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- * * * My Little Realm, v2.5 * * *
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- - Charging -
- ____________________________________________________________________
-
- General Information
- ____________________________________________________________________
-
- Important
-
- Charging is protected by copyright. It is not freeware, and it is
- not in the public domain.
-
- This is the evaluation version of My Little Realm's Charging. It
- is a full-featured, fully functional program. You are welcome to
- try it on your computer to ensure that it functions on your system
- as it should, and that it meets your individual needs. If after
- 30 days you decide to keep using Charging, you must register the
- program with the author. To print an order form, press <$> in the
- Options Window.
-
- The registered version of Charging comes with a Review program and
- a menu driver. The Review program allows you to view your credit
- card file in a scrollable window, query the file, and generate a
- year-to-date summary for all of your credit cards. Review is a
- powerful complement to your Charging program. The menu driver
- includes a documentation viewer, screen saver, and memory resouce
- function.
-
- Bonus! Purchase any MLR stand-alone program before 12/31/94 and
- receive another absolutely free. See DESCRIBE.TXT for details.
-
- Thank you for trying Charging!
- ____________________________________________________________________
-
- Introduction
-
- Keeping records may not be fun, but it is important to the
- maintenance of a well run realm. To that end, Charging has removed
- as much of the tedium of data entry as is feasible while maintaining
- the accuracy and completeness today's realm requires.
-
- When you run Charging, it builds the charge card screen and
- generates the Viewing Window which contains the Quickeys and their
- corresponding credit card names, the amounts outstanding for each
- account, and the total amount outstanding for all accounts. It
- then deposits you in the Options Window. From that vantage point,
- you can choose which task you wish to perform, be it entering new
- charges, paying off old charges, changing the contents of a record,
- printing out your records or deleting old records.
-
- Throughout your processing tasks, the Viewing Window is constantly
- monitored and updated as you add to, update and change your credit
- card file. So, if you ever need to know what your plastic debt is
- at any given moment, you have but to up bring Charging.
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-
- The Interface
-
- Windows.
-
- Charging's screen consists of three types of windows: a Working
- Window, a Viewing Window, and an Options Window. If you are using
- a color monitor the Viewing Window is always green, the Working
- Window red and the Options Window blue.
-
- You select processes (like creating or changing a record) in the
- Options Window. You create records in the Working Window, and you
- find your Quickeys in the Viewing Window.
-
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-
- Extended processing options.
-
- Several processing tasks, called extended processing options or
- EPO's, are not listed in the Options Windows, because they are
- functions that only occasionally need to be performed. EPO's are
- used to "extend" a program's power and functionality.
-
- To find out what EPO commands are employed by Charging, enter <?>
- (the question mark) in the Options Window. The EPO's of Charging
- are defined at the end of this document.
-
- ----------------------------
-
- Quickeys.
-
- The Quickeys in Charging give you single key access to the names of
- your credit cards. Enter the names of your credit cards once and
- forget about typing them in ever again.
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-
- Getting Started
-
- Note: Press <#> (the pound sign key) in the Options Window to
- switch between color and black/white modes.
-
- The very first thing you'll want to do with Charging is make the
- program uniquely yours. To do that, you will probably have to
- change some of the default credit card names and Tax codes that
- come with the Charging program.
-
- Gather all of your credit cards. After you start Charging, enter
- the backslash, <\>, in the Options Window to start the Change
- Quickeys function. (It's one of the EPO's for this program.)
-
- Charging will ask which Quickey you want to change. Enter the
- Quickey and your cursor will appear in the Viewing Window. If you
- merely want to delete one of the default credit card names, press
- <delete> and then <enter>, otherwise key in the name of your credit
- card and then press <enter>.
-
- If you mistakenly press the wrong Quickey, press <esc> while your
- cursor is in the Viewing Window and Charging will resurrect the old
- credit card name.
-
- After you've entered all of your credit card names, press <esc> to
- advance to the next phase of this function, sorting your Quickey
- names. If you've made letter assignments for your credit card
- names (that is, if you've associated Quickey A with American
- Express, D with Discover, and so on), tell Charging that you do
- not want your Quickeys sorted. Otherwise, if you have more than
- three or four credit cards, sort them. You'll find it easier to
- spot the credit card name you're after if the list is in
- alphabetical order.
