Automatic "History" Preference settings?

[westlight]

I'm using ACT 2006 Version 8.0.2.82, Windows XP sp2

At one point, perhaps in an earlier version of ACT, whenever I entered a new contact into ACT an entry would be made in the "History" tab with the date the client was added. With my current configuration that is not happening and I would like it too. Is there a preference setting that I cannot find to make this happen automatically?

Also, is it possible to do a lookup by dates that new clients have been entered given date parameters say between 1/1/08 and 6/24/08 as an example?

Thanks

[mvpulsts]

You can define lookups for before or after a particular date.

Go to  Lookup|Other Fields  and select "create date" under look in this field.

select search for "On or After"  1/1/08

And it will do a lookup of all contacts created after 1/1/08 up to todays date.

[westlight]

Thanks for that information.

Anyone know the answer to the first part of my question regarding how to have the date a client is entered into ACT automatically added to the "History"?

[broony]

You may be able to do it by making the create date field generate history, try tools > define fields > find create date , change the option of generate history to be ticked and test.