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- ExpressCheck Version 4 Released Jan. 8, 1990
-
- After months of hard work, the newest version of ExpressCheck is
- ready to be shipped. Ever since version 3 was released a year
- ago, we have listened to your comments and suggestions and have
- incorporated them into what we now consider to be the best
- personal and small business finance manager on the market today.
-
- One of our happy users just wrote us: "I had been using Quicken
- for about a year or two and after trying out ExpressCheck for 5
- minutes I dropped Quicken like it was a Hot Potato."
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- Responses like this are typical. People love using Express-
- Check, and we think you will love this new version even more.
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- New features in version 4 include:
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- Bill Reminder System
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- Indicate your bills and how often they are due and ExpressCheck
- will actually remind you when they are coming up, and when you
- say so, will automatically enter them for you and even print the
- checks if you like. You can define up to 10 Payment Groups to be
- paid every week, every two weeks, twice a month, every four
- weeks, every month, every quarter, twice a year, annually, or on
- a variable schedule. Those automatic withdrawals, insurance and
- property tax payments won't sneak by unnoticed any more. There
- is even a small separate program that can be run as part of your
- AUTOEXEC.BAT file to tell you if any Payment Groups are due when
- you turn on your computer each day. You don't even have to run
- ExpressCheck to keep on top of things.
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- Uncleared Transactions
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- Automatic display of uncleared transactions is now part of the
- Check Register section. This makes reconciling your account each
- month a breeze. Just press the <S>earch key and the next
- uncleared entry is highlighted.
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- Customizing
-
- Expanded Setup program lets you customize every part of the
- program to your personal tastes. You can choose line styles for
- surrounding windows, exploding windows, date format (MM-DD-YY or
- DD-MM-YY), the ability to turn off the automatic sorting of
- Budget Codes, default answers for many prompts, clear screen
- background character, leading asterisks on printed check amounts,
- and more.
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- Calculator
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- A pop-up Calculator is now available from anywhere in the
- program by pressing <Alt-K>. You can make quick calculations
- using addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
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- Enhanced Sorting
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- The Sort feature is now more than twice as fast as before and
- allows you to sort by Amount and Input Order as well as the
- previous Number, Date and Payee.
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- More Reports
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- New reports include monthly budget code totals over a fiscal
- year, a combined Payee and Budget Code report, and an Activity
- Log report that gives an account of everything you did in the
- current session. Reports printed to the screen will now pause
- after every screen full if desired.
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- New fields
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- There is now a "Source" field on deposit slips where you can
- record the origin of the money being deposited. There is also a
- "Used for" field on the ATM withdrawal screen.
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- ATM Deposit
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- A new ATM Deposit screen has been added to make it easier to
- track deposits that have been made at an automatic teller
- machine.
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- Expanded QuickFill
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- QuickFill entries that allow instant fill-in of a check have now
- been expanded to include all types of transactions. QuickFill
- entries can also be tagged and executed in a batch similar to
- Payment Groups in the Bill Reminder system.
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- Shell to DOS
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- You can now drop to DOS by pressing <Alt-D> from anywhere in the
- program. To return to ExpressCheck, just type EXIT at the DOS
- prompt and the original screen will be restored leaving you right
- where you left.
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- Resume Numbering
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- If you enter a transaction that is behind your normal numbering
- sequence, you can resume the usual numbering by pressing <Alt-R>.
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- We are always interested in your comments and ideas concerning
- our products. If you would like to make any suggestions, please
- fill out and return the RESPONSE form found on the Supplemental
- Disk. If you would like to print out a copy, make sure your
- printer is ready and On-Line. With the Supplemental Disk in
- drive A, type: COPY A:RESPONSE PRN <Enter>
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- Changes that have been made in ExpressCheck, version 4
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- 4.01 (January 25, 1990)
-
- Startup:
- Using /F on the command line for fast startup was ignoring any
- account name to open that was read from the profile. This has
- been fixed.
-
- If monochrome mode is selected on either the command line or from
- the profile, double lines are now automatically used if "none"
- was found for the line style in the profile. Otherwise you can't
- tell where the menu boundaries are.
-
- If "none" is selected for the line style in the profile, the Main
- Menu looks bad. Because of this, the Main Menu is now always
- displayed with border lines.
-
- Check printing:
- When setting up the QuickCheck print string, you can now include
- an FF to specify a formfeed. This is useful for people printing
- checks on laser printers to kick out the check page.
-
- Report Section:
- Pressing <D> to print to the Disk now changes the "P" to a "D".
