Unclutter your categories Quicken’s categories are the key to tracking your spending. You can make entries in any of your Quicken accounts those entries will be automatically imported into your account registers the next time you launch Quicken.
Don’t open Quicken Need to quickly record an expense? Just tap the key you’ve configured to launch Dashboard, and then use the QuickEntry widget that was introduced with Quicken 2007. In the Edit Command Key dialog box, you can enter your preferred shortcut. Just hold down the 1 key and choose the item you want to customize from the menu bar. Customize the keyboard If you don’t like Quicken’s default keyboard shortcuts, change them or add your own. Here’s my top-ten list of tricks every Quicken user-from novices to experts-should know. But despite its ubiquity, I still run across many Quicken users who aren’t getting the most out of the program, because they don’t know some simple tricks that can make it easier to use. Has been the default personal finance manager of Mac users for years.
