Amicus Attorney 2009 Premium Edition
- At A Glance Guide - available now!

The Amicus Attorney 2009 Premium Edition At A Glance Guide is finished - and available for purchase.

This is the first At A Glance Guide for the Premium Edition that is available for purchase by Amicus users. Users can also still purchase At A Glance Guides for Amicus Small Firm 2008, and Amicus 5.5.

Read on for more detailed information about this guide, download samples, and place your order quickly to get a 10% discount.

Amicus Attorney 2008 Premium Edition users - you can use this new guide as well.  Read on for more information about the guide, and when you download the list of new features and major enhancements that appear in this guide, you'll see that it will be a valuable asset for your users as well!

At A Glance Guide - last chance for 10% discount

For those of you who have never seen the At A Glance Guide, it is a reference guide with 76 pages of text with full color screen shots, a 13-page section on Firm Settings, Security Profiles & Preferences, a 4-pg Table of Contents, a Reference Section with Keyboard Shortcuts, and a list of the New Features and Major Enhancements in Amicus Attorney (Versions 7 through PE 2009)

The guide covers the modules within Amicus in a reference format (not a step-by-step training manual).  This guide is sold in a PDF format, and you can print copies for all of your users - in full color or in black & white.  You can also purchase color printed guides.

Today is the deadline to receive a 10% discount
on your purchase!

• PDF - beginning October 16, 2009, the price for the PDF Guide will be $200 (plus $25 per licensed Amicus user).

• Printed Guides - beginning October 16, 2009, the price for the printed guide will be $250 (plus $90 for each additional guide (minimum 2 guides).

Tip - Truncated Column in the
Communications Module

If you haven't logged into the User Forum for a while, you may have missed the posting from the user who was unable to see the caller name in the Communications Module - the field was truncated and only the first 3 letters of the name were displayed.

Amicus Certified Consultant Nancy Duhon came up with a resolution.  In the Office Module, select Preferences - My Application - Defaults on Login.  Click on the Default button at the bottom of the window, and it will reset all of your display settings back to the original defaults.  The only disadvantage is that all of your other display settings will also be lost - so you may want to capture some screens first.

If you don't know how to capture the text on your screen, read the next article for 2 quick ways. 
 

Tip Contributed by Nancy Duhon

Screen Capture 101

So you have an error on your screen, and you aren't sure what to do about it.  Your consultant isn't there, and you really need to get this document finished.  And you think if you click on the X to close the error window, you will be able to continue editing your document.

The easiest way to capture this error message is to press the PrtScn button once - it will look like nothing happened, but the entire screen has just been captured and sent to the Windows clipboard.

If your cursor is within a window that you wish to capture - press Alt  PrtScn - that window has just been captured and sent to the Windows clipboard.  Once you open Word, WordPerfect or even Wordpad, you can press Ctrl V to paste your screen shot into your document.
 

I always tell my clients about these two methods - this way, when you see a strange error message on your screen, you can quickly capture the entire screen or just the window, and e-mail it to your favorite Amicus consultant.  It is much easier for us to interpret what is going on this way - rather than you trying to explain what happened, and trying to remember the exact error message. 

In this issue:

• Amicus Attorney 2009 Premium Edition At A Glance Guide available now
• Last chance for 10% discount
• Tip - Truncated Column in the Communications Module
• Amicus / Smartphone users - give us your feedback
• Amicus Attorney 2008 Premium Edition users - you can use this new guide too!

Smartphone users - Blackberry, Windows Mobile or something else?

I would like to get some feedback from other Amicus smartphone users.

As I mentioned in last month's newsletter, I have been frustrated with my Windows Mobile Samsung i760 phone, after having used a Palm Treo for many years.

Please send me comments about your phone - do you use a Windows Mobile device, one of the new Blackberry phones (Curve, Pearl Flip), or something else?  How well does the synchronization work between Outlook and Amicus?  Let me know what you love about your phone, and what you hate (if anything).  Do you get notifications of missed calls, alarms, emails, etc?  Do those notifications continue until you dismiss them?

Please e-mail me with your comments - I will report back my findings in future newsletters.

Thanks.

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