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3. MENU SCREEN FUNCTIONS
The menu screen includes a main menu on the left side of the
screen, and a secondary menu on the right side of the
screen. The Active menu is highlighted by a double line box
display around it. All menus utilize a light bar selection
mechanism. Selecting a menu item can be done by either
moving the light bar to the selected function and pressing
the Enter key, or by entering the first character of the
menu item. Moving the light bar is done by using the Up and
Down Arrow keys.
Upon entry to the menu screen, the main menu is active.
Selection of a main menu function activates the secondary
menu, displaying the selections for the chosen main menu
function.
At the bottom of the screen, a description of each of the
main and secondary menu functions is displayed corresponding
to the currently highlighted function on the Active menu.
4. MAIN MENU SCREEN
The main menu has nine selections. Each of these categories
is explained as follows:
4.1 ADDRESS BOOK
Entries can be added, deleted, or edited. Searches can be
made and their results displayed, printed or mailing labels
generated. The canned comment feature allows the user to
define up to 25 personal comments to be applied to an
address book database entry.
4.2 BUDGET
The user can create a new budget category, edit an existing
budget category, delete a budget category, generate budget
reports, or record cash transactions in a specified budget
category.
4.3 CREDIT CARDS
The credit cards feature records transactions, allows the
user to edit the transactions, delete them, display and
modify the account balance, post the entries as they appear
on the monthly statement, and generate screen or printed
reports on one or all credit card accounts.
4.4 DATABASE
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The user can create a new, additional database for an
accounting period, delete an old database, change the
database in use to another accounting period, or display a
list of all databases.
4.5 ENGAGEMENTS
Appointments can be entered, deleted, marked kept or broken.
Itineraries can be displayed or printed for a single or
range of dates. A calendar feature can display the current
or any month illustrating an appointment summary for the
whole month. Finally, calendars for any month and year
between 100 and 2999 can be displayed.
4.6 MISC
Information on program registration, viewing the User Manual
on screen or printing a copy of the User Manual, checking
disk space, checking available free RAM space, and
activating the built-in calculator are available.
4.7 PERSONAL CHECKING
The personal checking feature selects one of four submenus
that encompass 18 different checking account functions. The
following sections briefly describe the features of each of
the four submenus.
4.7.1 PAYEE
The user can add new payees to the frequent payee list,
delete payees, modify payee information, print mailing
labels of the frequent payees, or return address labels.
4.7.2 QUERY
The user can display the account balance, search for single
or groups of transactions, display the last entry made,
display all unposted transactions, or post transactions that
have cleared the bank.
4.7.3 TRANSACTION
The user can issue and print checks, record cash withdrawls,
check credit payments, service charges or deposits, in
addition to voiding spoiled checks. The Upcoming feature
displays and/or prints all checks due for a selected period.
4.7.4 UPDATE
Editing transactions to correct errors and deleting
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transactions are the choices available.
4.8 HOUSEKEEPING
The main menu housekeeping function is provided for the user
to set up the environment and perform data backups and
restorals.
4.9 LISTS
Access to the creation and management of four different
lists that keep track of general items of interest.
4.10 EXIT
The user makes this selection to exit PMIS and return to
DOS.
5. SECONDARY MENUS
The secondary menus select specific actions to be taken by
PMIS. This is where the real work to be done is selected by
the user. When working on the screens of the secondary
menu, and it is desired to return to the secondary menu,
there are two ways that are used to return. First, the user
is be prompted with the statement "Enter any key to
continue...". Secondly, if the user does not enter a key
for several seconds, a timer times out and the current
function is terminated.
The following is a detailed description of the secondary
menu selections for each of the currently implemented main
menu selections.