Make Life Easier for Yourself with Microsoft Dynamics GP 10: Five Habits to Break in the New Year

by Mark Polino, Principal Consultant, I.B.I.S., Inc.
published January 5, 2009

A new year brings New Year's resolutions. When it comes to using Microsoft Dynamics GP 10, you should be seeking to leverage important features to smooth your company's functioning, and improve productivity over the coming year. Here are five areas to pay attention to-with a focus on discontinuing certain steps in Dynamics GP.

1. Stop using Smartlists simply to send data to Excel. Smartlist is a great feature for ad hoc reporting. However, a lot of people create Smartlists just to be able to export the data to Excel. Well, in Dynamics GP 10, that's a waste of resources.  Learn to use the new Excel Reports and Excel Report Builder features instead. New Excel reporting functionality allows for live Excel connections to the data in GP. This means that users don't have to keep re-sending the Smartlist to Excel every time that data is updated. The Excel sheet updates automatically.

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Try New Things

On January 6th, 2009 jamul91935 said:

All five of these are excellent suggestions. I'm always hoping people will try new things in GP. There's a lot there, but people get stuck in their old ways.