May 27, 2014 Question: Q: Black Screen But Can See My Cursor. So every time I boot up my computer I am getting a black screen but my cursor is responsive. I tried rebooting in recovery mode but could not reinstall my OS because of Apple being unable to 'verify' my computer. Mine was not when I booted my Mac but instead when I let the screen.
Updated November 17th, 2015: Thanks for everyone commenting below and for being on top of the latest Quicken news – Intuit has all of the 2016 versions. You can for all the details on what’s new and improved in the this release (both in Windows and Mac versions). Did you already buy upgrade?
What are your thoughts about the 2016 release? Let us know in the comments section down below!
Updated November 16th, 2015: Although the 2016 versions of Quicken are not yet available at Intuit’s own store, Amazon has just started selling and shipping all versions and has posted the full product descriptions/2016 changes with each product best of all, they are all (as you would expect from Amazon) already on sale! Here’s a look at your options:. Quicken Starter Edition – (normally $39.95). Quicken Deluxe 2016 – (normally $74.95). Quicken Premier 2016 – (normally $104.95).
Quicken Home & Business 2016 – (normally $114.95). Quicken Rental Property Manager 2016 – (normally $164.95). Quicken Mac 2016 – (normally $74.95). Most versions are available in either the downloadable format or, if you need the box with installation disc, can be shipped out to you for free.
Of course sale prices may change at any time so check out their site for today’s sale price and offer details. Staples is also having a deal on all of the new 2016 versions of Quicken over the upcoming Thanksgiving weekend (Black Friday!) – Check out of their ad scan at BlackerFriday.com for sale details. As soon as Intuit.com updates their store we’ll post more details here on SoftwareVoucher.com.
Updated October 8th, 2015: We just received a forwarded email from one of our readers (thanks Steve!) It appears that Amazon contacted customers who one of the Quicken 2016 products early (originally with a posted October 4th ship date) with an apology for the delayed released and a $10.00 store credit a make up for it. They also shed some more light on when Quicken 2016 would be released – They quoted a November 18th release date.
Here’s the full text copy of the forwarded email we received: “Hello, We’re writing about the pre-order referenced above for “Intuit Quicken Deluxe 2016,” scheduled for release on October 4th, 2015. We recently learned that the release date has been postponed to November 18th, 2015. We’re very sorry this happened. As a result, we’d like to offer you a $10 promotional certificate to apologize for the delay. This amount has been applied to your account and will be automatically applied to your next order that is shipped and sold from Amazon.com. We look forward to seeing you again soon.
Sincerely, Customer Service Department Amazon.com” If you’ve also received the same email from Amazon or another Quicken reseller then let us know in the comments section at the bottom of the page! Updated October 2nd, 2015: Thanks to a tip from one of our readers (thanks Brent!), for the first time in at least the last 10 years (and possibly more), it’s been that Quicken 2016 products will be released much later this year in November! Here’s what they said just a few hours ago. Quicken 2016 is coming in November!
You will see Quicken 2016 for Mac and Windows arriving in time for the start of the 2015 holiday shopping season. We appreciate your continued loyalty and for counting on us to help you stay on top of managing your money. Kathryn, Quicken Employee What we don’t know is why we need to wait this long for the 2016 versions, especially given that the release date was previous set for October 4th (as reported from Quicken resellers).
As soon as we know more we will update the details here on this page. Updated October 1st, 2015: October is here but Quicken 2016 is not. We were expecting to see the new products to be released a few days and at the very latest today, but all of Quicken’s resellers and the official store still have the 2015 versions listed. In all the year’s we’ve been tracking Quicken product launches, this is the first time that we’ve not see it out by this time of the year. So what isn’t it released yet? We have a few theories, but the most probable reason is that it has something to do with the announcement about a month ago that Intuit is planning on selling off a few of their smaller product lines, with one of them being Quicken. While we still hope the new products will be released soon (Amazon originally had an October 4th release date – See below for the links), but it’s hard to say at this point what will happen, into who’s hands Quicken will go to and when, and then what the new owner of the software will decide to do.
As soon as we know more, we will post the news here on SoftwareVoucher.com. Updated September 28th, 2015: Amazon just removed the Oct 4th ship date from all of their Quicken 2016 pages and released it with a “currently unavailable”. We’ve see Amazon do this in the past on other products right before the ship date so we’re hoping that the new products will be released a few days sooner. If not, then we’re pretty confident that by Thursday (October 1st) it will be officially released by Intuit. Updated September 16th, 2015: Amazon just posted their pre-order pages for Quicken,.
