Xcelerator is an easy-to-use product that allows all Excel users to automate the creation and formatting of Microsoft® Excel workbooks. It frees users from the mechanical, repetitive and time consuming Excel formatting tasks associated with creating feature-rich and printer-ready Excel worksheets, charts and pivot tables. Xcelerator adds new, powerful and never-before available features to Excel. There is no other product like Xcelerator for Microsoft® Excel.

• Only three mouse clicks and the entry of an Excel workbook title are required to have Xcelerator automatically create both the first Excel workbook format and printer-ready Excel workbook for a new set of unique input field descriptions and data.
• In seconds users can modify and / or duplicate any Xcelerator workbook format to create an entirely different Excel workbook format.
• Xcelerator automatically selects only the applicable Excel workbook formats for each set of input fields irrespective of the input field order; i.e. 5 input fields in any of the 120 possible orders yields one set of Xcelerator Excel workbook formats applicable to only those 5 fields.
• Before automatically creating and formatting an Excel workbook Xcelerator asks the user to choose from among the applicable Excel workbook formats. If there are no existing formats Xcelerator asks for a workbook title, and automatically creates the first workbook format and an Excel workbook from the new format.
• With only two mouse clicks users can convert from one workbook format to another workbook format for the same set of data. Users never have to go back to the original source of their input data in order to be able to convert to an entirely different workbook format using the same set of data. No matter how the input data has been formatted by Xcelerator!
• Xcelerator automatically creates user-maintainable "Standards" enties for each new unique input field processed, and sets the initial default properties for the "Standards" field based upon an analysis of the associated field data.
• Users can maintain "Standards" changing such default properties as field type, output description, format, subtotaling option, etc.
• The "Where Used" function for "Standards" is used to compare and maintain the field property settings in the workbook formats containing the currently selected "Standards" field.
• Xcelerator uses the "Standards" field settings when automatically creating the first workbook format for a new set of unique input fields.
• The output field description in a workbook format can be different from both the input field description and the "Standards" default output description.
• Output field descriptions can be split into multiple lines to reduce the width of the Excel workbook column.
• Rearrange the output order of fields, hide fields, and exclude fields.
• Add one or more calculated output fields.
• Stack and append input fields to create a single output field; i.e., stack City over State plus Zip Code.
• Perform real-time sorts by any of the input fields making up a stacked and appended output field; i.e., in Excel sort a stacked and appended City, State and Zip Code field by any or all of the three individual fields.
• Within Excel un-hide and hide all the fields initially defined as being hidden.
• Mix different subtotal types at each subtotal break level; i.e., mix a count of the number of customers with subtotals of sales and profit at each subtotal break by Salesman ID.
• Drag reference data to a subtotal break level; i.e., drag Salesman Name to the subtotal break level by Salesman ID.
• Automatically create a separate worksheet for the non-blank columns at each subtotal break level, with automatic drill-down and drill-back links between the separate break-level worksheets.
• Use Excel data filters with subtotaled data. This is impossible to manually implement in Excel.
• In real-time hide and un-hide empty data columns when switching between different subtotal break levels.
• By default subtotal rows are completely bolded for easier viewing. Excel bolds only the the break field and leaves the subtotaled fields unbolded.
• In real-time toggle all subtotal rows between being completely bolded and completely un-bolded.
• Sort the output data by up to six different output fields, including calculated fields.
• Output data is automatically sorted by the subtotal fields.
• Define multiple different custom formatted charts and pivot tables for each workbook format.
• Include calculated fields in both charts and pivot tables.
• Chart data is automatically extracted, accumulated and placed in a separate printer-ready chart data worksheet. This allows chart definitions to be independent of the Excel worksheet format definition.
• Automatically format Excel pivot table drill-down data to include data filters, column totals and to be 100% printer-ready with a custom page header and custom page footer.
• Change any or all of the Excel "Styles" that are automatically created for field descriptions and field data.
• Create and then automatically apply an Excel "Conditional Format" to the data in any output column. Conditional formats are applied only to data and not to subtotals.
• Excel templates are transparently maintained and used by Xcelerator. Simply click the Create/Save Template icon on the Xcelerator tool bar to automatically save Style changes, Conditional Formats, and custom Chart and Pivot Table formats for reuse by Xcelerator the next time the associated Excel format is selected for use with an identical set of input fields.
• Double click any data cell in an Xcelerator created workbook that includes Excel data filters to set and unset the data filter to the value in the selected cell.

