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╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ QuickPlan 2.0 ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ Tutorial ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ Copyright (c) 1987 - 1991 Software Vision Corporation ║ ║ All rights reserved ║ ║ ║ ╚═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝ QUICKPLAN TUTORIAL ------------------ The following tutorial will get you started using QuickPlan. Besides discussing QuickPlan's features and capabilities, it will also show you step by step how to build a sample checkbook balancing worksheet. We suggest that you follow this tutorial. Some of the topics that will be covered are: Step 1 - Backing-Up your original diskette Step 2 - Loading and Starting Quickplan Step 3 - A quick look at QuickPlan Status Line Help Line Cell Coordinates Context Sensitive Help Menu Step 4 - The checkbook sample worksheet Loading the checkbook worksheet Building Formulas Entering Labels Editing Cells Save Worksheet Printing This document also contains a registration form, and more information about our other programs, including our new desktop publishing program, Vision Publisher and Vision Publisher Pro. ------- STEP 1 ------- BACKING-UP YOUR ORIGINAL DISKETTE Insert the original disk in drive A and your work disk in drive B, and enter: COPY A:*.* B: and press Enter or Return. If you have a hard disk you might want to set up a subdirectory for QuickPlan. A good name for the QuickPlan subdirectory would be \QP, because it's easy to remember. If your hard disk is C or another letter, enter your hard drive letter at the DOS prompt. Like this: C: and press Enter or Return. You should see your hard drive, usually C, followed by a prompt, like this: C> Now you are ready to make a new directory for Quickplan, so at the hard disk prompt, enter: MKDIR \QP (Press Enter or Return) Now that the QP directory was created, you have to change to it, so enter: CHDIR \QP (Press Enter or Return) Now you are ready to copy your original disk onto your hard disk. Insert your original disk in the floppy drive, and enter: COPY A:*.* That's it! Now you can put your original diskette away for safe keeping. ------- STEP 2 ------- LOADING AND STARTING QUICKPLAN LOADING FROM A FLOPPY: ---------------------- Insert the program diskette in the floppy drive, usually A, and at the DOS prompt enter: QP (Press Enter or Return) Once QuickPlan will load, the screen will be cleared, and a start-up message will appear on the screen. Press any key to get back to the DOS prompt. The start-up message shows the copyright message, the registration information, the ordering information for our other shareware products, as well as the primary and the secondary hot-keys. LOADING FROM A HARD DISK: ------------------------- Change to the subdirectory where you keep QuickPlan and at the DOS prompt enter: CHDIR \QP Where \QP is the name of the subdirectory. If you keep QuickPlan in a different subdirectory, replace \QP with that name. Once you are in the correct subdirectory, or if you don't have any subdirectory, simply type: QP (Press Enter or Return) Once QuickPlan will load, the screen will be cleared, and a start-up message will appear on the screen. Press any key to get back to the DOS prompt. The start-up message shows the copyright message, the registration information, the ordering information for our other shareware products, as well as the primary and the secondary hot-keys. STARTING QUICKPLAN ------------------ Since QuickPlan is a memory resident program you must press one of its hot-keys to pop it over other programs that you may be using. QuickPlan's hot keys are ALT-Tab and ALT-RightShift. Press any of these keys to pop QuickPlan. EXITING QUICKPLAN TEMPORARILY ----------------------------- When QuickPlan is on the screen, press Esc while in READY mode, or select "Exit QuickPlan" from the menu, to send QuickPlan back into memory, and bring the foreground program on the screen. QuickPlan will still be in memory, waiting for you to press one of its hot keys, when it will again leap onto the screen. REMOVING QUICKPLAN ------------------ There are times when you may need the extra memory occupied by QuickPlan. To remove QuickPlan from memory, press CTRL-Q or CTRL-END while in READY mode. Usually, removing TSR programs from memory takes a litle bit of planning. Most other TSR programs will have you go through a very complex process in order to safely remove them from memory - should you not follow their instructions to the letter, chances are, you will crash your computer. QuickPlan however, is built around a very advanced TSR (terminate and stay resident) set of routines, which allow us to provide you with a very save removing technique. QuickPlan will automatically detect whether it is safe and proper to remove itself from memory, and if it is not, it will show an error message, and refuse to remove itself. Times when QuickPlan may not let you remove it is when other memory resident (pop-up) programs using the same interrupt vectors have been loaded