Whether you read this book from cover to cover or browse through it for reference when you’re stuck, here are a few things you’ll want to know.

a) Chapter Orientation

Each chapter will start with a discussion on the general uses of the screen being discussed. Following that will be Menu Bar help and individual field help. Lastly there are may be included a few simple tutorial type helps which discuss accounting processes as they should performed within that screen.

Note that the information given in this manual is also accessed from the ABC Accounting program by pressing F1 for Help. Pressing F1 while on a particular field will take you directly to help for that field. But from there you can navigate to any other helps for that screen or for other parts of the ABC Accounting software.

b) Screen Identification

The entry screen/window being discussed is indicated in the top corner of each page. It is also indicated in most headings with the initial or symbol for the screen in parentheses. This initial or symbol is followed by a decimal point and a field number when there is help concerning a field. For example: Customer Address (C.3) means that we are discussing field # 3 on the Customer screen. To go to field 3, you go to the Customer screen, press Ctrl+G, and enter f3. This is especially handy when you don’t know right where the field is located on the screen, but the User’s Manual tells you to go there.

c) Click-its and Hot Keys

Navigation via mouse is what the windows client is all about. In the helps, when we instruct you to click on a link, button, or field, the thing you are to click on will be in bold face print.

Some of you have used our software for a long time—ever since the DOS days. You are already familiar with our hot keys used for navigation. Others of you just prefer hot keys to clicking because it saves you time. So for all you speed entry, keyboard fans, we have retained the hot keys in our helps as well as the mouse clicking maneuvers. Hot keys are in bold face. Hot keys which require you to press multiple keys simultaneously include a plus sign (+) between keys, such as: Shift+F1.

d) Sample Problems

A few sample problems are found throughout the text as a sort of hands-on help. These sample problems will be in blue.

e) Warnings/ Trouble Spots are in red.

f) Helpful Hints are in green.