The Maine Employer's Handbook, Windows Edition is an "electronic book" in the form of a Windows Help file which may be easily installed and used on personal computers running Windows 3.1 or higher operating systems. The product has these advantages:
Small Size. The electronic book is only about 490 Kb in size, so it is easy to fit on any desktop or laptop computer, and it does not hog disk space. It is shipped on one 3.5 inch disk, not on a CD-ROM.
Easy To Use. The electronic book is in the very familiar and easy-to-use Windows Help file format, so if you know how to use any Windows Help file, you can use this book easily. Basically, all you have to do is point and click at what interests you! The contents of the book are readily accessible from the well-organized table of contents pages and by keyword searching. Windows 95, 98, NT, ME, 2000, and XP users (but not Windows 3.x users) may also use full-text searching.
Broad Compatibility. The electronic book is compatible with and can be used on systems running Windows 3.1 or 3.11, Windows for Workgroups 3.11, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows XP, OS/2's Win-OS/2, and any other system that has full MS Windows 3.x compatibility built into it or added onto it. Also, this electronic book does not require a CD-ROM drive.
Speed! Speed! Speed! This electronic book works fast on most systems, because it is not very big and the Windows Help system itself works very quickly. You will really like the responsiveness and speed of this electronic book. See something you want to check out? Click on it and you're there! This will be true even on older, slower systems.
Copying; Printing; Integration. Using the Windows Clipboard, you can copy from the book and paste the copied material into a Windows word processor document or other types of documents. You can print unedited or selected pages from the book. You can launch the book from an icon in your favorite program group or an icon on your Windows desktop. You can set a toolbar button in another Windows program to launch this electronic book with the click of a button.