Quicken Deluxe - 2005 / 2008

Go for it! Just like you, I had Quicken 2005 Deluxe. Got 2008 Deluxe and switched a couple of month ago - it's doing everything fine for me, no problems.

Q05 to Q08 would be a good jump, you'll notice some new features you should like. You can also try a free 60 day trial download of any of the Q08 versions, directly from Intuit.

Do you have a link to download this 60 trial? All I can find on their web site is reference to a 60 refund policy after you have already purchased it.

Thanks... Bob

As always, be safe and make a backup of your original pre-conversion data. Easiest method is if you have a 2nd pc to install it on. It will upgrade your data from a prior release.

Thank you. I am pretty sure I will purchase it. Is there an unlock code they will give me or can I install over the evaluation copy?

Thanks... Bob

Is the trial crippled in any way?

Bob

"Bob Newman" wrote in news:Lrfcj.13484$hO4.8601 @newsfe19.lga:

IIRC, the trial is fully functional, but will only run 30 or 60 days. Then it will ask you to go online and pay. DON'T! It is much cheaper to buy it at Staples, Costco, or some other discount store. I like Staples bacause of the online rebate they offer on this type of product. Maybe there is a deal with a tax program or AV.

I have checks a few sites (e.g. staples, Office depot) and could not find anything cheaper than about $58 and nobody beat out $49 from Intuit upgrade. I don't need tax software so those rebates don't count for me.

BTW, is it true that price downloads will stop for 2005 users in April?

From Intuit site: (not yet updated, thou, for Quicken 2005, but should be very similar)

Information for Quicken 2004 customers

As of April 30, 2007, in accordance with the Quicken discontinuation policy, online services1 and live technical support will no longer be available for Quicken 2004 users. These services include online bill pay; downloading financial data from your bank, credit union, credit card, brokerage, 401(k), or mutual fund accounts; downloading stock quotes, news headlines, and other financial information into Quicken; uploading portfolio information from Quicken to Quicken.com; and providing access to the investing features on Quicken.com, including portfolio tracking, any watch lists you have created, One-Click Scorecard(tm), Stock Evaluator, and Mutual Fund Evaluator.

Thanks...

I'd suggest uninstalling the trial, then install the purchased copy, if that's the way you'll go. If you go back to the previous version, then you would do the same procedure. But in that case, you'd need to restore your pre-upgrade data files. Again, always keep a separate copy of your original data safe somewhere, preferably on removeable storage.

Fully functional, just time-limited.

While you can try it for a while, any changes to you quciken files would be lost if you went back to 2005. not a really user friendlt way to do it an since you can't import,export data, you'd have to enter it all over again.

There isn't a database in the world that produces backward compatible data......

"Hank Arnold (MVP)" wrote in news:477b63d2$0$13844$ snipped-for-privacy@cv.net:

That's a strange statement. AFAIK, MS has several programs in their Office suites that can save the data in older formats: Certainly Word and Excel can.

Neither of those applications are databases. The are documents. You can lose the functionality of a macro or formatting. Those applications should not be confused with a database.

Word & Excel are not database programs. The only *database* program in Office is Access. AFAIK, you can't "Save As" to an earlier version (at least not in Access 2007).

My point was that a database in a new format can not be opened and managed by an older version of the *database* program. You might be able to get a *reader* (as in Access), but you won't be able to open it for editing or reporting...

Even if you *can* "Save As" an older version, you will almost certainly lose features and/or functionality.

"Hank Arnold (MVP)" wrote in news:477c69da$0$9108$ snipped-for-privacy@cv.net:

Yes, indeed, you're right. A save as an older version would likely result in loss of features for Access as it does for Word and Excel. This is logical, why else bring out new versions? Answer: to make the previous version obsolete. MS tried it somewhere along the line with at least Word, and the outcry was such that they brought out a converter, which is now built into new versions (I don't know how far back conversion goes these days). It is even worse with GUI changes. I took one look at Office 2007. Can't deal with the changes in feel from 2003, certainly if I have to deal with the fact that not everyone at work will change over at the same time.

Quicken is still able to output csv files, no matter that it is somewhat poorly formatted (IMHO). That means the underlying data is still more or less in the same format. It SHOULD be possible to save the data as an older version's format, certainly with mature products such as Quicken, or even Access. I admit, I am no good wth Acces, in part because I have not "grown up" with the program as I did with Excel, Word and Reference Manager (scientific bibliography database manager). But I do understand that the publishers want to sell more, somewhat newer programs, not just fix bugs in old ones.

As a corrollary, Word at least through 2003, has some very long-standing problems with figures embedded in text. They don't stay in place when editing text. Their borders need to be individually adjusted since you can't change their default properties. A MS MVP acknowledged the problem, and stated that she knew no solution would be forthcoming. Too bad. A new Gui is more important.

Thanks for letting me blow off steam.