Some Words About the Text and Screen Images

This book uses two conventions for highlighting certain texts:

• The names of all screens and screen elements, including all menus, buttons, and fields, are always presented in bold type.

• The names of transactions and software, as well as commands, options, and slang terms, are always presented in italic type.

These conventions are intended to help the reader scan through the instructions and easily pick out the critical references within them. The bold text can also be found with page references in the index at the back of this book.

In addition, we hereafter refer to the SAP R/3 software simply as SAP, and to people who work behind the scenes to install, configure, operate, and monitor the use of the software as the SAP administrators.

Finally, we should point out that you will often see small differences between the screen images in this book and your versions of the same screens.

Some of these differences arise because our screens are customized in a slightly different way from your screens. For example, every business enterprise makes use of a unique group of modules in their system, and so they display their own unique set of folders on their SAP Easy Access screen. We are no exception to that rule. In addition, we have the most current versions of screens at our disposal, and they contain a few more or different elements, more "bells and whistles," than your screens.

In addition, we have altered many screen images in this book with Adobe Photoshop and other tools. For instance, we have routinely cropped nearly all images to fit them on the pages and not consume too much spaceotherwise, this book would probably be twice its present length, weight, and price! In addition, we have hidden screen elements and data that are either proprietary in nature or distracting and not relevant to the points of the lessons.

However, these are differences of degree, not of kind. For the most part, you will not even notice the differences between our screens and your screens, and the noticeable differences will neither confuse you nor obscure the lessons in this book.