planEASe® Desktop Manual System Operation

TitlePages


planEASe/TitlePages is a Multiple Document Interface (MDI) WSIWYG word processor incorporated into planEASe to enable you to process and print documents that use the same Page Setup as your planEASe Reports and Graphs. Thus you may produce planEASe documents, reports and graphs bearing consecutive page numbers with the same appearance so that the entire presentation package appears to have been produced by the same software (as indeed it has). This section of the documentation was prepared in TitlePages , put on the Windows Clipboard, and pasted into this WordPerfect document. The original document is available for your review and experimentation by opening capable.txp in TitlePages . Remember when you do, it was formatted with margins of.75 all around. Other margins will cause the document to appear different.

Formatting TitlePages is capable of bold, italic, and underlined text. These effects are implemented by pressing the B, I, and U buttons in the toolbar, or pressing Control-B, Control-T or Control-U while typing. Additionally, right-clicking (whether text is selected or not) brings up a pop-up menu allowing you to cut / copy /paste text and choose from bold, italic, and underline effects. If a section of text is highlighted (selected) when you do this, the selected effect is applied to the text. You may use superscripts or subscripts by selecting the text, pulling down Format/Font, and selecting the appropriate treatment and font size. You may also select different fonts either by selecting text and choosing the font from the font list in the toolbar, or by choosing the font without selecting text, which uses the selected font for all following text (until you choose another font). You may also select text color by selecting the text and pulling down Format/Text Color. Choosing View/Control Characters makes Paragraph markers, spaces, and Page Breaks visible. Re-choosing it eliminates them.

An unique aspect of this word processor is that, as long as you are viewing a TitlePages or *.txp file, Page Setup (margins, fonts, back colors, and font colors) is controlled by your Page Setup settings in planEASe....that is, your printed page appearance for these files is the same as all other planEASe reports and graphs you print with this Page Setup. If you have chosen to number your pages and /or use the other page footer options, your printed pages will use your settings (and page numbers) when you print. While the page presentation on screen recognizes the Page Setup margins, etc., it is not feasible to show the top title box, text surround box, and footer information on screen, although they are, of course, added to the printed page as long as you are printing a TitlePages or *.txp file.

Communicating TitlePages can open and save files in four formats: ! TitlePages proprietary *.txp ! Rich Text Format most word processors *.rtf ! Microsoft Word *.doc ! Text Editors such as NotePad *.txt The default is the planEASe *.txp format which has the advantage of retaining the Title and Subtitle text for the Title Box at the planEASe page top, but *.rtf files can be read (and written) by other word processors such as Microsoft Word and WordPerfect. Text and RTF files can be inserted into a TitlePages or *.txp file by using the Insert/Text File... menu option. Text files (*.txt) will not retain your formatting (bold / italic / underline, etc) information, but, in general, the other filetypes will. You may, of course, import and export to and from other word processors and editors by using the Windows Clipboard. You may cut / copy selected text to the Windows Clipboard by using Edit/Cut (Ctrl-X) or Edit/Copy (Ctrl-C). Pasting anything on the Windows Clipboard into TitlePages is simply Edit/Paste (Ctrl-V). An extensive Undo and Redo capability is available at Edit/Undo and Edit/Redo, allowing you to Undo and Redo virtually all formatting. The Undo and Redo menu options are constantly re-titled to show you what is to be undone or redone.

Spelling / Thesaurus Doubleclicking on any word pops up a menu with either suggested replacements from the built-in Dictionary (if the word is misspelled) or suggested synonyms from the built-in Thesaurus (if the word is properly spelled). Choosing the SpellCheck option on the popup menu checks the spelling for the entire text in the textbox. During the SpellCheck, you can Add new words to your personal Custom Dictionary, Select a replacement word from the suggested list, Change All occurrences of a word, or Ignore All occurrences of a word. This same Spelling / Thesaurus capability is available throughout planEASe in the multi-line text boxes.

Paragraph Effects

The Format / Paragraph... menu option allows you to choose several effects for a paragraph, such as the frame surrounding this and indenting the paragraph (either left or right). 1 inch left and right was chosen here.

