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Welcome to Sidekick for Windows README File ================================ This file contains important information--please read all of it. All information here supersedes information in the printed documentation and online Help. Also refer to UPDATE.TXT for a list of improvements to Sidekick. Table of Contents ------------------ 1. Installation 2. Registering 3. Purchasing and unlocking the Trial Edition 4. Technical Support 5. Changing the working directory 6. Sample files 7. Amendments to the documentation 8. Saving and backing up your data files 9. Using Sidekick with PC Tools and Norton Desktop for Windows 10. Resetting the Forward of incomplete items in the Calendar 11. Printing 12. YourWay users upgrading to Sidekick 13. Uninstalling Sidekick for Windows 1. Installation ---------------- Sidekick requires a minimum of 5 MB of hard disk space to install, 1 MB of which must be on the same drive as your Windows directory, and a 386 processor or higher. After installation, however, Sidekick itself uses only 3 MB of hard disk space and requires a minimum of 500 KB free disk space for working with data files. On some older machines, the available disk space is inaccurately reported to the installation program. If you have less than 10 MB of available disk space, and the program either will not install or the install unpack is aborted for no apparent reason, make 10 MB of hard disk space available and install again. Install will ask for your initials (up to 4 letters) to create your default calendar name. Install then creates: o a directory called 'SKW' on the C: drive (or whatever directory and drive you specified in the Install screen) and copies the program files into that directory. o a directory under 'SKW' called 'DATA', which contains your Sidekick data files. o a SIDEKICK.INI file in your computer's Windows directory o a Sidekick for Windows program group in your Program Manager To install Sidekick for Windows: 1. Start Windows. 2. Choose File|Run from the Program Manager. 3. Place the Sidekick disk in the appropriate disk drive. 4. Type A:INSTALL (or B:INSTALL if you're using drive B) and choose OK. 5. Follow the directions on the screen. 6. To start Sidekick, open the Sidekick for Windows group in Program Manager and double-click the Sidekick icon. Note: The install looks for the SIDEKICK.INI on your system to determine if a copy of Sidekick for Windows was already installed. If you are reinstalling Sidekick, you may want to back up any data files you've created in Sidekick. Refer to the section, "Backing up your Data Files" in this document for more information. 2. Registering --------------- During installation or at any later time, you can run the Automatic Registration program, and be registered automatically via modem. If you don't have a modem, the Automatic Registration program will print all your registration information in a form that can be simply mailed or faxed to Borland. Automatic Registration is available for U.S. and Canadian customers only. 3. Purchasing and unlocking the Trial Edition ---------------------------------------------- If you have the Trial Edition of Sidekick, it will work exactly like the retail version of the program. The ONLY difference is that the Trial Edition will automatically stop working thirty days after installation unless you purchase and "unlock" it. You can unlock the Trial Edition during installation, or run the Unlock Sidekick program any time during the thirty-day trial period. Unlocking turns off the thirty-day limit; Sidekick is then yours to use! In addition, we will send you the Sidekick User's Guide. You have two toll-free options for unlocking: by modem (in the U.S. and Canada) or by voice over the telephone. If you have a modem, the Unlock Sidekick program will prompt you for some information, and then contact Borland for you, exchanging information which unlocks your product. If you don't have a modem, you can call Borland, and you will be given the access code to unlock Sidekick. In the U.S.: 1-800-854-7611 ext. 1225. In Canada: 1-800-461-3327. Other countries: refer to the number on the disk's label. 4. Technical Support --------------------- Borland offers you a variety of services to help you with your questions. Be sure to register your copy of Sidekick: registered users are entitled to receive technical support and information on upgrades and supplementary products. North American customers can register by phone 24 hours a day by calling 1-800-845-0147. Borland provides the following telephone support options for Sidekick for Windows. The 900 Support Line The 900 Support Line provides priority access to a support engineer and is available from 6AM to 5PM (Pacific Time), Monday through Friday. 900 Support Line calls are billed directly to your telephone bill. Price: $2 per minute, first minute free. Call 1-900-555-1010. The 800 Support Line The 800 Support Line also provides priority access to a support engineer and is also available from 6AM to 5PM (Pacific Time), Monday through Friday. 800 Support Line calls can be billed to your major credit card. Price: $14 per call. Call 1-800-953-9995. International Support Please contact your local Borland office for technical support and product information. Borland provides several language drivers for Sidekick for Windows. See "Contacting Borland" and "Extended Language Driver" Support in the online Help. 5. Changing the working directory ---------------------------------- By default "SKW" is set as the working directory for Sidekick and the Import and Export tools. However, you can change the working directory to the same location as your data files (in C:\SKW\DATA), or to any other directory you want. To change the working directory to the location of your data files, follow the instructions outlined below: 1. Switch to Program Manager. 