****************************************************************** * * * METZ Phones * * 1995 WINDOWS Magazine WIN100 Winner! * * * * This file contains important last minute information * * about METZ Phones. You may want to print this file to make * * it easier to read. * * * ****************************************************************** ****************************************************************** How to update to Phones 5.62 from Phones 5.5x or lower ****************************************************************** IMPORTANT!!!!!!!! If you were using Phones 5.5x or earlier, this version of Phones will modify your databases, and require that all your users be updated to this version. As a precaution, please backup your phone books before installing this version of Phones. Your existing settings and preferences will be saved. ****************************************************************** Mail Merge Macros for Microsoft Word ****************************************************************** A mail merge macro for Microsoft Word 7.0 will be available for download from our on-line forums. The Word 6.0 mail merge macro will get copied to the directory if Winword is found on the computer. The Word 6.0 macro does not work with Word 7.0. ****************************************************************** Summary of changes in Phones 5.62 ****************************************************************** Phones 5.62 is now available as both a native Windows 95 applicatin and a 16 bit Windows 3.1 application. Both versions can share the same database, so both your Windows 95 users and Windows 3.1 users can operate on the same databases simultaniously. New install application, it also support the Windows 95 uninstall feature in the control panel. File Export will now create WordPerfect Mail Merge Files. These files can be used by WordPerfect versions 5.1 or greater. The Hotkey and Clipboard Layout filters now have a [,] and [, ] field to support intelligent comma's. Fixed F4 & F5 support under Windows 95 (Next Call and Time Stamp Notes commands). List window now jumps to the last record you were viewing when you open a database. This can be disabled on the preferences screen (Remember last record). ****************************************************************** Summary of changes in Phones 5.61 ****************************************************************** Shortly after Phones 5.6 was released, Borland released an update to their database engine, which is used by Phones. This version includes that update, however it is not installed by default. You must remove the WIN.INI [IDAPI] CONFIGFILE01= setting before installing this version of Phones to update your existing installation of the Borland Database Engine. The Borland Database Engine update reportedly corrects problems with Lantastic and Novell networks and includes other bug fixes. Phones can now sort records based on international character sets. Please see the Localize ini setting mentioned in the Ini Settings for METZPHO.INI listed below. The label font selection has been moved to the individual label layout settings. This allows you to save fonts on a layout basis rather than having only one font setting for all label layouts. A List Search User Fields command has been added. It allows you to quickly find a value in the user definable fields. The List Find and Replace now include the individual Telephone and user defined field types for more flexibility. Rebuild Indexes now has an option to fix orphan records, you should periodically rebuild each of your databases using this option. If you press Ctrl+G when the Phones List Window is active, your database will be checked for orphan records. Search and Replace were not handling the not (!) operator correctly when searching user fields or telephone numbers. This has been corrected. A potential key violation when importing records containing multiple categories has been fixed. The dialing has been changed internally for future 32 bit support, please report any problems. Dialing, area and country codes have been combined into a new Dial Codes dialog. The edit menu options 1 thru 6 have been combined into a single Edit Options dialog. A "No current record" error has been fixed. The File Status dialog counts were off by one, this has been fixed. The Address Book report now includes the title if it is not blank. Other minor bugs/changes. ****************************************************************** Summary of changes in Phones 5.6 ****************************************************************** Several new features are in this version of METZ Phones. Here is a summary of the changes. Please see the online help for details about a particular feature. Click the Help button in any of the dialog boxes to find out more about that dialog or command and to answer any questions you may have. This version works with Windows 3.1 and Windows 95. A 32 bit version of METZ Phones will be available later. An additional Administration module is now available, allowing network administrators to configure various security settings for their METZ Phones users. Please contact METZ Software for more information, or download the trial version. METZ Phones now uses the new Borland Database Engine. The engine has helped improve database performance. A List Search Phone Numbers command has been added. It allows you to quickly find a telephone number. The View menu now has shortcuts to quickly change the List window display. (Shortcuts for the List View dialog). A View Toolbars command allows you to adjust your toolbar settings. Tooltips are now displayed for each button. They can be disabled from the View Toolbars dialog. Phones 5.6 has passed the MS Office portion of the Microsoft Office 95 certification. Phones has not yet been submitted for Windows 95 certification. SH22W16.dll has been eliminated. Minor bugs have been fixed. ****************************************************************** Summary of changes in