Features of Tally Multilingual

Features of Tally Multilingual  

Tally is a concurrent Multilingual software that  

• Can display Tally in any language that the user chooses from any screen in 
Tally. 
• Supports Translation of Pre-Defined Masters • Support Translation for the allowed languages. • Can capture data entered using the phonetic language or system language. • Can capture language specific Names and Aliases. • Can print and display Report, Vouchers and Invoices in any language. • Can copy text from Tally to Windows and vice versa. Use Ctrl + Alt + C to copy and Ctrl + Alt + V to paste. 

User Interface in Tally 

The Tally interface displays in the language selected as Initial Startup Language, at the time of installation. For example, if you have selected Hindi as Initial Startup Language, the Tally interface displays as shown 

Company Information 

The first step to get started in Tally, is to Create a Company. The initial screen appears as shown: 

The Gateway of Tally screen is separated into six sections, namely Title Area, Horizontal Button Bar, Main Area (Ctrl + M), calculator Area (Ctrl + N), Button Bar and the Bottom Pane. 

The elements of the Gateway of Tally screen are explained below: 

Title Area  

Title Area contains the Tally Cop0ytight and Tally website link. You can access the Tally website directly from the Tally screen. You must have access to the Internet and Internet Explorer Web browser installed on your computer. 

Click on the http://www.tallysolutions.com link on the top frame of the screen to enter our website. The link appears in all screen of Tally. 

The Product type (Tally Gold, Tally Sliver, Tally Bronze or Educational) and Tally Serial Number appears on the upper-right corner. The software serial number is usually a unique number. 

Horizontal Button Bar 

The Button, Print (Alt + P), Export (Alt + M), Upload (Alt + O), Language (Ctrl + L), Keyboard (Ctrl + K) and Help (Alt + H) can be seen in the Horizontal Button Bar. 

Bottom Pane  

The Bottom Pane contains the Version number, Release details (every ti8me a new release of Tally is made, it is identified with a different release name like Release 3.14) and the Current Date (the date configured in the computer). The name of the day, date, month and year is displayed in DD, MM and YYYY format on the right- hand side. 

System time (the time configured in the computer) appears on the lower-right corner in Hour: Seconds: Minutes (HH/MM/SS) format. 

The Pate appears in the lower left corner in the Bottom pane. 

Close Button 

The Close Button in the upper right corner functions similar to the use of ‘Esc’ in Tally. It brings you to back to the Gateway of Tally from any screen. 

Minimise Button 

The Minimise button performs the standard Windows Operating System’s function (windows 95onwords), allowing you to minimize Tally and work on other applications. To restore Tally, click on the Tally icon on the taskbar. 

Main Area (Gateway of Tally) 

The Main Area is separated into two: 

1. Left-hand side area

2. Right-hand side area 

The left-hand side provides information on Current Period, Current Date and List of Selected Companies (Name of the company and the date when last entry has been made). 

The right-hand side displays the Company Information menu such as Select a Company, Create a Company, Backup a Company or Restore a Company and so on. 

Hot Keys  

Hot keys are capitalized and are red in color on all the menu screens. Using the Hot Keys in the Company Info Screen will take you to that particular screen or display the sub – menus within that Option. 

Calculator Area
 

Press [Ctrl + N] to activate the calculator. Calculator Area is used for calculator functions. Any type of independent calculation can also be done using the calculator. 

Button Bar  

The buttons are designed to make the work easier and faster and faster and vary from one screen to another based on the screen functionality. They appear on the right hand side so the Tally screen and the inactive buttons are greyed out. You can either click these buttons or press the shortcut keys to access the relevant screen. 

The following are some of the buttons and their functions: 

Help (Alt + H) – To access Tally’s online context-sensitive help 

F1: Select Cmp – To select the company from the list of companies and access data from other data directories on the local system or through the network. You can also access the Directory field by pressing [Backspace]. 

F12: Configure – To access the configuration settings to manage the information entered in Tally. For example, you can access the General Configuration to set country specific defaults, before creating a company. 

Button where a character or function key is underlined indicates that you have to press underlined character or the function key along with [ALT] key. 

Button where a character or function key is double underlined indicates, you have to press the character or the function key along with [CTR;] key. 

• F1: Press the shortcut function key [E1] to select a company. 

• F1: Press [ALT +F1] to shut a company 

• F8: Press [CTRL + F8] to select the Credit Note voucher 

• Ctrl + M:  Press Ctrl + M to access the Gateway of Tally. 

• Ctrl + N: Press Ctrl + N to access the Calculator/ODBC Server frame. 

Country Specific Configuration 

The options available are Country Details, Style of Names, Style of Dates, Configuration of Numbers and Other Options. 

Go to Gateway of Tally > F12: Configure> General

The configuration settings of Country Details, Style of Name, Style of Dates and Configuration of Numbers are self-explanatory. The prime differences are in the use of terms like VAT in Europe and Sales Tax in Asia and American that have to be configured before creating a company