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TCP celebrates a decade of Canadian computing news

M i crosoft Network launched in Canada

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Home-based ISDN service: Are the rates ready for prime time? I have a couple of fairly active Internet-using kids at home — as in 100 to 200 hours a month logged on. I also work from home on Fridays and I usually log on to our office email server via the Internet, effectively hanging onto my connection for a full eightor 10-hour day, one day a w eek — say 40 h o u r s a month. In addition, I often log on i n t h e m o r n i ng before work to try and clear some of the email off before I go into the office. ISDN4PHome I recently received a flyer in the mail from my phone company touting the benefits of i ntegrated services digital network (ISDN) service. Because we have three lines for modem-related activities at h ome, I thought "Great! Here is an opportunity to speed up everyone's access and save some money on separate telephone lines." All those who don't want faster Internet access, raise your hands... I thought so, not many of you out there. ISDN service from the telephone company is a digital line that the company claims will allow you to transfer data at about five times the speed of a standard modem. In practice, it rarely reaches these speeds, but it is still a r eal improvement over regular modems. The telephone company's basic package of 100 hours sells for $55 a month, versus $30 a month for a basic telephone line. If I was able to replace my three lines with one digital line, I could actually save money on telephone bills. Unfortunately, the charges don't stop there. The first problem is that as a family, we use more than 100 hours of Internet access a month. Though the combined efforts of the Internet users at my house sharing a line would no doubt often overlap, I still think we might end up using more than the 100 hours a month, and be charged $1 an hour for the extra time. If we really did go to 200 hours, then our charges would be $155 a monthmore than we currently pay for plain old telephone service (POTs) lines.

Internet service provider charges Further, you can't just use an ISDN line in isolation. You need an Internet service provider (ISP) at the other end to connect your calls into the Internet. There are two ways to connect to the Internet with ISDN. One is through a continuous connection. These start at about $400 a month and would be appropriate if we were planning to host our own Web server at our house. We aren't planning on this, so we looked at the second way — ISDN dial-up. However, we had trouble finding a service provider that offers it. In our home town, out of dozens of ISPs, we were only referred to two that could actually provide this service. The ISDN dial-up would cost $50 a month for 100 hours, and $1.75 for each hour over that amount. Hardware costs A final issue is one of cost to put all our users onto the single ISDN line from home. First, we needed an Ethernet connection, then we needed a router. This is a little black box that allows anyone on the network to connect to the Internet, via the ISDN line. These are not

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Saving Grace One thing to note about ISDN is that the connection is almost instantaneous. There is no back and forth modem negotiation, that high pitched whirring that you associate with modems and fax machines. The connection is almost immediate. What this means is that you can set your connection up to log off after five minutes of no activity. When you return to your browser and start it up again, it almost instantaneously is back online. I believe many of the hours consumed in our house have to do with not wanting to wait the 30 or 40 seconds it takes to logon via modem. Instead the modem and connection is left idling, burning up connection time. Waving at Rogers I also looked into the Roger's Wave, which uses a cable modem to get much faster connection speeds. With the service, users get Internet accessup to 10 times the speed of a modem, up to five email addresses, SMB of Web space, and the ability to leave the service on 24 hours a day. Currently its offering costs $55 a month, if you sign up for a year, but it only works with single systems. That is, you cannot put a local area network onto the Internet through the Wave. You would require a separate cable modem connection for each computer on your network. It also costs $150-$200 to Coutinued oa page 8

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install it in your home. Finally, it is still not available in many areas of Canada, though Rogers says it is getting there, and the company can put you on a waiting list and call you back when your area comes online. One other alternative for high speed Internet access from the phone company is ADSI., which promises users Internet access speeds of up to 7 hfbps. On the hopes that the instant connectivety of ISDV will actually save us online time, we are going to give this dial-up ISDh' connection a try and then report back to you after a few months of service to let you know how the reality of monthly charges are turning out. In the meantime, as more people feel the need for speed, we are likely to see more competition in the ISP area for these services. Happy anniversary On the cover, it says this is our 10th anniversary edition. We have come a long way since my wife and I put together a 16-page issue using a MacPlus, and had trouble figuring out what the printers meant by a color separation. When the first issue came back from the printers, I loaded up our aging Ford LTD station wagon and hit the road, trying to find locations to take the paper. The paper has grown vastly in that time. Our first print run was 30,000 copies, which were distributed in and around Vancouver. Currently, our circulation is 357,000 copies, read by close to one million people each month all across Canada. Our company, Canada Computer I'aper Inc., has grown as well, producing, in addition to th e f ive regional editions of Th e Coinputer Paper, Toronto Coinputes!, (quebec >Vficro!, Comparer Player!, Ottawa Compules!, three online editions, and our latest addition, a magazine for computer resellers called Canadian Computer iVholesaler.From a staff of two, we have grown to employing approximately 75 full-tiine and numerous part-time production and distribution people as well as freelance writers. We thank you, our readers and our advertisers for this growth. Our publication is free. Our major source of revenue is from advertising. Readers pick up the magazine, see the advertising and respond to it. This makes the advertisers happy, and they keep buying advertising. We keep publishing. We look forward to the next 10 years of bringing buyers and sellers together, as well as offering new opportunities through new publications. Thanks for reading and letting advertisers know you saw their ad in The Computer Paper.

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190 series portables are considered by many to be badly flawed. Macs with a 601 or 603 processor or a 680x0 CPU are not on my recommeiuled list either. (603e isokay.) Note that some niodels, siich as Apple's riew 6400, don't support 24-bit color on their (internal) video. I don't think that is too good. Thereare also soine models such as the 5200 that lack a 64-bit bus, and others (hat lack a Level 2 cache. These are all stanglard iteins on today's PCs, and yoiir Mac should have them too.

