I recently upgraded from Quicken Deluxe 2010 to QD2011. I don't see any real improvements for the way I use Quicken. For the most part it appears that this version offers only cosmetic changes. I have two things that I really don't like about it.
The first is that my customized home page, "My View" will no longer display the way I had it set up in Q2010 and many prior versions. The net worth chart now insists on being full window width. With the prior versions, it could display at half width, with the "YTD income" and "alerts" beneath the chart, and the "watch list" fit in on the left, next to all of those. I've tried rearranging them, and resizing the window, but it will not go back to my preferred arrangement. Not what I want, but I can live with that. I just have to scroll down now to see information that was readily available before.
The second difference I really don't like. That is the investment account view. In the previous version, I could choose "transactions", "overview", or "value" as the default display for the account. When I reopened an account, it showed the selection I had previously used. For the most part, I prefer the "overview", in order to see the security performance. In my investment accounts, I have occasional transactions, but not often enough that I need to see that view all the time. Q2011 does not appear have these choices, instead, it always displays the transaction list, and has a pop-up window for the security overview. The account performance chart does not seem to exist at all.
Is there any way to get the investment accounts to display like they did in Q2010? Of course, I could go back to the previous version, but that doesn't seem like a good alternative.
Thanks.