Below are answers to some of the more common questions regarding Exact Change. If you don't see an answer to your question here, please email us at WildMan@ExactChange.Info
Installation
Using Exact Change
Using the Report press
Using the Wallpaper Press
Installation| I put the Exact Change disk in my CD drive, but my computer doesn't acknowledge that the disk is inserted. | Exact Change is distributed on a DVD, not a CD. If your computer doesn't recognize the Exact Change disk, please make sure that it is inserted in a DVD compatible drive. |
| I can't tell if a digit in the DVD license code is the number one or the letter "I", the number zero or the letter "O". | The Exact Change license code, which is required during installation, is entirely numeric. There are no letters in it. |
| I installed many countries when I installed Exact Change, but when I start a new collection, it doesn't include those countries. | When you start a new collection, Exact Change defaults to including only United States and U.S. commemorative coinage. You can add any countries (even if you didn't install those countries) by clicking the "Add Counties" option in the "File" menu. When you install a country during the Exact Change installation, you're simply choosing to copy all the image files to your hard drive so that they're available when the DVD isn't in the drive. You may have many collections at one time, and some collection may include countries that other collections do not. |
| I installed an update, but I don't see the new coin types in my collection. | Any coin types that didn't exist when
you created your collection must be added to your collection file after
an update is downloaded. To do this, just click on "Add county" in
the "File" menu and add the country in question. For example, if
you add "United States" to your collection, Exact Change may respond
with a message like this:
"You've selected to add United States to your collection. Some of these folders already exist. Exact Change will add the 3 missing folders". Exact Change will add just the series that your collection file is missing. That is, it will and the new series that didn't exist when you created your collection file. |
| I inadvertently set Exact Change to display Spanish, now I can't find my way through the menus to set it back to English. | There is an easy key sequence to resolve this. Hold down the Control
(Ctrl), Alternate (Alt), and Shift keys at the same time. While holding
down these three keys, press the "E" key to switch to English. You can
switch to any language by holding down these three keys and pressing the first
letter of the language you want: English: Ctrl-Alt-Shift-E Spanish: Ctrl-Alt-Shift-S French: Ctrl-Alt-Shift-F German: Ctrl-Alt-Shift-G Italian: Ctrl-Alt-Shift-I Portuguese: Ctrl-Alt-Shift-P Norwegian: Ctrl-Alt-Shift-N |
| I collect some weird coin type that Exact Change doesn't list. Can I add these coins? | Though Exact Change comes with structures for just about any country in the world, there may be instances where you want to add your own types of coins or tokens. When edit mode is enabled in the display menu, you can right-click in the series editor to add a new folder for a country, denomination, coin type or what ever. The new types you add are treated by Exact Change just like the predefined coin types. |
| Do I need to have the DVD inserted when I use the program? | No, you can operate Exact Change without the DVD. If you allow Exact Change to install all of the countries you collect, the images will be retrieved from your hard disk. If you want to conserve disk space, you may choose not to install many countries. You can still add any country to your collection, but Exact Change will display the images only if the DVD is installed. Even if you add a country while the DVD isn't inserted and latter you insert the DVD, Exact Change will automatically start displaying the images from the DVD. |
| The Arab date converter or Hebrew date converter sometimes translates a date that is a year higher or lower than I expected. | Because January 1st is not recognized as the start of a new year is these regions, there is a period at the beginning and end of each year where the calendar will be shifted by one year. For example the Jewish new year begins with Rashashana, an autumn festival. Therefore, Israeli coins minted very late in the year would fall after the Jewish new year and prior to January 1st. For the most part this is purely academic, the date listed in the Exact Change price list will match the date on the coin. The one exception is Arab coins minted at the beginning or end of the year that display the date according to both the Arab and Christian era calendars. |
| When converting dates on Iranian and Afghan coins, the date convert comes up with dates that are way off. | Coins of Iran and Afghanistan are dated according to the S.H. or M.S. era rather than the A.H. era. Try changing this on the drop-down box in the Arab date converter and you should get a date that falls within the mintage period for the coin you're working in. |
| I created a custom report, but I don't see it listed on the reports page in Exact Change. | Exact Change creates a list of available reports at the time the program is started. If you use the Report Press while Exact Change is running in the background, the report will not be listed in Exact Change until the next time the program is started. The list of available reports is pulled from the reports folder in the directory where you installed Exact Change. If you create a custom report, it should be saved in that reports folder. |
| How big of a photomural can I create with the Exact Change Wallpaper press? | The wallpaper press creates a photomural by printing one coin image for each pixel in the mural image. Each pixel can be as large as a sheet of paper. That is, you could print one coin image per sheet. Therefore, a coin image that is 4000 by 4000 pixels could theoretically be printed so large that it would be more than a mile long on each side. While that's a bit extreme, the wallpaper press can create a photomural that will cover any wall you may encounter. |
| How does the Wallpaper Press determine what images to randomly select? | The Wallpaper Press randomly selects images from the FOLDER IMAGES directory, a directory inside of the directory where Exact Change was installed. If you installed only U.S. coinage when installing Exact Change, then all of the images randomly selected by the Wallpaper Press will be of U.S. coinage. If you didn't install all the image files when you installed Exact Change, but would like draw from the 16,000 images on the DVD, then you can run the Wallpaper Press from the DVD and it will pull any of the images on the DVD. |
| Does the wallpaper press include maps and photos in the photomural when random images are selected? | The wallpaper press will skip over any image file which has a name ending in MAP or PHOTO such as CROATIA.MAP.JPG. This assures that the images randomly selected to represent each dot in the photomural will actually be a coin image; a photograph would stand out oddly. |
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