I have used Quicken for many years ( beginning within Quicken 4 for DOS)
including book keeping for several years for a non-profit organization doing
over a million dollars a year in transactions including accounts payable and
receivable. I used Quicken in many ways in which it was not designed to
operate. On a few occasions I made suggestions for improvements to Intuit
and all but one was included in following updates. I found it in many ways
to be wonderful to use. However, you are right in that the newer versions
seem less user friendly than previous versions. That is why I stopped
upgrading with Quicken 2000.
On Quicken 2000 under Edit/Options/Write Checks/Miscellaneous/Alert there is
a box to check to warn of re-using check numbers. You might look to see if
your Quicken 2003 has the same option. I don't know of any way to stop
Quicken from trying to use the next check number after the latest check
number entered in the register even if it then warns you that the number has
already been used.
Once you use Quicken for a while and find your way through the myriad of
menus and options, you hopefully will be as amazed as I am as to Quicken's
flexibility.
Tom Mayer
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From: "Peter Shkabara" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2003 8:57 AM
Subject: [PCSOFT] Quicken 2003
This is for the Quicken experts on the list. I had been an MS Money user for
a long time, but Quicken is relatively new to me. My impression is that MS
Money 2003 is a much better program than Quicken 2003, but it lacks a very
important feature. Strangely, in Money, you cannot change the display font!
So we are going with Quicken at this time.
Anyway, among my problems with Quicken is that when you select to use the
next check number in making an entry, Quicken seems to generate the next
number after the last entry you made rather than the next highest number of
all number in the register. In our case, we made a correction to a register
entry to fix the check number. When we tried to enter the next transaction,
Quicken gave us the wrong "next number" for the check. Worse yet, Quicken
allowed the now duplicate number to be entered. Am I missing some setting in
Quicken, or is it really that infuriatingly dumb?
Sorry for my Quicken bashing tone, but the programmers at Intuit did an
astoundingly poor job of user interface design on this program. Although
Money has a lot of faults of its own, it has a better, logical, and
forgiving design than Quicken.
Peter
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