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Update all documentation for 2.7.0

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* Update INSTALL.md to align with Wiki
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.Advanced Password Generator Options
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8. When generating a password for an entry, click the Apply Password button (Ctrl + S or Ctrl + Enter) to close the window and apply your changes.
=== Generating Passphrases
A passphrase is a sequence of words or other text used to control access to your applications and data. A passphrase is similar to a password in usage, but is generally longer for added security. To generate the random passphrase using Password Generator, perform the following steps:
A passphrase is a sequence of words or other text used to control access to your applications and data. A passphrase is specifically designed to be simple to remember but hard to guess. For this reason, we do not recommend making passphrases too complex; if you require something that is more complex than you could easily remember, it is better to use a randomly generated password instead.
1. From the password generator, click the Passphrase tab. The following screen appears:
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2. Select the number of words you want to be included in your passphrase by dragging the
Word Count slider.
3. In the Word Separator field, enter a character, word, number, or space that you want to use a separator between the words in your passphrase.
3. In the Word Separator field, enter a character, word, number, or space that you want to use as a separator between the words in your passphrase.
4. _(Optional)_ You can choose a word case between lower, upper, and title case options.
5. _(Optional)_ You can also load your own custom word lists. Click the plus sign button to the right of the wordlist selection dialog to choose a custom word list. You can download alternative lists from the https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/07/new-wordlists-random-passphrases[EFF's Website] or from https://github.com/redacted/XKCD-password-generator#additional-languages[GitHub].
4. Click the Regenerate button (Ctrl + R) to generate a new random passphrase.
5. Click the Clipboard button (Ctrl + C) to copy the passphrase to the clipboard.
6. When generating a password for an entry, click the Apply Password button (Ctrl + S or Ctrl + Enter) to close the window and apply your changes.
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