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IN THIS ISSUE
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- TimeWise 6 for Windows announced
- TimeWise for Macintosh Year 2000 edition patch now available
- TimeWise International manuals now on Web site
- Pricing Improvement for additional employees
- You Asked Us: What to do with lots of invoice files
- TimeWise Tip: Labels the way you want them
- Share your TimeWise tip and win free telephone support
- Latest free patches to TimeWise available
 

TIMEWISE 6 FOR WINDOWS ANNOUNCED
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TimeWise 6 for Windows has now been announced, to be released by May 30, 1998.

TimeWise 6 will include:
- fully Year 2000 compliant interface
- customer-defined date, time, and currency formats
- complete international support
- up to 99 alteration rounds, each with description, start date and due dates
- enhanced status reports
- redesigned job ticket format
- user-definable job tickets fields and design
- user-definable term for Units
- watermarks on invoice and purchase orders, so you can add your logo
- expanded telephone fields in client and vendor profiles
- universal client and vendor export format
- job materials disposal report and warning memo system
- various enhancements to reports
- various other tweaks and improvements
- full real-time cross-platform compatibility with TimeWise for Macintosh

Users will be able to upgrade to TimeWise 6 with no loss of data through a simple installation program.

TimeWise users will be able to upgrade to TimeWise 6 for Windows for US$195 a license. Those who purchased TimeWise after January 1, 1998 can request the upgrade via email at no charge.

TimeWise Light users can upgrade to TimeWise Light 6 for Windows for $29. Those who purchased TimeWise Light after January 1, 1998 can request the upgrade via email at no charge.

TimeWise for DOS users can migrate to TimeWise 6 for Windows for $395 a license.

To order your upgrade, email upgrades @timewise.net or call 1-800-665-1809. As a bonus for ordering now, if you are currently limited to 10 employees in TimeWise, we'll increase it to 20 employees when you upgrade.
 

TIMEWISE FOR MACINTOSH YEAR 2000 PATCH
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An important TimeWise for Macintosh patch is now available free on our Web site. It includes a fully Year 2000 compliant interface and is completely compatible with your existing information.

This patch also includes a greatly improved region profile for all Australian users, as well as fixing a major printing problem many users were experiencing with invoices and purchase orders.

We recommend that all TimeWise for Macintosh users install this patch. It is available at http://www.davidberman.com/timewise/patch.htm#mac
 

TIMEWISE INTERNATIONAL MANUALS NOW ON OUR WEB SITE
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As promised, all of the TimeWise manuals and online help have now been internationalized.
You can download the latest copies of any or all the TimeWise manuals, in Acrobat or WordPerfect format, from http:/www.timewise.net/manual.htm .
 

PRICING IMPROVEMENT FOR ADDITIONAL EMPLOYEES
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TimeWise single-user editions, which previously shipped with up to 10 employees for US$795 with additional employees available at $79 each, will now ship with 20 employees with additional employees available at $69 each.

Existing TimeWise for Windows single-user licensees will gain the benefit of this price reduction when they upgrade to TimeWise 6 for Windows with their base employee limit being automatically increased from 10 to 20 employees.
 

YOU ASKED US:
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Question:
Sarah Andrews of Victoria, British Columbia asks:
Is there a way to split up my .inv files (the files that contain copies of invoices created in TimeWise) by year? Is it possible to have TimeWise look to other directories for the invoices?  I have about 5000+ invoice files now resting in one directory.

Answer:
TimeWise only looks in the Invoice folder for the .inv files. However, it will not cause any problem for TimeWise if you move or delete old invoice files: they just won't be there for TimeWise to access should you try to use the View command to look at one. You can use a compression program, such as using PKZIP (included with TimeWise for Windows), WinZip or Stuffit to store invoices and proposals (all files that end with .inv or .est) that are not likely to be viewed again in one large file. Should you ever need to see one, you can simply uncompress the one you need: the files are named by their job/invoice number. For instance, for job 2000, you would need uncompress file 00002000.inv only. We like to move all invoices from a specific year into a single .zip or
.sit file (e.g. 1995inv.zip). Since the invoices are simply plain text files you can even use a search program (such as the shareware program called Searcher or PKZFIND) that can search inside compressed files if you ever need to search all invoices for a specific piece of information.
 

TECHNICAL TIP: LABELS THE WAY YOU WANT THEM
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Did you know that, with a little bit of technical knowledge, you can change the format of the labels that TimeWise generates? For instance, one customer recently wanted to put new labels on all her client file folders
and asked us if the Clients: Mailing Labels command could generate appropriate labels.
 We made a backup of the files that contain the existing client label format for laser printers (clientl.lbx and clientl.lbt) and then opened up the file in TimeTool™ using the MODIFY LABEL CLIENTL command. It was then easy to modify the label format to display the Client ID in very large letters, the client name in fairly large letters, and remove all the address information.  The client then temporarily replaced the current clientl.lbx and clientl.lbt files with the new ones, and printed all the labels she needed.  Using this approach, there is no limit to how many label formats (or
envelope formats) you can generate. By the way, if you'd like to use the file folder label format we created, you can get a copy from our FTP site at ftp://ftp.timewise.net/pub/labelfil.zip
 

SHARE YOUR TIMEWISE TIP AND WIN FREE SUPPORT
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Do you have a tip to share with other TimeWise users? Send it in...if published, we'll give you three months of free personal telephone support. Or let us know how you think we can improve TimeWise and how you have integrated our system into your organization.
 

LATEST FREE PATCHES TO TIMEWISE AVAILABLE
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You can get free updates to the latest maintenance release of TimeWise from our Web site. Installing patches will not harm your existing TimeWise information in any way. However, depending on your situation, it may or may
not be worth the bother: a summary of the latest tweaks appears on our patch page http://www.davidberman.com/timewise/patch.htm ) so you can decide whether to patch your TimeWise.

Our support staff recommends that ALL TimeWise for Macintosh users install the release 5M1 patch.

Don't forget that you can register for automatic e-mail notification of new patches by clicking a button on the patch page (http://www.davidberman.com/timewise/patch.htm ).
 

HOW TO GET PERSONAL ATTENTION FROM US
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You can send mail to "It's About TimeWise" at editor @timewise.net .

To get more information or to download shareware, free 30-day trials, patches for registered users, or to inquire about redistributing TimeWise shareware or trial editions, visit the TimeWise Web site at http://www.timewise.net or email info@timewise.net .

or write us at:
 David Berman Developments Inc.
 340 Selby Avenue
 Ontario Canada  K2A 3X6
Or fax: +1 613-482-4777
Or phone: Toll-free sales line 1-800-665-1809 (North America)
 (613) 748-1453 (country code 01 if outside North America)
Or e-mail: info@timewise.net

UK office: phone 07050 034860 (from outside UK, dial 001 44 121 554 4298.),
fax 0121 523 9564, or e-mail uksales @timewise.net .
 

ABOUT "It's About TimeWise"
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"It's About TimeWise" is a free bulletin to help TimeWise users and potential users keep planning success into every job. Copyright 1998 David Berman Developments Inc. This information may be freely distributed, in its complete and original form only. TimeWise and its logos are trademarks of David Berman Developments Inc. All other trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.

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