To familiarize yourself with ABSENT , two fictitious 
employees have been entered along with some fictitious absences 
(you may delete these records later).
     You will first need to print the employee reports under 
option 3 of the MAIN MENU.Select option 1 to print a summary of 
ALL absences and option 2 for a detailed print of ALL absences. 
The reports contain graphics characters and will "look" much 
better on IBM printers or printers emulating the "IBM 
proprinter" (which are capable of printing graphics characters), 
however they will print on any printer .
     On both of the reports you will notice the Employee Number. 
This is the key to navigating your way through the process of 
entering and deleting employees , as well as entering and editing 
absence records.
     Before you can enter an absence for any employee you must 
first enter information about that employee, including the 
employee number. This "Employee Number" may be a number or text 
or a combination but must be unique for each employee. Enter 
employee information by selecting option 2 from the MAIN MENU and 
selecting "Enter New Employees" from the EMPLOYEE DATA MENU. When 
entering employee information you WILL NOT be allowed to enter or 
edit the number of Instances or the total number of days absent, 
these will be automatically calculated as you enter the detailed 
records of each absence. The instances and number of days will 
appear on the employee data sheet as they are accumulated. 
     Using the reports that were just printed, practice entering 
new absence records for the 2 employees using their employee 
number. Edit some of the absence records by using both the 
employee number and the beginning date of the absence from the 
report. Edit the employee data using the employee number and add 
one of your own fake employees and enter some absences for your 
employee (Employees will not print on the absence reports unless 
they have some kind of absence, they will always print on the 
EMPLOYEE DATA REPORT ). Reprint the report to see the automatic 
recalculation of total days missed and number of instances 
missed. When finished practicing delete the employees using the 
"Delete an Employee" option from the "EMPLOYEE DATA MENU".


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