Bill-IT QUICK START

O'kay, you detest reading manuals. Here is your quick start. Open and extract the Bill-IT Starter Manual  for more details. Both Quick Start and the Bill-IT Starter Manual  can be printed.

Requirements

A Macintosh computer with at least 1 meg. of memory (RAM).
Hard disk with at least 4 megabytes of free disk space.
Printer (optional)

This is a full working copy of the Bill-IT™ program.  Everything works.  The only difference between this and the regular program is this version does not have the custom invoice and statement functions active.
(You might want to print out this Quick Start Read Me.)

Installing the Bill-IT Folder:

1. Double click on the "Bill-IT v4.38 sw folder.sea". 
When it opens,  hit the "Drive" button (Desktop button in System 7) until your hard disk is selected.  Hit the Extract button and it will extract the compacted files. When it is finished, there will be a new "Bill-IT..." folder on your hard disk.

2. Installation is complete.

The following items will be in your Bill-IT Folder.

•  Bill-IT™(v...).  - This is the actual application.

•  Training Co. - A set of files that works with the Bill-IT Starter Manual.

•  Restore Backup - (In the tools folder.)  A program to restore Bill-IT's automatic backup files. The built-in backup feature of Bill-IT lets you back up critical files painlessly. As Bill-IT is backing up the files, it also compresses them so you can get up to 2 megabytes of BI data on a single 800K floppy disk. More on a high density floppy. BI uses more than one disk when needed.  The Restore Backup program uncompresses these backup files so they are usable again.

•  New Company.BI - (In the tools folder.)  An application for creating a blank set of files for a totally new company or to change company information on an existing company.

•  ! BI Data - This folder is used by the New Company.BI application for your own company's information.

Starting Bill-IT

1. Double click on the Bill-IT™...

2. When directed to open the Company Data.SK file, double-click on the Training Co. folder.

3. After Training Co. opens, OPEN the file COMPANY DATA.SK.

4. When the Home window appears, use the Help menu and the Bill-IT Starter Manual  to explore Bill-IT.

There is nothing you can hurt on your computer or hard disk by exploring and testing.

Pictures and Letterheads

You can make your own pictures for the home window and for use as the letterheads on statements and invoices.  Simply create the picture you want to use in a "draw" program and save the picture as a "PICT" file.  Bill-IT will go looking for PICT files with specific file names that are in the folder with the Company Data.SK file.
The specific file names are:
  For the Home Window: HomePICT.SK
  For Invoices: HeaderPICT.SK
  For Statements: SHeaderPICT.SK
(See the samples in the "Training Co." folder.)

Have fun!  

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