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Using the Question Mark Feature
The Question Mark (?) menu is available to you wherever you are in CATS. Use the Question Mark (?) to access Help quickly, to bring up tools including the Calendar or Calculator, or to use other features.
The ? gives you access to many convenient pop up functions.
Help
Choose Help to access help files. When you are working in CATS and you select Help from the Question Mark menu, CATS will open the help file about the feature or type of record you are working with.
Calculator
Access the CATS calculator feature.
Calendar
Acesss the CATS calendar feature.
Report File
This menu item will show the last report you printed to text. Once open, you can treat it like a text file, and use the toolbar functions File, Edit, or Format. Use Esc to exit.
Recently Printed Reports
See wiki on Recently printed reports.
Open Invoices
Use this option to see a report of open invoices for the selected account. See wiki on Open invoices quick report.
One Invoice
See wiki on One Invoice.
Open Position
Choose Open Position to see all open position information for one description/grade code. See wiki on Open position quick view
Physical Trades
The Physical Trades quick view lets you browse a record of every physical trade entered into CATS.
Futures Trades
The Futures Trades quick view allows you to browse record of every futures trade entered into CATS.
Contract Account History
This feature allows you to see the accounting activity on a particular contract (purchase or sale). CATS will ask you to identify a contract by number.
Contract Traffic Summary
Use this option to see all traffic screens for a particular contract displayed on a scan screen. CATS will prompt you to enter a contract number.
Buyer History
Quick view of a report gives a history of sales or purchases for a particular account.
Seller History
Quick view of a report gives a history of sales or purchases for a particular account.
Last Message
Clear Programs
Contact New Data Systems for use.
Return to Main
Use this option to quickly return to the CATS Main Menu.
Quit
Use this option to log off of CATS.