Product Description

• ACT! organizes customer information in one place, providing instant access to names, phone numbers, addresses, appointments, call histories, follow-up activities, and more
• Explores ACT!'s features, including a ready-to-use contact database with search capabilities; Internet links; mail, fax, and e-mail merge; synchronization with Palm OS handhelds; integration with Outlook and other popular products; report generation; and a customizable database
• Latest edition of this successful title shows business professionals how to use ACT!'s new e-mail features, new active libraries, and improved Internet services and Outlook integration

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #146827 in Books
• Published on: 2003-03-10
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 384 pages

From the Back Cover
Track sales, create reports, and organize your life

Get your calendar, phone lists, mailing labels, and more into the ACT!

This award-winning software helps you manage both your business and your life. With this book, getting your ACT! together is easy! Find out how to enter and manage your client contact list, generate reports and mailings, cross-reference your schedule, access the Internet and e-mail, and personalize your ACT!

The Dummies Way

• Explanations in plain English
• "Get in, get out" information
• Icons and other navigational aids
• Tear-out cheat sheet
• Top ten lists
• A dash of humor and fun

About the Author
Karen S. Fredricks is president of Tech Benders, LLC, which specializes in ACT!, QuickBooks, and Microsoft Office training. She hosted the Florida stop on the ACT! 6 National Launch Tour.

Customer Reviews

Honest help for Act 6
This is a great reference with a lot of useful tips. It's not afriad to point out some of Act's shortcomings. This is really useful when you're trying to do something that should be easy and obvious (like look up some sales/opportunities and then run a report based on your look-up) and you can't figure out how to do it. The ACT manual is no help because it can't be done, so of course they don't have any instructions on how to do it.

Act for Dummies is honest about what Act can and cannot do and offers great work arounds, tips and shortcuts. The author's website is also a lot of help.

No information on synchronizing
While this book does explain how to manage contacts, there is absolutely no information on the most difficult part of Act!: How to synchronize. Do not buy this book if you are looking how share databases with other users. Although there is a chapter titled, "Sharing information with others", there is no mention of how to synchronize!

CUT TO THE CHASE AND BUY THIS BOOK
ACT6! for Dummies is not only extremely informative, it is fun and easy to read. It is a great starting place to learn the many aspects of the program and it is a great reference once you are using the program regularly. If you can figure out how to use this program to its fullest by using the book supplied by ACT, you are probably not in sales, you have a lot of extra time on your hands, and you love to watch paint dry. Unless you are selling real estate in South Florida and one of my competitors, buy ACT6! for Dummies and get yourself on track fast.