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The following is the contents of the Microsoft Office Small Business Pack for Windows 95 Readme.txt located on the root directory of Disk 1.
RELEASE NOTES FOR MICROSOFT SMALL BUSINESS PACK FOR MICROSOFT OFFICE 95
This document contains information that supplements the Small Business Pack online documentation. If you open this document in Notepad, most of the text will print with correct line breaks if you first set both the left and right margins to 0.75 inch or smaller.
CONTENTS
1. Before Using the Business Database
2. Printing Larger Documents to PostScript Printers
3. Viewing and Printing Tab Leaders
4. Viewing Cell Notes in Workbooks
5. Printing Charts
6. Automatic Calculation
7. Business Analyzer, Microsoft Mail, and Microsoft
Word
8. Running Under the NT Operating System
9. Partitioned and Multiple Hard Drives
EXITING YOUR DATABASE: Always exit the database by choosing the Exit button on the Business Database toolbar. If you choose Exit from the File menu or use the Control-menu box, the Business Database may not update your last transaction.
OPENING AND PRINTING FORMS IN YOUR DATABASE: Always open the Small Business Pack forms and reports from either the Small Business Pack toolbar or the Small Business Pack Help. Opening multiple forms from the Forms window in Access can deplete system resources, resulting in degraded performance or errors.
Before printing forms or reports, complete all fields on the form; otherwise, what you've printed may not match the state of the database.
The Small Business Pack Business Plan requires substantial PostScript printer memory (more than 1 MB) to print completely. If you try to print but your printer has too little memory, the print job may fail unpredictably--- usually with a PostScript error after a few pages print successfully. To avoid this failure, try printing a few pages at a time.
The entire document will print correctly to a PCL-compatible printer. If a PCL printer is available, print to it. If you must print to a PostScript printer, try using a generic PostScript printer driver (e.g., PSCRIPT.DRV) provided with your Windows system.
You can verify the memory actually available in your printer at least two ways: --Choose the Device Options tab in the Properties dialog
box for your printer--Print a printer test page, which may include this
information. For instructions, refer to the manufacturer's manual.
If your document contains tab leaders, they may display and print in slightly different locations. If this happens with your document, you should switch to spaces for tab leaders before printing.
To view cell notes in Excel workbooks, choose Options on the Tools menu, and make sure you have chosen the Note Indicator on the View tab.
Some charts may display properly, yet print incorrectly. For example, a chart may print to two pages, instead of the expected one page. If this happens with your printer, you should adjust the scaling factor in Page Setup before printing.
Some of the Small Business Pack Excel templates calculate totals automatically. To ensure this calculation is performed correctly, choose Options from the Tools menu, and select Automatic on the Calculation tab.
If you want to see the Narrative Report, you should first close all mail messages that have been opened by Microsoft Word, if any. Then, press the Narrative Report button.
The contents of the Small Business Pack are fully functional. You may use all templates and databases with the Office applications, and learn about them and their associated educational content with the Help system. However, access to the product's features from the Office shortcut bar will not be complete. Also, you will not be able to run applications from within Help.
The following table locates the product's features. To use a feature, use either the "Start a New Document" or "Open a Document" Office feature, then find the document you want in its location described below. Note: if you installed Office to a directory other than Msoffice, you will need to substitute the correct name.
Location File name
Msoffice\Small Business Pack Sbpdata.Mdb Msoffice\Small Business Pack Sbpforms.Mdb Msoffice\Small Business Pack Sbpsampl.Mdb Msoffice\Templates\Letters & Faxes Business Fax Cover.Dot Msoffice\Templates\Letters & Faxes Business Letterhead.Dot Msoffice\Templates\Memos Business Memo.Dot Msoffice\Templates\Other Documents Account Statement.Dot Msoffice\Templates\Other Documents Business Plan Document.Doc Msoffice\Templates\Other Documents Business Plan Workbook.Xls Msoffice\Templates\Other Documents Estimate.Dot Msoffice\Templates\Other Documents Product Fact Sheet.Dot Msoffice\Templates\Other Documents Purchase Requisition.Dot Msoffice\Templates\Other Documents Sample Business Plan.Doc Msoffice\Templates\Presentation Designs Business Plan Presentation.Ppt Msoffice\Templates\Presentation Designs French Motif.Pot Msoffice\Templates\Presentation Designs Mini-Blinds.Pot Msoffice\Templates\Presentation Designs Red Dots With Teal And Black.Pot Msoffice\Templates\Presentation Designs Shout.Pot Msoffice\Templates\Presentation Designs Squares.Pot Msoffice\Templates\Publications