There are three "Retail" versions of Xcelerator, and two "No Cost" Lite versions of Xcelerator.

• Xcelerator for Excel is the core upon which all Xcelerator products are built. It quickly and easily creates powerful printer-ready Microsoft® Excel worksheets, charts and pivot tables. Xcelerator for Excel also extends Microsoft® Excel's capabilities with additional functionality that would be impossible for Excel users to manually implement.
  
  
• Two specialized Xcelerator "Retail" versions feature tight integration with the Microsoft Business Solutions "Small Business Manager", "Dynamics", "eEnterprise" and "Great Plains" accounting software products.
  
  Xcelerator for SmartList transparently converts any and all SmartList and Explorer favorites to Excel using any of three new Excel export options. Simply click the Excel button and SmartList data is transferred to Xcelerator for the automatic creation of a formatted printer-ready Excel workbook.
  
  Xcelerator for Reports transparently converts reports to Excel in Great Plains, eEnterprise, and Dynamics versions 6.0 and above. There is nothing to design, nothing to learn and no additional report security to maintain. Xcelerator for Reports does not work with Small Business Manager.
  
  
• The "No Cost" Lite version of Xcelerator for Excel and the "No Cost" Lite version of Xcelerator for SmartList are automatically installed as part of the installation of the full-featured 30-day evaluation of the corresponding "Retail" products. The Lite version of Xcelertor for SmartList includes the Lite version of Xcelerator for Excel. Both Lite versions produce "Fast Automatically Formatted" printer-ready Excel workbooks and include user-definable format-customization capabilities. The "Enhanced" Excel formatting features of the "Retail" Xcelerator products are available in both "No Cost" Lite versions of Xcelerator, but these features can only be used for a limited number of records.

No, Xcelerator is not a replacement for Microsoft® Excel. It works with Excel to empower users to quickly and easily automate the creation and formatting of feature-rich and printer-ready Excel workbooks. New, never-before-available advanced formatting capabilities help to make Excel an even more powerful reporting and analysis tool.

No, Xcelerator is not a database extraction tool. Xcelerator is an Excel creation and formatting tool. Xcelerator works with almost all data imported into Excel using any of the hundreds of existing database extraction tools. Xcelerator empowers users with the ability to quickly and easily automate the creation of robust printer-ready Excel workbooks using data from virtually any source, including existing Excel workbooks. Database extraction tools are designed to extract data. Xcelerator is designed to automate the creation and formatting of Excel workbooks. With Xcelerator, Excel users no longer have to be satisfied with an auto-sized set of columns, and to always be faced with the grim, daunting and time-consuming mechanical tasks of manually formatting their data. Users can now choose the most appropriate database extraction tool without having to take into consideration whether or not it will be able to format their data once it has been transferred into Excel.

Yes and No.

Yes, you can manually perform many of the formatting tasks that Xcelerator totally automates.
But not without expending significant time and effort each and every time you have to format your data.

No, there are at least a dozen very significant advanced Excel formatting capabilities users could never manually implement.

• Mixing different subtotal types at the same subtotal level,
• Dragging reference data to subtotal rows, and
• Correctly filtering data and subtotals

are examples of advanced formatting capabilities users could manually never implement in Excel.

Yes. The full versions of all three "Retail" Xcelerator products can be installed and evaluated for 30-days from the date of the initial installation of the core Xcelerator for Excel product.

For users of Microsoft Business Solutions software, Xcelerator for Excel is automatically installed as part of the installation of Xcelerator for SmartList. Xcelerator for SmartList must always be installed prior to installing Xcelerator for Reports. After installing Xcelerator for SmartList, Xcelerator for Reports is installed using the Xcelerator "Get Updates" program.

