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Quickbooks Accounting SoftwareTips- Any Version 

Tips

• Buy a bookkeeping basics book.  Then learn the software

• If you hire someone to teach you the software, make sure they have been doing that for more than 5 years.

• Ask your Acccount to review the QuickBooks Chart of Account List that was built for you when you started your QuickBooks file.

• Learn how to run and understand the different Reports, such as: Profit & Loss Statement, Balance Sheet Report, and Trial Balance Report

Vista (the New Windows) Tips

• The large LOGO in the lower right corner of the screen is the "START" Button

• If you have opened one of the Microsoft Office programs, look in the upper left corner of your computer screen, that LOGO is your Office BUTTON, it reveals how to create NEW, OPEN, SAVE, SAVE AS, PRINT PREVIEW, PRINT & CLOSE you documents

Microsoft Office Tips 

•   Learn Cut, Copy, Past Feature
  
  
•  File, Save As...Feature allows you to rename a document so that you have a copy of the original document to make your changes without losing the original unchanged document.
  
  
• If you have upgraded recently from Microsoft Office 2003 to Office 2007, you will no longer find the very helpul OFFICE 2007 INTERACTIVE USER GUIDE on the Microsoft website, so call me at 702-561-9353 or send me an email at margebellamy@hotmail.com and I will attach a copy of this great guide via email.
  
  
• If you haven't used Microsoft Office for a long time, hire a tutor to help you catch up to the skills needed in today's average office.
  
  
• Word is used to type up documents
  
  
• Excel is a program with the ability to calculate numbers and keep track of large lists
  
  
• PowerPoint helps you build presenation Slides (like the old fashioned overhead slides) using your computer.
  
  
• Outlook is a program to receive your Email messages, as well as to schedule appts, add contact information and keep track of important tasks.