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• 4.1. Separate tax between materials and labor?
• 4.2. How do I add a due date to an order?
• 4.3. Adding additional charges?
• 4.4. Can I back up my data on floppy and restore it on a different computer?
• 4.5. Can I create estimate templates?
• 4.6. Can I export data to other programs?
• 4.7. Can I export to quicken 99?
• 4.8. Can I input dimensional lettering without adding it as yet another retail item?
• 4.9. Can I insert a line item between two existing ones?
• 4.10. Can I move the QuickBooks export file to a different computer?
• 4.11. Can the completed by field post-production notes be changed?
• 4.12. Deposits and conversion report?
• 4.13. How can I do estimates or invoices with different tax rates?
• 4.14. How can I do sign variations on an estimate?
• 4.15. How can I have height and width measurements show automatically when doing vehicle graphics?
• 4.16. How can I make the jobs dissappear from the export transactions screen?
• 4.17. How can I price carved signs in EstiMate?
• 4.18. How can I price pre-spaced letters by the square foot?
• 4.19. How do I account for substrate waste?
• 4.20. How do I account for vinyl waste?
• 4.21. How do I add a liquid laminate into the lamanates database?
• 4.22. How do I add an undiscounted item to a discounted quote?
• 4.23. How do I add in a salesperson comission?
• 4.24. How do I add more production time on the vinyls signs screen?
• 4.25. How Do I add roll stock-plexi pricing?
• 4.26. How do I add the cost for using Superfrog frog juice?
• 4.27. How do I add wide format printer settings into EstiMate?
• 4.28. How do I adjust areas to print for my garments?
• 4.29. How do I adjust my discounts?
• 4.30. How do I adjust the hours of operation after adding new employees?
• 4.31. How do I associate the A/R and Undeposited Funds Accounts?
• 4.32. How do I attach multiple proofs to an estimate?
• 4.33. How do I backdate an invoice?
• 4.34. How do I backup my data if I cant open EstiMate?
• 4.35. How do I backup my data?
• 4.36. How do I bill to separate locations with EstiMate?
• 4.37. How do I change a customer phone number on an invoice?
• 4.38. How do I change my default market level?
• 4.39. How do I change my logo?
• 4.40. How do I change the font size on the estimate?
• 4.41. How do I change the line item sort order?
• 4.42. How do I configure a market level for each substrate?
• 4.43. How do I create a blank estimate?
• 4.44. How do I create a blank work order?
• 4.45. How do I create a new job or convert to job my icon is missing?
• 4.46. How do I create folders in retail items to sub-catagorize items?
• 4.47. How do I delete duplicate customers without affecting linked info?
• 4.48. How do I delete the EstiMate directory?
• 4.49. How do I determine which jobs have been sent to QuickBooks?
• 4.50. How do I disable transfer tape calculations?
• 4.51. How do I discount one line item and not others?
• 4.52. How do I do a summary quote in EstiMate?
• 4.53. How do I do multiple colors of vinyl?
• 4.54. How do I do pin striping in EstiMate?
• 4.55. How do I do price digital printing based on the area printed?
• 4.56. How do I do window graphics if I don't have the plugin?
• 4.57. How do I download vendor catalogs without internet access?
• 4.58. How do I duplicate a job?
• 4.59. How do I edit archived estimates or jobs?
• 4.60. How do I edit individual prices on the vinyl letters price chart?
• 4.61. How do I edit the vinyl letters price chart?
• 4.62. How do I eliminate the white space at the top of my estimate?
• 4.63. How do I eliminate the YES - NO critera in the sales tax field?
• 4.64. How do I enter a customer who is tax exempt?
• 4.65. How do I enter a new key if EstiMate is already unlocked?
• 4.66. How do I enter and price banner blanks that differ in height but have the same cost?
• 4.67. How do I enter and price silkscreening on T-shirts?
• 4.68. How do I enter inks into the foils/ribbons/inks database?
• 4.69. How do I enter multiple people/departments for the same company?
• 4.70. How do I enter paint into the vinyls database?
• 4.71. How do I enter pre-made banner blanks and precut aluminum substrates?
• 4.72. How do I enter the price of my foils?