They have a release date listed as October 4th, 2015 but we expect it to still be available at the end of this month (the last few years we saw the same thing with a Amazon listing an October ship date and then changing it later to the end of September). Updated August 28th, 2015: We first received an email for one of our readers and now we are reading about it in a article that Intuit is looking to sell off a few of their business units, including Quicken. Layoffs of 249 employees in the Small Business unit has already begun. So what does this all mean for the future of Quicken? It’s had to say but it really depends on who picks up Quicken. This could actually be a good thing for Quicken users as a fresh set of eyes and a new set of developers might be able bring back the software to it’s glory days once again.
As soon as we know more, we’ll post it here on SoftwareVoucher.com. In terms of the Quicken 2016 release, it’s likely that the majority of the work was already completed months ago and we expect Intuit to release it, as they have done in the past, by the end of September. Updated August 25th, 2015: Look’s like Quicken’s resellers are gearing up for the 2016 release of Quicken. Sam’s Club has posted their pages for and, although there are no product images or descriptions available as of yet so we can’t yet report on what’s new and improved in this upcoming release. Be on the lookout for the 2016 versions released at the end of September. Updated July 22nd, 2015: For those of you that are interested in Quicken Willmaker, the new 2016 features have.
We’re still waiting on news for the other Quicken products including Deluxe, Premier, and Home & Business. Willmaker 2016 is not yet on sale but can be pre-ordered at both. We expect it to be out by the end of August. Here are the major changes coming to Quicken Willmaker 2016:. New Summary Screens – As the end of every interview when your finish each section (i.e.
Will, Durable Power of Attorney for Finances, Health Care Directive, etc.) you’re now given a summary screen where you can see everything you entered at a glance. Digital Assets Provision for the Will and Durable Power of Attorney for your Finances – You can finally write your detective on what you would like to happen to all of your digital assets. That includes any website/blog material you may have, Linkedin and Facebook pages, digital photographs, etc. A 1-year subscription to Nolo’s Living Trust and access to online forms at nolo.com when you register your product. Various new legal updates, revised information and changes based on changes in current law.
Updated July 21st, 2015: It’s hot outside, with summer in full swing across the country. And it’s that time of the year again where we start our countdown to the 2016 release of Quicken software. Being the software geeks that we are we’re always excited when the updates come around and look forward to reviewing the changes.
And after watching Intuit’s releases for the last decade, predicting the next release date is not that difficult as the new versions are usually released around the same time every year. Here are our expectations. Quicken 2016 versions are expected to be released in the last week of September, 2015.
Expected Quicken 2016 Release Date We just saw two anomalies last year – One was was Quicken 2015 for Mac was released in mid-August, about 6 weeks before the 2015 PC versions became available. That’s because the mac version wasn’t updated for nearly 7 years and didn’t follow the PC version release date cycle.
From what we now know, it will probably be updated with all the other PC versions in the 2016 release cycle. The second anomaly was that Amazon and several other resellers starting selling the 2015 versions a week before intuit.com had the new versions updated (we usually see things the other way around where resellers get the new software versions later than those offered at the manufacturer’s website). We’re not sure it this will repeat itself or not this year again. What do we want to see improved in the 2016 version? Every year we put this list together and, unfortunately, often some of the same things just keep finding their way on our wish list year after year (here’s our ). Here our some of our top feature and functionally requests for the 2016 release:.
Mandatory registration: The 2015 version of Quicken saw the implementation of mandatory registration where you need to create an Intuit ID with your email address to actually use the software. In the wake of the Sony cyber attacks and countless of other hacks (Target and Home Depot come to mind as of late), we believe that registration should be optional for those that don’t feel comfortable giving personal info to Intuit (and possibly monitored/marketed to by Intuit). Issues with duplicate transactions: Duplicate transitions or transitions not posting correctly seems one of the top common issues with many Quicken users. The basic problem is that Intuit has tried to make the software as automatic as possible.
