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Linking Sage 50 Accounts with Microsoft Office is a one-day course. Our price is £130.00 (Sage's RRP is £265.00). Book today to save with us.Linking Sage 50 Accounts with Microsoft Office

» Overview: Create professional documentation, dynamically linked to your live Sage Accounts data.

» What do I learn?

Learn everything you need to know about how Microsoft® Office can integrate with Sage 50 Accounts. It includes dynamically linking spreadsheets in Excel, running mail merges in Word and creating live links to PowerPoint presentations.

» By the end of this course you will:

  • Have had a basic introduction to the ODBC (Open DataBase Connectivity) driver
  • Be able to navigate around the menu options available in Microsoft® Query
  • Know how to update the live link between the query and Sage 50 Accounts using the refresh option
  • Understand how to add both single and multiple calculations to a query, then return the data to Microsoft® Excel and format the cells
  • Be able to run a mail merge within Microsoft® Word to link the data in Sage 50 Accounts to a Word document
  • Know how to create labelled envelopes from the names and addresses in Sage 50 Accounts
  • Understand how to use the If…Then…Else statement within Microsoft® Word
  • Be able to use multiple tables within Microsoft® Excel and join the tables together
  • Know how to use the cycle through totals option in Microsoft® Query
  • Be able to create graphs in Microsoft® Excel based on data from Sage 50 Accounts and create a live link to Microsoft® PowerPoint
  • Know how to create pivot tables and charts in Microsoft® Excel to dynamically interrogate the Sage 50 Accounts data
  • Know how to add criteria to select specific data from Sage 50 Accounts
  • Be able to set up parameter queries to enable specific ranges to be entered when requesting data from Sage 50 Accounts

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Link Sage 50 Accs - MS OfficeN.London02/08/20101 day30
Link Sage 50 Accs - MS OfficeCroydon09/09/20101 day107
Link Sage 50 Accs - MS OfficeReading23/09/20101 day108
Link Sage 50 Accs - MS OfficeManchester24/09/20101 day120
Link Sage 50 Accs - MS OfficeN.London29/09/20101 day127

Linking Sage 50 Accounts with Microsoft Office is a one-day course. Our price is £130.00 (Sage's RRP is £265.00).

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Detailed course content

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Linking Sage 50 Accounts to Excel and Word course session 1 - Introduction to the ODBC Driver and MS Query

  • The Drivers and Language used in the Link
  • The Default Data Source Name and Data Path
  • Finding the Data Path
  • Creating New Data Source Names

Linking Sage 50 Accounts to Excel and Word course session 2 - Linking Sage 50 Accounts With Microsoft Excel

  • Accessing Sage Accounts data from Microsoft Excel
  • An overview of Microsoft Query
  • Building a data query
  • Returning the data to Microsoft Excel
  • Creating a Query without using the Query Wizard

Linking Sage 50 Accounts to Excel and Word course session 3 - Using Expressions

  • Using Expressions to Perform a Calculation
  • Using Multiple Expressions
  • Formatting cells in Excel

Linking Sage 50 Accounts to Excel and Word course session 4 - Creating Mail Merges & Using Criteria

  • Creating a Mail Merge Letter in MS Word
  • Using Criteria in a Query to Limit the Records Required
  • Building the Mail Merge Document
  • MS Word Functions - If...Then...Else
  • Creating Labelled Envelopes

Linking Sage 50 Accounts to Excel and Word course session 5 - Using Multiple Tables

  • Selecting Multiple Tables
  • Joining Tables
  • Viewing Joins

Linking Sage 50 Accounts to Excel and Word course session 6 - Totalling Data and Graphs

  • Using Sage Custom Fields in a Query
  • Cycle Through Totals
  • Creating Graphs in MS Excel
  • Live Links to Microsoft PowerPoint
  • Cycle Through Totals on an Expression

Linking Sage 50 Accounts to Excel and Word course session 7 - Using Pivot Tables and Charts

  • Creating a Pivot Chart with a Pivot Table
  • Building the Query with Multiple Tables
  • Selecting the Tables and Variables
  • Adding Sorts and Multiple Criteria
  • Creating the Pivot Table

Linking Sage 50 Accounts to Excel and Word course session 8 - Parameter Queries

  • Building a Multi-Table Query
  • Switching off Automatic Query
  • Creating Parameter Queries
  • Changing the Parameters in Excel
  • Producing Totals in the Report
  • Applying Autofilters


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