-
- The last phase of the Change Quickeys function is the Tax codes.
- These categories are generally used for tax deductions, but can be
- used to tally anything (like part-time income, home expenses, gas
- expenses, etc.). If you're just starting out with Charging, you
- might want to put this section off until you've had a chance to
- think about how best to utilize these four categories.
-
- After you have set up the Tax codes the way you want, press <esc>
- one last time to return to the Options Window. And you're all set!
-
- To begin entering records, press <1> in the Options Window to
- start the Enter New Charges function. Charging will ask for the
- Quickey of the charge card whose record you are entering. Then
- simply enter the date, amount, Tax Code and memo. The Tax Code
- and Memo fields are optional entries and can be skipped by pressing
- <enter>.
-
- After you've entered the memo, Charging creates the record and
- returns the cursor to the top of the Working Window expecting you
- to create record. If you have no more charge receipts to enter,
- press <esc> to return to the Options Window.
-
- While the above instructions will get you started, specific details
- and examples follow in the section called Program Information.
- Charging is a powerful system that can do a lot for you, but you
- have to know how to make it work properly to get the most out of
- it. Please read the rest of this documentation carefully.
-
- Exiting Charging.
- If you've made changes to your credit card data file, Charging will
- so notify you when you attempt to return to your operating system
- and ask if you want to save the changes. You will almost always
- respond with <Y> or <enter> to save the changes. If, for some
- reason, you do not want to save the changes, press <N>. Following
- either response, you'll be returned to DOS. If you press <esc>,
- Charging will instead return you to the Options Window from where
- you can resume processing.
-
- Why would you ever want to not save changes? Home programs must
- take into account the unwanted help of children who occasionally
- get into a program and wreak havoc. Should you find that someone
- you love is "helping you" with Charging, don't get angry. Just
- exit the program and don't save the changes.
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-
- Program Information
- ____________________________________________________________________
-
- One of the marvelous aspects of Charging is that it immediately
- tells you how much you have outstanding on each credit card and
- the total outstanding for all of your cards. You don't have to
- request the information, it's already on the screen when you start
- up the program. The amounts are updated as you enter new charges
- and refunds, and pay off your existing bills.
-
- You have four processing activities at your disposal in the Options
- Window of Charging:
-
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- | |
- | Options Window -- Selection: __ |
- | |
- | 1 Enter New Charges 2 Pay Old Bills 3 Change 4 Print/Delete |
- |________________________________________________________________|
-
-
- There are also several EPO's available. See the section entitled
- Extended Processing Options described at the end of this document.
-
- + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
- + There is a shortcut entry to option 1 (the Enter New +
- + Charges function). When in the Options Window, if you +
- + want to enter New Charges, simply press the Quickey for +
- + the first charge you wish to enter. By doing so, you +
- + automatically enter the New Charges function and enter +
- + your first Quickey at the same time. +
- + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
-
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-
- Option # 1, entering new charges.
-
- To process a new entry (either charge or refund), choose 1, the
- New Charges option (or use the shortcut method described in the
- preceding paragraph). There are five fields to every record if
- you have made use of the Tax codes; four if you've deleted them.
-
- You can abort a New Charge entry at any time by pressing <esc> in
- any field, and no record will be created. To return to the Options
- Window after entering one or more charge records, press <esc> when
- the cursor is in the Credit Card Key field at the top of the
- Working Window.
-
- Note: When entering new records in the Working Window, you can
- switch from one field to another by using the up and down arrow
- keys. Hence, if you're entering the memo for a record and you
- notice that you've entered the amount incorrectly, press the up
- arrow to return to the Amount field. Reenter the amount and press
- the down arrow to return to the Memo field to finish the record.
-
-
- ~ Field Definitions ~
-
- - Credit Card Key field (single character entry, required).
-
- Charging will position the cursor at the top of the Working Window
- after the Credit Card Key field label at which point you enter the
- Quickey of the appropriate credit card. Each charge record
- requires its own Quickey entry.
-
- After you've input a Quickey, Charging will verify your selection
- by printing the credit card name in the Verification Box directly
- below the Credit Card Key field label. If you enter a wrong albeit
- acceptable Quickey, press the up arrow to return to the Credit Card
- Key field. Then enter the correct Quickey.
