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Quicken 2008: One Step Update "To Do" List Awkward

After a few days of use, I'm finding Quicken 2008's One Step Update "To Do" list to be a tad awkward to use. By "To Do" list, I'm talking about the window (entitled "One Step Update Settings") that pops up after telling Q08 to do a One Step Update and entering the Vault password. It's a box showing what One Step Update will do on that run. Unfortunately, the list of planned things under the "Financial Institutions" section (which fit very nicely in Q05's box) no longer fits in Q08's. To see everything, I have to scroll. That leads to Q08's scrolling problem where I have to actually click in the proper frame of a window to use my mouse's scroll wheel (see my "Quicken 2008 Mouse Wheel Scrolling" thread). Plus, the click has to be in the actual scrollable area of that frame, not just in the border. As a result, I've ended up de-selecting things when all I want to do is scroll the list.

My previous version of Quicken was Q05. Did Q06 or Q07 have this same behavior?

Reply to
David A. Lessnau
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Q2007 works like Q2008 in this respect. Just on aesthetic grounds, I prefer the look of Q2005, but the Q2007/Q2008 look seems to be the wave of the present.

I think you were mostly lucky that your download list fit in the Q2005 One Step Update window without scrolling; mine doesn't.

And Q2007/Q2008 offer a time-saver not present in Q2005: the ability to selectall/de-select all fi's for download with one click.

[I don't use a scroll wheel, so the difference for me is minimal (but when I test my scroll wheel, it works as I expect it to). I'm reasonably sure Intuit didn't make the change knowing that some users would be unable to use scroll wheels; you seem to have run into a "perfect tropical disturbance" :).] [One thing I have never figured out: what is the philosphy for determing which Quicken windows will be sizable and which will not.]
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John Pollard

John,

Thanks for the info about the UI similarity to Q07. About the select/deselect all check box, I'm pretty sure Q05 had something similar, but I'm not sure (I'd actually forgotten about it until you mentioned it and didn't even notice it in Q08). And, yes, I agree about the difficulty in determining which window will be resizable. If I could re-size that "To Do" list and have the size stick, that would be goodness.

Another interesting thing is the One Step Update Summary screen after the update. Down at the bottom, it has a section for what it did with Quicken.com. That section is always collapsed. It doesn't have much in it (just saying x accounts were synched online), but it ought to default to un-collapsed (especially when it contains info) or to whatever I set it to last time.

Dave

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David A. Lessnau

I'm using Q2005 and I've wished for the select/deselect all for some time. Since I'm going to be moving up soon, it looks like I'll get it.

Another benefit in the One Step Update area for Q2007/Q2008 is that you only need enter your Pin Vault password once per Quicken session, not everytime you initiate a One Step Update in the same session.

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John Pollard

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