• 4.73. How do I expand the job status dropdown to include more options?
• 4.74. How do I export information from Excel into EstiMate?
• 4.75. How do I export my customer list into a different program?
• 4.76. How do I export my transactions by date report?
• 4.77. How do I factor out installation for vehicle graphics?
• 4.78. How do I fax an estimate?
• 4.79. How do I figure for film positives and ruby?
• 4.80. How do I figure installs?
• 4.81. How do I find copies of estimates sent by email?
• 4.82. How do I find info on vehicle graphics in EstiMate's help files?
• 4.83. How do I find my configuration settings?
• 4.84. How do I find sample sign pricing examples?
• 4.85. How do I find the Welcome Wizard?
• 4.86. How do I generate a purchase order?
• 4.87. How do I get a more professional look on my estimate for cash customers?
• 4.88. How do I get EstiMate to accept my path to the data?
• 4.89. How do I get EstiMate to always round prices?
• 4.90. How do I get estimate to run at the same time on separate computers?
• 4.91. How do I get estimates/jobs back once they have been archived?
• 4.92. How do I get more space between the logo and the estimate number?
• 4.93. How do I get my logo and address to show in a window envelope?
• 4.94. How do I get my logo closer to the top of the page?
• 4.95. How do I get my pricing consistent?
• 4.96. How do I get page numbers to show up on multi page quotes?
• 4.97. How do I get production notes to retain information between jobs?
• 4.98. How do I get tax bracket figures into the overhead worksheet?
• 4.99. How do I get the customer email on the workorder?
• 4.100. How do I get to the overhead worksheet?
• 4.101. How do I give quantity pricing for different types of garments?
• 4.102. How do I group commonly used vinyls together?
• 4.103. How do I have my logo appear when writing a letter?
• 4.104. How do I how to change my prices in the vinyl letters price chart?
• 4.105. How do I import contacts from an external database into EstiMate?
• 4.106. How do I import customer lists?
• 4.107. How do I indicate shipping charges on an estimate?
• 4.108. How do I input several paragraphs of terms onto the estimate?
• 4.109. How do I install EstiMate?
• 4.110. How do I itemize for inkjet printing in linear/square items?
• 4.111. How do I make a price list for common items?
• 4.112. How do I make EstiMate use my own numbering system?
• 4.113. How do I make individual line items prices show up on the printed estimate?
• 4.114. How do I move EstiMate from one computer to the other?
• 4.115. How do I move my data files to a different location?
• 4.116. How do I network EstiMate?
• 4.117. How do I number line items?
• 4.118. How do I overide the price EstiMate calculates?
• 4.119. How do I prevent EstiMate from printing a signature line?
• 4.120. How do I price a project that uses smaltz?
• 4.121. How do I price a sign that has a digital print on it without using a separate line item?
• 4.122. How do I price banners I buy by the lineal foot?
• 4.123. How do I price channel letters in EstiMate?
• 4.124. How do I price composite signage with vinyl lettering or inkjet?
• 4.125. How do I price contour cutting?
• 4.126. How do I price custom routed and engraved signs with EstiMate?
• 4.127. How do I price different color jobs in wide format?
• 4.128. How do I price digitally printed garments with the thermal plugin?
• 4.129. How do I price double sided inkjet work?
• 4.130. How do I price dye-sublimation in EstiMate?
• 4.131. How do I price electrical sign cabinets?
• 4.132. How do I price electrical signage in EstiMate?
• 4.133. How do I price embroidery?
• 4.134. How do I price engraved items with multiple lines of text?
• 4.135. How do I price engraving in linear square items?
• 4.136. How do I price gold leaf in EstiMate
• 4.137. How do I price graphics and mounting in EstiMate?
• 4.138. How do I price mounting with customer supplied digital prints?
• 4.139. How do I price neon?
• 4.140. How do I price offset printing in EstiMate 1.x?
• 4.141. How do I price painted signs in EstiMate?
• 4.142. How do I price plastic card printing in EstiMate?
• 4.143. How do I price pre-spaced letters using the custom vinyl graphics-logos tab?
• 4.144. How do I price routing in linear square items?
• 4.145. How Do I Price Sandblasted Signs in EstiMate?