After the 30-day evaluation period ends, Xcelerator for Excel and Xcelerator for SmartList continue to operate as "No Cost" Lite versions. The Lite versions produce "Fast Automatically Formatted" printer-ready Excel workbooks forever. The Lite versions limit the use of the Retail versions "Enhanced" Xcelerator formatting capabilities to a maximum of 50 records. Except for the maximum 50 record conversion limitation, users continue to have complete use of the capabilities of the "Retail" Xcelerator products for testing and evaluation purposes.

After the 30-day evaluation period ends, both Xcelerator for SmartList and Xcelerator for Reports continue to operate without any limitations on data from the Demonstration Company for the Microsoft Business Solutions accounting software.

After the 30-day evaluation period ends, Xcelerator for Reports limits all report conversions to a maximum of 50 records.

The "No Cost" Lite versions operate forever, and all versions of the software can be freely updated over the Internet forever.

No, the 30-day evaluation period for all Xcelerator products begins on the date of the first installation of Xcelerator for Excel.

Xcelerator for Excel costs $195 US for a single-user workstation license.

Xcelerator for SmartList for Microsoft Business Solutions software costs $195 US for a single-user workstation license, and includes Xcelerator for Excel.

Xcelerator for Reports for Microsoft Business Solutions software costs $395 US for a single-user workstation license, and includes Xcelerator for SmartList and Xcelerator for Excel.

All three Retail versions of Xcelerator can be purchased on the Data Presentation Products website. After completing your purchase of Xcelerator you will immediately be given a Site Name and a Site Name Activation Code for the Retail version purchased. These codes are also emailed to the address specified at the time of purchase.

End-users wanting to purchase Xcelerator products for use with their Microsoft Business Solutions software, and having a Microsoft Business Solutions Partner who is also an authorized Dealer for Xcelerator, can purchase Xcelerator directly from their Microsoft Business Solutions Partner. Please contact your Partner to determine whether or not they are also an authorized Dealer for Xcelerator. End-users without a Microsoft Business Solutions Partner, or with a Partner who is not also an authorized Xcelerator Dealer can purchase Xceleator directly from Data Presentation Products.

Corporate users interested in purchasing more that 25 licenses of any Xcelerator Retail product should contact Data Presentation Products at 909-929-3766.

No. At the present time a CD and hardcopy documentation are not provided with purchases of Xcelerator. Users are encouraged to download and evaluate Xcelerator for up to 30-days before deciding whether or not to purchase the product. Most Xcelerator purchasers take advantage of this 30-day evaluation period. Complete documentation in Adobe PDF format is included with downloads of all Xcelerator products, and software and documentation updates are always available by using the Xceleator "Get Updates" program.

No, there are no maintenance fees for any of the Xcelerator products. Software and documentation updates are always available by using the Xcelerator "Get Updates" program.

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The latest "full" versions of Xcelerator are available on the Data Presentation Products website.
There is one download for the installation of both Xcelerator for Excel and Xcelerator for SmartList. Xcelerator for Reports is always installed after Xcelerator for SmartList, and the installation must be initiated through the "Get Updates" program. There is not a separate direct download for installing Xcelerator for Reports on the Data Presentation Products website.

The "No Cost" Lite versions of Xcelerator are automatically installed as part of the 30-day evaluation of the corresponding "full" version.

The "Get Updates" program installed as part of Xcelerator for Excel and Xcelerator for SmartList is the only supported method for downloading and installing the latest "updates" for all Xcelerator versions. It is also the only supported method for downloading and installing Xcelerator for Reports.

Downloading and installing a newer version of Xcelerator over an existing Xcelerator installation is not recommended. The current software installation program does not prohibit this from occurring. Some changes made after the initial installation of Xcelerator will be lost as the installation program will over-write existing Xcelerator files.

Users with older un-registered versions of Xceleator are encouraged to un-install the software before downloading and installing the latest version. This must be done if the currently installed version is less than version 2.3. Users are also encouraged to un-install more recent versions of the software if they have not created Excel formats that they wish to retain. The possibility of installation inconsistencies is eliminated by un-installing older versions of the software before re-installing a newer version.

Yes, it is very easy to install Xcelerator!

If you have DSL or Cable Modem Internet access downloading the installation program takes less than 60 seconds.

The actual installation of Xcelerator for Excel and/or Xceleator for SmartList takes less than 60 seconds.