Business Brochure.Dot Msoffice\Templates\Publications Business Newsletter.Dot Msoffice\Templates\Publications Business Press Release.Dot Msoffice\Templates\Publications Mailing Label Addresses.Doc Msoffice\Templates\Publications Mailing Label.Doc Msoffice\Templates\Publications Postcard Back.Doc Msoffice\Templates\Publications Postcard Front.Doc Msoffice\Templates\Reports Business Report.Dot Msoffice\Templates\Spreadsheet Solutions 5-Year Projection.Xlt Msoffice\Templates\Spreadsheet Solutions Accounts Payable.Xlt Msoffice\Templates\Spreadsheet Solutions Accounts Receivable.Xlt Msoffice\Templates\Spreadsheet Solutions Balance Sheet.Xlt Msoffice\Templates\Spreadsheet Solutions Business Analyzer.Xlt Msoffice\Templates\Spreadsheet Solutions Business Invoice.Xlt Msoffice\Templates\Spreadsheet Solutions Cash Flow Projection.Xlt Msoffice\Templates\Spreadsheet Solutions Direct Marketing Analysis.Xlt Msoffice\Templates\Spreadsheet Solutions Employee Timesheet.Xlt Msoffice\Templates\Spreadsheet Solutions Equipment Inventory.Xlt Msoffice\Templates\Spreadsheet Solutions Expense Budget.Xlt Msoffice\Templates\Spreadsheet Solutions Expense Report.Xlt Msoffice\Templates\Spreadsheet Solutions Financial Calculator.Xlt Msoffice\Templates\Spreadsheet Solutions Financial Comparison.Xlt Msoffice\Templates\Spreadsheet Solutions Income Statement.Xlt Msoffice\Templates\Spreadsheet Solutions Investment Record.Xlt Msoffice\Templates\Spreadsheet Solutions Leasing Wizard.Xlt Msoffice\Templates\Spreadsheet Solutions Pro Forma Income Statement.Xlt Msoffice\Templates\Spreadsheet Solutions Product Sales Goals.Xlt Msoffice\Templates\Spreadsheet Solutions Product Sales Projections.Xlt Msoffice\Templates\Spreadsheet Solutions Request For Quotation.Xlt Msoffice\Templates\Spreadsheet Solutions Services Estimate.Xlt Msoffice\Templates\Spreadsheet Solutions Statement Of Net Worth.Xlt Msoffice\Templates\Spreadsheet Solutions Statistics Calculator.Xlt
The Office Small Business Pack will not support partitioned drives or systems with multiple hard drives. Here is a summary of conditions and suggestions:
I. If you have installed Office 95 on Drive C: and Small
Business Pack on Drive D:
When you attempt to launch any of the Word, Excel or
PowerPoint templates, you may receive an error,
"Cannot Find or Run the file or program
\mydocu~1\<folder name>\<filename>". The path is always
displayed in 8.3 file format.
WORKAROUNDS
===========
1) Access the templates through the following Small
Business Pack folder shortcuts on the Office Shortcut bar:
Financial
Management
Marketing
Operations
Planning
Sales
2) Launch one of the Access databases from the help file
in the following help path from the Small Business Pack
toolbar:
a) Click on the Small Business Pack Help button on the
Small Business Pack toolbar
b) Choose the Answer Wizard tab and type in "Job Listings"
without the quotes.
c) Choose the "Search" button and then select "Job Listings"
from the help topics list.
d) Choose the "To Open the Job Listings form now, click
<button>" in this help screen.
e) Once the database launches and asks the user to Attach
a database, choose Close to close the database.
f) Now the template links should work. For example, if
you choose the Small Business Pack Help button, Contents
tab, choose "Using the Documents", choose Financial,
choose Accounts Payable, then choose the link button at
the bottom, the link should now work.
II. If you have installed both Office 95 and Small Business Pack on
Drive D:
You will not immediately get the error, "Cannot Find or Run the
file or program \mydocu~1\<folder name>\<filename>" when
attempting to open the templates via the links in the help file.
However, you will eventually run into this error message and then
none of the help links to the Word, Excel or PowerPoint templates
will work. The Access links will work but you will need to
reinstall the Small Business Pack to get the links to work again for
the templates.
WORKAROUNDS
===========
1) Access the templates through the following Small
Business Pack folder shortcuts on the Office Shortcut bar:
Financial
Management
Marketing
Operations
Planning
Sales
2) Start the Small Business Pack setup and choose the
"Remove All" option to remove the Small Business Pack.
Then, restart setup and reinstall. However, this may not
permanently remove the problem and it may appear again later.
See Workaround (1) above.
III. If you have installed Office 95 on Drive D: and Small
Business Pack on Drive C:
When you attempt to launch any of the Word, Excel or
PowerPoint templates from the help file or Answer Wizard,
you will get an error, "Cannot Find or Run the file or
program /mydocu~1/<folder name>/<filename>". The path is
always displayed in 8.3 file format. For example, you may see
an error message like this:
"Cannot find or run the file or program
/mydocu~1/financ~1/accoun~1.lnk"
WORKAROUND
==========
Start the Small Business Pack setup and choose the "Remove All"
option to remove the Small Business Pack. Then, restart setup
and reinstall. However, this may not permanently remove the problem
and it may appear again later. See Workaround II, (1) above.
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