AFTER it, or when there is a foreground application running. In these instances you will have to remove the other programs first, and then remove QuickPlan. ------- STEP 3 ------- A QUICK LOOK AT QUICKPLAN Now that we loaded QuickPlan, and pressed the ALT and TAB keys simultaneously, we find ourselves inside QuickPlan. QuickPlan brings you to the very beginning of the spreadsheet. Here, we can either start a new worksheet, or we can load an existing worksheet. To give you a better idea of how to start a worksheet we will load a sample worksheet to guide us along. The sample worksheet is named CHECK.QPS. We will later load this worksheet in QuickPlan, discuss it, and expand on it. But, first, let's discuss some of QuickPlan's features: STATUS LINE ----------- The line at the top of the screen is called the STATUS LINE. It displays important information such as: -- AutoCalc Status -- When AutoCalc is ON, QuickPlan will recalculate its worksheet after every numeric or formula entry. When OFF, the worksheet will only be recalculated when you request it. To toggle the AutoCalc status ON or OFF, press the ALT-A (the Alt key and the letter A). Try it now. See how it changes instantly. You can also change the AutoCalc status from the menu by choosing Autocalc. -- Time and Date -- The time and date are displayed to the right of the AutoCalc status for your convenience. -- Filename -- The current filename is displayed to the right of the Time and Date display. The filename also lists any optional drive or directory path specification. -- Mode Indicator -- The last item on the status line is the mode indicator. QuickPlan has 16 possible modes that it can display here. Usually, when it is ready and waiting for the next command or action, it displays READY. If for example you are entering a number it will display VALUE. If you are entering text into a cell, it will show LABEL. We will learn more about these modes as we go over our checkbook worksheet. For a description of each of QuickPlan's modes please refer to the User's Guide. HELP LINE --------- At the very bottom of the screen we have the HELP LINE. This line lists some of the function keys that are available in the current mode, and what they do. The contents of the Help Line are constantly updated as you enter or exit different modes. Try it now: press F10 to bring up the Menu - see how the Help Line changed to reflect the keys that are available with the Menu? Now press Esc to exit the Menu, and return to READY mode. For example, here are the special keys available in READY mode: F1-help - This gives you help about what you are doing now. F2-edit - This lets you edit the current cell. F3-load - This allows you to load another worksheet. F4-save - You can save your current worksheet. F9-calc - Lets you calculate your worksheet. F10-menu - Brings up the MENU. Esc-exit - Exits QuickPlan and returns you to your foreground program, if any, However, Quickplan remains in the computer's memory. The Help Line also indicates the status of the shift keys on your keyboard: CapsLock, NumLock, Insert. Try it now: press CapsLock - see how "CAPS" appeared on the Help Line? Now press CapsLock again to turn it off. CELL COORDINATES DISPLAY ------------------------ The line underneath the Status Bar (second line from the top), is the Cell Coordinates Display. This line shows the row and column where the cell pointer lies, the type of contents that cell has (Empty, Label, Value, or Formula), and, if the contents is a formula, that formula is also displayed. This line is also used for inputting values and formulas (labels are entered directly into the worksheet). As the cell pointer is moved around the worksheet with the Arrow, PgUp, PgDn, Home and End keys, the Cell Coordinates Display line is updated to reflect the current position of the cell pointer. Try moving the cell pointer around with the arrow keys; notice how the Cell Coordinates Line changes. QUICKPLAN'S HELP SYSTEM ----------------------- QuickPlan provides comprehensive on-line context-sensitive help. Context-sensitive means that when you request help, QuickPlan will give you help information pertaining to the action you were taking when requesting help. For example, if you invoke the help system while saving a worksheet, QuickPlan will give you help about saving worksheets. To invoke the help system, press F1 (function key 1) or Alt-H. The help window will pop up. If there is more than one page of help available on a subject, "<More...