Can I control custom reports from changing every time I add a new account?

Question

I have several custom reports (about 20 or so) that I use to monitor my finances in Quicken.  Every time I add a new account, Quicken automatically adds the new account to every report.  I then have to go into each report and remove the new accounts and save each report.

I searched the community but couldn't find anyone else reporting this issue so maybe it's not a common frustration.

I don't think that there is any option within Quicken to prevent this from happening but to me it seems wrong to automatically add every new account into all custom reports.

Does anyone have experience with this and can recommend any way to work around this?

deschenesjac · Answer

I'm for the 'Saved Report Alert' as a way to let us decide what we want to do with the new account.

Kevin Roulston · Answer

Thanks for the responses of everyone.  Most of the reports don't give any notice that the reports have been changed and I would prefer to have the option to add the accounts when needed. However in the scheme of things maybe there are more pressing needs to address in the software.

q_lurker · Answer

I believe the question has been raised before with the same conclusion you reached - there is no specific alternative setting.  This Idea post is an example.
https://community.quicken.com/discussion/7864369/have-new-accounts-added-behave-the-same-as-new-categories-within-saved-reports#latest

My spin on the matter (not based on any knowledge or input from Quicken, Inc) is that the programmers chose to automatically add the new accounts so that a user would see the information and be reminded as to whether to include it or not.  The converse approach of assuming the user did not want it and not adding the accounts does not provide such a reminder.

As noted in the other posts, they could certainly force a more direct 'what do you want' reminder.