MDI Interface Due to its MDI capability, TitlePages can open more than one document at a time. The open documents are listed in the Window menu, which is where you may arrange and/or switch between the open documents. To close a single document, access File/Close or click the button at the top right of the document window. When TitlePages is opened (by requesting Reports/TitlePages at the Assumption Edit Screen), the first document (the TitlePages for the current Assumption Set) is automatically opened for your editing. You may then, if you wish, open additional documents by pulling down File/Open. When you are finished with a document you should pull down File/Close. Pulling down File/Exit or pressing the Exit button located at the screen bottom right or pressing the ESCape key when in any document will close all documents (including the current TitlePages ) and return to the Assumption Edit Screen, just like all other “spoke” functions in planEASe.

Graphics / Images You may insert graphics in TitlePages from a file in either of two ways. The button here has been inserted at the cursor by pulling down Insert / Image / At Caret Position and specifying the filename. When a graphic has been placed At Caret Position, it is treated as a character in the text stream, and cannot be sized. TitlePages reads TIFF (*.tif), Bitmap (*.bmp), Graphics Image Format (*.gif), Portable Network Graphic (*.png) and Windows Metafile (*.wmf) graphics.

The second way to insert a graphic from a file is Insert / Image / As Fixed Object. Graphics inserted this way first appear at the top left of the paragraph currently containing the cursor and you may drag them to the desired location by clicking on the graphic (handles appear around the graphic, showing that it has been selected), and dragging it with the mouse, as has been done here to place the graph at the top right of the paragraph. Once selected, the graphic may be sized by dragging one or more of the handles.

Another way to insert a graphic is to first insert a Frame using the Insert/Frame menu option. The Frame appears at the top left of the paragraph currently containing the cursor and you may drag it to the desired location by clicking on the Frame (handles appear around the Frame, showing that it has been selected), and dragging it with the mouse, as has been done here to place the Frame at the paragraph top right. Once selected, the Frame may be sized by dragging one or more of the handles. After this, choose the Format/Frame menu option, select the Frame and Color Tab, and choose a 3 point Frame Line width to obtain the frame shown here. Since the graph we are going to insert in the frame has a white background, we selected a Background Color of white at the same time. Finally, place the cursor inside the Frame, and choose Insert/Image/As Fixed Object to place the image in the Frame. Graphics also may be pasted into your document or a Frame from the Clipboard by pulling down Edit/Paste or pressing Control-V to place it into your document as described here.

Tables You can insert tables into your documents using the Table / Insert / Table menu option which displays a dialog allowing you to set the initial number of column and rows (additional rows and columns may be added and deleted later using the same Table menu option. Once the table is inserted, you may size the columns by placing the cursor over one of the column dividing lines and dragging the line to the new desired width. Rows size automatically as you add text to the table cells. You may also insert a table formatted in another word processor by putting the formatted table on the Windows Clipboard, and pasting it into your TitlePages document using Edit/Paste. The table below has been pasted in this fashion from a WordPerfect document. The Table / Properties... menu option allows you to set various properties such as the gray header and white body backcolors here.

Tenant Lease Terms 1xx RE/MAX $125,000 Base Rent for the next 3 years, increased by the CPI each January. RE/MAX pays their share of the Real Estate Taxes (25% of the current $40,000), with a Tax Stop of $10,000. At the end of the 3 years there is a renewal clause for $150,000 Base Rent, subject again to the CPI, which we assume will be exercised; and we have allowed for $20,000 of TI’s at the renewal. 200 New Tenant Now vacant, we project renting this suite with a long term standard COL lease at $12,600 by July. We have allowed $7,000 for TI’s and $4,000 for the Leasing Commission. 201 Investments $7,583 annual rent with a COL increase each January at the Inflation Rate. 202 Dr. Hale $15,678 annual rent with a COL increase each March at the Inflation Rate. 300-3 Attorneys $48,480 annual rent with a COL increase each January at the Inflation Rate. 304-5 Cable TV $34,272 annual rent with a COL increase each January at the Inflation Rate. 306 Contractor $15,633 annual rent with a COL increase each January at the Inflation Rate. 307 Consultants $15,366 annual rent with a COL increase each January at the Inflation Rate. 4xx Insurance 100,000 annual rent with a COL increase every second January at the Inflation Rate. Tenant pays their share of the Real Estate Taxes (25% of the current $40,000), with a Tax Stop of $10,000.