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IN THIS ISSUE:                                                                                                                              

Thought For The Month                          UnForm Printer List

TOP Monthly Support                              Internet Explorer History Search                                   

Things About TOP                                   The 'Tech Line'                                                                          

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Thought For the Month

"Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half have never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half!"

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Compatible Printer List for UnForm

Mindware has compiled a list of printers known to be compatible with UnForm. It is a list of printers using PCL5 and PostScript languages that are currently being used by our customers using UnForm. This list is now published on our support website www.mindwarecorp.com and is available by clicking on 'UnForm Printers' on the left side of the screen.

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Acer 22" Wide Screen Monitor for $199.00!

 

Acer 22" Wide Screen LCD Monitor V223WBMD has a resolution of 1680 x 1050, a 2500.1 contract ratio, internal power adapter, VGA and HDCP support, speakers, black in color and a 3-year parts, labor and LCD warranty. It comes with a great price of just $199.00!

Call Mindware or email support@mindwarecorp.com for more information.

 

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Add 'Map Drive' Icon to My Computer Toolbar

Want to make it easier and quicker to map network drives or disconnect network drives? You can put 'Map Drive' and 'Disconnect Drive' buttons on the Explorer toolbar without having to go through several menus to do it. Follow these simple instructions:

 
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Click on Start  --->  Click My Computer

bulletRight Click on the Toolbar  --->  Click Customize
bulletScroll down the list of available toolbar buttons to Map Drive in the Dialog box and highlight it
bulletClick the Add button
bulletIn the left pane, highlight Disconnect  --->  Click the Add button
bulletClick on the Close button

The new buttons now display on the Toolbar. To map a drive, click the Map Drive button and navigate to the drive you want to map.  To Disconnect Drive, select the drive to disconnect. You may want to reboot your PC before trying to map the same drive again.

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TOP Monthly Support Payments

Did you know you could have your TOP monthly support payments paid automatically by credit card?

Mindware can except American Express, MasterCard and Visa. If you are interested in setting up an automatic payment plan, please call (800) 950-0401 to provide us with the necessary credit information.

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Internet Explorer History Search

Have you spent time searching for information on the web and after following several links, finally found the data you are looking for? Then you accidentally close the wrong tab and didn't pay any attention to the link where you found the information? This can be very time consuming but there is a great way to find out all of the links you opened in one particular day or week. There are a couple of different ways to display the search history.

1) Open Internet Explorer  -->  Press CTRL+SHIFT+H

2) Open Internet Explorer  -->  Click on Tools  -->  Click on Toolbars  -->  Select History

There will be a pane on the left side of your screen that will allow you to select the history to search for today, each day of the current week, last week, 2 and 3 weeks ago. You can also Click on the down arrow to select to further define the search by date, by site visited, by most visited sites or by order visited today.

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Things You May Not Know About TOP

Many of our customers may not be aware that Total Order Plus has a User Appendix manual online on our support website www.mindwarecorp.com and can be accessed by clicking on 'Documentation' on the left side of the screen. This manual contains numerous screens and instructions to help you with Windows issues, UnForm, UPS, Anzio Lite, Unix commands, End of Day and End of Month processing and how to use the TOP Report Writer. Please print and peruse this information and have it available when issues arise.

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The 'Tech Line'

                      By Joanne Simmons   

Question:

Whenever we close the O/E Daily Sales Journal and Update, we get a message that the Accounts Receivable, Inventory or Sales Analysis modules have not been closed for the proper month and displays the last date closed. What does this mean?

Answer:

The message is letting you know that those modules were not closed in the same month with the same month-end date. TOP recommends that you close all three modules with the same date so the messages do not display. Even if you do not use the Inventory or Sales Analysis modules, you should still run the End-Of-Month processing for each module to keep the closing dates in 'sync'.

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Picture of the Month

New Building for Midwest Marking Products, Wichita, Kansas

Owner Gary Hess

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New Changes To Total Order Plus and UnForm

Changes to Total Order Plus and UnForm are made on a continual basis. We will keep you updated by listing the most recent changes in each of our newsletters. Following are the most recent:

TOP Enhancements:

bulletAdded utility programs to copy inventory items, customer status information, customer contacts to another company
bulletNew I/C Excess Inventory report
bulletAdjustments, Issues and Receipts updated daily to the Item History file with kits now included in sales
bulletAutomatic Invoice Generation Lookup now on the Order Entry Options Menu

UnForm Enhancements:

Note: UnForm versions 4.X, 5.X and 6.X are no longer supported by SDSI or Mindware Corporation.

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Time Zone Changes for Mindware Office Hours

Eight months of a year, from the middle of March to the middle of November, the country is on Daylight Savings Time. Following is a chart that shows the different time zones and the time in Arizona when Mindware office hours begins:

Time Zone

DST

MCA

Eastern Standard Time 11:00 am 08:00 am
Central Standard Time 10:00 am 08:00 am
Mountain Standard Time 09:00 am 08:00 am
Pacific Standard Time 08:00 am 08:00 am
              
From the middle of November to the middle of March when Daylight Savings Time is not in effect:
 

Time Zone

No DST

MCA

Eastern Standard Time 10:00 am 08:00 am
Central Standard Time 09:00 am 08:00 am
Mountain Standard Time 08:00 am 08:00 am
Pacific Standard Time 07:00 am 08:00 am

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Event Calendar

Location

Date

Daylight Savings Ends 11/02/2008
Election Day 11/04/2008
Thanksgiving Day 11/27/2008 *
Thanksgiving Day Holiday 11/28/2008 *
Christmas Eve 12/24/2008
Christmas Day 12/25/2008 *
New Year's Eve 12/31/2008
New Year's Day 01/01/2009 *
CHA Show, Anaheim 01/25/2009
ARA Int'l, Las Vegas 02/23/2009
NBM Show, Ft Worth 04/30/2009
NBM Show, Indy 05/28/2009
CHA Show, Long Beach 07/27/2009
NBM Show, Long Beach 07/30/2009
NBM Show, Baltimore 08/27/2009
NBM Show, Tampa 09/24/2009
NBM Show, Charlotte 10/22/2009

 

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bulletPhone:         800-950-0401
bulletFax:             480-718-7416
Mindware Corporation Support Website

Send all TOP support emails to support@mindwarecorp.com