Autodesk Tip ~ Online Business Tip ~ Excel Tip
There is a Chinese curse "May you live in interesting times". After the events of the past weeks, we seem to being living in very interesting times, whilst being faced with complete inaction at government level. Perhaps business needs to make more noise about how this is affecting employment and sales.
...so we went! Applying the above Standard Bank slogan, in the light of their appalling service and massive closure of branches, we have closed our account with Substandard Bank. Please make all payments into our FNB account in future.
Google is the most popular search engine in the solar system. So it helps to know a bit more about using it than the average earthling.
When you go to www.google.co.za and type in something to search for, Google searches the whole page. However you can refine this.
inurl: will search for the following text in the URL only.
intext: will search for the following text in the body text only.
For example, say you want contacts for companies with a postal code = 2000
(Johannesburg). Use:
inurl:contact intext:2000 site:za
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90-day Subscription Renewal Reminder Added
Customers are reminded 90 days in advance to renew their subscription by Autodesk:
"In an effort to increase our subscription renewal rates, we recently began sending 90-day renewal reminder emails to customers in addition to our standard 45-, 30-, and 4-day reminders.
"Our goal is to give customers more advance notice that their maintenance plan will be expiring soon and to remind them of their renewal options. The renewal reminders are stopped once a subscription has been renewed.
"As previously announced, we have also added that customers can save 10% when they switch to a subscription with 3-year terms at renewal time*."
* Savings of 3-year subscriptions is compared to the applicable Autodesk suggested retail price for 3 consecutive, annual subscriptions. Autodesk partners are independent and free to set their own prices.
Autodesk is pleased to provide a special offer encouraging eligible customers with 2014-2019 perpetual licenses not on maintenance to upgrade to subscription.
From May 7 through October 25, 2019, you may receive up to 20% off the Suggested Retail Price of a new 1- or 3-year subscription when you terminate your associated perpetual license.
In addition to more value and flexibility than perpetual licenses, you can save up to 20% when trading in qualifying perpetual licenses that are not on maintenance plans, for a subscription to the latest Autodesk industry collections or to most individual products—like AutoCAD® including specialized toolsets, AutoCAD LT® , Civil 3D® , Revit® , Inventor® , 3ds Max® and more.
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Introduction of Multi-year Moving to Subscription |
Maintenance plans moving to a 3-year subscription Or As part of this offer, now if you have a 1-year or 2-year subscription Move to Subscription can choose to switch to a 3-year Move to Subscription at the time of renewal |
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You can act on this 90 days before expiry.
New Product Usage Reporting for Admins with Single-User Access
We can now spend more time strategically advising you on the best way to adopt new and existing tools to achieve your business outcomes.
https://customersuccess.autodesk.com/
By sending us your old perpetual licence, we can upgrade you to the latest subscription version of your product at a 20% discount. Microsoft has announced the end of extended support for Windows 7 in January 2020, this is an opportunity to upgrade to a Windows 10 supported subscription.
Autodesk Knowledge Network (AKN)
AKN is the community content site providing tech support, training materials, product knowledge, and interactive discussion forums for you as customers. Please make use of it.
Incidentally, M2S subscriptions activate on the day of renewal. Other helpful links are:
The differences on how these different layouts work are illustrated here.
Previous Versions of Autodesk Software
Using Subscriptions Software at Home
Support & LearningQBO is proving a multi-faceted platform. Please contact Judith for more.
Earlier, we looked inside the macro you recorded. Then, last time we introduced the program we use to edit the macro. Let us now examine its main menu.
In Excel, press Alt+F11 to open the Visual Basic Editor. You should see the following at the top of the window:
Last time we looked at the menus from "File" to "Format". Let's now look at the remaining menus, with their main features:
Next time we'll start looking at the Visual Basic Editor's toolbars.
Computer Terms: "Alpha" version software is in its first stage of testing. Alpha is Latin for "doesn't work".
All the Best from the team!
Judith and Rick
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