Why can't you cut & paste from Quicken?

Hi, Enigman.

I Cut (or Copy) and Paste in Quicken quite often. You'll have to be more specific: WHICH screens are you having problems with?

Please ALWAYS include your Quicken version. And it doesn't hurt to include your operating system version as well. A single line is enough most of the time, like: Quicken 2007 Basic on Vista Ultimate x64

RC

Sorry for omitting the details. I'm using Quicken 2006 Premier on a Windows XP (home) system. The screen I'd like to cut and paste from is the Summary page that comes up when you click on an investment account. Typically, I want to copy the Number of Shares entry and paste it in a spreadsheet, but attempting to do so only outlines the entire line with all the security details.

Gee I wish more people would realize when they do this!

That means that the underlying widget (i.e. graphical window element) is a list widget and not an edit widget. Basically you can't copy and paste from such graphical elements (much like you normally can't cut and paste from a message dialog box with an OK button).

However, in general, much of Quicken's graphical elements can be copy and pasted.

(BTW: most often it's really *copy* and paste not *cut* and paste. Cut implies that you removed it from it's origination and moved it to the destination. Often people are not doing that - they are copying it from the original destination and pasting a copy of it to a new location).

Have you looked at Quicken's reporting capabilities? I created a report that gave me activities for all investment accounts from the beginning. After some tweaking, I got close to what I was looking for. After the report generates "right click" and select either copy to clipboard or export to XL (I like the clipboard).

Once in XL I sort, filter, move, etc. to my heart's content.

slb

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