Migrating from Free Edition to Simple Start Edition

So your the guy who bought Simple Start.

Personally, I'd take the Simple Start edition back and get the Pro edition. Does so much more.

Michael

I am Intuit's biggest Fanboy and I say Simple Start sucks, big time.

A cheap suck is better than no suck.

The biggest problem with Quick Start is that an uninformed user might actually associate it with "a the real version of QuickBooks".

Well, that's better than associating Quick Start with a '52 Nash. Marginally.

So, "Simple Start" is to Quickbooks as "Bob" is to Windows operating systems...

-Mark Bole

Once you have installed the program, merely use the Open company window, navigate to your existing company file with the new program and open it. It will read the file without any problems since they are basically the same program. The pay version is Simple start free with a bunch of additional features.

If you mean my cat, "Bob" (he appeared at the office one day as a kitten with a ghastly tail; damaged, necrotic, awful, and the tail had to be removed - that's how he got his name), then, yes.

No, I mean "Microsoft Bob", as described by Wikipedia:

"Microsoft continued to make strategic decisions directed at consumers. The company released Microsoft Bob, a graphical user interface designed for novice computer users, in March 1995. Discontinued in 1996 due to poor sales, Bill Gates later attributed its failure to hardware requirements that were too high for typical computers; Microsoft Bob is widely regarded as Microsoft's most unsuccessful product."

It's funny how even though Intuit was never acquired by Microsoft, somehow it still *feels* like it was...

-Mark Bole

I once saw a dead boy in the water, I called him Bob.

Either one, then.

Right. Micros~1 bought Great Plains.

And the "Look & Feel" is partly a Windows thing, bolstered by several books by Microsoft on how to implement a GUI interface. Microsoft is the de facto "keeper of the standard."