Archive for April, 2013
Gathering Ideas for Blogs and Social Media – Information Ninja tips
For the past two years I have been increasing my involvement in social business. In the process I also kicked up the amount of blog articles I write. When we switched our website to a WordPress engine, it made sense to keep blogging current. And it has worked in increasing the amount of traffic to […]
Moving the Sage ACT Index files from the C Drive
On a lot of Servers hosting ACT, the database lives on a different drive than C. This is because C drives are typically kept smaller. However, SQL likes to store things on the C Drive even if you load the database on a different drive. Included in this are the index files that are generated […]
ACT Client versus Web differences
We get this question so often I thought I’d post a blog article showing the main differences. ACT for Windows has more options because it runs on the Windows platform. The web version, being accessed via a browser will have limitations because of the browser interface. Quite a bit of functionality is in the Web […]
Quick Excel Trick of the week – results not showing in a cell
Ever typed in a formula in a cell and get no results? Me too. You have checked to ensure Automatic Calculation is turned on. You have hit F9 to force a recalculation And it still doesn’t show up. This will often happen on spreadsheets that have had data imported or the spreadsheet was created […]
Using Google forms – Roll your own surveys
Google Drive is the new “Google Docs” where you can store and share spreadsheets, documents, PDFs, etc. One of the options I bet you haven’t tried or noticed is the ability to create forms. These forms can be used to capture information that can be sent or stored on a spreadsheet. Surveys are a good […]