>" will appear in the lower right corner of the screen, so that you can use PgUp and PgDn to brouse. Pressing Esc will exit the help window. While in READY mode, the help system will also provide you with some general information about the program, and how to use QuickPlan's help facilities. NOTE: in order to see help, the file QP.HLP must be in the drive and on the directory path from where you loaded QuickPlan. QuickPlan will remember this directory and drive, and it will look there for its help file. If you load QuickPlan from a floppy, you must insert the QuickPlan floppy into the drive from where you loaded it. MENU ---- Pressing the "/" (slash), or F10, will cause the menu to appear. The menu is the backbone of the program, in that every command that you will use with QuickPlan will come from the menu. Press Esc to exit the menu. --- Choosing an item from the menu --- There are three ways to choose an item from the menu. 1.) Press the capital letter (in either upper or lower case) associated with the command. For example in our case we want to load a worksheet, so we would choose the letter L. If we want to reName a file, we would press the letter N. 2.) You can also use the UpArrow and DownArrow to move the horizontal bar to the command desired. 3.) By pressing down the ALT key together with the capital letter associated with the command, you can choose an item from the menu while you are in, or outside of the menu. This option is helpful for those of you who become so familiar with the menu that you can bypass it totally and thus save time. -------- STEP 4 -------- THE CHECKBOOK SAMPLE WORKSHET LOADING THE CHECKBOOK WORKSHEET ------------------------------- Now you are ready to start learning about how to create worksheets. On your disk, there is a sample checkbook balancing worksheet. We will load it into QuickPlan, discuss it, and expand it. Press F10 to bring up the menu. Use your DownArrow key to move the menu bar down to the LOAD selection. Press the Enter key. A window will appear on the screen with a heading of "Load Worksheet". Inside the window you will see: Filename: *.QPS When loading worksheets, QuickPlan assumes that your worksheets have an extension of ".QPS" (though, you can give them any extension you like). This will help you when loading a file, so that you will only see files with that ending. Note the "*" character - it is a MS-DOS global wildcard character. In this case, the "*.QPS" tells the program to show all the files ending with an extension of ".QPS". Next, press Enter. Now you will see another window called the "Directory" window open underneath our "Load Worksheet" window. The directory window opens anytime you use one of the MS-DOS global wildcard characters ("*" and "?"), and allows you to select the file to load. At this point we use the Arrow keys to scroll to the file "CHECK.QPS". Press Enter to start loading the file. Now the CHECK.QPS worksheet is on the screen. Before we go on to examine the worksheet further let's take a closer look at what we see on the whole screen: ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ AutoCalc:ON 6:07 Wed 12-15-89 A:CHECK.QPS READY │ ├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │A1 Empty │ ├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ A B C D E F G │ │ ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ │ 1│███████████ │ 2│ QUICKPLAN 2.00 -- SAMPLE CHECKBOOK BALANCE WORKSHEET │ 3│ │ 4│ │ 5│---DATE-----CHECK #------DESCRIPTION------PAYMENT---DEPOSIT---BALANCE- │ 6│______________________________________________________________________ │ 7│_____________________________________| Starting balance----> 500.00 │ 8│11/23/89 156 Mortgage payment 478.00 22.00 │ 9│11/24/89 DEP Deposit Ins. Check 500.00 522.00 │10│11/28/89 157 Power Company 56.00 466.00 │11│12/8/89 158 Sears (Gifts) 523.34 -57.34 │12│12/9/89 DEP Cash deposit 200.00 142.66 │13│12/15/89 159 QuickPlan registration 40.95 101.71 │14│ 101.71 │15│ 101.71 │16│ 101.71 │17│ 101.71 │18│ 101.71 │19│ 101.71 │20│ 101.71 │21│ 101.71 ├──┴──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ F1-help F2-edit F3-load F4-save F9-calc F10-menu Esc-exit CAPS INS NUM │ └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ Now let's take a closer look at the CHECK.QPS worksheet, and see how it was designed. ------- EDITING A CELL ------- Cell B2 contains a label, in this case, the worksheet heading: "QUICKPLAN 2.00 --SAMPLE CHECKBOOK BALANCE WORKSHEET". Since it is such a large heading, columns B through F are used. Now let's just say that we forgot to add "Page 1" to our already long heading. Now if you tried to edit this particular LABEL, and you tried to put your cell pointer at F2, it would ignore it, and jump down to F4. Try it now. It doesn't work does it? This is because we started at cell B2, and this long LABEL is considered to be at B2, even though it also overflowed cells C through F. The only way to edit such an extended LABEL, is to go to the beginning of it (cell B2), and then press F2 to EDIT. Let's try it: move the cell pointer to B2, then press F2. Notice that the LABEL changes color on the screen, and the cursor is now blinking at the beginning of our label, this is to let you know that it is being edited. Also, the mode selector (on the Status Line) changed from "READY" to "LABEL", and the Help Line has changed to reflect the special keys that are active while editing a label. Next, press your End key to move the cursor at the end of the label, and type " Page 1". Now that we are finished, we can press Enter. ------- ENTERING DATA IN A CELL ------- You enter the data in a cell by moving the cell pointer to the cell where you wish to enter the data, and