Act! in Parallels

[Adam Cmejla]

I'm a financial professional using a Mac (in an unfortunate world where everything is Windows-based). With that said, I've been running Parallels to use most of our planning software as well as Exchange email (for some reason, even with Snow Leopard, our Exchange won't work with Entourage...bummer).

Anyways, I've since invested in Act! for Financial Professionals (which I believe is the 2009 version). Since then, my machine has not worked right: Outlook has been acting up, my appointments get rescheduled, my appointments reappear even after they've been deleted, my emails won't attach properly to my Act! contacts in their history, there's been issues with the Act! calendar, Coherence hasn't been 100% (my Parallels tools isn't working properly...mouse isn't moving seemlessly between the two systems).

Has anyone else out there that's using Act! on Parallels had any issues? If so, any suggestions to rectify the situation? Thanks for your thoughts.

 

[BudJ]

Truncated ACT! search fields using Crystal or Coherence modes

I've been using ACT! in my financial services practice for over 15 years. Currently, I'm running ACT! 2010 Premium on my MacBookPro (2010) running Snow Leopard and Parallels 5.0.

It works very well on one and two monitors.

The only problem that I am having is the when using Crystal or Coherence modes is that the pop up screens for searching on a name, company, etc. gets truncated randomly so that I cannot see the full line that I type in my search criteria. Once this occurs, the only resolution is to exit ACT! and go back to screen mode and restart ACT!.

Cheers.
Bud James