Adding buttons?

Stubby wrote in news:f260902b-9cad-421a- snipped-for-privacy@gh5g2000vbb.googlegroups.com:

On my investment portfolio screen it is 2 clicks now: Update button, then quotes.

"Stubby" wrote

You can add that to your Quicken Toolbar ... making it accessible from anywhere in Quicken.

Hi, John.

I didn't know that!

Thanks for the tip. And Thanks to Stubby for asking the question. ;>)

RC

To make things even easier you can then click the "Edit Icons..." button and assign the item a shortcut, e.g. Alt+Shift+Q.

A neat feature is that the shortcut continues to work even if you hide the toolbar [View -> Show Tool Bar].

Oops! The "Edit Icons..." button (Q10) has been renamed "Assign keyboard shortcut..." (Q11), but there's no change in how it works.

"Jerry Boyle" wrote in news:iqk39g$rff$ snipped-for-privacy@dont-email.me:

Thanks a lot, John and Jerry, that makes things even easier!

Close, but not quite optimum. The above does indeed update quotes, but it doesn't go on to show me my accounts. Why update if you are going to ignore the changes? If Q would automatically switch to the "Investments" display either before or after the update would be fine. Do you have any magic that will make that happen? Thanks.

"Stubby" wrote

I know of no magic for that. But it's a curious request given your initial desire.

"I would like to create a single-button 'download quotes' button on the investments screen".

That question presumed that you had gotten yourself to the "investments screen" in some non-automatic way before you would do the quote download.

You can have a Quicken Toolbar icon to go to the Investment Portfolio screen. That would allow you to do what you want from anywhere else in Quicken, with two clicks.

I sometimes download quotes just to get updated totals in my Account Bar. I'd be unhappy if Quicken took me off my current screen.

If two mouse clicks aren't easy enough, assign shortcuts P and Q to the "Go to Investing > Portfolio" and "Quotes" toolbar items and use the slightly faster Alt+Shift+PQ [2 keystrokes]. Or use two letters that are closer together on the keyboard.

To get multiple actions with a single keystroke or mouse click use keyboard and/or mouse macro software.

P.S. It's hard to believe that giving someone *exactly* what they asked for merits a satisfaction rating of only "close" :-)