Sage 50 allows you to preview lists of records and transactions to screen. With each list you can add a record or transaction, edit an existing record or transaction, find information, perform a task, print a report, or make modifications to the fields and their order.
You can customize your list in many ways. Any changes you make will be saved specifically for you, and all users can have different settings depending on their access rights to the company data. In addition, if you have several companies, you can have different settings for each list for each company.
You can add fields to a list by following these steps.
You can remove fields from the list by following these steps.
What do you want to do?
You can rearrange the fields from left to right in two ways:
1) Simply click a field label, holding the mouse button down, and drag the field to the new spot.
2) Click the Settings button and use the Move Up and Move Down buttons to move the fields on the list to the right up and down. Click OK. when you are done rearranging the fields in this way.
To change the order in which records sort, either ascending or descending, and the field on which they will sort, simply click the field label that you want to use for sorting. This will bring up an arrow triangle, pointing up, showing that records are now sorted by this field in an ascending order, that is, from a to z. Click the field label again to change the sort order to descending, from z to a.
You can resize a column by following these steps:
To add a record or transaction to the list
Note: You can also open the Maintain or Task window by right-clicking the mouse and selecting to Add.
To edit a record in the list
Note: You can also open a record or task simply by double-clicking it in the list.
Use the search features to find information on a list. For transactions, such as sales invoices, you can search by Date Range, Status, and/or a particular piece of information. For records, you can search for a particular piece of information.
Note: This field is not case sensitive. Typing land, for instance, will call up values with land, Land, and LAND for the field specified.
Tip: You can do searches for multiple items also. For instance, you want to find all invoices with an ID between 10200 and 10299. You can type 102 in the Search For field and select Invoice ID. Then click Search. All invoices with 102 as part of the Invoice ID will appear.
Note: This field is not case sensitive. Typing land, for instance, will call up values with land, Land, and LAND for the field specified.
Tip: You can do searches for multiple items also. For instance, you want to find all invoices with an ID between 10200 and 10299. You can type 102 in the Search For field and select Invoice ID. Then click Search. All invoices with 102 as part of the Invoice ID will appear.
To print a list
To send the list in an email
To export the list to Microsoft Excel
To convert your list to a PDF file
You can do this in one of two ways:
A list of the most commonly-used reports for the current list appears in the pane on the left. To view one of these reports, simply click the report name.