Al, I found that T&C is much more powerful and user-friendly than Outlook. Not sure why it doesn't appear so to you. Best regards, Dave Davis Davis Piano Service 425-226-0102 -----Original Message----- From: "Al Guecia/AlliedPianoCraft" <AlliedPianoCraft at hotmail.com> Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 17:14:49 To: <pianotech at ptg.org> Subject: Re: [pianotech] Database for Piano Business I downloaded a trial version of T&C and worked with it a while. It really can't do what my MS Outlook can do and it if can, it's beyond my expertise to get it to do what I want. I'm sticking with my Outlook. Al -------------------------------------------------- From: "Mike Spalding" <mike.spalding1 at verizon.net> Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 2:31 PM To: <pianotech at ptg.org> Subject: Re: [pianotech] Database for Piano Business > PTBiz will export customer data only, via the "Mailmerge" function. If > you try to open your PTBiz data with Microsoft Access, you will see a list > of about 20 files, but the only one you can open is Mailmerge. Apparently > the developer did something to make the others inaccessible. If some > database wiz out there could figure out how to unlock all of the files, we > could use Access to address the features we want, or to export all of the > data to some other software. > > John Formsma wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Ron Nossaman <rnossaman at cox.net >> <mailto:rnossaman at cox.net>> wrote: >> >> >> I have a couple of questions. Can PTBiz export a comma delimited >> file of your database? >> >> >> >> PTBiz will export a great deal of the data, but not all. It's been a >> while, but I think it will export everything but the piano data, >> invoicing, and the accounting. In other words, it exports customer >> information but not piano information. So, you're not totally out of >> luck -- just have to reenter piano data. >> >> -- >> JF > >
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