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Help System:
View Using and Updating the 'context-sensitive' HTML Help System. 6/18/03
View Using the Fax and Email medium most effectively for Support. 6/18/03
View "F1 Key Action Canceled" due to MS security update. Directions for adjusting security settings to allow loading of on-line help. 7/15/05
View How to use "Skype" another avenue for accessing support. 7/21/05
Backing up and Maintaining the Database:
View A simple strategy for "protecting" a most important asset; your Database. 6/18/03
View The "Unrecognized Database" error requires "Reorganizing". 6/13/03
View Reduce your frequency of "Reorganizing" by disabling "OPLOCKS". 9/30/05
View Use "Copy/Paste" to supplement your use of a Tape Drive. 6/18/03
Installing Software:
View Active Accounting (AA): Installing on a Network Workstation. 6/30/03
View First Time Installation of Active Accounting (AA) on a Server or Stand-alone computer system. 6/30/03
View Reinstalling Active Accounting (AA) on a new Server or Stand-alone computer system. 6/30/03
View Point of Sale (POS): Installing on a computer system. 6/4/03
View Active Estimating (AE): Installing on a computer system. 8/28/03
Updating Software:
View Active Accounting: how to stay up to date. 6/17/03
View Point-of-Sale: how to stay up to date. 6/18/03
View Active Estimating: how to stay up to date. 6/18/03
View Applied main Update from website but UDS version number remains unchanged. 6/19/03
View When attempting to apply an Update messages appear: "Can't Create Output File", "Open" or "in use". 6/16/03
View "Running" the Main Control File Program: what it means and what is involved. 6/18/03
Hardware:
View Budgeting for Hardware Notes. 7/9/03
View Hardware Recommendations to support Active Applications. 6/19/03
View Network Management and Support. 6/16/03
View The Joys of Thermal Printing. 5/16/00
Modify Layout:
View Using the Play Tabs to speed your work. 6/18/03
Account Payable:
View Save a step creating a new Invoice when Voiding an AP Check. 6/17/03
Accounts Receivable:
View Modifying Cash Receipts Record w/no Customer. 8/11/03
View AR Open invoices Report or Customer Balances Report presents "Out of Balance" error. 4/7/04
Billing:
Customer:
Download An Example of a Tagmaker Tag Design for Customer-Item users. 12/010/04
Estimating:
View Bid Take Off Program. A remote process for recording information from blueprints. 4/3/04
General Ledger:
View General Ledger Transaction Report error "Out of Balance". 6/15/04
View Regular I/C Statement differs from Unformatted Income Statement? 7/15/03
View Balance Sheet Doesn't Balance. 7/14/03
View General Ledger transaction Posting error "Account Not Found". 6/20/03
View General Ledger transaction Posting error "Debits Not Equal Credits". 6/20/03
View Procedure for using "G/L Transaction Transfer" an Enhancement to Closing the G/L Year End. 1/13/03
View Year End Procedure for Current AA Versions. (Versions 6, 7, 8, and 9)
View Year End Procedure for AA Version 5.1. This is considered an obsolete version of AA and support is limited.
Inventory:
View "Serial Inventory" Creating Serial Inventory records for verification in Active Accounting and sale through POS system. 10/28/2004
View "Inventory Methods" 4 alternative Methods of Managing Inventory and their relationship to Order Fulfillment are explained critiqued. 03/08/04
View "Catalog Inventory" provides the ability to create groups of items that can be used like inventory for creating Orders or Invoices. 03/29/05
Inquisitor:
View Advanced tools for selecting records within a report format (design).
Job Costing:
View AA Version 7 Job Costing General Ledger Enhancement 03/03/2004
Orders:
View Order Dig List Report Help 10/27/03
Planning:
Purchase Order:
Payroll:
View Can Payroll import Time Clock data? 10/20/03
Shipping:
View Ship Load Order Pull Confirmation Help
TagMaker + Deluxe:
View Importing preexisting Tag Designs to TagMaker + Deluxe 05/06/04
Point of Sale:
View "Serial Inventory" Creating Serial Inventory records for verification in Active Accounting and sale through POS system. 10/28/2004
View Making a "Payment On Account" using POS 10/05/04
View "Selecting Inventory Locations" to Sell from using POS 10/05/04
View " Account Types as Sales Types" can Disperse POS Sales to Multiple G/L Accounts. 3/16/04
View POS Posting not Working. 7/23/03
View Using Inventory Locations with POS application. 7/30/03
View Sales Tax and POS 10/16/03
View Internal Sale Process begins with POS 12/16/04