Welcome to Personal Time Card for Windows ******************************* All rights reserved - Copyright 1992 Member Association of Shareware Professionals This is a Shareware Program Program designed and written by Fischer Grafix & Software P.O. Box 606 Midway City, Ca 92655 ******************************* SELECT "Edit" - "Word Wrap" from menu to view file properly. Personal Time Card is a very easy to use way to keep track of the time you spend on specific jobs. We did not include any help screens as this short documentation should be all that is required to use the program (we also didn't want to clutter up you hard disk with additional help files). Getting Started: If you have not yet installed PTC and are reading this document the installation procedure is as follows; Select File - "Run" from Program Manger window, at the text box type in "A:SETUP" (be sure your diskette is in the drive or you will start the windows setup program). You may change the drive or directory selection during installation (setup defaults to drive C:). The setup program will create a new group window and install all necessary files to run PTC. Using PTC: You can either use the tab key or the mouse to move from entry box to entry box when filling in your time. 1) Enter the Job# or Name for your task (use as few characters as possible here). 2) Enter the time you have spent on each task. 3) Select Description "Show" to enter additional information about that job. 4) Select Description "Hide" to close the description window. 5) Select Total, you can select either straight time or overtime to view your totals. 6) Select File - "Save", the date will show up automatically (this date is taken from your computer clock, if it's off correct it now). The save format is "00-00-00.ptc" to change this date use the mouse to select the day and change it to the desired date then click OK, your card is now saved under that date. This can be a week ending or daily date. You have now completed a time card. File Menu, Open: Once you have saved a card you can now File - "Open". You will be given a list of cards by dates. You can either select the card to open and click OK or double click on the card. You can now add or change the data in that card. The card you are working on will show the date at the top of the window (Personal Time Card for; 00-00-00.ptc"). Save: If you have a card open and you select save the old file is overwritten with the new file (even if you have not made any changes). See above step 6 for saving your card. Save As: Allows you to save the card with the date you select. Print: This will give you a hard copy of your card currently displayed on the screen. Keep this for your records or turn in for accounting. You will be asked to type in your name before printing. Make Dir.: You can use this for a convenient way to make a new directory to either save the cards for a new job or to add an additional person. Caution: the cards are saved by date, if more than one person is using this program make a directory for each person by their name to save their cards. New Total, Straight Time: Once you enter your times you can view your totals by straight time. This will show you the daily and weekly total calculating the number without any overtime (Saturday & Sunday will be normal days. 8 hr's + OT: This selection will calculate the time using 8 hours as a standard day with additional hours per day as overtime. (Saturday & Sunday will be viewed as overtime days). Description, Show: You can enter additional information about the job you are working on in this area. Describe what you have done or a brief description of the job itself. This will help you to remember what it is the number means in the future. Hide: This removes the description window from the screen but does not clear the data. Options, New Card: If you have "Opened" or "Saved" a card and you want to start a new one select this option and all the data on the screen will be cleared. Copy to clipboard: You can use this to copy the card on the screen to the clipboard and paste into your favorite spreadsheet program (set your spread sheet to coma delimited). Vacation Time: The first time you select this item you will get an error message which says the program cannot find the file (one does not yet exist). Click OK and one will be created. You will automatically be placed into the deduct box. Select Reset - "Vacation" from the menu and enter your starting vacation balance. Do the same for sick time. Click "Calc - Save" button. You now have a vacation file saved. You can enter a deduction now. Note: Before you cancel press "Calc-Save" or your deduction will not be saved to disk. Register PTC: This is the registrations screen for PTC. Registration is $18.50 + $1.50 s/h ($20.00) total for either 5 1/4" or 3 1/2" diskette . You can register the program with Fischer Grafix & Software directly by filling in the registration form then printing it and returning it with a check. Registering the program entitles you to phone help (if needed) and placement on our update list (you will be the first notified). You may also register PTC online with CompuServe. Registration ID# 395 (type SWREG at the prompt) Visa, Master Card or American Express users may call 1-800-847-0309 or 1-714-898-7262 to reigster. About, Small blurb about Fischer Grafix & Software. Note that the Card window can be minimized and kept on the desktop for entry during the day. Please do not modify or change in any way this file as we have put it in the notepad format for your convenience. If you require a second card you can change the default name from 00-00-00.ptc to any name you want such as 000000a.ptc, 000000b.ptc, etc.. Do not change the extension. About Shareware, Shareware is a try-before-you-buy process in which you are allowed to use the program for a specific amount of time. This time will vary from software to software. The grace period for this program is three weeks. If after that time you find this program useful you are expected to register with the author (see registration Information below). If however after the specified time you do not find the program useful you are required to remove it from use. Remember that the Shareware system will only work if you support it by registering your program with the author. This also encourages the authors of Shareware to continue to write quality programs, upgrade existing programs and supply support. If you choose not to register, we would still like to hear about any comments or suggestions you have about Personal Time Card. Permission to Copy, Clubs, Individuals and other Organizations are granted permission to freely distribute this program and its associated documents by Distribution Requirements; 1. The registration fees for this program are to the author ONLY. Unless authorized agents are noted within the program itself (NO authorized agent will appear in any documentation (only the program)). No fees charged for the software and it's documentation above and beyond the fees for disk duplication and distribution, (normally under $6.00) 2. No advertisement made as to the program being public domain or free. All advertisements must state this program is SHAREWARE. 3. No modifications made to the program or its accompanying documentation. 4. All persons whom this program is distributed to should be informed of and encouraged to support the Shareware concept. 5. All files with Personal Time Card must remain together and be distributed on the same diskette or compressed together. NO FILE MAY BE DELETED 6. This prorgam may NOT be distributed as "RackWare" without the written consent of Fischer Grafix & Software. License Agreement: You are encouraged to use this program for 30 days prior to obtaining a permanent license. You may share this program with anyone you choose as long as you do not change or remove any files. You may not charge for sharing a copy unless you comply with the items described in section 5. Licenses are non-transferable and may not be modified. Disclaimer: Fischer Grafix & Software disclaims all warranties relating to this software, whether express or implied, including but not limited to any implied warranties of usefulness and fitness for a particular purpose, and all such warranties are expressly and specifically disclaimed. 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