The opening screen of Tally Software has Main Area, Info Area, Buttons Panel etc.

The main screen contains menu of Tally is “Gateway of Tally”.  There are some sub menus for the options selected.  Quitting from sub menu moves to its previous or above menu where as quitting from main menu will cause closing of Tally.  The Company Info menu is your main menu when no company has been activated.

Company is the default name assigned by Tally for your organization.  We can create, open, close, manage as many companies we want.  But at a time we can work with one company which is known as “Active Company”.

The menu of Tally can be used with the help of mouse, keyboard shortcuts, Navigation+Enter or Hotkeys.

Keyboard shortcuts for most of the vouchers, reports are displayed as buttons as when required automatically.

3 types of keyboard shortcuts in Tally:

F3 means press F3

F3 means press alt+F3

F3 means press Ctrl+F3

Hotkey is the highlighted letter with red color in each menu command.  This enables user to directly issue the command without any navigation or mouse click.