The immediate post-installation update of Xcelerator for Excel and/or Xcelerator for SmartList takes less than 60 seconds.

Finally, if you are installing Xcelerator for Reports for use with Microsoft Business Solutions accounting software, the download and installation also takes less than 60 seconds.

With high-speed Internet access the entire process of downloading, installing and updating all three Xcelerator versions can be accomplished in under 5 minutes.

All Xcelerator versions are updated through the "Get Updates" program.

Run "Get Updates" from:
       The "Get Updates" desktop shortcut
       The Start >> Programs >> DPPI Xcelerator >> Get Updates menu option, or
       The Get Xcelerator Updates option on the Xcelerator >> Xcelerator Help menu
        on the Excel menu bar when an Xcelerator created workbook has focus.

If you have an Internet connection "Get Updates" immediately indicates the current update status of:
       Xcelerator for Excel and Xcelerator for SmartList
       The Xcelerator Documentation
       The Xcelerator Sample files, and
       Xcelerator for Reports.

Note: the status of Xcelerator for Reports is only reported by Get Updates when either Xcelerator for SmartList or Xceleator for Reports has been installed for use with Microsoft Business Solutions accounting software. The update status of Xcelerator for Reports is not reported by Get Updates if the initial installation of Xcelerator was for use with only Microsoft® Excel.

It takes less than three minutes to download and install all four updates using a DSL or Cable modem Internet connection. However, it is rarely the case that all four updates change at the same time.

Note: Users can manually run "Get Updates" to check on the current status of their Xcelerator installation. Xcelerator also has an background function for checking the update status of the Xcelerator installation. This background checking function can be scheduled from within the "Get Updates" program. The result of this background check is displayed at the far right of the Xcelerator tool bar within the Excel tool bar. If the "Update" tool bar icon is active, indicating that an update is available, then clicking the icon launches the "Get Updates" program. However, it is always preferable to exit Excel and if applicable exit the Microsoft Business Solutions software prior to downloading and installing any update. This ensures that an update to Excel and/or to the Microsoft Business Solutions software will take effect immediately rather than the next time the software is started. If a schedule for checking the update status does not exist, then it is recommended that the "Get Updates" program be manually executed on a weekly basis. With an active Internet connection it takes only several seconds to determine the current update status of the installed Xcelerator software.

When you install Xcelerator you must be able to (1) update the registry, (2) create the install folder which by default is "C:\Program Files\DPPI\Xcelerator", and (3) create an Xcelerator data and work folder at the same level as your "My Documents" folder. On Windows XP the Xcelerator data and work folder is "C:\Documents and Settings\username\Xcelerator".

When you run Xcelerator you must be able to (1) update the registry, (2) create and delete sub-folders and files in the install folder which by default is "C:\Program Files\DPPI\Xcelerator", and (3) create an delete sub-folders and files in the Xcelerator data and work folder. On Windows XP the Xcelerator data and work folder is "C:\Documents and Settings\username\Xcelerator".

Xcelerator is compatible with all data sources having the ability to either directly or indirectly export their data into Excel. Xcelerator is not a database extraction tool, but rather a tool for automating the creation and formatting of Excel workbooks. As such Xcelerator is compatible with every product that can export data into Excel. Data from Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Access, any database server capable of exporting data into Excel, worksheets in existing Excel workbooks, and all commercial applications capable of exporting data into Excel in a "List" format. An Excel "List" contains field descriptions in the first row and field data in all successive rows.

Yes. The Excel workbooks created by Xcelerator are standard Excel workbooks. They can be opened on machines that do not have Xcelerator. However, Xcelerator created Excel workbooks can contain features requiring the Xcelerator plug-in for Excel in order to use Xcelerator's advanced functionality.

For Excel users without Xcelerator there are three options.

• Download and install the "No Cost" Xcelerator plug-in for Excel.
• Download and install the "No Cost" Lite version of Xcelerator for Excel.
• Purchase the "Retail" version of Xcelerator for Excel in order to be able to also quickly and easily create powerful printer-ready Excel worksheets, charts and pivot tables.

