(This help page describes the latest version of Word Search Printer - 3.02)
Welcome Welcome to Word Search Printer, the premier program
for creating and printing your own custom word search puzzles.
Some ideas for using the program include:
You can use the program to generate educational word search puzzles.
Word search puzzles can be used in schools and educational environments
(or home schooling) as an enjoyable
way to practice spelling, English as a Second Language (ESL), or revise
general knowledge.
You can also use the program to generate word search puzzles for playing with
friends and family, for example to keep the kids busy on a long train or plane
journey, or
as a family activity to play at
Christmas or
Thanksgiving.
You can use the program to create word search puzzles to publish
in newspapers, newsletters and magazines (please make sure that you
purchase the appropriate License for this option - see below). For example,
if your company publishes a quarterly newsletter for customers, why not
put a word search puzzle on the back page?
The Word Search Printer program comes in two flavors:
Free Trial
This is free, but copyrighted, software. We grant you permission (subject
to our License Agreement), at no charge, to use this version as long as
you want.
The Free Trial of Word Search Printer while it does work, does also include
some important limitations (principally that all puzzles and solutions are
overprinted with "Unregistered"). Although there are some limitations,
the Free Trial does otherwise work, and should therefore allow you to evaluate
the program and decide whether it's for you: if you decide it is you should register.
Registered
The Registered version is available to users who pay a small fee to our
company (see
instructions).
The Registered version includes all the features of the
Free Trial version, plus many more features too. The
Depending on your requirements, you can purchase different types of licenses
for the registered version. In each case, you need to purchase 1 license
for each computer that you intend to use the software on (discounts are
available for multiple licenses purchased at the same time).
The different types of licenses are (definitive details are in the license
agreement, so this is just a summary):
Family License:
You and your immediate family/household may use the software to prepare
word search puzzles for your own use.
The software may be used for
educational or entertainment purposes only, and not as part
of any commercial or money-making activity.
Education License:
You, staff and students of your school, college, university or other bona-fide
educational institution may use the software to prepare word search puzzles
for your own use,
and for magazines, newsletters and other publications published
by the educational institution.
The software may be used for
educational or entertainment purposes only, and not as part
as any commercial or money-making activity.
Community License:
You and other staff of any particular charity, religious or bona-fide
non-profit organization may use the software to prepare word search puzzles
for your own use.
and for magazines, newsletters and other publications published
by the organization.
The software may be used for
educational or entertainment purposes only, and not as part
as any commercial or money-making activity.
Business License
You and other staff of any particular business, company or other commercial venture
may use the software to prepare word search puzzles
for your own use.
and for magazines, newsletters and other publications published
by the organization.
You can tell which version of the program you are currently using by
looking for a message in the main screen (yellow text
on a dark red background, as shown below) indicating
that you are using the Free Trial version (if the message is not present, you
are using the Registered version), or by simply clicking About...
on the Help menu. In the case of the About... message, you
will apart from the Free Trial or Registered status, you will also see
a line describing what type of license you have.
As you will see in a moment, upgrading to the
Registered version (see instructions)
provides a lot of important extra features.
The differences between the two versions are summarized below:
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