Average per category spending for last year

oldngrmpy1

I'd like to run a report that will show average spending per Category, per month for last year. Is there such a report?

Jim_Harman

Try the Reports > Spending > Current Spending vs Average Spending by Category report. Experiment with the settings til you get what you want. 

oldngrmpy1

Thanks Jim, you are always helpful in a pleasant way!

oldngrmpy1

Not exactly what I was hoping for. Just a report that would show average for (selected) categories, over a certain time. I'm surprised that with all the time and effort Quicken has put into Budgets over the years this simple report is not available, since average payments dovetails so closely to budgeting. You can do a single average report for a given line item transaction, but not an !all inclusive for several. It could be a very simple thing for developers to do too!

Jim_Harman

It's the middle column of the report I referenced above.
Set the Compare to: to last 12 months or whatever time frame you want.
Click the gear then the Categories tab to select whatever categories you want. 
Save the report if you want to use those settings again.
Export to Excel and delete the extra columns if you don't want them.

What more do you want?

oldngrmpy1

I think I got it figured out...thanks for the help