★ APPLICATIONS ★ BUREAUTIQUE ★ MINIFILE (COMPUTING WITH THE AMSTRAD) ★ |
Minifile (Computing With the Amstrad) | Applications Bureautique |
MINI File is a user-friendly database which allows you to keep records of addresses, telephone numbers, important dates, grandma's recipes and so on. The program runs within a graphics environment similar to that of Digital Research's Gem used on the PC1512, and it is this which makes it so easy to use. When you run the program a menu bar appears at the top of the screen with an arrow pointing to the first of eight options. You can use the cursor keys to select the option you require. Press Copy, which then pulls down the appropriate sub-menu.Within each sub-menu are several options which you can select by using cursor up and down, and confirm by pressing Copy. The options available from the main menu bar are Load, Save, Sort, Search, Edit, Record, Format and Display. When loading or saving simply follow the prompt and enter the filename. Sort will put the records into either ascending or descending alphabetical order according to the record titles. There are two types of search — Multi will search for whole fields and Part for parts of fields. The search will not include the record titles since you can see these on-screen. Follow the prompt and enter the string to search for. If a match is found the appropriate record will be displayed with the string highlighted. You can press either cursor right to continue the search or Copy to abort. Edit can be used to delete selected fields from a record. Firstly select the record and then press either cursor right for the next field. Copy to delete the field or cursor left to abort. Record adds or deletes records. Blank ones are added to the end of the files, but it is possible to delete any record by selecting it with the cursor keys and pressing Copy. Format is used for designing the layout of the records. You can design individual records or copy the format to the whole of the file. In the sub-menu Title enters the record title. Field positions a field within a record using the cursor keys and Duplicate copies the displayed record to all the others. Since this option is intended to be used to create a standard format for alt records take care - the current record will be copied to all others. Display enables you to look at a record, which you select by using the cursor up and down keys. The number of fields in a record is shown in the top right hand corner of each displayed record. Mini File allows 24 records to a file with 48 fields per record and 50 characters per field.
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