Hi All. Does anyone out there have an answer to the to the following irritants :-
When printing address labels , the first record always starts on the left hand corner of the label sheet. Which is OK when printing a batch, but if one only wants to print a single label, it renders the rest of the sticky label sheet unusable. What crashingly obvious fix/method am I missing ?
I have a few customer, supplier and item records created (and posted to) in error. As they have activity (even tho' netted to zero) they cannot be simply deleted. Surely there must be a method of preventing further postings to these records (making inactive ? Hiding ?). All else has failed, so I have read the manual. But to no avail. Again, what have I missed ?
"When printing address labels , the first record always starts on the left hand corner of the label sheet. Which is OK when printing a batch, but if one only wants to print a single label, it renders the rest of the sticky label sheet unusable. What crashingly obvious fix/method am I missing ?"
I can't see any obvious solution to that, other than modifying the report each time so that the record printed happens to line up with the first available label.
Another trick might be to have a number of 'blank' accounts, so that if you are printing to a sheet with (say) the first five labels gone, you make sure you print five blank records first. You'd therefore need one less than the number of labels on a sheet to cover all possibilities (eg for a 3x6 sheet of labels, you'd potentially want up to 17 blank accounts).
I think having all those blank accounts would be a bit annoying, though.
"I have a few customer, supplier and item records created (and posted to) in error. As they have activity (even tho' netted to zero) they cannot be simply deleted. Surely there must be a method of preventing further postings to these records (making inactive ? Hiding ?). All else has failed, so I have read the manual. But to no avail. Again, what have I missed ?"
You can set a customer and supplier record as being on hold. (Go to the supplier/customer record, it's in the "Credit Control" tab). You can still post transactions to these accounts, but Sage warns you.
You can then hide the records by using the search button at the bottom of the suppliers and customers screens (search for "Account on hold" is equal to "no" and "apply").
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Vince M Hudd - Soft Rock Software
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Don't know about stock items - but I'd imagine you could use a similar trick with the search button to hide all stock items matching a particular criteria.
Perhaps set all the stock items you don't want visible to a particular category, and use a search that excludes that particular category.
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Vince M Hudd - Soft Rock Software
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There is no way to really solve it in Sage, however if you have Excel, then you can build a printing tool in there, where you can say which label to start printing at. You can set the data range using criteria, on a non printing part of the sheet, and set which label to start at in the same way.
I have used this to print entire Sales orders onto large labels for t cards as well as less complex needs, you need to be doing it pretty often to warrant spending time setting it all up.
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