Getting Started
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First of all, before doing anything else, you should make a backup
of your original CheckBook+ diskette and use the backup from then
on!  Store your original copy in a safe place.  See your "Color
Computer Disk System" owner's manual for more information on
backing up diskettes.

Next, place CheckBook+ into your drive and type:
LOADM "CONFIG"  [ENTER]

After a moment, you will be asked whether or not you are using an
RGB or Composite monitor.  This question is asked only to know what
type of monitor you are running the configuration program on... NOT
what you want CheckBook+ configured to.  After pressing 'R' for RGB
or 'C' for Composite, a screen will be loaded in with various
options to choose from.  Using your mouse/joystick (and the Tandy
Hi-Res interface), you can move the pointer around the screen to
point at the various options.  If you want to select your default
disk drive as drive 1, point the pointer at the disk marked "1" and
click the mouse/joystick button.  Your current settings are marked
in the middle of the screen.  Really, the only option that you may
get confused with is the baud rate for your printer.  To change it,
simply point the pointer into the box containing the current
setting and click the mouse/joystick button.  This will cycle
through the various baud rates.

When you are finished, click on the box labeled "SAVE" in the upper
-right hand corner of your screen.  Now, a list of fonts available
on the disk are displayed.  I have included 2 public domain fonts
for your use.  They are "NORMAL.FNT", which is the font that the
Color Computer 3 usually uses, and "IBMFONT.FNT", which is a font
very similar to the font used on MS-Dos machines.  If you have more
Color Computer 3 fonts of your own, you can use them by copying
them over to the CheckBook+ diskette before running the
configuration program.  The fonts must have the extension ".FNT" to
be recognized by the program.

That's it!  After the configuration program writes out the
configuration file to the disk, you're all set!







Using point-and-click!
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To start up CheckBook+, type:
LOADM "CHECKBK+"  [ENTER]

After a few moments of initialization, you will see CheckBook+'s
title screen appear showing general information plus your
personalized serial number.  To go onto the main screen, simply
point to the 'button' marked "OK" and click.

The main screen consists of a "display window" in the center of the
screen which is sectioned off by 2 blue bars, a "menu bar" at the
top of the screen with the options "About, Files, Edit, Special",
two display scroll buttons (one up and one down), Top and End
buttons, and a Screen option.  First, we shall begin with the menu
bar.

Pull-Down Sub-Menus
-------------------
To "pull-down" a sub-menu from the menu bar, simply point to the
option you want, About, Files, or Edit, and click.  Ignore the
Special selection for right now.  If you click on About, the title-
screen information will simply be re-displayed. Click on the OK
button to return.  Any other menu bar selection will result in a
sub-menu being dropped down.  All the options in each menu will be
explained further on, but it is important to notice the
similarities of the Files and Edit sub-menus.  Any options in the
sub-menus which can be used are in black lettering and are
highlighted when pointed at.  Sometimes, conditions are not right
for a particular option to be used (i.e. SAVE where there is
nothing to save!).  That's why some of the options are displayed in
gray lettering and are not highlighted when pointed at.  You cannot
select these.  If you ever want to "close-up" a sub-menu, you can
move the pointer to anywhere outside the sub-menu box and click.
This will cause the sub-menu to disappear.

Controlling the Display Window
------------------------------
Now, let's load a sample file into memory to help demonstrate how
to use the many features of CheckBook+.  Use the mouse/joystick to
"pull-down" (click on) FILES on the menu bar.  Next, click on LOAD.
 In a few moments, a disk directory will appear on screen.  Files
shown in black lettering are selectable, as they are CheckBook+
checkbook files (extension ".CHK").  There should be one sample
file named "SAMPLE.CHK" included on your CheckBook+ diskette.
Select it by pointing at it and clicking.  In just a few moments,
the file will be loaded into memory and you will automatically be
taken to the main screen and shown the end of the file.  Use this
sample file to begin to experiment with the many features of
CheckBook+ before starting your own "real" account.
You are now able to scroll through the file using the up and down
scroll boxes.  Clicking on one of the scroll boxes causes the
screen to scroll up or down one "record" through the file.  If you
want to scroll through the file by entire screenfulls, click on the
small box by the word "SCREEN" so that an "x" appears in the small
box.  Then, using the scroll boxes will cause CheckBook+ to scroll
through the file by entire screens.  Also, you can click on the
"TOP" or "END" functions to immediately go to the top or the end of
the file.

