The menu bar contains five menu options: File, Edit, Compute, Window and Help. Below is a snap shot of the menu bar, followed by a brief description of the menu options.
File
The File menu is used for manipulating loan documents; including opening, saving, and printing. It can also used to terminate the Loanalyst application. The commands of the file menu are as follows:
New: Creates a new loan window and initializes all values to the preferred values.
Open: Opens a loan file and restores its window to its previous state.
Close: Closes a loan window.
Save: Saves current changes of a loan to disk.
Save As: Saves a loan to disk under a new name.
Export Schedule: Allows saving amortization schedule as a comma delimited text file or a tab delimited text file. (Can be opened as spread sheet in Gobe Productive for further analysis)
Page Setup: Facilitates configuration of print preferences (setup info is saved along with loan)
Print: Prints loan calculations results and amortization table in a report format.
Quit: Terminates Loanalyst application.
Edit
The edit menu is used for modifying fields and transferring field data between different fields and/or different applications. The commands of the Edit menu are as follows:
Undo: **Not yet implemented in this beta release
Cut: Moves the selected items to the clipboard
Copy: Copies the selected items to the clipboard
Paste: Copies content of the clipboard to the current cursor location
Select All: Selects all the content of the active view
Preferences: **Not yet implemented in this beta release
Compute
The Compute menu used for requesting the various loan computations of Loanalyst. It allows for configurations for automatic calculations, methods of calculating and display of amortization table. It also allows the user to configure various aspects of a loan. The commands of the Compute menu are as follows:
Auto Calculate: Toggles automatic calculation for a loan calculator.
Amortization Table: Toggles display of amortization table.
Calculate Now: Invoke immediate calculation for current loan inputs.
Method-Actuarial: Sets calculations to use Actuarial / Normal method for computations.
Method-Simple: Sets calculations to use Simple method for computations. (Not available in this beta release)
Unknown Value-Payment Amount: Sets payment amount as the variable to solve in computations.
Unknown Value-Annual Interest Rate: Sets Annual Interest Rate (IRR) as the variable to solve in computations.
Unknown Value-Number of Payments: Sets number of payments as the variable to solve in computations.
Unknown Value-Loan Amount: Sets loan amount as the variable to solve in computations.
Unknown Value-Ending Balance: Sets ending balance as the variable to solve in computations.
Window
The Window menu is used for controlling and positioning windows of Loanalyst. It allows one to configure the appearance of the amortization table. The commands of the Window menu are as follows:
Cascade: Arranges all loan windows in a cascading way. (All windows stacked with a small vertical and horizontal offset to allow title bar tabs to show.)
Tile: Arranges all loan windows next to each other.
Amortization schedule-Collapse: Collapses all or selection of amortization table.
Amortization schedule-Expand: Expands all or selection of amortization table.
Amortization schedule-Invert: Inverts (collapses what was expanded and expand what was collapsed) all or selection of amortization table.
Help
The Help menu is used for getting assistance in using Loanalyst and for obtaining information about the program. The commands of the Help menu are as follows:
Loanalyst Topics: Display this User's Guide
About Loanalyst: Display basic information about the Loanalyst Program.