Urgent please, Date & Year only in Date column

PUtting the cursor in the header area, more the margins of the date field, making it wide enough for all the elements.

opened Quicken today instead of showing the month, day, and year in the Dat e column as normal it is now only displaying the month and year and not the day of past or new transactions. If it makes any difference there is no s pace or comma in the field and the month is always displayed in a 3 letter abbreviation. For example, it says: Jun2017. Tried restoring my last back up and it displayed the same way even though it was fine at the time it was backed up. If it makes any difference Quicken now displays it this way in all account, credit cards as well as checking. Needless to say, HELP IS N EEDED ASAP as I cannot tell accurately when a transaction took place.

Quicken is dependent on an appropriate Windows short date format (for examp le, M/d/yyyy).

Widening the column doesn't help.

Where would I check the Windows date format? I've neve heard of that setti ng.

Thanks... Bob

I opened Quicken today instead of showing the month, day, and year in the D ate column as normal it is now only displaying the month and year and not t he day of past or new transactions. If it makes any difference there is no space or comma in the field and the month is always displayed in a 3 lette r abbreviation. For example, it says: Jun2017. Tried restoring my last ba ckup and it displayed the same way even though it was fine at the time it w as backed up. If it makes any difference Quicken now displays it this way in all account, credit cards as well as checking. Needless to say, HELP IS NEEDED ASAP as I cannot tell accurately when a transaction took place.

mple, M/d/yyyy).

I found the Windows date format. It is set correctly.

Bob

n I opened Quicken today instead of showing the month, day, and year in the Date column as normal it is now only displaying the month and year and not the day of past or new transactions. If it makes any difference there is no space or comma in the field and the month is always displayed in a 3 let ter abbreviation. For example, it says: Jun2017. Tried restoring my last backup and it displayed the same way even though it was fine at the time it was backed up. If it makes any difference Quicken now displays it this wa y in all account, credit cards as well as checking. Needless to say, HELP IS NEEDED ASAP as I cannot tell accurately when a transaction took place.

xample, M/d/yyyy).

hen I opened Quicken today instead of showing the month, day, and year in t he Date column as normal it is now only displaying the month and year and n ot the day of past or new transactions. If it makes any difference there i s no space or comma in the field and the month is always displayed in a 3 l etter abbreviation. For example, it says: Jun2017. Tried restoring my las t backup and it displayed the same way even though it was fine at the time it was backed up. If it makes any difference Quicken now displays it this way in all account, credit cards as well as checking. Needless to say, HEL P IS NEEDED ASAP as I cannot tell accurately when a transaction took place.

example, M/d/yyyy).

This is really crazy. Everything I've described is when accessing the Quic ken data file from my computer. The data file is actually stored on my wif e's computer on our home network. When opening Quicken from her computer e verything is fine, the date column shows as it should! We have used this s etup for many years so Quicken is definitely capable of doing it this way. Does anyone have any ideas???

"Bob Newman" wrote

This is really crazy. Everything I've described is when accessing the Quicken data file from my computer. The data file is actually stored on my wife's computer on our home network. When opening Quicken from her computer everything is fine, the date column shows as it should! We have used this setup for many years so Quicken is definitely capable of doing it this way. Does anyone have any ideas???

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As Sherlock already told you, "Quicken is dependent on an appropriate Windows short date format ....".

The Windows date format can be different on each of your computers, hence it can appear differently when your data file is accessed from a different computer.

Change the Short data format on the pc where the Quicken date is causing you problems, to be the same as the Short date format on the pc where the Quicken date is as you like it.

Hooray! Hooray! Thank you, thank you, thank you! Making them both agree did it! I wonder how they could have gotten changed.

Love, Bob