2. Select the icon labeled "Sidekick". 3. Choose File|Properties from the Program Manager. 4. Change the working directory in the Properties dialog box from "C:\SKW" to "C:\SKW\DATA" (or to the DATA directory of the path you specified during installation). When run from the Program Manager, you can change the working directories for the Import and Export tools in a similar manner. 6. Sample files ---------------- The following sample files are included with Sidekick: In the SKW\SAMPLES directory: Sample cardfiles 800NMBRS.SDB AT&T 800 numbers for airlines, hotels, etc. OFFICES.SDB Catalog of Borland offices worldwide SOFTWARE.SDB Descriptions of Borland software VIDEOS.SDB Information on videos and learning aids WINELIST.SDB Catalog of wines BOOKS.SDB Catalog of books about Borland software current as of February 1994 Sample Reports CONTACT.RPT Report on personal contacts 800NMBRS.RPT Report on 800 numbers OFFICES.RPT Report on Borland offices SOFTWARE.RPT Report on Borland software VIDEOS.RPT Report on videos WINELIST.RPT Report on wines BOOKS.RPT Report on books In the SKW\DATA directory: Sample cardfiles ADDRESS.SDB Default sample cardfile ADDRESS2.SDB Sample cardfile Sample folders (Notes module) Tips Several tips and ideas for using Sidekick Business Business form letters (use with ADDRESS.SDB) Personal Personal form letters (use with ADDRESS.SDB) 7. Amendments to the documentation ----------------------------------- Installation o During installation, a SIDEKICK.INI file is created in your windows directory. You should not manually change the contents of this file. If you do, protions of Sidekick may fail to operate properly. Calendar o There are new printing formats for the weekly and monthly Filofax personal organizer paper. Choose Help|Search from within Sidekick and search on the keyword "Calendar: printing" for more information on print options available in the Calendar. o Additional information on changing and deleting recurring activities in the Calendar can be found in online Help. Choose Help|Search from within Sidekick and search on the keyword "Recurring activities" for more information. o The Calendar does not support multiple appointments within the same time slot on a particular day's Appointments list. Therefore, if you try to schedule an appointment whose duration overlaps the start time of an existing appointment, Sidekick gives you the choice of overwriting it with the new appointment. If you try to reschedule an appointment to a slot within another appointment's duration, the item is moved, but its duration setting is not retained. o The Sidekick Calendar extends from January 1, 1990 through December 31, 1999. Note: If the system date on your computer is outside of this range, Sidekick will not be able to load. Notes o You can now export notes to either the Windows Clipboard or to a formatted text file. Choose Help|Search from within Sidekick and search on the keyword "Exporting notes" for more information. 8. Saving and backing up your data files ----------------------------------------- If you are installing the upgrade version of Sidekick, you should copy the entire contents of the "DATA" subdirectory from "C:\SKW" (or wherever you installed Sidekick) to another location before installation. After you install, copy all files EXCEPT FOR the following back into C:\SKW\DATA: BTBBMP.SKW BTBSTDCT.SWK BTBSTDNT.SKW BTBSTDRP.SKW You can also copy all files from the "DATA" subdirectory to another location if for some reason you need to reinstall Sidekick for Windows or want to make a back up of your data files. You may also want to copy the SIDEKICK.INI from the WINDOWS directory to save any global preferences you have set. For a complete list of files included with Sidekick and their use refer to online Help. Choose Help|Search from within Sidekick and search for the keyword "Files". 9. Using Sidekick with PC Tools and Norton Desktop for Windows --------------------------------------------------------------- With some configurations of PC Tools for Windows, when you switch between desktops while Sidekick is open, a "docked" SpeedBar or LaunchBar will move with the active desktop independent of the main Sidekick window. To prevent the SpeedBar or LaunchBar from moving with the active desktop, you can change them to floating palettes by dragging them with the mouse, or hide them using the Show options on the Sidekick View menu. They will then remain with the Sidekick window until the next Windows session. When installing Sidekick under Norton Desktop 2.0, you may receive error messages when the Installation program attempts to automatically create the Sidekick icons. Ignore the error messages and Sidekick should be installed. You can then create the icons manually. 