In today's hurried times, we are all looking for ways to do our jobs faster and more efficiently. When you need to schedule an activity on your ACT! calendar, are you aware that you can schedule those activities faster by setting custom default preferences? Following the instructions below, you can tailor each activity type's default settings to your liking, eliminating the need to continuously change the activity duration, alarm status, etc. during scheduling.

To customize your scheduling preferences, access the Tools menu in the top navigation bar and scroll down to 'Preferences'. Once the Preferences portal is open, select the 'Calendar and Scheduling' tab and click the 'Scheduling Preferences' button.

Highlight each activity type and define the default settings for that activity as desired. Further, you can customize the display drop-downs and the alarms for your activities.

Other scheduling options include the ability to create separate activities when scheduling with multiple contacts and to have a prompt launched to schedule an activity when a new contact is created.

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