While that’s great wen things work the way they should, at the same time the software becomes rigid and if by accident transitions that you entered already are re-posted, there’s no easy way to get rid of it. Quicken assumes that the data it downloaded is correct and prevents you from easily deleting it. Forced upgrades: This is something that makes it on our list every year but it’s likely that it won’t go away. Intuit has a on all Quicken products where the product looses key functionaries about three years after it’s released. So for example, if you buy Quicken 2015 today then on April 30th, 2018 you all your web-based online services like downloading your bank and other financial data, and online bill pay, go away.
That sans that if you wont to continue using these key features then you’re forced to upgrade to a newer version. Other little kinks: Some of the other things we would love to see improved are the speed of updating accounts or adding new ones (tends to be slow), adding the ability to use a second currency with Quicken Cloud, compatible with windows XP, and improved features in the mobile app. What do you want to see changed in Quicken 2016? What would you like to see changed, improved or added in the 2016 release of Quicken software? Leave your thoughts in the comments below! So far Q2016 isn’t all that different from 2015 One thing that seems to need work is the tax Planner thing, for one thing it should be a stand alone upgrade able item every year not just the previous year and the new one. Another thing with this tax planner, my tax year 2015 shows me owing 156 dollars, when I use the exact figures from my accounts on TurboTax 2016 it comes up me getting back over 2K???
(and yes the figures were the same on my 2015 Quicken program before I converted the file to the 2016 quicken). Hello, We’re writing about the pre-order referenced above for “Intuit Quicken Deluxe 2016,” scheduled for release on October 4th, 2015. We recently learned that the release date has been postponed to November 18th, 2015. We’re very sorry this happened. As a result, we’d like to offer you a $10 promotional certificate to apologize for the delay. This amount has been applied to your account and will be automatically applied to your next order that is shipped and sold from Amazon.com. We look forward to seeing you again soon.
Sincerely, Customer Service Department Amazon.com. I would like to see support for high density screens. I have a Surface Pro 3 and all menu items are almost too small to read. Some of the dialog boxes the text is too large, others the text is too small. Support for high density screens should be a requirement as users move to high density screens such as are appearing on various devices. I would also like to see alignment for individual fields when printing checks.
As it currently works I have to pick an alignment for a check that is close. However some fields do not align properly while others are OK. Along with that it would be nice if Quicken could print the entire check including the MICR line. That would allow the purchase of blank check stock and all printing done by Quicken.
There is no longer a requirement for actual magnetic ink in the MICR line as all checks are now scanned and the MICR line read by optical, not magnetic, scanners. Printing blank check stock with a laser or inkjet printer works just fine. Quicken does work on W10 without issue.
I have been using Quicken since 1991 and at one time was a beta tester for Quicken in the 1990-1999 time frame. I have transactions since January 1, 1991. Based on my observations from past few years, Quicken DESKTOP RELEASES (I am not talking of the mobile apps which are very much welcome but only for the desktop versions) has not been very aggressive in coming up with new features in new versions and it is mostly a cosmetic exercise for the desktop version at least. I feel that there are real “genuine value addition” features that Quicken can add to the desktop version to make it extremely more powerful than what it already is.
To be honest, there are some new features like Debt Reduction Planner and for Budget and related reports, but that is about it. In a way, these are very useful features.
But if you think from a different perspective, people who use Quicken “religiously” are according to my personal opinion, much less likely to go overboard with their finances or take too much of debt. At the same time, there will be at least a sizable amount of people who use Quicken to manage and grow their investments by using Quicken investment features and reports. There might be many others whose use is limited to day to day balancing of their accounts. Hence, it is in the best interest of everyone that all categories of features of Quicken are improved over time and not only selected categories. The features that I am missing most in Quicken Premier (or all versions till 2015 Premier) are related with Investments.
– No support for few widely used asset classes in its naming convention. Most stocks fall under Small Cap, Large Cap and “Mid Cap”. Quicken does not have provision for “Mid Cap” until now. In fact, Quicken mentions in its Help File that mid cap is not supported and also gives reason for doing so. – No support for asset classes like Commodities, Currencies etc.
(at least not that I am aware of). Investment Transactions Features – Setting High and Low alerts for each stock which could be triggered to remind the investor that it might be time to sell/buy the specific stock. This is similar to the other alerts which remind users when account balances go over or under a specified limit. – Using Tags for specific transactions and allowing saved reports, portfolio views etc. To use the tag as a filtering criteria (e.g. I can use this to tag transactions that I have done using lumpsum payments vis-a-vis automatic investments done every month or for tagging transactions to indicate that they have been done during a huge market crash vis-a-vis at other times.
