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QuickBooks is an exceptionally good and well known piece of accounting software.  I have found that many things can be accomplished with QuickBooks if you are willing to think outside the box to get them done. We all know that inventory is an important part of any business.  It must be tracked and accounted for [...]

[Set up Items Part 1][Export to Excel Part 3] In part one of our inventory reorder system series, we learned how to set our items up to have reorder points and max reorder quantities. Now we need be able to generate a report so that we know what needs to be reorder and how many [...]

[Set up Items Part 1][Generate Report Part 2] In the first two parts of our series, we determined that QuickBooks does not have an all-in-one function to give you a report on items that need to be reordered.  Because of this deficiency, we have developed a system to generate a list in QuickBooks, export it [...]

Unless you live in a secluded cave in the middle of nowhere, you have undoubtedly heard of a little program called QuickBooks by Intuit. This program comes in a variety of different flavors to suit your personal and/or business needs. This software can be surprisingly simple to use with little to no effort. In a [...]

Roaming profiles allow us to access files that we often use on any computer joined to the network, easily replace old computers, and provide greater network security. There are on occasion, special circumstances that cause the log-on/log-off synchronization process of these profiles to fail. Generally when this happens the icon pictured fourth from the left [...]

The network I administer at work has an even mix of new and old computers. The problem with the older computers are the small hard drives and low amount of memory. I constantly have employees telling me that their computers are running slower than normal and that they are getting low resources error messages. Below [...]

I had a user this week that was experiencing trouble with Outlook. Every time they opened the program they received a prompt similar to the one below. Exchange is currently in recovery mode. You can either connect to your Exchange server using the network, work offline, or cancel this logon. Not only was the prompt [...]

Have you ever needed to rename a bulk quantity of files and/or folders? In my day to day life, I use template folder structures to contain various aspects of job information. Before these folders are usable, I must add a unique job name to the beginning of the folder and/or file name to make searching [...]

If you have been browsing the internet for any period of time, I’m sure you have heard of cookies. Even though you may not be entirely sure what they do, you certainly know how to delete them. Right? Cookies are files websites save on your computer that contain information about you. There are several legitimate [...]