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- Business Law Library
-
- Thank you for purchasing Business Law Library! We hope you find
- it to be an excellent investment and tremendous value.
-
- If you experience any problems with any of the Business Law
- Library CD-ROM programs, please refer to this document for
- helpful suggestions.
-
-
- Contents
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- Upgrading From An Earlier Version
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- Program Functions
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- If You Experience Video Display Problems
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- How to Improve Your Video Display
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- System Requirements
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- Compatibility
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- Upgrading From An Earlier Version:
- ----------------------------------
-
- If you already have an older version of Business Law Library
- installed on your computer, you'll need to take an extra step to
- ensure that the new version works properly.
-
- Windows 3.1: Insert the CD into the CD-ROM drive. Choose the
- Run option in the Program Manager's File Menu.
- In the command line box type "D:\SETUP UPDATE"
- where "D:" is the letter of your CD-ROM drive.
- Then press the Enter key.
-
- Windows 95: Insert the CD into the CD-ROM drive. Click the
- "Start" button, then choose the Run option. In
- the command line box type "D:\SETUP UPDATE"
- where "D:" is the letter of your CD-ROM drive.
- Then press the Enter key.
-
- By including the word "UPDATE" after the word "SETUP", you are
- telling the Setup program to be sure to update some files
- that were left over by the older version.
-
- IMPORTANT NOTE: This only needs to be done one time! You do
- --------------- NOT need to follow this procedure for each CD
- in the set. Simply perform the above steps
- for one CD (it does not matter which one).
- It won't hurt anything if you do it more than
- once, but it is not necessary.
-
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- Program Functions:
- ------------------
-
- Entering data:
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- Enter your name and information the same way each time you use
- the program because Business Law Library remembers the last items
- of information you enter under your name. For example, if you
- enter "Robert", and at a later time enter "Bob", the program will
- read this as two different people.
-
- The name you enter will be used throughout the program. If your
- associates also use the program, each should enter his or her
- name when they start the program or by selecting the "File" menu,
- "Update User Information". Alternatively, each person can use
- the same name (such as the name of the business) to ensure that
- the values last entered in response to questions, are remembered
- no matter which person uses the program the next time.
-
- If you don't answer a question, that field will be replaced with
- a blank line in the printed form.
-
-
- Printing or Saving:
-
- If you want to save a file and edit it in a word processing
- program, then click the save button. Open your word processing
- program and select .RTF (Rich Text Format) files. Your file will
- be stored in the "DOCUMENT" directory, beneath the the location
- you selected when you installed the Business Law Library. For
- instance, the default installation destination would place your
- saved documents in the following folder or subdirectory:
-
- "C:\Sofsource\Business Law Library\Document"
-
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- Help:
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- Each CD-ROM in the Business Law Library offers a comprehensive
- glossary of legal terms, written in understandable language. To
- access this glossary, select the Glossary of Legal Terms from the
- Help menu. Select the term you want from the list.
-
- Statutes, Laws, and Rules:
-
- The Help menu offers a selection of laws and rules governing
- various topics. To read or print these documents, select
- "Statutes, Laws, and Rules" from the Help menu. Select the law
- you want to display from the list.
-
- Helpful Organizations:
-
- The Help menu contains lists of organizations that offer
- information, assistance, and services on the topics included in
- Business Law Library. If you need more information or other help
- regarding a specific topic, contact one of the organizations
- listed or consult your local telephone directory.
-
-
- If You Experience Video Display Problems:
- -----------------------------------------
- Business Law Library will adapt itself automatically to most video
- display resolutions, so long as your video driver is set to at
- least 256-colors (or higher). If your video driver is set to
- something less than 256-colors, then please refer to "How to
- Improve Your Video Display" (below) for instructions on changing
- your video driver settings.
-
-
- How to Improve Your Video Display:
- ----------------------------------
- Video displays are a very flexible part of today's modern
- systems. They are flexible because you are able to change
- or modify the way your screen looks. Of course, having choices
- often makes something seem more complicated. Don't worry,
- changing video display settings is a fairly simple process.
- In fact, the hardest part is deciding what you want the new
- settings to be. The following suggestions and recommendations
- will help to make the decision easier.
-
- The first step is to choose what video settings you wish to use.
- This normally involves a trade-off or balance between the best
- looking display and the most efficient use of available memory.
-
- For most situations, we recommend that you select 800x600 with
- 256-Colors. The more colors available, the better the screen
- will look, but more colors also use more memory. If your
- computer has less than 12-Mb of memory, then we recommend that
- you stick with 256-Colors only. If your computer has more
- than 12-Mb of memory, then feel free to select a setting that
- provides even more colors.
-
- Another consideration is how small you want text and icons to
- appear. Generally, as you increase the number of dots or
- "pixels" on the screen, things will look smaller and smaller.
- For instance, at 800x600, text will look smaller than it does
- at 640x480. Of course, you can also fit more on the screen at
- the same time, which is exactly what most people want.
-
- Most video drivers give you some flexibility, so you can fit more
- on your screen, without making things too small to see clearly.
