Transition from Q98 to Q2008

Posted by PortStG on February 24, 2008, 7:42 am

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I have a small screen (17" CRT) and I can't afford the wasted space
that the default Register view of Q08 provides (Q98 was bad enough).
The Register view is what I want to see most of the time and I prefer
to see nothing but transaction lines from the top of my screen (except
a tiny Menu line) to the bottom and from one side to the other. So
far, I've worked the wasted space down to approximately 40% (started
with 60% wasted) but I seem to have run out of Preference checkboxes
etc.

Is there any way to eliminate the 1/2" spam line across the bottom? Or
the 1/2" line above that with the "Download Transactions" and
"Scheduled Bills & Deposits" buttons? I'll need to use those features
at some point, maybe 1% of my time, but I don't need those buttons
taking up Register space 100% of the time. Similar problems at the
top. Some space wasted with unnecessary Tabs as well as completely
blank space (I can only describe it as "Open green space" lol!) left
there by the Graphics Artist, for environmental purposes I suppose.

I have absolutely nothing against right brainers, but advice from any
left brainers out there will be much appreciated.

TIA,
Port

Posted by Han on February 24, 2008, 9:06 am

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> I have a small screen (17" CRT) and I can't afford the wasted space

> that the default Register view of Q08 provides (Q98 was bad enough).

> The Register view is what I want to see most of the time and I prefer

> to see nothing but transaction lines from the top of my screen (except

> a tiny Menu line) to the bottom and from one side to the other. So

> far, I've worked the wasted space down to approximately 40% (started

> with 60% wasted) but I seem to have run out of Preference checkboxes

> etc.

> Is there any way to eliminate the 1/2" spam line across the bottom? Or

> the 1/2" line above that with the "Download Transactions" and

> "Scheduled Bills & Deposits" buttons? I'll need to use those features

> at some point, maybe 1% of my time, but I don't need those buttons

> taking up Register space 100% of the time. Similar problems at the

> top. Some space wasted with unnecessary Tabs as well as completely

> blank space (I can only describe it as "Open green space" lol!) left

> there by the Graphics Artist, for environmental purposes I suppose.

> I have absolutely nothing against right brainers, but advice from any

> left brainers out there will be much appreciated.

> TIA,

> Port

I think Quicken has made it clear tha you have 3 choices:
Live with it
Buy a cheap bigger monitor (I regret that I didn't buy a bigger LCD when
I replaced my 17" CRT)
Switch to a spreadsheet.

No, there is no painless way.
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Best regards
Han
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Posted by PortStG on February 24, 2008, 9:26 am

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PortStG wrote:

>> Is there any way to eliminate the 1/2" spam line across the bottom? Or

>> the 1/2" line above that with the "Download Transactions" and

>> "Scheduled Bills & Deposits" buttons?

Han wrote:

>I think Quicken has made it clear tha you have 3 choices:

>Live with it

>Buy a cheap bigger monitor (I regret that I didn't buy a bigger LCD when

>I replaced my 17" CRT)

>Switch to a spreadsheet.

>No, there is no painless way.

Okay, thanks. That's really disappointing.
Actually, there is one other choice, which I'll probably elect, and
that's to just stick with Q98. That looks like my best bet for now.

Thanks again,
Port

Posted by Stevey on February 24, 2008, 1:15 pm

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I've been using Q'99 ever since it came out and it's doing the job
just fine, thank you, even on Vista.

PortStG@nospam.invalid wrote:

>PortStG wrote:

>>> Is there any way to eliminate the 1/2" spam line across the bottom? Or

>>> the 1/2" line above that with the "Download Transactions" and

>>> "Scheduled Bills & Deposits" buttons?

>Han wrote:

>>I think Quicken has made it clear tha you have 3 choices:

>>Live with it

>>Buy a cheap bigger monitor (I regret that I didn't buy a bigger LCD when

>>I replaced my 17" CRT)

>>Switch to a spreadsheet.

>>No, there is no painless way.

>Okay, thanks. That's really disappointing.

>Actually, there is one other choice, which I'll probably elect, and

>that's to just stick with Q98. That looks like my best bet for now.

>Thanks again,

>Port

Posted by Han on February 24, 2008, 1:52 pm

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> I've been using Q'99 ever since it came out and it's doing the job

> just fine, thank you, even on Vista.

> PortStG@nospam.invalid wrote:

>>PortStG wrote:

>>>> Is there any way to eliminate the 1/2" spam line across the bottom?

>>>> Or the 1/2" line above that with the "Download Transactions" and

>>>> "Scheduled Bills & Deposits" buttons?

>>Han wrote:

>>>I think Quicken has made it clear tha you have 3 choices:

>>>Live with it

>>>Buy a cheap bigger monitor (I regret that I didn't buy a bigger LCD

>>>when I replaced my 17" CRT)

>>>Switch to a spreadsheet.

>>>No, there is no painless way.

>>Okay, thanks. That's really disappointing.

>>Actually, there is one other choice, which I'll probably elect, and

>>that's to just stick with Q98. That looks like my best bet for now.

>>Thanks again,

>>Port

I'm sure Q99 works fine, but I like OneStepUpdate, and I doubt that you
can get that to work. If you can, please let us know how.

Also, you may have to use run as administrator or some other trick to
make it run properly. (I said may!!)

I have generally been upgrading every other year. For me that is the
sweet spot between totally up-to-date and very frugal.

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Best regards
Han
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