The Calculator
--------------
Since the calculator icon is also available on the main screen, I'd
better tell you about that right out.  To activate the "pop-up"
calculator, simply click on the calculator icon from the main
screen.  After doing so, a large blue calculator will appear in the
middle of the screen atop whatever text may have already been
there.  This calculator is controlled totally via the keyboard.
Now, I'm not going to go and describe in depth how to use a
calculator!  Use the numeric keys for numbers (with the period "."
for a decimal), "+" for addition, "-" for subtraction, "*" for
multiplication, "/" for division, and "=" or [ENTER] for equals.
Also, you may press the "C" key to Clear an error during input,
but doing so will not delete the last total nor abort the current
operation.  (See the "CE" or "C" keys in most calculator manuals.)
To totally clear out the calculator, press the "A" key for All-
Clear (see the "AC" key in most calculator manuals.).
Also, the calculator runs in what I like to refer to as a "Money-
Mode."  That is, it rounds the display off to the nearest penny and
always displays to two decimal points.  Example: 23 would be 23.00,
or 24.3 would be 24.30.  You are, however, allowed to enter in
decimal values to further decimal positions than just two.  The
calculator only rounds the display, while it does retain the exact
decimal value in memory.  If you would like to see the Entire
decimal value up to the limit of the display, press the "E" key.
Example: If you entered the number 42.02917 and pressed "=", you
would see 42.03 (display is rounded to nearest penny).  By pressing
the "E" key, you would see 42.02917 in the display.  The calculator
always reverts back to "Money-Mode" at the next operation.
To put the calculator away, press the "X" key.  Another feature of
the calculator is the "running total" memory.  Whatever value is in
the calculator upon pressing the "X" key will be remembered until
the calculator is called up again.  Example:  If you've done some
calculations and the result is 162.42, and you press "X" and exit
back to the main screen, the next time you click on the calculator
icon, the calculator will come up with 162.42 in the display.  If
you want to start out fresh, remember you can press the "A" key for
All-Clear.

The FILES menu
--------------
In this menu there are six selections... DIR, LOAD, SAVE, NEW,
PRINT, and QUIT.  The DIR option will read the disk directory from
the default drive and display it on screen.  If the listing goes
beyond the display limit, you can use the scroll boxes to scroll
through the directory listing.  At the end of the directory listing
is the number of free granules remaining on the disk.
LOAD is what you've used to load in the file named "SAMPLE.CHK"
earlier in this manual.  You should still have it loaded and be
trying out the various functions described in this manual.
SAVE is the opposite of LOAD.  If you have finished entering a new
account in memory, or you have finished editing an existing
account, you must SAVE it to disk in order to have it in tact
later.  To abort this operation, simply press ENTER when you are
prompted to enter a filename.  After entering the filename,
CheckBook+ will attempt to save it to the default disk drive.  If
the filename you provided already exists on the disk, you will be
asked if you want to over-write the file, which you will want to do
if you are simply updating/editing an existing file.  Sometimes,
the file in memory is too large to fit on a single disk (this is
especially true for 512k systems!).  CheckBook+ will fit as much of
the file as it can on the first disk, and then prompt you to insert
another disk to continue the save.  This will continue up to 10
times until the file is totally saved.  Upon loading a continued
file, you will be prompted to swap disks at the appropriate times.
The disks must be inserted in the order that they were saved. If
you happen to get the disks in the wrong order, you will prompted
again to swap disks.
NEW is used to erase a file from memory.  You will be asked whether
or not you want to continue with the operation.  Clicking on OK
will clear any account from memory.  Clicking on CANCEL will abort
this and return you to the main screen.
PRINT will send a formatted listing of the account currently in
memory to your printer at the baud rate you specified during
configuration.  If you printer is not "on-line" (not ready to
receive data), you will be prompted with "PRINTER NOT ON-LINE."
Click on CANCEL to abort or click on "OK" once printer is on-line.
QUIT is self-explanatory.

