UPgrading from Quicken 2001 to 2006 or later

Quicken is very good at converting old data. I moved from 2001 to 2006 without any problems.

If you're wanting to extend the life of Quicken as long as possible, you would be better off to convert to 2007. That way you get an extra year of downloads and online access. However, if you don't use those features, why upgrade at all?

Hi Fred,

Thanks for your comments. You ask a fair question as to why upgrade. Well, I have noticed in the last year that every once in a while Q2001 makes a mistake while balancing my checkbook against the bank statement. I think it is bug and it wont be fixed any more. Hence thinking of upgrading to not have to deal with it.

Prabhat

The decision to upgrade is yours, but I'm skeptical it will solve your problem. I've been monitoring this newsgroup for years, and have never seen a bug reported when balancing your checkbook. All errors encountered were data entry, not Quicken bugs.

You've been posting this a lot lately, but it's not true.

There are at least two approaches which will allow users to continue to import qif files in every version of Quicken since Q2004 (not wanting to speak for future versions; I limit this statement to be true up through Q2007). Both methods have been posted in this group and in the Intuit forums.

Can someone please tell me what a QIF file is and why might I want to import it potentially?

Thanks.

Prabhat

snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com wrote in news:1171651062.486393.141980 @j27g2000cwj.googlegroups.com:

Quicken Interchange Format. It was/is a way to move data in and out of Quicken via structured textfiles. Some banks only let you download qif files. Qif has been superseded by OFX/QFX formatted files, which are not as easily readable and modifiable as qif files. Intuit never made money from qif files, which was one of their reasons to go to qfx/ofx files, since they require (I believe) the accessing of an Intuit server and/or licensing fees that Intuit wants from the banks/financial institutions.

Apparently OFX/QFX files are more secure, more precise, whatever than qif files.

Bottom line is, if you need to ask, you probably won't need to know about qif files. If/when you are shopping for a financial institution, one of /my/ criteria would be how easy it is to get the bank's data into my Quicken. That means that I sold my soul to Intuit (except that I do not use Turbotax, but Taxact).

I am new to this group. Been using Q2001 with a major problem. I skipped an entry on one of my monthly statements. I realized my error when the statement did not balance. Here's the problem: I choose the option "display enteries as entered". I don't want my enteries sorted by date, check no nor payee. Is there any way to insert an entry between any two existing entries? Please help.

"lingua" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@a75g2000cwd.googlegroups.com:

Put the cursor on the entry below which you want to make a new entry. Hit Ctrk-I.