> Easy to set the system time while calling your local time operator.
> Phone logs may contain job codes.
> Phone logs may be viewed, printed and saved to another file.
> Password protection.
> Quick notepad for each address book and one if no name selected.
> Prints envelopes.
> Functions as a stop watch.
> Features an alarm clock.
> Programmable 6-City world clock.
> Lots of Help data - with output (print, etc.) capability.
> Create your own Help files, recipe books etc.
> Search Address Books.
> Import Address Book data.
> For all DiaLog does, it is very easy on your hard disk storage requirements. (It has been generated with the "KISS" principle in mind.)
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Speed DiaLing:
Enter the Name and Number of the person/company to be called. If the call is to be logged, enter 1, 2, 3, or 4 for the Log File to be used - blank if no logging. Check 'Job Code' if a Job Code is to be logged.
Press "More" to open and close Dialer 2.
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Incoming Calls:
To time and log incoming calls, press the Timer's Start button as you receive the call and then press the Stop button when the call is finished. You will be given a choice to select the Name from one of your phone books, or to key it in manually.
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Calling Card:
If you have the password feature enabled, clicking on the empty "Calling Card " selection on the main display will require that the password be entered. To safeguard the calling card info again, deselect the "Calling Card" selection.
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Search Books:
Will search the selected address book for the desired data. More than one field may have search data. The search data may be a partial string - no wild cards. To find non-blank fields, enter: ~* into the desired field, enter: ~= to find blank fields.
Any matching records will be placed into address Book4. If Book4 is not empty, the data in it will be saved temporarily. The data in Book4 may now be manipulated with all the address book utilities. Book4 cannot be searched because it is used to store searched data.
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Save/Restore Books:
- Save Books - is intended to permit the temporary saving of one of the address books. The book so saved, can now be manipulated in any way without effecting the original data. It is best to restore the original book as soon as possible, before you forget about its contents.
'Save Books' differs from 'Copy Books' in that the first saves the entire book to a temporary book, while the latter permits selective copying of names from/to any of the four books.
- Restore Books - restores to any book the temporary book saved with the 'Save Books' feature.
Note:
Before manipulating any address book data, be sure you have backed up files of the address books. They are DialLstx.dat, where x = 1 to 4.
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Calendar:
Displays one of 3 convenient appointment calendars/diaries. You may double-click the date on the main display to easily bring up the calendar. In 'DiaLog Options' you can set the default calendar. It is the one that will be loaded automatically. From the calendar File menu you can bring up the other ones, but the default remains until you change it. Empty books require no storage on your system.
You enter (edit, delete, select, copy etc.) text as with any other Windows editor, such as Notepad. Once you enter text into the day's notepad, that day will be highlighted in red on the calendar as soon as you leave that date. Delete the text and the highlight will disappear.
Click on any day to bring up the notepad for that day.
Click on the scroll bar arrows to change the month - click in the area between the arrows to change the year. You may also drag the center knob to change many years at once.
DO NOT manipulate the appointment book files directly, they must remain unaltered.
- Output Book Entries -
Enables you to output book entries to the Windows Write program, from where you can print or otherwise manipulate them. It is also a method of finding out what forgotten items are still taking up space in your book. The data is currently in a temp file which will be deleted, therefore you must save the data in another file if you wish to keep it.
Select 'Entire Book' and 'Output' to output the entire book.
Select 'Range of Dates' to output a range of dates only. Then click on the calendar for either the start or end date as instructed on the panel. Select 'Output' to output the data.
Note:
In the interest of speed and program size, the size of each appointment book is currently set to approx. 32,000 characters. You will be told when you are getting close. A later version of DiaLog (after Windows 95) will overcome this limitation. (You will most likely never reach that limit!)
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Select Delete Range:
Select 'Range of Dates' to be deleted. Click on the calendar for either the start or end date as instructed on the panel. Select 'Delete' to delete the data.
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World Clock:
Note: Upon installation, the World Clock is initialized for the Los Angeles time zone. Unless you live in that zone, you must first adjust it for your local time. See below on how to accomplish that. Times are displayed according to your international setting in the Windows Control Panel.
- Spin (Up/Down) control -
Use this control to temporarily slew to other times to perform 'what if' lookups. (What time must I call my customer in Tokyo to reach her/him at noon?) Press 'Reset' to return to your local time.
- Reset -
Resets the clocks to match your local time.
- Setting the Clocks -
The World Clock displays 6 locations, 5 of which are programmable by you. To make any changes to the clock settings, select 'File' and 'DiaLog Options' from the main DiaLog menu. Then click on 'World Clock Setup'. You may also simply double-click on any City label on the clock.
All settings are based on London (G.M.T.) time. We use Los Angeles in California, USA as an example. Checking a world time chart, Los Angeles is 8 hours West of London. Therefore we enter '-8' into the offset location next to the 'Los Angeles' title. (Had we wanted Germany, we would have entered 'Germany' as the title. Germany is 1 hour East of London, therefore we enter '1' into the offset.) Repeat this procedure for any other location you wish to change. Just remember, going East from London, numbers are positive, going West they are negative.
Next we must set the offset from London to our location. Since we are in Los Angeles, we enter '-8' into the last box.
Be sure to press 'Set' when done, and again press 'Set' after getting back to the DiaLog Options menu.
The Los Angeles clock now displays your computer clock time and you can see the local time of all the other selected locations.
To program a location that is not an even hour from London, like New Delhi, proceed as above, but since New Delhi is 5 hours and 30 minutes East of London, enter 5.5 next to the New Delhi title. Only 30 minute locations can be handled in that fashion.
Offsets from G.M.T. for some world cities:
(If your location is on daylight savings time and the other is not, you must adjust the other location by one hour.)