When I take report to find returns for these tagged transactions, I will be able to find returns for lumpsum transactions, transactions during huge stock market crash etc. Or even exclude them from reports so that I get a better view of returns in normal times etc.) It should be possible to assign multiple tags if required. This is very much similar to the normal bank account register tags usage. International Stock Prices Support – People who reside in USA also have investments in other countries, particularly for people who have come from other countries.
A lot of people are from outside USA. They do manage both their USA investments and non USA investments using Quicken. However, no support to download stock, mutual fund and other stock prices or asset classes and other fundamental data for stocks/mutual funds traded in any other country is available yet. – No support for transactions carried out on Margin for derivative products like futures and options. I want to find the absolute gain/loss, ROI%, ARR etc. For the actual amount that I have used in margin transactions (margin amount) rather than the total contract value.
On reports and portfolio views front, Saved Reports In readily available or customizable (saved) reports and graphs, – I can use average annualized return for ALL dates but I do not have option to use Absolute Gain/Loss or ROI% as a field for display. – Fields cannot be sorted. I cannot sort a report by ARR field and have to go through entire report to find the highest and lowest ARR return. – I cannot filter out or include “Closed lots” like the Portfolio view. It would be nice to have a facility which provides a mechanism to include all stocks in the report where current holding is 0.
(Closed lots). It should also be possible to include all stocks in the report where current holding is 0 (Currently held stocks). When I use Reports/Investing/Capital Gains report and Customize this report, then go to Securities tab, it has “Select Securities” on left hand side and it shows on right hand side a box which says “Matching, Security contains”.
This is used for finding all securities with a specific string or characters in it(e.g. Apple will be selected in report but not Microsoft when I type A here. Similarly, if I type M here, Microsoft will be selected but not Apple).
Although this is useful, the more useful filtering criteria could be to select Security contains to specify holdings for the selected securities in the Accounts selected in the Accounts Tab. This should ideally allow to enter (= 0, Greater Then 0, Less Then 0, Not Equal to 0 etc.). This can then be used to report all securities that I am currently holding ( 0), all securities that I have already sold out completely (= 0 or closed lots in other words). In today’s day and age when markets are pretty volatile, it is very important to know what your returns are on your current holdings (as you can probably do something about it) versus returns for securities that are completely sold out (not much chance to take any action here as these securities are no longer available in the portfolio). Currently, I do this manually by selecting / deselecting securities that I hold / have sold out everytime I buy or sell securities and want to see this report. – Last but not the least, the report layout on screen should be changed to make it more appealing and conforming to Windows standards. (Sorting, Changing the column positions by dragging and dropping them etc.) Investment (Portfolio views), – I can use absolute gain/loss and ROI but I cannot use average annualized return for ALL dates.
I can use ARR only for a specific number of years. – It should be possible by user to define a specific asset allocation across different security types as also different asset classes and generate an AUTOMATIC alert if the asset allocation deviates from the user defined one and also have a tolerance limit which is again user definable) so that the alert gets generated only if the asset allocation falls outside the user-defined range (including tolerance limits). A limited way of doing this is available in ideal portfolio view.
– Number of custom views should be increased. What-If Analysis As of now, Quicken does not have many features for what-if analysis for Investment. What will be my investment performance (ARR%, ROI%, Return or anything that can be measured using Saved Reports or Portfolio Views in Quicken etc.) be if – If all the stocks/mutual funds etc. That I hold increase / decrease by n%. (I can use this to see how my returns will be affected to check if each stock increases by 5%, 10%, 20% or -5%, -10%,-20% etc. – Instead of a fixed value of n% that is applied for all stocks or from a stock specific application, if a percentage can be assigned to stocks of a specific sector (e.g. All Automobile stocks may increase/decrease by n% whereas all Bank stocks increase/decrease by m%).
Currently, I do this by copying the existing Quicken file with a different name and changing the security prices in the new file. For this, there also has to be a way of downloading / assigning a specific sector for each stock or sector-mix for each mutual fund. (Currently, I use Investment Goal to assign a sector to Security and this is limited to 15 only.) Wishing Intuit and Mint all the very best for future. Also wishing Quicken desktop a special all the very best for future versions and hoping to see all of above and even more features in coming versions. When I first started using Google Drive a few years ago, I also tried putting my QDATA file in Google Drive to keep it backed up, but it caused major sync issues.