Phones 5.51 ****************************************************************** A List Replace command has been added. It allows you to search and replace text in one or more records. A List Assign Categories command has been added. It allows you to assign categories to multiple records. A problem with a printer driver General Protection Fault has been fixed. The File Restore feature now has options on how to restore records from a backup file. The options are displayed after you select the backup file and press OK. You can use this feature to perform some basic phone book synchronization. New Dialing Codes table - choose Dial Dialing Codes from the menu, then click the Help button for details. New Import/Export file formats are now supported: SYLK, Lotus, Excel Improved dialing support for international numbers - see the Dial Modem Settings Help topic. A Mail Merge macro for Word 6.0 is installed if WinWord is detected. The filename is METZMERG.DOC. We are testing Phones under Windows 95 beta versions and have made some minor changes as a result. METZHK16.DLL replaces METZHOOK.DLL and fixes a DOS memory problem. SH22W16.dll replaces METZOMEM.DLL. METZHOOK.DLL, METZOMEM.DLL, METZCORE.DLL, and DLWBC31.DLL are no longer used by METZ Phones. Other METZ Products may still need them however. New DDE commands have been added and documented in the online help. List and Record windows now remember their maximized/minimized state. Test Envelope now draws an outline of the envelope on the paper. Some performance improvements have been made. Hotkey Paste now displays up to 3 columns of information. Improvements have been made to help us with technical support, including better error messages. New Rebuild Indexes dialog - improves performances and reduces disk space. When you choose File New or File Rebuild Indexes you can choose which database indexes are to be created. New Find dialog features: Begins With option Now supports searching for blank or not blank (see online help) Categories can now be summarized/joined - see the List View by category options. New Suffix field (for information like Jr., Sr., etc.) ****************************************************************** Trouble Shooting ****************************************************************** METZ Phones requires SHARE: The METZ Phones Install program will check to see if share is installed on your system. If it isn't, you will be asked if you would like to have it installed for you. SHARE.EXE is included with DOS. You can add share to your AUTOEXEC.BAT so that share will be automatically loaded when you start your system. The line you add will be similar to: C:\DOS\SHARE.EXE Make sure that this line appears before any line that may run Windows. Microsoft has made a VSHARE.386 available for Windows 3.1 users who do not want to install the DOS share program. This file goes into your SYSTEM.INI and provides the functionality normally provided by the DOS share program. If you have Windows for Workgroups or Windows 95 installed, share is not required. If you are using a Novell Netware Network, you do not need to install share if the database and network path are located on the network drive. ****************************************************************** Ini File Settings ****************************************************************** METZPHO.INI The METZPHO.INI file contains the various settings for METZ Phones. Following are the undocumented INI values which you may find useful. If the setting does not exist, simply add it. Shown are examples with their default values. You will need to restart Phones for any changes to take effect. [METZ Phones] Localize=FALSE TempDir=C:\ ListCacheSize=200 ListExtendedSelect=TRUE ListIndent=TRUE ListActivate=FALSE ReportFirstLast=FALSE RecordChangeMsg=Yes MinimumColumn=75 [Modem Settings] OnTop=Yes WinFax=Yes Yield=0 Localize - Phones will sort records based on the international language driver selected in the Borland Database Engine Configuration utility if this setting is set to TRUE. Here are the steps you must take to convert your existing databases: 1. Backup all of your METZ Phones databases with the File Backup command. 2. Add Localize=TRUE to your METZPHO.INI [METZ Phones] section. 3. For each database you have backed up, create a new database, then choose the file restore command to load the backup file. 4. All new databases will be supported automatically. TempDir - Specifies the location for the Borland Database engine to keep temporary files. Specify a drive and directory which exist. The default is C:\. Do not use a network drive. ListCacheSize - The List window displays various database records. By storing (or caching) the information it needs once a record has been accessed, performance improves considerably. If you have a large database, you can increase this value to improve the List window performance. METZ Phones will use some additional memory as a result, roughly 30-60 bytes per record. Setting this value to zero will disable record caching. ListExtendedSelect - Setting this value to FALSE will change the way the mouse can be used to select records in the List window. Records can then be selected individually without holding down the shift or ctrl keys. ListIndent - The List window displays records based on the currently selected sort order. If the main sort field is blank, another field may be displayed in the first column, indented slightly. For example, when you sort by Company, records without a company value will display the name indented slightly. If you want to disable the indentation, set this value to FALSE, and restart Phones. ListActivate - When you open a database from Phones, the Record View window is activated. If you want the List window to be activated instead, then set this value to TRUE. ReportFirstLast - When printing reports, names are printed as "lastname, first middle". If you would rather have it print "first middle last", then set this value to TRUE. RecordChangeMsg - Set