WELCOME TO ON TRACK!

First, of all if you are using this file under Notepad and Word Wrap (under the Edit menu) is not turned on -- turn it on now!

Welcome to ON TRACK, a complete financial management tool using Excel 5.0. ON TRACK is a complete application for managing your checkbooks, budgets and equities and gives you a complete financial picture at the click of a button. It is completely menu, button and dialog box driven, so you do not really need to know Excel to use it. Excel is always available for customizing if you wish and this is one of the real strengths of ON TRACK.

IS THERE A COST FOR ON TRACK?

ON TRACK is a shareware program and if you use it the fee is $14.95. We are continually upgrading the package and the fee is only charged once -- all future upgrades are free except for handling and/or shipping costs if applicable. 

The demonstration version here will run for about 3 weeks which will allow you to evaluate it. After that time, it will start to scramble information. If you like the program and pay the shareware fee, I will send you the code to deactivate the scrambling mechanism.

I AM INTERESTED, WHAT DO I DO NOW?

Unzip the file titled "ontrack.zip" -- this will yield two directories titled "manuals" and "startup." Before doing anything else, read one of the manuals (the manual is given both as an Excel file and a MS Word file) to see how the program works. Pay particular attention to the section of the manual called "Start Up" -- this section will tell what screens you will encounter the first time you start the application.

I HAVE READ THE FIRST PART OF THE MANUAL AND WANT TO GET GOING --WHAT'S NEXT?

In the directory, called "startup" are 12 Excel files which comprise the ON TRACK application. All you need to do to start ON TRACK is to double click on the file called "ot_start.xls" and everything will load automatically (every time you use ON TRACK, just double click on "ot_start.xls" to get things going.

All of the files in ON TRACK are linked -- use this proceedure to start the application each time and always quit by selecting "Quit" from the File menu (from withing the application).

IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE I NEED TO KNOW?

Not really.

Send your shareware fee to me at:

David Allan
3019 Lafayette
Houston, TX 77005

For questions contact me at CIS 74437,2663. I hope you enjoy the application and find it useful.





Houston, TX
Feb. 26, 1995