S M-W: Can PowerPCs run PC software? GB: Ves,with var)ing degrees of success (fair-topour). I wouldn't recominend this. Buy a 52500 Mac angl a51500 PC if you need both. S M-W: On a budget of $4000, which of the Macintosh systems would be considered a smart purchasex GB: I'd biiy a PowerBase(52000 — 53000) and upgrade the slow internal IDE drive for a fast SCSI drive, and fill the DIMM slots with akoiit 48MB of RAM, and then invest in great software

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Wlnnlpegger wants more SUN I' ve been an avid reader of TCP for several years but have yet to see any regular discussion regarding, in my opinion, the best hardware and OS yet developed by human minds. I hope that future issues of TCP will devote more pages to SUN PC's, for example, comparing with other RISC PC's. I persona! Iy own a Pentium, solely because of games for our family and because of the common software available out there. "Bubble gum" wrapped software aside,

the is eh. MacZone, MacMall and MacConnection are all inajor ve»dors, although >nai4rrder service is a bit of an oxymoron.

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Leaving the bank vault open In the January issue of TCP you have an excellent wrap up of the current financial software, There is a concern that I believe you may wish to cover in a future issue. With the amount of information in the data files of the financial packages, anyone that gets a hold of this file has enough information, especially once electronic transfers start, to do a lot of damage. 1his could be a t h ief who steal your machine, (computers are usually one of the first things stolen), a thief who liberates your laptop, and lastly a rogue Java app that obtains your data file and up loads it without even your knowledge. While Quicken allows password protection of the data file, this is a very false sense of security. It provides only application level securitv and the data is not encrypted in anyway. Not sure about the other packages, perhaps this could be part of the investigation you do. This would seem to leave the security up to the user. If you the user are concerned, then it's up to you to manually encrypt and decrypt the data files. The problem — most users don't know to even think about this. Anyway, thanks for the paper, I enjoy it. John Galea, via CompuServe

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The software will include the ability play is aimed at the engineering workstation and to add text and special effects, but it will not high-end I'C markets. export presentations to professional video editing The 14.2-inch notebook TFT display has decks — a key difference between Lumierc and I,024x768 resolution, and a brightness of 130 nits rival Adobe Systems Inc.'s I'remierc product, (candelas per square meter). Mitsubishi claims Smirle admitted. that conventional displays operate under 100 The software needs a system with at least a 90 nits. megahertz (MHz) Pentium processor and 16 MB 'I'he 15.1-inch TFT display has 1,280x1,024 of memory. Corel recommends a 120MHz micropixel resolution, and 200 nits of luminance. processor, 32 MB of memory, and a video capture Bigger and brighter means better? Not necescard, Depending on configuration, the software sarily, says Chuck McLaughlin, president of occupies from 72 to 114 MB of hard disk space, McLaughlin Consulting Group. McLaughlin Smirle said. pointed out to Newsbytes that in the large display notebook or portable market, the most important Contact: Carel, Web site: http:I/www.corel.corn numbers are cost and wattage. McLaughlin says that large displays cost more Open Text unveils Intranet suite • TORONTO because thc mother glass (the glass manufacturers (NB) — Open Text Corp. has announced its cut the displays from) is designed for 12-inch Livelink Intranet Suite 7 tool suite that includes monitors. New plants are designed for 4-up 12World Wide Web server software licensed from inch monitors. Netscape Communications along with several When larger panels, like 14- or 15-inch ones, pieces of software desgned for work-flow automaare cut out, only two panels per mother glass are tion, collaboration, document management, and possible. This means manufacturing large panels searching on intranets. is significantly more expensive. O pen Text's Livelink Intranet Suite 7 i s Mitsubishi is producing only sample panels designed to work with Netscape's Navigator Web now: the 14.2-inch samples are priced at $2,500 browser, the only software needed on client comare $5,000 each. each, and the 15.1-inch samples puters to use all of Livelink's facilities, said David Mitsubishi was not able to provide production Weinberger, vice-president of strategic marketing prices at this time. at Open Text. McLaughhn said wattage might be more The software can also work with Microsoft important. He points out that 10-inch panels typCorp.'s Internet Explorer browser, Weinberger ically draw one watt, and 12-inch paneis between said. But because F~plorer does not currently supone and two watts. Mitsubishi told Newsbytes port file uploading, users cannot take advantage that the 14.2-inch panel will draw seven watts at of Livelink features requiring this capability. 130 nits (4 watts at 70 ruts), and the 15.1-inch "From our point of v iew, that's a big lack," Contact: answers.corn. panel will draw 18 watts. Mclaughlin said that at Weinberger told Newsbytes. these levels battery usage will be cut down draWeb site: http:llwww.answers.corn matically. Mitsubishi admitted that thc 15.1-inch panel would not be practical for a battery-operatSun, partners introduce 100-Percent Java • (NB) — Sun ed svstem. Initiative NEW Y O RK Microsystems, with partners Apple Computer, Contact: Mitsubishi, Tel: 905-475-7728. IBM, Oracle and Netscape, unveded the 100Percent Pure Java Initiative at a press conference during Internet World in mid-December. The program, supported by more than 100 other companies, is aimed at assuring interoperThe s u it e i n c l udes L i v elink P r o ject ability between multivendor products. JavaSoft president, Collalxtration, which is enhanced in this release Alan Ba atz, sad the ssdth bulletrn boards where project workers can n ew ini tiative w i l l post notes to the whole project team, one-click use approaches ranging from a comprehensive creation of project pages, and the ability to notify test suite to a Java logo, to make certain all impleusers by email when something significant mentations of the Java Virtual Machine are comchanges in a proiect. Digital ordered to pay for keyboard-related patible at the application layer. I.ivclink I.ibrary is the document manageOther elements of the Java plan include Injury • BROOKLYN, N.Y. (NB) — ln a case that ment component, and in Suite 7 audit trails have industry education, assistance to developers, could lead to a flurry of claims against computer been enhanced and compound documents can technical marketing updates, hotlines, and Web and keyboard manufacturers, a United States now be managed. Livelink Search allows searchsite exposure through a new "100-percent Pure District Court has ordered Digital Equipment ing of documents on three levefs: Livelink docuCorp. to pay VS$5.3 million to a 50-yearold Java Hall of Fame network." ments, network documents, and the Web. Also at the press event, officials from Sun' s woman who lost movement in her hands, and Livelink Workflow, which Open Text claims can model almost any business process, has some partner organization endorsed the concept. Apple smaller amounts to two other v omen suffering from carpal tunnel syndrome. enhancements to its status screens in this release. now offers 30 Java products and will provide a Carpal tunnel syndrome, a form of repetitiveThe package also comes with Netscape's FastTrack Java-enabled edition of OpenDoc next month, says Apple's Andy Lauta. "Apple wholeheartedly strain injury, has been linked to extensive and/or server software. embraces 100-Percent Pure ]as~," he asserted. improper use of computer keyboards. Symptoms Livelink Suite 7 is now available for Sun To eliminate the fat-client syndrome, Oracle include numbness, tingling, and pain in the finMicrosystems Inc.'s Solaris operating system, is using Java across its entire product line from gers. The court held that Digital Equipment Hewlett-Packard Co.'s HP/UX, and Windows NT. the database server to application servers and should have wamcd its customers of the hazard. Prices start at US$62,500. tools, said Oracle's Beatriz Enfanta. The new 100ln a brief statement, Digital Equipment said it Percent Pure Java Initiative "guarantees uniform disagreed with the verdicts and plans to appeal. Contact: Open Text, delivery of write-once, deploy everywhere Jason," The company claimed the verdicts are inconsisWeb site: http: //www.apentext.corn/livehnk according to Enfanta. tent with r elevant scientific knowledge, and more need to robotize your search criteria, the new system will take everyday speech and grammar with no need for connectors or keyword phrases. But it's not free. The site (see contacts) recently debuted on the World Wide Web with this new neural search product. All a user has to do is ask a question, and they will get an answer backed with citations, references, and links to additional information. If thc neural engine doesn't understand, it can even ask specific questions back to further limit the search. Slightly slower than less complicated search technology, the new service is specific, easy to use, and as is the case mth all breakthrough technology, more expensive. lt's slower and more expensive because answcrs.corn is powered by human beings. The questions are asked over the internet, but a person finds the answers. Answers.corn is limited to the availability of people to field the questions. When asked by Newsbytes how many people were available to handle the questions, we were told that are 40 researchers, about half of them full-time. "By combining published information, proprietary databases, and electronic data with the personal knowledge of qualified rndividuals, answers.corn delivers specific information rather than 10,000 hits generated by automated search engines," says Clemente Izzi, chief executive officer of answers.corn. The s>te charges amounts based on three levels of questions. 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gramming languages such as C/C++, says Mark Jarvis, vice-president of server marketing for Oracle. During a product demo, Jarvis showed the journalists and analysts how Apollo can be used in conjunction with cartridges from Taxware and Verifone to market goods to consumers over the Web, calculate tax, and obtain credit card authorization. Jarvis says that, beyond working with an X.S09 security server cartridge — also from a third-party vendor — Apollo provides security on several other levels, including SSL and a choice of data encryption standard (DES) or RSA (whose name is derived from RSA Data Security, which created the type of encryption found in Netscape) encryption.

