tally-Lesson-4-create company

  TALLY TUTORIAL

STARTING A TALLY

Before you going to create a company, we need to know , how to start a tally

Tally can be opened as following ways

–From Desktop Shortcut of Tally–From Start Menu, Programs, and select  tally7.2

Gateway of Tally

Tally shows the first screen as Gateway of Tally

The Gateway of Tally Screen contains 5 major areas (parts).
–Production Info
–Current Status
–Tally Main Menu
–Button Bar
–Tally Calculator/Command line

Product Info

 At the top part of Gateway of Tally Screen, the Product Info as following information
–Version & Release–System Date–User Version
–System Time

–Copyright Notice
–User Serial Number

Current Status

At left part of Gateway, you get the following information about current working status.
–Current Period:

–Current Tally Voucher Date
–Active Company ( Current Working Company)
–List of Selected Companies (Current Open Companies list)

Tally Main Menu

• At right part of the Gateway of Tally Menu appears  showing the list of Menu Option or Menu Items
• Select a Menu item to invoke a particular task.  
• You can select Menu Options by using mouse click or by using keyboard control keys with Enter key and by keyboard shortcut keys.
• Keyboard Short cut keys are shown in bold red color letters. You may have to drill down several levels of Menu (sub Menu).

Button Bar

• At rightmost part of the Gateway, the Button bar shows several buttons vary according to screen in work area.
• These Buttons provide quick and direct access to various options & tasks.
• You may Invoking a Buttons in 3 ways

–By Mouse: Click the button at the button bar.
–By Function Key:  Some buttons are named by Function  Keys ( F1 to F12)

Calculator

• Used to Calculate a expression and can be pasted in to any Numeric Field.
• To Activate Tally Calculator Press Ctrl+N.
• To copy to the Numeric Field, Press Alt+C From the Numeric Field.

ShortCut Keys in Tally

Red Color Letter - For Red Color Menu or Button Bar Item (example: Account Info-> A)

Alt+underline Letter: For single underline letter (example: F3 Comp Info -> Alt+F3)

Ctrl+Double Under Line Letter: For Double Under Letter(example: As Voucher: Ctrl+V)