>>>>01 Main Menu ********* YELLOW DISK POPUP ************* Yellow Disk POPUP is a DOS Terminate and Stay Resident (TSR) program. YDPOP can manage and export names and addresses into other popular personal computer programs. When Memory is available YDPOP will automatically locate itself into Expanded or Extended Memory, otherwise YDPOP will use your hard disk to swap back and forth. YDPOP uses 4K of conventional memory. To begin YDPOP, type YDPOP at the DOS prompt. A screen will display that the program is active. Enter your word processing or spread sheet program as usual. Pressing the Control-Y key combination will pop the program up. EXITING YDPOP: To "Pop Down" and resume the previous program press the Escape key. MOVING AROUND THE DATA: The highlighted cell indicates where entered information will be stored. The arrow keys move the highlight bar from cell to cell. Pressing the page-up or page-down keys will move from one record to another. You may also jump from record to record using the GoTo function as explained below. To add records press the insert key and respond Y to the Add Record? prompt. FUNCTION MENU: Pressing the slash/ key will display a menu of available functions. To execute a function press the first letter of the function or use the arrow keys to highlight the function and press the enter key. Some functions have "speed keys" available, the speed key is listed when the menu highlight bar is over the function. ENTERING NAMES: When Entering Names, use the following format: John C.>Doe The > character tells the sort routine where to place the record when sorting. The > character is transparent when printing or exporting records. CAPITALIZATION: A capitalization routine is employed to increase your data entry speed. Entering john c.>doe, the result is John C.>Doe. EDITING EXISTING CELL: To edit an existing cell press the F2 key and use the left and right arrow keys to move around. Press the insert key to switch from overwrite mode to insert mode. GOTO: Use the GoTo function (/G or F5) to jump around the file. When asked for the record no.#, pressing the home key will jump to the 1st record and end will jump to the last record. SEARCHING: YDPOP will search any cell for the requested data. To select the search cell, move the highlight bar into the cell you want to search, and press the /F (or F6). Then enter the search text. The program will search from the current position to the end of the file. To search the entire file use the goto function to select the first record, then begin the search. Often entering a short match text will find the desired record. To search for John C.>Doe use Doe, Doe John, or Doe John C. as the search text. Enter /N (or F7) to find the next match using the information previously entered. EXPORTING RECORDS: Before pressing Control-Y to popup YDPOP, make sure the calling program is ready to receive the address. If you can type an address as the next keystrokes in your program, you are ready to "POP UP" into YDPOP. Entering; /EW, will pop down YDPOP and export the record into your calling program. Entering; /EH will export an address horizontally into your spread sheet. You may need to change column widths. MEMOS: To view and edit the record's attached memos enter /M or AltM. 200 lines of memos are available for each record. The memo editor has a / menu available to describe features. CALCULATOR: With Ydpop running; Enter Control-C or /UL to display the Calculator. Press the F2 key to switch from standard calculator mode to HP(R) mode. Press F to fix the number of digits displayed. Press Alt-X to export the number in the calculator into your underlying program. Note: if you plan to export the number, be sure the cursor is in the correct position before pressing Cntrl-Y to enter YDPOP. CALENDAR: Enter Alt-C or /UC to display the calendar. While displayed use the up and down arrow keys to change the month displayed. Use the right and left arrow keys to change the year displayed. ZIP CODE ENTRY: YDPOP includes a city state and Area Code look up function. To use leave the city and state cells blank and enter the zip code. If the zip code is found, the city and state and area code will be entered automatically. ON LINE HELP: Press the F1 key to display this help message. When the highlight bar is in the contact or phone type fields, pressing F1 will display the current code type definitions and allow you to edit the definitions. MOVING POPUP WINDOW: Control-Up will move the window up. The other Control-Arrow Keys work in a simular manner. TERMINATING YDPOP: While the popup window is displayed, pressing the Control-End key combination will remove the TSR from memory, if another TSR or program has not been loaded after YDPOP. Terminate will restore the memory used by YDPOP without re-starting the computer. If the TSR cannot be removed a message will be displayed. Remove any TSR's loaded after YDPOP or stop any currently running programs and try control-end again. For Additional help: First, please consult the program's manual. Registered users may contact: Corvet Systems, Inc. 1714 Featherwood Street Silver Spring, Md. 20904 (301) 622-9069 Voice & Fax Corvet also has an address data base with additional features called: YELLOW DISK PLUS. The program allows you to keep many lists in the same file. Many printed reports and many other features are available. YDPOP & YDPLUS use the same file structure. >>>>2 Attached Memo Memo Editor: Shortcut Key Stroke Designations: ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÂÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÂÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÂÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÂÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÂÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÂÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ¿ ³ F1 ³ F2 ³ Alt D ³ Cntrl D³ Esc ³ Insrt ³ Delete ³ ³ Help ³CellEdit³Ins Date³Set Date³Save&Ext³Add Line³Del Line³ ÃÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÅÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÅÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÅÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÅÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÅÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÅÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ´ ³ F6 ³ F7 ³ ³ ³ ³ ³ ³ ³ Search ³ContSrch³ ³ ³ ³ ³ ³ ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÁÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÁÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÁÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÁÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÁÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÁÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÙ The Memo editor allows the attachment of 200 lines of notes to a business record. The commands shown above are available while using the editor. A forward slash (/) keystroke will bring up a menu with options for: 1.- copying up to 10 memo lines 2.- sorting the file into chronological order 3.- getting and setting the date 4.- searching the memo for words or phrases To use the menu, use the left and right arrow keys to highlight your selection and press the enter key (Carr.Rtrn). A menu item also may be selected by pressing the capitalized letter of the selection. Pressing / G(etdate) or Alt D combination will copy the current system date into a highlighted date cell. Pressing / S(etdate) or Control D combination will allow you to set the date used by the Alt D function, without changing the current system date. To use the copy function first highlight the cell to be copied from, press / C(opy), then using the down arrow key highlight up to 9 more lines to copy. The memos are now stored in memory. Highlight the Receiving memo cell line and press / I(nsert). The memos will be inserted above the highlighted cell. Using this method, you can copy up to 10 memo lines at a time from one business record to another. Copy will not work if all 200 memo lines are filled. To use the search function press / F(indtxt) or F6, and enter up to 25 characters to be located. If the word/phrase is found it will be highlighted on the screen. To continue searching for the same item press / N(xtfind) or F7, the next match will be highlighted. >>>> end of file