Q06Dlx - Check Numbers >= 10,000?

If you haven't actually written 10,000 checks in this account (or haven't done it anytime in the near past), order new checks with a lower starting number -- say 1,000.

Yes I guess I could do that - it would work.

That a.r. purist in me had wanted to do nothing of course

The acct in question is our primary, joint household acct and its been in play for 30+ years. We've written the ten thousand plus checks but the 1st one in Qkn is in the seven thousand series so we could restart somewhat lower and not run into dups. Without looking I'm pretty sure I don't have the statements and cancelled checks on hand from before when I starting using Qkn ('96...).

I guess I'll live with for a bit until I see how annoying it becomes and then decide upon a plan. Thanks for the (what should have been an obvious) plan - sometimes the forest gets in the way.

Geo.

Can to help to clarify something?

What check number actually appears in the MICR line of your checks? 4 digits, or 5 digits?

db

As I noted in my original post my next Check Number is 10,011 but 0011 (that's four digits) is what's encoded on the MICR scan-line.

Geo.

That's what I understood, but I wanted to double- (triple- ?) check.

The printed check number in the upper right corner of your checks is irrelevant. You bank's computers only read the MICR line ... not the upper right corner.

SO, a still easier remedy is to force Quicken ONE TIME to use the number that's actually on the MICR line ... and then, after that, use the "Next Chk Nbr" function as you're already doing.

After you manually type in, for example, 0011, Q will remember that and automatically use 0012 as the next number.

No new checks to order with this method.

db

Hmmm... Yes I can see how that'd work - good idea.

I'd already played with changing the Check# to, say, 3000 and then entered and deleted some lines. Changing it to what's on the next check is no different so that'd work just fine.

I see where I'll probably do just that after I monitor the flow for awhile. Thx for the good idea. Again, that damned forest just keeps getting in the way of the view. Geo.

George as an old People's Bank customer you should have known that. Just kidding. Trust all is well with you.

I think you think you're talking to a different George. I've never done business with People's Bank and it's a little out of my radius. Geo. Salisbury Long Valley, NJ

Sorry George but I worked with a Salisbury at UCC and thought you might be him. Guess I'm getting senile.

Aw! Go ahead and keep writing. Good thing about fading memory is you are surrounded by more and more new faces.

Al (I'd apologize if this is off-topic, but beginnig of thread is too far away to check. Say, got a needle?)