-
- You do not have to enter your new charge receipts in any particular
- order, so there is no need to sort them by charge card or even by
- charge (debit) and refund (credit).
-
- If you have not made use of all thirteen Quickeys you will notice
- that Charging does not illuminate those that are unused. On color
- monitors the active Quickeys are those displayed in bright yellow,
- on monochrome monitors the active Quickeys are listed in bright
- white. The inactive Quickeys are displayed in standard white
- print on both types of monitors, making them appear grayed.
-
- Should you select an inactive Quickey when at the Credit Card Key
- prompt, Charging will tell you that you have chosen an illegal
- Quickey and ask for another. If you attempt a shortcut entry from
- the Options Window by pressing an inactive Quickey, Charging will
- simply ignore the keypress.
-
- ___________________
-
- - Date field (required).
-
- After Charging gets a valid Quickey it displays the current date in
- the standard American format mm/dd/yy. You can make changes to the
- proffered date, or if it is correct, press <enter> or the down
- arrow to accept it.
-
- Charging will accept dates for the current month and the two
- previous months, so you have at least two months and as long as
- three to enter your charging records. Charging will not let you
- enter future dates.
-
- Note: The Credit Card System checks your computer's date when you
- start Charging. If it suspects the date is incorrect, it asks
- you to set the date before running the Charging program.
- ___________________
-
- - Amount field (must be less than $10,000, required).
-
- Charge amount entries must be positive amounts less than ten
- thousand dollars. Do not enter dollar signs or commas, just the
- numbers and the decimal point if it is necessary.
-
- What if the amount is a refund (credit)? The <enter> key is a
- toggle (i.e., a switch if you will) between the two amount fields
- you see in the Working Window as long as neither field has an
- amount in it. To get a feel for this capability try switching
- between the two fields before you enter an amount ... just press
- <enter> a few times while Charging is expecting an amount from
- you. You'll see the cursor jump from the Charge field to the
- Refund field and back again.
- ___________________
-
- - Tax Code field (single character, optional)
-
- Enter the number of the Tax code, if relevant, or press <enter> if
- you want to skip this field. If you have deleted all of the
- default Tax Codes and haven't defined any of your own, this field
- will not appear in your Working Window.
-
- When Charging comes to this field, it displays a field prompt of
- your Tax codes at the bottom of the Working Window . If you
- created three categories consisting of gasoline, charity and
- business expenses, they would appear as:
-
- 1 Gasoline 2 Charity
- 3 Bus. Exp. 4
-
- To tag a charge card record as an expense, for example, press <3>
- when you're in the Tax code field. If you have undefined Tax
- codes (as selection 4 is), Charging will not let you enter them.
-
- You can use your Tax codes to track any kind of credit card
- expense, be it groceries, gasoline, professional expenses,
- whatever. Tax code amounts are tallied on a given year which
- makes them useful if you're keeping track of your yearly
- expenditures on any of the aforementioned items.
-
- If you wish to change Tax codes in mid-year, be sure you use the
- <+> EPO to reset the Tax codes you want to change. For example, if
- you had set up Tax code 1 to be business expense and later that
- same year you decided to change it to charity, you would have to
- reset Tax code 1 to blank before making the change. Otherwise,
- all of those records with a Tax code of 1 which were business
- expenses would be included with your new Tax code records that are
- charitable deductions. Refer to the section entitled Extended
- Processing Options at the end of this document for more information
- on the <+> EPO.
-
- ________ _________
-
- Special projects and the Tax codes
-
- If you find yourself facing a large project for which you want to
- track the costs, make one of the Tax codes "Projects". Let's say
- you're planning to build a deck in the backyard, and you want to
- keep track of the expenses, so you make Tax code 4 "Projects" (or
- "Deck", if you wish). Then whenever you charge something related
- to the deck project, you simply tag that record with Tax code 4.
- In this way you can monitor your deck expenses.
-
- Note: If you are also using My Little Realm's Checking
- program, you'll notice that it and Charging share the
- Tax Code file. So, if you purchase something with a
- check, you can tag it with the "Projects" Tax code as well.
-
- To move on to the next project you have to clear all of the records
- that have a 4 in the Tax Code field. You can either go in and
- manually change all of those records (using the Change function),
- or, when in the Options Window of Charging, press <+>, which
- invokes the Reset function. It resets the Tax Code field of all of
- the records with the Tax code you specify to blank. It affects
- only those records that have a current year date.
