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- Screenfile LOTUS123.SCN Screen# 01
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- All of the file export routines are reached from this menu, the same menu that
- you use to print your paychecks or payslips, payroll register and journal.
- Whether you want to export to Lotus, dBASE, PC-File, or NewViews select choice
- "F6 - Export Files, Lotus, dBASE, PCF, NV"
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- Screenfile LOTUS123.SCN Screen# 02
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- For Lotus, select choice "F1 .DIF for Lotus 123/Symphony/etc." Why use Lotus,
- well that is up to you. PAYROLL USA provides all the reports most users need,
- but you might want to create custom reports, or do sorts, analysis, and graphs.
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- Screenfile LOTUS123.SCN Screen# 03
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- This is the PAYROLL USA screen for the file export to Lotus. It creates a Data
- Interchange Format (.DIF) file that is readable by many programs. Lotus has a
- translate utility which can read .DIF files and create .WK1 files from them.
- We will look at how that is done by 123 in the remaining slides in this series.
- Symphony has a similar utility, to conserve space we did not release a seperate
- set of slides for Symphony, the two Lotus products are very similar in basic
- spreadsheet handling so these 123 slides should be sufficient for Symphony
- users to follow as well.
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- Screenfile LOTUS123.SCN Screen# 04
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- This is the Lotus 123 main menu. If you normally start up 123 by typing just
- 123 and pressing enter you will not see this menu. Instead type Lotus and
- press enter. The choice we want is Translate (highlighted above). After doing
- the translation you will be returned to this menu then you can take the 1-2-3
- choice on the left side of the menu line to run 123.
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- Screenfile LOTUS123.SCN Screen# 05
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- The Lotus Translate Utility asks what you want to Translate FROM, here DIF is
- highlighted.
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- Screenfile LOTUS123.SCN Screen# 06
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- You are then asked what you want to translate TO. We have selected 1-2-3,
- release 2, which is highlighted.
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- Screenfile LOTUS123.SCN Screen# 07
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- There are several screens leading up to this one. Individual choices are made
- on those screens. You are asked for the DIF input file name. We selected
- \PAYOUT\PAYLOTUS.DIF which is the file created by PAYROLL USA. On our machine
- the data is on drive D, on your machine it may be C or some other disk drive.
- Normally, if you have only one employee file, the directory will be \PAYOUT .
- If you are using multiple employee files it may be something like \SMITH\PAYOUT
- where SMITH is the PAYROLL USA configuration file name for these employees. If
- you are unsure of drive or directories then run PAYUSA and access the
- configuration program to check where the output directory is set to. Then you
- are asked for the name of the worksheet file that you wish to create from the
- .DIF file. We kept it on the same directory, and kept the same name but a
- different extension (.WK1) . You may wish to put it on some other directory or
- call it by a different name depending on your own conventions.
-
- Here we have selected a Rowwise Translation as this gives a result very similar
- to our own Payroll Register. Depends on what you want to do in Lotus. If you
- are sorting, for example, the Columnwise translation would be better. If you
- do not get it right first time, do not worry - you can always go back and
- translate it again the other way.
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- Screenfile LOTUS123.SCN Screen# 08
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- The Lotus Translate Utility is creating the worksheet file and giving you a
- progress report as it does so.
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- Screenfile LOTUS123.SCN Screen# 09
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- The translation is complete and we have returned to the Lotus main menu. Now we
- move the cursor so 1-2-3 is highlighted and press enter to run 123 and look at
- the results.
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- Screenfile LOTUS123.SCN Screen# 10
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- Here we are in 123, just select the file to Retrieve (the one we just created
- with the Lotus Translate Utility).
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- Screenfile LOTUS123.SCN Screen# 11
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- Lotus loads and displays the file. Notice how cramped it all looks. That is
- because it has not been formatted yet. We need to set the global column width
- and global number format and the decimal places.
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- Screenfile LOTUS123.SCN Screen# 12
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- Here we select Global Column Width, 14 or 15 should be about right.
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- Screenfile LOTUS123.SCN Screen# 13
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- and then we select Global Format, Fixed 2 Decimals should do the trick.
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- Screenfile LOTUS123.SCN Screen# 14
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- Here is the top of the resulting spread sheet. It is a perfectly normal
- spreadsheet just the same as if it had been keyed in the hard way. All of
- 123's functions will work with it and it can be re-saved with any changes in
- place. The spreadsheet, of course, extends below the bottom of the screen and
- beyond the right of the screen. We are looking at the top left corner. You can
- use the regular 123 keys to see the rest of it.
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- Screenfile LOTUS123.SCN Screen# 15
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- Here we have paged down to the last row of the spreadsheet. This is the bottom
- left corner. Because we translated it row-wise it is 92 rows deep and many
- columns wide. If you translate column-wise you will get a different result
- with the headings spread across the top instead of down the side.
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