Quicken for Mac 2018 v5.8.0 Released

Quicken Marcus
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edited October 2018 in Product Releases and Announcements: Mac
Today we're releasing v5.8.0 of Quicken for Mac.  

I think there's a lot to love in this release.  First off, for those of you with lots of investments, downloading transactions should happen a lot faster but more importantly, you should no longer see the spinning beach ball.  Thanks to RickO for working with us to figure out the issue.  We've also added a bunch of improvements to printing.  Most importantly, you can now scale the portfolio view, transaction and summary report and full budget to fit on a single page.  We also added the ability to print the portfolio view without lots and the summary budget which used to be only available as an exported file. In investments, we added an option to start the Y-Axis at 0 in the chart. This is an option and not a change as was requested by forums users.  Also based on forum feedback, we added the ability to bold the text for a printed check.  We found an easy way to do this so we could slip it in.  As always there are tons of fixes throughout the product and small little enhancements including encrypted files, fixes for options trading, and a button to add the bill pay address to a check.

UPDATES
9/6 -  Released.

RELEASE NOTES
The 5.8 release has a number of improvements in reports, budgets, investments and performance.


Security and Performance Improvements
  • NEW - In 5.8, all password protected files will be encrypted by default making your files more secure. However, this will increase the time it takes to open and close files. If you want to go back to the way it used to work, go to Quicken > Preferences and click on Security to turn off encryption.
  • IMPROVED - Optimized investment transaction downloads so updating should go a lot faster now.
Report and Budget Improvements
  • NEW - In 5.8, you'll now be able to customize a report with No Tag and No Payee as options.
  • NEW - Reports now have a Scale to Fit printing option so that wide reports can be shrunk to fit on a single page, saving paper.
  • IMPROVED - Comparison reports now print in color.
  • NEW - Full budgets can be printed based on the number of months you want to see on a page. You have the option of having 12, 6, 4, or 3 months per page.
  • NEW - Added an option to print a summary budget.
  • IMPROVED - Budget transaction details now go to a customizable transaction report which allows you to pick the columns to see.
Investment Improvements
  • NEW - In 5.8, we added the ability to print, export and copy the portfolio view without lots.
  • IMPROVED - The Price and Holdings As Of date is now added to both exported and printed versions of the portfolio view.
  • NEW - Added the Scale to Fit printing feature to the portfolio view so that everything fits on a single page.
  • NEW - Also added a checkbox to the portfolio view graph to start the Y-Axis at zero.
  • FIXED - Fixed an issue where the Find Security contextual menu item didn't work in the investment register.
  • FIXED - 5.8 also has a number of fixes for options. Fixed downloaded option information from brokerages. Also fixed an issue with option placeholders where contracts and shares weren't correctly converted.
Check Printing Improvements
  • NEW - In 5.8, we added a button to the check screen to auto-fill the address using the Payee's bill pay address.
  • IMPROVED - Quicken can now print checks using bold text to make them easier to read. Select the Bold Text option in the check printing screen.
Other Improvements
  • IMPROVED - A blue dot now appears next to a bill in the Bills & Income view to let you know it's been updated.
  • IMPROVED - Added a What is an eBill screen when trying to link an eBill for the first time.
  • IMPROVED - Added a Mobile column to the alert preference screen to allow one to turn on mobile push notification for a few alerts.
  • FIXED - Fixed a number of issues throughout the product.
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