Tally ERP 9.0 Shortcuts  

1. General Shortcuts
Alt+2	Duplicate Voucher
Alt+A	Add voucher / To Alter the column in columnar report
Alt+C	Create a master at a voucher screen (if it has not been already assigned a different function, as in reports like Balance Sheet, wh
Alt+D	Delete a voucher To delete Accounting or Inventory master which is not used by any voucher or elsewhere in the alteration mode. To
Alt+E	Export the report in ASCII, HTML OR XML format
Alt+I	Insert a voucher / To toggle between Item and Accounting invoice
Alt+N	To view the report in automatic columns (Multiple Columns at all reports, Trial Balance, Cash/bank books, Group Summary & Journal Reg
Alt+P	Print the report
Alt+R	Remove a line in a report
Alt+S	Bring back a line you removed using Alt+R
Alt+U	Retrieve the last line which is deleted using Alt+R
Alt+W	To view the Tally Web browser.
Alt+X	Cancel a voucher in Day Book/List of Vouchers
Alt+Y	Register Tally
Ctrl+A	Accept a form – wherever you use this key combination, that screen or report gets accepted as it is.
Ctrl+Alt+B	Check the Company Statutory details
Ctrl+G	Select Group
Alt+I	Import statutory masters
Ctrl+Q	Abandon a form – wherever you use this key combination, it quits that screen without making any changes to it.
Ctrl+Alt+R	Rewrite data for a Company
Alt+H	Help Shortcut
Alt+F2	Maintain Date for Multiple Years by changing period on Gateway of Tally / Change of Period for Setting Period
Ctrl+M	Switches to Main Area of Tally Screen
Ctrl+N	Switches to Calculator / ODBC Section of Tally Screen
Alt+R	Recalls the last narration saved for the first ledger in the voucher, irrespective of the voucher type
Ctrl+R	Repeat narration in the same voucher type irrespective of Ledger Account
Ctrl+T	Mark any voucher as Post Dated Voucher
Alt+D	Delete any voucher in Day Book/ Deleting
Alt+O	To upload the report to the webe
Alt+M	Email the report
Alt+F1	Close a Company (At All Menu Screens). View detailed Report (Report Screens). Explore a line into its details (At Almost all Screens)
Alt+F3	Select the company info menu (At Gateway of Tally Screen). Create/ alter / shut a company (At Gateway of Tally Screen)
Alt+F5	View sales and purchase register summary on a quarterly basis
Alt+F12	View the filters screen where the range of information can be specified
Alt+Z	Zoom
Ctrl+Alt+C	Copy the text from Tally (At creation and alternation screens)
Ctrl+Alt+V	To paste the text from Tally (At creation and alternation screens)
Shift+Enter	To view the next level of details and / or condense the next level of details
F2	Change the date
F4	Contra Voucher (All voucher creation and alteration screens). View list of Groups (Reports groups summary, group voucher screen, cash/ bank summary)
F5	Select Payment Voucher. Switch between Grouped and Ledger-wise Display
F6	Select Receipt Voucher
F7	Select Journal Voucher
F8	Select Sales Voucher
F9	Select Purchase Voucher
Ctrl+F9	Select Debit Note Voucher
F10	Navigate between Accounting Reports
F11	Modify Company features specific to current company only
F12	Master Configurations, which will affect all companies in same data directory.
Ctrl+L	Mark a voucher as Optional or Regular

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2. Inventory Vouchers
Alt+F4	Purchase Order Voucher
Alt+F5	Sales Order Voucher
Ctrl+F6	Rejection In
Alt+F7	Stock Journal / Manufacturing Journal
Alt+F8	Delivery Note
Alt+F9	Receipt Note
Alt+F10	Physical Stock
Esc	Clear entry

Free Technology E-Learning Websites

These are 20 of the best free online learning sites I have come across on the net. The listing is in no particular order.

