It would seem like there's a "trick" for using curly braces, something I can only find documented here:
https://community.quicken.com/discussion/7852341/how-do-i-have-the-name-on-a-check-print-differently-than-the-register
The only reason I knew to look for this was because I was looking at a friend's Quicken setup and noticed she had a few customers set up like this:
Company Name {Client name}
For those of you that aren't familiar with this syntax, it allows you to specify different customers based on the same base name. This is helpful if you are invoicing a business that acts as an umbrella over separate clients, yet you need to address your invoices to just to the parent company for billing purposes (that's why my friend did it). This allows for the following:
Company A {Client 1}
Company A {Client 2}
Company A {Client 3}
Or you could use it as a nickname that doesn't show up on the invoice:
Client A {Nickname}
The first example helps avoid clumping all of the invoices into just Company A without being able to tell the individual clients apart, and the second gives you the ability to add identifying information to a customer without printing that information on the invoice - it's a pretty nifty feature.
I have two questions:
- My friend had this syntax for a few of her customers but has no idea how it came to be. Is there an automated feature that did this for her or did someone have to explicitly type in those curly braces at one point or another?
- Is the use of curly braces documented anywhere in the Quicken documentation? I searched the documentation and I couldn't find anything.
Thanks!
Mike
