Displaying Categories In Spending Reports

peter088

Hello,

I have Quicken 2017 premium and am running on Windows 10 up to date. I've created several spending reports and each of them labels the subcategories as "Category - Other". I'm happy to attache a screen shot, but I don't see an attach button anywhere.

As an example, if I have a budget category called "Entertainment Expenses" and I run the report with a period of "Last Month," I get a report which has "Expenses" on the left, then indented and under it "Entertainment Expenses" then indented and underneath that is "Other Entertainment Expenses" and then directly under that again is "Other Entertainment Expenses" and then indented and under that are five identical labels which are "Other Tickets."

"Tickets" is a subcategory of Entertainment Expenses, but the five lines in the report should be for subcategories of Tickets: "Movies," "Plays", "Concerts," etc.

How can I get the report to display these labels instead of "Other Tickets?"

Thanks,

Peter

peter088

Hi UKR,

Got it one: "First, in Edit / Preferences / Reports only there's a box "Category display". Please be sure it has the radio button set at "Name"

That fixed it. Thank you so much. Great call!

Thanks Tom. I appreciate that and will keep persevering until I reach the magic number,

Peter

UKR

First, in Edit / Preferences / Reports only there's a box "Category display".

Please be sure it has the radio button set at "Name".

It'll be easier if you show us what you're seeing ...

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Tom Young

"I'm happy to attache a screen shot, but I don't see an attach button anywhere."

It appears that you have to have posted a certain number of messages before the ability to attach pictures is available to you.

It's not a whole lot of posts; probably just some back and forth on this thread will bring it up for you.

peter088

Hi UKR,

Got it one: "First, in Edit / Preferences / Reports only there's a box "Category display". Please be sure it has the radio button set at "Name"

That fixed it. Thank you so much. Great call!

Thanks Tom. I appreciate that and will keep persevering until I reach the magic number,

Peter

NotACPA

"Category - Other" happens when you have a category that has sub-cats ... but you've assigned one or more transactions to the main category instead of one of the sub-cats.

Do CTRL-C to get your category list, then click on the main cat in question to see what transactions were assigned to it ... instead of to a sub-cat.