What's New in Act! v26
Featuring a refreshed calendar design, the arrival of AI in Act! Marketing Automation, and Act! Sidebar for Outlook enhancements, Act! Premium v26 unlocks greater productivity thanks to streamlined access to team calendars, effortless marketing content creation, and richer contact insights.
Explore what's new in Act! v26
Streamlined Team Coordination
Refreshed Act! Calendar
Experience greater productivity and efficiency thanks to a refreshed calendar design that streamlines team coordination by making it easier to view other team members’ calendars.
What’s new:
- A current day indicator now appears in weekly and monthly calendar views
- A current time indicator now appears in Day and Work Week calendar views
- Refreshed top nav icons for creating new activities and switching between calendar views
- Easily view other team members’ calendars via the new “Select Users” drop-down
- Refreshed calendar activity icons
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Effortless Marketing Content Creation
AI Writing Assistant
Leverage advanced AI within Act! Marketing Automation to effortlessly create compelling marketing content for emails, landing pages, webinar invites, and more.
What’s new:
- When working within a paragraph, title, list, or button content block, a new “Write with AI” option appears within the content tab
- Selecting “Write with AI” displays a search field for making requests of the AI Writing Assistant. Use the AI Writing Assistant for emails, landing pages, webinar invites, and more.
- When a response is generated, select “Apply” to add the copy to your title or paragraph block. Generated responses remain available for future reference. Also available are additional options to spell check generated copy, correct grammar, translate copy into different languages, convert copy into active voice, and more.
Richer Contact Insights
Act! Sidebar for Outlook Enhancements
Simplify contact identification and tracking, and facilitate a deeper understanding of contacts when working in Outlook with Act! Sidebar for Outlook enhancements. Enhancements include the ability to view notes, the addition of the ID/Status field, a display dropdown for contacts with the same email address, and a manual refresh button to ensure up-to-date contact information.
What’s new:
- Track notes in addition to history records to gain additional context around contacts.
- Simplify contact identification and tracking with the addition of the ID/Status field.
- In the event an email address is associated with multiple contacts a new drop-down menu appears allowing you to select the most appropriate contact record.
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Dive Deeper into Custom Tables
Custom Tables Enhancements
Act! Premium for Web subscribers can now derive greater insights from Act! Custom Tables with multi-select column filtering, a list view summary toggle, and new contextual menu options.
What’s new:
- A new column filter option which allows users to select more than one value to filter.
- New menu options when right-clicking on one or more records in list view.
- The ability to select multiple records in list view.
- A new summary toggle to summarize Custom Tables data in list view.
Ready to upgrade? Call us at 866-348-3611 or contact your Act! Certified Consultant.
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