Help Index
Help on CardFile Format Translation Index

Commands

Select Translation Menut

Help Menu

Terms

Defined Terms

Exiting

Bugs


The Index contains a list of all Help topics available for the Program Translate File Formats. For information on how to use Help, press F1 or choose Using Help from the Help menu.


Translation Menu

The Translation menu includes commands that enable you to translate tab-delimited text into Windows Cardfile format and .Windows Cardfile format into tab-delimited text.

 For more information, select one of the following Translation menu command name.

From Text to Cardfile	Translates Tab-delimited text to Windows Cardfile

From Cardfile to Text 	Translates Windows Cardfile to Tab-delimited text

Exit	Exit from  Program


Help Menu

 The Help Menu includes commands that enable you to get all the information you need to correctly run this program and to understand the translation rules for the various file translation options

 For more information, select the File menu command name.

Index

Keyboard

Help on help

About


Glossary

Tab-delimited Text

Cardfile


Index

The Help-Index:.

The Index contains a list of all Help topics available for the Program Translate File Formats. For information on how to use Help, press F1 or choose Using Help from the Help menu.


Text to Cardfile, Limitations, Number of Cards, No of letters p
Tab-delimited Text to Cardfile format

Cardfiles are database files used by Windows to maintain small data bases of addresses.

The Cardfile program can be found in the Accessories Group of Windows.

There is no obvious way of transfering information from these handy little databases to text

This program transforms Windows Cardfiles into Tab-delimited Text Files.

Warning:

There is currently a limit on the number of records (cards) which is 700:.

The program will complain, if the number of cards is greater.


Text to Cardfile, Limits on no of Cards
Tab-delimited Text to Cardfile format

Cardfiles are database files used by Windows to maintain small data bases of addresses.

The Cardfile program can be found in the Accessories Group of Windows.

There is no obvious way of transfering information into these handy little databases

This program transforms Tab-delimited Text Files into Windows Cardfiles.

Warning:

There is currently a limit on the number of records (cards) which is 700:.

And each card may not contain more than 400 letters (including tabs). A line of text which is longer than this will be truncated.

Each tab uses up the space of 8 characters, so a lot of tabs will fill the card more quickly, and can make it "inaccessible2 to cardfile although the number of letters in that card are less than 40


Exit

This command allows you to leave the program


Help Index
Index

This topic explains the Help Index and how to use it.


Help on Help

Using Microsoft Help

What is Help?

Microsoft Help provides easy-to-use information about this program.

With Help, you can:

·	Press F1 to get information quickly.

·	Search for topics associated with a key word or phrase.

For example, you can get a list of all topics associated with "Nota Bene"

·	View Help information while working in your application.

For example, you can follow step-by-step instructions in the Help window while you perform a task in your application.


About

The About Command of the Help Menu gives some basic information on the program, such as the name of the Company or Programmer


The About Dialog box contains some basic information


The Help Cursor appears when you press SHIFT-F1:


Not all characters can be obtained from the keyboard.


You can use the mouse for most of the tasks.


Bugs

 If you find a bug in this program, please let me know:I will try to kill it!


Unfortunately there may be some bugs in this program


Rest assured we will kill all the bugs!


Maximize Icon

This topic describes the maximize icon.


Minimize Icon

This topic describes the minimize icon.


Sizing Border

This topic describes the sizing border that surrounds the application window.


System Menu

This topic describes the system menu.


Title Bar

This topic describes the title bar that is used for application and document windows.


Windows Keys

The keyboard topics below come from Help for Windows. You can create similar keyboard topics for your application's Help. Choose from the following list to review the keys used in Windows:

Cursor Movement Keys

Dialog Box Keys

Editing Keys

Help Keys

Menu Keys

System Keys

Text Selection Keys

Window Keys


Cursor Movement Keys

Key(s)	Function

DIRECTION key	Moves the cursor left, right, up, or down in a field.

End or Ctrl+Right Arrow	Moves to the end of a field.

Home or CTRL+Left Arrow	Moves to the beginning of a field.

PAGE UP or PAGE DOWN	Moves up or down in a field, one screen at a time.


Dialog Box Keys

Key(s)	Function

TAB	Moves from field to field (left to right and top to bottom).

SHIFT+TAB	Moves from field to field in reverse order.

ALT+letter	Moves to the option or group whose underlined letter matches the one you type.

DIRECTION key	Moves from option to option within a group of options.

ENTER	Executes a command button.

Or, chooses the selected item in a list box and executes the command.

ESC	Closes a dialog box without completing the command. (Same as Cancel)

ALT+DOWN ARROW	Opens a drop-down list box.

ALT+UP or DOWN ARROW	Selects item in a drop-down list box.

SPACEBAR	Cancels a selection in a list box.

Selects or clears a check box.

CTRL+SLASH	Selects all the items in a list box.

CTRL+BACKSLASH	Cancels all selections except the current selection.

SHIFT+ DIRECTION key	Extends selection in a text box.

SHIFT+ HOME	Extends selection to first character in a text box.

SHIFT+ END	Extends selection to last character in a text box


Editing Keys

Key(s)	Function

Backspace	Deletes the character to the left of the cursor.

