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Sign-It! Table of Contents

I.   Sign-It! OLE 2.0 File Requirements
II.  Installing Sign-It!
III. Getting Started


I. Sign-It! OLE 2.0 File Requirements

To reduce the size of the installation files, this shareware version of Sign-It! does not include the Microsoft OLE 2.0 system files. If you are running Windows 3.1, 3.11, or Windows For Workgroups 3.11 and you do not have the OLE 2.0 system files installed on your PC (Sign-It! setup will tell you, or look for OLE2.dll in your Windows\System directory) you must install the files before running Sign-It!. If you are running Windows 95, you do not need to install any OLE 2.0 files as they are built into the operating system.

OLE 2.0 system files are included with any application that supports OLE 2.0. Microsoft applications such as Word 6.0, Excel 5.0, PowerPoint 4.0 or MS Office 4.x or later automatically installs the OLE 2.0 files as part of the application(s). If you have not installed any other OLE 2.0 application you may obtain the necessary files by downloading them from our the internet. The OLE 2.0 files are available through anonomyous ftp to our internet site: 

	ftp://users.aol.com/apropossw/instole.zip 

The downloaded file must be unzipped with PKZip (2.04g) and then run Setup.exe to install the OLE 2.0 files.


II. Installing Sign-It! For Windows

1. Create or use a temporary directory and unzip the compressed files from the shareware archive into that directory.

2. Make sure you are running either Windows 3.1, Windows for Workgroups 3.11 or Windows 95 and from the Program Manager’s File menu, choose the Run command and run the SETUP.EXE program in the directory you decompressed the files into in step one.

For example, if you decompressed the archive into C:\TEMP, then you would enter C:\TEMP\SETUP in the command line edit box.


III. Getting Started

The following recipe should get you quickly going with Sign-It!
1. Install Sign-It! from the installation floppy or directory.  This creates a Sign-It! program group with the Sign-It! application icon inside.

2. In the Sign-It! Program Group, double click on the Sign-It! icon to run Sign-It!.  This makes Sign-It! available to Windows OLE (Object, Linking and Embedding) enabled documents.  Nearly all Windows applications support OLE.

3. Pull down the Sign-It! menu and choose the Default Setup command to bring up the Default Setup dialog box. The wrench icon in the toolbar also brings up the Default Setup dialog box.
 
4. In the dialog box, choose Use Signature Font.  You should see John Hancock’s signature in the signature preview box.  At this time, you may also want to change the Title Block by editing the text in the 3 Title Block boxes.  Delete all text from a box to remove the line.  These lines appear under your signature and can be used to include a printed version of your name as well as title and company.

5. When you are satisfied with the default options, click the OK button to save the settings.

6. Now close Sign-It! by selecting Exit from the File menu.

7. Now let’s test out Sign-It! by starting Microsoft Write from the Accessories group. (We are using Write since it is always available but you may want to use your favorite word processor instead.)

8. Once Write is running and visible, pull down the Edit menu and select the Insert Object command to bring up the standard Windows Insert Object dialog box. Choose the Apropos’ Sign-It! object and click OK. At this time the Sign-It! application will appear on the screen with a signature window visible. The Default Setup signature will be displayed. If you wish to accept this signature exit Sign-It! choosing the Exit & Return to ... command from the File menu.  This will close Sign-It! and embed the signature into your document exactly where you want it.
Note: The shareware version will periodically replace the signature with a solid color box with a reminder to register the product.  Simply continue past this reminder and the correct signature will be inserted into the document.

9. If you want to change anything about the signature, just double click on it and the Sign-It! application will automatically pop up.  Then use the Edit Signature command under the Sign-It! menu to change any current attributes for this signature. Editing a Signature describes more about modifying the signature

10. If you plan on using Sign-It! with a word processing package such as Microsoft Word, or WordPerfect For Windows, macros are included with the registered version to further simplify signing documents in your favorite word processor.  The macro installation process is very quick and makes using Sign-It! even easier. For example, if you are using Microsoft Word 6.0 a special Sign-It! command is added to the Insert menu as well as an easily accessible toolbar button which makes signing a document as simple as the push of a button.

11. If you register Sign-It!, we will turn your signature into a TrueType font just like our sample one and return it to you. With a TrueType signature font your signature will never look jagged, or slow to print or fax due to large bitmap images. However, you can use Sign-It! today by generating a bitmap version of your signature either using a bitmap editor such as Paintbrush or a scanner.  Sign-It! accepts Windows Device Independent Bitmap files such as the .DIB or .BMP files created by Paintbrush.  Refer to the SignIt.hlp file for more detailed information on using a bitmap image of your signature with Sign-It!.

Thank you for using Sign-It!

Apropos Software
4455 Torrance Blvd. Suite 337
Torrance, CA 90503
phone (310) 543-1354
fax (310) 379-4234
email: AproposSW@aol.com