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Add option for 2-line/row display in Quicken For Mac (174 Legacy Votes)

Provide option to show 2 rows of data in the account registers instead of only one.
With the current 1-line display, it is hard to show as many columns or as much detail per column.
Also add the following capabilities:
- allow setting global default to apply to all applicable account register types
- allow overriding setting on an individual account register
- continue to allow resizing of columns (or if they have to be fixed sizes, allow the column widths to resize as the the window for the account register is resized).
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With the current 1-line display, it is hard to show as many columns or as much detail per column.
Also add the following capabilities:
- allow setting global default to apply to all applicable account register types
- allow overriding setting on an individual account register
- continue to allow resizing of columns (or if they have to be fixed sizes, allow the column widths to resize as the the window for the account register is resized).
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P.S. I have about 180 accounts, with over 90 of those as active accounts, so a global setting would be very helpful.Have Questions? Check out these FAQs:
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A major UI change in Quicken 2017 (Mac) from earlier versions of Quicken (2014 Windows) is that it no longer appears to be possible to have a two-line register, so that the payee and figures are on one line and the categories & memo are on a separate line. Would it be possible to add this back? Thank you.
To do that, I suggest you read this FAQ on how to filter the IDEAS on this forum to just show the ones for the Mac version, then VOTE to your heart's content:
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The following are some of the many feature requests you will find:
- List of Requests for Report Types and Related Features
- Restore Transactions Downloading Acceptance and Matching workflow
- Option to Have Debits and Credits Tallied Separately for Reconciliation Process
- Add ability to track/store Prior Reconciled Statements/periods
- True multi-currency conversion support
- many requests for configuration options
and many others.Be sure to scroll down the page, as some contain lists of related features. Click on the link to EACH IDEA separately that you are interested in, then click the VOTE button at the top of EACH page that opens up respectively to increase the count and therefore its visibility to the developers.
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- List of Requests for Reconciliation Process
- List of Requests for Bill Reminders (aka Scheduled Transactions) and Graph Features (aka Cash Flow Forecast or Projected Balance)
- Add QuickMath functionality
- Loan Amortization
- List of Requests Related to Investments
- List of Requests Related to Budgets
- List of Requests for Data Entry and Usability Options and Features
- List of Requests for User Interface Options and Features
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This is a copy a a reply from here:
https://community.quicken.com/discussion/comment/17997922#Comment_17997922 (If you find this reply helpful, please be sure to click "Like", so others will know, thanks.)
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- can have narrower windows. This enables having more open side by side
- can display more data fields simultaneously
- can display more data fields and still have them wide enough to read the content (e.g. category, tags, memo)
- reduces, or even eliminates, horizontal scrolling
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Is it not possible that the desire to make each transaction a single line is influenced by the fact the most displays have a landscape aspect ratio, and therefore a window is more pleasing if it conforms to a similar geometry? If so, then, this is a design decision without basis in function, at least for the way I process visible information.
Please consider adding the two line register display option back into Quicken 2017.
John
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While I was pleased to see Quicken for the Mac bought by a company willing to put resources into the software and had planned to upgrade to 2017 from 2007, the lack of a two line display, which is in your Windows version, keeps me from upgrading.
(The users who have the most trouble with the one-line display are those who are running Quicken on a smaller laptop, where the screen can't be made too wide.)
And I have a 27" monitor AND a 24" monitor and I can tell you that I would be VERY FRUSTRATED being limited to a 1-line display of transactions...I have too much going on and too much data in many fields to be FORCED to a 1-line display, for all the reasons posted in this earlier post above highlighting all the benefits:
https://getsatisfaction.com/quickencommunity/topics/add-option-for-2-line-row-display-in-quicken-for...
So let users vote as they please. It is not necessary to try to convince a user they do not need a feature who has voted for one. There are enough VERY GOOD REASONS to want and have it. And that should be good enough. If 1-line works for you, great. It does not for everyone.
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I think the take home point @jacobs was trying to say is....try it...you may not be as relient on it as you think.
@Alstuff, as you point out...you'll get more milege out of your posts if you put them in the proper threads. Additionally your post lacks some details that might help others here help you better. Be specific about the problems your having. What, specifically, is the report that is not working.
John
But you say you are not trying to tell others not to vote but what is the point of sharing your experience if you are not offering an alternative other that to say "yah, but just try it..."? if you are not offering a work-around or alternative, what other value other that to dissuade?
I have no problem with someone sharing their experience but more so I do see a problem when the wording and structure of your response presents a faulty implication that the benefits of a 1-line display is the flexibility to adjust field widths and the 2-line display is only a fixed-field format. So I am correcting this implication.
Also, I too am sharing my experience. For you to consider this scolding is being rather sensitive. After all, this is an IDEA thread. Its purpose is for users to be able to express their desire for a new feature or improvement. I do not see the benefit to challenge each comment affirming their desire for it (or any other IDEA for that matter).
And offering a work-around makes sense. But as long as there is good justification for the feature, why try to dissuade users from asking for it? Quicken is a tool set...as such it should be able to provide more than one way of doing things to accommodate the different ways that users like to work, not dictate only one way, especially when such accommodations exist in all other versions and there is still a demand for the feature.That is my point.
Anyway, I do not mean to get into a back and forth on this. I hope what I am saying makes sense.
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