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- PPP Summarize 1.2
- 5/10/95
- by Marty Lindower
- martyl@pcnet.com
-
- This Excel 5.0 worksheet will take the output generated by the excellent
- control panel PPPReport (by Eric de la Musse - available at Info-mac
- mirrors everywhere) and give you a day by day, month by month summary
- of your PPP activity. This is ideal for those of us who pay for our PPP
- connection by the hour and want to keep track of how much the tab will
- be at the end of the month. It is based on a (relatively) simple Visual
- Basic for Applications/Excel macro contained in Module1 of the sheet.
- Feel free to look at it, customize it, improve upon it, etc. If you do
- anything really nice, send me a copy.
-
- I wrote PPPSummarize as an exercise to help me learn Excel Visual Basic
- for Applications, Microsoft's new macro language for Excel. As such, it
- will not run under version 4.0 of Excel. Since VBA is dramatically
- different from 4.0 macros, and the sheet uses some features unique to
- Excel 5.0, I have no plans to offer a version for Excel 4.0 (sorry). If
- anyone does come up with one, let me know; I've had quite a few
- requests for such a version.
-
- 1. PPPSummarize can be placed anywhere on your hard disk.
-
- 2. Set the PPPReport control panel as follows:
- Log duration: yes
- Don't duplicate ports: yes
- Log all ports: no
- Log only these ports: 0
- Where: filename:PPPReport data, in Preferences folder
- Creator: Excel 5.0 (or whatever it's called on your HD)
-
- 3. Don't track how much time you spend in each port (itemize time
- on WWW, mail, gopher, etc) by telling PPPReport to log all ports; Summarize
- will not work accurately.
-
- 4. Double-click PPPSummarize. It will launch Excel, say a few magic words
- that only Bill Gates himself knows, then your PPP account summary will
- appear. You can save this if you want, but the sheet gets deleted,
- reconstituted and recalculated each time you open the file.
-
- 5. Clicking on the outline symbols will reveal the details of each logon;
- date, login time and time spent online. Save'em, print'em, do as you like.
-
- Let me know if you have any questions, bug reports, or improvements.
-
- Marty
-
-
- Version history:
- 1.1 - 1/20/95 - Initial release
- 1.2 - 5/10/95 - Fixed problem with times over 24 hours per day/week/month/year