The EDIT menu
-------------
Many times you will only want to edit an existing account.  In the
edit menu there are nine options, ENTER INFO, CUT, COPY, INSERT,
REPLACE, SHOW CLIP, SEARCH, EDIT CHECK, and FIGURE TOTAL.  Clicking
on ENTER INFO will let you type in new checks/deposits which will
be added to the end of any account currently in memory.  If you
want the check to be placed somewhere else in the file, use ENTER
INFO, and then use one of the editing options below.
Before going any further, you must know how to "select" a record
(check/deposit).  First, you must have the record you want on
screen (by using the scroll boxes to find the record you want).
Next, point to anywhere on the check and click.  The record will
be reversed to indicate it is selected.  Now, you may use the
following editing commands.
CUT is used to erase the currently selected record from memory.
After doing so, the erased record is copied into a buffer called
the "Clipboard."  COPY will copy the currently selected record into
the Clipboard, but unlike CUT, it will not erase the record from
memory.  INSERT will take the record stored in the Clipboard buffer
and insert it before the currently selected record on screen.
REPLACE will replace the currently selected record on screen with
the record stored in the Clipboard.  If you would like to see what
record (if any) is currently in the Clipboard, choose SHOW CLIP.
SEARCH is especially useful for large files.  Before clicking on
SEARCH, you must decide whether you want to search the entire file
in memory or just a portion.  To search the entire file in memory,
make sure no record on screen is "selected" (reversed) and click on
SEARCH.  To start a search at a particular point in the file,
select (reverse) the record you want the search to start at and
then click on SEARCH.  After clicking on SEARCH, you will be asked
whether you are searching for an amount or other.  If you are
searching for a certain amount of money, click on AMOUNT.
Otherwise, click on OTHER.  You will now be prompted to enter what
you are searching for.  Note: SEARCH is case-sensitive which means
that if you are searching for "hello" and a record in memory is
"Hello", it will not be found since the capitalization does not
match... to the computer, these are two totally different letters.
Also, when searching for specific dates, do not include the "/" as
in the dates "09/29/71", since those slashes are actually not
stored in the record.  They are only displayed as a convenience to
the user.  To correctly search for the date above, you would use
"092971".  Once a record is found, you will be shown the record and
ask if you want to continue the search.  If a record is not found,
you will be told so and returned to the main menu.  Upon returning
to the main menu, if a record was found during the SEARCH, you will
be moved to the point in memory so the record that was found will
be at the top of the screen.
EDIT CHECK will let you make changes to the currently selected
(reversed) record in memory.  You will be transferred to another
screen and be allowed to choose to edit the check's number, date,
amount, FOR-line, TO-line, and/or outstanding status.  When you are
finished editing the check and you want to keep the changes, click
on the option KEEP CHANGES.  If you want to leave the check the way
it originally was, click on CANCEL.
FIGURE TOTAL is a powerful function.  It will go through and total
your entire checkbook's account for you.  After calculating,
CheckBook+ will tell you the following:
Checkbook Total: $xx.xx
Outstanding records: xx
Total on outstanding records: $xx.xx
Total - Outstanding records: $xx.xx
Checkbook total refers to your total "spendable" money in your
account, the amount of money that you have in your account
including all deposits and all withdrawals.  Outstanding records
are checks/deposits that you've made but that your bank has not yet
acknowledged... for instance, most banks will send out a report at
the end of each month stating all the deposits/checks that you made
during the past month, plus a balance that your checkbook should
balance out to.  Outstanding records are how many checks/deposits
have not be acknowledged by your back yet, and their total is given
by "Total on outstanding records."
When you balance your checkbook, you must have your bank statement
with you and go through your account changing all the outstanding
checks/deposits that are on you bank statement to non-outstanding
status.  You do this by selecting (reversing) the check/deposit and
clicking on the "*" on the main screen.  This acts as a toggle
between outstanding and non-outstanding status.  Outstanding status
on a check/deposit is denoted by an "*" on the right-hand side of
the check.  Now, by using FIGURE TOTAL, the total after "Total -
Outstandings" should match the total found on your bank statement.
If so, your checkbook is balanced for that month.  If the two do
not match, go through again and make sure that any check/deposit
found on your bank statement does not have an "*" after it (non-
outstanding status).  Also, any checks/deposits that you made after
the month that the bank statement is for should have an "*" after
them, since they are still not accounted for on the bank statement.