this value to No to disable the message which indicates a record has been changed by another user. MinimumColumn - Determines the minimize size of the List Window text columns in pixels. If the List Window size is less than this size, only the first column of information will be displayed. Set this value to 0 to display all columns of information regardless of the List Window size. OnTop - Set OnTop=No if you do not want the dialing dialog to appear in front of all Windows applications. The default is to stay in front. WinFax - Set WinFax=No to disable the Delrina WinFax dialing compatibility. Yield - If you have a Zoltrix modem, you may need to set Yield=100 in order for the dialing to work properly. METZPHO.ENV The METZPHO.ENV file contains the envelope settings for METZ Phones. Following are the undocumented INI values which you may find useful. If the setting does not exist, simply add it. Shown are examples with their default values. You will need to restart Phones for any changes to take effect. [METZ Phones] SavePrinter=TRUE SavePrinter - By default, the Envelope printer settings will be saved. Set this value to FALSE if you do not want the printer settings to be saved. METZPHO.LBL The METZPHO.LBL file contains the label settings for METZ Phones. Following are the undocumented INI values which you may find useful. If the setting does not exist, simply add it. Shown are examples with their default values. You will need to restart Phones for any changes to take effect. [METZ Phones] SavePrinter=TRUE SavePrinter - By default, the Label printer settings will be saved. Set this value to FALSE if you do not want the printer settings to be saved. METZ.INI The METZ.INI file contains the various settings for METZ Software products. Following are the undocumented INI values which affect METZ Phones. If you don't have a METZ.INI file in your Windows directory, simply create the file from Notepad. [METZ] DateApp=control.exe DateApp - This option determines what application is launched when you double click on the Date or Time display at the bottom of the application window. The default application is the control panel (CONTROL.EXE). If you want the control panel to open up into the Date/Time dialog, use "DateApp=control.exe DATE/TIME". WIN.INI The only use of the WIN.INI file by Phones is actually by the Borland Database Engine. The engine uses a section called [IDAPI], which should not be modified. ****************************************************************** ****************************************************************** How to obtain METZ Technical Support. Includes addresses, phone and fax numbers, CompuServe and America Online access, bulletin board system access, and the Internet access. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- There are several ways to obtain technical support for your METZ products (see address and telephone numbers at the end of this document). Be sure to include the product name and version number. 1. CALL THE BBS number and log on to METZ's electronic bulletin board service to view and download information, updates and trial products. You will need a modem and communication software. Access the METZ BBS at up to 14400 bps, No parity, 8 data bits, 1 stop bit (N-8-1). On the BBS, you may leave a message as a comment to the SYSOP for technical support, explaining your question in detail. 2. CALL COMPUSERVE to view and download information, updates and trial products. You will need a modem, communication software, and a CompuServe membership. GO METZ at any ! prompt. On CompuServe, you may send a message to 75300,1627 for technical support. A response will be posted back to you within one business day. If you are not a member of CompuServe, as a METZ customer you are entitled to a free introductory membership. Simply call one of these CompuServe numbers: CompuServe in USA & Canada................. (800) 524-3388 CompuServe Outside USA, Canada, & Europe... (614) 529-1349 CompuServe in United Kingdom............... 0800.289.378 CompuServe in Germany...................... 0130.37.32 Compuserve in Other European Countries..... +44/(89)66.55.0.111 3. CALL America Online to view and download information, updates and trial products. You will need a modem, communication software, and a membership. Use the GoTo Keyword METZ from the menu. On AOL, you may send a message to METZSoft for technical support. A response will be posted back to you within one business day. If you are not a member of America Online, as a METZ customer you are entitled to a free introductory membership. Simply call one of these America Online numbers and ask for a trial membership: America Online ............................ (800) 827-6364 America Online FAX......................... (800) 827-4595 4. CALL The Microsoft Network to view and download information, updates and trial products. You will need a modem, Windows 95, and a membership. Use the Go Keyword METZ from the menu. On MSN, you may send a message to METZ for technical support. A response will be posted back to you within one business day. 5. SEND E-MAIL via the Internet to: metz@metz.com. Visit our Internet World Wide Web site at http://www.metz.com/metz/ 6. SEND A FAX to the facsimile number explaining your question in detail. Give your company name and both your phone and fax numbers in your message (with country and city codes). 7. CALL THE METZ SUPPORT LINE. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sign up now to receive information about METZ Beta releases and/or our electronic newsletter! If you are interested in receiving the METZ Electronic Newsletter, sign up for the METZNEWS program. If you would like to participate in beta testing products, sign up for the METZBETA program instead. Subscribing to METZNEWS is simple, send e-mail to 75300,1627 on Compuserve, METZSoft on AOL, or metz@metz.com from Internet sites. Be sure to use SUBSCRIBE METZNEWS as the text of the message. 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