One of the most underused buttons in TurboLaw Time and Billing is the Save & New button. Today we’d like to take a look at this oft-ignored button and show how you can use it to save yourself some time and effort.
The "Save and New" button
In all of the “entry” type windows in TurboLaw Time and Billing you will find the humble Save & New button sitting right up next to the Save & Close button. For many people, the Save & Close button is all you need – after all, once you are done entering something (such as a time entry, an expense, or a payment) you are typically done and don’t need to enter the same thing again.
However, let’s suppose that you’ve got a list of things you need to enter – maybe a list of work you’ve done during the day but didn’t get around to entering into TurboLaw Time and Billing yet. This is where the Save & New button can really save you some effort.
The Save & New button does basically the same thing as the Save & Close button – except, as its name suggests, after you click it, instead of closing the window, it clears the window and makes it ready for you to enter a new item again immediately.
Let’s take the example of having a list of work you’ve done during the day. You might think that in order to enter all these time entries into the program, you would have to:
- Double-click your client’s name from the list of clients
- Click the Time/Work drop-down button and select Enter New
- Enter the time
- Click Save & Close for the time entry window
- Click the Time/Work drop-down button again and select Enter New
- Enter some more time
- Click Save & Close for the time entry window
- Click Save & Close for the client window
- Start over again with the next client you did work for
That’s a lot of clicking! Fortunately, you don’t have to do it that way – thanks to the Save & New button, you can save yourself a lot of time and effort. Starting from the Home screen, you could instead:
- Click the Enter Time/Expense button and choose Enter Time
- Enter the time
- Click Save & New
- Enter more time… and repeat as many times as you need.
As you can see, that is a lot less clicking! Thanks to the humble Save & New button, you don’t have to keep going all over the program – you can stay in the same window and enter multiple items (time, expenses, payments, etc.) all without ever leaving the same screen.
This is just an example of one of the many ways that TurboLaw Time and Billing was designed to help save you time and effort in completing your billing. After all, wouldn’t you rather spend your time doing something else?