The 9 to 5 office

The 9 to 5 office



Author: Rick Baggott

Date: September, 1993

Keywords: nine five PIM personal information manager software
application review time business schedule scheduler program

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The Nine to Five Office (NTF Office) is a personal information managing
program by Nine to Five Software, Inc. The NTF Office package includes
a 48 page manual and two 800K disks. The program segments are contained
within self-extracting, compacted files. Help is also available from
within the program.
NTF Office helps you manage your time, contacts, projects and schedules
for both your business and personal affairs. It includes an Address
Directory, To-Do List, Contacts Manager, Scheduler,  US Area Code Maps
, Zip Code Maps, and a library of 365 quotes for those inspired
moments. You may add your own quotations or those favorites of yours
from other famous people.
You can print dozens of ready-to-use reports, proposals, quick letters,
envelopes, labels, faxes and shirt-pocket directories. There are over
50 ready-made reports and NTF Office can print FiloFax, Dayrunner, and
most other personal organizers.
Navigating from feature to feature within NTF Office is simplified by
using the Office Palette. It looks very similar to the palette used in
the First Class Client software. There's even a button that will
automatically dial a phone number from any stack. You may use your
modem to dial, or just hold a touch tone phone mouth piece up to the
speaker on your Mac.
If you have an address directory already constructed in another
program, you most likely will be able to import it into NTF Office
using the Importer stack. I have a data base of addresses and phone
numbers I created in MS Works. I saved it as an ASCII text file and
used NTF Office's Importer stack to bring the data into a stack within
NTF Office. It was easy to understand the prompts, and there was plenty
of on-line help. There was a pause for about eight minutes while the
conversion and creation of stack cards took place. The conversion went
well and the results were perfect.
There are powerful search and find functions built into NTF Office that
allow you to look for a name, whole word, string, or specified
characters. Searching and sorting your information is a great deal
different from simple finds. NTF Office allows you to produce lists of
found items. Unlike Find, Search will find all cards that comply with
your request and automatically build a navigation list. Search can be
narrowed to a single field to check the comparisons you want.
NTF Office contains a powerful viewing capability called, MasterView.
If you're in the Map stack and click on California, MasterView
automatically takes you to the Addresses stack and pops a view of all
cards where any address's state is California.
NTF Office contains an easy to use word processing module that
automatically brings up select documents and allows you to make
changes, save and print them. You have full control over fonts, styles,
sizes, justification, line spacing, tabs, in/out dents, etc.
NTF Office requires, at a minimum, system 6.0.5.  It runs under System
7 as well. With System 6, a minimum of 2 megs of RAM is required.  With
System 7, 4 megs of RAM are needed. A hard drive is necessary since the
program takes up about 2.5 megs when decompressed. NTF Office also
requires Hypercard 2.1, as much of the program consists of stacks.
Hypercard 2.1 is included on the disks if you don't have this version.
I installed the complete program  on my Mac SE's hard drive without any
problems in just a few minutes.  After installation you're taken to the
Preferences menu auto-matically, where you personalize the program.
From the Finder or Multi-finder, clicking on one of nine different
stacks gets you into NTF Office as fast as it takes to load Hypercard.
While using NTF Office on my Mac SE under Multifinder and with numerous
INITS and CDEVs active, I had no compatibility problems or hang-ups.
The retail price of NTF Office is $99.95. Mail order prices are around
$19.00. (MacConnection will give it to you free if you purchase Nine to
Five Software's  program Reports v2.5.)
     

Nine to Five Office is available from:
Nine to Five Software, Inc.
3360 Mitchell Lane, Suite 105 Boulder, CO  80308-9920.  

Technical support: (303) 443-9713.
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