Is there any documentation on the use of curly braces?

msoultan

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:

1. 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?
2. Is the use of curly braces documented anywhere in the Quicken documentation? I searched the documentation and I couldn't find anything.

Thanks!

Mike

mshiggins

I recall the documentation being somewhere in the check writing topics as enclosed text in curly braces in a payee name would not print on the check. But am not finding any info there now. I did find this:

https://help.quicken.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=3216377

You do have to manually type in the curly braces and text.

mshiggins

I recall the documentation being somewhere in the check writing topics as enclosed text in curly braces in a payee name would not print on the check. But am not finding any info there now. I did find this:

https://help.quicken.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=3216377

You do have to manually type in the curly braces and text.

msoultan

Thanks! I appreciate the info :)

I also just now noticed that if I rename a contact with the same name as another, it mentions the braces as well.

mshiggins

I use the curly braces to enclose text indicating the month an annual payee is paid in reminders that are scheduled annually as those reminders sometimes spontaneously shift their dates to later dates. Like the DMV registration reminder for the payment due each September.