46 QUICK START With AS-EASY-AS AND EZ-$-PLAN Make a working copy of As-Easy-AS. * On a two floppy drive system: insert As-Easy-AS disk into drive A, insert a blank formatted diskette into drive B. Enter the following command at the DOS prompt: SETUP B: (enter return after each command). * On a hard disk system create a directory named ASEASY: type the following at the DOS prompt: C>MKDIR ASEASY. To change to the subdirectory named ASEASY type the following: C>CD\ASEASY. To make a working copy of ASEASY on drive C in a directory named ASEASY Insert AS-EASY-AS disk into drive A, and with an A prompt, type the following: SETUP C:\ASEASY. Place the original registered ASEASY disk in a safe place. If your working disk becomes damaged, repeat the above process to make a new working disk. Make a working copy of EZ-$-PLAN. * Use the DOS DISKCOPY command to make working copies of the EZ-$-PLAN disk. Place the original EZ-$-PLAN disk in a safe place. * On a hard disk system, copy all EZ-$-PLAN program files from the diskette to the hard disk ASEASY directory, as follows: Change to ASEASY directory, C>CD\ASEASY; Insert EZ-$-PLAN disk into drive A and execute DOS command COPY A:*.WKS. Starting ASEASY * On a two floppy drive system, insert AS-EASY-AS disk in drive A. At the A prompt type ASEASY/P/CTR. The switch /P produces a "panel" menu in the top two rows (this avoids blocking of spreadsheet by the menu). The switch /CTR centers the column heading letter over each column. * On a hard disk system change to the ASEASY subdirectory using the CD command (see above). At the C prompt enter ASEASY/P/CTR. * Help screens can be displayed by pressing the help key [F1]. To use an existing EZ-$-PLAN program. (example file: COMPINT2) (1) Start ASEASY (see above). (2) Load COMPINT2 as follows: For a one or two floppy disk system: (assuming ASEASY was loaded from A drive), insert EZ-$-PLAN disk into the A drive. Enter /FR (file, retrieve). Use the arrow keys to move the cursor through the menu to the file COMPINT2. Press enter. To enter your data, move cursor to cells C7..C10. For example, to enter 1000 for present value in cell C7, move cursor to C7, enter 1000 (press return). Similarly enter 10 and 6 in cells C9 and C10 (press return after each number). To solve for future value enter 0 in cell C8, and COMPINT2 and ASEASY will automatically calculate the output data in cell C18. To Exit ASEASY: Enter /E. For a demo of line, pie or bar graphs, load spreadsheet, e.g., ASEASY, insert EZ-$-PLAN shareware disk in drive A and load NETWRTH1.WKS. Enter /GV to invoke GRAPH VIEW. To create graphs with your own data load NETWRTH, insert your data and enter /GV. To view other graph demo's load ANNUIT.WKS and INCEXP1.WKS.