*DISK
You are being asked to specify the disk drive where the data files will be
stored.  The data files that will be stored on this drive will be those
containing WORKSHEET and PLAN data.  All other files will be stored on the
disk drive/directory you are in when you run the paycheck program.

Valid disk drives are A: --> G:
*PRINTERS
Enter the name of the type of printer you have connected to your system.
Pressing F2 while in this field will display a list of printers supported
by the program.  If your printer is not in the list, you should just
enter it's name.

Specifying printer information is important, because this information is
used to produce compressed listings for the various reports.
*COMPRESS
Enter the sequence of codes needed by your printer to produce compressed
print.  Your printer manual should have a list of these codes in the
section dealing with programming your printer.  If you specified a printer
that was included with this program, these fields will automatically be
entered for you.  If you specified an unknown printer, you must enter these
codes manually.
*NORMAL
Enter the sequence of codes needed by your printer to cancel compressed
printing.  Your printer manual should have a list of these codes in the
section dealing with programming your printer.  If you specified a printer
that was included with this program, these fields will automatically be
entered for you.  If you specified an unknown printer, you must enter these
codes manually.
*LPI6
Enter the sequence of codes needed by your printer to enable printing at
6 lines per inch. Your printer manual should have a list of these codes
in the section dealing with programming your printer.  If you specified
a printer that was included with this program, these fields will
automatically be entered for you.  If you specified an unknown printer,
you must enter these codes manually.
*LPI8
Enter the sequence of codes needed by your printer to enable printing at
8 lines per inch. Your printer manual should have a list of these codes
in the section dealing with programming your printer.  If you specified
a printer that was included with this program, these fields will
automatically be entered for you.  If you specified an unknown printer,
you must enter these codes manually.
*GOALS
Your goals are important.  They give you purpose and direction.  Goals
enable you to identify what you want and the direction you would like
your life to go.  They are the most important part of any sound Financial
Plan, and in a family situation, goals bring unity and effort, since
everyone knows the objective and can pull together.

Goals are specified in three different ways:

LONG TERM GOALS are goals you set that well be realized in the neighbor-
				hood of 15 to 20 years.

MEDIUM TERM GOALS are goals you strive for in about five years.

SHORT TERM GOALS are realized in the next 12 months.

Each goal in this list should have a description and a dollar amount
assigned to it.  The program will continually add up all the dollar
amounts for the goals, and display the total at the bottom of the list.
Also displayed is the amount you need to save monthly to achieve your
goals.

Refer to Chapter One for a complete discussion of goals.
*ITEMS
The Expense Item List must be created before creating a worksheet or
financial plan.  The entries you include in the Expense Item List are
used in two ways throughout the rest of this program.

	- They are included as choice items (displayed by pressing the
	  F2 key) for data entry when on the ITEM field of the worksheet
	  form.

	- They are automatically used for the OBLIGATIONS items whenever
	  you create a Financial Plan.

The order of the entries on the Expense Item List will determine the order
of these entries in the choice list of the Worksheet form and the
OBLIGATIONS list of the Financial Plan.
*CRISIS
The Crisis Elimination List is designed to help eliminate the payment of
bills that surprise and frustrate people's best laid plans.  By saving a
little each month, there will be money to make those payments that appear
at the most inconvenient intervals.

This form give you the opportunity to list the amount of these expenses,
a description of each expense, and the month that each expense is due.
The program will automatically sum all the expenses and give you the
monthly amount you need to save to meet these obligations.

Refer to Chapter Two for a discussion of the Crisis Elimination List.
*WORKSHEET_LOAD_FILES
You are being given the option of loading a previously saved worksheet.
You might want to load a worksheet for the following reasons:

	- Update a worksheet with new information
	
	- Print a worksheet
	
	- Correct a worksheet

Worksheet files correspond to each month of the year, i.e. January
through December.  Pressing the F2 key, will display a list of months,
each of which can be selected by using the arrow keys.  When the cursor
rests on the month of choice, press <RETURN>.  This will place the month
in the prompt field.  Press <RETURN> a second time to cause the program
to load the worksheet associated with the selected month.