Google support said that Google Drive is not intended for program files. I’m sure this has to do with the volume and frequency of changes made to a program file as opposed to a document. Quicken is constantly writing to the QDATA file, so basically, Google Drive cannot keep up. I ended up removing the Quicken files from Google Drive and use Carbonite for backup. I’ve been so disgusted with Quicken since 2010 I’d almost like to see it GO AWAY! I have been a user since 1997 and I’m really disgusted with Quicken and their “customer support”. My restorations of backups don’t carry over my reconciliations of my checking accounts – so I’d LOVE to see that get corrected.
I also hate it when the credit card transactions stop downloading – I don’t know whose end it’s on – the credit card co (for instance, Discover a few years back & most recently Chase) or Quicken – making they’re dicking the credit card companies as hard as they’re dicking us. Stability and reliability!
Release R6 for Quicken 2015 was a total disaster, which caused us hours of reconstructing our database. I can’t say that Release R8 is great, but at least it works without locking us out every time we try to enter the program. As an aside, we had a bug in our backups that wouldn’t allow us to simply restore our files after the R6 disaster, which led to the complete rebuild.
What a waste of a weekend! Also, as another noted, store the attachments elsewhere, not with the primary data. This leads to a massively bloated data file, which is absurd. As a dual citizen of the US and Canada, I am forced to use a separate version of Quicken for the US and Quicken for Canada. I am even forced to install the second version of Quicken on a virtual server because the US and Canada versions will not install on the same partition.
I would like to see a version of Quicken that handles both US and Canada. At a minimum, could we please allow the installation of these two versions on the same partition. I have made this request to their customer service, but it falls on deaf ears. Maybe this is why the functionality and friendliness of usage has deteriorated so badly – ne ownership? Even the descriptions and instructions are so bad tghat they are inscrutable, difficult nd time consuming to read.
An I too long for a Canadian Mac version. Am I wrong-I have a belief that when a new app is brought out, over the next version or two thee bugs are fixed and then a few bells and whistles actually function and we have version that works, easy to use and does pretty much what you want. Then busybodies keep twirking, inventing new falderal that clutters the app but seems to have the object of requiring the consumer to buy a new version. They have spoiled a perfectly good thing, just like you need a new hardware item the day that the appliance breaks down and the warranty expires? Apple and Microsoft seem to be on the gravy train of planned obsolescence.
Provide option to show 2 rows of data in the account registers instead of only one. With the current 1-line display, it is hard to show as many columns or as much detail per column. Also add the following capabilities: - allow setting global default to apply to all applicable account register types - allow overriding setting on an individual account register - continue to allow resizing of columns (or if they have to be fixed sizes, allow the column widths to resize as the the window for the account register is resized).
(If you find this feature helpful, please be sure to click 'VOTE' at the top to increase the count and therefore its visibility by the developers, thanks.) Click 'Follow' at the top if you want to receive notifications of any replies to this thread. I have about 180 accounts, with over 90 of those as active accounts, so a global setting would be very helpful.
I also highly recommend that you browse through the IDEAS section of this forum and VOTE for the request of each of the missing features to be added back into Quicken for Mac.to help direct the priorities of the developers. To do that, I suggest you read this FAQ on how to filter the IDEAS on this forum to just show the ones for the Mac version, then VOTE to your heart's content: The following are some of the many feature requests you will find:. many requests for configuration options and many others. Be sure to scroll down the page, as some contain lists of related features. Click on the link to EACH IDEA separately that you are interested in, then click the VOTE button at the top of EACH page that opens up respectively to increase the count and therefore its visibility to the developers. If you do not click VOTE at the top of the page of each feature, your vote will NOT be counted for THAT specific feature!
(If you find this reply helpful, please be sure to click 'Like', so others will know, thanks.). The following are some additional organized highlights of the many feature requests you will find:.
and many others. Click on each link above, then be sure to scroll down each page, as some contain lists of related features. Then VOTE on EACH IDEA separately that you are interested in. If you do not click VOTE at the top of the page of each feature, your vote will NOT be counted for THAT specific feature! (If you find this reply helpful, please be sure to click 'Like', so others will know, thanks.). This post is in response to Quicken Marcus's reply here: indicating that he does not currently see Quicken adding this back.