prior to its release. But, she notes, the wide distribution made possible by the Web is giving rise to new, generally lower, software prices. Also during the press conference, David Spenhoff, director of product marketing for JavaSoft at Sun, said that JavaSoft has worked closely with Oracle on the development of Oracle's 20 Java-based products. Oracle also added its support for Java with the announcement of J/SQL, or embedded SQL for Java, thin-client JDBC, and Java-enabled database servers. C)

During a panel discussion at the close of the event, Beatriz Infante, senior vice-president of Internet and media products, said that Oracle expects Apollo to receive 60 to 70 percent of its use from smaller merchants running single-processor Intel systems. Infante predicts that as their online b usiness grows, many c u stomers wi l l migrate to larger store sites with assistance from systems integrators. Some of the customers beta testing Apollo include Fidelity Investments, EDS, B u r l ington C o ats, hfotorola in t h e U n ited Kingdom, and Telefonica in Spain. Infante says a company policy prevents her from giving a specific price for Apollo

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l.ast year we favorably reviewed this product as a Windows program. A number of things have occurred ai this innovative company and now GriffTax is a Macintosh-only product that you download from the Internet. www. fcp. ca

@A c ~ GriffTax Web page and enter your data. You don't enter a name for security reasons, without a name the data is simply numbers belonging to an anonymous file. Once you have paid for the program, via a credit card and the transaction abilities of the new versions of Netscape or Internet Explorer, you then download a file

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SprtntTax From: AKMicrosystems Suggested retail price: to be announced A KMicrosystems ha s t a ke n o v e r th e Windows version o f G r i f fTax and is revamping it as SprintTax. The software sent to The Coinputer Paper for review was accompanied by a note explaining that this was an alpha version of the product. In fact, as far as we can tell, this is last year' s GriftTax for Windows intact. This poses a difficulty because the Windows product was well reviewed last year and, should the revised product remain true to the original, it is likely that t his will be a successful offering. However, if the program is altered more than cosmetically the final version may be anything what-so-ever. There is a long road between alpha code and gold code! This will certainly be a make or break year for the product and we look forward to reviewing the real McCoy next year. Contact: AKMicrosystems, 98-245 W. Beaver Creek Rd., Richmond Hiii. ON, L48 1L1. Tel: 905-771-1155.

