Find options

The screen isn't gone, it's just minimized. Look at the bottom left of your Quicken window for "Search Results" and click on it to get the screen back.

And the op doesn't have to "restore" the Find dialog in order to "find" the next match: just press CTRL+SHIFT+F. The Find dialog will remain minimized, but Quicken will "find" the next matching transaction.

An excellent point, but in some cases it may not give the intended result.

CTRL+SHIFT+F will find the next match in the same register. But the search results may come from different accounts and you'll miss the matches in other registers.

In addition, if you've used Quicken's global search box (upper left of Quicken window) I'm not sure CTRL+SHIFT+F will work at all.

In general I think it's probably safer to restore the results window.

Jerry

That would be a "Find All"; a "Find" always finds in the "current" register, and doesn't produce "search results". Sorry I didn't make clear that I believed that the op was doing a "Find", not a "Find All".

I agree; if you've done a "Search" (or "Find All"), "Find Next" has no meaning.

Also, the behavior disliked by the op is not limited to investment accounts: Find works the same in all account types.

[If you've done a "Find", a "Find Next" will work in the current register even if you have closed the "Find" dialog box ... and even if you switch registers, then switch back to the register involved in the "Find".] [My global search box is on the right end of my Quicken toolbar. Q2008 Premier.]

You are correct. It is minimized.

But I believe in my 2006 version it did not minimize itself automatically, but instead just remained there for me to search for the next transaction. Is it possible to make it have that behavior (not become minimized)in Q 08?

I do not see it among the preference options.

Jeff

John Pollard wrote:

You're correct: the Find behavior has been changed (I do not remember just when): the dialog box always minimizes now. There is no option to alter that.

You're absolutely right, I completely misinterpreted the question. It's only by accident that my answer was almost right :-)

With John's advice I can't understand why you'd even want the Find screen obstructing the view of your register.

And you can absolutely fly from one matching entry to the next by holding down the CTRL and SHIFT keys while tapping the "F" key.

After re-reading the thread, I'm not so sure you misinterpreted anything.

In any event, I'm still not really sure exactly what the op was doing ... but I do think that between the two of us we have possibly provided some helpful repsonses.

Frankly, I had not spent enough time looking at the ways that Find/Find All/Search worked until you made your point.

Thanks. I was afraid of that, but will learn to live with it.

Jeff

John Pollard wrote:

Because "CTRL and SHIFT keys while tapping the "F" key" takes 3 fingers (2 hands to achieve, while clicking on "Next" just takes the mouse. Question of preferences.

Also, when I asked the question I did not know about CTRL and SHIFT keys while tapping the "F" key and tried F3 (which is the usual Windows default for Next) and that did not work.

Jeff

Jerry Boyle wrote:

Yes, you both have been helpful.

I just got used to the older way where the Find window stayed visible. True it sometimes got in the way (depended where you moved it to) but had the advantage that it only took just one mouse click on "Next" to find the next one. On my Windows XP system "Find ALL" always crashed Quicken 2006 and I therefore could not use it. They seem to have finally fixed that bug in Q

2008 and I will therefore "find all" that more usable.

Different strokes for different folks. Allowing the option to chose if the Find window minimizes or not would have allowed both groups to be happy.

Thanks for the help.

Jeff

John Pollard wrote:

I can press CTRL + SHIFT + F easily with just my left hand.

As I think about the "old" way; I think that for some folks, just "clicking on 'Next'" might be easier, but I think that for other folks, CTRL+SHIFT+F might be easier. And I think a person could learn a new way, and find that easier than the old way.

[I'm still not sure we are all talking about the exact same process, since a strict "Find" doesn't have a "Next" option (you can click on "Find" again to get the next "match").]

For myself, I have never gravitated to the key combinations for my personal use; despite having "grown up" using command-line applications, which sometimes forced me to use them. I don't think the gui interface actions are "better"; they've just been easier for me to adapt to - than to try to utilize some combination of two worlds. I think that's because I subconsciously try to measure the "consistency" of my approach ... and wind up disliking switching back and forth between the gui and the command-line techniques.

Doesn't that still leave you with 5 fingers and 2 thumbs to spare? :-)

More seriously, John has already conceded and I also readily concede that we tend to prefer using the mouse, probably because it takes a lot more time and mental effort to properly position 3 digits on small keyboard keys than

1 digit on a large mouse button.

I'd report this issue to Intuit - you might get your user option in a future release.

Jerry

Oh joy! Now in addition to being senile I'm also becoming cixelsyd.

:)