- ___________________
-
- - Memo field (20, optional).
-
- General Use.
- The Memo field, while optional, is nonetheless extremely useful for
- a number of reasons. For example, if several members of the realm
- have the same charge card, identifying the person who made a charge
- can be beneficial should questions about the purchase arise later.
-
- In other ways, the Memo field can be used to identify the store
- where a purchase was made in the event a general card (like
- Discover, VISA, or MasterCard) was used.
-
- The Memo field is also handy if you purchase a product that is
- covered by an extended warranty offered by the credit card issuer.
- Numerous charge card companies now offer to double a manufacturer's
- warranty if you charge an item on their cards. Use Charging's Memo
- field to make a note of the warranty's expiration date, in addition
- to the item purchased.
-
- <+> Command.
- If you plan to use Tax codes, described above, you can use the Memo
- field to deduct a portion of the charged amount that is not
- relevant for that category using the <+> command.
-
- If one of your Tax codes is for business expenses, and you charged
- a purchase of business items and a personal item, you must deduct
- the cost of the personal item from the total amount of the charge.
-
- This is what the <+> command does. It tells Charging to deduct a
- certain amount, called an overage, from the amount of the charge.
-
- Note: The IRS tends to frown on mixed
- purchases. It is always better to pay
- for business expenses separately.
-
- <+> Command Example.
- Let's say you bought some business items that cost $135.48 and a
- personal item for $45.40. On that record's Amount (charge) line
- you would enter 180.48 (the total amount of the charge), and on the
- Memo line you would enter:
-
- Memo: +45.4 birthday gift
-
- which tells Charging that it should subtract that amount, $45.40,
- when it calculates the Tax totals. [Note: The remainder of the
- Memo line (birthday gift) is informational.]
-
- When you run the Tax Summary function, you'll find out exactly how
- much you spent on business expenses because at the end of the Tax
- Summary Report the final tabulations are listed in this fashion:
-
- Groceries Bus. Exp. Bus. Inc. Charity
- Tax totals: $2500.36 $650.55 $0.00 $1002.00
- Less deductions: $430.00 $45.40 $0.00 $0.00
- Final results: $2070.36 $605.15 $0.00 $1002.00
-
- From the final tabulations you can see that the business expenses
- totaled $650.55, but that $45.40 (the price of the personal item)
- was deducted from that total.
-
- Note: If a record does not have a Tax code (i.e., the Tax code
- field is blank), Charging ignores any <+> command that
- appears on that record's Memo line.
- __________
-
- To be sure you are getting the deductions you want, run the Tax
- Summary function (option 4, selection 3). In addition to the
- credit card name and the record number, Charging will print the
- Memo line in toto and, in parentheses, any valid Memo line amount
- it finds.
-
- If you aren't getting an amount in parentheses when you expected
- one, you have probably entered the Memo line amount incorrectly.
- If so, you can use the Change function in the Options Window to
- correct the record. Remember, the record numbers appear on the Tax
- Summary Printout so you can go directly to the records in question
- if you need to make any changes. (Refer to Option # 4, Selection
- # 3, Print Tax Summary Report, below, for more information on the
- Tax Summary function.)
-
- Memo line amount rules summary:
-
- 1. Amount must immediately follow a plus sign (+)
- 2. Amount must be followed immediately by a space
- 3. Amount can appear anywhere on the line, along with
- other notes you wish to append
- 4. Amount must be less than $1,000.00
- 5. Amount must be a positive number
- 6. Only one amount on a Memo line
- 7. Amount on Memo line must be <= the charge (debit) amount
- 8. Do not include dollar signs or commas in the amount
-
- Note: Memo line deductions are not allowed on credits. If your
- entry is a credit (refund on a returned purchase), Charging does
- not look for a deduction on the Memo line. In other words,
- Charging will not subtract a Memo line amount, even a valid one,
- from a credit when it comes time to calculate the Tax Summary.
- ____________________________________________________________________
-
- Option # 2, paying old bills.
-
- Charging will want to know which credit card account you're paying,
- so you have to enter the appropriate Quickey. Then Charging will
- display your current outstanding records for that particular
- account and ask if each charge or refund has been paid, that is, is
- it listed on the statement account (which you should have in hand).
