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Bill Reminder V1.0
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The Bill Reminder is a utility for reminding you when Bills are due.
This is a useful tool for allowing you to hold on to your money for
as long as you can and effectively managing what you need to keep in
your checkings account. This program requires Microsoft Windows.
Setup
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billrem.arc should contain the following:
bill.exe
readme.txt
The program bill.exe can be installed anywhere. In the directory
where it is installed, it will open a file called billxxx.dat that
contains all the billing information. If the bill.exe file is moved
at a later time to a different directory, this file should be moved
as well.
Controls
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The controls are pretty straight forward. The mouse can be used to
point to a bill for selected use. A single click makes the bill
selected. A double click opens an edit dialog for the bill. Bills
can also be selected using the up/dowm arrows. Pressing the enter
key after a bill is selected also opens an edit dialog for the bill.
There are both horizontal and vertical scrollers for the Bill
Reminder main window. The mouse can be used to access these
controls. The <Home> key puts you at the top of the bill list. The
<End> key puts you at the end. The <PgUp> and <PgDown> keys move
you up and down through the bill list respectively.
Usage
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For bills that are mailed to you, simply record the bill (for the
first time with the Add menu option) the date that it is due, and
the amount in the labeled edit boxes. Dates must be specified in
dd-MMM-yyyy format, i.e. 14-jan-1992. Amounts must be specified as
valid numeric strings with or without a decimal point. If a date
or amount is not specified, the bill is marked as paid. If an
invalid date or amount is specified, an error dialog will be
displayed. Otherwise, asuming that there is more than a week until
the bill is due, the bill will be displayed in the main window as
pending and colored black.
When the bill becomes due within a week, it will turn color from
black to blue. If the bill is not paid within a week, it becomes
late and will turn color from blue to red (You don't need many of
those). It also tells you how much you need to pay late, due, and
pending bills. A bill can be paid in two different ways. By using
the Pay Menu Option, the status of the bill will be toggled between
paid and not paid, assuming that paid bills have valid data fields.
The other way pay a bill is to do it via the Change Menu Option.
When the bill appears in the edit dialog, check the Payed box. When
the bill is paid, It will be listed as paid and grayed on the screen.
It remains in the bill list, however, so that when it is received the
next time, it can be reinitialized.
For bills that are not mailed to you, i.e your mortgage or your car
payment, simply enter it for the first time as you would a mailed
bill. When you pay it, however, simply update the date in which it
is due again to make it pending (It's always pending until you pay
it off).
Bills can be deleted using the Delete Menu Option (I wish they all
would go away). The About menu option provides information about
the Bill Reminder program and information on registration.
Registration
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The author encourages you to try the program out and distribute it
freely along with this documentation. If you find it useful, please
register it. This can be done as follows:
Send $5.00 to:
Clester Keaton
741 Palm Drive
Glenwood, Il 60425
This is one bill that the author hopes gets paid on time.