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WinCheck User's Guide: Getting Started
Getting Started
The following topics will be discussed in this section:
The WinCheck Screen
Writing Your First Check
Working with the Check Statement and Register
Editing and Splitting Transactions
Printing a Cash Flow Report
Creating a Custom Report
The tutorial account included with WinCheck is an excellent place
to begin learning to use the program. The WinCheck tutorial file includes
sample data for January, February and March of 1991.
To start the WinCheck program with the tutorial data, do the following:
Start WinCheck by double clicking with the mouse on the WinCheck icon
in Program Manger. If you have not added a WinCheck icon with the
File New command, refer to the chapter on "Program Manager" in your
Windows documentation.
Note: If WinCheck is on your path, then it is also possible to
start WinCheck by choosing Run from the File menu of Program Manager.
Type WINCHECK for the "Command Line:". Otherwise, type the fully
qualified path name for WinCheck (such as C:\WINCHECK\WINCHECK).
Upon startup of the WinCheck program, you will be prompted for the
account to load. To load the Tutorial account, choose TUT from the
drop down listbox (click on the down arrow). The keyboard equivalent
to clicking on the down arrow with the mouse is to press ALT+Down Arrow
on the keyboard. Once you have selected TUT, click on the OK button
or press Enter on the keyboard. If you have already started the
WinCheck program and need to load the TUT account, choose Load Account
from the File menu and choose the TUT account from the drop
down listbox.
When loading the Tutorial file, the Balances Dialog will appear with
the balance values for Savings and Checking as well as the date of the
last transaction. Press OK to exit the Balances dialog and view the
account Register for March of 1991. WinCheck automatically loads the
account Register that is closest to the current date. In the case of the
TUT account, March 1991 is the last month with transactions.
The WinCheck Screen:
There are two visual aids besides the menu at the top of the screen:
The Control Bar of icons across the top of the screen (mouse required)
and the Status Line along the bottom of the WinCheck screen. The Control
Bar allows for quick operation of the program by placing icon buttons
of common operations below the menu. There are fifteen buttons that
execute common WinCheck operations and an "Acct:" listbox on the far
left that lists open accounts. The TUT acronym is listed now, to
indicate that the Tutorial file is open.
Left to right the icons do the following actions:
1 Credit Card transactions from credit card account or Debit Card
transaction from Checking account.
2 Write a check.
3 Check Deposit.
4 Savings Withdrawal.
5 Savings Deposit.
6 Cash machine withdrawal from Checking.
7 Cash machine withdrawal from Savings.
8 Miscellaneous transaction from Checking.
9 Miscellaneous transaction from Savings.
10 Activates the Windows Calculator.
11 Clear selected transaction.
12 Unclear selected transaction.
13 Sum selected transactions in Statement or Register window.
14 Print check(s).
15 Find a transaction.
The Status Line displays the description of the account (WinCheck
Tutorial File) and the current balance information. The caption just
above the menu lists the open month, the account ID, and whether the
open window is a Statement or a Register. For example:
WinCheck - Current Month 03/91 -[TUT: Register for March, 1991]
The menu bar is just below the description information. One letter of
each menu item is underlined. This letter is underlined to indicate
the ALT combination to activate the menu. In otherwords, to activate
the File menu from the keyboard, you would type ALT+F (for File). To
activate the File menu using the mouse, click on the word File.
There are three arrow buttons in the upper right corner of the WinCheck
screen. The top two buttons are used to control the size of the WinCheck
program screen and third button below is used to control the size of
the Register or Statement window.
Click on the third button (the Up and Down Arrow) and the Register window
will be reduced in size. Click on the Down Arrow along the title of the
Register window and the Register will now be reduced to an icon at the
bottom of the screen. Double click on the Checkbook Icon or press Enter
to restore the Register window again.
Finally, click on the Up arrow along the frame of the Register window to
Maximize the window to it's original position.
Controlling the size of the program screen:
Click on the Up and Down arrow in the far upper right corner to reduce
the size of the WinCheck program from a full screen application. Click on
the Down arrow to minimize the WinCheck application. Double click on the
WinCheck icon at the bottom of the screen to switch back to WinCheck.
Finally, click on the Up arrow to maximize the WinCheck program to
full screen.
Writing Your First Check
To write a check, click on the check icon button (the tiny blue check)
on the Control Bar, or press F3, or choose Check from the Checking menu.
Any of these actions will bring up a blank check transaction.
Note: When clicking on an icon button, you only need to click on it once.
Double clicking will bring up a message stating that only one new open
transaction may be open at a time. If this message box appears, press
the OK button and continue.
In the resulting check, click on the down arrow to view current transaction
categories. Categories are a means to classify your transactions into
certain groups such as "Entertainment" or "Business". The keyboard
equivalent to clicking on the down arrow with the mouse is to press
ALT+<Down Arrow> from the keyboard.
Steps for completing the check:
1. Select the "Health Club" category from the drop-down listbox
(click on down arrow).
2. Press the Tab key twice to jump to the Date field and type
03/30/91. (For the purpose of this tutorial, we have
changed the date to be within the month of March to match
the other tutorial data. Normally, you would leave the current
date that is automatically inserted with a new transaction.)
3. Press the Tab key again to advance to the "To:" field.
4. Type "NorthWest Fitness".
5. Press the Tab key once to advance to the dollar amount field
and type 23.34. The check is now complete.
6. Click on the OK button or press Enter on the keyboard to record
the check transaction.
To view the check in the Register window, use the vertical scroll bar to
scroll to the end of the month (or use the Page Down key when Num Lock is
off).
Sorting the Register and Statement Data
The default sorting routine for the Register is to sort by Date, so the
transaction will appear near the end of the Register window data.
From the Data menu choose Sort-> and pull to the right with the mouse to
view the sorting options. The current sorting option is by Date, as
indicated by the check mark. Choose by Number as the sorting method for
the data in the Register window.
When the Register is sorted by number, all of the transactions without
check numbers (such as deposits) will appear at the top of the Register
window with the checks below in ascending order.
WinCheck is capable of viewing several Statements and Registers from the
same or different accounts at one time. To view a check Statement, choose
Display Check Statement from the Acct menu. In the resulting dialog,
WinCheck displays the available months (in this case January 1991-March 1991).
"Available months" are those months that actually contain data. For example,
April will appear in the "Pick a month to view" dialog once a transaction
has been made with an April date.
Choose January 1991 and press Enter or click on the OK button. The Statement
differs from the Register in that the transactions are grou