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The Address Book Solution                                           Tips Page 1
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Following is a list of a few tips to make using The Address Book Solution
easier.

- Press the F1 function key at any time to receive context sensitive help.

- When entering records with similar information (such as family members with
  the same address), use the <C>arry option from the Add menu to carry the
  information forward to the next entry.  This will save data entry time.

- Although 30 major categories is usually enough, there are times when more are
  needed, or entries should cross categories.  Rather than using a different
  category for everything under the sun, enter codes into either the CODE
  field, or use one of the note lines for these codes.  For example, if a club
  has members and non-members, as well as different types of each, don't use an
  individual category for each membership group.  Instead, use category 1 for
  members, and category 2 for non-members.  Then enter codes such as 'SR',
  'JR', 'BG' in the third note line, separating each with at least one space.
  When printing, choose the desired category(s), as well as enter the following
  on the filter line:

              'SR'$UPPER(NOTE3)            to select only SR members
     or       'SR'$NOTE3 .OR. 'JR'$NOTE3   to select JR or SR members

  Another example: A law office of ten lawyers may have several lists, one for
  personal friends, individuals to include in a Christmas mailing, clients,
  prospective clients, various types of clients, etc.  Since an individual may
  fall into more than one of these groups, use the categories (1-10) to
  represent each lawyer, then enter codes into the third note line to represent
  the other groups.  For example, enter 'CC' and 'PC' to represent an
  individual who is a prospective client (PC) and who should receive a
  Christmas card (CC).  If the individual becomes a client, change the 'PC' to
  'CL' (client).  Entering the following on the filter line will select only
  prospective clients who should receive a Christmas card:

              'CC'$UPPER(NOTE3) .AND. 'PC'$UPPER(NOTE3)

  For additional assistance or suggestions, please call tech support.  This
  planning stage is important for printing information in the desired order
  later on.

- Be consistent.  For example, if 'Phone 1' is used to store business phone,
  and 'Phone 2' is for fax, do not enter a home phone in either field.
  Instead, enter the home phone in one of the note lines with a comment.  Dates
  should be used in the same way.

- Since the 'Last Updated' field contains the most recent date of entry/change,
  use the filter to print or view records updated within a certain period.  For
  example, to print all entries added/changed between 6/1/90 and 6/7/90, type
  the following on the Print Filter expression line:

              UPDATED>=CTOD('06/01/90') .AND. UPDATED<=CTOD('06/07/90')

- To pause or exit the program at any time, hold down the ALT key and type the
  letter Q (ALT-Q).  It may take a moment (depending on what operation is
  currently running) before the program responds.  You may then either resume
  program operation where it was paused, or Quit the program.





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The Address Book Solution                                           Tips Page 2
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- In addition to miscellaneous comments, the note lines may also be used for
  other specific information, such as a person's position, name/job title,
  mailing name, etc.  Printing information in any order is not currently
  supported, but is in TABS-Advanced.

    What to type in Note 1        Reason
    ---------------------------   ------
    Mr. Paul Miller, Programmer   Combine name and title/position

    Dear Bob                      Personal salutation

    Mr. & Mrs. Frank Smith        Include this in the note line 1 of the entry
                                  for Frank, and type a code such as FAM in the
                                  CODE field to designate family.  In the entry
                                  for Mrs. Smith, do NOT include the FAM code
                                  in the CODE field.

    President                     Separate line for position/job title

  <M>erge may be used to support the printing of lines in any order (i.e. Note
  Line 1 before Name, etc.).  Use the ASCII text Merge file to enter the fields
  you wish to print, in the order you wish to print them.  As previously
  mentioned, field selection will be supported directly from Pop-Up screens in
  TABS - Advanced.

- If the program seems to lock up, or if information is not located properly
  when viewing, select <R>eindex from the main menu.

- To merge two TABS currently existing data files into a new file, do the
  following:

    1.  Make sure one of the files is the current file.  To do so, choose
        <S>elect Database from the main menu.
    2.  Transfer (Export) the data.
    3.  <S>elect Database again, and choose the second file.
    4.  Transfer (Export) the data.
    5.  Create a new data file from <S>elect Database on the main menu, then
        <S>elect it to make it the active file.
    6.  Transfer (import) the data from the file(s) created in 2 & 4 above.

- Before selecting <D>elete from the main menu, select transfer to copy the
  records marked for deletion to a file, in the event that they should later be
  needed.  Then run the <D>elete routine.

- Although up to 9 fields may be used for sorting, only use the fields and
  Sort Positions necessary.  This will speed the sorting process.