Filling in fields

Within a field you can use DELETE and BACKSPACE. You can also clear the field using CTRL+END. If you have completely filled a field with characters, you move to the next without having to press TAB.

Type Ahead

The Type Ahead facility means that you can type more quickly than your input is displayed. For example, in the Signon window you could type "idpasswordENTER" in one sequence without waiting for each field to be highlighted before typing into it.

Clearing all fields F2

On many windows, such as the calculators, deal entry or deal enquiry, you can clear all the fields by pressing F2.

Checks by 4XTRA

If you type in an entry which is not valid, a red error message is displayed. For example:

Not a recognised customer code

In this case, you cannot continue until you have corrected the customer code.

Sometimes a warning is displayed, for example:

WARNING rate is more than 10% from current rate of 1.7892

Codes and formats for fields

The following sections list the codes and abbreviations used in customer, dates and amounts fields.

Customer Location

Customer codes consist of two parts:

		The customer, which can be from two to five characters
		The location, which starts at the sixth character position and can be from one to three characters.

ABBEY L BBI L BA L SOC PAR

BA  L

BA L

You should enter dates in the format 07JAN94 or using the following codes:

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