Show previous/next month in transaction date popup

BikerL
BikerL Quicken Windows Subscription Member ✭✭
edited August 2 in Display/UI

For the date calendar popup when entering or editing a transaction, show and allow to click on days at the end of the previous month and after the end of the current month.

Reason: At the start of a month I enter interest in account for the preceding month. Each time as I click the date icon I have to back up a month to enter the correct date, resulting in an extra action for each account. Not much, but annoying, and many other software packages permit this. So for August 2024, which starts on Wed, the popup would have Jul 29, 30, and 31 shown instead of a blank area.

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  • NotACPA
    NotACPA Quicken Windows Subscription SuperUser ✭✭✭✭✭

    Are you downloading into this account? If so, why doesn't the interest automatically download with the correct date?

    If not, why?

    Q user since February, 1990. DOS Version 4
    Now running Quicken Windows Subscription, Business & Personal
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  • BikerL
    BikerL Quicken Windows Subscription Member ✭✭

    Not all accounts download properly, so I have recurring transactions for them. In other cases, the password is mismatched even though I didn't change it (just happened today, in fact). Then some banks disallow downloads, or change their practices. Lots of reasons why downloading doesn't work for everything.

  • UKR
    UKR Quicken Windows Subscription SuperUser ✭✭✭✭✭

    Instead of mouse-clicking on a Date field's mini calendar, how about using these available

    Date field keyboard shortcuts

    Assuming today's date is May 7th, 2020 and it is shown in the date field and you are using standard US - style dates (this may not work with other date formats) ...
    • Type + advances the date by 1 day, 5/8/2020
    • Type - subtracts 1 day from the date, 5/6/2020
    • Type t resets the date to Today's date, 5/7/2020
    • Typing 0501 gives 5/1/2020 (always type it with leading zeros for month and day numbers 01…09, no slashes)
    • Typing 123019 gives 12/30/2019 (no slashes)
    • Typing 12011999 gives 12/01/1999 (again, no slashes)
    • m gives the first day of the month, 5/1/2020
    • h gives the last day of the month, 5/31/2020
    • y gives the 1st of January of the year, 1/1/2020
    • r gives the 31st of December of the year, 12/31/2020
    • w gives this week's Sunday, 5/3/2020
    • k gives this week's Saturday, 5/9/2020
    • typing the same letter again advances to the next / prior interval, e.g. "ww" = 4/26/2020 or "++" = 5/9/2020
    • combine multiple keystrokes to get to the desired date, e.g., "m-" results in 4/30/2020 (date = 5/7, m = 5/1. - = 4/30)

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