Findtutorials.com
One of the best tutorial / learning resources I have come across. FindTutorials.com is a Web index and search engine that searches for tutorials and online courses on the web. It Features a huge categorized database ( 700 categories, about 4000 tutorials) FindTutorials.com allows you to search for free tutorials on practically any subject, ranging from photography to gardening to psychology. The site claims to guide you directly to written, certified tutorials carefully selected from all over the Web.

Beginners.co.uk
Beginners.co.uk provides a mixture of free and paid services. As the name suggests, a lot of the tutorials are focussed on newcomers in the IT field. The site features more than 300 free online tutorials on various topics like HTML, JAVA, .NET, Javascript, Flash, PHP, SQL, C++, C#, VB, ASP and many more categories. The site also features links to various other free tech tutorials sites. The paid section of the site includes more than 250 online training courses for an annual membership fee.

Devcentral
This site is for hard-core techies and IT professionals. The recently revamped site contains a number of free articles, tutorials and downloads. Much of the stuff here is in PDF format. So you will need Adobe's Acrobat Reader to view it. Some of the sections of the site need you to register (registration is free). Some of the categories covered in the site include C, C++,C# Win32, Java, VB, DCOM, Networking, Perl, XML,etc.
Ehow.com
Ehow is meant to help people to do a variety of real-world activities. It claims to be the most comprehensive source of information on how to do things, offering thousands of specific project instructions. With 14 categories featuring 120 subcategories, eHow offers staff-written, reviewed and edited solutions. Sample a few categories: Automotive, Careers/Education, Computers, Relationships, Dating, (Yes, that's right! A tutorial on dating!) marriage, Finance/Business, Health, Hobbies/Games ,Crafts, Fashion, Pets, Travel and more

Lifelonglearning
This is an award winning website in its category. A number of study guides in information technology are featured for free online viewing. The site claims that over 10 million people have accessed these guides in the past 5 years and over 350 leading universities and colleges around the world have used these guides. Hmmnn... tall claims...Find out for yourself if the site lives up to them.

Techtutorials.com
As the name suggests, another site for tech geeks. Its yet another directory of free computer tutorials and whitepapers. The directory currently contains around 1700 free tutorials on subjects like computer hardware, databases, networking, UNIX, Linux, Programming, etc. This site comes from the makers of mcmcse.com which features resources to help people preparing for Microsoft's MCSE examination.

Wannalearn.com
Gives a directory listing of free tutorials available on various topics (tech as well as non-tech related). Yeah, so what's new? Well..., this one only brings you content that is entirely free, and does not require any form of user registration. It features sites with predominantly or exclusively original content. Definitely worth a look.

Worldwidelearn.com
Provides e-learning opportunities for a variety of careers. It acts as a gateway to courses, tutorials, classes, degrees and workshops from around the world that are offered entirely online and available to adult learners worldwide. Not all are free though.)
This site offers online courses in as many as 40 varied subject topics from copy writing, e-commerce, accounting to Linux training, personal development, photography and more. The site also offers online MBA programs, degree programs and college courses.

Howstuffworks.com
HowStuffWorks.com is an amazing, award-winning online destination for anyone who wants to know how anything works. If you have an inquisitive mind and are always looking for answers on how anything works the way it does, then this is the site for you. Categories include Computers & Internet, Engines & Automotive, Electronics & Telecom, Science & Technology, Aviation & Transport, Body & Health, Living & Entertainment, Around the House, Machines,etc. Aimless clicking around the site brought me to a page on how Lockpicking works! Well, I guess that could come in use someday...

Free-ed.net
Free-Ed is all about free education on the Internet. It's a simple as that--no tuition payments and no hidden charges. They have assembled links to the best course notes, outlines, tutorials, courses and e-texts on the net. Free-Ed provides an online, virtual university where users from around the world can study, take courses, and participate in community activities at no cost. Complete courses and tutorials are available for more than 120 different vocational and academic disciplines. The course catalog here is divided into the General course catalog and the Information Technology (IT) course catalog. You don't even have to sign up or register for a Free-Ed course.

