Full Contact’s elegant drag and drop interface with MultiLink™ technology seamlessly and limitlessly integrates activities, contacts, companies, calendars and notes. Creating new items and new links is done simply by dragging and dropping any items, such as one or more contacts, onto the calendar, word processor or even another contact or company. In addition, Full Contact includes a word processor with full color graphics, powerful searching and filtering, SmartBanners™, reminders & alarms, Quick Phone Call and Quick Contact Entry, Auto-Dialer, labels, intelligent import/export, reports, user-definable views, and much more!
This file will explain (1) what's included in the demo, and (2) how to reach FIT Software with questions and suggestions.
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WHAT'S INCLUDED IN THE DEMO
Three files are included in this archive: Full Contact™ Demo, Sample Data File, and Letter to Contact.
• Sample Data File
Open this file second. When you double-click on this sample file, Full Contact™ Demo will open it. This sample database is already customized with a set of contacts, companies, and a activities. You can rearrange the data in the many SuperList™ windows by using our pre-entered Filters and Views. In this sample file, you can try out the features and techniques explained in the Guided Tour. When you are ready, you can close this file and create a brand new database of your own. The database you create will be completely compatible with Full Contact, should you decide to buy the software.
• Full Contact™ Demo
The demo program is a fully functional application except for a few limitations:
1. You can enter no more than 50 Companies, 75 Contacts, and 100 Activities.
2. You can not set reminders and alarms for your activities.
3. You can not set or remove a password from a database.
4. You can not use the data communications terminal, unless you already have certain communications tools installed in your System folder.
• Letter to Contact
This letter template is designed to work with your personal or company letterhead. To use the template, give the "Open Letter" command from the Correspondence Menu and select the "Letter to Contact" file. Then drag a contact from your Contact List (or any other window) to the Mailing List area at the top of the letter. The template automatically inserts the appropriate contact information including greeting, name, company, and preferred address.
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NEW FEATURES AND CORRECTIONS TO THE MANUAL
Installation
You must restart your Macintosh before you can use Reminders.
Automatic Lookup Fields
Almost every field which has a pop-up menu now also benefits from automatic lookup. As you type, Full Contact guesses which pop-up menu item you want to enter and completes the field for you. This guess becomes more accurate with each character you type. When you are satisfied with the guess, press the Tab key to move on to the next field. If you do not want to use the guess (i.e. you want the word "ven" when the field says "vendor"), type a space at the end of your entry and the rest of the guess will disappear. To add more words to the lookup table for a given field, follow the directions in "Adding Pop-up List Items" on page 22 of Chapter 2 in your User's Guide.
Phone Numbers
In addition to the "x" character (which denotes a phone extension) you can now also type in the “/” and “.” characters. If the phone number has seven or ten digits, however, these characters will be removed when you leave the field, due to our automatic phone number formatting feature. For example, 011/02/510/555/1212 will remain as is, but 510/555/1212 will become (510) 555-1212.
Copy Label
You can now copy contact or company information to the clipboard to be pasted into other programs. To use this feature, select a single item in the Contact List or the Company List and then select the "Copy Label" command from the Edit menu. You may accomplish the same thing by opening a Contact Editor or Company Editor window and selecting the menu item. When you select the Copy Label command, Full Contact copies the Contact Name, Preferred Company Name, and Preferred Contact Address (or Company Name and Preferred Company Address in the case of a Company) to the clipboard.
Filters - Default Filters
There are now about 50 default filters which are created in each new database you create. Filters with an ellipsis (…) in their title need to be customized. These filters have been configured to search for a particular variable which you will probably want to replace. For example, the …By State filter in the Contact List by default searches for contacts with addresses in California. You can change this value to search for a different state. See "Editing a Filter" on page 3-19 of the User's Guide.
Filters - Date Ranges
When defining a date range, you can now use the infinity sign as a modifier in the search text field. For example, if you want to find all activities older than today, you can search for "Start Date" field "Is Today" "+∞". To type the ∞ character, press option-5 on your keyboard.
Primary Reference Fields
In addition to the six kinds of data that primary reference fields can display there is now a seventh type: ZIP Code. By displaying a ZIP Code in primary reference field, you can sort any SuperList by ZIP Code. An obvious benefit of this feature is that you can sort your Contact List by ZIP Code and print form letters or mailing labels in ZIP Code order. Note: When you sort by ZIP Code, you are also sorting by state.
Copying and Pasting Graphics in Letters
Graphics inserted by copying and pasting may print bitmapped (jagged). For better print resolution, try inserting your graphics, using the Get Picture command instead. See "Inserting Graphics" on page 11-24 of your User's Guide.
Date Titles in the Weekly and Daily Calendar
If you have System 7.1, you can use the Date & Time control panel to customize the title of each day in these calendars. Using the "Long Date" options in this control panel window, you can decide whether to display date titles as "March 2, 1994", "Wednesday, March 2, 1994", "Wed., March 2, 1994", etc. If your calendar titles appear incomplete or otherwise incorrect, check this control panel window and see which options you have set.
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HOW TO REACH FIT SOFTWARE
If you have any questions or comments, please contact us. We are very interested in your feedback. You can reach us several ways:
