Color of highlighted line in a report

Posted by John K on August 9, 2006, 6:58 pm

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I've got Quicken 2006 running on Windows XP and I find that if I create a
report, like, for example, a cash flow report, and then highlight a line in
the report, the highlight color is dark blue. The blue highlight is so dark
that I can't read the highlited line. Does anyone know how to change the
color of a highlighted line? Thanks in advance for any help you have to
offer.

Posted by Jerry Boyle on August 11, 2006, 2:52 pm

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> I've got Quicken 2006 running on Windows XP and I find that if I create a

> report, like, for example, a cash flow report, and then highlight a line

> in the report, the highlight color is dark blue. The blue highlight is so

> dark that I can't read the highlited line. Does anyone know how to change

> the color of a highlighted line? Thanks in advance for any help you have

> to offer.

I have Q2006 Premier H&B and XP and I don't get any highlighting in my Cash
Flow report - just an unshaded box around the amount field of the selected
item. However I do get the dark blue shading in other reports, e.g. the
Transaction report. Still other reports, e.g. the Itemized Categories
report, have an unshaded box around the entire line.

The dark blue shading appears to be hard-coded into the Quicken program. It
seems to me to be the same color used to highlight items in Quicken menus.
For selected menu items the color of the menu item text is inverted to
white. That's probably what should be done, but isn't, for selected items in
reports.

I think you should report this as a Quicken bug.

Jerry

Posted by John K on August 11, 2006, 3:00 pm

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Thanks for your comments. You are right, the blue highlight doesn't occur
on the cash flow report itself. My mistake. However, on the cash flow
report, when I double click on one of the line amounts, I get another report
that details each transaction that makes up the line item from the cash flow
report. It's that report that gets the dark blue highlighting.

As you suggest, I think this must be a bug in Q2006, unless it can be
changed by some sort of configuration parameter, perhaps a Windows XP
parameter, however I can't find it if it is.

Does anyone know if this is the case in Q2007 as well?

>> I've got Quicken 2006 running on Windows XP and I find that if I create a

>> report, like, for example, a cash flow report, and then highlight a line

>> in the report, the highlight color is dark blue. The blue highlight is

>> so

>> dark that I can't read the highlited line. Does anyone know how to

>> change

>> the color of a highlighted line? Thanks in advance for any help you have

>> to offer.

> I have Q2006 Premier H&B and XP and I don't get any highlighting in my

> Cash

> Flow report - just an unshaded box around the amount field of the selected

> item. However I do get the dark blue shading in other reports, e.g. the

> Transaction report. Still other reports, e.g. the Itemized Categories

> report, have an unshaded box around the entire line.

> The dark blue shading appears to be hard-coded into the Quicken program.

> It

> seems to me to be the same color used to highlight items in Quicken menus.

> For selected menu items the color of the menu item text is inverted to

> white. That's probably what should be done, but isn't, for selected items

> in

> reports.

> I think you should report this as a Quicken bug.

> Jerry

Posted by Jerry Boyle on August 11, 2006, 8:01 pm

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I tried changing the Windows color scheme to no avail. For your reference
right-click on an empty area of your display, select Properties, then the
Appearance tab. In the resulting Display Properties form you can change the
entire Color scheme. Or you can click the Advanced button to change
individual items. The relevant item (in the drop-down list under Item:) is
"Selected Items". Your item is obviously not under Windows control.

I also looked in Quicken under Edit in the top menu: Edit -> Preferences ->
Quicken Program then click Register in the left pane and then the Colors
button in the right pane. As stated in Quicken Help this seems to change
only colors in your registers. The available selection of colors are all
very light anyway, nothing remotely resembling dark blue. Check this out if
you like - you can do some neat stuff here that I didn't know about before.

I also tried Start -> All Programs -> Accessories -> Accessibility ->
Accessibility Wizard, told it I was blind, and selected the High Contrast #1
scheme. This changed almost everything but the report highlighting. Try this
if you haven't had your morning coffee - the garish display will give you a
real jolt :-)

There might be a way to change the highlighting color if it's specified in
the Windows registry but I strongly suspect it's hard-coded in Quicken.

Intuit did a lot of overhauling of the Reports area for both Q2005 and Q2006
and the work is probably continuing. Perhaps it's fixed in Q2007. If not
maybe Q2008 if you report the problem.

Thanks for posting any interesting question. Sorry I couldn't find a fix.

Jerry

> Thanks for your comments. You are right, the blue highlight doesn't occur

> on the cash flow report itself. My mistake. However, on the cash flow

> report, when I double click on one of the line amounts, I get another

> report that details each transaction that makes up the line item from the

> cash flow report. It's that report that gets the dark blue highlighting.

> As you suggest, I think this must be a bug in Q2006, unless it can be

> changed by some sort of configuration parameter, perhaps a Windows XP

> parameter, however I can't find it if it is.

> Does anyone know if this is the case in Q2007 as well?

>>> I've got Quicken 2006 running on Windows XP and I find that if I create

>>> a

>>> report, like, for example, a cash flow report, and then highlight a line

>>> in the report, the highlight color is dark blue. The blue highlight is

>>> so

>>> dark that I can't read the highlited line. Does anyone know how to

>>> change

>>> the color of a highlighted line? Thanks in advance for any help you

>>> have

>>> to offer.

>> I have Q2006 Premier H&B and XP and I don't get any highlighting in my

>> Cash

>> Flow report - just an unshaded box around the amount field of the

>> selected

>> item. However I do get the dark blue shading in other reports, e.g. the

>> Transaction report. Still other reports, e.g. the Itemized Categories

>> report, have an unshaded box around the entire line.

>> The dark blue shading appears to be hard-coded into the Quicken program.

>> It

>> seems to me to be the same color used to highlight items in Quicken

>> menus.

>> For selected menu items the color of the menu item text is inverted to

>> white. That's probably what should be done, but isn't, for selected items

>> in

>> reports.

>> I think you should report this as a Quicken bug.

>> Jerry

Posted by John K on August 13, 2006, 12:19 pm

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Thanks for your input. I, too, tried all that stuff but was not able to
change the highlight color.

Do you suppose no one else is bothered by the fact that they can't read the
DARK blue highlighted line in a report? Seems that this would be SO EASY to
fix. I did report this as a bug to Quicken 6 tech support.

>I tried changing the Windows color scheme to no avail. For your reference

> right-click on an empty area of your display, select Properties, then the

> Appearance tab. In the resulting Display Properties form you can change

> the

> entire Color scheme. Or you can click the Advanced button to change

> individual items. The relevant item (in the drop-down list under Item:) is

> "Selected Items". Your item is obviously not under Windows control.

> I also looked in Quicken under Edit in the top menu: Edit ->

> Preferences ->

> Quicken Program then click Register in the left pane and then the Colors

> button in the right pane. As stated in Quicken Help this seems to change

> only colors in your registers. The available selection of colors are all

> very light anyway, nothing remotely resembling dark blue. Check this out

> if

> you like - you can do some neat stuff here that I didn't know about

> before.

> I also tried Start -> All Programs -> Accessories -> Accessibility ->

> Accessibility Wizard, told it I was blind, and selected the High Contrast

> #1

> scheme. This changed almost everything but the report highlighting. Try

> this

> if you haven't had your morning coffee - the garish display will give you

> a

> real jolt :-)

> There might be a way to change the highlighting color if it's specified in

> the Windows registry but I strongly suspect it's hard-coded in Quicken.

> Intuit did a lot of overhauling of the Reports area for both Q2005 and

> Q2006

> and the work is probably continuing. Perhaps it's fixed in Q2007. If not

> maybe Q2008 if you report the problem.

> Thanks for posting any interesting question. Sorry I couldn't find a fix.

> Jerry

>> Thanks for your comments. You are right, the blue highlight doesn't

>> occur

>> on the cash flow report itself. My mistake. However, on the cash flow

>> report, when I double click on one of the line amounts, I get another

>> report that details each transaction that makes up the line item from the

>> cash flow report. It's that report that gets the dark blue highlighting.

>> As you suggest, I think this must be a bug in Q2006, unless it can be

>> changed by some sort of configuration parameter, perhaps a Windows XP

>> parameter, however I can't find it if it is.

>> Does anyone know if this is the case in Q2007 as well?

>>>

>>>> I've got Quicken 2006 running on Windows XP and I find that if I create

>>>> a

>>>> report, like, for example, a cash flow report, and then highlight a

>>>> line

>>>> in the report, the highlight color is dark blue. The blue highlight is

>>>> so

>>>> dark that I can't read the highlited line. Does anyone know how to

>>>> change

>>>> the color of a highlighted line? Thanks in advance for any help you

>>>> have

>>>> to offer.

>>>

>>> I have Q2006 Premier H&B and XP and I don't get any highlighting in my

>>> Cash

>>> Flow report - just an unshaded box around the amount field of the

>>> selected

>>> item. However I do get the dark blue shading in other reports, e.g. the

>>> Transaction report. Still other reports, e.g. the Itemized Categories

>>> report, have an unshaded box around the entire line.

>>>

>>> The dark blue shading appears to be hard-coded into the Quicken program.

>>> It

>>> seems to me to be the same color used to highlight items in Quicken

>>> menus.

>>> For selected menu items the color of the menu item text is inverted to

>>> white. That's probably what should be done, but isn't, for selected

>>> items

>>> in

>>> reports.

>>>

>>> I think you should report this as a Quicken bug.

>>>

>>> Jerry

>>>