TAX made EASY (DOS only) From: La Motte Enterprises Inc. Price: $39.95 "For those who don't like rodents!" was the note scribbled on the package containing this software. The last in a dying breed, T AX made FASY clings to life with t h e tenacity of those aging lovers of the command-line interface. The product hasn' t changed, neither has the review: If minimalism were a criteria for tax software TAX

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couldn't get it to work. The company sent two programs with different passwords but neither would let us enter any data. As well, the text and information boxes didn't l ine up. There was an option to play a peculiar little MIDI file in the background but we are not sure if this is meant to please or distract. All we can guess is that this is pre-release product that is still a work in progress. The company even borrowed our title from last year' s tax review (Many Happy Returns!) for their disk cover.

to supply one to us in time for this review. The Macintosh product works as well as these types of programs do, which is to say they work but are neither pretty nor smart. The price is about right for a repeat user but seems high for a first time user. If you already spend lots of time in your

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Price: $15 Tax Cruncher Software is an innovative company that uses your existing spreadsheet program to do tax calculations. It works like this — you download a small 100KB compressed file for your particular operating system and your individual spreadsheet program. Using PKUnzip you expand it to a standard spreadsheet file. You start your spreadsheet program and load the file. You enter your social insurance number and then call the company's toll-free number. You arrange for payment and they give you an access number. You sit down at your machine, enter the number and fill in the tax form boxes. 1Vhen you' re done you print a copy and mail it to Revenue Canada. There is no paper manual and the interface takes a little getting used to since the forms lie one beside the next. This is really just one large spreadsheet so don't expect it to look like the real tax forms. Tax Cruncher is available in the following formats: Lotus 1-2-3 (DOS and Windows), Quattro Pro (DOS and KVindows), Microsoft Fxcel (Macintosh and I Vindows), Claris Works (Macintosh and Windows), Microsoft Works (Windows). The concept is good and although the process of using a spreadsheet takes some getting use to, overall it works. The company is considering adding an interview-style component, but how this would be achieved is unclear. The only recommendation we would give them is to lower the price.

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Christmas, and the production version for filing will be available for free downloading in mid-February, 1997. Cooltax highlights include: an online animated tutorial showing the user how to prepare asimpletax return for an individual or a whole family; the Tax Expert feature — a wizard to guide users to the correct tax form

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By doing some simple arithmetic, we majority of advertisements you' ll see for game, but this one's designed to run under computers will have, at the very least, a 120 can see that the numbers translate into an Windows 95. Now our hypothetical Pac Man increase of 11.8 percent. MHz processor, with 133 MHz being the has a set of lasers, ion canons, and shrink (The iCOMP 2.0 rating is a system used most coinmon. For those who are still by Intel to compare the relative performance rays that all look great using the new 3D equipped with 386 and 486 machines, these of its various processors. It is intended to give graphical interface. They sound even better systems will undoubtedly look very attracwith digital stereo and surround sound non-technical users a way of determining tive. where you actually determine the ghost's However, for those few who are fortunate what they can expect from various processor location by sound alone. speeds, and to help them decide which one is enough to have been spoiled by a lab full of All of a sudden, you' ve added a tremenbetter suited to their needs. For further 200 MHz Pentium Pros, it can be very disdous amount of complexity to the game, and onvergence — thecoming together of details on the iCOMP 2.0 system, take a look comforting to settle for anything less. Even with the added complexity comes the need separate media — is the driving force at http: //www.inteh corn/procs/perf/icomp/icomp with these 200 MHz Pentium systems, we for more RAM. Playing the game on the same of personal computing. The highpaper/ch2jcomp.htm) found ourselves thinking back wishfully to machine equipped with 8 MB wiII most likeend machines we review this month not the good ol' days of August. During a particly be dreadful, making it anything but enjoyonly boast exceptionally fast processors, The makings of a high-end system ularly warm month, the temperature in our able.Now go ahead and throw inthe 32 MB. they also give the processor a lot to think Test Lab was further increased when these Ask just about anyone, and they' ll teil you Notice how your hard drive light isn't conabout. that a true high-performance system will Pentium Pro beasts were powered on and let stantly flashing anymore? That's because the These high-end systems combine video, have a 200 MHz Pentium or Pentium Pro loose to take on our infamous BAPCobenchaudio and — increasingly — sophisticated teleprocessor. While the processor speed is cer- program is now residing in RAM, rather than mark suite. With our daydreaming sessions being swapped to and from your much slowphony capability all under one roof. The tainly a key ingredient in any computer, over, we slowly began our j computer is, now more than ever, a dynamic ourney back i n to there are several factors to consider before er hard drive. reality, where we were eager to find out how And speaking of hard drives, this is one communications centre. It isn't just for playbuying any computer — especially when their younger abiings would fare this month. piece of hardware that is seldom given the ing games and performing spreadsheet calcuyou' re going to spend a lot of your hardSo, the questions readers are dying to creditit deserves. Yes, it's a form of storage, lations anymore. It i s m erging multiple eamed money. have answered are Do I buy a P-200 or will and yes it's available in very large sizes these media to create interactive presentations to One sure-Are way to improve the overall a 166 MHz version do the job? Or how about days. But just what roie does a hard drive be narrow-cast across the globe. a 133 MHz? My friend has one, and he says performance of a computer is to add more The demands placed on personalcomRAM. Die-hard coinputer geeks will always play in determining overall system perforall his software runs without problems." As mance? One far greater than most people puters today not only require processing tell you that you can never have too much with many things we desire in life, the would think. power, but a host of various hardware comRAM. And although there may be some truth answer to this question is as simple as "do I The hard drive is essentially a bridge ponents, ail of which must be seamlessly to that statement, there is also a common really need one? between your central processing unit (CPU) integrated to achieve acceptable perforOf course there are those with propellers misbelief that getting 128 MB of RAM will and yourdata. Whenever the CPU needs to mance. Offering nifty tools means very little on their heads (who happen to be drooling at make your old P-75 perform on par with a P- access data that Is not already stored in memif they bog down the system. 166. This of course, is wishful thinking. Yes, the mere mention of 200 MHz) who wiH ory it looks for it on your hard drive A good During the course of t h i s m o n th's adding a ton of RAM to your computer will immediately throw caution to the wind and example is loading a large program, a time review, we' ve seen a slew of new hardware certainly help speed things up, but only up consuming process. The time it takes to load m aking i t s way int o t h e P C s e ctor. buy a 200 MHz system just because it's the to the point where you "hit the waV." fastest clock speed currently available to your programs into RAM will depend greatly Everything from l arger hard drives, to Depending on the tasks you' re performhome users. Sure, the numbers sound attracon how quickly your hard drive is capable of faster video cards designed for 3D acceleraing, and the operating system under which tive, and yes, they are indeed fast, but as we supplying the CPU with the information it tion, to 12x CD-ROMs are now everyday you are performing them, an increase in requests. items which we can o btain t o f u r ther will come to see, there is far more to a highRAM will only get you so far, For example, performance computer than its processor A high-quality IDE hard drive will have enhance our computer's performance. 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card, ask yourself what resolutions you' ll most likely be using. If you' re content with old-fashioned VGA at 640x480 resolution, 1 MB of video RAM is plenty. per minute (RPM). Note that the access time Here's a simple formula to use when calof 10 ms refers to the average access time, and culating video resolutions and color depths: the transfer rate refers to the "host-to-host" multiply the horizontal pixels by the vertical rate, which can be obtained by using one of pixels by the desired color depth. Use 1 to repmany hard drive benchmarking programs resent 8-bit depth (ZS6 colors), 2 will repre(see our Feb.'96 'fest Lab). sent 16-bit (65,536 colors), and 3 for 24-bit Many times, the manufacturer of a hard (16.7 million colors). For example, let's say drive will print data transfer rates such as you wanted to ru n y ou r applications at "16.6 MB/s in I'IO mode 4" or other such 1,024x768 using 6S,536 colors. We can easily large numbers. These are known as "buffer-tofind out how much RAM that resolution will hast" transfer rates, and should not be conneed bv doing the math:1024x768x2 =1.57 fused with the sequential transfer rates, which MB. are measurable using software. Video cards come in three popular flaSeveral vendors this month have sent us vors — configured with I, 2 or 4 MB on board. systems equipped with new 2.5 GV B and 3.1 In this case, we would have to go with 2 MB GB hard drives from Quantum and Western of RAM to achieve our desired resolution If Digital. 1hese dnves offer fast spin rates, low your needs should exceed that of most users, access times, and very high transfer rates. As it is possible to find video cards configured can be seen from our results, the systems with 8 MB and even 16 MB of RAht. equipped with these fast drives did very well Note that unlike the RAM inside your in comparison to other older models. One computer, video RAM is solely responsible for system vendor even went so far as to throw in putting your i mages on the screen at the an Ultra Wide SCSI controller with a 4.3 GB given color depths and resolutions. If you Ultra Wide SCSI hard drive from Seagate. The plan on using your computer mostly in results were just as we had expected. While 640x480 resolution at 256 colors, you will it's true that a hard drive is a storage device only needI MB of video RAM. Buying a 4 MB more than anything else, it is also undoubtcard will not speed things up. edly a key component in the building blocks You can improve video speed, however, by of what separates a good systein from a great choosing the best type of video RAM. The system. most popular types on the market today are And last, but certainly not least, no highDRAM, EDO DRAM, SDRAM, SGRAM, VRAM performance computer would be complete and WRAM. The cheapest,and oldest type without a h i g h-performance video card. among those mentioned is DRAM. It's been When considering a video card, there are a around since the stone age, and was the most number of choices to be made. How much widely used in video cards until recently, memory should the card have? What type of when the newer/faster types have caught on. memory? Will you need the card mainly for EDO DRAM is the same stuff that's found in 2D tasks, or will you also require 3D accelerayour computer, but slightly faster than its pretion? What refresh rates should the card supdecessor, DRAM. port? SDRAM and SGRAM (synchronous With a bit of careful planning and some dynamic RAM and synchronous graphics homework, you can find a video card that will RAM) both improve on DRAM and EDO in best suit your graphical needs. First of all, to determine how much RAM you' ll need on the Continued on page 63 Continued from page $8

