Weird/hard to read fonts in category reports in latest 7.1.1 version for Mac??

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Why have the fonts changed and are so hard to read in the Category Detail and Summary Reports in the new version of Quicken Premiere 7.1.1? The transactions are in a compressed bold and the headings/titles are in a super thin, faint grey font. This is the report that I've been using for years to send to my accountant because it uses Categories for multiple businesses and Tags to categorize each transaction within each business. All the other reports give you one or the other but not both in a way that is readable.

jacobs · Answer

@shermanator100 I guess I'm unclear why the columnar report, with categories as rows and tags as columns, doesn't work for you. Do you have a lot of companies? I just built a report which has 4 tags (companies), untagged, and total — 6 columns plus the categories. It's easy to read on-screen, and by clicking the "Scale to Fit 1 page wide" checkbox in the print dialog box…

the result is fine when I print it:

It does put a lot of space between columns, which is annoying, but it's certainly good enough to give to your accountant. Alternatively — or if you have a lot more companies — with one click you can export the report to a spreadsheet, where it's easy to clean up the formatting to whatever degree you want to bother with it. (For an accountant, just the unformatted spreadsheet is likely good enough.)

And as an added bonus, the new report will total each tag (business) column, something you don't get with the old report which only shows tags as if they are sub-categories of specific income or expense categories.

The only reason I'm pursuing this is that I fear your continued use of the old Category Summary report will result in incorrect data you're reporting at some point. I've seen many cases where users documented missing transactions in the Category Summary report. (The developers said long ago that they planned to remove the Category Summary report from the program, but to do so the likely have to build a converter for any reports using the old code which users may have saved, and that's obviously not been a high priority for them.) You might want to try creating the new report and just checking to see if all the totals match what you're getting with the old report; if yes, then be happy you're lucky not to have been bitten by whatever bug exists in the old report; if not, you'll see the need to address this asap.

Okay, that's it! I won't continue to bug you about this — I just wanted to take one more shot at helping you avoid potentially bad results with that old report. 😀

jacobs · Answer

Glad to hear you got it resolved! It sure sounded like something was amiss with your fonts rather than Quicken, so it’s good you found and fixed it.

shermanator100 · Answer

Ok. Good News! I opened up Fontbook App >Settings>Advanced> and selected "reset fonts". Problem solved. The category reports look perfect like before.