
PunctPad v3.0 is the premier text edtiting tool for your MP2000!
Tired of constantly tapping the caret to enter some punctuations?
Punctpad is a floating keyboard consisting of punctuations, numbers
and various editing features. It is designed to eliminate a few
extra taps to delete or add commonly used punctuations. Added
features help keep PunctPad handy but out of your way!
Named as Newton Underground's Package of the Week (POW) in February
1998.
HandJive rated PunctPad 5 out of 5 stars.
Features in v3.0
- All features now work with NewtWorks!
- Unique positioning feature
- Caret tracking mode keeps PunctPad close to the caret as you write.
- Quickly position PunctPad to one of five areas on the screen in
one tap.
- Text Editing
- Hilite Words: first tap hilites one word, next tap in quick succession adds
previous word to the hilite.
- Hilite All: first tap hilites text bounded by a return or break, next tap
hilites all text in the view.
- Delete Word: delete an entire word in one tap.
- Cut/Paste
- Capitalize/lowercase first letter of word.
- NoSpace: removes spaces from hilited text.
- Save text clippings to the "Text" button to be used at later time.
- Space, return, tab, delete and four direction caret keys.
- Undo, Assist buttons.
- Deletes all text in a view in one tap.
- Date entry.
- Keyboard button pops up all internal keyboards, including the Styles palette
and User Dictionary.
- Punctuations
- Three key sets (see pictures below).
- Easy entry quotes, brackets, parenthesis, etc. (ex: "" and puts
caret between them).
- With 24 user-defined keys you'll have all the punctuations you need!
- New customizable view
- Caret tracking controls can be set for right or left handedness
- PunctPad can be resized to only show the text editing buttons
(see pics below).