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TCP labs first look: IVIMX comes up smokin' ne of the machines sent in for our December '96 roundup managed to both surprise and delight us at the same time. While booting up a machine from Comtex Micro Systems based in Richmond, B.C., we noticed that the BIOS status box stated that the processor was of type PSSC, rather than the usual P54 variety. To make absolutely sure that there were no mistakes, we promptly opened upthemachine and took a peek under the hood. Upon removal of the processor, we were satisfied that, indeed, we were handling the very latest Intel technology. The P55 designation is that of Intel's upcoming MMX architecture, which is designed to i mprove on the current Pentium line by increasing performance in multimedia-type applications. But to full take advantage of MMX, you' ll need to use programs that are designed to take advantage of the new technology. Intel plans to ship MMX versions of its Pentium line in early 1997. Software titles designed for MMX technology are sche'duled to appear later this year, with wide acceptance expected throughout the duration of next year. The Comtex rnachine containing the new

166 MHz MMX processor was equipped with 32 MB of EDO RAM, 512KBof pipelined cache, a Matrox Mystique video card with 2 MB on board and a W estern Digital 2.1 GBhard drive. Also included for the $2,799 suggested retail price are a 33.6Kbps faxmodem, a 12x CDROM drive and SoundBlaster AWE 32 sound card. How did it perlorm? To our surprise, the machine managed toscore 160 on our BAPCo benchmarks. This is quite a feat, considering that none of the applications in the suite are designed to take advantage of MMX. Our otherwise fastest P-166 machine in the December survey came from Dell, scoring 145 overall. With the MMX processor inside, the Corntex system outperformed the fastest P-166 we' ve ever seen by a margin of 10.3 percent. And compared with this month's crop of non-MMX, P200.based machines, the Comtex is no slouch either. The BAPCo score of 160 puts the Comtex 166 MHz MMX unit smack in the middle, at seventh place, in a field of 16 non-MMX P200s. The Comtex MMX machines went on sale in earlyjanuary, and a company spokesman said 200 MHz versions of the MMX chip should

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Digicom faxmodem and the Microsoft Plus pack for Windows 95. The package sells for $5,799 with a five-year labor and three-year parts warranty. The Panasonic PD/CD drive is an additional $599. A truly exceptional system, definitely Editors' Choice material.

