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| ## WinToday Help Contents

| Installing Wintoday | Using WinToday | WinToday toolbar | WinToday Menus |
| WinToday Keyboard Shortcuts | WinToday Edit Window | Uninstalling WinToday |
| Future WinToday plans | Contacting WinToday |

| ## WinToday Introduction

`How it all started:` The inspiration for WinToday is the old DOS TODAY program that I used for years in the early PC days (In fact there may even have been a CP/M version . . that's too far back to remember). When Windows hit I continued to use TODAY since I had years worth of historical data stored. Soon TODAY was the very last DOS program on my hard drive. The Windows applications were getting very good, very graphic and very much making TODAY look more and more clunky. Wouldn't it be great if there was a Windows interface I could use to display my TODAY data? I mentioned over and over again to my son Arthur who is majoring in Computer Engineering at the Unversity of Washington. On Christmas 1996 he surprised me with a diskette marked "WinToday." That was Beta version #1. Since then many improvements have been added and a many bugs have been worked out.

`What it is:` WinToday is a shareware Windows desktop program which displays important events and reminders for the day in an easy-to-export manner. Plus you can enter, via the toolbar, any other date to display the important events for that day. We supply you with thousands of historical dates and birthdays and, of course, you can easily add and delete from this data base.

`What it is not:` WinToday is not freeware. It's shareware. Free to try it out for 30 days; if you like it, send us $15 and you can continue to use it. If unregistered after 30 days WinToday will not navigate to any other day except the current date. Plus WinToday's execution will be delayed 30 seconds on your 30th day of use and the delay will increase one second per day there after.

WinToday has withstood the test of time. For years friends and family members have used WinToday many times a day. I think you will find it very useful.

`What you get:` Although WinToday comes with over 7,500 historical dates, it is by no means suppose to be an all inclusive history of humankind. The database is merely a startup collection of ecletic events and birthdays. And, in the way of a disclaimer, we don't 100% guarentee the veracity of information supplied.

In other words, we supply the delivery vechicle and collection of historical events to get you going. It's up to you to fine tune the collection with additions and deletions. That what we do on a daily basis.

Norm Gregory,
President of Marketing and Documentation,
GregorySoft,
July, 1998.

| ## Installing WinToday

Normal Install

Manual Install

You can put the WINTODAYxx.ZIP files in any directory with any name. But it is important that ALL the files are in the same directory. The first time WINTODAY.EXE is executed it registers it's current directory. (If you move the files later you have to "tell" WinToday where it's new home is via the menu: View | Options | Today's Directory.) We suggest you create a C:\WINTODAY directory. Put all the files in the WINTODAYxx.ZIP in C:\WINTODAY. (TIP: when using WinZip, hit the EXTRACT button and type C:\WINTODAY in the 'Extract To:' box. Then WinZip will create the directory for you and copy the files there.)

After unzipping all the files open Windows Explorer to your WINTODAY directory, find and select (not execute) WINTODAY.EXE then drag to desktop and/or Start buttom to create a shortcut. (TIP: If you'd like WINTODAY to run each time you boot the computer also drag to your C:\WINDOWS\Start Menu\Programs\StartUp folder.) NOTE: We are talking about making shortcuts, not moving or copying WINTODAY.EXE.

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| ## Using WinToday

Run WinToday by double clicking on the WINTODAY.EXE or it's shortcut: This will bring up the display of the information for today's date.

From the display window you can select any text and copy to the Windows clipboard to paste into any other application. (TIP: Select the text with the LEFT button of the mouse then while on the selection use the RIGHT button to copy.)

The whole display may also be written to a text file. See ToolBar tip.

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| ## WinToday Toolbar

| Move to another date. Enter month and day in the "Enter Date" boxes and click the yellow sun.
| Return to the current day. Click on "Today's Date"
| To scroll through dates use the right arrows.
| Enter new date information OR edit the currently selected item. This will bring up the WinToday editor. (TIP: Select the first line of any item in the main display and RIGHT CLICK mouse to bring up edit options.)
| Write the currently displayed information to a text file
| Print the current display
| Bring up a traditional looking calender. Double clicking on any date on the calender will direct WinToday to display events for that day. Click on the double arrows to navigate through the years. Click on the single arrows to move month to month. Note that when you flip through dates on the display window the Calender follows along. Because of Windows limitations the calender's range is 1970-2037.

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| ## WinToday Menu

Most of the toolbars commands are available on the drop down menus below the WinToday title bar. The keyboard short cuts are also noted.

Date | New Item - Create a new birthday, event or remainder.

Date | Edit Item - Edit selected item. Not available unless an item is selected in the WinToday display window. At least the first line of the item has to be selected before Edit Item will bring up the edit window.

Date | Delete Item - Delete the selected item. Not available unless an item is selected in the WinToday display window.

