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- CYBERSECRETARY FOR MICROSOFT OUTLOOK 2000
- Version 2.0 Release Notes - January 3, 2001
-
- INTRODUCTION
-
- CyberSecretary for Microsoft Outlook 2000 is your virtual
- office assistant...putting the "face" in "user interface,"
- and the "personal" in "personal information manager."
- If you use Microsoft Outlook 2000, your CyberSecretary
- can perform many useful tasks:
-
- CALENDAR
- - Showing you your Outlook 2000 calendar in the morning
- - Coming to remind you when it's time for appointments
-
- CONTACTS
- - Taking and keeping phone messages
- - Creating phone log entries
- - Preparing mail messages addressed to your contacts
- - Getting street maps/driving directions (requires Internet)
-
- INCOMING MAIL
- - Announcing arrival of incoming mail, indicating who it is from,
- and the subject
-
- SENT MAIL
- - Setting follow-up reminders for mail messages
- - Printing mail messages
- - Filing mail messages (in Outlook, or as files)
- - Adding to your Journal (with a link to the filed message)
-
- INTERNET
- - Searching the Internet using popular search engines (without
- opening your browser first)
- - Getting stock prices
- - Visiting Internet sites (scheduled or when requested)
-
- REMINDERS
- - Set free-form text reminders (for today, tomorrow, daily, weekly)
- - Remind you to follow-up on important mail messages
- - Launch programs or open documents on a scheduled basis
-
- YOU CAN TEACH YOUR CYBERSECRETARY NEW THINGS. Just right-click on
- any program, document, shortcut or Internet shortcut and send it to
- your CyberSecretary. She will come right away, to find out what
- you'd like her to do. She can schedule the new task for a daily or
- weekly basis, or add it to her list of tasks she can perform when
- you left-click on her tray icon.
-
- Your CyberSecretary also features artificial intelligence, and
- includes three guessing games. Pick a place, an animal, or a
- president, and she will try to guess. She gets better with practice!
-
- CUSTOMIZE
-
- Right-click on your CyberSecretary's tray icon and choose Customize
- to determine which tasks will be performed by your CyberSecretary.
- If you are looking for more flexibility and power, try CyberSecretary
- 2000 Pro, which can be customized to perform many more useful tasks
- through her powerful script language.
-
- USE IN WORD, EXCEL AND OTHER VBA MACROS
-
- CyberSecretary for Microsoft Outlook 2000 is built using the
- CyberSecretary Object Library, an ActiveX component that offers
- the following features:
- - A customizable dialog for displaying messages and getting
- user input.
- - A library of seven facial expressions (male and female), over
- 150 icons, and over 40 sound effects and voice clips
- - Easy-to-use support for reading/writing the Registry and .INI
- files, opening and printing document files, accessing Windows
- common dialogs, and even getting information via the Internet,
- which would otherwise require Windows API programming.
- - All of this with your CyberSecretary's unique user interface!
- You can use the CyberSecretary Object Library in your own Word, Excel
- and other macros written in Visual Basic for Applications. See
- CSMACROS.CHM (the macro reference) for more details.
-
- SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
-
- - Microsoft Windows 95, 98 or Me; Windows NT or 2000
- - Microsoft Outlook 2000 (Part of Microsoft Office 2000)
- - Visual Basic 6 Runtime Library (MSVBVM60.DLL)
-
- Note: If you obtained CyberSecretary for Microsoft Outlook 2000 on
- CD, the Visual Basic 6 runtime is included on the release CD
- (vbrun60sp3.exe). If you obtained CyberSecretary from the Internet
- or on diskette, this file is readily available from many sources.
- If you do not already have the Visual Basic 6 runtime installed,
- then simply run this before installing CyberSecretary.
-
- The help files require the Microsoft compiled help file viewer
- (HH.EXE). If you obtained CyberSecretary for Microsoft Outlook
- 2000 on CD, this is included on the CD (HHUPD.EXE). If you obtained
- CyberSecretary from the Internet or on diskette, this file is
- readily available from many sources.
-
- INSTALLATION
-
- If you received CyberSecretary on CD, simply launch SETUP.EXE.
- This will copy all necessary files to a folder (c:\Program Files\
- CyberSecretary by default), and will launch CYBERSEC.EXE, the main
- program.
-
- If you received CyberSecretary as a .ZIP archive, unzip all files to
- the folder of your choice (e.g. c:\Program Files\CyberSecretary) and
- launch CYBERSEC.EXE.
-
- The first time the program is run, your CyberSecretary will perform
- all other installation tasks, including registering her files,
- creating Start Menu shortcuts, and offering a brief tutorial.
-
- GETTING HELP
-
- A shortcut to the user guide is added to your Start Menu. Also, you
- can open the user guide at any time your CyberSecretary is visible
- by pressing F1.
-
- REGISTRATION
-
- CyberSecretary for Microsoft Outlook is shareware. The program is
- fully functional but will periodically show her temper and display a
- registration reminder. Registration is $19.95. You will receive a
- registration code by e-mail.
-
- You can register online using major credit cards. To register online,
- go to:
-
- http://www.ivitar.com/cybersecretary/registration.htm
-
- You may also register by mail:
- Walter E. Heindl
- 271 Misty Patch Road
- Coatesville, PA 19320
-
- Please provide your e-mail address.
-
- MORE INFORMATION
-
- Please send your suggestions, comments and bug reports to:
- support@ivitar.com
-
- Visit our web site for the latest information:
- http://www.ivitar.com
-
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