Buttons and Navigation

 

 

Overview

 

When traveling in a foreign country, knowing where to go and how to get there will enrich your experience. Running into "Keine Ausfahrt" and eating mystery food because you can't read what's on the menu will make you wish you stayed home. Still, with luck, you'll wake up one morning and every road looks familiar and it suddenly hits you, "I'm getting good at this."

That's how it is with new software. Bouncing from roadblock to roadblock? They didn't mention that in the brochure. Only marginally less frustrating is to sit idle in traffic, waiting to have even basic tasks explained to you by a computer-savvy ten-year-old.

Herewith, "How to get Around" in Morning Flight. Highway markers and street signs. Because getting there should be fun, too.

 

 

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Selection Window Buttons

 

ButtonDelete The Delete button deletes the highlighted record.

ButtonAddButtonChange The Add button adds a new record, the Update button changes it.

ButtonFind Click the Find button to search for a record.

ButtonZoom Click the Zoom button to view the highlighted record in detail.

 

Double-clicking a highlighted record does the same as clicking the Update button - it opens an update window to make changes.

Pressing the Ins key works the same as clicking the Add button - it opens an entry window for additions.

Pressing the Del key does the same as clicking the Delete button. It will either instantly delete the record without warning if Ask OK Delete is turned off in My Preferences, or ask you for confirmation.

 

DeleteWindow
 

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Play it safe by keeping 'Ask OK Delete' confirmation ON. If you're positive about what you're deleting, at any point in the program, hold down the Ctrl key while pressing Del. That will instantly delete the item, same as having 'Ask OK Delete' in your preferences set to OFF.
 

 

MyPreferences

 

 

Entry Window Buttons

 

ButtonReset The Reset button cancels any changes you may have made in this window, and restores all text and data to what they were when you opened the window.

ButtonSort The Sort button sorts quantities or prices. The button is there just to make you feel better. Morning Flight will automatically sort as soon as you accept the window.

ButtonOk Clicking the OK button (or pressing the Enter key) accepts updates or new entries, then closes the window.

ButtonClose Clicking the Cancel button (or pressing the Esc key) discards updates or new entries, then closes the window.

ButtonTextOffButtonTextOn When the Text button shows the picture on the left, it means Text Formatting is off. Clicking the button will turn formatting back on. At the same time, all text in the open window will be formatted with initial caps. When the button shows the picture on the right, it means text formatting is on. To make a free-form entry (exactly the way you type it in), click the right button to turn off formatting before you make that entry.

ButtonValOffButtonValOn When the Data button shows "Goofy," it means Data Validation is off. Clicking the button will change the picture to an umbrella and turn validation back on. At the same time, Morning Flight will check (and change, if necessary) all numerical data in the open window to make sure they're within reasonable limits. When the data button shows the umbrella and you want to make a numerical entry either above or below the normal limits, click the right button to turn validation off before you make that entry.

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Text formatting and data validation states are persistent. Each window initially inherits its states from 'My Preferences', but then preserves its own formatting and validation settings. When you accept a window with data validation off, it will stay off (for that window only) until you turn it back on. For the record, when a window opens with "Goofy" on the data button, there's a good chance somebody made an entry that may not make sense in the real world!

 

See also

 

My Preferences

Text Formatting

Data Validation

 


 

Other Buttons you'll run into:

 

ButtonSave The Save button saves paper to the Buy-it paper file.

ButtonRolodex The Rolodex button generally opens a selection window to retrieve a customer or contact. When used with paper, it retrieves a paper item from the Buy-it paper file.

ButtonOne Used with paper, the button locks in the same cost for all quantity brackets. That's when the vendor charges you the same price no matter how much paper you're ordering.

When used with products, the Number 1 button lets you designate any product as your primary, the one you quote on most often. The quote window will open with your primary product preselected.

ButtonLocked Used with paper, the Lock button locks in auto-pricing where you enter paper costs in the 1-carton bracket only and leave it to the program to figure out the rest.

When used with postpress, a glowing red key shows locked quantities in the quote you're working on. For example, a customer asks for a quote on 1,000 newsletters but wants only 800 folded and the rest supplied flat. Click the same button again to unlock.

ButtonPrice The Manual Pricing button expands the quick and easy 1-carton entry to let you enter paper costs in all three quantity brackets.

ButtonPaperPricer The Color button opens an entry window for paper colors.

ButtonCutter The Cutter button allows you to select the most efficient paper size to cut from, and to see how much waste is associated with each grain.

 

ButtonSlider You probably wouldn't call this a button, more like the volume control on a radio. Settings range from very high to very low, in five increments. Left-click to move the slider up, right-click to move it down.