Welcome to Be Basics^TM

Welcome to Be Basics. We are pleased to bring you this award-winning word processor and spreadsheet duo for the BeOS. We're sure that you'll be impressed with the speed and responsiveness of this compact package. The word processor, BeatWare Writer^TM, is a frame-based word processor, providing you with a quick and simple way to design your own page layouts. And BeatWare Sum-It^TM is a full-featured, multi-threaded spreadsheet application that can perform rigorous computations at the blink of an eye.

Because Be Basics takes full advantage of the modern capabilities of the BeOS, you can:

• Create documents in any language. Be Basics includes full support for international character sets.
• Customize your page layout by adding, moving, and resizing text frames.
• Combine text, tables, graphs and pictures to create compelling documents.
• Work with multiple files simultaneously without degrading performance.
• View all layout, style and content changes as they happen.

Be Basics will also save you time with:

• Unlimited Undo.
• Live updating between normal and thumbnail views.
• High speed calculations.
• Over 80 defined mathematical, financial and logical functions.
• Import filters for MS Excel®, SYLK, RTF and basic HTML files.
• Export filters for text, RTF and UTF8 file formats.
• Extensive on screen documentation.

In addition, Be Basics has a completely open architecture and will support third-party functions, charts and file format converters. Check our web site frequently for announcements on new third party applications.

And rest assured, this is only the beginning of what we hope will become a new standard in productivity software. As always, we welcome and value your feedback. Contact us at feedback@beatware.com with your comments and suggestions.

This document contains notes on System Requirements, the On-line User's Guide and Customer Support for Be Basics. Please read it carefully to ensure that you get the most out of Be Basics!

System Requirements
Be Basics 2.4 requires the BeOS Release 4 or better, a minimum of 16MB of RAM (32MB recommended), 3MB of free disk space, and a 256-color display.

On-line User's Guide
An on-line user's guide has been included for your reference. You can access the guide either by opening index.html or by selecting the Help.On-line Help menu option from within Writer or Sum-It. The guide is an HTML file and can be viewed through any web browser.

Customer Support Information
All registered users are entitled to free on-line customer support. Please e-mail your support questions and comments to BeatWare at support@beatware.com. We promise a personal response within 72 hours. Additionally, you may find answers to your questions on our Be Basics Tips and Tricks page. Visit us at http://www.beatware.com/products/basics/tips/index.html regularly for the lastest productivity hints.

Additional products by BeatWare^TM
You can find other essential applications for the BeOS on the BeatWare home page at http://www.beatware.com. Our line of award-winning products includes BeatWare Mail-It^TM, the most popular email application for the BeOS, and BeatWare Get-It^TM, a full-featured file transfer utility. Visit us today and take the trialware for a test drive.

Thank You
Thank you for your support as we usher in this new era of consumer software.

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