RELEASE NOTES FOR MICROSOFT SMALL BUSINESS PACK 
FOR MICROSOFT OFFICE 95

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This document contains information that supplements the
Small Business Pack online documentation. If you open this 
document in Notepad, most of the text will print with 
correct line breaks if you first set both the left and 
right margins to 0.75 inch or smaller.

CONTENTS

  1. Before Using the Business Database 
  2. Printing Larger Documents to PostScript Printers
  3. Viewing and Printing Tab Leaders
  4. Viewing Cell Notes in Workbooks
  5. Printing Charts
  6. Automatic Calculation
  7. Business Analyzer, Microsoft Mail, and Microsoft
     Word
  8. Running Under the NT Operating System
  9. Partitioned and Multiple Hard Drives

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1. BEFORE USING THE BUSINESS DATABASE
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EXITING YOUR DATABASE: Always exit the database by choosing 
the Exit button on the Business Database toolbar. If you 
choose Exit from the File menu or use the Control-menu 
box, the Business Database may not update your last 
transaction.

OPENING AND PRINTING FORMS IN YOUR DATABASE: Always open 
the Small Business Pack forms and reports from either the 
Small Business Pack toolbar or the Small Business Pack 
Help. Opening multiple forms from the Forms window 
in Access can deplete system resources, resulting in 
degraded performance or errors.

Before printing forms or reports, complete all fields on 
the form; otherwise, what you've printed may not 
match the state of the database.


2. PRINTING LARGER DOCUMENTS TO POSTSCRIPT PRINTERS
-------------------

The Small Business Pack Business Plan requires substantial 
PostScript printer memory (more than 1 MB) to print 
completely. If you try to print but your printer has too 
little memory, the print job may fail unpredictably--- 
usually with a PostScript error after a few pages print 
successfully. To avoid this failure, try printing a few 
pages at a time. 

The entire document will print correctly to a PCL-compatible 
printer. If a PCL printer is available, print to it. If you 
must print to a PostScript printer, try using a generic 
PostScript printer driver (e.g., PSCRIPT.DRV) provided with 
your Windows system.

You can verify the memory actually available in your printer 
at least two ways: 
--Choose the Device Options tab in the Properties dialog
  box for your printer
--Print a printer test page, which may include this 
  information. For instructions, refer to the manufacturer's 
  manual. 

3. VIEWING AND PRINTING TAB LEADERS
-------------------

If your document contains tab leaders, they may display 
and print in slightly different locations. If this happens 
with your document, you should switch to spaces for tab
leaders before printing. 

4. VIEWING CELL NOTES IN WORKBOOKS
-------------------

To view cell notes in Excel workbooks, choose Options on 
the Tools menu, and make sure you have chosen the Note 
Indicator on the View tab.

5. PRINTING CHARTS
-------------------

Some charts may display properly, yet print incorrectly. 
For example, a chart may print to two pages, instead of 
the expected one page. If this happens with your printer, 
you should adjust the scaling factor in Page Setup before 
printing. 

6. AUTOMATIC CALCULATION
-------------------

Some of the Small Business Pack Excel templates calculate 
totals automatically. To ensure this calculation is
performed correctly, choose Options from the Tools menu, 
and select Automatic on the Calculation tab.

7. BUSINESS ANALYZER, MICROSOFT MAIL, AND MICROSOFT WORD
-------------------

If you want to see the Narrative Report, you should first
close all mail messages that have been opened by Microsoft
Word, if any.  Then, press the Narrative Report button.

8. RUNNING UNDER THE NT OPERATING SYSTEM
-------------------

The contents of the Small Business Pack are fully
functional. You may use all templates and databases with
the Office applications, and learn about them and their
associated educational content with the Help system.
However, access to the product's features from the
Office shortcut bar will not be complete. Also, you will
not be able to run applications from within Help.

The following table locates the product's features.
To use a feature, use either the "Start a New Document"
or "Open a Document" Office feature, then find the
document you want in its location described below.
Note: if you installed Office to a directory other than
Msoffice, you will need to substitute the correct name.

