Welcome to Quattro Pro version 3.0 ---------------------------------- This file contains important information. Please read it in its entirety. All information here supersedes information in the Quattro Pro manuals. Table of Contents ----------------- 1. Installation 2. How to contact Technical Support 3. Upgrading from Quattro Pro version 2.0 4. Bitstream fonts 5. Font generation post-installation 6. New default fonts 7. WYSIWYG mode 8. Running Quattro Pro from within Paradox 9. Problems using a mouse 10. Autosave Edits feature 11. New binding in the manuals 12. Running under Windows 13. Sound files 14. Slide transitions 15. Using expanded memory 16. The DOS Shell command 17. Default graph buttons in slide shows 18. Printing in version 3.0 19. Printing on a Novell network 20. Startup options 21. Writing to a database file 22. List of files 23. 1-2-3 version 2.2 files 1. Installation --------------- To install Quattro Pro on your hard disk: o Place Disk 1 in drive A. o Type A:INSTALL and press ENTER. o Follow the directions that display onscreen. If you have trouble reading the installation screens, use the optional command line parameter /B to run INSTALL in a black and white display mode: o Type A:INSTALL /B and press ENTER It may be necessary to use /B if you're using an LCD screen or a system that has a color graphics adapter with a monochrome or composite monitor. After you install Quattro Pro, to start the program: o Type Q and press ENTER. 2. How to contact Technical Support ----------------------------------- If you need help with Quattro Pro, please read this file and the manuals. If you still have a question and need assistance, help is available from the following sources: 1. Type GO BORAPP on the CompuServe bulletin board system for access to the BORLAND forums with their libraries of technical information and answers to common questions. 2. Check with your local software dealer or users' group. 3. Write to: BORLAND INTERNATIONAL, INC. QUATTRO PRO Technical Support 1800 Green Hills Road P.O. Box 660001 Scotts Valley, CA 95067-0001 Please include the serial number of your software, or we will be unable to process your letter. 4. If you have an urgent problem that cannot wait, you can call the BORLAND Technical Support Department at (408) 438-5300. Please have the following information ready before calling: o Product name and serial number on your original distribution disk. Please have your serial number ready, or we will be unable to process your call. o Computer brand and model, and the brands and model numbers of any additional hardware. o Operating system and version number (you can determine the version number by typing VER at the DOS prompt). o Contents of your AUTOEXEC.BAT file. o Contents of your CONFIG.SYS file. 5. For technical assistance outside the USA, check the product packaging for the name, address, and phone number of the distributor nearest you. 3. Upgrading from Quattro Pro version 2.0 ----------------------------------------- If you previously used BSINST to install additional Bitstream fonts, you must re-install them after installing Quattro Pro 3.0. If you previously installed BORLAND's ProShow PowerPack, you must re- install it after installing Quattro Pro 3.0. If you have any read-only files in the Quattro Pro directory, make them read-write before you run INSTALL. If INSTALL encounters any read-only files, installation stops immediately. If you have custom menu trees from earlier versions, save them to a different directory before you run INSTALL. Copy them back to the Quattro Pro directory afterwards, and run NEWMU to translate them to version 3.0 menu files. This retains all previous menu structures. To upgrade to Quattro Pro 3.0 from an earlier version of Quattro Pro, follow the instructions in Chapter 2 of "Getting Started." Upgrading network installations ------------------------------- When upgrading a network installation of Quattro Pro 2.0 to version 3.0, the menu and resource files stored in each users private directory must be updated. These include any .MU, .MP, or .RF files. Replace RSC.RF and 123.RF with the updated versions and create new .MP files using MPMAKE as described in the User's Guide. 4. Bitstream fonts ------------------ Quattro Pro uses Bitstream's Fontware Typefaces and enabling software, producing high-quality bitmap fonts. When you look closely at printed output from Quattro Pro, you may occasionally notice extra white space between characters. This is not a problem with your fonts. This extra white space is commonly reduced using a composition function called kerning. Quattro Pro 3.0 does not offer kerning. 5. Font generation post-installation ------------------------------------ The fonts that are generated during installation can optionally be created post-installation. To create the fonts, load Quattro Pro, retrieve the file INSTALL.WQ1 and follow the instructions. If a font has already been rendered, INSTALL.WQ1 knows not to generate it again. 