The Special menu
----------------
Due to the large size of the CheckBook+ program, this part of the
program must be loaded off disk.  Before you can run this function,
you must have at least 3 records in memory.  You will be asked to
make sure your CheckBook+ system disk is in the default drive.
Click on OK to continue or CANCEL to abort and return to the main
screen.
Special is a utility area with some very powerful functions.
First, I will describe Sorting.
By moving to the SORTS menu, you can tell CheckBook+ to sort your
current account in memory in ascending or descending order using
the checks' number, date, amount, alphabetically by FOR-line, or
alphabetically by TO-line.  Depending on how long the account is in
memory, the sort may take quite a while. If you get tired of
waiting and need to abort the sort, you can do so by pressing the
SPACE BAR.  This will not always cause an immediate abort, but will
abort the sort at a point where none or your data will be
destroyed.  Also, during the alphabetical sorts, remember that
CheckBook+ is case-sensitive, meaning that upper- and lower-case
are different from each other.  After a sort operation is complete,
go back to the main menu, and exit back to CheckBook+.  You will
then be able to see your freshly sorted account.
Graphing is one of the most powerful features of the CheckBook+
software package.  You can graph by either months or years.  From
the main menu, choose the graph operation.  You will next be asked
whether you want to sort by months or by years.  Make your
selection.  If you're graphing by months, you will be allowed to
enter up to 12 months to be graphed.  You need to enter at least 2
months to be able to create a graph.  When you are finished, simply
press ENTER to go to the next menu.  For months, enter them in
MM/YY format... i.e. September, 1971 would be entered "09/71".  If
you are graphing by years, enter them in YY format...  i.e. 1971
would be "71".
Next you will be asked whether you want to graph by withdrawals,
deposits, or totals.  If you want to graph how much you spent each
month/year, press "W" for withdrawals.  If you want to graph how
much you deposited each month/year, press "D" for deposits.
Likewise, if you want to see how much you've had in your account
each month/year, press "T" for totals.
Now you will be asked to enter a title for the graph.  The reason
for this is that if you like the way your graph looks, you can save
it to disk and possibly incorporate it into your desktop publishing
software and print it out.  Enter whatever title you want to give
the graph.
Finally, choose which type of graph you want.. Line-, Bar-, or
Circle-graphs can be displayed.  Circle-graphs, however, can not
display a graph of "Totals" due to the nature of the calculations.
After the graph is drawn, an option window pops up.  If you like
the way the graph looks and would like to save it to disk (for
loading from BASIC), choose option 1.  If you want to choose again
to have Line-, Bar-, or Circle-graph, choose option 2.  To go back
and change the "graph by Deposits/Withdrawals/Totals" selection,
choose option 3.  To exit back to the main menu, press 4.  And to
get a better look at the graph by removing the now annoying option
window, press 5.  After pressing 5, pressing any key will bring
back the option window.

Final Notes
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Included on your CheckBook+ disk is a program named "GRAFLOAD.BAS".
It is used to load in CheckBook+'s graph files.  To start the
program up, type:
RUN "GRAFLOAD" [enter]
When prompted for the filename, type it in leaving out the
extension.  The graph will be loaded into HSCREEN 2 memory and upon
exit of the program, the graph will remain in tact and the palettes
will be left as they should be for viewing the graph.  To exit the
program, simply press any key when you're done looking at the
graph.  From here, you can use whatever converter programs you may
have to incorporate the graph into your desktop publishing
programs, printer dump software, etc...  This program is provided
as a convenience to the end user.

Please direct any questions/comments to Sub-Etha Software and they
will direct them to me, Joel Mathew Hegberg, the author.  Thank you
for your purchase and for your continued support of the Color
Computer!





Disclaimer:  Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of
this manual as well as bug-free software.  Neither Sub-Etha
Software nor the author, Joel Mathew Hegberg, assumes any
responsibility for any damages of any kind resulting from the use
of this product.  This program is sold on an "as-is" basis.


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