Location                                   File Name
========                                   =========
Msoffice\Small Business Pack               Sbpdata.Mdb
Msoffice\Small Business Pack               Sbpforms.Mdb
Msoffice\Small Business Pack               Sbpsampl.Mdb
Msoffice\Templates\Letters & Faxes         Business Fax Cover.Dot
Msoffice\Templates\Letters & Faxes         Business Letterhead.Dot
Msoffice\Templates\Memos                   Business Memo.Dot
Msoffice\Templates\Other Documents         Account Statement.Dot
Msoffice\Templates\Other Documents         Business Plan Document.Doc
Msoffice\Templates\Other Documents         Business Plan Workbook.Xls
Msoffice\Templates\Other Documents         Estimate.Dot
Msoffice\Templates\Other Documents         Product Fact Sheet.Dot
Msoffice\Templates\Other Documents         Purchase Requisition.Dot
Msoffice\Templates\Other Documents         Sample Business Plan.Doc
Msoffice\Templates\Presentation Designs    Business Plan Presentation.Ppt
Msoffice\Templates\Presentation Designs    French Motif.Pot
Msoffice\Templates\Presentation Designs    Mini-Blinds.Pot
Msoffice\Templates\Presentation Designs    Red Dots With Teal And Black.Pot
Msoffice\Templates\Presentation Designs    Shout.Pot
Msoffice\Templates\Presentation Designs    Squares.Pot
Msoffice\Templates\Publications            Business Brochure.Dot
Msoffice\Templates\Publications            Business Newsletter.Dot
Msoffice\Templates\Publications            Business Press Release.Dot
Msoffice\Templates\Publications            Mailing Label Addresses.Doc
Msoffice\Templates\Publications            Mailing Label.Doc
Msoffice\Templates\Publications            Postcard Back.Doc
Msoffice\Templates\Publications            Postcard Front.Doc
Msoffice\Templates\Reports                 Business Report.Dot
Msoffice\Templates\Spreadsheet Solutions   5-Year Projection.Xlt
Msoffice\Templates\Spreadsheet Solutions   Accounts Payable.Xlt
Msoffice\Templates\Spreadsheet Solutions   Accounts Receivable.Xlt
Msoffice\Templates\Spreadsheet Solutions   Balance Sheet.Xlt
Msoffice\Templates\Spreadsheet Solutions   Business Analyzer.Xlt
Msoffice\Templates\Spreadsheet Solutions   Business Invoice.Xlt
Msoffice\Templates\Spreadsheet Solutions   Cash Flow Projection.Xlt
Msoffice\Templates\Spreadsheet Solutions   Direct Marketing Analysis.Xlt
Msoffice\Templates\Spreadsheet Solutions   Employee Timesheet.Xlt
Msoffice\Templates\Spreadsheet Solutions   Equipment Inventory.Xlt
Msoffice\Templates\Spreadsheet Solutions   Expense Budget.Xlt
Msoffice\Templates\Spreadsheet Solutions   Expense Report.Xlt
Msoffice\Templates\Spreadsheet Solutions   Financial Calculator.Xlt
Msoffice\Templates\Spreadsheet Solutions   Financial Comparison.Xlt
Msoffice\Templates\Spreadsheet Solutions   Income Statement.Xlt
Msoffice\Templates\Spreadsheet Solutions   Investment Record.Xlt
Msoffice\Templates\Spreadsheet Solutions   Leasing Wizard.Xlt
Msoffice\Templates\Spreadsheet Solutions   Pro Forma Income Statement.Xlt
Msoffice\Templates\Spreadsheet Solutions   Product Sales Goals.Xlt
Msoffice\Templates\Spreadsheet Solutions   Product Sales Projections.Xlt
Msoffice\Templates\Spreadsheet Solutions   Request For Quotation.Xlt
Msoffice\Templates\Spreadsheet Solutions   Services Estimate.Xlt
Msoffice\Templates\Spreadsheet Solutions   Statement Of Net Worth.Xlt
Msoffice\Templates\Spreadsheet Solutions   Statistics Calculator.Xlt

9. PARTITIONED AND MULTIPLE HARD DRIVES
-------------------

The Office Small Business Pack will not support partitioned 
drives or systems with multiple hard drives.  Here is a
summary of conditions and suggestions:

I. If you have installed Office 95 on Drive C: and Small 
   Business Pack on Drive D:

   When you attempt to launch any of the Word, Excel or 
   PowerPoint templates, you may receive an error, 
   "Cannot Find or Run the file or program 
   \mydocu~1\<folder name>\<filename>". The path is always 
   displayed in 8.3 file format.

      WORKAROUNDS
      ===========
 
      1) Access the templates through the following Small 
         Business Pack folder shortcuts on the Office Shortcut bar:

         Financial
         Management
         Marketing
         Operations
         Planning 
         Sales

      2) Launch one of the Access databases from the help file 
         in the following help path from the Small Business Pack 
         toolbar:

         a) Click on the Small Business Pack Help button on the 
            Small Business Pack toolbar
         b) Choose the Answer Wizard tab and type in "Job Listings" 
            without the quotes.
         c) Choose the "Search" button and then select "Job Listings" 
            from the help topics list.
         d) Choose the "To Open the Job Listings form now, click 
            <button>" in this help screen.
         e) Once the database launches and asks the user to Attach 
            a database, choose Close to close the database.
         f) Now the template links should work. For example, if 
            you choose the Small Business Pack Help button, Contents 
            tab, choose "Using the Documents", choose Financial,
            choose Accounts Payable, then choose the link button at 
            the bottom, the link should now work.

II. If you have installed both Office 95 and Small Business Pack on 
    Drive D:

    You will not immediately get the error, "Cannot Find or Run the 
    file or program \mydocu~1\<folder name>\<filename>" when 
    attempting to open the templates via the links in the help file.  
    However, you will eventually run into this error message and then 
    none of the help links to the Word, Excel or PowerPoint templates 
    will work. The Access links will work but you will need to 
    reinstall the Small Business Pack to get the links to work again for 
    the templates.

       WORKAROUNDS
       ===========
    
       1) Access the templates through the following Small 
          Business Pack folder shortcuts on the Office Shortcut bar:

             Financial
             Management
             Marketing
             Operations
             Planning 
             Sales

       2) Start the Small Business Pack setup and choose the 
          "Remove All" option to remove the Small Business Pack. 
          Then, restart setup and reinstall. However, this may not 
          permanently remove the problem and it may appear again later. 
          See Workaround (1) above.

III. If you have installed Office 95 on Drive D: and Small 
     Business Pack on Drive C:

     When you attempt to launch any of the Word, Excel or 
     PowerPoint templates from the help file or Answer Wizard, 
     you will get an error, "Cannot Find or Run the file or 
     program /mydocu~1/<folder name>/<filename>".  The path is 
     always displayed in 8.3 file format. For example, you may see 
     an error message like this:

     "Cannot find or run the file or program 
     /mydocu~1/financ~1/accoun~1.lnk"

     WORKAROUND
     ==========
        
     Start the Small Business Pack setup and choose the "Remove All" 
     option to remove the Small Business Pack. Then, restart setup 
     and reinstall. However, this may not permanently remove the problem 
     and it may appear again later. See Workaround II, (1) above.
