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Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 Cookbook

By : Mark Polino
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Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 Cookbook

By: Mark Polino

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dynamics GP is an Enterprise Resource Planning system, essentially an accounting system on steroids, designed for mid-sized organizations. The implementation of Dynamics GP is usually considered to be complex, and people often realize there must be more efficient ways of working with the system. This book will show readers how to improve their use of Dynamics GP and get the most out of this tool quickly and effectively.This book picks up where implementation training leaves off. Whether you are new or experienced you will find useful recipes for improving the way you use and work with Dynamics GP. The clear recipe steps and screenshots make implementing these solutions easy for users of any level and will be sure to improve your efficiency with the Dynamics GP system.The book starts with recipes designed to enhance the usefulness of Microsoft Dynamics GP by personalizing the look and feel of the application. Most of the recipes are designed to give tips for a typical installation of Dynamics GP, including core financials and distribution modules. The book then moves through recipes that include automating Dynamics GP to allow users or administrators to focus on value adding tasks, harnessing the power of SmartLists to leverage both simplicity and power, connecting Dynamics GP to Microsoft Office 2007, exposing hidden features in Dynamics GP, and much more!By following the clear recipe steps and screenshots in this book, you will learn what is required to improve your efficiency with the Dynamics GP system
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
Preface
Index

Gaining flexibility by printing documents with Microsoft Word


A new feature in Dynamics GP 2010 is the ability to print sales and purchasing documents using Microsoft Word templates instead of Report Writer reports. The use of Microsoft Word to create documents provides greater flexibility in field placement, logo use, and formatting. Users can now print phenomenal looking documents such as orders, invoices, and purchase orders with Word as the backbone.

For this recipe, we’ll look at how to print an invoice using Microsoft Word and the sample company. Then we’ll look at some of the setup options around Word templates.

How to do it...

To print an invoice using a Word template in the GP 2010 sample company:

  1. Select Sales from the Navigation Pane on the left.

  2. On the Sales Area Page click on Sales Transaction Entry under Transactions.

  3. Change Type/Type ID to Invoice.

  4. Use the lookup button (indicated by a magnifying glass) to select invoice INVS3014 from the sample company:

  5. Click on the Printer icon...