• Emailing reports

Emailing reports does require a little setting up and understanding the options can help you be smarter and quicker and using this valuable method of communication. 

• Backing Up

Failed backups cause so much grief, so many systems don't work, PLEASE READ THIS because a backup will be your best friend one day and with it you will be VERY upset. 

• Passwords

We need to use passwords for allsorts of things but we finding out everyday that one of our friends has had their email hacked.  you can have a really tough to crack password that is easy to remember, you just need to read this guide.

• Importing into Sage 50

Sage 50 provides a simple import facility and there are third party additions to do advanced importing

• Guide to using the keyboard instead of the mouse

The mouse is an excellent tool, however, if you have a hundred invoices to post and an hour an a half to do it in using the keyboard is a lot faster.

• Guide to creating a mail merge from Sage in Word

Would you like to be able to used the database in sage to mail your customers, you can! You can also incorporate and select using information from the customer accounts such as turnover.

• Linking Excel to Sage 
  • Who has had what pivot table  

  This example (includes the sheets) shows how pivot tables in excel can slice and dice information.  You can see who bought how much, product lines that some customers do not buy, Which lines sell best, seasonal trends and lots more.  This working example should get you on the road to getting the information you.

• Linking Excel to Sage 
  • Simple nominal link

This is the most simple form of link and a great place to start if you want to understand the process of linking.

• Comfort and Health and Safety
  • Adjusting your computer to avoid issues

• Report Designer Expressions, some are missing, some are vague, this hopes to clarify things.

• Setting up the Bank Reconciliation

A quick guide to setting up the Bank Reconciliation for the first time

• Guide to doing a Year end

  How to do a year end, step by step including creating archives and clearing old data

• Guide to the VAT Return Process:

Fuels Scales Charges, The Return & VAT Journal

• What nominal code do I use?

A quick guide to the nominal ledger codes in Sage 50

• What VAT code should I use?

A non authoritative description of how the tax code sin sage should be used in the UK

• Management Accounts Primer

This primer aims to take you through some of the common procedures required to turn bookkeeping records into valuable management accounts.

• Wages Journals
  
  Why do them? This article explores the pros and cons of doing a wages journal and may shed some light on why they are the way they are and what the advantage is.

• Using the Fixed Asset Register

The Fixed Assets register is a great tool, if you don't add depreciation to your accounts then this is probably the most important step to getting more realistic accounting information.  If you do it by hand then this will save you time and stop silly error like depreciating assets beyond zero value.

• Using search for Credit Control Letters

A quick guide to successfully producing up to three (gentle, firm, final) credit control letters.

• Credit Management 

  Quick and simple guide to credit management in Sage 50 

• Guide to finding the company file

The easy way to find your datapath is to go to help and about, but if you want to change the path to the data the easy way is to edit the company file, but how do you find it?

• Guide to setting up Network Setup working

  If you upgrade to V2012 or do not use the setup wizard to share your data this feature disappears, this guide will help you get it back.

• Clean reinstall

Sage 50 leaves stuff behind when you uninstall normally and as a result this can lead to a reinstall not working, this guide covers how to remove all traces of sage so that a fresh clean install can be done (fixes most installation problems)

•  What to do when you have Errors

Dealing with errors in Sage 50 Data

• Common Errors

Common problems and quick fixes

• Sage Performance

How to get sage to go faster

• Anti Virus Configuration

Sage is slow and your Anti Virus software will slow it down even more, unless you use this guide to exclude certain files form the scan.

• PC Performance

Sage is slow our Sage performance article will help you to get it to run faster, but there are simple things you can do to make your PC go faster.

• Updates Guide

  Keeping your system up to date is the best way to prevent problems in the first place.

• Where is the problem?

A guide to problem solving and isolation with Sage 50