ACT 2006 FUNCTIONS INSIDE OUTLOOK
18Feb
ACT! 2006
ACT! 2006 is the most recent evolution of the ACT! Software for managing business contacts. ACT! was originally released over 18 years ago as a basic contact and customer management program. Over the years it has evolved to include more sales management functions. The current developers of ACT! 2006 have taken advantage of some newer technologies, but some changes will not be welcome by existing ACT! users that are looking for more in the new version and instead find less.
ACT! 2006 has my data
The newest evolution of ACT! Software is utilizing a SQL d atabase for information storage. While this brings ACT! 2006 into the new millennium, it comes at a cost. Users of older versions of ACT! Software are used to being able to export their data in several formats. You used to be able to export your ACT! data as comma separated values or even Excel. With ACT! 2006 you can export your data only as text delimited, and only for the basic ACT! information. If you have created custom fields in ACT! 2006, you may not be able to export that data for use in other programs ... [more..]
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