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Program:   Win*Star and Win*Star Plus

Win*Star Tips by Frank Piechoski

If you want to make a series of charts (one for each day of the month for forecasting, or one for every fifteen minutes for setting an election time, for example), the Rectify feature of Win*Star makes this task quick and easy.

Make the first chart, say for the first day of the month at noon in your location. Then for each following day, use this procedure:

1. Click on the "extra" menu button, and then on "Rectify."

    

2. Using the rectify box on the left side of the screen that pops up, click on the hour button 24 times to move to the next day at the same time. If the desired interval is different, highlight the houses, minutes or seconds and then the arrows to move forward or backward in time.

    

3. You can set the chart to redraw by clicking the box in the window to the left of the chart.

    

4. When you have the desired result, you can save the new chart, and it will replace the one you had before. For rectification you can repeat this procedure until you have a chart to save, and then save that one.

This way you do not clutter up your database with every chart you calculate, and you don't have to leave the rectify page to see multiple charts for consecutive days. However, if you save the chart, you can then use other Win*Star features, come back to the rectify page, advance the chart, etc. This feature is useful for repetitive work such as daily forecasts.

Happy Computing!     - Frank Piechoski
    Matrix Software

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