-
- You respond yes or no by pressing <Y> or <N>. This is a single
- character entry so don't press <enter> after your response. As a
- matter of fact, <enter> is equivalent to <Y> for this query.
-
- When you come to the last record in a given account, Charging will
- tell you that you have reached the end of the file. If you wish to
- peruse the outstanding records before you leave the Pay Old Bills
- function, you can use the direction arrows to do so. If you
- inadvertently mark a bill paid, use the arrow keys to return to
- that record, and when Charging asks if it has been paid, respond
- <N>, and Charging will rectify the situation.
-
- Once you leave the Pay Old Bills function, your master file is
- updated. If you discover after leaving Pay Old Bills that you have
- incorrectly declared a record paid, you must use the Change
- function to correct it. You cannot access a paid record by
- invoking the Pay Old Bills function.
-
- You will note at the bottom of the Working Window that Charging
- displays the record number of the displayed charge or refund. This
- is the displayed record's placement in your master file. So even
- though you know you have only three outstanding records for a
- specific credit card, the first record number could be 182, the
- second 201, and the third 206.
-
- Reviewing your outstanding records.
- You can use option 2 to view your outstanding records for a
- particular Quickey. Use the arrow keys, <ctrl> + <home>, and
- <ctrl> + <end> to browse through your file. When you're finished,
- press <esc> to return to the Options Window.
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-
- Option # 3, changing the information in a record.
-
- Charging will want to know which record you wish to change. If you
- know, fine, enter the record number (or a close approximation) and
- Charging will take you to it. If you're off by a few records or if
- you didn't know the record number and pressed <enter>, you can use
- the arrow keys, <ctrl> + <home>, and <ctrl> + <end> to browse
- through your file. When Charging displays the record you want to
- change, press <Y> or <enter> to select it.
-
- After you select the record you wish to change, the fields you can
- change are listed in the Viewing Window next to their corresponding
- hotkeys. Make the necessary changes, and press <esc> when you are
- finished with that record. Charging will ask you for the record
- number of the next record you want to change. If you haven't any
- more records to change, press <esc> once more to return to the
- Options Window.
-
- Reviewing all of your records.
- If you need to see all of your records (outstanding and paid) for
- all of your cards, select the Change function. Use the arrow keys
- to peruse your file. Press <esc> to return to the Options Window.
- ____________________________________________________________________
-
- Option # 4, printing and deleting the file records.
-
- This is the final option in the Options Window, and it displays a
- sub-menu offering several selections:
-
- 1. Print entire file
- 2. Print outstanding only
- 3. Print tax summary report
- 4. Delete records/compress file
- 5. Return to the Options Window
-
- If you want to abort any of the above print functions (selections
- 1, 2 or 3) while printing, press <esc>.
- ___________________
-
- Selection # 1, print a comprehensive listing of your charge file.
-
- This printout lists all of the data stored in each record in your
- file in addition to the record number. At the end of the report,
- Charging prints the total outstanding charges and refunds.
- ___________________
-
- Selection # 2, print a report of the outstanding charges.
-
- This function prints a one line banner for each credit card listed
- in your charging Quickey file. Under each banner are listed the
- records that are outstanding for that particular charge card.
-
- Printed are: the date, memo, record number and the amount of the
- charge or refund. If a card does not have an outstanding amount,
- its banner is still printed, with a message indicating as much, so
- you'll know that its records have been checked.
-
- The outstanding report also prints the total outstanding charges
- and refunds at the end of the listing.
- ___________________
-
- Selection # 3, print tax summary report.
-
- Note: If you do not have any defined Tax codes, you will not be
- able to run the Tax Summary Report function.
-
- The Tax Summary Report prints each charge or refund under one of
- the appropriate Tax codes that you created using Charging's Change
- Quickeys function. If a record has no Tax code entry, it is
- omitted from the listing. Those records with a Tax code and a
- valid amount on the Memo line will have their Memo line amounts
- totaled and deducted from the total amounts in each Tax code
- category.
-
- If you did not define a Tax code, the message "No code ID" will be
- printed in its stead in the Tax Summary heading, and Charging will
- print a notice that it found a Tax code that is undefined. This is
- merely informational; you need not define every Tax code.
