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I recently started a job at a very small nonprofit, and amongst other things inherited an ACT!2005 database of donor/potential donor contacts. Its a stand-alone workstation on the network, and...
Hello, A user gets this error while trying to edit or add a note: Object Reference Not Set to An Instance of An Object. Any Ideas what mey be causing this error?  Thanks
I recently was unable to connect to the database. Knowledge base at Act.com suggested that I removed manually the program. Since then I cannot reinstall the program. ERROR 1603 Setup failed to...
We run a telemarketing department.  We generally use GoldMine, but last year, we got a new client that asked us to use ACT.  This we did, installed and used it for nearly a year without any is...
I have a customer that just got a new computer with windows Vista and she tried to install ACT! 4.0 on to it.  Obviously that application is so old that it is incompatable.  I need to know how...
I cannot get Outlook to add the ACT! icons to the toolbar and have reviewed answers to similar questions here.     I also get the message about the database not being configured or locked.    ...
I uninstalled ACT 6 following all their instructions, used their ACT uninstalled program and then manually uninstalled ACT 2006, used the dotnetredist application to install .net 1. Tried to r...
My ISP has changed my static IP and now home users are unable to sync data through ACT Internet server sync.  Have a SBS2003 that has ACT 2007 V9 workgroup premium loaded.  Have IIS 6 setup an...
The host and clients can all start ACT and connect to the database. Once app loads, you can cycle through contacts just fine from any of the PC's. If any users, including the HOST tries to swi...
This is in a server 03 enviroment, XP local workstation, ACT 9 (07) standard installed.  When the client logs in each morning he receives this error "The database ---------------------------- ...
I have a windows vista workstation with office 2008 and ACT 9.0 2007.  For some reason I cannot select MS Word as my word processor.  It does not have MS Word as a choice.  I looked at ACT's w...
Some e-mails are having the pound character (and several numbers immediately following the symbol) replaced by a random chinese (or other) character. The code snippet is from Outlook 2007's Vi...
I recently created a new database for ACT. I deleted the old database but now when I try to setup Outlook to use the Act Address book it seems to still be looking for the old database. How do ...
I have Act! 9 on 2 Computers.  One is the original Database and the other pc had Act loaded and was setup to sync with the master PC Act. Now the master pc database keeps failing.  I have r...
I'm trying to configure Act for Web 2007 on SBS 2003 (Server 2003 SP2) and I'm having trouble getting impersonation working in ASP.NET 2.0 I had it working via help from Sage software, but ...
I am setting up ACT! 2000 to use with Internet mail. In the Email Setup Wizard I have entered the following: Username: My Yahoo username Outgoing SMTP server: plus.smtp.mail.yahoo.com incom...
I am trying to figure out a way to back up my Act! database automatically.  I'm currently  using Backup Exec, but it seems the files I was backing up wasn't creating a true backup.  Now we're ...
Unable to open database for the first time on a new computer with a fresh install of xp pro/Act 2005 (v.7). the other computers on the network are able to open the database. (this computer use...
I have several users, each having a licensed copy of Act 10 installed on their machines. The database itself resides on a separate workstation, and all works fine when they are in the office,...
I have several databases that I need to merge into a single database.  I know I've seen the procedure somewhere but cannot find it.  I also need to make sure that I eliminate duplicates during...
Is it possible to preform a lookup on contacts that do not have a group assigned to them? I cant seem to find a way of carrying out this task. Any help is appreciated, Thanks
I have ACT 6.0 and am trying to move the data into ACT 11.  When opening the ACT 6 database in ACT 11, the conversion fails.  ACT tech support cannot help me.  They say that the ACT 6 database...
I've been usning Act for many years and just upgrading from v5 to v10 Having converted my data base it now seems the 'Note' and 'History' are on two differnet tags. In my prievious version t...
Ive got an Act 2008 database which seems to take ages to load into Calendar (around 40 seconds). It was running in a server/client environment, but gave up with that!!!!! I copied everyt...
Hello, Our company have remote offices in two different cities. In each office we have one copy of ACT version 9. Act offers a synchronization but on local network. I want to use this type of...