ACT 2010 Will Soon be Here!

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Karen

act 2010 I know, I know.  Another year, another upgrade.  Upgrades can be expensive both in terms of money and time, but unfortunately they are a necessary evil of the computer world.

Some companies force you to upgrade every year or so.  For example, Intuit’s tax tables will stop working when QuickBooks reaches a certain age, or you’ll no longer be able to access your accounts online in Quicken after a year or two.  Sage takes a different approach with their new releases by trying to entice you to upgrade by offering a bunch of new “must have” features.  And of course, you’ll be forced to upgrade if you change other aspects in your computer world; for example, users of Vista and Office 2007 found that their older versions of ACT simply wouldn’t work.

Quite frankly, ACT 2009 didn’t have a huge “wow” factor, although it did make significant changes in performance.  On the other hand, ACT 2010 has added several cool features that I really like:

  • The new Welcome Page includes things like instant access to search and links to your most common tasks.
  • The new Web Info tab automatically integrates your contact records with data from all the latest sites including LinkedIn, Facebook, and Google Maps.
  • The Opportunities area has been revamped to  behave like contacts, groups, and companies, which means you can add lots of customized fields and change the Opportunity layout.
  • There’s now “out-of-the-box” integration with Swift Page’s e-mail and drip marketing solutions.
  • There are 9 new dashboards, 13 new reports (created for Sage by Tech Benders!), and a new customizable Reports view.
  • iCalendar and vCard compatibility so that you can send invitations and contact information to “non-ACT” users right from ACT.

You can learn more about ACT by visiting our ACT Resource Page.

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4 responses to “ACT 2010 Will Soon be Here!”

  1. Karen Avatar
    Karen

    Hi Ray,

    Thanks for stopping by Tech Benders for answers to your Act questions. Act might have “updated” your data to a newer version but it did not “overwrite” your data. You still have a number of alternatives. You can work with Act support to make sure your data was uploaded correctly; that might be a bit of a challenge as there aren’t many people left at Act with the knowledge of legacy Act versions. If you have a backup or if your original files exist on your computer we can get them into .csv format which can be used to import into another, lower cost solution. I recommend Zoho as it has a variety of options to fit any budget.

  2. Raymond L Avatar
    Raymond L

    I have a 2010 version of ACT. I received an invitation to review their newest version. It overwrote my 2010 version. I contacted ACT and they told me that they no longer support my version. 4,000 contacts, vendors, customers lost. Can it be recovered?

  3. Karen Avatar
    Karen

    Hi Bob,

    Honestly, I don’t know how to get around the “registration requirement” not can I condone using software illegally. You’ve used your software for 15 years; I’d say you’ve gotten your money’s worth….

  4. Bob Avatar
    Bob

    I have and love my old Act! 2010 and installed it on my Windows 10 desktop several years ago. Need to install it on a Windows 10 laptop for backup but can’t remember how to get around the registration requirement. I did so on my current computer–I believe it involved renaming a Registration file or something similar but can’t remember. Do you know what I can do to make Act! 2010 work?

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