General preferences allow you to specify settings for your database, such as how you would like quote preferences to display, how salutations display on your contact records, whether checking for duplicate records is enabled or disabled, and where personal files associated with ACT! Premium for Web Server Premium for Web are stored.

Colors and fonts preferences allow you to customize the appearance of your database. You can change the colors and fonts for lists, tabs, and calendars.

Calendar and scheduling preferences allow you to customize calendar and activity settings. You can specify how your calendar should appear with work days and hours, as well as using banners and other calendar options.

Scheduling preferences allows you to customize default settings for each activity type. You can customize an alarm for activities and enable conflict checking when scheduling an activity.

E-mail preferences let you specify the e-mail system or systems you want to use with ACT! Premium for Web Server and how you want your messages to display when you send or receive them. This includes setting up signature text to append to your messages.

You can also specify folder settings to indicate how messages are handled when you receive them and how to store messages with attachments.

Communications preferences let you specify the word processing and fax software you want to use with ACT! Premium for Web Server and set up fax options.

You can also set up how you want ACT! Premium for Web Server to check your spelling in e-mail messages and word processing documents, choose a default dictionary file, create or modify custom dictionaries, and specify printing preferences.

Startup preferences allow you to set whether to create new contacts, groups, or opportunities as public or private records. You can also specify the database you want to open automatically with ACT! Premium for Web Server.

Setting option to display country code in phone fields

Setting option to allow/disallow history editing

Setting quote preferences

Setting locations for personal file types

Customizing name prefixes and suffixes

Setting default salutation preference

Enabling/disabling duplicate checking

Customizing colors and fonts for lists, tabs, and calendars

Setting preferences for calendars

Setting scheduling preferences for activities

Setting options for each activity type

Enabling activity conflict checking

Setting e-mail preferences

Setting e-mail composing options

Setting spelling preferences

Setting Quick Print preferences

Setting options for contact, group, and opportunity records

Opening a database