6. New default fonts -------------------- The default fonts have changed in version 3.0. Font 1 through Font 4 are now Swiss, and Font 5 through Font 8 are now Dutch. All spreadsheets you created in version 2.0 retain their original fonts. Because of this late change, some screen figures in the "Getting Started" tutorial may look different than the display on your monitor. 7. WYSIWYG mode --------------- If during installation you choose WYSIWYG mode as your default display mode, INSTALL may immediately load Quattro Pro and build one screen font. There are certain limitations to the /Window commands in WYSIWYG mode. You can tile windows onscreen, but you can't stack them one on top of another. Because of this, you can't use the Move/Size command to overlap windows while in WYSIWYG mode. When using proportional fonts in WYSIWYG mode, the following commands may produce inappropriate results: /Style|Column Width; /Style|Block Size|Set Width, Reset Width, and Auto Width; /Tool|Reformat, and Parse. For best results, change to a text display mode before using theses commands. 8. Running Quattro Pro from within Paradox ------------------------------------------ When running Quattro Pro from within Paradox, you must have at least 2MB of memory, and you must run Paradox in protected mode. You can set this as a default using the Paradox Custom Configuration Program. If you are using Paradox on a stand-alone system (e.g. non-network server installation), you still need to follow some network configuration procedures: 1) Your Paradox private directory should not be the same as your Paradox network directory (the directory that contains your PARADOX.NET file). If the private directory must be changed, use the Paradox Custom Configuration Program to permanently set the location of your Paradox private directory. 2) Run the Paradox NUPDATE.EXE program. Configure the "Type of network" to "Other". Specify a path for the PARADOX.NET file in the prompt "Directory for network control file" and include the trailing backslash. On a stand-alone system, this file can be placed anywhere on your hard disk where both Paradox and Quattro Pro can find it. The exception is the Paradox private directory. 3) Run Quattro Pro and use the /Options|Other|Paradox Access menu to setup the configuration within Quattro Pro. Once again, choose "Other" for the network type, and specify the same path you used in NUPDATE.EXE for the PARADOX.NET file. Press Esc until you return to the /Options menu then choose Update to save this configuration to disk. In order for these settings to take effect, you must exit and re-start Quattro Pro. Only ANSWER.DB and other temporary .DB files can be retrieved from the private directory. If your private directory and working directory are the same, and you want to load a .DB file from the working directory, you must also do the following: 4) In Paradox, use the command Tools|More|Directory to make the working directory different from the private directory. After completing these steps, you should be able to retrieve Paradox .DB files while running Quattro Pro from within Paradox. If network type 6 (Other) doesn't work, switch to network type 1 and try again. 9. Problems using a mouse ------------------------- Display problems using Quattro Pro and Microsoft mouse driver version 7.04 disappear after CONFIG.SYS is changed to "device=mouse.sys /Y". 10. Autosave Edits feature -------------------------- Autosave Edits is a new toggle setting on the /Graph|Name menu. With this option set to Yes, all changes you make to any graph in the spreadsheet are automatically saved. With Autosave Edits set to Yes, placing the cell selector inside an inserted graph won't apply graph edits to that inserted graph. Autosave edits always applies graph edits to the currently selected graph, whose name appears beside the /Graph|Name|Display command. With Autosave edits set to Yes, if you want to use a graph as a template for another graph, choose /Graph|Name|Create and give the new graph a name BEFORE you start making the changes. This way, the original graph remains intact. 11. New binding in the manuals ------------------------------ The bindings for the Quattro Pro 3.0 manuals are designed to remain open and flat when used. To take advantage of this "lay-flat" binding, open the manual and gently press the pages down. 12. Running under Windows ------------------------- If you want to run Quattro Pro in a small window (instead of full- screen), either delete the file EGASPL.PCX, rename it, or move it to another directory. Then within Quattro Pro, set the display mode to one of the text modes. This way, Quattro Pro won't start up in graphics mode. 13. Sound files --------------- You may not be able to play sound files when running under Microsoft's Windows in 386/Enhanced mode, or while running under Quarterdeck's DESQView. When using the above configurations, save your spreadsheets before experimenting with sound files. See Chapter 13 of the User's Guide for instructions on using sound files. If you would like to order additional sound effects, see the coupon from RealSound that is included in your Quattro Pro package. 