Quicken Community discussions regarding Quicken shortcuts

The 'a' in the now-defunct Save button was underlined. This documents the fact that it was an ALT shortcut key. Go back and look at QW2017.

Well it doesn't actually "document" anything; but you're right, I did not mention that: my bad. I'll address it now.

The "shortcut" you refer to was not a "Quicken" shortcut: it was a Windows shortcut, allowed by Quicken, whose sole purpose was to provide a way to "press" a button using just the keyboard. No button: no shortcut to press it.

And ALT+a has not always accomplished the purpose of "entering" a transaction.

Prior to there being a Quicken "Save" button, there was a Quicken "Enter" button (see Q2010).

And since the word "enter", does not have the letter "a" in it, the Enter button could not be "pressed" in Q2010 by keying ALT+a - the Enter button could be "pressed" by keying ALT+t.

In Q2010, the (then called) "Transaction Toolbar" also had an "Attach" button (Attach now being a register "column"), and ALT+a in Q2010 caused the Attach button to be "pressed".

Sometime prior to Q2010 (see Q2004), there was no Attach button on transactions; then, ALT+a caused Quicken to switch from the Register to the Account Overview.

So: ALT+a was never a sacred Quicken shortcut for entering transactions.

However the Enter key has always been available to Enter transactions, and it requires pressing only one key, rather than two: that's about as "short" a shortcut as you can get.

And if you don't want to use the Enter key, you can use CTRL+Enter, which has also always Entered transactions.

Your comment in the other discussion in this newsgroup (the discussion about replacing the Save button with an icon) demonstrates that you're another of those trying to justify their personal preferences by making false or misleading claims.

The posters in the Community discussion referred to in my other newsgroup post you replied to, complained about the size of the new "save" icon, compared to the size of the Save button-with-text - not about the loss of a "shortcut" - which is why I created a separate discussion here for that specific complaint. Complaints about the size of that new Save icon are basically red herrings.

No one is entitled to what has previously existed (did you ever see a guarantee from Intuit/Quicken that nothing you liked in Quicken would ever be changed?). Change happens - everywhere and often, in the world, including the world of software.

Those who claim that they have been harmed by change, rarely provide objectively verifiable evidence justify their position, and virtually never take into account those who have benefited from the change.

Rather than trying to manufacture bogus reasons to accuse Quicken of doing something wrong, the way to address situations of this type, is to initiate a discussion in the Quicken Community (an "Idea" discussion) asking Quicken to provide, or restore, the feature you like (or to Vote for such a request "idea" initiated by someone else). [The downside of that approach is that under the current Community rules, an "Idea" can only receive up-votes; which virtually guarantees it will misrepresent the net desires of all Quicken users who want to vote. But it's better than b.s.]

[For the record: I prefer the new small Save icon: even with my old eyes that require reading glasses, I have no problem "pressing" that button with my cursor, every time I try. And the small reduction in size from button to icon has provided me with a bit of additional space, where I can see more of the data in the register.]