-
- If you define a Tax code, enter some records with that code, and
- then delete said Tax code, Charging will warn you that you have
- records with an undefined Tax code when you run this function.
- This poses no threat to the integrity of your system or your data,
- but you should be aware of this situation should you enter a new
- category in that Tax code.
-
- Should you decide to use that Tax code at a later date for a
- different tax category, you must first reset all of the Tax code
- fields on the older records that have that Tax code. For example,
- if you start the year with Tax code 2 as Medical, you cannot later
- change it to Charity without first resetting all of those records
- that are listed as Medical records. To reset a Tax code, invoke
- the Reset function by entering <+> in the Options Window.
-
- Each tax record generates two lines of output. On the first line
- are the record number, the date (in mm/dd format), and the credit
- card name. On the second line are the Memo, the Memo line amount,
- if there is one, in parentheses, and the amount. Example:
-
-
- Charity Bus. Exp. Medical Child Care
-
- 107 10/08 Discover 120.45
- +21.75 for a present( 21.75)
-
-
- This sample tax record is record number 107, created on October 8,
- of the selected year (which appears at the top of the report), for
- the credit card Discover. The amount of the charge is printed
- on the first line under the Business Expense heading. The second
- line shows the memo which is "+21.75 for a present" and the Memo
- line amount (printed in parentheses).
-
- At the end of the Tax Summary report, Charging prints the totals
- for each category, subtracts the deductions, and shows you the
- final tallies.
- ___________________
-
- Selection # 4, delete old records and compress file.
-
- To make the system easy to use, Charging does not require you to
- delete each record separately because even with a simple <Y> and
- <N> response, deleting hundreds of old records individually can be
- tedious. Thus, Charging deletes all of the records in the file
- whose year date is less than the current year date except those
- which are still outstanding.
-
- If you wish to keep your old credit card records, you can direct
- Charging to dump the records to be deleted to a floppy drive at
- the time of the delete process. You don't have to save the deleted
- records, but you might some day want to find some piece of
- information stored on one. If you decide to save them, Charging
- will create a dump file called SAVECARD.MLR on your floppy.
-
- If a record's year date is less than the system's year date and the
- record is still outstanding, Charging will write out a copy of the
- record to your floppy, while retaining the original copy in your
- master file for you to update later on.
-
- To keep your credit card file manageable this procedure should be
- run once a year, ideally at the beginning of the year after the
- previous year's charges have all been marked paid.
-
- You do not have to save the current year's deleted records on the
- same disk that you saved the previous year's. If you do, Charging
- notifies you that there is a previous dump file on the disk and
- asks you to select an appropriate action from the following
- sub-menu.
-
- 1 Abort this function
- 2 Delete the old dump file
- 3 Replaced floppy, retry
- 4 Rename the old dump file
-
- If you decide you want to keep the old dump file, you must either
- remove the floppy and put in another (selection 3) or tell Charging
- to rename the old file (selection 4). Charging keeps the base name
- SAVECARD and appends a unique extension. You can also direct
- Charging to erase the older version of the dump file (selection 2)
- and proceed with the Delete/Compress function or, finally, you can
- elect to abort the D/C function altogether (selection 1 or <esc>).
-
- Note: Do not confuse the Delete/Compress function with
- the <-> (Delete) EPO. The Delete EPO removes a specific
- record from your file regardless of its paid status or
- creation date. The Delete/Compress function removes your
- old paid records (those with a year date that is less than
- the current system year date) and compresses your master
- file.
-
- One final reminder, if you need a copy of your Tax Summary Report,
- be sure you print it before you run the Compress/Delete function.
-
- Warning!
-
- Potential problems await you if you do not keep your system's date
- accurate. You risk losing your entire file, for example, if you've
- allowed your system date to lag a year or two behind and then
- correct it before running this procedure. If, for instance, you've
- been creating records while the system year date was 1991, when in
- fact the real date was 1992, and then you correct the date prior to
- running this function, Charging will delete all of the records that
- have a year date that is less than the current year date that are
- not outstanding ... which in this case could be most of your file.
- Please, keep the date accurate.
-
- If you find yourself with a date error, determine the extent of
- the damage by viewing your records using the Review Files function
- of the Review program. If there aren't too many records with
- incorrect dates, note their record numbers and use the Change
- function to correct them (after you've corrected the system's
- date), then run the Delete/Compress function. If there are a lot
- of bad records, put off running the D/C function until next year.
