Issue 23 • ACT! 2005/2006 Edition

Dear FIRSTNAME,

You can enter an opportunity into your ACT! 2006 database.  You can enter a thousand opportunities.  You could even enter more, but all of this energy is wasted if you can't produce opportunity reports.

This issue of our tips & tricks newsletter focuses on the built-in features that let you export opportunity data to Microsoft Excel for reporting purposes. 

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Exporting Opportunities to Excel
Relevant for ACT! 2005 & ACT! 2006 Users

Before exporting the Opportunity List to Excel, it's probably a good idea to perform a lookup of the specific contacts you'd like to see. Alternatively, you could filter the Opportunity List to show just a specific set of opportunities.

In addition to the steps outlined in this tip, you can also click the Export to Excel button on the toolbar to export the Opportunity List to Microsoft Excel. If you don't have this option, your administrator might have turned it off.  In Tools | Manage Users, you can select the users who should have the ability to export data to Excel.  

To export opportunity data to Excel:

  1. In the Opportunity List view, set the filter to show just the opportunities you'd like to export to Excel.
  2. Customize the columns in the Opportunity list to display the fields you'd like to export to Excel. (To do this, click the Options button in the upper right corner of the Opportunity List view and choose the Customize Columns option.)
  3. Click Tools | Export to Excel.
  4. The Opportunities List will appear in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet.
 
Viewing Excel Pivot Tables for Opportunity Data
Relevant for ACT! 2005 & ACT! 2006 Users

After exporting your Opportunity List to Microsoft Excel, you'll notice that ACT! automatically sets up a pivot table and pivot chart. Pivot tables give you a great way to sort and total the opportunity data that has been exported to Excel.

To view an Excel pivot table for your exported opportunity data:

  1. Ensure that the filter in your Opportunity List view is set to include all of the opportunities that you would like to analyze in an opportunity pivot.
  2. Click Tools | Export to Excel.
  3. When the Excel spreadsheet opens, click the Opportunities Pivot Chart worksheet to view a visual representation of the spreadsheet data.
  4. Click the Opportunities Pivot worksheet to report on sum totals of the opportunity data in the spreadsheet.
 
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