Users opening an Xcelerator created Excel workbook on any machine without Xcelerator are presented with a dialog box asking them if they want to download and install the "No Cost" Xcelerator plug-in for Excel.

Yes. Xcelerator works with all anti-virus software that does not prohibit the creation and deletion of files and folders, prohibit the execution of Visual Basic code (included as part of the Xcelerator tool bar and in Xcelerator created workbooks), prohibit the execution of exe's and dll's, or prohibit updates to the Windows registry. Xcelerator has been tested on Windows machines running the latest versions of both Norton Anti-Virus and McAfee Anti-Virus software.

No. Users do not have to know and users never have to learn Visual Basic or Excel macrocode in order to fully utilize Xcelerator's powerful capabilities.

Yes. Users can set Excel Marco Security to either the medium or high level. The Visual Basic code included with Xcelerator has been digitally signed using a certificate from Thawte (a subsidiary of VeriSign). This digital signature allows users to "trust" the code written by Data Presentation Products Inc. and to have complete confidence that the code has not been altered in any way. Trusting the Data Presentation Products Inc. signed code allows Excel to execute the code without having to present the user with the Security Warning dialog.

Yes. Xcelerator is very easy to install. Download the self-extracting exe file from the Data Presentation Products website, double click the downloaded file, and in less than 60 seconds Xcelerator is installed. It takes another few seconds to download and install the post installation updates that bring Xcelerator up to the latest revision level. The entire process can be completed in several minutes using a DSL or Cable Modem Internet connection.

Yes. The more a user knows about Excel, the more Xcelerator helps to automate Excel. Xcelerator is not a substitute for Excel, nor is it a substitute for having to know the fundamentals of Excel's features. Xcelerator allows all users to quickly and easily automate the Excel features they know. In addition Xcelerator allows users to take advantage of never-before-available, powerful new features without having to know how to manually implement those features. Xcelerator's new features are impossible for most, if not all, users to manually implement. Yet for even novice users they are easy to implement with Xcelerator.

The primary benefits of using Xcelerator for Excel are increased efficiency and productivity.
Increased efficiency in that users have the ability to complete current Excel tasks in less time.
Increased productivity in that users have the ability to perform new additional Excel tasks in the time saved by being more efficient. Xcelerator provides these two major benefits by quickly and easily automating the creation and formatting of powerful printer-ready worksheets, charts and pivot tables. Xcelerator eliminates the mechanical, repetitive and time consuming tasks required to produce powerful Excel workbooks.

The secondary benefits of using Xcelerator are the many never-before-available, powerful new features that are impossible for users to manually implement.