- They make this available by giving you a choice of "Large Fonts"
- or "Small Fonts", or they might call it "Large System Resources"
- or "Small System Resources". Typically, this choice is only
- available when the driver is set to at least 800x600 (not at
- 640x480). We always recommend "Large Fonts" or "Large System
- Resources" because it makes things much easier to see and use.
-
- Business Law Library was designed to look its best in 800x600 with
- "Large Fonts" or "Large System Resources", and 256-Colors or more.
-
- Once you have chosen the settings you wish to use. Follow the
- instructions below to actually change your system settings. There
- are two procedures, one for people using Windows 95, and another
- for people using Windows 3.1.
-
- Changing Video Setting, Windows 95:
- For computers running Windows 95 only.
-
- Click on (press and release the left mouse button) the "Start"
- menu button, scroll up to "Settings", which will open a sub-
- menu, click on "Control Panel". When "Control Panel" opens
- look for an item called "Display" and double-click on
- "Display".
-
- After you double-click on "Display" you will see a series of
- notebook pages with little tabs on top. Click your mouse on
- the notebook tab called "Settings". Here you will be able
- to change your video display settings.
-
- The "Color Palette" section enables you to choose the number
- of colors you wish to display. We recommend 256-Colors. If
- you wish to choose more colors, we recommend that you do so
- only if your computer has more than 12Mb of memory.
-
- The "Font Size" section enables you to choose large or small
- fonts. We recommend "Large Fonts" for the most readable
- display.
-
- The "Desktop Area" (and optional "Viewport Area") is where you
- select the video size you wish to use. If both areas are
- present, then both areas should be set to the same numbers.
- We recommend 800x600. This will give you a good overall
- balance between appearance and efficient use of your
- computer's memory. Remember, higher numbers mean that more
- memory will be used.
-
- After you make your selections, click on the "OK" button to
- instruct Windows to make the changes. At this point, your
- screen will blank temporarily, then will reappear using the
- new settings. A pop up message will ask you if you wish to
- keep the new settings, click "Yes". If you changed the font
- size (Large Fonts or Small Fonts), then you will need to
- restart Windows before the changes take effect. Simply
- click "Yes" when it asks you if you want to restart Windows
- now. That's all there is to it!
-
- Changing Video Settings, Windows 3.1:
- For computers running Windows 3.1 only.
-
- Windows 3.1 is a bit more primitive than Windows 95 when it
- comes to changing video settings. Windows 3.1 will always
- restart before the new settings take effect.
-
- In the Program Manager, double-click on the "Main" program
- group. When it opens, double-click on the "Setup" or
- "Windows Setup" icon. When the Windows Setup window opens,
- click on the "Options" menu, then click "Change System
- Settings".
-
- When the "Change System Settings" window opens, you will
- see a choice called "Display". The current settings are
- shown. Pay close attention to the current settings, because
- they will tell you what kind of video display card you have.
- For instance, it might say "Super VGA" or "Stealth VRAM" or
- something else. You should stick to the options for that
- particular video display adapter. In other words, if it
- says "Super VGA", for instance, then choose only from those
- options that start with "Super VGA". Select the setting
- you want. We recommend 800x600x256 (the third number is the
- number of colors). If you have a choice of Large or Small
- Fonts, we recommend Large Fonts.
-
- After you have made your selection, click on the "OK" button.
- The next message will ask you if you want to restart Windows
- now, select yes to restart Windows now. That's it!
-
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- System Requirements:
- --------------------
- This program requires Microsoft Windows, Windows 95 or Windows NT.
-
- Video Requirements: 256-Color or better
- CPU Requirements: 80386 or better
-
- The CD-ROM discs contain two versions of the program: a 16-Bit
- version and a 32-Bit version. The 16-Bit version requires
- Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher. The 32-Bit version requires
- Windows 95 or higher, or Windows NT 4.0 or higher.
-
- Memory Requirements: The memory requirements depend on which
- version you are using. The 16-bit version
- for Windows 3.1 requires at least 4-Mb of
- memory, with 8-Mb recommended. The 32-bit
- version for Windows 95 requires at least
- 8-Mb of memory, with 16-Mb recommended.
-
- This program will work with most common video display resolutions,
- including 640x480, 800x600, and 1024x768, with video drivers set
- to either Large or Small Fonts (sometimes called Large or Small
- System Resources).
-
-
- Compatibility:
- --------------
- This program has been tested with Microsoft Windows 3.1 and 3.11,
- Windows for Workgroups 3.1 and 3.11, Windows 95, Windows 95
- with Service Pack 1, and Windows 95 OEM-SR2, and Windows NT 4.0.
-
- This program has been tested in the following video resolutions:
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- 640x480 - 256-Color
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- 800x600 and 1024x768 with the following color depths:
- 256-Colors (8-Bit)
- 32,768-Colors (15-Bit, HighColor)
- 65,536-Colors (16-Bit, HighColor)
- 16,777,216-Colors (24-Bit, TrueColor)
- 4,294,967,296-Colors (32-Bit, TrueColor with Alpha Channel)
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