Quick Start Guide
Contents

• Introduction
  
• Getting Acquainted with TIP
  
• How to Make and Modify Job Descriptions
  
  • Where to Start
    
  • The Job Description Screen
    
  • Finding Your Way Around the Tree
    
  • Typing in the Text Areas
    
  • Adding and Removing Items
    
  • Percentage Scores
    
  
• Creating an Employee Evaluation
  
• Closing Comments
  

Typing in the Text Areas (continued...)

The text area works just like any word processor except that it is less powerful. For instance, you can't change fonts, and you can't use the Tab key to create columns. In TIP, the Tab key always moves you to the next area of the screen.

You can mark, cut, and paste text in the usual way.  Also, you can mark text (with the mouse) and then right-click to get this menu:

Here Cut, Copy, Paste, and Delete have their usual meanings.  (If nothing is marked, you can’t cut, copy, or delete, and if nothing is on the Windows clipboard, you can’t paste, so these items will sometimes be grayed out.)

Hint:  You can paste text from other programs such as Word or Excel.  However, you can’t paste everything.  Elaborate structures such as tables and bulleted lists are not supported by TIP and will get simplified when you paste them in.

When you’re typing in a text box, similar operations are available under Edit on the main menu.