• Only three mouse clicks and the entry of an Excel workbook title are required to have Xcelerator automatically create both the first Excel workbook format and printer-ready Excel workbook for a new set of unique input field descriptions and data.
• In seconds users can modify and / or duplicate any Xcelerator workbook format to create an entirely different Excel workbook format.
• Xcelerator automatically selects only the applicable Excel workbook formats for each set of input fields irrespective of the input field order; i.e. 5 input fields in any of the 120 possible orders yields one set of Xcelerator Excel workbook formats applicable to only those 5 fields.
• Before automatically creating and formatting an Excel workbook Xcelerator asks the user to choose from among the applicable Excel workbook formats. If there are no existing formats Xcelerator asks for a workbook title, and automatically creates the first workbook format and an Excel workbook from the new format.
• With only two mouse clicks users can convert from one workbook format to another workbook format for the same set of data. Users never have to go back to the original source of their input data in order to be able to convert to an entirely different workbook format using the same set of data. No matter how the input data has been formatted by Xcelerator!
• Xcelerator automatically creates user-maintainable "Standards" enties for each new unique input field processed, and sets the initial default properties for the "Standards" field based upon an analysis of the associated field data.
• Users can maintain "Standards" changing such default properties as field type, output description, format, subtotaling option, etc.
• The "Where Used" function for "Standards" is used to compare and maintain the field property settings in the workbook formats containing the currently selected "Standards" field.
• Xcelerator uses the "Standards" field settings when automatically creating the first workbook format for a new set of unique input fields.
• The output field description in a workbook format can be different from both the input field description and the "Standards" default output description.
• Output field descriptions can be split into multiple lines to reduce the width of the Excel workbook column.
• Rearrange the output order of fields, hide fields, and exclude fields.
• Add one or more calculated output fields.
• Stack and append input fields to create a single output field; i.e., stack City over State plus Zip Code.
• Perform real-time sorts by any of the input fields making up a stacked and appended output field; i.e., in Excel sort a stacked and appended City, State and Zip Code field by any or all of the three individual fields.
• Within Excel un-hide and hide all the fields initially defined as being hidden.
• Mix different subtotal types at each subtotal break level; i.e., mix a count of the number of customers with subtotals of sales and profit at each subtotal break by Salesman ID.
• Drag reference data to a subtotal break level; i.e., drag Salesman Name to the subtotal break level by Salesman ID.
• Automatically create a separate worksheet for the non-blank columns at each subtotal break level, with automatic drill-down and drill-back links between the separate break-level worksheets.
• Use Excel data filters with subtotaled data. This is impossible to manually implement in Excel.
• In real-time hide and un-hide empty data columns when switching between different subtotal break levels.
• By default subtotal rows are completely bolded for easier viewing. Excel bolds only the the break field and leaves the subtotaled fields unbolded.
• In real-time toggle all subtotal rows between being completely bolded and completely un-bolded.
• Sort the output data by up to six different output fields, including calculated fields.
• Output data is automatically sorted by the subtotal fields.
• Define multiple different custom formatted charts and pivot tables for each workbook format.
• Include calculated fields in both charts and pivot tables.
• Chart data is automatically extracted, accumulated and placed in a separate printer-ready chart data worksheet. This allows chart definitions to be independent of the Excel worksheet format definition.
• Automatically format Excel pivot table drill-down data to include data filters, column totals and to be 100% printer-ready with a custom page header and custom page footer.
• Change any or all of the Excel "Styles" that are automatically created for field descriptions and field data.
• Create and then automatically apply an Excel "Conditional Format" to the data in any output column. Conditional formats are applied only to data and not to subtotals.
• Excel templates are transparently maintained and used by Xcelerator. Simply click the Create/Save Template icon on the Xcelerator tool bar to automatically save Style changes, Conditional Formats, and custom Chart and Pivot Table formats for reuse by Xcelerator the next time the associated Excel format is selected for use with an identical set of input fields.
• Double click any data cell in an Xcelerator created workbook that includes Excel data filters to set and unset the data filter to the value in the selected cell.

No, Xcelerator does not have to be used to create every Excel workbook. If there is a workbook format that Xcelerator cannot create you can create the workbook manually or through some other method.

Yes, Xcelerator can be used to format the data in existing Excel workbooks. And there are many different ways for Excel users to select data in an existing Excel worksheet before clicking the Xcelerator tool bar icon to convert the selected data to an Xcelerator formatted workbook.

• Users can select a single cell in an Excel list to convert the entire list. This is the same as manually selecting the entire Excel list or pressing Control+Shift+Asterisk anywhere within the Excel list.
• Users can select a range of columns to convert. Hidden columns within the range are not converted.
• Users can select a range of rows to convert. Hidden rows within the range are not converted. The descriptions in the corresponding cells in the first row of the Excel list will be automatically used for the field descriptions of the data.
• Users can select multiple separate regions within the same set of rows, or multiple separate regions within the same set of columns. The descriptions in the corresponding cells in the first row of the Excel list must be included in the set of selected cells.
• If a range of cells is selected in a worksheet containing subtotals, only the data in rows at the currently selected subtotal break level will be converted by Xcelerator.
  
  For examplte, if the highest subtotal break level is 5, and if level 5 is currently selected, then only the detail data and none of the visible subtotal data will be converted by Xcelerator.
  
  For example, if the highest subtotal break level is 5, and if level 3 is currently selected, then only the subtotal data at level 3 and none of the other visible subtotal data will be converted by Xcelerator.

No, installing Xcelerator does not modify Excel. However, Xcelerator does include a signed Excel plug-in. This plug-in includes the Xcelerator tool bar for Excel, and provides transparent interfaces to Xcelerator's powerful features. If the user trusts the Visual Basic code written by Data Presentation Products Inc. as verified by the digital signature from Thawte (a subsidiary of VeriSign), then the Visual Basic code included in the Excel plug-in and in Xcelerator created workbooks can be run at either the medium or the high macro security level of Excel.

