I often find users doing things the hard way. Helpful tools are often hidden and too easily
forgotten if they are not used regularly.
Grids (they look like a spreadsheet similar to Microsoft’s
Excel) are found in many places within Sage 100 Contractor. If a user places the cursor within any cell
of the grid and then right clicks, a context-sensitive menu pops up. The menu can vary from grid to grid and from
column to column, but may include:
- Display Lookup Window F5
- Display Quick List F5
- Display Detail/Add Record F6
- Display Pick List Window F8
- Cut Ctrl-X
- Copy Ctrl-C
- Paste Ctrl-V
- Insert Row
- Cut Row
- Clear All Rows
- Show/Hide Columns…
- Save Current Grid View
- Autofit All Columns
- Find…
- Enter Key Moves Right
- Enter Key Moves Down
The function key and control combination notations also
serve as reminders of available keyboard short cuts. Show/Hide Columns can help users customize
which columns are shown or hidden to make data entry easier (or to help find a
column that was previously hidden when it suddenly becomes necessary). Column widths can be adjusted in the same
fashion that columns can be adjusted in a spreadsheet, by clicking on the
column header and then “grabbing and dragging” the right edge of the column
header to the desired width. Remember to
Save Current Grid View after customizing a grid if you want that same
customized grid to be there each time you open that screen.
Don’t forget that grids can be copied and pasted to and from
spreadsheets with a few exceptions. For
instance, if a grid has a column that is programmed to display the result of a
calculation (such as a total column that is the result of multiplying quantity
times price), that column will not accept a pasting of data from a spreadsheet.
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