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-
- Extended Processing Options
-
- EPO Definition
-
- <\> Change or delete credit card names in the Viewing Window.
- Press the backslash key in the Options Window to invoke
- this function.
-
- Charging will ask you which credit card name you want to
- change or delete. Press the appropriate Quickey, and
- Charging will highlight the Quickey in the Viewing Window
- and place your cursor under the existing credit card
- name, if there is one. To erase a Quickey name and leave
- it blank, press <alt> + <C> and then press <enter>.
- Otherwise, type in the changes, and press <enter>.
-
- If you press the wrong Quickey, press <esc>. If you've
- made changes to the wrong credit card entry, pressing
- <esc> before leaving the Viewing Window resurrects the
- old name.
-
- When you've finished updating your credit card name
- list (i.e., when your cursor is at the "Which Quickey do
- you want to change?" prompt), press <esc>.
-
- Charging will then ask if you want your Quickey list
- sorted. This is largely a matter of taste. If you don't
- have many cards or if you've made letter associations for
- your credit cards (i.e., A for American Express, D for
- Discover, and so on), tell Charging not to sort your
- list. The sort is ascending alphabetic. [Note: If you
- have a large number of credit cards, it helps to have the
- list in alphabetic order.]
-
- Credit card names must be unique. If you have AT&T's
- Visa card and Ford's Visa card, for example, you could
- make the former's Quickey name "Visa -- ATT" and the
- latter's "Visa -- Ford". You cannot simply enter "Visa"
- twice, however, because Charging needs to be able to
- distinguish between the two credit card names.
-
- You can delete credit card names from your active list
- (those accounts that appear in your Viewing Window), but
- Charging will not let you delete a credit card name that
- has an outstanding balance. You can change the Quickey
- name, but you cannot leave the name blank.
-
- When you change the credit card name of an active account
- that has outstanding records, Charging will also change
- the credit card names on those outstanding records with
- the old name to reflect the name change. The records
- that have the old credit card name that have been paid
- are made inactive, meaning you will no longer be able to
- access them using the Change function. Charging will
- still include them in the Tax Summary function, however.
- In general, you won't be changing the names of your
- active accounts. It usually occurs when one store buys
- another, which does happen these days.
-
- If you've used all of the thirteen Quickeys and you need
- to add another, select one that is little used, wait
- until it has no account balance and then change that
- Quickey's credit card name.
-
- After you've replied to Charging's query about sorting
- your Quickey list, it will ask if you want to change your
- Tax codes. The default Tax codes supplied with Charging
- are of a general nature and include: Medical, Charity,
- Child care and Expenses.
-
- You can change any of them. Charging will tally your
- expenses for these four categories when you run the Tax
- Summary Report. See Option # 4, Selection # 3, Print Tax
- Summary Report, in this document for complete details.
-
- * * * * * Warning! * * * * *
-
- It is imperative that you do not attempt to change your
- credit card Quickey file by using a text editor. ALWAYS
- use Charging's Change Quickeys function to make the
- necessary changes.
-
- Charging not only oversees the changes to your credit
- card Quickey file, but also makes the requisite changes
- to your credit card data file at the same time.
-
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-
- - - - - - - - - -
-
- <-> Delete a specific record from your charging accounts
- file. You must first select the record to be deleted,
- finding it and selecting it the same way you do in the
- Change function.
-
- Charging will then highlight that record's contents and
- ask if you are sure. Review the contents carefully. If
- you are sure you want that record deleted from your
- master file, press <Y>. You cannot press <enter> for
- <Y> for this final query.
-
- - - - - - - - - -
-
- <+> Reset Tax code status in all records that have a specific
- Tax code to blank.
-
- For example: If you've set up one of your Tax codes as a
- special projects code, you can reset the Tax code status
- on all of the records with that Tax code to blank. Only
- the records with a current year date are affected.
-
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-
- <$> Print an order form for My Little Realm's Charging.
-
- - - - - - - - - -
-
- <#> Switch between color and black/white modes.
-
- - - - - - - - - -
-
- <?> Display the EPO symbols and definitions available for
- Charging.
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-
- + The End +
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-
- (c) Copyright 1991 - 1992 John L. Salisbury
-
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