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Horizon Features

The basic features of Horizon are summarized here, with links to the details about each feature.

Working with Documents

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Select ‘File/New’ to create a new document, ‘File/Save’ to save the document, and ‘File/Save As’ to save the document with a different name. Select ‘Print’ to print the current month. Select ‘Quit’ from the ‘Horizon’ menu to quit the program.

You can also import and export comma-delimited (CSV) files. See Importing and Exporting for more details.


The Toolbar

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The Toolbar provides quick access to commonly used actions. For more information on each button, see:

bullet Toolbar buttons


Navigating the Calendar

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You use the scrollbar at the bottom of the calendar to navigate through the months and weeks. The control in the middle of the scrollbar is known as the 'shuttle'. Click once in the scrollbar on either side of the shuttle to move one week or month in that direction. Drag the shuttle from the center of the scrollbar to quickly move through a number of weeks or months. When you release the shuttle it returns to the center of the scrollbar. To quickly return to today's date, double-click in the middle of the shuttle.

You can also view the calendar in a weekly format, see Week and Month Views.

Working with Categories

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Horizon lets you have multiple calendars in each document. Horizon calls these calendars categories.

bullet Using categories

Working with Cells

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Cells represent individual elements of a category. Each category can have one cell per date. To have more than one cell in a date, you will need to create another category.

Cells have the background color of the category that owns them, and they display text, fixed values, or calculated values, depending on the values entered in them.

bullet Using cells

The Summary view

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The Summary View presents a quick overview of the current month, without having to use any equations or formulas.

Any of the five built-in functions can be applied to the month, or a date range within the month.

bullet Summary View