Or, deletes selected text.

Delete	Deletes the character to the right of the cursor.

Or, deletes selected text.


Help Keys

Key(s)	Function

F1	Gets Help and displays the Help Index for the application. If the Help window is already open, pressing F1 displays the "Using Windows Help" topics.

In some Windows applications, pressing F1 displays a Help topic on the selected command, dialog box option, or system message.

SHIFT+F1	Changes the pointer to [image] so you can get Help on a specific command, screen region, or key. You can then choose a command, click the screen region, or press a key or key combination you want to know more about.

(This feature is not available in all Windows applications.)


Menu Keys

Key(s)	Function

Alt	Selects the first menu on the menu bar.

Letter key	Chooses the menu, or menu item, whose underlined letter matches the one you type.

Alt+letter key	Pulls down the menu whose underlined letter matches the one you type.

LEFT or RIGHT ARROW	Moves among menus.

UP or DOWN ARROW	Moves among menu items.

Enter	Chooses the selected menu item.


System Keys

The following keys can be used from any window, regardless of the application you are using.

Key(s)	Function

Ctrl+Esc	Switches to the Task List.

Alt+Esc	Switches to the next application window or minimized icon, including full-screen programs.

Alt+TAB	Switches to the next application window, restoring applications that are running as icons.

Alt+PrtSc	Copies the entire screen to Clipboard.

Ctrl+F4	Closes the active window.

F1	Gets Help and displays the Help Index for the application. (See Help Keys)


Text Selection Keys

Key(s)	Function

SHIFT+LEFT or RIGHT ARROW	Selects text one character at a time to the left or right.

SHIFT+DOWN or UP	Selects one line of text up or down.

SHIFT+END	Selects text to the end of the line.

SHIFT+HOME	Selects text to the beginning of the line.

SHIFT+PAGE DOWN	Selects text down one window.

Or, cancels the selection if the next window is already selected.

SHIFT+PAGE UP	Selects text up one window.

Or, cancels the selection if the previous window is already selected.

CTRL+SHIFT+LEFT or RIGHT ARROW	Selects text to the next or previous word.

CTRL+SHIFT+UP or DOWN ARROW	Selects text to the beginning (UP ARROW) or end (DOWN ARROW) of the paragraph.

CTRL+SHIFT+END	Selects text to the end of the document.

CTRL+SHIFT+HOME	Selects text to the beginning of the document.


Window Keys

Key(s)	Function

ALT+SPACEBAR	Opens the Control menu for an application window.

ALT+Hyphen	Opens the Control menu for a document window.

Alt+F4	Closes a window.

Alt+Esc	Switches to the next application window or minimized icon, including full-screen programs.

Alt+TAB	Switches to the next application window, restoring applications that are running as icons.

Alt+ENTER	Switches a non-Windows application between running in a window and running full screen.

DIRECTION key	Moves a window when you have chosen Move from the Control menu.

Or, changes the size of a window when you have chosen Size from the Control menu.


Clipboard

This is a topic that describes the Windows term "clipboard". If you click the "clipboard" term within the Copying Text or Glossary topic, this Help topic will be displayed in a pop-up window.

This topic is also tagged with the keyword "clipboard," for use with the WinHelp Search option.


OEM

This is a term to describe the Original Equipment Manufacturers' character set.

It is identical to the 255 characters supported by DOS on an IBM PC (i.e. extended ASCII)

It includes besides the basic 128 characters (a to z, A to Z, various other characters such as #//&%$!"§()=) a number of international characters (öäüÖÄÜßÃÅÆÇÈ)

It differs from the character set used by Windows (ANSI) in two important ways:

1. it does not have exactly the same characters beyond the basic 128 ASCII characters.

2. it uses different codes to define these characters.

Therefore a translation from OEM to ANSI may not be able to translate some of the OEM characters (very few).


ANSI

This is a term to describe the American National Standard's Institute character set.

It is different from the 255 characters supported by DOS on an IBM PC (i.e. extended ASCII)

It also includes besides the basic 128 characters (a to z, A to Z, various other characters such as #//&%$!"§()=) a number of international characters (öäüÖÄÜßÃÅÆÇÈ)

It differs from the character set used by PC DOS in two important ways:

1. it does not have exactly the same characters beyond the basic 128 ASCII characters.

2. it uses different codes to define these characters.

Therefore a translation from OEM to ANSI may not be able to translate some of the OEM characters (very few), and the process may not be reversible.


Tab Delimited Text
Tab-delimited text

Tab-Delimited Text is an ASCII text file (plain text) with tabs to mark the fields in the file.

For the Program to work there must be at least one tab in each line of your text to mark of the

first line of the card, the index line.

Tab delimited text can be produced by most spreadsheets (Excell, Lotus 123) and by most

database programs.


Cardfile

Cardfiles are database files used by Windows to maintain small data bases of addresses.

The Cardfile program can be found in the Accessories Group of Windows.

There is no obvious way of transfering these handy databases to Word for Windows or Excell

This program transforms these files into tab-delimited Text Files