Don’t like it?
You don’t like XE "don’t like" the way something in Quickbooks works? Change may be possible. Prowl around in the
Preferences (or Prefs
) menu (under the File
menu, in QuickBooks 5.) The subject may be there. The name may not be what you are thinking of, thus the “prowl.” The view below shows the
Preferences
menu for QuickBooks 4 and earlier, but QuickBooks 5 users should take note. Preferences above the line apply to all of QuickBooks, and are recorded in QBW.INI. Those below the line are recorded in the company file. A similar distinction applies in QuickBooks 5, although access to preferences is much different.
Preferences
in QuickBooks 5 come in a graphic menu. Access to a few things is moved. The general
distinction between QuickBooks-wide and company-specific preference items continues.
The complete list of preference groups in QuickBooks 5 is:
- Accounting
- Checking
- Finance charge
- General
- Iconbar
- Jobs & Estimates
- Payroll & Employees
- Purchases & Vendors
- Reminders
- Reports & Graphs
- Sales & Customers (Invoicing)
- Sales Tax
- Tax: 1099
- Time Tracking
TheFile and Edit
menus also contain a variety of functions, and may give access to making the change you
want.
Help
(in most cases) is useful and to the point. The keyboard function key
F1 is the best way to open Help.
Alternatively, click on Help
, and at the top of the Help
menu, click Help
again. XE "help" The Help
window provides access to the abundance of information that Intuit has provided on many subjects. This
information is presented through the Help program, a part of Microsoft Windows, which is described in
Chapter 23 and Chapter 24.
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