Better Report Print-outs (4 Merged Votes)
Bonnie Optekman
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Please make it easier to print out a report. It needs to be more WYSIWYG. Right now, a transaction/category report with five columns has to be sized at roughly half the screen to get all columns to print on a single page without "scale to fit." And it takes a lot of trial and error.
Allowing more customization such as the setting of margins would also help a great deal.
Printing these reports is absolutely key for them to be useful in financial planning and doing taxes. It's the reason I use Quicken.
Last year, when I switched from PC to Mac, I actually had to download them to Excel before printing so thanks for fixing that but I was told making the screen look more like the printed page was in the works. It's ironic that using Quicken on the Mac is less graphically friendly than on a PC.
Many thanks,
Bonnie
Allowing more customization such as the setting of margins would also help a great deal.
Printing these reports is absolutely key for them to be useful in financial planning and doing taxes. It's the reason I use Quicken.
Last year, when I switched from PC to Mac, I actually had to download them to Excel before printing so thanks for fixing that but I was told making the screen look more like the printed page was in the works. It's ironic that using Quicken on the Mac is less graphically friendly than on a PC.
Many thanks,
Bonnie
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Sometimes when a user gets a report with data they say isn't correct, it turns out to be a filter setting in the report. For instance, a user has Tags set to all tags, which is not the same as "any or no tag", an dither setting causes some expected data to not appear in a report. If you care to describes your report set-up in detail, ideally with screen shots, it might help us pinpoint what's going wrong.
Why can't Quicken not offer some basic print settings? It does not have to be fancy but to have control over the font size, header information, and maybe column widths would be an extremely helpful feature.
Quicken......please....please...please!
The reports in Quicken are in a somewhat confusing state right now. The reports listed by name underneath "New Report" on the Reports menu are all the "old reports" which were originally developed for Quicken Essentials back in 2010-2011 and were brought forward when Essentials evolved into Quicken Mac 2015. There are a lot of limitations with those reports, so starting two years ago, the developers set out to build an all-new reporting engine. The results of that work are tucked away under "New Report", which looks simple but is actually the gateway to all the new reports. Eventually, once they finish adding functionality to the new reports, they will likely do away with the old reports.
So, if you're using any of the old reports, it pays to experiment with New Report to see if you can create the reports you need. (New Reports can replace many, but not all, of the old reports.) Any report you create using New Report allows you to add or remove columns from a report, to re-order the columns, and to adjust the width of the columns. One really important new feature is tiny but immensely helpful: when you select to Print are report (to a printer or PDF), there's a Scale to Fit checkbox…
… which allows you to force wide reports to fit one (or two) pages wide.
Now, this doesn't allow for margin adjustments or fixed point size changes, so there's still more work they could do to optimize user control over reports, but to me, these changes have made what was once virtually unusable reports relatively manageable for my needs.
The heartening thing to me is that they have been plugging away at adding new reports functionality every couple months, and clearly understand that users are demanding more customizability. The last update two months ago added the powerful ability to define both rows and columns in a report, a crucial need which hadn't existed in the old reports. There's certainly more to do, but I've found that the current tools have made reports pretty usable for me. For instance, while I can't specify a font point size, the only real reason I'd want to set a point size is to get things to fit on a page -- and adjusting the column width and using Shrink to Fit basically does that for me.