Accounts

  Creating a New Account
  Opening an Existing Account
  Saving an Account
  Deleting an Account
  Reconciling an Account
  Backing up Accounts
  Printing an Account

Display

  Viewing Cleared Entries
  Viewing Memos
  Finding Entries
  Using an External Calculator

Entries

  Adding an Entry
    Editing Drop-Down Combo Box Items
    Updating External Accounts
  Deleting an Entry
  Editing an Entry
  Reordering Entries

Warranty

Registration

Copyright Notice

Contacting the Author

Revision History



Accounts

  Creating a New Account
   Select the 'New' item from the 'Accounts' menu and fill in the various entry fields.  The only optional field is the one named 'Number'.

Accounts

  Opening an Existing Account
   Drag the existing Account from the 'Accounts' group box on to the 'Ledger' group box.

Accounts

  Saving an Account
   Rarely is it necessary to save the account, since many of the everyday activities are automatically saved to file.  Exceptions are editing entries, reordering entries, and deleting entries.  If you forget to save after any of the activities, E-Teller will notify you when you exit.  E-Teller will also notify you if you drag another account onto the ledger before saving the current one.

Accounts

  Deleting an Account
   Either drag the account to the WPS shredder, or select it and choose the 'Delete' item from the 'Accounts' menu.

Accounts

  Reconciling an Account
   Either click on the scale icon or select 'Reconcile...' from the 'Accounts' pull-down menu.  You are first asked to supply information, such as New Balance, Interest payments or charges and Service charges.  You are then returned to the ledger where you will double-click on the entries that are to be cleared (double-click a second time to unclear entries).  When you are done, click on the scale or uncheck 'Reconcile...'  If the account has not been properly balanced, you will be informed of the difference.  You can elect either to add the adjustment to the account, end the reconciliation without adding an adjustment (the discrepancy will remain), return to the reconciliation process, or ignore the discrepancy, in which case the discrepancy is eliminated as though it had never existed.  When you end the reconciliation process, you will be given the choice to save the information to file in which case all the cleared entries will be removed from the register.  HINT: if the account has not been balanced and you elect to have E-Teller add an adjustment, do not save the account immediately, so that you can edit the entry manually - date, particulars, etc.  Then save the account.

Accounts

  Backing up Accounts
   If the 'Backup on exit' menu item is checked, E-Teller will prompt you to insert a diskette into a floppy drive and to press a corresponding button labelled A: or B:.  The status of this menu item is preserved across sessions.

Accounts

  Printing an Account
   Either click on the printer icon or select 'Print'.  All the records for the currently active account are read into a secondary window where you can either print, edit, or save the report, or open a previously saved report.  The format is hard-coded for an 8.5" x 11" sheet of paper.

Display

  Viewing Cleared Entries
   By default, cleared records are not loaded into the ledger to speed up the reading process.  Cleared records can be displayed by selecting the 'Cleared' item in the 'Display' menu.  To return to the default view, uncheck the 'Cleared' item.  The status of this menu item is not preserved across sessions.

Display

  Viewing Memos
   By default, the memo field is hidden.  If you want to view the memo field, check the 'Memos' menu item.  To hide the memos once again, simply uncheck the menu item.  The status of the check mark is not preserved across sessions.

Display

  Finding Entries
   It is possible to search for entries.  Either click on the magnifying glass icon or select 'Find...' from the 'Display' menu.  Click upon the appropriate Field and Criterion radio buttons, fill in the search string, and click 'OK'.  Entries matching the selections will be displayed in the register.  To display all the records that were in the ledger prior to the search, click on the 'Undo' button.  Searches are case insensitive.

Display

  Using an External Calculator
   Should you require the use of a calculator, either click on the calculator icon or select the 'Calculator' menu item.  When you first select this item, you will be prompted with a file dialog box where you will locate the calculator program.  Subsequent invocations of the calculator will load the originally specified program.

Entries

  Adding an Entry
   To credit or debit the account, either click on the $+ or $- icons, or select the appropriate item from the 'Entries' menu.  Fill in the relevant information in the secondary window, and press 'OK'.  When drop-down combo boxes receive the focus, they automatically drop down and display previously entered items.  If you add an item that does not appear in the list, that item will be saved to disk for future credits/debits.  Date fields must adhere to the yy/mm/dd format.  If you substitute the forward slash for another character, E-Teller will inform you that a formatting error has been detected.  To increase the date one day at a time, press Page Up; to decrease the date, press Page Down.  If you happen to enter a date like 94/10/1, E-Teller will automatically format it to 94/10/01.

Entries

  Adding an Entry
    Editing Drop-Down Combo Box Items
     Of course, E-Teller cannot know whether an item added to a drop-down combo box is worth saving, so it saves them all.  You can delete unwanted items by clicking on the appropriate combo box, selecting the item(s) you no longer need, and clicking on the 'Delete' button.  Clicking 'OK' saves the new list to disk.

Entries

  Adding an Entry
    Updating External Accounts
     Occasionally you will want to update another account when crediting or debiting an account.  To do this, drag the external account into the position provided in the credit or debit windows.  After you press the 'OK' button, you will be asked whether the update is a credit or debit.

Entries

  Deleting an Entry
   The only way you can delete an entry is to drag it to the WPS shredder.

Entries

  Editing an Entry
   To edit an entry, click on the entry's field you would like to change.  Type in the new information and click anywhere on the ledger to register the alteration.

Entries

  Reordering Entries
   You cannot sort the entries in a ledger, but you can change the order of individual entries by dragging them to another location within the ledger.  HINT:  for the move to be effective, ensure that a line appears *between* two entries.

Warranty

   This program is supplied with no warranty whatsoever either expressed or implied.  Neither its author nor Watcom International can be held directly or indirectly responsible for any loss of data or damage caused by the use or misuse of E-Teller. All software and documentation is supplied AS IS. If you use this program, you understand that you do so AT YOUR OWN RISK.

Registration

   This product is released as Shareware.  You are granted permission to use E-Teller for a period not exceeding 30 days for evaluation purposes only.  If you decide to continue using E-Teller, you are required to register the program by sending 15 USD to:

	Mr. J-P Caron
	c/o Paul H. Caron
	A10-420 Westmount Avenue
	Sudbury, Ontario  P3A 5V4
	CANADA

Registering E-Teller entitles you to free upgrades to every minor release.  You will also be given a 5 dollar discount on the next major release of E-Teller.  I will NOT mail upgrade diskettes, but I will notify you by e-mail when I upload minor upgrades and by snail-mail or e-mail when major upgrades are uploaded.  You are not entitled to charge a fee for the use of E-Teller.  Distributors are permitted to charge a fee not exceeding 5 USD to cover media costs.

Copyright Notice

   E-Teller (c) 1994 Paul H. Caron	
   VX-Rexx (c) Watcom International

Contacting the Author

   If you find a bug or have suggestions for improvements, feel free to contact me at G9026163@mcmail.cis.McMaster.CA.

Revision History

April 1994 (version 1.0)
- Initial release.

April 1994 (version 1.1)
- Moved account information to the ledger container.
- Added push button hint text.
- Added accelerators to the Find and Calculator menu items.
- Fixed a bug when clicking on the 'Cancel' button in the Credit and Debit windows.
  (reported by Carl Graham on 1994-04-17)
- Removed some extraneous code and the essentially superfluous Credit Window (credits and debits now share the same window).
- Fixed a potential bug in the introductory window.
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