Where is the TOOLS menu button? (A Q Mac question)

Question

I'm a 25+ yr user of Quicken. Running Quicken Starter v 6.0.3 on MacBookPro Big Sur.  I can't locate the TOOLS menu button anywhere (I feel very foolish).  The top Mac menu bar has <Apple Logo> Quicken File Edit View Transactions Account Reports Budgets Bill Pay Window and Help.  Tools aren't under any of those.  The top of the Quicken Window has  Home Reports Budgets Bills & Income Calendar Alerts.  Tools aren't under any of those.  I've explored all the little widgets, buttons, icons, etc I can find and no TOOLS menu.  I'm sure it's right in front of me - but where??

Bob Ball · Answer

Thanks; I overlooked that. The info was in the Quicken Update for July. I clicked near the image attached:

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jacobs · Answer

Yes, the answer to this was included above:

To reiterate: There is no Tools menu in Quicken Mac.

I'm not sure what email you received, but the part you quoted was clearly about Quicken Windows. (Windows uses keyboard commands with CTRL, whereas Mac keyboard commands are generally with Command, Option and/or Shift.)

In Quicken Mac, every Payee you have ever paid is a "Memorized Payee." To see your Payee list, it's under Window > Payees & Rules, or Command-Shift-E. Here, you can merge Payees if you want, but you don't want to delete them because that would mess up your old transactions. However, if you click the "–" button, Quicken will Hide the Payee from your pop-up lists of Payees. (If you don't see the Hidden column in your Payees list, Control-click on any of the headings, and you'll see the additional column(s) you can add to the window.)

The other two tabs in this window are for Renaming Rules and QuickFill Rules. Renaming Rules allow you to convert cryptic or inconsistent Payee names downloaded from your bank or credit card companies into a single, consistent name. For instance, "Home Depot Store 1234 Anytown" and "Home Depot Store 98765 Everytown" could both be transformed to "Home Depot" with a simple Renaming Rule. QuickFill Rules allow you to store the Category and/or other fields of a transaction to be used the next time you use the Payee. You can manually create and edit QuickFill rules via this window, but you generally create QuickFill Rules while crediting transactions, or with the global Preference setting to create QuickFill Rules.

Bob Ball · Answer

I may be overlooking something, but the answers don't appear to respond to jnjpanek's original question: Where is the Tools menu? How do I access it? I never heard of it until an emailed Quicken Update which arrived July 7 told me what I can do with a Memorized Payee list, accessed from the Tools Menu. I can't find it either. I read this: "You can find the Memorized Payee List on your Tools menu. You can also use the keyboard shortcut CTRL + T." That makes me wonder if it was written for Windows users. I tried ctrl-T and command-T. Neither worked.