Copy your Favourites to a new location

Within Sage 50 Accounts you can add reports you use frequently to a list of favourites. This means you can run those reports straight from the Favourites menu rather than browsing to the relevant reports area.The reports listed in the Favourites menu are stored in the folder C:\Documents and Settings\USER NAME\Local Settings\Application Data\Sage\Sage Report Designer 2007\SageLine50vxx, where USER NAME is the user name logged in on the PC and xx is the version of the Sage 50 Accounts software. This folder is not automatically backed up with your Sage data, and therefore, if you reinstall Sage 50 Accounts on a new PC and restore the data, the Favourites are not recreated automatically. Also, as the Favourites list is stored in the local settings directory for the user name, if a different user...

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How to merge Sage 50 Accounts 2009 data with Microsoft Word

To create a new Microsoft Word document from within Sage Accounts Open the relevant module, for example, Customers then select the records to be exported to Microsoft Word.The selected records are highlighted.From the File menu, choose Office Integration, Contents to Microsoft Word, then choose New Document.A new Microsoft Word document opens.Complete the Microsoft Word document, adding your Sage Accounts fields as detailed below:To view the list of fields that can be used, from the Microsoft Word toolbar, click Insert Merge Field.A drop-down list appears, displaying all of the Sage Accounts fields that can be merged with Microsoft Word.Note: The fields available to merge are from the Customer or Supplier Records and are not transactional.To insert a field, place your cursor at the relevant...

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