But with enough demand may re-consider. This is a copy a a reply from here: The big problem is being able to see more info at the same time. And when you need to work with multiple registers at the same time, having all the data on one row makes it difficult to size windows side by side, or overlapping but still keeping essential data visible. The 'new' Quicken has different fields for Transfers and for Categories and Tags. The 'old' Quicken, QM2007 has Transfers and Tags (called Classes) all in the Category field. Now in v4.3, the Transfer field can be eliminated if one chooses, which is helpful.
But when you have long category names that you need displayed, have lots of tags or long tags, want to display the separate Payment/Debit and Deposit/Credit columns, and want to display the memo field, you quickly run out of room. Having 2-line display (at least for the main line, not split lines, though would be helpful too) would help a great deal to managing multiple windows with lots of data to view. 'Old' Quicken (both QM2007 and QWin) make this possible and easier to manage with the 2-line display. This has NOTHING to do with seeing a check book or not. It is just more functional for some users.(If you find this reply helpful, please be sure to click 'Like', so others will know, thanks.).
As a continuation of the conversation with Marcus, I wanted to capture here the main advantages of a 2-line display which are mainly functional efficiency (for those who want to take advantage of it):. can have narrower windows. This enables having more open side by side. can display more data fields simultaneously. can display more data fields and still have them wide enough to read the content (e.g. Category, tags, memo). reduces, or even eliminates, horizontal scrolling (If you find this reply helpful, please be sure to click 'Like', so others will know, thanks.).
For me, the value of a two line display is that more information is available at a glance for a given transaction. Consider how much easier it is to read a page in portrait orientation, rather than landscape. In a single glance I can take in several lines of text if the line width is sufficiently narrow. Is it not possible that the desire to make each transaction a single line is influenced by the fact the most displays have a landscape aspect ratio, and therefore a window is more pleasing if it conforms to a similar geometry?
If so, then, this is a design decision without basis in function, at least for the way I process visible information. Please consider adding the two line register display option back into Quicken 2017.
Not customer support, really, but development resources - or lack thereof. There is a long list of features that we in the customer base have asked Quicken to add to the Mac product. Some were in the legacy Mac program (Quicken 2007); some are in Quicken for Windows. There aren't enough developers to tackle all these requests quickly; new/improved features do come, just not as fast as anyone would like. Management has to decide how to prioritize all those customer requests, and whatever they decide to tackle earlier leaves something else undone - and some customers unhammpy. Creating a two-line display falls into the category of something that currently works but some users want an option to make work differently.
They've done some of those, but more of the development work seems to be devoted to creating features which are not yet part of Quicken for Mac. A large number of my transactions are with the same companies; Fred Meyer, Costco, Amazon, Home Depot, Lowes, etc. I use the memo field to list any large purchases (tools, appliances, home improvement) or items that I might be more likely to return (clothes, housewares, media). This makes Quicken the center of my financial and consumer life by providing a simple and quick method to find information on my purchases back to January 1, 1994. That's how long I've been using Quicken. While I was pleased to see Quicken for the Mac bought by a company willing to put resources into the software and had planned to upgrade to 2017 from 2007, the lack of a two line display, which is in your Windows version, keeps me from upgrading. Having a 2-line display has NO bearing on being able to adjust field widths individually.
In fact QM2007 started to implement this exact thing. You can see it in action in any Brokerage account register.simply drag the separator line between the Transfer and Memo fields and the width adjusts. SO it is very possible to preserve field resizing in a 2-line display. And I have a 27' monitor AND a 24' monitor and I can tell you that I would be VERY FRUSTRATED being limited to a 1-line display of transactions.I have too much going on and too much data in many fields to be FORCED to a 1-line display, for all the reasons posted in this earlier post above highlighting all the benefits: So let users vote as they please. It is not necessary to try to convince a user they do not need a feature who has voted for one. There are enough VERY GOOD REASONS to want and have it. And that should be good enough.
If 1-line works for you, great. It does not for everyone. (If you find this reply helpful, please be sure to click 'Like', so others will know, thanks.). @smayer97: woa! Scolding me for sharing my experience is uncalled for; I didn't tell anyone not to vote for this feature, or that their reasons for wanting it were invalid.
