How to load companies on tally startup?

We know, F1 key is the access key to open list of companies. There, we pick our company from list. But in this chapter , this article describes you how to load your company by default without accessing F1 key .

What is the use in loading our company by default :

For example, Owner A has three industries named with X industries , Y Industries, Z industries. He is maintaining all the three industries accounts in tally program. X industries has more turnover value than Y and Z . Employees should have do lot of work / entering accounts in X industries. So, Every time on tally startup, there is time consuming to open X industries from the list by pressing F1 key. So, to save the time its very useful to load our company by default without accessing F1 key at the time of tally program starts.

How to do that :

There are two methods to load our company by default:

  1. Go to Gateway of tally —> Press F12 Configuration —> There select Data Configuration —> press Enter —> Then the screen appears(see below pic)
F12 Configuration –> Data Configuration

Here, Activate the option LOAD COMPANIES ON START UP — YES —> press enter –> SELECT COMPANIES TO PRELOAD ON STARTUP — here select the company which you want to reload on tally startup. –> press enter –> Accept -yes. Now restart the tally for the changes to have effect.

2ND METHOD:

Earlier versions of tally(tally 9.0, 8.1 etc) doesnot have the feature of Data configuration . So, to avail the above feature in earlier versions of tally, follow the steps below.

Press F1 for list of companies, there notice the data serial number of your company. Every company has unique data serial number. Just remember the data serial number (Ex: 10000) of your company , then close the tally.

F1 (list of companies)

Now open the Directory where tally locates . (ex: C Drive / Tally ). There, Open Tally Folder –> And open Configuration settings notepad file

configuration settings file .

Here activate the option, DEFAULT COMPANIES = YES and at line LOAD , simply erase the old company code. and enter the code of your company. Now save the file .Now open the file.