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Visual Folders Help

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Just click on a topic below for help.  If this is your first time using Visual Folders, start with the Introduction.  After you've read the Introduction, you can learn more about each Visual Folders menu command by selecting one of the appropriate topics.

Introduction

VisualFolder Menu

Document Menu

View Menu

Window Menu

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Introduction

Welcome to Visual Folders(tm), The Information Accessory(tm) that is a simple and unique approach to Information At Your Fingertips(tm).  If your tired of running Word, Excel or other apps and having to re-open the documents you were just working on, or if it's just too much browsing through the endless File-Manager tree and trying to remember what's inside the little white page icons, then give Visual Folders a try.  Visual Folders uses Microsoft's standard Object Linking & Embedding (OLE) 2.0 technology to look inside documents and give you a snapshot of your files so you can see what it is your looking for.  With Visual Folders you can organize all your docs in Folders that show you what documents look like inside.  And what's more, Visual Folders will restore your snapshots exactly the way you left them, including the position and arrangements of all the windows.  And Visual Folders fully Supports Editing, Printing and E-Mail right from inside Visual Folders.

Once you open one or more Documents in a Visual Folder, it stays there, in the exact position and arragement you left it, until you decide to remove it.  So when you click on your Folder named "Important Documents" all the documents that you put in that folder are loaded and their contents displayed in the arragement you left them in just a split second, ready to view and access immediately!  Document windows can be arranged in a Cascading fashion, Tiled both Vertically or Horizontally, Minimized as Icons, or any number of combinations of these including your own custom arrangements that make the information appear the most accessible to you.

Visual Folders has a very attractive user interface with a 3D look and a simple and intuitive feel.  The Visual Folder list to the left displays all your Information Categories in alphabetical order for quick access.  The Window Area, in the center of it all, holds all your document windows and provides a clean and easy way to arrange your documents so that important information is easy to find and access.  Adornments around the Window Area, such as Menu Icons, Popup Help Windows, Status Information and System Date & Time add that final touch to this Information Accessory, making it a simple and comfortable environment to work with your information.

Well, enough about the basics.  The remainder of this help file will introduce you to what each Visual Folders Menu Item does.

Visual Folders and The Information Accessory are trademarks of InfoStructs Corp.  Information At Your Fingertips is a trademark of Microsoft Corp.


VisualFolder Menu

Below are descriptions of each item on the VisualFolder Menu.

New

Creates a new VisualFolder.  The VisualFolder Title dialog is displayed.  Enter the name of the new VisualFolder you want to create and press OK.  The VisualFolder is created and a clean Window Area is created.

Title

Renames the title of the active VisualFolder.  The VisualFolder Title dialog is displayed.  Enter the new name that you want the VisualFolder to appear under and press OK to change the title, or Cancel to keep the old name.

Delete

Deletes the active VisualFolder.  Visual Folders will first ask if you are sure you want to delete the folder.  Press Yes to delete the folder, or No to cancel the delete.

Exit

Quits Visual Folders.  Before exiting the application, Visual Folders saves the current state of the application, including all the settings, the position of the main window and all VisualFolder information.


Document Menu

Below are descriptions of each item on the Document Menu.

Open

Creates a new new Document Window looking into a document.  Displays the standard File Open dialog.  Select the file you want to add to the folder and press OK.  If the file was created by an OLE 2.0 compatible file such as Word 6.0, the new Document Window will display the contents of the document.  If the file is either not OLE 2.0 compatible or does not provide visual data (like a program or binary data file), then Visual Folders will display it's icon instead.

Title

Renames the title of the active Document Window.  The Document Window Title dialog is displayed.  Enter the new name that you want the Document Window to appear under and press OK to change the title, or Cancel to keep the old name.

Close

Closes the active Document Window, removing it from the active Visual Folder.  The actual file is not deleted.

Edit

Edits the contents of the active Document Window.  The application that created the document is run and the document loaded for editing.  If the Document Window represents a Program or other non-document, then the Program is run.

Print

Prints the document in the active Document Window.  The application that created the document is run, the document loaded, and the print command is run automatically.  This print command uses the default printer and print settings.  To print to a specific printer (other than the default printer) with custom settings, first select Edit and then select Print from within the application.

Mail

Mails the document file to a recipient via a Local Area Network or Mail Service Provider (such as CompuServe or AT&T Easy Link).  The command is only enabled when Visual Folders finds a compatible Mail Sub-System on your computer (such as Microsoft Mail or cc:Mail).  The Logon Dialog if first displayed.  Enter your username and password to logon to the Mail System.  The Send Dialog for your mail system is then displayed with the Document Filename and Icon appearing in the Mail Message Body.  Select one or more recipients and a subject and select Send to send the File or Cancel to return to Visual Folders.


View Menu

Below are descriptions of each item on the View Menu.

Auto Zoom

Display the Documents Contents in the largest size that will fit in the current viewing area of the window.

Zoom In

Zooms in closer to the document.

Zoom Out

Zooms out further from the document.

25, 50, 75, 100, 150, 200 and 300 zooms

Zooms the document to a particular size.

Show Page

Shows or hides the white background page behind the document contents.

VisualFolder Font

Sets the font used to display the VisualFolder names.  The Font Selection Dialog is displayed.  Select the new font name, style and size and press OK to change the font or Cancel to keep the old font.


Window Menu

Below are descriptions of each item on the Window Menu.

Cascade

Arranges all note windows in a card-deck style cascading fashion.

Tile Horizontally

Arranges all note windows in a non-overlapping style, maximizing the width of windows when possible.

Tile Vertically

Arranges all note windows in a non-overlapping style, maximizing the height of windows when possible.

Arrange Icons

Arranges all icons (for minimized note windows) neatly at the bottom of the screen.

Window List

At the end of the Window menu is a list of Window Names that are currently open.  Simply click one of these names to activate the corresponding window.  The name with a Check Mark next to it is the currently active window.  If there are many windows, the last item on the menu will read "More Windows...".  Select this menu item to see a list of the other windows.