Bridge Manager Features

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Bridge Manager's many features include:

Editing

• Quickly create new deals and edit existing deals
• Edit deal name, description, commentary, hands, bidding and play
• View all deal information (text, hands, bidding, play, etc.) together on one screen
• Scroll saved deals while information is displayed
• Make new variations on any saved deal 
• Add/remove/replace quick deal description notes, such as date played
• Add note marks to deals referencing one of 26-user defined notes
• Manually mark deals as played or not played
• Swap or rotate hands between players, and "rotate" saved bidding and play to match
• Swap cards between two suits in all hands
• Copy Bridge Baron's Challenges and ACBL Tournaments to standard PPL deal files
  
• Rename deals (and edit deal text)
• Edit bidding and play without erasing the existing bidding and play
• Reference bidding footnotes in the bidding list
• Add/edit/delete bidding footnotes by clicking on a bid or footnote
• Create multiple bidding notes viewable during auction, in addition to footnotes
• Quickly create multiple random deals from one dialog box
• View all four hands when entering/editing each hand
• See if more than one hand will be randomly dealt
• Select the order of player columns in bidding and play lists
• Shift bids clockwise/counter-clockwise for new declarer
• Create simple bidding for use with Baron's autobid feature
• Automatically trim blank spaces/lines from deal text
• Organize Baron's ACBL Instant Matchpoints data into two or four columns
• Select fonts for deal text
  
• Erase deal information (such as bidding and play) from multiple deals
• Undo/Redo deal changes

• Play hands as saved with easy scrolling forward and back
• Optionally play a hand other than South's when sending a deal into Bridge Baron (except Baron 9)
• Create multiple custom play notes viewable during cardplay
• Optionally play any card from any hand
• Animate card play and choose pauses between plays and tricks
• Play from any player's position at any time
• Swap cards between players during cardplay
• Automatically mark deals as played
• Optionally exclude played (or unplayed) deals when selecting to play a random deal
• Optionally select which deal notes to consider when selecting to play a random dealView play list when entering/editing play
• Show play as Rank-Suit or Suit-Rank
• Hide deal information
• Optionally not allow "equals" for saved play

Copying/Moving Deals

• Arrange deals in any order or sort them alphanumerically
• Copy or move deals to other "Personal Play Library" files
• Quickly combine several deal files into one file
• Copy deals and create different versions of the same deal

Finding/Replacing

• Find/replace text in names, descriptions and commentaries
• Search deals by category such as contract, declarer or hand
• Check for duplicate deal names or descriptions
• Search system for files
  

Printing

• Print more than one deal at a time or an entire library file
• Print lists of deal names and descriptions
• Print all deal information, including text, to fit on one page
• Print deal information without retrieving and playing a deal
• Print bridge terms and cards in customizable languages

Importing/Exporting

• Import PBN deals from PBN files or the Windows clipboard
• Import full bidding and play from PBN deals, not just contract and hands
• Export deals to PBN format files or the Windows clipboard
• Customize PBN tag values for import or export
• Add specific tag values to all exported deals
• Simultaneously add common tags to multiple deals at once
• Print customizable deal information to a text file, or the Windows clipboard
• Import text from a word processor to use as deal text
• Export deal information to a mail merge data file
• Use included mail merge document templates

Filing

• Copy, move, rename, backup, delete and restore library files
• Create, rename or delete folders
  
• Link to supplemental document files or webpages
  
• Convert library files from PPL for DOS to PPL for Windows formats
• Convert library files from non-standard formats
• Use more than one library file with early versions of Bridge Baron

Shortcuts

• Send selected deals directly into Bridge Baron for Windows
• Create bookmarks to retrieve deals from any library file
• Go to deals directly by number
• Easily switch between Bridge Baron and Manager
• Automatically start Baron for Windows after starting Manager
• Open library files from a quick list of last-used files
• Access commonly used features from a tool bar
• Get context-sensitive help from within dialog boxes

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