borders, and each cell populated with text and images, they alway exports as normal to docx.

Version 4.1.9.0 Now Available ADDED: The header/Footer as now inserted into the ‘Export to DOCX’ function and will honour all the settings for headers/footers in the config. FIXED: The Paper Size button would not be hidden when set to hide in the config. FIXED: When restoring a previous history, the document window of the previous history never gets its contents reset. FIXED: When images were inserted, and were linked as opposed to embedded, and also, they were set to square wrapping as opposed to in-line, they would appear blank when exporting to a DOCX file. Images inserted into EWP are now embedded by default. FIXED: When inserting an image larger than the page size, it will now be scaled to fit the page width. If the pages have been set to landscape, then the image with fit the page height not width. FIXED: Narrator volume would throw an error if the initial volume were set to an odd number and you tried to increase it above 99% or decrease it below 1%. ADDED: Volume level percentage now added underneath the volume ‘Up/Down’ buttons on the narrator ribbon. ADDED: Right-click context menu, to resize (ft to page) a selected image. NEW: On application exit, you can now set the config option ‘LogOffComputerOnExit’ to logoff the computer instead of just closing EWP. Download Methods Via the built in updater Via examwritepad.com Via Github

Just to let you know if you cannot submit a bug via the main website, please submit it here on github instead: bit.ly/ExamWritePad-IssueTracker

Not for me no. The windows based client installer goes all the way through and says it was successful. But, no printers are installed. It happens on my laptop so I’m using it as a test to see what going on.

Sorry no but you could in a round about way if you have a windows Remote Desktop server. Then deploy ExamWritePad via RemoteApp like some people on here have for Chromebooks.

Just a quick update to let you know what is coming in the next version so far: ADDED: The header/Footer as now inserted into the ‘Export to DOCX’ function and will honour all the settings for headers/footers in the config. FIXED: The PaperSize button would not be hidden when set to hide in the config. FIXED: When restoring a previous history, the document window of the previous history never gets its contents reset. FIXED: When images were inserted, and were linked as opposed to embedded, and also, they were set to square wrapping as opposed to in-line, they would appear blank when exporting to a DOCX file. Images inserted into EWP are now embedded by default. FIXED: When inserting an image larger than the page size, it will now be scaled to fit the page width. If the pages have been set to landscape, then the image with fit the page height not width. FIXED: Narrator volume would throw an error if the initial volume were set to an odd number and you tried to increase it above 99% or decrease it below 1%. ADDED: Volume level percentage now added underneath the volume ‘Up/Down’ buttons on the narrator ribbon.

Ok sorted that issue, I have now set by default that images are embedded but be careful as your exam text files may now become massive! A document now with 10 high res images will be around 30-40MB in file size and will take about 5-10 seconds to load depends on processing power of the PC. It’s also a good idea to embed images because if a student copies the file onto a memory stick and then the exam officer takes it to their PC to print off, they won’t have the images as the image path will be invalid. This fix will be out in the next release coming by end of next week.

Ok, So looking at the file, it’s all to do with either the text doc component I use of the export component I use. Will have to play around with it more as it could be something to do with the RTF spec standards with either component. Short answer is: If the image is set to default wrapping of “In Line” then it exports OK as is. If you set the wrapping to “Square” then you also have to set the saving option “Embed data in the document” on the saving options tab when you format the image. I’m going to try to set Emded data in the document as the default but not sure how it’s done or if possible.

Yes, you probably haven’t read the documentation that says to install the vs 2013 runtime. It’s the only prerequisite for 1903 or higher. [emoji1303]

Below is my export and I have used many styles, alignments, bullets, tables, images, text highlighting etc It comes out perfect for me, the background page colour is always stripped out on purpose for printing as per normal. I'm using Office 365 (Latest)

That is strange as my test file with all manner of things inside it coverts ok. Can you send me your exam text file please by pm or by email [email protected] or [email protected] so I can take a look and I can send you my test file to run on your setup too.