The New Cleaner Palette

The TextSoap 5 cleaner palette offers a number of key features designed to simplify your cleaning tasks by allowing for more task oriented grouping of cleaners, easy filtering of cleaners and providing the descriptions of cleaners without having to reference help or documentation.

Improved Single Click

No longer confined to a small area, the new cleaner palette makes each cleaner a one-click button.

Tell me what this Cleaner does

A frequently requested feature, TextSoap now displays the description of the cleaner as a tool tip.

Finding with Filtering

TextSoap 5 allows you to filter the listing of cleaners within a group based on typing a few characters. An example:

  1. Choose the Library Group of cleaners
  2. Click in the search box
  3. Type in "Return"

TextSoap will now show you all the cleaners in the group Library whose name includes "Return".

  1. Click the X to clear the filter criteria
  2. Now type in "quote"

TextSoap will display the quote-related cleaners (having "quote" in the name). In this case, we have cleaners included that refer to quotes (as in quotation markers) as well as quoting (as in referring to some previous text).

Separated at Birth

TextSoap 5 now supports including separators in a cleaner list. This is a spacer item that visually separates a set of cleaners within a group. If you look at the default HTML group, you will see that separators are used to visually group common HTML tags together.

Compatibility Note: The size of the spacer varies. In OS X 10.3, the separator is the same height as a cleaner button. In OS X 10.4 or later, the separator is half the height of a cleaner button.

Grouping Cleaners (Deluxe)

Requires a TextSoap Deluxe license.

TextSoap 5 Standard offers a single customizable group of cleaners, called "MyList", to be used for your particular needs.

TextSoap 5 Deluxe expands on this by allowing you to create more than one group of cleaners. Groups can be used to better organize by the particular task you are trying to accomplish.

TextSoap 5 includes several pre-built task-oriented groups. You can customize and add your choice of cleaners to these as needed. It is only meant as a starting point for your own organization. To customize, simply choose "Edit Groups" from the Groups popup on the cleaner palette.

A group is a collection of cleaners that you define. An example might be cleaners you use often when processing email or perhaps when processing HTML text.

Let's create an Email Group.

  1. After launching TextSoap, click the pencil next to the group popup to open the group editor.
  2. Choose to create a new group from the action menu.
  3. Name it "Email".
  4. Select the "SCRUB" cleaner and choose Add to Group.
  5. You can also drag-n-drop your desired cleaners from the library into the Group Items section.

  6. Now select the "Remove Email Forwarding Characters" and choose Add to Group.
  7. Click "Add Label" to add a label (Deluxe).
  8. Type the name "Case Conversions" and select OK to add the label to the group.

Now if you click on the Group popup menu and choose "Email", you should see the two cleaners you selected in your palette list.

Later, you can edit it and add whatever other cleaners you might need.

You can create a virtually unlimited number of Groups to organize cleaners based on common tasks, document types or other criteria.