If you have never entered any data for the month selected, the worksheet
will come up empty.  If you have entered data for the month selected, the
worksheet will contain the data entered through the last data entry
session.  You can position the cursor the end of the data items, and resume
the data entry process.

You do not have to enter the data associated with a particular month all
at one time.  You could enter the data daily, weekly, or monthly, depending
on what is most convenient for you.
*PLAN_UPDATE_FILES
You are being asked to specify a list of worksheet files to be used to
provide actual data for the current Financial Plan.  You can specify
up to twelve (12) worksheet files (one for each month).

You select a month to be included by placing an 'X' along side the
month to be loaded. The program will load each month specified, in
sequence, into your currently loaded Financial Plan.  If you specify
a month to be loaded, and that months worksheet file does not exist
on your data disk, you will be given an error message to that effect.

These worksheet files are created using the SAVE option of the WORKSHEET
submenu.  They are then specified in this PLAN Update form for incorporation
into the currently loaded plan.  They in fact supply the actual obligation
data for the plan.
*WRKSHEET
The Worksheet Form is desgined to help you keep track of your monthly
expenses.  Below is a description of all fields on this form:

	DATE		- The date the expense was incurred (check was written)
	
	CHECK NO	- The check number of the check used to pay for the expense
	
	RECIPIENT	- To whom the check was written
	
	ITEM		- The reason for the expense

	AMOUNT		- The amount of the expense

NOTE: You will be required to fill in the expense item while in the
      worksheet form.  The expense item description must match one
      of the expense item categories entered in the Expense Item
      List created previously.  If you have not created your Expense
      Item List, you must abort this form, and and do so before you
      make any entries to this form.

      Pressing F2 when the cursor is on ITEM field will cause a pop-up
      window containing your expense items to be brought forward.
      Select one of these items by moving the cursor to the appropriate
      line, and then pressing return.

See Chapter Three for a detailed discussion of using the worksheet.
*PLAN_LOAD_FILES
You are being given the option of loading a previously saved financial
plan. You might want to load a financial plan for the following reasons:

	- Update a financial plan with new information
	
	- Print a financial plan
	
	- Correct a financial plan

By default, the program looks for financial plan files with an extension
of ".PLN" Specifying a financial plan file in this prompt box and pressing
<RETURN> will result in the financial plan being loaded, and being
displayed on the screen.

If Financial Plan files exist on your disk, you will be given the choice
of pressing the F2 key to display available files.  Using the arrow keys
to select a plan file, and press <RETURN>.  This will enter the selected
file in the data entry field.  Pressing <RETURN> a second time, will
actually load the plan file into the program for use.
*PLAN_SAVE_FILE
You are being asked to save the current financial plan in a specified file
name.  By default, the filename provided corresponds to todays date.  For
example, if today was January 1, 1989, then the plan filename chosen by the
program as the default would be 01011989 (mmddyyyy).  This filename will
have a default extension of ".PLN".

If you wish to specify a filename other than the default, type in the name
of your choice (e.g. PLAN1, TESTPLAN, or BESTPLAN).

You must press <RETURN> after you specify the plan filename, which will
result in the program SAVING the plan to disk, and returning you to the
Financial Plan Submenu.
*SAVINGS
The SAVINGS portion of the Financial Plan is used to list either projected
or actual deposits in savings accounts for Crisis Elimination, Goal, or
other purposes.

Press <CNTRL>-END to move to the OBLIGATIONS sub-form from the SAVINGS
sub-form. Press <CNTRL>-HOME to move to the INCOME sub-form from the
SAVINGS sub-form.

A complete description of using the Financial Plan is described in Chapter
Two.
*OBLIGATIONS
The OBLIGATIONS portion of the Financial Plan is used to list all monthly
expenses.

If you are working on the Financial Plan Projection, you will be allowed to
enter monthly figures for all months.  You will not be allowed to change the
OBLIGATION descriptions while in the Financial Plan.  These descriptions are
gotten from the Expense Item List you created earlier.

If you are working on the Financial Plan Actuals, you will NOT be allowed to
modify the amounts in the monthly columns for the OBLIGATIONS.  The only way
to update these amounts is through the UPDATE FINANCIAL PLAN menu choice.