I only shared what I experienced moving from Quicken 2007 to 2015: that I started out thinking I'd really dislike not having the 2-line display, but finding that I came around to preferring the 1-line display after using it for awhile. Jeff wrote that this is the one issue that keeps him from moving to Quicken 2017, and I wanted to share with him that it may or may not be the showstopper he perceives it to be. We all use Quicken differently, which is why I simply shared my experience and said 'your mileage may vary.' @smayer97: I agree with @jacobs.your tone was a little harsh. I've been using Quicken 2017 for almost a year now.
I too desire the two line display as an option but truth be told, I'm living with it. Its not negatively affected what I'm doing on a daily basis. I think, for me, scanning up and down the register espeically a busy checking account would be easier for my eyes if I had a two line display. I can take in more information scanning vertically than I can horizontally but that is me. Its probably more frustrating with those who don't have a sufficient resolution or a small display. I think the take home point @jacobs was trying to say is.try it.you may not be as relient on it as you think.
@Alstuff, as you point out.you'll get more milege out of your posts if you put them in the proper threads. Additionally your post lacks some details that might help others here help you better. Be specific about the problems your having. What, specifically, is the report that is not working. My comments were not intended to be harsh. And I appreciate that you are trying to help the user overcome a possibly perceived obstacle.
And I agree it should not be a show-stopper type issue. But you say you are not trying to tell others not to vote but what is the point of sharing your experience if you are not offering an alternative other that to say 'yah, but just try it.' If you are not offering a work-around or alternative, what other value other that to dissuade?
I have no problem with someone sharing their experience but more so I do see a problem when the wording and structure of your response presents a faulty implication that the benefits of a 1-line display is the flexibility to adjust field widths and the 2-line display is only a fixed-field format. So I am correcting this implication.
Also, I too am sharing my experience. For you to consider this scolding is being rather sensitive. After all, this is an IDEA thread. Its purpose is for users to be able to express their desire for a new feature or improvement. I do not see the benefit to challenge each comment affirming their desire for it (or any other IDEA for that matter). And offering a work-around makes sense. But as long as there is good justification for the feature, why try to dissuade users from asking for it?
Quicken is a tool set.as such it should be able to provide more than one way of doing things to accommodate the different ways that users like to work, not dictate only one way, especially when such accommodations exist in all other versions and there is still a demand for the feature.That is my point. Anyway, I do not mean to get into a back and forth on this. I hope what I am saying makes sense.
This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled. I used Quicken for Windows many years ago. In that, they had an option to have a two line registry. It's not in MAC version.
When I look at my setup as I have it on my desktop on my laptop I can not see the right last 3 columns without manipulating my window to the left. This could be resolved by having the two line option. I've been using Quicken ever since it's startup. First the windows version and now MAC.
Please look into this. I've been looking into Bantivity which has this available. I'd much rather stay with a company I know and trust. But it just may come down to functionality for me to make the change.
This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled. RCC, you are correct that the two-line register format doesn't exist currently in Quicken Mac.
Many longtime Quicken Windows or Quicken Mac users find this jarring when they first switch to Quicken Mac. Some of us have found that, after adjusting to the new interface, it works well for us, but others have found it very problematic - particularly people trying to use it on a laptop like you. You may know this, but in case you don't, you can change which columns are visible, and the width of columns.
If you find there are columns you don't use, you can hide them by clicking on the Columns icon in the bottom, right toolbar and unchecking them. To narrow a column, in the column header line, hover over the dividing line between columns until the cursor changes to a two-sided arrow, and then click and drag to the left.
(Any such changes you make need to be repeated in other registers, which is a bit of a pain, but fortunately something you only need to set up once.) One other technique some users find helpful in dealing with limited space is to double-click on an account in the left sidebar. That opens the register in its own window - without the sidebar, so you have more room for your columns. Longer-term, you should requesting the two-line register be developed for Quicken Mac, and click the blue Vote button in the upper right. The more votes idea topics get in this forum, the more likely the developers will address the need in the future. The product manager has explained in the past that the one-line display was created using tools built-into the Mac operating system for displaying lists of data, while creating a two-line register would require extensive manual coding to bypass the Mac's default.
Of course, nothing is impossible in programming; it's all a matter of how much work is involved and how important it is to achieve the result. That's where voting in this forum can be helpful in shaping the developers' views. You might also add a post to that thread about why this feature is important to you; telling the developers that you typically like to view a certain set of columns, and you can't view them all on your laptop helps them understand the need/request better. Note: This conversation was created from a on:.