Any possibility of a Quicken Guide being published?

Ken W.

It would be extremely useful if a Quicken Mac User Guide were written/published. I still have my copy of the (obsolete) Quicken Official User Guide for Quicken 2002 Macintosh Deluxe. It would be extremely useful if someone made such an item available for the new versions of Quicken. I am aware of the Help Menu available within the Quicken application itself. That item is of very limited use.

mshiggins

They are not even publishing the Quicken for Windows Official Guide any more. It's very doubtful they would publish a Mac version. 

jacobs

mshiggins said:

They are not even publishing the Quicken for Windows Official Guide any more. It's very doubtful they would publish a Mac version. 

Are you sure the Windows version is dead? The latest update to that book was less than a year ago, in March 2018, and encompassed changes included in Quicken 2018.

As for a Mac version, I guess the book publishers don't believe there's enough of a market for such a book to pay someone to create it from scratch and then update it every year or two.

@Ken W. You might try exploring these links of the Quicken website for some getting started information:

https://www.quicken.com/complete-guide-getting-started-quicken-2018-mac

https://www.quicken.com/quicken-tips

smayer97

All the above are incomplete and fall short. Check out the following: https://getsatisfaction.com/quickencommunity/topics/quicken-for-mac-faq-where-to-find-a-help-guide-for-2016-onward

mshiggins

smayer97 said:

All the above are incomplete and fall short. Check out the following: https://getsatisfaction.com/quickencommunity/topics/quicken-for-mac-faq-where-to-find-a-help-guide-for-2016-onward

What "all the above" are you referring to? Are you dissing the Quicken Official Guide?

mshiggins

jacobs said:

mshiggins said:

They are not even publishing the Quicken for Windows Official Guide any more. It's very doubtful they would publish a Mac version. 

Are you sure the Windows version is dead? The latest update to that book was less than a year ago, in March 2018, and encompassed changes included in Quicken 2018.

Yes, I am sure.  In the past, there was an annual update.  The normal annual update of the Guide did not take place this year. Maybe it will be back next year,

jacobs

There wasn’t an “annual update” to the software this year either.

Seriously, now that Quicken is making periodic updates rather than annual editions, perhaps the book publisher has determined they can go 18 or 24 months between new book editions, which is a huge cost saving for the publisher.

In any case, the statement was that they aren’t publishing the book anymore; just because it hasn’t been updated in 11 months does not mean it’s no longer being published.

smayer97

mshiggins said:

smayer97 said:

All the above are incomplete and fall short. Check out the following: https://getsatisfaction.com/quickencommunity/topics/quicken-for-mac-faq-where-to-find-a-help-guide-for-2016-onward

What "all the above" are you referring to? Are you dissing the Quicken Official Guide?

Quicken has never released a complete guide for Mac and their "Complete Guide..." online is incomplete. Even the videos from @John in NC are more comprehensive, if only a little out of date. But all put together, they fill in many of the gaps.

RCinNJ

smayer97 said:

Even the videos from @John in NC are more comprehensive, if only a little out of date. But all put together, they fill in many of the gaps.

The problem for a new user with these videos for QM 2016 is a new user doesn't know what is out of date and needs to be ignored. 

smayer97

For the most part, there is not that much visually that has changed, so there is really not much significant to ignore. Most of the differences are in settings, etc.

It certainly better than having nothing for guidance, for which Quicken provides very little.

Until someone updates these, we have to leverage what is available.

mshiggins

jacobs said:

There wasn’t an “annual update” to the software this year either.

Seriously, now that Quicken is making periodic updates rather than annual editions, perhaps the book publisher has determined they can go 18 or 24 months between new book editions, which is a huge cost saving for the publisher.

In any case, the statement was that they aren’t publishing the book anymore; just because it hasn’t been updated in 11 months does not mean it’s no longer being published.

The decision was no book this year. Unless things change, I don't think there will be future editions.