Date | Print - Prints the current display. (Ctrl-P)

Date | Send to File - Writes the current display to a text file. (Ctrl-S)

Date | Previous Date - Moves the display to the previous day.

Date | Next Date - Moves the display to the next day.

Edit | Copy - Copies any selected text in the display window to the Windows clipboard.

View | Calender - Brings up a floating traditional calender. Double click on any date on the calender for WinToday to display events for that day. Click on the double arrows to navigate through the years (up to 2037). Click on the single arrows to move month to month. Note that when you flip through dates on the display window the floating calender follows along.

View | Toolbar - Turns toolbar off and on. Note the toolbar can "float." While the cursor is over the tool bar, hold down the left mouse key and "drag" the toolbar away from WinToday.

View | Options | Today's Directory - Tell WinToday where it's datefiles (.TDY) are located.

View | Options | Today's Font - Select the font style, font size and color you want used in the WinToday display.

View | Options | Today's Background Color - Select color used in the background of WinToday display.

View | Options | Confirm Date Delete - If you unselect this box you will not be warned when deleting an item from display window.

Help - Brings up a box containing three links:

- WinToday Web Help. Doubling clicking will bring up the latest help file available on the web. If you are not contacted to the net your browser will attempt to make the call.
- WinToday Local Help. Doubling clicking will bring up the this help file which came with your WinToday and is located on your computer.
- Mail WinToday. Doubling clicking will bring up a mail form which will when filled out will be sent to GregorySoft. If you are not contacted to the net your browser will attempt to make the call.

Help - PLEASE REGISTER ME - Doubling clicking will bring up WinToday registration information on the web. If you are not contacted to the net your browser will attempt to make the call.

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| ## WinToday Keyboard Shortcuts

The most fequently used commands are available via the keyboard.

Ctrl-S - Save to file.

Ctrl-P - Print.

Alt-C - Calendar.

Alt-E - Editor

Alt-T - Go to Todays date.

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| ## WinToday Edit window

When the edit window first comes up 'Birthday' is selected. To enter a birthdate fill in the month, day and year boxes for the person's birthday you are noting. In the big text box type in the name of the person and any other pertaint biographical information. Click on 'OK' to enter information. Click on 'Apply' and information is entered but the Edit window remains opens so another date can be entered. |
To enter an important historical date. Select 'Special Event' And fill in the big text box. If you want the information to only show on particular DAY select the day of the week. For example, for President's day you have to put in a week's worth of dates and select "Only on" MON. Click on 'OK' to enter information. Click on 'Apply' and information is entered but the Edit window remains opens so another date can be entered. |
Select "Reminder" to enter info you'd like WinToday to display on a specific date. If you want the reminder to be displayed for more days. Select "Display until" box and enter the end date. If you want the reminder to be displayed on a specific day over several months. Make sure you have the begin and ending dates filled in correctly and select the day in "Only On" If you want the reminder to come up during several days of ANY MONTH select "On Any Month" and then the range of dates during the month the reminder should be shown in the "From - to - " boxes. For an example if you'd like the reminder to display first three days of every month you'd enter "From [ 1 } to [ 3 ]. |
Select "Only On" if you want the reminder to come up on a specific DAY during a month. Use the drop menu to select the day of the week. In this example: The reminder will be displayed on Thursday during the first week of the month (between day 1 and day 7). |
In this example the reminder will be displayed on Tuesdays from February 1 to June 1. Click on 'OK' to enter information. Click on 'Apply' and information is entered but the Edit window remains opens so another date can be entered. |
Here we want the reminder to show on Wednesday between the 11 and the 18th of any month. |

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| ## Uninstalling WinToday

If you used the Normal Install

Go to the Windows Control Panel (It's under Settings on the Start Menu). Run Add/Remove programs; find and select winday on the list. Then click the "Add/Remove" button and the wintoday program will be completly deleted from your system.

If you used the Manual Install

To remove WinToday, delete C:\WINTODAY and it's subfolder C:\WINTODAY\HELP. These were the only files placed on your computer during the installation of WinToday.

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| ## Future WinToday plans

Several new features for future versions of WinToday are on the planning boards here at GregorySoft.

- A "find" command to look for any word(s)in the WinToday database and display the dates the word(s)appear.
- A HTML generator. So web pages can be made quickly from any displayed date.
- Theme add ons. We will be making packages of data with a common theme, like "Seattle Historical Dates," and "Pearl Jam History." You will easily be able to integrate these themes into your existing WinToday database.
- Make your own themes. An application which you will be able to use to make customized WinToday themes. Which then can be distributed to family, friends and co-workers or any user of WinToday.

| ## Contacting WinToday

The latest version of WinDay can always be found at http://gregorysoft.com/wintoday.

Email any questions or comments to GregorySoft.

Thank you.

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