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- Tips & Tricks
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- 1. Portfolio in the train. More fun than a walkman! Watch out you don't
- forget to step out Portfolio in de trein. Don't forget to step out
- at your destination. It is possible to set an ALARM for that.
- The regular traveller can make a DIARY for every destination.
- With the possibility of dayly and weekly repeat it is even possible
- to make a difference for workdays, the weekend and holidays.
- Every time when starting DIARY, the next train shows on screen.
- 2. The better computershops have cables for every conceivable connection.
- For DFL 15,- I got a plug with the opposite sex as a standard
- printercable. Now I can do a FILE-TRANSFER without having to take
- the thick and heavy printer cable everywhere I go.
- (only 2 wires of this cable are used).
- Also, disconnecting the printer is usually easier than disconnecting
- the computer.
- 3. A list of often used ASCII numbers can be glued under the
- Portfolio-speaker e.g.:
- = 159
- 4. 'Alien' address files are easily converted to the Portfolio ADRESSBOOK
- by using a word processor and a spreadsheet.
- I'm using Wordperfect en Planperfect. Planperfect allows to include
- 'alien' databases. The program understands DBASE,LOTUS and all kinds
- of text files and converts them to rows and columns of a spreadsheet.
- That comes in handy if the sequence of name-address-place-phone
- must be changed to name-phone-address-place, as required in ADRESSBOOK.
- The wordprocessor can be used, using search&replace, to add braces to
- all city dialcodes, and to add comments between square brackets,
- e.g. [home] [work] etc.
- After a little study into the MACRO possibilities of WordPerfect, it is
- possible to do all processing withing WordPerfect.
- Macro's also allow to convert dates from the CALENDAR program (from
- the WP library) to DIARY format.
- Processing a long list of addresses will only take minutes this way;
- at least, much less than entering the whole list by hand.
- An 'average' address is 80 characters, which means that an
- 'empty' Portfolio with 32 kB ramdisk has storage for 400 addresses.
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