start typing. As mentioned earlier, besides being Empty, a cell can hold three types of data: LABEL, VALUE, FORMULA. QuickPlan will automatically know what kind of data you wish to enter by the first character of your entry. Values and formulas start with a digit "0".."9", ".", the "-" or "+" sign, while labels start with a letter "A".."Z" or "a".."z" and space. You can also enter labels that start with a digit, but you will have to do it using one of these two methods: 1) If the cell is empty, press F2 (the edit key) to go into "LABEL" mode, then start typing your entry. Regardless of what digit your entry starts with, QuickPlan will have it classified as "Label" now. 2) Press one of the keys that trigger a label entry ("A".."Z" or "a".."z" and space) then use the BackSpace key to erase it, then enter your entry. Regardless of what digit your entry starts with, QuickPlan will have it classified as "Label" now. ------- ENTERING A LABEL ------- Let's make another entry into the spreadsheet to give us a better idea of how QuickPlan works. As an example we are going to pay a VISA bill on December 19, 1989, with Check #160, and we will send a minimum $10.00 payment. In order for QuickPlan to treat numerals as regular text (LABEL), we must press F2 before entering our checkbook date. Otherwise QuickPlan will think we are entering numbers to be calculated in a formula. Follow these steps: 1.) Move cursor down to A14 2.) Press F2 3.) Type directly into the worksheet: 12/19/89 4.) Press Enter 5.) Press Right Arrow (to take us to the next LABEL) That was easy. Did you notice how the Mode Indicator changed from READY to LABEL, right after you pressed F2? If you made a mistake press Left Arrow to take you back to cell A14 and press F2 again, then make your correction. Now let's enter the next check number in the "Check#" column which in this case we would like to be "160". Press Arrow Right to take you to cell B14, and follow the above procedure. This time however, instead of the date type in: "160". Next we would like to type in the word "VISA" in the "description" column. This column begins at C14 and can occupy cell D14 as well, if needed. So press the Left Arrow key again, to take us to C14. This time however, we don't have to press F2, since our entry starts with an alphabetic character ("V"). All we have to do now is just type the word "VISA" directly in C14. Now we are going to enter the actual payment amount of 10.00 dollars. *** NOTE *** that we are entering all amounts in our checkbook worksheet as positive numbers. ------- ENTERING A VALUE ------- Move your cell pointer with Left Arrow to E14, under the "payment" column and type in 10.00, press Enter or Return. Note that once you typed in the number one, the cursor moved on the Cell Coordinates Display line - unlike labels, values and formulas are entered/edited on this line. Also, note that the Mode Indicator changed from READY to VALUE. Once you press Enter or Return, QuickPlan moves the number directly into the correct cell, in our case E14. Notice that column G, cells G14 through G21 automatically display the new balance of 102.17. This is because we have a formula in Column G. CHECKBOOK FORMULA ----------------- Let's take a closer look at our checkbook formula. First bring your cell pointer to G8. Look at your Cell Coordinates Display: G8 Formula: +G7-E8+F8 The whole worksheet runs on this formula. Let's look at the mechanics of our formula. You will usually want to begin your formula with a "+" sign. There are cases where a minus sign or a number is more appropriate, but in our case the plus sign is a better choice. All this formula is saying is: take cell G7 than subtract cell E8 from it, and add cell F8. In plain English this means: take the above number from cell G7, then subtract our "payment" column (E8), and add our "deposit" column (F8). In most cases you will probably have a value in either the "payment" or the "deposit" column at any one time. If there is no entry in a cell, QuickPlan automatically gives it a value of zero. Notice that since it automatically subtracts cell E8, we don't have to enter a negative number in the "payment" column (E). If for instance we would like to enter negative numbers in our "payment" column (E), than we would change the formula to read: +G7+E8+F8 and still obtain the same results. In order for the worksheet to calculate cells G9 through G21, all we did was copy the formula starting from G8 down to G21. ------- COPYING A FORMULA ------- To learn how to copy formulas, we are going to copy our formula from G21 down to G42. Follow these steps. 1.) Move your cell pointer to G22 2.) Press F10 or "/", to bring up the menu 3.) Choose "Copy Cell" from the menu (by moving the highlight bar from the menu, with Arrow Down key) 4.) The "Copy Cell" window will appear 5.) It will prompt you for "Source Cell", we'll put in: G21 , and press Enter. (Although you can use any cell, from G8, down to G21 as a source cell) 6.) Next you'll be asked for "Target Cell (Start of Range)", Type in: G22, and press Enter. 