RAM. Whether your graphic requirements are simple or that of a real gaming nut, the ATI 3D Rage chipset with 2 MB on board will go a long way to satisfying your needs. Storage is provided using IBM's own 3.2 GB FIDE drive, which has proven to be very fast in our tests. Usmg IBM's Mwave, you get a 28.8Kbps faxmodem and 16-bit sound capabilities all on one card. As was mentioned before, the media console houses an 8x CD-ROM drive. The package wouldn't be completewithout a slew of software that you' ve coine to expect from IIIM. Among the many titles are Microsoft Encarta '96, Lotus SmartSuite 96, Quicken SE, MechWarrior 2 designed for the .3D Rage chipset, VR Soccer, 1'ripMaker 1996 SE, and others aimed at younger children that fall into the "edutainment" category. To give you the best possible chance of defeating those enemy Mechs, IBM includes a very attractive, high-quality joystick with buttons galore, and a cordless mouse, The price of this model with a 15-inch monitor is $4,999 or $5,499 if you want a 17-inch version. 'I he system includes a three-year warranty.

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Triton2 VX 256k PBC/DIMlvf....$110 " I.uck>'Star VX256 PBC DIMM..'S I 30 GrA586VX 512k PBC/DIMM.....S175 CiA586HX 512k PBC.................$195 Asus VX 256k PBC/DIMM.......$190 Asus T2 HX 256k PBC .............$200 Asus T2 ATX 256k PBC............S210Tyan S1470/dimm. 256k...........5230 Tyan Tomcat 111/ Dual PS/512.....$340 Intel Marl T2 ATX 256k.............$170 Intel Tucson T2 ATX s16.256k..$250 Intel Venus 440FX P6 ..............$330 Dual P6 Supro Vatoma .............$550 Dual P6 Tyan tVatoma...............$615 CPU fan 486/PS/P6...........,...$7/8/16 256k'512k PBC......................$20,'38 FD 1.44 . $30

1.2G/1.7G/2.16..................$250/275i310 W'D1.28'1.6/2.1Ci...............S275/295/310 WD .SCi/3.16..........................$380/400 Quantum 1.2/1.7/2.1........,.$255/290/315 Quantum 2.5/3.1G.....................$340/400 Scagate 1.2!1.7/2.1.............$258/290/320 Scagate 2.5G....................................S350 Quantum 2.1 scsi/W/UIV...$480/610/730 Quantum 4.3G Wscsi/U W....S1260/1 300 Scagate 4G UsV scsi .....................$1490 Seagatc9G wide scsi ....................$2690

HP colorado T I OOO/E ...........$160/200 H P T2000/Es...........................$230/290 ZIP 100M scsi int!ext ......$250(us$50) ZIP IOOM Parallel............$248(us$50) Jaz I G scsi int/e> t..................$500/610 Ditto 800M int/ext.................$155/180 Ditto 2GB Traven int/ext.......$200/250 DC2120/2120XL ..................... $18/25 Traven TR I/TR3 tape ...............$36/70 Zip disk IOOM .............................. $18 Jaz disk IG...................................$125

ISA 16bit super 1/0 2x16550.............$35 VESA 32bit 2x16550.........................$35 Adaptec 1520/1522 scsi...............,$85/90 Adaptec2940'294Gultra............$240/250 Adaptec2940W/2940U W....,....S295/320 scsl rwide scsi cable......................SI 5/35

HP SureStore 6020 ......................$940 Creative 4x/2x sv/ctrf/sfI..............S600 Yamaha 1004x!4x in/cx....$1050'I I 30 Sony CD Writer CSP940 vv/ctrl...$890 r TDK/SONY svritable cd-disk........$10

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PRINTER Panasonic74p/OK1 370T....$2740/360

Canon B JC240/4100..........$245/300 Canon BJC4550.......,.................$560 HP 400C/680C/690C...$765/390/450 H P 820Cxi/870Cxi...........,. $510/640

Epson Color 500/Pro..........$390/530 Panasonic KXP6100 laser.........$390 Brother HL730dx .....................$430 HP 5L 600dpi,...........................$530 HP 6P/6MP, 2M,8ppm.....$960/1260 HP 5/ SN/ 5M .......$1680/2100/2460 HP 4V/Ssi/Ssi Mx...$2580/3650/5130 HP 4P scatter............ HP 4C scaner........... Microtek E3........,.... Logitech pagescaner

.....$640 ...$1115 .....$470 ....$400

14 "/15 "/17" ................$260/'355/650 Acer 15 "/17" digital..........$390!710 MAG DX 15/1795e..........$465/830 NEC CSOD/M500..............$530/630 NEC X V17+/M700......$1090/1040 NEC P750 17" 1600..............$1360 Sony 100SX/SF 15".........$530/610 Sony 200SX/SF 17".......$920/1090 Vievs sonic 17PS/GS.........$960/840 )s)EC P I I 50/Sony20.....$2680/2100 PCI 64b I M/2M...................$40/58 PCI 64 w/MPEG I/2M........$50/70 ATI 64 I M/2M DRAM........$65/85 ATI Xp 3D/Diamond 3D 2M..$155 ATI 3D Rage2 PC2TV 2M.....$165 ATI 3D Pro Turbo 4M.............$270 Milleoum 2M/4M 1600...$248/350 Misteque 2M/4M 1280....$200i315 SOJ RAM for Video I M..........SI 5

CD-ROM / Sound Card gx Acert1'anasonic....................... $140 12x EIDF. CD ROM....................$165 NEC gx SCSI int. SCSI ............$320 16bit sound card/SB16pnp.......$35/80 SoundBlaster 32 Pnp...................$148 SB64 Awe Pnp retail box.............$260 60W/80W/230W Speaker....$20/25/60

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Mouse / Case /Keyboard

GD Writer

NETWORKS 16bit ISA Combo Ethernet.................$35 32bit PCl Combo Ethernet.................$60 Intel ISA Ethernet Pro 10+.................$99 intel ISA Ether Pro 10-'Combo......5140 Intel PCI Ethernet Pro 100...............$140 3Com Etherlink 16 comb/IOB..$140/120 3Com Ether PCI 509B (10B)...........SI SO 3Com Ether PCI 590 (Combo)........$190 BNC!Terminator/T ....,.........................$5 Coax Cable IOA/20ft/SOft.....,.$15/20/35 Netware 5/10 users..................$960/1700 NT 4.0 Server 5!10 user ........$950/1100 NT 4.0 Workstation ........................$290