Yes, there is a "No Cost" Lite version of Xcelerator for Excel. Simply install the 30-day evaluation copy of Xcelerator to automatically enable the Lite version. The "No Cost" Lite version provides full access to Xcelerator's powerful cut-and-paste capabilities, to the "Automatically Formatted" option of Xcelerator, and to all of the real-time features required to fully manipulate any Xcelerator created Excel workbook. Only the creation of an "Enhanced Formatted" Excel workbook is limited in the "No Cost" Lite version of Xcelerator for Excel. "Enhanced Formatting" features as sorts, subtotals, charts, pivot tables, etc. are restricted to a maximum of 50 records in the Lite version of Xcelerator. With the "No Cost" Lite version of Xcelerator users can create "Automatically Formatted" Excel workbooks for an unlimited number of records, open and manipulate Xcelerator created "Enhanced" workbooks created on other systems, and create "Enhanced Formatted" Excel workbooks limited to a maximum of 50 records.

Xcelerator for SmartList works with all versions of Great Plains, eEnterprise, Dynaminics and Small Business Manager beginning with version 6.0. Xcelerator for SmartList works with SQL Server, Pervasive and c-tree, and has the identical functionality for both SmartList and Explorer.

No, Xcelerator for SmartList is not limited to working with only SQL Server. Xcelerator for SmartList works with SQL Server, Pervasive and c-tree in Great Plains, eEnterprise, Dynamics and Small Business Manager versions 6.0 and above.

No, it is not difficult to install Xcelerator for SmartList. The download, installation and initial update can be completed in under 3 minutes using either a DSL or Cable Modem Internet connection.

No, Xcelerator for SmartList does not update any accounting data.

No, Xcelerator for SmartList does not create any additional tables or files within the Microsoft Business Solutions accounting applications. Xcelerator does, however, create and maintain additional files for its own use in an area totally separate from the accounting data.

Yes, Xcelerator for SmartList simultaneously works with multiple different versions of Great Plains, eEnterprise, Dynamics and Small Business Manager installed on the same system.

During the installation of Xcelerator for SmartList the user is presented with a list of all known installations of supported Microsoft Business Solutions software. The user can either "Select All" or individually pick and choose the different versions. It is highly recommended that all installed versions of supported Microsoft Business Solutions software be selected for use with Xcelerator for SmartList. If multiple selected versions of Microsoft Business Solutions software point to the same software installation folder, then the user will be required to manually de-select the older and no longer installed versions. This situation will sometimes occur as a result of upgrading the Microsoft Business Solutions software. The Xcelerator for SmartList installation program will not list versions of Microsoft Business Solutions software that have been manually moved from their default installation folders. These widowed versions of Microsoft Business Solutions software will have to be manually included after the installation of Xcelerator.

Yes you can add Xcelerator to other accounting versions at a later time, and it is a fairly simple manual process.

In the Xcelerator for SmartList installation folder, typically "C:\Program Files\DPPI\Xcelerator", you will find two Dexterity chunk files. XC318260.cnk is the chunk file for use with Dexterity 6.x versions. XC318270.cnk is the chunk file for use with Dexterity 7.x versions. Simply copy the appropriate chunk file into the root folder of your Microsoft Business Solutions software installation and restart the software to install Xcelerator for SmartList. If and when prompted to install a Dexterity library update you should respond "Yes". You can easily determine the Dexterity version of your Microsoft Business Solutions software by going to the Help menu and selecting the About option at the bottom of the menu. The version of Dexterity for the Microsoft Business Solutions software is included in the list of information that is displayed.