-
- Pressing <Esc> on the prompt asking for the output filename used to
- cause an error 52. This has been fixed.
-
- Report number 6 was printing report number 8 if report 8 was run
- just prior to report 6. This has been fixed.
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- 4.02 (February 5, 1990)
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- Cloning:
- Typing in the name of any existing account file is now prohibited.
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- Payment Group entries are now copied to the new account.
-
- QuickFill:
- When printing the list of QuickFill entries, the columns now line up
- correctly.
-
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- Setup:
- The Drive / Path prompt is now longer.
-
- Moved the Printer port question from page 1 to page 2.
-
- The #1 Space Character was being lost if Setup was run twice. Fixed.
-
- Account Definition:
- The Account number wouldn't show up on the screen when editing
- an account definition if the user had transferred to the Report
- section or the Sort section before editing. Fixed.
-
- Export
- Fixed an rare problem that would cause an error 55 when exporting
- a file.
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- Report
- If report #8 was run with several budget codes selected, and if
- there were no records found for the first code, ExpressCheck
- would report an error 63. Fixed.
-
- Running report #8 twice in a row with Combined accounts would
- add a "4." to the beginning of the account name in the title.
- Fixed.
-
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- 4.03 (March 12, 1990)
-
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- Setup:
- The Path prompt now allows a period.
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- You can now specify whether you want the spelled out check amounts
- to be centered within asterisks or left justified with trailing
- asterisks.
-
- Payment Groups:
- Deleting a QuickFill entry from the middle of the list wasn't deleting
- the correct group assignment number. Every entry below the deleted
- entry was being shifted to the previous group assignment number.
- Fixed.
-
- Add:
- Entering an E followed by a number larger than 38 (e.g. E123) in the
- check number field would cause an OVERFLOW error. Fixed
-
-
- If ExpressCheck gave a low balance warning while recording a QuickFill,
- when the "Recording" window was erased, some spurious text was
- displayed behind it. Fixed.
-
- QuickCheck:
- If you transferred to the Sort or Report section, then back, and then
- added or edited your QuickCheck definition, the new definition would
- be saved to disk as a blank. The next time you started the program,
- there would be no QuickCheck definition left. Fixed.
-
- Report:
- If the dd-mm-yy style of dates was being used, the date range was not
- working correctly and would miss certain dates. Fixed
-
- Maintenance:
- Deleting QuickFill entries wasn't always deleting them. Fixed
-
-
- (April 2, 1990)
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- Add:
- Can now type more than one period into the Payee field.
-
- After adding a transaction, the popup calculator would not work
- correctly.
-
- General:
- Numeric input fields would not accept valid numbers after adding a
- new transaction and escaping back to the Main Menu. Fixed
-
- (April 11, 1990)
-
- General:
- Some QuickFills were entering the numbers left justified and they
- were being saved that way and thus printed out of line on the
- check register and some reports. Fixed
-
- (May 17, 1990)
-
- QuickFill:
- If <Alt-Q> was pressed while on the Cleared field, the QuickFill type
- showed up as ???? instead of the actual transaction type. Fixed
-
- Main Menu:
- If a check was added or edited with a number lower than the highest
- number, the "Next check #" was incorrectly displayed as one number
- higher than the one just edited. Fixed
-
- Open:
- Pressing a control key from the New Account prompt on the Account
- List popped up the Change Data Drive prompt instead of returning
- to the List. Fixed
-
- (June 20, 1990)
-
- QuickCheck
- Increased capacity of QuickCheck definition string. Now handles
- up to 150 pieces.
-
-
- 4.04 (July 4, 1990)
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- QuickFill:
- QuickFills executed from a different input screen were using the
- transaction number of the input screen where they were executed.
- For example: If an ATM QuickFill was executed from a Check input
- screen, the ATM number was filled in with the next available
- check number instead of the next ATM number.
-
- You can now change the field where you want the cursor to be after a
- QuickFill. In previous versions, the cursor would stay in
- whichever field the cursor was in when you pressed <Alt-Q> to turn
- off the recording. (This feature was actually broken for awhile).
- Now you can reset or change this field by editing the QuickFill
- from the Maintenance Menu. When the field is displayed where you
- want the cursor to remain, press <Alt-Q>. From then on, the cursor
- will remain in that field waiting for input whenever you do a
- QuickFill.
-
- Add Transaction:
- While viewing the Add transaction screen you can now press <Alt-L>
- to display the last transaction entered. You can then return to
- Add mode by pressing <Alt-A>. (Thanks to Nelson Ford from
- Public (software) Library in Houston, Texas for this suggestion.)
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