User Guide

Lesson I—Getting to Know Peachtree Accounting
Getting Help with Peachtree Accounting
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5 Scroll through and select any sample business that interests you (for
example, Construction Company).
The selected company’s chart of accounts appears.
6 When finished, select Exit from the File menu (or click the Close button).
You can also open Help from within an open Peachtree Accounting
window.
7 Open the Maintain Employees/Sales Reps window. Select the General tab,
and then press 1.
Peachtree Accounting Help displays a window listing all the topics
associated with the Maintain Employees/Sales Reps window. (You also
could have displayed this window by selecting the Help button from the
toolbar.)
8 Click the “How Do I?” button at top of the Help window.
The “How Do I?” Help window appears. “How Do I?” Help windows
provide a list of procedural topics related to the program area you are
currently using. If you select one of these topics, step-by-step
instructions will be provided.
9 Select the “Set up an employee” hypertext jump.
Step-by-step instructions appear, explaining how to set up an employee
record.
10 Close the “How Do I?” and Peachtree Accounting Help windows. You
return to the Maintain Employees/Sales Reps window.
11 Press q to close the Maintain Employees/Sales Reps window.