Can't adjust field length in "Portfolio", "Enter Transactions" Advice?
What is HAPPENING to the past solid Quicken Program. It is buggy as heck!
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Are you using QMac or QWin?
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QWinmshiggins said:Are you using QMac or QWin?
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Are you saying that the Investment Account register view is too wide to fit the Quicken window?
How wide is the field labelled "Description"? If it's excessively wide, you can make it smaller by dragging the vertical divider line to the right of the "Description" column header left.
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2018 Version R11.20 Build 27.1.11.20mshiggins said:Are you using QMac or QWin?
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The Description field is 2-2 1/2" wide. It will not adjust nor will any other column in the investment window. I could close out the account bar docked to the right but I've never had to do that. An adjustment in width would do what I need. I have Quicken full screen on a full monitor. I can change the monitor display size and it makes everything smaller and there is no longer a slide bar but I shouldn't need to do that. I just NEED to be able to resize the width of the columns.0
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The first snip is with my monitor adjusted to show all columns and the width.
The second snip is with my monitor where I normally keep it. Either way, you can not adjust the width of the columns.0 -
I'm not sure why you can't adjust the columns. I'm using the same version of Quicken as you are, and here are my columns set at the minimum possible:Laura Talley Powell said:
The first snip is with my monitor adjusted to show all columns and the width.
The second snip is with my monitor where I normally keep it. Either way, you can not adjust the width of the columns.
Note that even though people have complained, that is the minimum you can set the Description column. And also most people find that they can in fact adjust the columns, but don't try adjusting them larger. If you can adjust them larger it isn't the fact that you can't adjust them, it something is deciding that you have already hit the minimum size.0 -
BTW for what it is worth. On my Windows 10 computer using the video processor built into the CPU I don't see the problem with the Enter button not showing when I slide the scroll bar over. Not that I doubt you are seeing it on your machine, there have been many "refresh" problems in Quicken over quite a few years.Laura Talley Powell said:
The first snip is with my monitor adjusted to show all columns and the width.
The second snip is with my monitor where I normally keep it. Either way, you can not adjust the width of the columns.
I personally find using the Enter Transactions dialog easier and "more reliable" then entering directly into the register. But if I was I probably would just use the Enter key on my keyboard instead of trying to click that button.0 -
Thanks to you both. I guess it is a matter of the new Quicken owners needing better program writers to get the bugs out. I never had issues until it was sold. Just to clarify. The enter button doesn't disappear. If you enter an amount and slide, the amount disappears. From all you both said, it seems they have a locked description field that no longer allows shortening. BUMMER
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Laura Talley Powell said:
Thanks to you both. I guess it is a matter of the new Quicken owners needing better program writers to get the bugs out. I never had issues until it was sold. Just to clarify. The enter button doesn't disappear. If you enter an amount and slide, the amount disappears. From all you both said, it seems they have a locked description field that no longer allows shortening. BUMMER
I never had issues until it was sold.
I certainly did. In any given release for the last 10 years (because that is when I started looking) I have been able to find no less than 50 bugs. Many of ones that have repeated for many years.
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In fact since the new company was formed I have seen many of those bugs that have never been addressed fixed. Unfortunately I have also seen them introduce a lot of new problems.
As one person put it. With Intuit is was one step forward and two steps back. With Quicken Inc it is more like two steps forward and one back.
Most of the "visual" problems with Quicken started in the Quicken 2012 to 2014 timeframe, which was when Intuit owned Quicken.
What's more Intuit sold the Quicken division, that includes the developers that choose to go to the new company. Which from what I can gather was most of them.0 -
From C. D. Bales:Laura Talley Powell said:Thanks to you both. I guess it is a matter of the new Quicken owners needing better program writers to get the bugs out. I never had issues until it was sold. Just to clarify. The enter button doesn't disappear. If you enter an amount and slide, the amount disappears. From all you both said, it seems they have a locked description field that no longer allows shortening. BUMMER
"I guess it is a matter of the new Quicken owners needing better program writers to get the bugs out. I never had issues until it was sold."
The "new Quicken owners" are using the exact same "program writers" that worked on Quicken when Quicken was owned by Intuit.
That means that you're complaint boils down to this: the very same "program writers" who caused you no issues when they were Intuit, Inc. employees, have suddenly begun causing you issues now that they are Quicken, Inc. employees.
In other words: nonsense.Quicken user since Q1999. Currently using QW2017.
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QPW that makes sense. CD Bales maybe oversight needs improving. All I know is I personally never had issues until this year. I lost a reconciliation. My figures were totally screwed up. I had my printout showing my beginning and ending balances and all that was reconciled. The next reconciliation the opening balance was totally wrong. NEVER did I have instability and screw ups like I’m seeing now. Something is happening. It isn’t on my end. It is on theirs. I’ve used Quicken as a paid bookkeeper and for personal since Microsoft Money went out. A LONG time.Laura Talley Powell said:Thanks to you both. I guess it is a matter of the new Quicken owners needing better program writers to get the bugs out. I never had issues until it was sold. Just to clarify. The enter button doesn't disappear. If you enter an amount and slide, the amount disappears. From all you both said, it seems they have a locked description field that no longer allows shortening. BUMMER
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