Intelinfo.com
You can easily spend hours exploring Intelinfo, which claims to be One of the very best Computer Education and Training Gateways on the Web Today. Whether you're going for technical certification or teaching yourself programming, web design, or networking, here you will find plenty of web resources. Get Free Knowledge, Information, References, and Resources about computers by visiting the many Free Computer, Programming and IT Training Courses, Tutorials, Books, Training Guides, Tips, Articles, and How-Tos. If you're a student learning computer programming or an IT professional, this site is for you. If you do visit the site, I recommend you subscribe to their monthly newsletter, which gives a lot of info on new free computer training and education sites which they find and make available on the website. Its real quality stuff.

Learn2.com
Offers e-learning solutions for individuals as well as corporates. The site offers free as well as subscription based courses that you can have streamed onto your computer for use at your own convenience.. The courses offered include Office 2000, certification courses for Linux and Microsoft certified courses. Nothing great about this site except that it offers a few free tutorials.

TheTutorial.com
Yet another tech related site featuring free tutorials on C, PHP, Delphi, Flash, DHTML, Javascript, Pascal, Perl. It also offers animations and cliparts if you are planning to build your own site. There is also a tips and tricks section on Javacript and HTML.

FindTutorials.com
This Australian site provides hundreds of tutorials on a wide variety of topics. The site showcases a mixture of IT-related and general tutorials. From Accounting, American football, Chemistry, Dental Health and the like to Dreamveaver, ASP, .NET, CGI, this site claims to have it all. Registration is free and members can even request a tutorial any topic if they don't find it on the site.

Webmonkey
This site comes from the stable of the well-known search engine Lycos. Webmonkey is a boon for web developers. Whether you are just starting out to build your own site or are a professional webmaster, you just cannot give this site a miss. With hundreds of articles across categories like Web Authoring, Design, Multimedia, E-business, Programming, etc, Webmonkey makes other sites in this category look like chiken shit, oops!, I mean monkey poop. Bottom line- Even if you are only remotely interested in IT or the internet, you won't be disappointed if you visit this site.

Autodidact
Autodidact is a free laering portal. It offers a category-wise listing of the best of the Web for e-learning courses and studies in education, employee training, development, performance improvement and fun. Autodidact brings you resources in online education, email training, Web Based Training, online learning, teleclass training, chat room training, and more. Last I checked, they had more than 4000 free tutorials. I even tried to access a couple of courses on Astronomy from the listing on its main page, but was greeted with a 'Page not found' message. Maybe you'll have better luck.

Learnfree.com
This site is unique in the sense that it offers free video-enhanced instructions on various topics ranging from pets to parenting, golf to gardening, health and medicine to beauty and fashion. They have a catalog of more than 250 instructional and educational websites on most of the topics under the sun and each contains several to dozens of pages of text and pictures - to which are added streaming video clips. If you have a broadband internet connection, you may enjoy the site better. My 56kbps modem just choked with one video clip.

Online Sapiens
This link takes you to a page quite similar to the present page. The site offers a listing of many free online courses available on the net. You can even subscribe to their Online Courses newsletter which features other free online education sites and other sources of university, college and continuing education courses.

Goodwill Global Learning
GCF Global Learning is administered by Goodwill Industries, a not-for-profit organization. They provide free, web-based career and computer training for beginning computer users. The curriculum is web accessible and features basic language, screen-shots, and interactive exercises. When you become a member of the GCF Global Learning community (membership is free), you can take free self-paced classes or free instructor-led classes. Current classes include How to be a Distance Learner, Introduction to the Internet, Introduction to Computers, Introduction to Microsoft Office, Introduction to Windows, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Access, and Applied Skills (Career Development).