If the Microsoft Business Solutions software upgrade is installed into an entirely new installation folder, or if the upgrade resets the Dynamics.set file in the existing installation folder, you should follow these simple procedures to enable Xcelerator for SmartList. In the Xcelerator for SmartList software installation folder, typically "C:\Program Files\DPPI\Xcelerator", you will find two Dexterity chunk files. XC318260.cnk is the chunk file for use with Dexterity 6.x versions. XC318270.cnk is the chunk file for use with Dexterity 7.x versions. Simply copy the appropriate chunk file to the root folder of your Microsoft Business Solutions software installation and restart the software to install Xcelerator for SmartList. If and when prompted to install a Dexterity library update you should respond "Yes". You can easily determine the Dexterity version of your Microsoft Business Solutions software by going to the Help menu and selecting the About option at the bottom of the menu. The version of Dexterity for the Microsoft Business Solutions software is included in the list of information that is displayed.

Yes you can, but it is a manual process. It requires the manual editing of the Dynamics.set file to decrease the number of installed libraries on line 1 by 1, and to remove the 5 lines pertaining to "3182 Xcelerator Excel Export". This should only be performed by someone familiar with the structure of the Dynamics.set file. It is always recommended that you make a backup copy of your Dynamics.set file before manually editing the file.

Yes, it does require a small amount of additional disk space for each supported installation of Microsoft Business Solutions software.

The additional space is approximately 150kb for Dexterity 6.X versions of the Microsoft Business Solutions software and approximately 750kb for Dexterity 7.x versions of the Microsoft Business Solutions software.

Xcelerator for SmartList creates four different Excel workbook formats:

• The original Excel export included with the Microsoft Business Solutions software.
• A "Fast Auto-Sized" Excel export that is nearly identical to the standard Microsoft Business Solutions Excel export, but up to 100 times faster.
• An "Automatically Formatted" Excel export that is up to 50 times faster than the standard Microsoft Business Solutions Excel export. This option automatically creates a printer-ready Excel workbook that includes data filters, column totals and up to 10 additional user-defined Excel formatting options.
• An "Enhanced Fully Formatted" Excel export that is up to 50 times faster than the standard Microsoft Business Solutions Excel export. This export option exposes all of Xcelerator's Excel formatting automation features and allows users to create a nearly infinite number of different Excel workbook formats for each unique set of SmartList fields. Workbooks can include worksheets, charts and pivot tables.

The first three Excel export options are included in the "No Cost" Lite version of Xcelerator for SmartList.

No, you do not have to purchase Xcelerator for Excel separately from Xcelerator for SmartList.

The full version of Xcelerator for Excel is included with Xcelerator for SmartList. You not only have the ability to create Excel workbooks from SmartList data, but you can create Excel workbooks from any source of Excel data including existing Excel workbooks.

Yes, there is a "No Cost" Lite version of Xcelerator for SmartList. Simply install the 30-day evaluation version of Xcelerator for SmartList to be able to create the following three different Excel workbook formats from SmartList data forever:

• The original Excel export included with the Microsoft Business Solutions software.
• A "Fast Auto-Sized" Excel export that is nearly identical to the standard Microsoft Business Solutions Excel export, but up to 100 times faster.
• An "Automatically Formatted" Excel export that is up to 50 times faster than the standard Microsoft Business Solutions Excel export. This option automatically creates a printer-ready Excel workbook that includes data filters, column totals and up to 10 additional user-defined Excel formatting options for each SmartList favorite.

Use of the following fourth Xcelerator for SmartList Excel export option is un-restricted during the 30-day evaluation period, and restricted to a maximum of 50 records after the end of the 30-day evaluation period. This option is also un-restricted when used with data from a Microsoft Business Solutions demonstration company.

• The "Enhanced Fully Formatted" Excel export is up to 50 times faster than the standard Microsoft Business Solutions Excel export. This export option exposes all of Xcelerator's Excel formatting automation features and allows users to create a nearly infinite number of different Excel workbook formats for each unique set of SmartList fields. Workbooks can include worksheets, charts and pivot tables.

Yes, Xcelerator for SmartList works with third party software. It works with the full version of the Accountable Explorer/SmartList software, and with "SmartList Builder" by eOne Integrated Business Solutions.

Yes and No.

Yes, Xcelerator for SmartList only works with Explorer and SmartList data produced by either the Microsoft Business Solutions software or compatible third party products from such companies as Accountable and eOne Integrated Business Solutions.

No, in that Xcelerator for SmartList includes a full version of Xcelerator for Excel which works with any data compatible with Excel.