Using the Calendar/Diary
The CALENDAR/DIARY is available, no matter what your current location in Contract Collector is,
by pressing the F6 function key. The CALENDAR/DIARY allows you to check dates and record reminders about appointments or other
important events that you need to remember. After you have recorded an event, the
system automatically prompts you to check the calendar when you first log on
to the system when the date of the event arrives.
Pressing F6 opens the window shown above. If the Contract Collector MENU BAR is displayed when you press F6, two additional menu selections, TEXT and DIARY, are added to the menu, after the SYSTEM menu.
When you first open the CALENDAR/DIARY, the CALENDAR portion of the window on the left side is active (the month and year at the
top of the calendar are displayed in bold type). To activate the DIARY portion of the window, where you enter and view text associated with each
date, press TAB.
When the DIARY is active, a blinking cursor is visible on the right side of the window. To
switch back to the CALENDAR, click anywhere in the left side of the window or press SHIFT-TAB.
The CALENDAR/DIARY window includes many of the same controls found in BROWSE WINDOWS, described earlier in this section. You can move the window using the TITLE BAR, re-size it using the MAXIMIZE BUTTON and WINDOW BORDERS, and close the window using the MENU-CONTROL BOX.
The CALENDAR/DIARY WINDOW also includes a MINIMIZE BUTTON, located to the left of the MAXIMIZE BUTTON. Clicking on this button shrinks the window to an icon, which appears at the
bottom left corner of your computer screen. To restore the window to its
original size, double click on the icon.
Changing the Calendar Display
When you open the CALENDAR/DIARY window for the first time in a work session, the current month is displayed
in the CALENDAR portion of the window and the current day is highlighted. If you display a
different month or highlight a different day and then close the CALENDAR/DIARY window, the new date is displayed the next time you open the window. When you
log off Contract Collector at the end of a work session, the display reverts to
the current date. To highlight a different day in the month, click directly on
the date. Any text associated with that day is displayed in the DIARY portion of the window.
By using the push-buttons at the bottom of the CALENDAR/DIARY window, you can change the calendar to display the previous month, the
following month, the previous year or the following year. Click on the TODAY button to switch the calendar back to the current date. The day that is
currently highlighted remains the same when you switch months or years.
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Month Month Year Year Date
Use the following keys to change the CALENDAR display:
PageUp displays the previous month.
PageDown displays the next month.
SHIFT-PageUp displays the previous year.
SHIFT-PageDown displays the next year.
Press T to display the current date.
Press ESCAPE to close the CALENDAR/DIARY window.
You can perform these same functions by selecting from the DIARY menu, which is added to the Contract Collector MENU BAR when you open the CALENDAR/ DIARY window. In addition, the DELETE... selection on the DIARY menu allows you to delete text from the DIARY portion of the window for all dates prior to the currently selected date.
Recording Diary Entries
Each day of every month can have a diary entry associated with it. To create
an entry, activate the DIARY portion of the window and begin typing. Use standard text editing techniques
to enter and edit your diary entry. Your entry can be any length. When it
becomes longer than what can be displayed in the DIARY at one time, the SCROLL BAR on the right side of the window becomes active.
You can use the TEXT menu, which is added to the Contract Collector MENU BAR when you open the CALENDAR/DIARY window, to change the formatting of the text in the DIARY portion of the window. The FONT... selection allows you to change the font, font size and font style (regular,
bold, italic or bold italic) of the text. Other menu selections let you enlarge
or reduce the font size one point at a time, change the line spacing and indent
or un-indent the text.
The SPELLING…item in the TEXT menu is not supported in the current version of Contract Collector.