7.) You'll be asked again for "Target Cell", but this time it will be for "End of Range". Let's type in: G42. Press Enter. 8.) You're Done. Now scroll down with your Arrow Down keys, and look at column G. Notice how the formula was copied into every cell in G22 through G42. And if you put your cell pointer on any of those cells we just copied to, you will notice how nicely the formula was adjusted to the new cells to reflect the current cells the formula occupied. The cells were adjusted because we did not use absolute cell specifications in our original formula. Had we used absolute cell (column, row, or both) specifications, the cell specified as absolute would not have been adjusted. See the QuickPlan User's Guide for a detailed discussion of absolute and relative cell coordinates.) SAVING THE CHECKBOOK WORKSHEET ------------------------------ Now that you put all this work into the worksheet, you will want to save it to disk, for later use. Press F10 to bring up the menu. Use your DownArrow key to move the menu bar down to the SAVE selection. Press the Enter key. A window will appear on the screen with a heading of "Save Worksheet". Inside the window you will see: Filename: CHECK.QPS You can press Enter to save the worksheet under the name CHECK.QPS, or you can delete it, and enter another name. You filenames must follow the standard DOS filename conventions (up to 8 characters for the filename, plus an optional three character extension.) You can also specify a drive, and a directory path. The directory window opens anytime you use one of the MS-DOS global wildcard characters ("*" and "?"), and it allows you to select from among an existing file. Now the CHECK.QPS worksheet is saved. You can later LOAD it following the procedure outlined earlier. PRINTING THE CHECKBOOK WORKSHEET -------------------------------- With QuickPlan you can also print your worksheets. Let's print the checkbook worksheet. First, turn your printer on, and make sure that it has enough paper. Press F10 to bring up the menu. Use your DownArrow key to move the menu bar down to the PRINT selection. Press the Enter key. A window will appear on the screen with a heading of "Print Worksheet". QuickPlan will need some information from you before it can print your worksheet. For "Filename", you should enter one of these: PRN, LPT1, LPT2, or a COM port specification. For most computer configurations, PRN or LPT1 will do. If you are using a serial port, and PRN does not print, you must enter either COM1, or COM2, followed by the serial port parameters (as described in the DOS manual under the MODE comand). With QuickPlan you can also print the worksheet to a disk text file, so that you can later import it into other programs - see the QuickPlan User's Guide for a detailed discussion of this procedure. For now, press Enter to accept PRN as our print filename. Another prompt will appear: "Left margin". Here you enter the number of leading spaces that should print before the first worksheet entry. If you leave it as 0 (zero), no leading spaces will be printed. For our purpose, the default of zero spaces will do, so press Enter to accept it. The next two prompts will ask for the range of cells to print. At the "From cell" prompt you must enter the upper left corner of the cell range to print. For our purpose, A1 will do, so press Enter to accept the default. At the "To cell" prompt you must enter the lower right corner of the cell range to print. For our purpose, delete the default G99 entry by pressing the Del key three times, and then enter G21. If everything went well, the worksheet will be printed. You now have a hard copy of your checkbook activity. Well, congratulations! You have made it through the QuickPlan Tutorial. By now you should be familiar with the basics, and you should be ready to take on more advanced spreadsheet projects. QuickPlan's User's Guide provides detailed information on all of QuickPlan's features. Also, on your disk there are other sample worksheets, which are discussed in the User's Guide. If you are not a registered QuickPlan user, please register; you will then receive the latest version of the program, together with a professionally typeset User's Guide. When you register, you will also be notified of any new versions of the product, when available. Also, the registered version of QuickPlan does not have the intro screen that appears everytime you load QuickPlan. To register, fill out the order form below and mail it to us at: Software Vision Corp., Box 1734, Pinellas Park, FL 34664-1734 You can also register by calling us at: (813)545-4354 QuickPlan has a built-in order form - to use it, select "Order form" from QuickPlan's menu. If you have any questions about using QuickPlan, please feel free to call our technical support staff at (813)545-4354. Thank you for choosing QuickPlan. OTHER SOFTWARE VISION PROGRAMS ------------------------------ Besides QuickPlan, we also produce these programs: Vision Publisher -- this is our lates program. It is a state of the art desktop publishing program. Vision Publisher is fully object oriented, and it delivers true WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) performance. The program lets you design documents in an interactive graphical environment comparable to some of the most sophisticated commercial desktop publishing programs on the market today. Vision Publisher is the only such program in shareware. Here are some of the highlights of the program: - Full mouse support. - Advanced graphical environment with pull-down menus, icons, windows, dialogues, buttons, etc. The user interface is very similar to Windows 3.0 and other popular graphical environments. The user interface is fully configurable, including colors, mouse speed/buttons, cursor blink rate, etc. - Context sensitive and fully indexed help system. - Up to 90 different font families are supported in sizes from 4 points to 432 points (6 inches). Several font families are provided, and new ones can be purchased. - Independent text blocks can be scaled, dragged, edited, merged, etc. The text in the text blocks can be in any combination of sizes, styles, colors, or font families. The built-in WYSIWYG text editor lets you edit text directly on the page. - Full control over line leading and character kerning. - Text can be centered, left justified, right justified, or full justified. - Capability to import graphic images such as PCX and TIFF. Other formats such as GIF are also supported. Images can be scaled or expanded on the screen interactively. - A set of seven drawing tools are provided: box, line, circle, ellipse, polygon, polyline, and Bezier curve. These objects can be drawn using any of the 18 line styles or the 18 different fill patterns in a variety of colors. - Full clipboard operations are provided, including Cut, Copy, Paste, and Delete. - The page can be viewed at five different magnification levels: Full-View, 100%, 200%, 300%, and 400%. The page is fully editable at all magnification levels. - Documents can have up to 100 pages. Pages can be inserted or deleted from a document. - Left-Page and the Right-Page master pages are provided. - Ability to create document templates (style sheets). - The objects on a page (text, images, drawings) are displayed and printed in a hierarchical manner. Objects can be stacked on top of each other, and they can be sent to top or to bottom. - Vision Publisher works with any PC compatible computer, and it supports all graphic standards including but not limited to: VGA, EGA, CGA, Hercules, Super-VGA, 8514, ATT, Toshiba, etc. - Vision Publisher will print on practically any printer that is available: LaserJet, dot-matrix, inkjet, PostScript, etc. For best quality, the program will print at the printer's highest resolution. During printing pages can be collated, skipped, reversed, etc. Vision Publisher can also print to a disk file to be imported into other programs. - A large clipart library is available. - Vision Publisher also comes with a 200 page typeset manual and tutorial. - Because Vision Publisher's user interface is similar to other popular graphical environment, the program is extremely easy to learn and use. Vision Publisher Pro -- this is a high-end desktop publishing system for professional typesetters and page designers. It contains all the features of the Vision Publisher program above, plus numerous high-end features: - Support for documents of up to 1000 pages. - 35 font families. - "Live" text block linking. - Four megabytes of clipart. - Font importing utility for converting your own fonts to Vision Publisher fonts. - Quarterly newsletter. DOS-Aide -- this is a memory resident help utility for MS-DOS. This program will provide detailed information on the DOS commands when you need it. The program has a pull-down menu and it is very easy to use. DOS-Boss -- this is a memory resident DOS utility. Anytime you need to perform a DOS command (e.g., copy files, rename files, delete files, make directory, change directory, view the files in a directory, etc.) you invoke DOS-Boss and you can perform any of those functions from withim DOS-Boss' easy to use menu driven environment, while other programs are running in the background. DOS-Boss also provides an advanced keyboard macro facility. TurboCalc -- this is an advanced memory resident calculator. It provides support for all arithmetic operations as well as most scientific functions (LN, LOG, COS, SIN, TAN, SQRT, SQR, FACT, etc.). Advanced memory functions are also profided. TurboCalc also lets you paste a number to a key and paste it into other programs. You can also view the files in a directory. TurboCalc is very easy to use, and it has its own help facility. TurboMenu -- this is an easy to use disk menu system. TurboMenu lets you run your programs from within a menu system. This way you do not have to deal with the DOS prompt any more. You can even set up TurboMenu so that it starts automatically when you turn on your computer. To order any of these programs or to register QuickPlan, you can use the form on the next page. To place a credit card order you can also call us at (813)545-4354. 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