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Microsoft Dynamics GP 2016 Cookbook

By : Mark Polino, Ian Grieve
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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

Gaining flexibility by printing documents with Microsoft Word


A feature introduced in Dynamics GP 2010 was the ability to print sales and purchasing documents using Microsoft Word templates instead of Report Writer reports; Dynamics GP 2013 adds a number of additional Microsoft Word templates. 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 for Word templates.

How to do it…

To print an invoice using a Word template in the GP 2013 sample company, follow these steps:

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

  2. On the Sales Area page, click Sales Transaction Entry under Transactions.

  3. Change Type ID to Invoice.

  4. Use the lookup button (magnifying glass) to select...