Hello Anthony, Of course you need to Un-Zip this Excel file. Once it is Un-Zipped, you can Open it in Excel. To do this, you should move it to where ever you store all of your Office Documents. Start up Excel and open the Chess Clock file into Excel.
WARNING: I have a suspicion this Chess Clock was made in a much older version of Excel, perhaps from as far back as Office 97, or 2000, or 2003. If you happen to have a newer edition from 2007 or newer, the instructions to change the Security of the file may not be accomplished in the same way as in earlier versions of Excel. Perhaps someone else on the list may know how to lower the Security in newer editions of Excel? Perhaps this is where you are having problems? Instructions to use the Excel clock for timing games in the French Skype tournament Here is a tutorial about how to use the Excel chess clock . of course, you have to have Microsoft Excel running on your Computer to be able to run this file. After you open the file to start timing a game, You need to go to Security options to modify it, as Excel automatically prevents this Macro from working as it suspects it to be a Virus or any harmful file. And since it is not, here is how you allow running this Macro: 1.. open the attached file entitled"ChessClock.xls", and press "ok" for the message that will appear. 2.. within the Excel WorkSheet, press Alt+T to go to "tools" menu, then press the litter O to open the "options" multi dialogue box. 3.. keep pressing control + tab until you reach the security tab, or I think that pressing control +shift +tab once will put you on it. 4.. press Alt+S to activate the "macro security" dialogue box. 5.. press alt+l to activate the "low" radio button, and then move with the tab key to press "ok". 6.. in this stage, and if you are a JAWS user, JAWS usually hangs up in this dialogue, so you will need to rout the jaws cursor to the PC cursor, and press the page down to reach the end of the page, then move with the left arrow to the "ok" button, and press the left click on it to activate it, and you are done. 7.. finally, close the file, and open it again, the security dialogue should not appear, and the file should be running ok now. After you finish timing your game, it is better to "save as" the file to a new one, just to keep the master file without modifications for your next games. Pressing the f12 key should open the "save as" dialogue, give it a new name, preferably the two players names, and save it. timing the game: when you open the file, The active cell will be 1001 A 1. To start the game, press control + Shift + w. White's clock will begin counting down in column c. 2. Type in white's move in the A column then press tab. Black's clock will begin counting down in column d. 3. After typing in black's move in cell 1001 B, press enter and make the active cell 1002 A for white's second move. The black's clock should stop automatically and the white's will run. 4. type the white's second move in 1002A and press tab to stop the white's clock, activate the black's clock, and to type his move. And so on, To pause the clocks, press control + shift +q. To restart white's clock use control + shift + w again. To restart black's clock press control + shift + e. White's time will be displayed in column c. Black's time will be displayed in column d. If one of the players runs out of time, then the symbol ### appears in the time Colum and the game is over. When the game is over, pause the clocks. To copy all the moves, press control+shift+home when you are in the cell containing the last move of the game. Then, once you paste the moves into a new email or word document, the move numbers need to be placed in front of each line. Back to the Excel document, and as i mentioned before, you can save the game as a new file to keep the original file unmodified. A message window will say that both clocks have been stopped, simply press ok to dismiss it, and proceed with your normal saving steps. These instructions came with the Chess Clock file, and were available once the file you have is Un-Zipped. -- Dave <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/archive%40mail-archive.com. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com
