Probably the most usefull, least used, and definitely the least known feature of Navision is the Standard Text Codes. These are a great feature, and you should set them up and use them. Go to the standard text able, and setup a numebr of standard texts, with codes. Eg Code Description IABC My abc Item IUUU Printer Paper IXYZ Another description FA001 Computer workstation FA002 Office chair Now here is the cool bit. You can go to ANY yes ANY text field in Navision, and type a ? and the code (eg ?IABC or ?FA001 ) and the text field will be populated with the standard text. Say you were using a Gl account to pruchase Expense Items, then on a PO, set type = GL, select the GL account, then in the text field hit ?IUUU and the field will be replaced with “Printer Paper”. And just when you were thinking thats great, try again, but this time just hit the ? now its like a magic F6, and a popup window will give a list of possible texts to choose from. Select OK, and the text is there. Go on be honest, do you tell all your clients this? You should. It is not exactly new, it was released in the 3.00 version of Navision in 1989.
This reminds me of the old “Tip of the day” from Navisioner.com [:P] 
Hey, a new forum. Let’s go in and help some newbie’s. Thanks David, for promoting me back to beginner again… [:D]
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It is not exactly new, it was released in the 3.00 version of Navision in 1989.
Originally posted by David Singleton - 2005 Oct 06 : 22:17:21
David, “?IUUU” was working since the 1st version of Navision (windows based version). I cannot bet for the the DOS-version but I guess it was the same. Or din you mean the “plain” questionmark ?
Well Jose hasn’t updated since 2002, so lets call this : “tip of the milenium instead” [:D] [^] Mind you that book he is pushing (SQL 7) sounds like high tech. [8D] Kidding of course. Jose, we miss you, why did you leave Nolug? Yes Walter, I did mean DOS, I origianlly wrote that, but was pretty sure that the 1989 made it pretty clear. I still have an aversion to calling it the Navision “DOS” version, since it was really a full OS/2 product, scalled down to DOS. (I know PC Plus was DOS), but 3.00 was a full OS/2 Application.
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Yes Walter, I did mean DOS, I origianlly wrote that, but was pretty sure that the 1989 made it pretty clear.
Originally posted by David Singleton - 2005 Oct 07 : 18:34:01
Sorry, my mistake. I was reading too fast. I read 1998 instead of 1989. Now we are clear. Sorry again
Well I’ll be… that is a pretty nifty feature that I did not know about. Thanks for the tip David.