QuikCal Help
Welcome to QuikCal. This help topic will give all the information you need to get the most out of QuikCal. If you need help or have suggestions, select Contacting Us to find out how to get in touch.

Index

  Creating, opening and saving files

  Working with a month's Events

  Viewing a day's events

  Printing the monthly events

  Starting QuikCal minimized

  Wrapping lines of item text

  Changing fonts and colors

  Going to a particular month and/or year

  Contacting Us


Working with Events
Working with a month's Events

  Events are the heart of QuikCal. As you would jot items onto your kitchen wall calendar, you put them into QuikCal to view them a month at a glance.

  Adding events to the calendar

  Editing events in the calendar

  Deleting events from the calendar

  Moving events in the list


Add Events
Adding Events to the calendar

  Double-click on any day of the month with theleft mouse button. This will bring up the Events dialog. You can adda single event for this day or a repeating event.

Adding a single event.

 Type in the name of the event you wish to add. There is no need to fill in the rest of the dialog box (other than making sure Repeating Item is not checked). Simply click the Add  button. The event is automatically saved.

Adding a spanning event

 Spanning events are events that start on a particular day and run for the next desired days. Handy if you want to put in your vacation days or business trip into your QuikCal calendar!  Type in the name of the event you wish to add. Next, check the Span check box then fill in the number of days you want the item to span. For example, if you want your vacation to start on Monday and end on Friday, type in 5 days. Click the Add button after you have finished and the event will be saved.

Adding a repeating event

 Type in the name of the event you wish to add. Next, check the Repeating Item box. The rest of the dialog box becomes available. Note that certain selections are grayed out such as the day of the week and the month. Since you have selected a day by double clicking, these are filled in for you. You can check the On This Day of the Month box to have the event repeat only on this day of the checked months (such as the 25th of month). If you do not check this box, then the event repeats according to the day of week and the which week of the month (such as the first and third Monday of the month). Click the Add button after you have finished and the event will be saved.

Note: a maximum of 20 events per day can be added. Also, as soon as you click the Add button, the event is saved in the data file.


Edit Events
Editing Events in the calendar

  Double-click on any day of the month with the left mouse button. This will bring up the Events dialog. The day's events will appear in the listbox on the bottom of the dialog box.

  Select the event you want to edit then click on the Edit button. The Add button will change to Modify and, if you selected a repeating item, the repeating check boxes will fill in.

  Change any information that you want, then click on the Modify button. The changed item will be saved to the data file.


Delete Events
Deleting Events from the calendar

  Double-click on any day of the month with the left mouse button. This will bring up the Events dialog. The day's events will appear in the listbox on the bottom of the dialog box.

  Select the event you want to delete, then click on the Delete button.

  If you have selected a repeating item to delete, a message box will ask you if you want to delete this item just for this day or to completely delete the item. Answering No will remove the item from the calendar while answering Yes will just delete the item for this day.


Moving Events
Moving events in the list

  Events can be rearranged in order to display them in a different order. You may want events you've put a time for to display first. Moving them in the list accomplishes this.

  If the Items dialog box is not already showing, double-click with the left mouse button on a day containing events you want to move around.

  Press and hold down the left mouse button on an event you want to move in the list. Move the cursor to a new spot in the list, up or down in the list. When you release the left mouse button, the event will be moved to that spot.


Creating, Opening and Saving Files

  You can now create a new Quikcal data file, open another file or save a file under a new name.

  Creating a new file

  Opening another file

  Saving a file under a new name


Creating a new file

  Under the File menu, select New to create an Untitled file. The file will have a temporary name and, although the data is saved to a temporary file, will not be saved permanently until you use the File, Save As menu option. If you do not save the file, the temporary file will be deleted when you quit from QuikCal.


Opening new file
Opening another QuikCal file

  Selecting Open will open another QuikCal data file. The QuikCal file you are currently working with is closed and the file opened and its data displayed. You cannot have more than one file open at a time.


Saving a file
Saving a QuikCal file under a new name.

  Under the File menu, selecting Save As saves the current file under a new name. If you currently have an Untitled file and you select Save As, the old file is saved under the new name and the old temporary file is deleted. If you currently have a file opened that already has a name, Quikcal will save the file under the new name but leaves the old data file instead of deleting it.


Start Minimized
Starting QuikCal minimized

  You may want to start QuikCal such that it begins as an icon. You may then throw QuikCal into your StartUp program group to have QuikCal load every time you go into Windows.

  Go to the Options menu and select Startup Minimized. A check mark will appear when this option is in effect. Until this is un-checked, QuikCal will always start as an icon.


Wrapping Lines of Text
Wrapping Lines of Item Text

  You may wish the text of your items not to be "cut off" at the right side of the box for the day. You have the choice of whether to wrap the text to a new line or to let the text be clipped if it won't fit.

  Go to the Options menu and select Wrap Item Lines. A check mark will appear when this option is in effect. Until this is un-checked, QuikCal will wrap the text for your items.


Changing fonts and colors

Fonts

 The font type, color and style can be changed for:

current month

days of the week

items

Colors

 Colors can be changed for:

today's date

boxes that don't have a day

weekends


Select Fonts from the Options menu, then select Month. You may change the font type, style, color and size.


Select Fonts from the Options menu, then select Days of the week. You may change the font type, style, color and size.


Select Fonts from the Options menu, then select Item. You may change the font type, style, color and size.


Select Colors from the Options menu, then select Current Day. This changes the color for today's date. Since Windows only allows solid colors for text, if you select a non-solid color, Windows will substitute the closest solid color.


Select Colors from the Options menu, then select Non-Day Boxes. This changes the color for calendar boxes that don't have a day for this month. Since Windows only allows solid colors for text, if you select a non-solid color, Windows will substitute the closest solid color.


Select Colors from the Options menu, then select WeekEnd. This changes the color of the text for Saturday and Sunday. The color for the days and the items remain unchanged. Since Windows only allows solid colors for text, if you select a non-solid color, Windows will substitute the closest solid color.


Print Events
Printing monthly events

  There are 2 reports you can print, Print Month and Print Items.

Print Month

  This will print a monthly calendar similar to the QuikCal screen. The month fills the page in order to fit as many items within each day box as possible. If the number of day's events exceed the height of the day box, a Plus (+) will appear along the bottom of the day to let you know there are more events. If the box is not wide enough to print the entire event, the text will be wrapped to a new line or truncated, depending if you have Wrap Item Lines selected in the Options menu.

Print Items

  This report will print the events for this month in a list form. A small calendar for the current month will appear at the top, then the events for the month will print out in the form of:

  MM/DD: Name of Event

 Where MM is the month and DD is the day of the month.


Viewing a day
Viewing a day's events

  Holding down the right mouse button while pointing at a day will bring up the day view window. All of the day's events will be displayed in full. The window will automatically disappear when you release the mouse button.

  The window will not appear if there are no events for that day.


Go To Month
Going to a particular month and/or year

  Select the Go To menu to change to a particular month or year. QuikCal has 20 years available, from 1990 to the end of 2009.

  Don't worry. By the time 2009 rolls around, we'll have another update for you!


Contacting Jorgansen/Bliss
How to contact us

  If you need help, have a question, or run into any problems, we have multiple ways to contact us. Since we are a small company, electronic mail is the preferred method, however, phone support is available.

Mail:

  Alan Johnson

  Jorgensen/Bliss Co.

  520 Council Fires Court

  Alpharetta, GA 30202

  Phone: (404) 343-9841

  Phone Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays - 7:00P to 10:00P Eastern Time

CompuServe

  Alan Johnson

  CIS ID: 76120,556