Missing memo field in Quicken 2006

Lisa,

Try the View menu - it's at the bottom.

Len

Lisa C wrote:

I like the way you used "upgraded" in quotes. The way they handle this is definitely worse than what they did a decade ago. You need to go to the View drop-down and deselect one-line display, and then reselect it after you put in your memo.

Back in the DOS version, if you used one-line display, then for the transaction you were dealing with, it automatically showed both lines, with the category on a third line, and let you do whatever you needed to do. Then if you went to a different transaction, that one became three lines, and the one you finished (and all others) were one line again.

Intuit's response at the time was that converting to Windows was a big job and you could not expect all features to get there right away. They said to give it time. Presumably, few of the programmers there today had anything to do with the product back when they said that, and it's not even on anybody's list anymore. The best I can suggest is that you go to Submit Feedback on the Help and tell them that you would like them to restore this missing feature. If enough people ask, they are more likely to listen. As things stand, I no longer use the one-line feature because it's too awkward.

Ironically, there's now so much extra room on the screen with today's resolutions that they could easily squeeze in a memo field in the one line display without affecting very much. It used to be that you had about 32 characters each of the payee, memo, and category displayed. Now in one-line, you get about 50 of the payee and of the category. I don't know about you, but most of my category names are 4-10 characters long and everything would fit in one line just fine. Quicken currently lets you type values that are longer than what displays anyway, so it would not be a change if an occasional entry did not display completely without clicking on it and moving your cursor, so I can't see why they left it out. At least they could have done it with a mouseover.