Quicken 2017 Premier first impressions

I'm considering upgrading to 2017 Deluxe (I've remained updated over the past few years - so am considering it). But, I've read comments about the fonts - but don't know what they look like to compare to my current display. Is it possible you can post a page view of the new fonts screen? Thanks for considering it.

Charlie

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The upgrade from 2016 Premier was mostly OK. I had trouble entering my Intuit ID/Password, which was required the first time I launched Quicken. I exited Quicken and restarted. OK then.

I can't find anything new that I care about. The Zillow feature is interesting, but I already track the value of my home using Zillow's web pile and I don't know if I want to have Quicken Inc and Zillow sharing info about me.

I hate the new fonts. They are all skinny and thus harder to read. This is a fashion that is present in much Windows and Apple software, so perhaps Quicken Inc felt obliged to follow the stupid trend.

Yes I found that too. This setting only applies to text displayed in registers. Quicken has a lot of other text that cannot be controlled by this setting.

Thanks for the review. I am using Q2014 and will have to upgrade to 2017 this year to keep downloading transactions. I may go ahead and purchase when I find a deal and then wait to do the upgrade until a few updates have come out.

I have Q2016, is it possible to install Q2017, but retain Q2016 in case you want to revert to it after reviewing Q2017? I a bit concern about some comments I have seen regarding the fonts, etc!

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Almost possible. The installation of QW2017 will remove the QW2016 program ... BUT ALL IS NOT LOST. QW2016 and QW2017 are completely file compatible. SO, if you want to revert, just uninstall QW2017 and re-install QW2016.

Ok, thanks!

I assume you have updated to QW2017? If so, what do you notice as the major differences in working with both. Is the fonts in Q2017 really hard to read as someone said? Any major things different on the main screen (my default is "Accounts - Checking account")?

How about the Online downloads for accounts, Paying Bills, etc via Quicken BillPay?

Thanks again.

Charlie

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I have been using Quicken Premier 2017 for about a month now and it has been smooth sailing. I don't like the skinny fonts, but by now it is clear that the register fonts can be changed to whatever suits the user. The other fonts in Quicken, not so much.

There are a few new features but I don't use them.

For the past several years, Quicken has given me an annoyance that has finally disappeared. When I did one step update, it would very frequently fail with one of several error codes. Some, but not all of my financial institutions would return an error code. If I redid one step update, the errors would usually vanish. The worst aspect was that about half of the time, the error message was "Quicken has cancelled this update at your request." I could just scream.

I HOPE that this bug is gone for good! A related bug is still present. Sometimes, one step update will refuse to even start, and an error box tells me that I am not connected to the internet. The work-around for this has and continues to be, launch Internet Explorer and navigate to a web site. Any web site. Then execute one step update again.

I can't be certain, but the one step updates "feel" a bit faster than before.

I am a huge fan of Quicken so the one bug fix more than justifies the cost of upgrading. Please don't interpret this statement as a piece of advice; I realize that this is not sensible.

I upgraded form Q2016 Premier to Q2017 Premier R3 and so far am disappointed. This new release has crashed and/or hung several times - a lot more than previous release.

For example, this morning, after accepting downloaded transactions into my investment account, I clicked on my checking account. Q just stopped and my mouse pointer switched to "Busy". After a few minutes I opened Task Manager and killed Q. Fortunately when I restarted Q everything seems OK.

A few days ago when I started an OSU, Q crashed and I got a popup asking me to describe what I was doing.

Something like this seems to happen every couple of days.

I also found one rather minor bug that occurs when editing Split lines in a transaction. If I right click on a Split line and select "Delete" instead of deleting the entire line, it just deletes the particular field.

One big change I noticed that I don't think I've heard here is that Q

2017 doesn't *convert* the previous year's file. That used to take a while when dealing with the half dozen Q files I maintain each time I upgraded.

Anyone else have crash problems with Q2017. If so, in what areas?

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What version of Windows are you running?

Fred Jacobowitz wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@googlegroups.com:

Windows 7 Pro 64Bit

"Porter Smith" wrote

I also found one rather minor bug that occurs when editing Split lines in a transaction. If I right click on a Split line and select "Delete" instead of deleting the entire line, it just deletes the particular field.

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That's not a bug: that's the way Quicken intends to work. The right-click dropdown choices are for field edits - cut, copy, paste, delete. I know of no time when Quicken worked any other way.

You don't use right-click to delete a split line; you select the split line, click the Edit button and choose "Delete" from the resulting dropdown.

To delete an entire row in a split transaction, put your cursor on the line and press CTRL-D.

What improvements has anybody seen? Does it still page excessively (task-manager, add a column named PF Delta on the details tab. Does Snap-To work more consistently. Add you favorite peeve here.

Happy Holiday,

Fred J.