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Microsoft Dynamics GP 2016 Cookbook

By : Mark Polino, Ian Grieve
Book Image

Microsoft Dynamics GP 2016 Cookbook

By: Mark Polino, Ian Grieve

Overview of this book

The latest release of Dynamics GP 2016 offers a powerful, adaptable, and cloud enabled enterprise accounting software solution. The new version has experienced changes in serviced-based architecture, workflow, existing functionalities, and the introduction of plenty of new features. This book will help you get the most out of Dynamics GP quickly and effectively. This book picks up where implementation training leaves off. Whether you are new or experienced, you will find useful recipes to improve the way you use and work with Dynamics GP. 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 you 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, connecting Dynamics GP to Microsoft Office, exposing hidden features in Dynamics GP, PowerBI, and much more!
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Microsoft Dynamics GP 2016 Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Building analyses by exporting SmartLists to Microsoft Excel


Continuing a simple to complex theme, we move on to another straightforward process, exporting SmartLists to Microsoft Excel. Dynamics GP allows users to export any SmartList to Excel with the simple push of a button. In this recipe, we'll look at how to export SmartLists and some of the considerations surrounding exports.

How to do it…

Exporting a SmartList to Excel is easy to do. Here are the steps to do it:

  1. Select the SmartList icon from the menu bar at the top or select MicrosoftDynamics GP menu from the top and click on SmartList.

  2. Select Financial |Account Summary from the SmartList window.

  3. Once the SmartList finishes loading, click the Excel button.

  4. Dynamics GP will export the data to Excel in the same order and with the same columns as the SmartList.

  5. Once the export is complete, Excel will open with the completed data:

How it works…

The simplicity of the export to Excel process belies the power of this feature. Other applications...