14. Slide transitions --------------------- Some video adapters don't support all slide transitions. If you find that one transition doesn't work with your video adapter, try another. 15. Using Expanded memory ------------------------- Quattro Pro 3.0 can only use up to 8MB of expanded memory. To test whether your EMS hardware and software are working correctly, run EMSTEST.COM from DOS and follow the instructions on the screen. If errors are detected, contact your local hardware dealer. 16. The DOS Shell command ------------------------- The DOS Shell command has been revised in version 3.0. Now, you can either execute a single command from within Quattro Pro, or use a full DOS Shell as in earlier versions. If you prefer the way earlier versions of Quattro Pro performed the DOS Shell command, go into the Menu Builder and assign the menu equivalent {/ Basics;OS} to the command so that it works the way it used to. Menu Builder instructions are documented in the @Functions and Macros manual. 17. Default graph buttons in slide shows ---------------------------------------- When viewing a graph or a slide show, if you're not choosing a graph button to branch to another graph, we recommend that you press SPACEBAR or ESC to advance to the next screen. In cases where the graph has a default graph button that branches to the same graph, pressing any other key may redisplay the same graph. 18. Printing in version 3.0 --------------------------- Here are the main changes from printing in version 2.0: o PostScript colors now match the colors onscreen. o Plotter colors now match the colors onscreen. o Font 1 now controls both vertical and horizontal spacing. o The vertical height of a row is calculated as follows: * A manual row-height setting overrules the default row height. * If the height of the row has not been manually set, the height is determined by either the largest font in that row or the height of Font 1, whichever is largest. o If the selector is within an inserted graph block, /Print|Graph Print|Go will always print the inserted graph. To print a different graph, position the selector outside the inserted graph and use /Print|Name to select a different graph to print. 19. Printing on a Novell network -------------------------------- If your documents don't print correctly over a Novell network, ask your network administrator to go into the PRINTCON program and set the following options: Option Setting ---------------------------------------------- File Contents Byte Stream Auto Endcap No Enable Timeout Yes Timeout Count (any number from 50 to 120) 20. Startup Options ------------------- Network administrators can use the SET QARGS command to pass various startup parameters automatically whenever the user starts Quattro Pro. The syntax is: SET QARGS=x where x can be one or more command-line options. For example, the following command tells Quattro Pro to load the file FY92BUDG.WQ1 and use the default configuration file BUDG.RF each time the user starts the program: SET QARGS=FY92BUDG.WQ1 /DBUDG.RF You can place this command in the user's AUTOEXEC.BAT file; just include the full DOS path to the Quattro Pro directory. For example, the following line could be placed in the user's AUTOEXEC file: SET QARGS=C:\QPRO\FY92BUDG.WQ1 /DC:\QPRO\BUDG.RF See Chapter 7 of the User's Guide for an explanation of the available command-line (startup) options. 21. Writing to database files ----------------------------- When saving (or extracting) to a database file, Quattro Pro 3.0 checks the first row of the block to ensure that the field names are unique. If they're not, Quattro Pro inserts a new first row, using the corresponding column letters as field names. For example, if you're extracting the block E1..J45 and the field names in row 1 are not unique, Quattro Pro inserts a new first row containing the field names E, F, G, H, I and J. 22. List of files ----------------- During installation, Quattro Pro creates a file called FILELIST.DOC, which lists all Quattro Pro files and their purpose. You can read this file by typing o README FILELIST.DOC from the DOS prompt. 23. 1-2-3 version 2.2 files --------------------------- When you load a 1-2-3 release 2.2 file into Quattro Pro and choose the option Use 2.2 syntax, block names in 2.2 links are translated into absolute cell addresses. This can cause a problem if you copy or move a named block; the block address in the link does not automatically adjust to the new location. To avoid this problem, after you load the file into Quattro Pro, edit the block names in the links so they're no longer absolute. A similar problem exists when saving a Quattro Pro file to a 1-2-3 file format; absolute cell references in links translate to relative cell addresses in the .WK1 file.