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32 MB EDO

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Matrox Millennium

32 MB EDO

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Matrox Millennium

4 MB WRAM None Sound Blaster 32

2 MB WRAM

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Yes

Sony Bx USR 33.6K laxmodem Award

Windows NT 4.0

Windows 95

Speakers

Panasonfc 33.6K taxmodem Award Yes Windows 95

Speakers

Monitor

Sound card Hard drive

Seagate 4.3 GB Ultra SCSI Adaptec 2940UW Panasonic 12x None

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Modem System BIOS Plug and Play support Operating system Extras

Windows Benchmarks Desktop publishing Desktop graphics Desktop presentation Word processmp Spreadsheet Database Sysmark 32

180 172 179 182 161 171

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604-279-9686 www.compucon.corn $4,535 3 years

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None Sound Blaster 32 Western Digital 2.5 GB EIDE

Pentium 200 MHz 512K pipeline 32 MB EDO AT I Mach6( 2 MB DRAM None Sound Blaster 16

512K pipeline

Yes

137 178 155

Pentium 200 MHz 512K pipeline 32 MB EDO

Pentium 200 MHz 256K 32 MB

Matrox Millennium 4 MB WRAM

Matrox Millennium 2 MB WRAM

Quantum

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ATI $1ACH 64D IhV2M DRAXI (MPEG)-----.— $(LS/100 ATI 3D XPRESSION 2MB MPFG —.--- S 125 ATI TV TUNER- $ 135 ATI 3D XPRESSION PC2TV 2$18 -- - • - $ 180 XIGA MILLE.'ilUM 2 MB W RAN1 (RETAIL BOX)-- $260 —

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512K pipeline

Sound card

32 MB EDO ATI 30 ProTurbo 4 MB SGRAM None Sound Blaster 16

Hard drive

Quantum Firebail

Video memory Monitor

Pentium 200 MHz 256K pipehne

32 MB ATI Mach64 1MB DRAM

None Sound Biaster 16 Fujrtsu 1.7 MB EIDE

2.1 GB EIDE None Mitsumi 12x USR 33.6K faxmodem Award Yes Windows 95 Microphone Speakers

SCSI card CD-ROM drive

Modern System BIOS

Plug and Play support Operating system

Extras

Windows Benchmarks Desktop publishing Desktop graphics Desktop presentation Word processing Spreadsheet

145 165

Pentium200 MHz

256K Pipehne 32 MB EDO Matrox Millennium

2 MB WRAM None ESS1688

None

Sound Blaster 32

512K pipeline

32 MB EDO

Malrox Millennium 4 MB WRAM None Sound Blaster 32 Western Digital

Pentium20D MHz 512K pipeline 32 MB EDO ATI 30 ProTurbo 4 MB SGRAM MAG DXIST Sound Blaster 32

Pentium 200 MHz 512K pipeline

Western Digital

Quantum Fireball 3.2 GB EIDE

None

Toshiba Bx 33.6K faxmodem Award

BTC Bx

Supra 33.6Kfaxmodem

USR 33.6K faxmodem

3.1 GB EIDE None Pioneer 12x USR 33.6K faxmodem

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Yes

USR 33 6K faxmodem Award Yes

Windows 95 Speakers Radio tuner

Windows 95

Speakers

146

142

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150

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146 147

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3.2 GB EIDE

3.1 GB EIDE

None Pioneer 12x

64 MB EDO Matrox Millennium

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Quantum Fireball

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Pentium 200 MHz 512K pipeline 32 MB SDRAM ATI 3D ProTurbo 4 MB SGRAM

165 152 170 165 184 158 169

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As is always the case, the system we reviewed this month from Sirus was among the fastest of the lot. Using Intel's 430HX chipset and other high-quality components, computers from Sirus are always a treat to work with because wenever have to worry about things like system crashes every five minutes during testing. Powered by a 200 MHz processor, this system boasts a number of features that are sure to please any power-hungry user. For example, the 512KB of pipelined cache was certainly a factor in p utting this system among thefastestever surveyed. The system was further enhanced by 32 MB of EDO RAM, a super fast 3.1 GB hard drive from Western Digital, an d t h e e v er-popular Matrox Millennium with 4 MB of high-speed WRAM on board. A US Robotics 33.6Kbps voice/faxmodem will meet your communication needs with ease. Multimedia components include a Pioneer 12x CD-ROM drive, a Sound Blaster 32 sound card, and a pair of speakers.

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Sygma From Montreal-based Sygma comes a system that is not only very well equipped, but one that managed to fly through our benchmarks with extreme ease. This machine consists of a 200 MHz processor, 512KB of pipelined cache, 32 MB of EDO RAM, a 33.6Kbps modem from US Robotics, a Sound Blaster 32 sound card, a large 3.1 GB hard drive from Western Digital and a 4 MB ATI 3D I'roTurbo video card with ATI's TV tuner. A pair of Jazz 590 speakers and amicrophon e are also included for maximum multimedia enjoyment. The addition of a MAG DXIST monitor to this package makes it all the more inviting. To better aid you in custom izingyoursystem, Sygma offers a Web site through which you can configure your system with all of your favorite components. A well-designed system with great overall performance.

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In version 3,0.x, you could select the outline of an object on a layer with a simple keyboard shortcut (option-command-T). Although this s till works, th e i t e m now appears with resize/rotate points instead of the "marching ants" effect that version 3.0 showed. Once you are accustomed to the new behavior, however, you' ll probably appreciate the improved ease and functionality. The keyboard shortcuts for some functions have changed, too, and this may annoy some users. The Brightness and Contrast shortcut is gone, probably because Adobe wants its users to stop using these linear adjustment methods and start using the lessdestructive Levels or Curves commands instead. So there. One annoyance is the fact that version 4.0's Free Transform function degrades images more than the equivalent Scale function did in version 3.0.5. It is possible to work around the problem by using the Image Size... command instead, but I hope Adobe fixes this shortcoming in the inevitable maintenance release. (More info on resizing problem at: http: //www.macsense.corn/MacSense/HOTBITS/96/ 961 2/turkey.html) Another Photoshop 4.0 feature I'm not too impressed with is its Digimarc technology. The principle is a good one: embed owner information in the photo itself as a watermark. The only problem is, I added a watermark (set to "most durable" ), saved the file as a JPFG, and loaded it back in. Result: watermark unreadable. There' s "lossy" for you. fewer PC problems Compatibility with plug-ins and scanner drivers is excellent. I detected none of the prob-

