README.TXT

This file provides information on the following subjects:

SHARE.EXE
Setting a Gray Screen Background 
Printing Adjustments
Envelope Printing

SHARE.EXE 

Microsoft Profit requires that the DOS utility SHARE.EXE be running. 
During installation, Profit attempted to add a line to your AUTOEXEC.BAT file.
  
Depending on how your AUTOEXEC.BAT file is structured, it may or may not 
have been able to do so.

You need to have the following line invoked prior to starting Windows. The
easiest solution is to make sure that it is located in your AUTOEXEC.BAT
prior to the line where Windows is started.

	Share /f:4096 /l:40

You should not have any other SHARE statements before this line or they 
will take priority.

SETTING A GRAY SCREEN BACKGROUND

You can add a line in the MSPROFIT.INI file that will turn the
gray "pinstripes" in Profit to a light gray background.  This is
useful if you have a high resolution monitor that is prone to flickering.

Put the following line in the [msprofit] section of MSPROFIT.INI:

	GrayBackground=1

PRINTING ADJUSTMENTS

While Microsoft Profit was tested on many different printers, Profit may 
need to be adjusted slightly on your printer to align with preprinted Deluxe 
forms.

In the MSPROFIT.INI file (found in your WINDOWS subdirectory) are two lines:

	PrintOffsetX=0
	PrintOffsetY=0

These control the horizontal and vertical placement of printing on a form.
To use these offsets, first verify that your printer is printing an invoice 
correctly on a custom Deluxe form.  By increasing or decreasing the offsets 
by one, you move the printed region 1/32".

Examples:
PrintOffsetX=4 moves the printed region 4/32" right and PrintOffsetX=-4 
moves it 4/32" left.  PrintOffsetY=4 moves it 4/32" down, etc.

At this time, the offsets only adjust the placement of invoices, quotes, 
refunds, and checks.  Reports, billing stmts, labels and envelopes are 
produced by a nonadjustable report writer.

ENVELOPE PRINTING

Microsoft Profit detects the type of printer you have and determines
the proper page layout to print envelopes.  For some printers Profit may
be unable to obtain enough information to print the envelope correctly.
In those cases, it is possible to configure some portions of the envelope
layout manually by adding settings for your printer to the MSPROFIT.INI
file.  If your envelopes are printing correctly, you can skip this
section.

The following settings are available:

   Setting		Value/Description
   --------------------------------------------------------------------------
   Force Portrait	   1	Always print in portrait orientation.

   Force Landscape         2	Always print in landscape orientation.

   Align Left              4	Align to the left side of the paper tray.

   Align Right             8	Align to the right side of the paper tray.

   Use Envelope Feeder    16	An envelope feeder is installed and should
				be used.

   Reverse Landscape      32	Normally when a printer prints to paper in
				landscape orientation, the text is drawn
				down the page (as viewed when holding the
				paper in portrait landscape).  This setting
				indicates that the printer draws up the
				paper when printing landscape text.
				
To apply these settings to your printer, you need to know the name
of your printer driver.  This can be determined by viewing the
WIN.INI file using the SysEdit program supplied with Windows.  Run
SysEdit by selecting 'Run...' from the File menu in Program Manager.
Type SysEdit and press return and the System Edit program will be
opened with your AUTOEXEC.BAT, CONFIG.SYS, SYSTEM.INI and WIN.INI
files displayed, each in its own window.  Click on the WIN.INI
window to bring it to the top and find the 'device=<some printer>'
line in the [windows] section (where <some printer> is information
about the default printer).  For example if you have an Apple
LaserWriter II NTX you may see:

	device=Apple LaserWriter II NTX,pscript,LPT2:

The text between the commas in the 'device=' entry is your printer
driver name.  In the example above, 'pscript' is the printer driver.

To change the way Profit configures the page for envelopes, add an
entry to your MSPROFIT.INI file (found in your WINDOWS directory)
by editing it with Windows Notepad or another text editor.  In the
[MSPROFIT] section, add a line with your printer driver as its name
and its value being the settings you want changed.  For example, to
print envelopes on the Apple LaserWriter II NTX on the left side of
the page, add the following entry:

	[MSPROFIT]	<-- this line will already be present
	pscript=+4	<-- this is the new line

The '+' before the value tells Profit to remember its internal
settings for the printer, while leaving it out tells Profit to
completely replace the internal settings with those specified
in the .INI file.  It is generally best to add the '+'.

To print envelopes on the same printer on the left side of
the paper tray (4) and in portrait orientation (1), add the two
individual settings together:

	[MSPROFIT]
	pscript=+5