The Creativity Portal
The Creativity Portal helps you to explore various activities related to arts, crafts, music, and writing. The CP is a specialty directory of sites that have free instructional information (tips, tutorials, articles, projects, how-to's, etc) to help you learn about the topic that interests you the most. If you have the desire to learn photography, writing, fine arts, graphic design, music making, origami, balloon twisting, and a whole lot of other things, then this is the place for you to begin your learning adventure. I was particularly impressed by the section on music featuring lessons on guitar, flutes. drums, banjo,etc. 

CV or Resume?

“What’s the difference between a CV and a resume?” 

One of the biggest differences between a résumé and a CV is in the audience.

• A CV speaks largely to an academic audience and documents your academic and intellectual accomplishments.
• A résumé is read by hiring managers in a nonacademic organization, and should be tailored to this group. Managers often review hundreds of applicants, and each résumé is reviewed for an average of fifteen seconds. Your résumé must therefore be concise and clear enough to make an immediate impression.
• Both must provide a persuasive account of your specific skills and experiences as they relate to the specific job.

“Which one do I need?”

Most jobs in non-profits, government and the private sector in the United States will ask for a résumé. Faculty application packets require a CV.

If you are applying for a nonacademic research-oriented position, an administrative job at a university, or a community-college position, it is possible that you will want to use a hybrid document that is a cross between a résumé and a CV. In these instances, you may create a two-page document that provides more information than the typical résumé (such as research experience, recent publications, etc.) but is still much shorter than a CV.

	CV	Resume
Audience	Fellow academics in your field of study	A general audience of employers who hire for a wide variety of positions
Goal	To present your full academic history — including teaching, research, awards, and service	To demonstrate that you have the skills and experience necessary to succeed within the position you are seeking
Length	As long as necessary	One or two pages only
Focus	Demonstrating your academic achievements and scholarly potential	Representing your experiences — job-related, extracurricular and volunteer, as well as the skills you've gained from these
Essential Information	Lists of publications, presentations, teaching experiences, education, honors, and grants	Skills and experiences you have gained as related to the job you are seeking
References	Include	Do not include

Creating a New User Account with Domain Admins Credentials

If you do not already have a user account that is a member of the Domain Admins group, other than the default Administrator account, create one that you will use to perform the tasks in this guide. As the administrator of your network, you will use this new account only when you need to perform tasks that require Domain Admin credentials. Do not remain logged on with this account after you finish performing these tasks. If the computer contracts a virus while a domain administrator is logged on, the virus runs in the context of that domain administrator. In this way, the virus could use the administrator's privileges to infect the workstation and the rest of the network. Create another user account for data management and day-to-day use such as running Microsoft Office and sending and receiving e-mail, but do not add that user account to the Domain Admins group. Secure practices for creation and use of administrative accounts are described later in this paper.

Requirements

• Credentials: Domain Admins (if this is the first administrative account you have created, log on by using the default Administrator account)
• Tools: Active Directory Users and Computers

• To create a new user account with Domain Admins credentials
  1. Log on as a member of the Domain Admins group, and then open Active Directory Users and Computers.
     Note: Screenshots in this document reflect a test environment and the information might differ from the information displayed on your computer.
  2. Right-click the Users container, click New, and then click User.
     
  3. Type the First name, Last name, and User logon name, and then click Next. As shown in the example, you might want to follow a naming convention for naming your administrative accounts. For example, you might decide to append "-ALT" to the name of the administrative user to arrive at the logon name for the administrative account.
     
  4. Type and confirm the user password, clear the User must change password at next logon check box, and then click Next.
     
  5. Review the account information and then click Finish.
  6. With the Users container selected, in the details pane (right pane), double-click the Domain Admins group.
     
  7. Click the Members tab.
     
  8. Click Add and then, in the Select Users, Contacts, or Computers dialog box, type the user logon name of the administrative account you just created, and then click OK.
     
