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Quicken gripes; post here and see if they notice

Quicken has a lot of weak spots and I have told them for as long ago as 20 years, when they visited our club, and still no help. Let me be first.

  1. The checkprinting screen is a minefield. Don't even try to touch a key to see if the check number is going to be right. Any move will immediately print all checks.

  1. In reconciling, it's the same. ANY key will check/uncheck a line item and any casual straying of the cursor as you fish for an item can check/uncheck the item without your knowing it. It makes a new mystery to solve and another 15 minutes wasted. They should specify a singular key, like F10.

  2. Category is a column with income items on top of expense items. In writing a check, as you input letters for a category you are first "dragged" through the income items with those same letters, rather than Q sensing that it should be an expense category. Sometimes it's hard to get unstuck from the income item as Q insists on spelling it out for you.

4.Instead of "Use duplicate number?" why don't they give a peak at the offending item so you can make the judgement. Deposit and check numbers can cross.

  1. In the reconciliation window, why don't they provide for a little arithmetic so you don't have to use a scratch pad.

  1. Twenty years or so ago, Intuit forgot to put in another field, which is now designated class that is scabbed on as a subset of category. It limits the types of reports you can make. Why not add a class field now? The data format is always redone with each new iteration, so there's nothing sacred.

A new irk today: Q has decided that pressing Return in any field means "I'm done, take it away, good luck finding it again so you can fill out the category".

Reply to
John C. Polasek
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John C. Polasek wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

I don't use check printing. I tried once, eons ago, and it didn't work for me. Also, I use electronic checks as much as possible, so it doesn't pay for me to set up a single check for printing every month or two.

No problem for me, but then I keep track of cleared items and balances through almost daily One Step Updates (OSU). I agree that reconciling could be more intuitive with items that are dated more recently than the last date in the reconcile period. I hate to have to uncheck a cleared item for 5/12 if the reconcile period is 4/10-5/10, then have to go back and clear the item after reconciliation is complete. Or maybe it is because I gave the item the wrong date from the point of view of the bank, i.e. the item was dated by me 5/10, and therefore included in reconciliation, but it cleared the bank on 5/12 and therefore should be excluded from the reconciliation. If you get my drift. Option to redate items in reconciliation?

That means writing more unique categories, so the confusion does not happen. I know what you mean, because I made categories like commuting, computerstuff and compuserve (a very old one), and have to be careful not to choose the wrong one.

Good suggestion. Make it!

That might help. I sometimes use windows' calculator, so as to have a separate window, but scrap paper works too.

I thought it was a new field, that could be merged into category, like it always was. I forgot the new names ...

There is an option in the setup to change the function of pressing return

- either accept transaction or not or some such thing. I always have to recheck that after upgrading. Do you sort the register by date? For me that helps, but sometimes an automatically enetered transaction gets duplicated when a different amount comes in a downloaded transaction at a slightly different date, and that confused me recently.

Reply to
Han

No one from Intuit/Quicken will respond to this here even if they DO see it, which is doubtful. They don't even reply to posts in their OWN forums.

Since Quicken development moved offshore, Quality Control and Customer Support went with it

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dieHard

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