Microsoft Approves StampIt 4.0 as an Office Update for Word 97/2000.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

FOSE 2000

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 23, 2000

StampIt(TM), the acclaimed document marking, identification, and tracking software, has been approved by Microsoft(R) as an add-in for Microsoft Word 97/2000 and is available through the Microsoft Office Update site and many other popular download sites.

StampIt 4.0 was tested and passed by 20/20 Labs Inc., Microsoft's designated Office Update testing lab, based on the criteria set by Microsoft.

StampIt sets the new standard for document marking, control and identification. Among other features, it replaces rubber or self-inking stamps to mark and identify documents. StampIt embeds fully scalable hollow/outline, watermark, or solid words or phrases anywhere in a document (on the first, selected, or all pages) during printing to ensure document integrity and tracking without affecting readability.

StampIt can mark multiple copies of the same document, with different words or phrases embedded in each copy, all in one print session. For example, StampIt can print and collate an unstamped original, a copy with FILE COPY, two copies with CLIENT COPY, and a CHRON FILE copy in one print session, thus eliminating inconvenient, time-wasting, and expensive trips to the copy machine. StampIt can also "sign" documents and make "stamps" out of virtually any windows-compatible graphic, like company logos, shields, emblems, etc.

Enhancement Software principal Michael Ross said, "Though StampIt has received many endorsements and excellent reviews, we're particularly pleased by Microsoft's acceptance of StampIt because it gives Word 97/2000 users the confidence of knowing that StampIt is fully Word 97/2000 compatible and meets Microsoft's high standards for approved Office Updates."

Microsoft has approved approximately 20 third-party Word 97/2000 add-ins.

Ross said: "Our objective is to provide convenient, professional, and versatile products that solve real-world problems. StampIt, THE solution for document marking, control and identification, gives users total control over documents and how they are marked -- when necessary, mandatory, or just wanted. StampIt (patent pending) eliminates fooling with headers, footers, graphics, text boxes, graphics boxes, fills, transparencies, formatting, sizing, positioning and other tedious processes."

Enhancement Software offers a free, fully functional 30-day trial version of StampIt by download at http://www.stampitnet.com/pref_download/stwd972k.exe. Additionally, Enhancement is promoting Microsoft acceptance with a 50% limited-time introductory discount, putting StampIt at a cost less than the street price of a single two-line rubber stamp.

Enhancement Software, developers of StampIt, will be exhibiting in the Microsoft Partners Pavilion, booth 30, at FOSE in Washington, D.C., April 18-20 at Microsoft's invitation. FOSE is the principal IT event for federal, state and local governments, military, and private IT corporations.