Add Support for Pasting Values with $ Dollar Signs into Register & Reconcile window (edited)

Blake

For many accounts that are not connected online through quicken, users must paste dollar values from banking websites into quickens register or reconciliation fields.  It is so frustrating that quicken won't allow the pasting of a value with a dollar sign $ in it!  (e.g. $12.88 vs 12.88).  Please Vote for this feature

This is a financial program isn't it?  It should be a basic ability for quicken to recognize a dollar sign!  Instead we have to be very careful we don't copy a value with a dollar sign in it...   Also, extra spaces and carriage returns aren't able to be pasted either. 

This borders on classification as a defect IMHO.  Please, please fix this.

EDIT: this request includes $, comma, returns, etc (like QM2007 can handle)

smayer97

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smayer97

I also highly recommend that you browse through the IDEAS section of this forum and VOTE for the request of each of the missing features to be added back into Quicken for Mac....to help direct the priorities of the developers.

To do that, I suggest you read this FAQ on how to filter the IDEAS to just show the ones for the Mac version, then VOTE to your heart's content:
https://getsatisfaction.com/quickencommunity/topics/quicken-getsat-faq-how-to-filter-conversations-d...

The following are some of the many feature requests you will find:

• List of Requests for Report Types
• List of Requests for Report Related Features
  
• Restore Transactions Downloading Acceptance and Matching workflow 
• Improve the Bill Reminders Graph (aka Forecast or Projected Balance)
  
• List of Requests for Reconciliation Process
• Add QuickMath functionality
  
• True multi-currency conversion support
  
• Loan Amortization
  
• Budget features
• many requests for configuration options

and many others.

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splasher

While you are asking, you should include commas also.  $1,234.56

This is not possible in Windows Quicken either.

Blake

splasher said:

While you are asking, you should include commas also.  $1,234.56

This is not possible in Windows Quicken either.

Absolutely agree!  $, Commas, Extra Spaces, Carriage Returns....

smayer97

splasher said:

While you are asking, you should include commas also.  $1,234.56

This is not possible in Windows Quicken either.

WOW...fully agree.

QM2007 supports ALL of these already... :-\

Blake

splasher said:

While you are asking, you should include commas also.  $1,234.56

This is not possible in Windows Quicken either.

One more reason for QM2007 folks to not upgrade.

smayer97

smayer97 (QM2007, CDN user since '92) said:

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As noted below, this request includes $, comma, returns, etc (like QM2007 can handle).

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smayer97

smayer97 (QM2007, CDN user since '92) said:

I also highly recommend that you browse through the IDEAS section of this forum and VOTE for the request of each of the missing features to be added back into Quicken for Mac....to help direct the priorities of the developers.

To do that, I suggest you read this FAQ on how to filter the IDEAS to just show the ones for the Mac version, then VOTE to your heart's content:
https://getsatisfaction.com/quickencommunity/topics/quicken-getsat-faq-how-to-filter-conversations-d...

The following are some of the many feature requests you will find:

• List of Requests for Report Types
• List of Requests for Report Related Features
  
• Restore Transactions Downloading Acceptance and Matching workflow 
• Improve the Bill Reminders Graph (aka Forecast or Projected Balance)
  
• List of Requests for Reconciliation Process
• Add QuickMath functionality
  
• True multi-currency conversion support
  
• Loan Amortization
  
• Budget features
• many requests for configuration options

and many others.

Be sure to scroll down each 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.

If you do not click VOTE at the top of the page of each feature, your vote will NOT be counted for THAT specific feature!


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The following are some additional organized highlights of the many feature requests you will find:

• List of Requests for Bill Reminders (aka Scheduled Transactions) and Graph Features (aka Cash Flow Forecast or Projected Balance)
  
• List of Requests Related to Investments
  
• True multi-currency conversion support
• 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
  

and many others.

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John Morrow

This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled Moving to Merge.


And $...

Note: This conversation was created from a reply on: List of Requests for Data Entry and Usability Configuration Options and Features.

jacobs

Since this thread has recent activity after two years, let me just update it to note that you CAN paste in values with commas in all versions of Quicken Mac (2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018). But you cannot paste in values with dollar signs, leading or trailing spaces, or returns in any of them as of this writing.

smayer97

jacobs said:

Since this thread has recent activity after two years, let me just update it to note that you CAN paste in values with commas in all versions of Quicken Mac (2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018). But you cannot paste in values with dollar signs, leading or trailing spaces, or returns in any of them as of this writing.

Progress but work still do be done...

It is just odd that this issue would be touched to make some improvement but not go all the way and strip out other common chars in copy & paste to make this work.

Hopefully, next time thye touch this issue, it will be to address it completely. :-D

jacobs

jacobs said:

Since this thread has recent activity after two years, let me just update it to note that you CAN paste in values with commas in all versions of Quicken Mac (2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018). But you cannot paste in values with dollar signs, leading or trailing spaces, or returns in any of them as of this writing.

No, it’s not that there has been any progress, it’s that the current generation Quicken Mac has seemingly always accepted a comma. I tried 2018, 2017, 2016 and 2015 — all accept a pasted number with a comma.


(The suggestion to include commas above came from a Windows user who noted Quicken Windows didn’t accept pasted values with commas; I don’t think he realized the Mac version already did.)


In any case, it’s a minor clarification; the original point of this thread is still valid: Quicken Mac should be tweaked to allow a pasted numerical value that contains a dollar sign (or a space or a return) to be pasted into a numerical field, stripped of those extraneous characters.

smayer97

jacobs said:

Since this thread has recent activity after two years, let me just update it to note that you CAN paste in values with commas in all versions of Quicken Mac (2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018). But you cannot paste in values with dollar signs, leading or trailing spaces, or returns in any of them as of this writing.

That makes more sense. Thx for clarifying. 

markwandamc

smayer97 (QM2007, CDN user since '92) said:

I also highly recommend that you browse through the IDEAS section of this forum and VOTE for the request of each of the missing features to be added back into Quicken for Mac....to help direct the priorities of the developers.

To do that, I suggest you read this FAQ on how to filter the IDEAS to just show the ones for the Mac version, then VOTE to your heart's content:
https://getsatisfaction.com/quickencommunity/topics/quicken-getsat-faq-how-to-filter-conversations-d...

The following are some of the many feature requests you will find:

• List of Requests for Report Types
• List of Requests for Report Related Features
  
• Restore Transactions Downloading Acceptance and Matching workflow 
• Improve the Bill Reminders Graph (aka Forecast or Projected Balance)
  
• List of Requests for Reconciliation Process
• Add QuickMath functionality
  
• True multi-currency conversion support
  
• Loan Amortization
  
• Budget features
• many requests for configuration options

and many others.

Be sure to scroll down each 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.

If you do not click VOTE at the top of the page of each feature, your vote will NOT be counted for THAT specific feature!


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Quicken closed my account and will not permit me to login again so I cannot vote.  They must have been taken over by former MS employees who want total control.

Blake

So it appears you can now paste $ signs and commas in most fields in Quicken mac.

It appears though that they forgot to include this $ and comma support in the Reconcile screen, in the "Use Statement Balance" fields. Can we get this fixed?

smayer97

Blake said:

So it appears you can now paste $ signs and commas in most fields in Quicken mac.

It appears though that they forgot to include this $ and comma support in the Reconcile screen, in the "Use Statement Balance" fields. Can we get this fixed?

Nice to see this improvement but yes, one of the most useful place to have this as it is the most likely place to copy and paste data into (from such places as pdf statements or online bank websites).

smayer97

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