10. Resetting the Forward of incomplete items in the Calendar -------------------------------------------------------------- If you have chosen to have incomplete items forwarded (in the Calendar's Daily Setup dialog box, which is the default setting), any activities not completed are forwarded to today. (Note: Sidekick looks back up to ten days for incomplete items. If you don't use Sidekick for more than ten days, older items may not forward.) To ensure that items are forwarded, you need to save the Calendar when prompted to do so. If you close the calendar without saving changes, any items which were forwarded are not saved to their new location and may not forward correctly the next time you open the calendar. If any items (Calls, To Dos or Task List) don't forward as expected, you can reset the automatic forwarding for a particular calendar by editing a line in that calendar's INIT file. 1. Note the name and location of your calendar file (displayed in the title bar of the Calendar View). Then close Sidekick and save any changes you made. 2. Run Windows Notepad and open your calendar's INIT file. The file name is in the format XXXXINIT.SKW, where XXXX represents your calendar's name. For example, if your initials are IGW, this file will be named IGWINIT.SKW. 3. Once you've opened the XXXXINIT.SKW file, look through the list of settings until you see a line which starts "LastEditTime=" followed by a date. This line tells SKW the last day you opened that calendar file and that items should not be forwarded from earlier than that date. 4. Delete the entire line and save the INIT file. The next time you open your calendar in Sidekick, any incomplete items on the Calls or To Do lists from the last ten days will forward to today. You should then save the forwarded items in their new location by choosing File|Save. Choose Help|Search from within Sidekick and search on the keyword "Setting up the Daily view" for more information on the Forward Incomplete Items option. 11. Printing ------------- When using a pre-defined template to print cardfiles or calendars, you may need to adjust the template's margins slightly for your specific printer. For example, increasing the top margin slightly, and decreasing the bottom margin by the same amount will cause the text to print higher on the page. 12. YourWay users upgrading to Sidekick ---------------------------------------- All cardfile and calendar files created in YourWay are compatible with Sidekick. Report files are not. Cardfile extensions are now .SDB and the calendar file extensions are now .SKW. YourWay files can be renamed to the correct extension and then simply opened in Sidekick. Installing Sidekick 1. Be sure you do not have YourWay or the Quick Menu running when you install Sidekick. Follow the installation instructions. Renaming YourWay's Cardfiles 1. Open the File Manager. Click on the YOURWAY directory so it is highlighted. (If your data files are stored elsewhere, click on that directory.) 2. Choose File|Copy. 3. In the Copy dialog box, enter "C:\YOURWAY\*.YDB" (don't type the quotes) in the "From:" text box. Enter "C:\SKW\DATA\*.SDB" in the "To:" text box. (Change the location for the Sidekick directory if yours is located on another drive or has a different name.) Click OK. This will copy and rename all the cardfiles in the YOURWAY directory to the SKW directory. If you do not want to rename all the cardfiles, select only the ones to rename before opening the Copy dialog box. (Ctrl-click on each file name to select it.) 4. Your cardfiles are now ready to be opened in Sidekick. Close the File Manager and open Sidekick. Choose File|Open in Sidekick's cardfile to open any of the renamed cardfiles. Renaming YourWay's Calendar files 1. Open the File Manager. Click on the YOURWAY directory to highlight it. (If your data files are stored elsewhere, click on that directory.) 2. Find all the calendar files. These are all the files in the YOURWAY directory that begin with your initials and have a .YWY extension. When you installed YourWay, the program prompted you for up to four initials to aid in identifying your personal files. For example, if your initials were CWB, YourWay would have created CWBTASK.YWY, CWBDATA.YWY, CWBMAST.YWY, and other similar files. 3. Highlight all these calendar files except one: the *INIT.YWY. Do not highlight or rename this file. 4. Choose File|Copy. 5. In the Copy dialog box, the files that you've just chosen should automatically be listed in the "From:" text box. Enter "C:\SKW\DATA\*.SKW" in the "To:" text box. Click OK. 6. All the calendar files are now in the Sidekick directory and are ready to be used in Sidekick. Close the File Manager and open Sidekick. Open the calendar file you need in Sidekick's calendar by choosing File|Open. NOTE: Multi-Day events (YourWay called them Conferences) will have to be edited. Using Sidekick Do not have YourWay and Sidekick open at the same time. IMPORTANT: To ensure that Sidekick runs correctly, you should also remove the following files from your WINDOWS directory: MACRODLL.DLL MEETINGS.DLL MICRDATE.DLL MICRFLOA.DLL QMHOOKS.DLL YWDLGDLL.DLL YOURWAY.INI CMCLIP.YWY Once you are certain you no longer need backup files, you can delete the YOURWAY directory and all the YourWay files. 13. Uninstalling Sidekick for Windows ------------------------------------- Before removing Sidekick from your system, you may want to back up any data files you've created in Sidekick. Refer to the section, "Backing up your Data Files" in this document for more information. To uninstall Sidekick for Windows: 1. After backing up any Sidekick data files you want to keep, delete the C:\SKW directory and all of the files/directories it contains. 2. Delete the file SIDEKICK.INI from your Windows directory. 3. If it exists, delete the file CMCLIP.SKW from your Windows directory. Except for any data files you backed up, Sidekick for Windows is now completely removed from your system.