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W h a t c a n t h i s s y s t e m d o f o r y o u ?
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Welcome to the Personal Contacts Manager. It is designed to help make life
easier and to save time throughout one's working day. Here are some of its
features:
People and contacts data bank
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You can store particulars of all your business contacts, clients,
associates and friends. The program is meant for business executives, busy
managers, sales professionals, accountants, computer enthusiasts,
secretaries - in short those who specifically deal with people and keep in
contact with them, whether social, professional or both.
Not only will your computer remember your deadlines, outstanding matters,
birthdays and Christmas cards, but you can also store thousands of lines of
personal comments and information for each individual.
On a hard disk computer you can track tens of thousands of organisations
and persons. The software's theoretical limit is 1 000 000 000 persons. Up
to 400 records fit onto a 360K floppy diskette.
Speedy telephone numbers
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If you talk to many people on the phone, this program quickly retrieves
that phone number you were looking for.
Simply type the beginning letters of anything which comes to mind, e.g.
first or company name. You can also call speed-searches from DOS. This is
quicker still because you bypass all the menus.
While you have the person on the line, make your notes straight into the
data bank. Your outstanding matters listings will adjust themselves and
special dates are recognised for the system's future memory.
Personal organiser
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If you lead a hectic life with too many things demanding your attention
every day, here are two special tools:
PRIORITY RANKER
Your computer now offers you a self-adjusting "things-to-do" list. This
ranks itself by order of priority so that you always know what is most and
least important, especially if your priorities change frequently.
OUTSTANDING MATTERS MANAGER
If you are too busy to remember everything, this system offers neatly
categorised listings on keywords which you specify. In other words, from
of maze of hundreds of different things to do, your computer shows you an
organised list of relevant matters only. This means that individual tasks
can ticked off readily and quickly.
Computerised calendar advisor
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This system can advise you of important dates all by itself without you
asking it to. This may be useful for business deadlines, share option
expiry dates, family anniversaries and so on.
Not only are you first advised in due time, but you can set subsequent
reminder and second reminder deadlines for each person individually as and
when they arise. This program forgets nobody. Its semi-artificial
intelligence memory works in the background. For this reason it does
not have to check everybody when you use the system. This means that you
are not kept waiting and your program's speed is virtually the same.
Your computer will also identify special notes you once made and report
them back to you.
Christmas card mailings
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Christmas cards can be an annual problem, especially if one has hundreds of
business associates or friends who want one. Sorting out who should get
one and who shouldn't can be a time-consuming exercise.
At long last, this task is now computerised. Decide once and your
instruction is faithfully obeyed year after year, until you change your
mind.
Mail-merge word processor
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Now you can merge details from your address book data bank into letters.
This may be particularly useful for mass-mailings and business circulars.
The basic mail-merge word processor includes date and time stamping, right
hand justification, block movement, margin settings and text enhancements.
You can also export your information to any of the more sophisticated word
processing packages.
The merge fields are selected from a simple pop-up menu and selections are
displayed in a browsing list. This allows you to make double sure that the
selected names are actually the ones you had in mind.
Advanced Interrogator
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You can find information even if you forgot almost all the details. Give
only a few letters of what you think you are looking for. The interrogator
does the rest.
Mailing labels & envelope printing
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Look at a person in the data bank, insert your envelope into the printer
and the address will print without you having to retype the lines.
Mailing labels can be produced in a variety of sizes. Select only the names
you need by specifying search criteria.
Personal Preferences
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You can choose your favourite screen colours for this program. You can also
turn your name off if you prefer a "cooler" interface, toggle the help
displays and set defaults for the calendar memory.
Special Utilities
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Backing up data is fully menu driven.
This program will not crash if invalid paths are specified, nor will your
keyboard freeze when, before printing, you forget to switch your printer
on.
Also provided on your distribution disk are various *.BAT files for
simplified hard disk installation, copying your system onto floppies and
printing the system manual.