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- This file contains information for shareware and retail
- software vendors. Please see the end of this file for a
- description of FlexEasy.
-
- Edward Bale
- Free and Easy Software
- 688 Farmbrook Crescent
- Orleans, Ont. K4A 2L2 Canada
-
- Telephone: (613) 834-1738
- Compuserve: 74660,3406
- Internet: 74660.3406@compuserve.com
-
- If you are a shareware vendor you may immediately start
- distributing the shareware version of FlexEasy. You may
- have received FlexEasy in the ZIP format in which case all
- the files making up the FlexEasy package are in the file
- FW1.ZIP. If you wish you can UNZIP this file and distribute
- the FlexEasy package with the files not inside a ZIP file.
- The customer may find this less confusing. The files making
- up the FlexEasy package are still compressed in a FlexEasy
- format and do not take up much more room than the ZIP
- package. The file README.EXE is not compressed, as well as
- the file INSTALL.EXE which decompresses the files and
- installs them on the hard disk and adds the appropriate
- group box and icons to the Windows Program Manager.
-
- If you wish to have a demonstration of FlexEasy running on
- a computer (in a retail store for example) you can run the
- program TOUR.EXE and set it to run in automatic and recycle.
- This gives a person a good first look at the capabilities of
- FlexEasy just by looking at the computer for a few minutes.
-
- FlexEasy can be distributed as a Retail Version. The
- Retail Version has all the files the Shareware Version has
- as well as the Instruction Book, A View of FlexEasy (a set
- of 6 tutorials) and additional sample applications. As well
- a custom version with your company's name in the
- documentation can be supplied. If desired the labelled
- shrink wrapped disks as well as advertising flyers can be
- supplied. Contact Free and Easy Software for more
- information.
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- An Overview of FlexEasy
-
- FlexEasy is designed to make your data analysis and what-if
- calculations easy to set up and easy to follow. Unlike a
- spreadsheet you are not forced into a grid of rows and
- columns. Instead you use a free style, user defined format.
-
- Start with a blank worksheet, then add cells (similar to
- cells in a spreadsheet) wherever you wish. Define variables
- on the worksheet with an equal sign. These variables can
- then be used in the calculations a cell does. Descriptive
- text can be added to describe the calculations. Cells can
- be given a name and the value of the cell used in the
- calculations done in another cell. The cell can also refer
- to a location on the worksheet and the calculation will use
- the value of the cell or a number found at that location.
- Locations referred to by cells can be either relative to the
- cells position or absolute. This facility makes
- construction of tables easy.
-
- Functions can be used in the calculations done by cells.
- FlexEasy has all the common mathematical functions. (e.g.
- sine, logarithms) As well many financial functions are
- included. (e.g. mortgage payments, depreciation) FlexEasy
- also supports the use of ranges. Range functions will act
- on all values found within a range. (e.g. mean, standard
- deviation) All of the statistical functions act on ranges.
- Ranges can be referred to by name or position. Again a
- range location can be either relative to a cells position or
- absolute.
-
- Graphs can also be added to the worksheet. As with text,
- variables, cells and ranges they can be placed anywhere on
- the worksheet. The user can adjust the graph color and line
- styles. Graphs are automatically updated whenever a
- worksheet is recalculated.
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- Up to 20 worksheets can be opened at one time. The cells in
- one worksheet can use data in other worksheets. All these
- features allow you to design a worksheet with minimum
- restrictions and maximum flexibility.
-
- The display format of a cell as well as its value can be
- seen before it is added to the worksheet. As well FlexEasy
- has extensive and specific error and warning messages.
-
- FlexEasy includes all the common editing features such as
- search and replace as well as cut and paste. The user can
- set how FlexEasy does the calculations.
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- The FlexEasy package includes an Instruction Book on disk
- with a complete description of all features. To help you
- learn how to use FlexEasy there is an overview program, six
- tutorials and several sample applications. As well there
- are over 300 help screens which are context sensitive and
- hyperlinked. The Installation Program creates the required
- directories, decompresses all the FlexEasy files and
- transfers them to your hard disk, and adds the FlexEasy
- Group and Icons to the Program Manager.
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-