I got the complete software and books, but the software cannot be activated since it was already registered once. Don't waste your money.

If you are a user of previous versions of Act!, I reccommend you avoid this software. It will cost you far more than you pay. The new owners of Act! are difficult and unhelpful and the many many problems of the software are almost impossible to resolve. I've gone back to a previous version and written off the cost of buying Act 2005 as experience not to deal with this company again.

Do yourself a favor and stay away from ACT! software. They should be embarrassed to sell this piece of trash.

We had the old ACT 2000 and it worked great but we needed to upgrade it so our envelopes would print out properly. We purchased a 5 user license and the ACT 2005 has been a major disappointment. It is slow in booting up even on newer computers and if you haven't worked in it for 10 minutes or so, it can take 30 seconds of waiting before you can fill in a data field. ACT 2005 was released with a lot of bugs, there were some major patches and then guess what? Sage decides in their wisdom not to support the software anymore, they will just release ACT 2006 and then ACT 2007. These people don't care about their products or their customers, its all about the money to them. Avoid this garbage at all costs!!!

Used to be a great product. I've been using ACT! for over 10 years. Since Sage took over, it's slower, wont do faxes, wont do macros, is tempermental, fields sometimes don't accept input. But worst of all is the incredible "nickel and diming". $70 for their paperback guidebook? $300 for tech support -- and then you wait to speak to someone in India? Do yourself a favor and see if you can live with Microsoft's less sophisticated but less larcenous database.