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Featured This Month 

* ACT! Link for QuickBooks ? Now Available!
  http://www.act.com/qblink

* ACT! Link for QuickBooks Training
  http://university.pinpointtools.com/qblink.htm

* How to Link ACT! with QuickBooks
  http://www.theactbuzz.com/qblink.asp

* How to Change the Order of Tab Stops
  http://www.actnews.com
 
* How to Use ACT! with a Blackberry Device 
  http://www.wires-end.com/act_bb/intro.htm

* ACT! Fanatic User Stories
  http://www.act.com/fanatic

* New ACT! Solution for Home Builders
  http://www.act.com/homebuilders


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ACT! Link for QuickBooks ? Now Available!

For so many of you that use ACT! and QuickBooks to run your business, we
have a real treat for you!  ACT! Link for QuickBooks integrates ACT! with
the U.S. versions of QuickBooks Pro 2002 and QuickBooks Premier 2002 so you
can share contact and accounting information between the two products.  You
can see how it works by clicking on the link below and watching the demo.
Many thanks to the hundreds of ACT! and QuickBooks users who helped us
design, develop, and test this new product.  It?s available now at a
special introductory price of $99.95US.

To purchase or learn more about ACT! Link for QuickBooks, please visit:

http://www.act.com/qblink


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ACT! Link for QuickBooks Training

To further support you in getting the most out of ACT! Link, pinpoint tools
is offering "Webinars" to teach you how to configure it correctly, show you
its capabilities, and make it work for your company.  A "webinar" is like a
class, a seminar, and a 1-on-1 session with a trainer, done over the
Internet.  While you're listening on your telephone, Pinpoint University's
LIVE instructor shows you on-screen how to accomplish a task.  You can ask
questions, and hear the other students ask their questions, just like a
regular classroom, only you're connected via the Internet and phone.  

For more information, please visit:

http://university.pinpointtools.com/qblink.htm


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Linking ACT! to QuickBooks Pro/Premier 2002 
by Douglas Wolf of The ACT! buzz
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If you?ve already downloaded ACT! Link for QuickBooks or are thinking about
it, this article from Douglas Wolf of the ACT! buzz will provide you with
detailed information on getting ACT! Link for QuickBooks to work for you
and your business.
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To read the full article on The ACT! Buzz, please visit:
http://www.theactbuzz.com/qblink.asp 

The full article was provided by Douglas Wolf of the ACT! buzz. The ACT!
buzz is an online content community for ACT! users. It features Douglas
Wolf, author of the book, "How to do Everything With ACT!". Douglas is also
an ACT! Certified Consultant. 

You can sign up for FREE newsletters at:
http://www.theactbuzz.com/subscribe.asp.


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Changing the Order of the Tab and Group Stops by Jeffrey J. Mayer

If you?ve ever wanted to change the order in which your cursor moves from
field to field when you press the Tab or Enter keys, this tip is for you.
What you?ll want to do is change the Tab Stops or the Group Stops.

This is how you do it:
1. Select Design Layouts from the ACT! Tools menu.
2.  Select Edit, Field Entry Order, Show from the menu bar to display
 the Tab and Group Stops within the layout.

 Within each field on the layout two little gray boxes appear at the
 field's right-hand edge. The Tab Stop box has a number that
 designates its position in the Tab Stop sequence. If a field is set
 as a Group Stop, a red dot appears in the gray box just to the left
 of the numbered Tab Stop.

3.  Click the number on the fields whose tab order you want to change,
 and the number disappears.

 ACT!Tip: If you double-click either the Tab Stop number or the
 Group Stop sign, the Object Properties dialog box appears. Click
 Cancel to make it go away.

4.  Click the fields in the new order in which you want the cursor to
 move when you press the Tab key. ACT! inserts a new number.

Adding and removing Group Stops is just as simple. To add a Group Stop,
just click the Group Stop button, and the red dot appears. To remove a
Group Stop, just click the Group Stop button, and the red dot disappears.

Here are some additional things you can do with Tab and Group Stops:
* Clear your Tab and Group Stops: Select Edit, Field Entry Order,
 Clear. Then click the fields in the order in which you want the
 cursor to move when you press the Tab or Enter keys.
*  Reset your Tab and Group Stops: Select Edit, Field Entry Order,
 Reset. 
*  Hide your Tab and Group Stops: After you set your Tab and Group
 Stops, you can make them disappear by selecting Edit, Field Entry
 Order, Hide.

This tip was provided by Jeffrey Mayer, and is excerpted from his newest
ACT! eBook "Customizing Your ACT! Database". To order and download Jeff's
new ACT! & Business eBooks "Growing Your Business With ACT!", "Getting
Organized With SideACT!", "ACT! Power User Tips" and "Opening Doors with a
Brilliant Elevator Speech", please visit:

http://www.1shoppingcart.com/app/aftrack.asp?AFID=19297.


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How to Use ACT! with a Blackberry Device by Martin Trautschold and Ned
Johnson

If you?re not yet familiar with the Blackberry wireless e-mail device, you
can learn more at http://www.blackberry.net.  If you already have one or
are considering one, you should know that you can access your ACT!
contacts, notes and history items from a Blackberry and respond to your
customers' e-mail messages up to 95% faster when you?re out of the office. 
The full article linked to below provides step-by-step instructions for
getting ACT! to work with a Blackberry device.

To read the full article, please visit:
http://www.wires-end.com/act_bb/intro.htm


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ACT! Fanatic User Stories

Thanks to so many of you for sharing how ACT! helps you run your day and
your business.  Here are a few stories from ACT! Fanatics that will give
you ideas to help make ACT! work even better for you.

Why I'm an ACT! Fanatic from Alex K.

?We have been a faithful ACT! user since 1997. We have been able to
customize our ACT! user fields to meet our very specific business needs. We
are able to organize all of our customers by group and easily create
specialized mailings targeting any group we have created. We also use the
scheduling feature in a network situation, so all of us are able to
schedule service calls from any one of the network stations. As a database
manager, ACT! is second to none and without a doubt has made our business
more profitable and easier to operate.?

Why I'm an ACT! Fanatic from Robert F.

?Among other things, I use ACT! for sending out faxes and e-mails to
promote concerts for the choir I am in.  Because ACT! integrates with
WinFax Pro and Word, I can create a template for the notice in Word, sort
out which media contacts I want to send the notice to in ACT!, merge the
two and have the notices sent automatically with WinFax Pro.  After the
faxes are sent, I have a report detailing the job including which faxes
were not received.  Integrating ACT! templates with Word really simplifies
a lot of my work and saves me a lot of time.

Why I'm an ACT! Fanatic from Dennis K.

ACT 2000! is my ONE STOP--it's the place where I access my database, keep
my calendar in order, handle my e-mail and faxes, track my sales efforts
... and NOW, thanks to these cool "add-ons,"  I can effectively download
data quickly via egrabber and listgrabber, send e-mails in HTML form, and,
transfer info to my Palm Pilot.?

If you?d like to tell us why you?re an ACT! Fanatic, please visit:
http://www.act.com/fanatic


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New ACT! Solution for Home Builders

If you?re in the residential home building industry, there is a neat
product that you may want to take a look at.  It?s called Trans/ACT! Home
Builder software, and it allows you to enter the prospect's name, home
preferences, customization requests, family financials, and other
relationship information on custom ACT! data entry screens. You can even
add photos of your model homes to the data gathering screens.
To learn more about Trans/ACT! Home Builder software and other ACT!
Solutions, please visit:
http://www.act.com/homebuilders


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