Learn About AccountMate Enterprise Help

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Learn About AccountMate Enterprise Help

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AccountMate Enterprise Help is one of your main sources of information for learning how to use AccountMate Enterprise. It describes how to perform a wide variety of tasks—from creating a journal entry to closing a period.

 

Using Help

 

You can access AccountMate Enterprise Help by pressing F1 when your cursor is on the function that you need help on or you can go to Help under the File menu and select AccountMate Enterprise 2015 Help. It can also be accessed in the following ways:

 

Table of Contents - find topics listed in the Contents view

Keyword Index - choose from a list of keywords in the Index tab

Full-text Search -  search for specific words or phrases by using the Search function

AccountMate Website - If you still can't find the Help topic you want, you can look for more help on the Education section in the AccountMate website.

 

 

Conventions

 

AccountMate Enterprise Help uses these conventions to distinguish elements of text:

 

Convention

Used For

Bold text

Names of modules, menus, functions, windows, tabs, fields, checkboxes, etc.

Blue text

Link that can be clicked to access another topic

Green text

In-line toggle text

 

 

In the AccountMate Enterprise Help Table of Contents, topics are organized in a hierarchical structure by module.

 

Search Tips

 

You can search AccountMate Enterprise Help for words or phrases by using the Search function.  The Search function is useful when you look for instructions about something specific. For example, if you're setting up the General Ledger module, you can find helpful information if you search for topics that contain the words "set up" and "general ledger."

 

Searching for a Word

 

To simply search for a word in the help file, click the Search function, type the word in the text box, and click Submit or press ENTER. If the word occurs in the help file, the titles of the appropriate topics appear in the box below. Click a title to view the topic in a separate frame; the word(s) for which you searched will be highlighted.

 

In the Search function, you may narrow your search further by following the tips listed below:

 

 

Search type

Example Search

When to Use

Single word

installation

 

When you want to search for all occurrences of a word.

 

Quotation marks

"Post Journal Entry"

 

When you want to search an exact phrase.

 

 

 

Additional Search Tips

 

You can limit your search even more with the options at the bottom of the Search tab.

 

 

 

 

 

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