lems that plagued users of version 2.5 moving up to the 3.0x release. These previously included incompatibilities running 16-bit plug-ins in a 32-bit environment, as well as Windows 95 incompatibilities in the original 3.0 release (and earlier versions). Version 4.0 is fully compatible with both I 6- and 32-bit W i ndows environments (Photoshop is a true 32-bit program), and my considerable collection of p l ug-ins from Metatools, Alien Skin, Extensis, Storm, Pixar, Aldus/Adobe, Xaos Tools, Microsoft, et al, all worked like a charm. Moreover, Photoshop 4.0 for Wincows is MMX optimized and p romises speed to improve by up to six times on machines supporting that chip (I am not yet able to test these claims). Photoshop fully takes advantage of multiple processors on both PCs n.nning W i n d ows NT a n d mul t i -Cl U PowerMacs. I don't perceive any particular advantagi to the Mac version over the PC version or vice versa, aside from a somewhat larger selection of plug-in filters and color-calibration options available on the Mac. If you' re looking for justification t o s w i tch p l atforms or f u r ther debate the operating systems war, this isn' t the application to make an example of. Photoshop is virtually identical on both Windows and Mac platforms, and the PC's significantly faster disk performance is fairly evenly offset by the PowerMac's excellent performance in CPU-intensive operations. Navigator palette Another new palette will prove to be a boon to users who have found navigating a large image with the scroll bars or grabber hand to be a pain. The Navigation palette basically

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Paint Shop Pro While I'm making recommendations, I'd certainly have to put in a good word for JASC's Paint Shop Pro. For US$69 (the shareware version is downloadable for free), you get a program that delivers most of the power of Photoshop and a pretty good interface to boot. Yes, Photoshop is better, but not that much better. If you need Windows-based bitmapped graphics, scanning utility and/or screen capture program now and then, this should be

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Talking to a co-worker you hear about a company that may be going under.You r emember tha t t h e r e was a w o m an n amed Shirley at t h a t c o mpany w h o bought your product a while back. If she changes jobs perhaps she will be in procurement again and interested in buying more product. You search your contact manager for the first name Shirley and find her contact record. There you discover everything that

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bucks to do what other can' t. In the case of Deadl; Tide, a slick selling cartr paign is based on a ga i, that looks great, but plays a little more than a standard and repetitive shoot 'em uf And the lesson behind thai kiddies, is d o n't b eliev everything you see. That said, Deadly Tid will hook you right awa with what is a very intrigu ing concept. lt seems alien have indeed landed on ou little blue planet, only to hide themselve away on the ocean fi oor even before we get chance to see what they look like. We knov they' re up to no good because they' re build ing fortifications and blowing stuff up, bu i how exactly do we fight the little rotter. when you can't get at 'em? What the heck ari they doing down there anyway? Microsoft's first u n derwater sojourr Continued on page lO'

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This is where you enter in the general text and apply formatting with the field codes inserted into the appropriate spots. I'he field codes are entered by using the insert field command on the Merge toolbar. If you want to create mailing labels using your data file, activate the labe! command before inserting the field codes. Three, merge The final component of the merge process is the merge itself. In completing the merge, you create a third document that places the actual names and other information from the data source into the places where the field codes» ere entered on the main form. A merge canappear as a separate document on screen (which you can review and save) or can be sent directly to the printer. In general, all the data from the data source is merged into the final document. When creating for m l e t ters, each individually addressed letter will appear on a separate page.

When completing the merge there is also an option to select specific records only. In WordPerfect and Word Pro this is a Select Records option, in Microsoft Word this is a Query option. An example A mail merge is quick and easy once you get used to the steps involved. If you are new to merges, don't expect to get it right the first run through. Using the Lotus Word Pro Merge Assistant, step one is to create or associate a data source, step hvo is to design the document and enter in field codes from the data source and step three is to create the merge file. In step three you can use the select records option to isolate items in your data source. Corel WordPerfect Merge assistant works slightly differently from Lotus Word Pro. Step one is for creating a data source. If you want to associate an already existing data source this is done in step two, along mth designing the document and entering in field codes. Step three is the same as the Word Pro example above. Microsoft Word Mail Merge Helper reverses

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tion, you can do this in either step one or step two of the merge process. If you can' t find the file name, make sure you have the right data type selected, For example, Microsoft Word shows by default all files with .doc extensions. If you are trying to find a Microsoft Excel file, you must specifv all files .' or those with an .xls extension. In general, the entire spreadsheet will be associated to the merge document with the data in the first row used as field names. If you are using a multi-page spreadsheet, by default only the first page is recognized in the merge. Businesses use databases to track large amounts of elaborate information. For example, a database will let you record customer naines, itemize and total their purchases on a single form, while in th e background be recording the information in separate tables (one table for customers and contact information and another table for items purchased). Similar to the spreadsheet example, information from a database table can be brought into a word processor using the merge.

Using mail merge to link data A common type of document used in a lot of businesses is a phone book of clients and contacts. There is no set rule as to what application must be used in order to record the information. A simple list can be recorded in table format using a word-processing application or entered when actually creating a merge by selecting create data source and using the form provided. For Windows 95 users, you can also use the Personal Address Book that comes with Windows 95 or the address book application that comes with the office software. For example, Corel WordPerfect 7 accepts the Corel Address Book 7 as a data source file. Microsoft Word 7 accepts the contact list created in Schedule+. in a situation of tracking large amounts of data, a word-processing program is not the most practical application for maintaining and updating information. A spreadsheet offers far more flexibility in entering and manipulating data. A spreadsheet is designed to calculate numbers, so financial data can be inputted and formulas used to calculate taxes and totals. If you want to use existing spreadsheet information as a data source, instead of creating a data source during the merge process, specify that you want to associate a d ata source f r om another application Depending on the word-processing applica-

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