• 4.146. How do I price scanning?
• 4.147. How do I price spray-in bedliners for pickup trucks?
• 4.148. How do I price substrates with endcaps?
• 4.149. How do I price unprinted FloorMinder Graphics?
• 4.150. How do I price vehicle graphics in EstiMate?
• 4.151. How do I price vehicle lettering and vinyl removal on the same vehicle?
• 4.152. How do I price vinyl removal?
• 4.153. How do I price Wide Format Inkjet Printing?
• 4.154. How do I price Wide Format output using Linear-Square Items?
• 4.155. How do I print a stock list for inventory by date?
• 4.156. How do I print an estimate to a file?
• 4.157. How do I print open and archived jobs done in the past year?
• 4.158. How do I print or not print an invoice #?
• 4.159. How do I print reports for a month's work?
• 4.160. How do I print totals in EstiMate?
• 4.161. How do I put a permanent foot note at the bottom of the invoice?
• 4.162. How do I put more than one substrate on a line item?
• 4.163. How do I put my company logo in EstiMate?
• 4.164. How do I quote multiple substrates without adding them as substrates?
• 4.165. How do I re-adjust my costs after a global cost update?
• 4.166. How do I re-number my estimates and jobs?
• 4.167. How do I recover lost data after a computer crash?
• 4.168. How do I remove a vinyl I have selected?
• 4.169. How do I remove items from an invoice?
• 4.170. How do I remove the BDE from my system?
• 4.171. How do I remove unwanted text from my estimate or invoice?
• 4.172. How do I restore a data folder backed up on disc?
• 4.173. How do I restore my data?
• 4.174. How do I restore my EstiMate folder I backed up to CD?
• 4.175. How do I roll in my installation cost?
• 4.176. How do I run EstiMate in limited user mode?
• 4.177. How do I select more than one footer?
• 4.178. How do I select substrates from an open estimate screen?
• 4.179. How do I send an estimate through a different email program?
• 4.180. How do I send an estimate through email?
• 4.181. How do I separate large and medium t-shirts?
• 4.182. How do I separate out materials and labor on my estimate?
• 4.183. How do I separate out shipping charges when exporting to quickbooks?
• 4.184. How do I set up for the job in screen printed garments?
• 4.185. How do I setup EstiMate to work with QuickBooks?
• 4.186. How do I setup the QuickBooks export for varying types of sign work?
• 4.187. How do I show a customer deposit?
• 4.188. How do I show a range on an estimate?
• 4.189. How do I show indicate a deposit and a discount on the quote?
• 4.190. How do I show subcontracted items on an estimate?
• 4.191. How do I suppress dollar amounts on line items?
• 4.192. How do I switch addresses on an invoice?
• 4.193. How do I switch company data sets?
• 4.194. How do I tax labor?
• 4.195. How do I tell Windows what email program I use?
• 4.196. How do I transfer EstiMate data between shop and home?
• 4.197. How do I try different overhead worksheet settings and still be able to revert to the original numbers?
• 4.198. How do I turn off the pop-up hints?
• 4.199. How do I turn the estimate into a job so I can print an invoice?
• 4.200. How do I uninstall EstiMate?
• 4.201. How do I completely remove EstiMate 1 from my computer?
• 4.202. How do I unlock Vendormate?
• 4.203. How do I update the prices and markups on my materials?
• 4.204. How do I use EstiMate on a laptop for quoting in the field?
• 4.205. How do I use EstiMate to accept payments?
• 4.206. How do I use Screen Printed Garments for digital printing?
• 4.207. How do I view records once I have archived them?
• 4.208. How I do I edit my work order form?
• 4.209. How in EstiMate can my discount to only apply to specific line items?
• 4.210. Is there a faster way to click sales tax on and off?
• 4.211. Is there any way to mark the finished job as 'invoiced'?
• 4.212. Moving The Data Folder To A Network Drive
• 4.213. Test
• 4.214. Where do I add Printing/paper/toners/laminates/etc ?
• 4.215. Where do I put the background complexity slider when doing a shaped sign?
• 4.216. Why is information I need not showing up in the estimate description field?
• 4.217. Will EstiMate interface with my other programs like Access, Excel or Microsoft Word?