  9. Verify that your new account appears as a member of the Domain Admins group.
     

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Protecting the Administrator Account

Every installation of Active Directory has an account named Administrator in each domain. This account cannot be deleted or locked out. In Windows Server 2003, the Administrator account can be disabled, but it is automatically re-enabled when you start the computer in Safe Mode.

A malicious user attempting to break into a system would typically start by attempting to try to obtain the password for the all-powerful Administrator account. For this reason, rename it and change the text in the Description to eliminate anything that indicates that this is the Administrator account. In addition, create a decoy user account called Administrator that has no special permissions or user rights.

Always give the Administrator account a long, complex password. Use different passwords for the Administrator and DS Restore Mode Administrator accounts. For more information about creating complex passwords, see "Selecting Secure Passwords" in the Security Guidance Kit.

Renaming the Default Administrator Account

This procedure removes any obvious information that can alert attackers that this account has elevated privileges. Although an attacker that discovered the default Administrator account would still need the password to use it, renaming the default Administrator account adds an additional layer of protection against elevation of privilege attacks. Use a fictitious first and last name, in the same format as your other user names. Do not use the fictitious name shown in the example below.

Requirements

• Credentials: Domain Admins
• Tools: Active Directory Users and Computers

• To rename the default Administrator account
  1. Log on as a member of the Domain Admins group, and then open Active Directory Users and Computers.
  2. In the console tree (left pane), click Users.
  3. In the details pane (right pane), right-click Administrator, and then click Rename.
     
  4. Type the fictitious first and last name and press Enter.
  5. In the Rename User dialog box, change the Full name, First name, Last name, Display name, User logon name, and User logon name (pre-Windows 2000) values to match your fictitious account name, and then click OK.
     
  6. In the details pane (right pane), right-click the new name, and then click Properties.
  7. On the General tab, delete the Description "Built-in account for administering the computer/domain" and type in a description to resemble other user accounts (for many organizations, this will be blank).
     
  8. On the Account tab, verify that the logon names are correct.
     Note: This procedure changes only the default Administrator account's logon name and account details, which someone can see if they manage to enumerate a list of accounts on your system. This procedure does not affect the ability to use the DS Restore Mode Administrator account to start Directory Services Restore Mode, as they are two different accounts.

Creating a Decoy Administrator Account

This procedure adds an additional layer of protection when you hide the default Administrator account. An attacker planning a password attack on the Administrator account can be fooled into attacking an account with no special privileges.

Requirements

• Credentials: Domain Admins
• Tools: Active Directory Users and Computers

• To create a decoy Administrator account
  1. Log on as a member of the Domain Admins group, and then open Active Directory Users and Computers.
  2. Right-click the Users container, click New, and then click User.
  3. In First name and User logon name, type Administrator and then click Next.
     
  4. Type and confirm a password.
  5. Clear the User must change password at next logon check box.
     
  6. Verify that the decoy account is created and click Finish.
     
  7. In the details pane (right pane), right-click Administrator, and then click Properties.
  8. On the General tab, in the Description box, type Built-in account for administering the computer/domain, and then click OK.

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Securing the Guest Account

The Guest account allows users who do not have an account in your domain to log on to the domain as a guest. This account is disabled by default, and should remain disabled, but hiding the account adds an additional layer of protection against unauthorized access. Use a fictitious first and last name, in the same format as your other user names.

Requirements

• Credentials: Domain Admins
• Tools: Active Directory Users and Computers

• To rename the Guest account
  1. Log on as a member of the Domain Admins group, and then open Active Directory Users and Computers.
  2. In the console tree (left pane), click Users.
  3. In the details pane (right pane), right-click Guest, and then click Rename.
  4. Type the fictitious first and last name and press Enter.
  5. Right-click the new name, and then click Properties.
  6. On the General tab, delete the Description "Built-in account for guest access to the computer/domain" and type in a description to resemble other user accounts (for many organizations, this will be blank).
  7. In the First name and Last name boxes, type the fictitious names.
  8. On the Account tab, type a new User logon name, using the same format you use for your other user accounts, for example, first initial and last name.
  9. Type this same new logon name in the User logon name (pre-Windows 2000) box, and then click OK.
  10. Verify that the account is disabled. The icon should appear with a red X over it. If it is enabled, right-click the new name, and then click Disable Account.

