Jonathan, When will the BrailleNote have a spreadsheet added? I use the word processor and the planner, but I would love to see a spreadsheet program included. Tiffany Manosh ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 7:56 PM Subject: [Braillenote] KeySoft 5.1 Preliminary Info
> Hi all. We're at the point now where I am able to reveal some more > information about the next version of KeySoft, which we hope to release in > the first quarter of this year. KeySoft 5.1 will be a free upgrade for all > version 5 customers. If you have a software maintenance agreement, it will > not decrement your SMA count. > > Late last year, I asked participants on our BrailleNote discussion list > what they would like to see in KeyPlan, our Planner application. Version > 5.1 of KeySoft is largely devoted to implementing most of our customers' > vision of the ideal planner application, with a completely rewritten > planner package. > > KeyPlan in KeySoft 5.1 will use database technology. The first benefit of > this is that the boundaries between years no longer exist. If you wish to > reschedule an appointment from 2003 to a date in 2004, this is easily > done. > > When you make appointments, you can now specify an end time, as well as a > start time, for appointments. This allows you to block time in your > Planner, and you will be advised if you attempt to make an appointment > that conflicts with an existing one. You can choose to accept the conflict > or reschedule one of the appointments. The end time can be on a date that > is different from the start date, allowing you to schedule appointments > that span more than the one day. > > KeyPlan in KeySoft 5.1 will allow you to specify the location of an > appointment, to mark time as free, busy, tentatively scheduled, or out of > the office. Some minor changes, such as the Next Appointment feature > advising you how many appointments you have remaining today, make the > Planner even more useful. > > And most significantly, KeyPlan will support a wide range of recurring > appointments. You can schedule your appointment according to dates, or > patterns of days, weeks, months or years - for example an event may be on > the 25th of every month, or on the third Thursday of every month, or every > 25th of March, or every day at 9am, etc. There is a pattern of recurrence > to cover just about every type of recurring event you could think of. > > A new version of KeySync, version 1.1, will mean that you can synchronise > appointments with Microsoft Outlook. > > We're also adding the much requested word count feature to KeyWord, and > making a number of minor fixes which we will detail when we make the > release. > > KeySoft 5.1 gives you one of the most powerful planners on the market > today, yet in the familiar friendly KeySoft style where you don't have to > grapple with graphical interfaces to get the job done. We'll look forward > to telling you more as the Development work is completed and the release > gets closer. > Jonathan Mosen > BrailleNote Product Marketing Manager > Pulse Data International Ltd > > DDI: +64-3-373-6192 > Fax: +64-3-384 4933 > Mobile: +64-21 466 736 > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Internet: www.pulsedata.com > ___ > To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit > http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote
