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Change logs - (software updates)
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General support (non version-specific articles)
Overview of using Probate Plus
- How much are pay as you go (PECS) units?
- Will Probate Plus work out the IHT due?
- Contact Law Systems
- Find my invoices from Law Systems
- Do you offer remote assistance? Can you show me how to do something?
- Probate glossary
Installing Probate Plus
- Manually remove Probate Plus if error during Windows "add/remove programs".
- Changing ADS database server license details (e.g. user count expansion)
- Configuring paths and settings via group policy
- Disable check for product updates
- Installation scenarios
- Installing client-server version of Probate Plus
Errors and Troubleshooting
- Probate Plus can't detect / connect to a 3rd party application such as Word, Acrobat or forms software
- Probate Plus icon is on taskbar, but main window doesn't appear on-screen?
- Error 262 returned when applying ADS licence codes with adsstamp utility
- Installer reports: "Setup resource decompression failure" ?
- CloudLM 7078 error
- CloudLM 7082 error (user authentication failed)
Probate Plus v5 support articles
Beneficiaries
Income
- Recording income produced by a bank account created after death
- How do I allocate income to a specific legatee?
- How do I handle accumulation funds and their dividends?
- Record pension payments received after death
- Recording income from assets (PPv5)
- Credit estate with interest from client monies on deposit.
Legacies
Expenses
- Refund or credit of administration expense
- Record costs paid by the estate on behalf of a legatee
- Record costs associated with a legacy going to residuary beneficiaries?
- Record regular, repeated expenses e.g. direct debits
- How do I show an expense as having been paid in installments? (PPv5)
- Recording expenses (during administration) (PPv5)
Assets
- Handling assets placed into a life interest trust
- Handling Jointly Held Assets
- Asset Categories Explained
- Show the purchase of an asset during administration (PPv5)
- Selling or collecting assets
- Transferring assets
How do I?
- How do I manage the lists of asset categories, asset descriptions and expense descriptions?
- How do I record Lifetime Gifts?
- How do I change the format of dates?
- How to add a new estate (PPv5)
- How does the Diary Page work? (PPv5)
- How do I use the Analysis Features? (PPv5)
Cash Tracking Accounts
- Credit with Utilities Company - Using a Cash Tracking Account
- Premium Bond Winnings. Using a Cash Tracker.
- What does 'Notionally Collected' mean?
- How do I print transactions from a cash tracking account? (PPv5)
- Do I always need to use cash tracking accounts?
- Cash Accounts: How do I edit a cash tracking account? (PPv5)
Form filling
- Laserforms - Building an IHT400 Form Bundle (PPv5)
- Does Probate Plus complete the R185?
- Fill in IHT forms using Probate Plus?
- I've opened a PDF form in my Internet browser, why won't Probate Plus fill it in?
- Value for banks and building societies differs between Probate Plus and the IHT form?
- IHT form isn't totalling or calculating. Why?
Reports and accounts
- Building a bespoke bundle of reports
- Adjust report margins (e.g. if printer can't print full-width)
- Saving your favourite report bundles
- Can't see all figures in numeric column? (PPv5)
- How do I print transactions from a cash tracking account? (PPv5)
- Creating a table of contents for reports (PPv5)
Using the Document Pack
- Using an external firm to extract the oath
- Difference between addressee's 'Unique Name' and 'Real Name'
- Installing the Word document pack add-on (PPv5)
- How do I get rid of commas and other punctuation in addresses? (PPv5)
- Why are the executor's name &/address missing on an oath? (PPv5)
- How do I turn off page numbering? (PPv5)