Press <CNTRL>-END to move to the INCOME sub-form from the OBLIGATIONS
sub-form.  Press <CNTRL>-HOME to move to the SAVINGS sub-form from the
OBLIGATIONS sub-form.

A complete description of using the Financial Plan is described in Chapter
Two.
*INCOME
The INCOME portion of the Financial Plan is used to list either projected or
actual earned income from specified sources.

Press <CNTRL>-END to move to the SAVINGS sub-form from the INCOME sub-
form.  Press <CNTRL>-HOME to move to the OBLIGATIONS sub-form from the
INCOME sub-form.

A complete description of the Financial Plan is described in Chapter Two.
*DATA HELP
System Help

The following keys are recognized:

<F1>  Help		   <F2>  Choice list (if enabled for current field)
<F3>  Undo		   <F4>
<F5>  Clear field	   <F6>  Clear end
<F7>  Beginning of field   <F8>  End of field
<F9>			   <F10> Exit

<Alt F1> while in Help:  Zoom Help Window

<Home>	First field	 <Up>  Prev. field	  <PgUp>   Prev. field
<Left>	Cursor left				  <Right>  Cursor right
<End>	Last field	 <Dn>  Next field	  <PgDn>   Next field

<Tab>	Next field	 <Shift-tab>  Prev. field
<Enter> Next field	 <Esc>	      Abort
<Del>	Delete char.	 <Backspace>  Destructive backspace
<Ins>	Insert mode

Next field	<Enter>, <Tab>, <PgDn>, <Down-arrow>
Previous field	<PgUp>, <Shift-tab>, <Up-arrow>
First field	<Home>
Last field	<End>
Begin of field	<F7>
End of field	<F8>
Cursor left	<Left-arrow>
Cursor right	<Right-arrow>
Exit		<F10>
Abort		<Esc>
*SCROLL HELP
System Help for the Scrollable subform

The following keys are recognized:

<F1>  Help		   <F2>  Choice list (if enabled for current field)
<F3>  Undo		   <F4>
<F5>  Clear field	   <F6>  Clear end
<F7>  Beginning of field   <F8>  End of field
<F9>			   <F10> Exit

<Alt F1> while in Help:  Zoom Help Window

<Home>	First field	 <Up>  Prev. line	  <PgUp>   Prev. field
<Left>	Cursor left				  <Right>  Cursor right
<End>	Last field	 <Dn>  Next line	  <PgDn>   Next field

<CTRL-Home>  Exit scroll region up
<CTRL-End>   Exit scroll region down
<CTRL-PgUp>  Page a scroll region up
<CTRL-PgDn>  Page a scroll region down

<Tab>	Next field	 <Shift-tab>  Prev. field
<Enter> Next field	 <Esc>	      Abort form
<Del>	Delete char.	 <Backspace>  Destructive backspace
<Ins>	Insert mode

Next field	<Enter>, <Tab>, <PgDn>
Previous field	<PgUp>, <Shift-tab>
Up field	<Up-arrow>
Down field	<Down-arrow>
First field	<Home>
Last field	<End>
Begin of field	<F7>
End of field	<F8>
Cursor left	<Left-arrow>
Cursor right	<Right-arrow>
Exit		<F10>
Abort		<Esc>

Exit scroll region up	 <CTRL-Home>
Exit scroll region down  <CTRL-End>
Page scroll region up	 <CTRL-PgUp>
Page scroll region down  <CTRL-PgDn>
*MENU HELP
Menu choices are selected by using the up/down cursor keys to position the
cursor to the appropriate menu choice, and then pressing return.  Menu
choices can also be selected by typing in the first letter of the menu
choice.

Selecting the EXIT menu choice, will return you to the next higher menu.
Selecting the  EXIT menu choice from the main menu will terminate the
program, save configuration, goal and crisis data, and return you to DOS.
Pressing <ESC> from the main menu will terminate the program, but WILL NOT
SAVE configuration, goal and crisis data, and return you to DOS.  It is in
effect a program ABORT.
