Day-Timer Organizer 98 Debuts; New version of market-leading personal information manager provides far greater organizational flexibility and efficiency.LEHIGH VALLEY The Lehigh Valley or the Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ metropolitan area is a metropolitan region in eastern Pennsylvania and western New Jersey, in the United States. It is the third-most populated metropolitan region in Pennsylvania, after Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. , Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 15, 1997--Day-Timers today unveiled Day-Timer Organizer(R) 98, a significantly enhanced version of its award-winning Day-Timer Organizer personal information management software offering greater organizational ease, efficiency, and flexibility. With dozens of new features such as ExpressServices, on-screen on·screen or on-screen adj. & adv. 1. As shown on a movie, television, or display screen. 2. Within public view; in public. editing, color printing “colour separation” redirects here. For other uses, see colour-separation overlay. Color printing is the reproduction of an image or text in color (as opposed to simpler black and white or monochrome printing). and importing capabilities, users will find it faster and easier than ever to stay organized and to integrate with paper. "We have new research about consumers' work habits and organizational objectives, that indicates that the majority of consumers surveyed feel that a combination of organizational tools - paper, software, handheld organizers and the Internet - best suits their needs," said Rob Humphrey, director of the technology group of Day-Timers, Inc. "This new version of Day-Timer Organizer reflects our firm commitment to delivering full solutions that bridge the paper-technology gap to meet these changing needs - and help people to be better organized any time, anywhere." New Features Day-Timer Organizer 98 features: ExpressServices. This is a set of tools that provide one-button access to the most-used functions of Day-Timer Organizer, reducing the need to launch the full application - saving memory as well as valuable time and effort. Now users can have speedy access to information without opening the program itself or toggling between applications. Residing as an ever-present icon on the tray at the bottom of the screen, these tools include ExpressAct, an instant way to reference a "to-do" list. Double-clicking on any entry on the checklist launches the user into the relevant entry in Day-Timer Organizer, whether it is a to-do list, contact information or a note. ExpressPhone, which provides the ability to assign most frequently called numbers to a special list, rapidly accesses and dials the number with the click of a mouse. Day-Timer Organizers' QuickFill technology feature allows users to type only a few letters of the desired company or name while the program fills in the remaining characters automatically. And, ExpressInput, which lets users make an entry directly into Day-Timer Organizers' popular Schedule, Task and Notes sections without launching the full application. Wizards. This feature helps users to navigate, step-by-step, through some of the more advanced features of the program such as printing to paper planner formats. Color printing. This feature allows users to print their entries in color - and customize the way they look. Users can print entries in color to call attention to them and use color in Verb 1. color in - add color to; "The child colored the drawings"; "Fall colored the trees"; "colorize black and white film" color, colorise, colorize, colour in, colourise, colourize, colour many of the views in the program to suit their own aesthetics. Print-out on all popular paper formats is possible to suit most Day-Timer and other binder sizes. And to further simplify the printing process, Day-Timers offers pre-perforated and hole- punched Day-Timer paper designed for use with this software. Advanced importing. This feature allows users to read, view and print data from other PIMs using OLE Automation See COM automation. , thereby eliminating the need for manual reentry reentry n. taking back possession and going into real property which one owns, particularly when a tenant has failed to pay rent or has abandoned the property, or possession has been restored to the owner by judgment in an unlawful detainer lawsuit. or complicated ASCII file A file that contains data made up of ASCII characters. It is essentially raw text just like the words you are reading now. Each byte in the file contains one character that conforms to the standard ASCII code (see ASCII chart). transfers. Entire databases of products that support OLE Automation including Microsoft Schedule +, Microsoft Outlook For the e-mail and news client bundled with certain versions of Microsoft Windows, see . Microsoft Outlook or Outlook (full name Microsoft Office Outlook and Act! can be quickly and easily transferred to Day-Timer Organizer 98. Other features. -- Direct on-screen entry capability to daily and weekly views -- A Rich Text fields editor allowing users to customize the fonts, size, and color of notes -- Improved expense reporting for accommodating three digits under mileage expenses -- Expanded and simplified on-line help documentation CD/ROM CD/ROM Compact Disk/Read Only Memory and Workgroup Versions Day-Timers will also offer Day-Timer Organizer 98 Deluxe, a CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc. CD-ROM in full compact disc read-only memory Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser). version of the program offering users content and databases of additional helpful information for managing time and information. In addition, a network version of the product, Day-Timer Organizer 98 for Workgroups for Windows, will support up to 720 users. Pricing/Availability Estimated street prices for the new products are as follows: Day-Timer Organizer 98 at $59.95; Day-Timer Organizer 98 Deluxe at $79.95; and Day-Timer Organizer 98 for Workgroups for Windows, starting at $108 for a two-user pack and up to $1,999 for a 50-user license. Each product supports Windows 3.1, Windows 95 and NT. These products are available in retail stores nationwide, through the Day-Timer catalog, and through the Day-Timer Web site: www.daytimer.com. (Users can download a free trial working version and/or the full application.) About Day-Timer Organizer Day-Timer Organizer, recent winner of PC Magazine's prestigious Editor's Choice award as well as more than a dozen other awards, is a complete software solution for organizing personal information such as schedules, to-do lists, addresses, phone calls, notes and expenses. Introduced in 1994, the product has risen to the top of the retail charts, and has been continually enhanced with up to the minute features including Internet capabilities, synchronization (1) See synchronous and synchronous transmission. (2) Ensuring that two sets of data are always the same. See data synchronization. (3) Keeping time-of-day clocks in two devices set to the same time. See NTP. with handheld devices, network capabilities and flexible printing capabilities. The software reflects the look and feel of the world-famous paper-based Day-Timer system, so users of these systems can transition easily to the program. Day-Timers offers Day-Timer Organizer as part of a complete organizational solution that includes binders and paper, and incorporates the company's 50 years of time management expertise. Day-Timer Organizer is tightly integrated with leading handheld organizers, and a special version is now bundled with the new Sharp(R) WIZARD(R) OZ-600 series. Also, Day-Timer Organizer can be seamlessly integrated with the now-famous Pilot pocked-sized organizer. Day-Timer Organizer users can synchronize See synchronization. data with these and other devices easily. About Day-Timers Day-Timers, a leading provider of time management and organizational solutions, offers more than 100 paper-based systems and computer and Internet-based products for business, school and home use. 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