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Strengthening Security on Service Administration Accounts and Groups

Creating a controlled organizational unit (OU) subtree in Active Directory and configuring it with its recommended security settings can help provide a more secure environment for service administrator accounts and workstations.

OUs are containers within domains that can contain other OUs, users, groups, computers, and other objects. These OUs and sub-OUs form a hierarchical structure within a domain, and are primarily used to group objects for management purposes.

By creating a subtree containing all service administrator accounts and the administrative workstations that they use, you can apply specific security and policy settings to maximize their protection.

To create the controlled subtree, perform the following tasks:

1. Create the OU structure for the controlled subtree.
2. Set the permissions on the controlled subtree OUs.
3. Move service administrator groups to the controlled subtree.
4. Move service administrator user accounts to the controlled subtree.
5. Move service administrator workstation accounts to the controlled subtree.
6. Enable auditing on the controlled subtree OUs.

Creating the OU Structure for the Controlled Subtree

To create the subtree, create three OUs:

• Service Admins, under the domain root, to hold the following two sub-OUs
  • Users and Groups, to hold administrative user and group accounts.
  • Admin Workstations, to hold administrative workstations.

Requirements

• Credentials: Domain Admins
• Tools: Active Directory Users and Computers

• To create the OU structure for the controlled subtree
  1. Log on as a member of the Domain Admins group, and then open Active Directory Users and Computers.
  2. In the console tree (left pane), right-click the domain name, point to New, and then click Organizational Unit.
  3. In the Name box, type Service Admins and click OK.
  4. In the console tree (left pane), right-click Service Admins, point to New, and then click Organizational Unit.
  5. In the Name box, type Users and Groups and click OK.
  6. In the console tree (left pane), right-click Service Admins, point to New, and then click Organizational Unit.
  7. In the Name box, type Admin Workstations and click OK.
  8. Verify that your OU hierarchy resembles the following structure, with Service Admins at the level under the domain name, and Users and Groups and Admin Workstations at the level under Service Admins.
     

Setting the Permissions on the Controlled Subtree OUs

Doing the following can help limit access to the controlled subtree so that only service administrators can administer the membership of service administrator groups and workstations:

• Block inheritance of permissions on the Service Admins OU so that inheritable permission changes that are made higher up in the domain tree are not inherited down, altering the locked-down settings.
• Set the permissions on the Service Admins OU.

Requirements

• Credentials: Domain Admins
• Tools: Active Directory Users and Computers

• To set permissions on the Service Admins OU
  1. Log on as a member of the Domain Admins group, and then open Active Directory Users and Computers.
  2. On the View menu, select Advanced Features.
  3. Right-click the Service Admins OU, and then click Properties.
     
  4. On the Security tab, click Advanced to view all of the permission entries that exist for the OU.
     
  5. Clear the Allow inheritable permissions from the parent to propagate to this object and all child objects. Include these with entries explicitly defined here check box.
  6. In the Security dialog box, click Remove. This removes the permissions that were inherited from the domain.
     
  7. Remove the remaining permissions. Select all the remaining permission entries and then click Remove.
  8. For each group listed in the Name column of the table below, add a permission entry to agree with the Access and the Applies to columns as shown in the table. To add an entry, click Add, then in the Select User, Computer, or Group dialog box, click Advanced. In the expanded dialog box, click Find Now. In the search results box, select the group name and click OK twice. This brings up the Permission Entry dialog box, where you can select the Access and Applies To items to agree with the table.