| To start UPL, click on the UPL.xla icon that is in the UPL folder. This will automatically start Microsoft Excel, and then load the UPL add-in. Before UPL can be properly loaded, Excel asks you to enable macros;
Before you can continue using UPL, you MUST click on 'enable macros' to begin. Once this has been done, the program begins loading, and shows a splash screen during loading. Once this has done, UPL brings up its initial option window
This allow you to select from three options; 1. Load in some data. This opens Excels' 'open' dialog, which you can then use to load in some files. 2. 'Start a new workbook' will open a new workbook, that contains no data 3. 'Close Window' will close this options window. Select this option if you do not want to do either of the previous choices.
Once UPL is loaded, it adds an additional selection to the menu bar; This is the only way that UPL modifies Excel. In every other aspect, Excel is unchanged, and will behave as normally. Once this menu has been loaded, UPL is ready to begin! |