People always speak about Tally support for managing accounts, inventory, compliances, etc., and Tally software makes daily accounting extremely simple for businesses. Advanced search feature is an extremely powerful option offered by Tally Software, however, used by only some users. Today, we discuss its advanced feature which is extremely useful. With the help of this Advance Search feature, you can find any narration, any ledger, any ledger amount, any cost center, any inventory details, any cheque detail, any employee data (in payroll), any excisable unit detail, any godown detail, etc.
For instance, you are working in a bank and it has more than 1 lac entries in a financial year and you need to search the specific entry in the entire year then what you need to do? This is where this feature comes into picture as it helps you to locate the entry and show it on your screen. For instance, you need to search entry with a specific name in narration, then you would want to know as to which conditional advance search would be applicable on this.
When you wish to apply advance search, press Ctrl+F12 on Cash + Bank Details (This method only applicable on summary of every ledger; press Alt+F12 to carry out an advance search in ledger account daily summary). Now select containing which you can see in the ledger (This means if the specific name contains ‘anywhere’ in narration then Tally will find it for you) and press enter. Now enter that specific name and press Enter two times. If any voucher has narration Rahul then Tally will find it for you.
When using Tally ERP 9 in businesses dealing with large number of transactions, this advanced search feature is quite a handy tool to find out a specific amount, amount between a minimum and maximum or a specific word in narration.
Search a specific amount in Tally ERP 9
Search all vouchers with value 5000. For some reasons as an accountant of the organization, you’d want to know a specific voucher valued 5000. For that you don’t need to check the entire daybook. We can filter all vouchers with ledger amount 5000. First, you need to go to Gateway of Tally>Display>Daybook. Then select the period in which you want to search the amount by pressing F2. In the daybook click on F12:Range Button at the right bottom of the screen, or click Alt+F12 shortcut to access range filter screen. Then select vouchers having ledger amount equal to. In the Next column enter the amount you want to search for. In our example we are searching for voucher with amount equal to 5000. Then press Enter again and Tally will begin searching the amount and display all vouchers equal to 5000.
The advanced search option has really simplified the way one wants to search a specific data or number in Tally. Once you are done with Tally download, you are ready to use this feature with utmost ease.
