Gift Aid Tutorial

Gift Aid SQL Tutorial Introduction Gift Aid is designed to make the recording of donations as simple as possible. For example each donor’s details are only entered once and do not have to be re-entered with each donation. This tutorial will guide you through the basic operation of the application. Navigation and Keyboard Shortcuts When a form such as ‘Adding a Donation’ is displayed the cursor is placed in the first field where an entry is required. After completing that field press the Tab key to move to the next field, enter the data, tab again and so on. If you make a mistake and need to go back to a previous field, press Shift + Tab simultaneously. Alternatively use the mouse to left click in the field required. When the cursor is in a field with a down arrow at the right of the field, pressing the ↓ key on the keyboard will cycle down the options for that field. Typing a letter followed by the ↓ key will jump to the first item in the list starting with that letter. Press the ↑ key to go back up the list. Alternatively clicking the mouse on the arrow will open a drop down list of the choices available and you can click on the item required to select it. Gift Aid minimises the amount of switching between mouse and keyboard by providing keyboard shortcuts throughout the application. Pressing the Alt key will modify the button labels to show one letter that is underlined. Pressing Alt + the letter simultaneously is the equivalent of ...