A feature to permanently uncheck 'Hidden"

acs2
acs2 Quicken Windows Subscription Member ✭✭✭
edited November 10 in Reports

Develop a preference in reports to permanently uncheck 'Show Hidden' in Accounts, Categories, Tags and Securities when customizing them.. I've looked through preferences and cannot find an option to do so.

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  • Jon
    Jon Quicken Mac Subscription SuperUser, Mac Beta Beta
    edited November 11

    [EDIT: Removing my comments because this was originally posted in a Quicken Mac category, but the original poster is actually using Quicken Windows.]

  • jacobs
    jacobs Quicken Mac Subscription SuperUser, Mac Beta Beta
    edited November 11

    [EDIT: Removing my comments because this was originally posted in a Quicken Mac category, but the original poster is actually using Quicken Windows.]

    Quicken Mac Subscription • Quicken user since 1993
  • Randy 415
    Randy 415 Quicken Windows Subscription Windows Beta Beta

    Hidden accounts and categories, and tags, are hidden for a reason. We don't want to see them clutter up our 60 years of data. So, by default, any box that says "Show Hidden" should be unchecked by default.

  • jacobs
    jacobs Quicken Mac Subscription SuperUser, Mac Beta Beta
    edited November 11

    @Randy 415 Wow, 60 years of data? So you started entering transactions two decades before Quicken was even created? 🤣

    Okay, seriously…

    [EDIT: Removing my comments because this was originally posted in a Quicken Mac category, but the original poster is actually using Quicken Windows.]

    Quicken Mac Subscription • Quicken user since 1993
  • acs2
    acs2 Quicken Windows Subscription Member ✭✭✭

    I'd like to be clear with my idea. When customizing a Report in Quicken Classic premier, most recent version, there is a check box in the Accounts, Categories, Tags and Securities tabs called Show: Hidden Accounts which is always checked. See attachments.

    I suggest Quicken add an option in Preferences for Reports to Uncheck/Check Show: Hidden Accounts as a default for each of these tabs separately.

    I understand the thoughts of those who have responded to my earlier post but believe that the way some of us use Hidden it would make creating and modifying reports more efficient and possibly effective by not displaying Hidden Accounts, Categories, Tags and/or Securities by a offering an Option in Preferences to have Show Hidden unchecked by default.

  • Jon
    Jon Quicken Mac Subscription SuperUser, Mac Beta Beta

    You are asking for a Windows feature in a Mac forum, hence all the confusion - Quicken Mac doesn't have that check box. I'll ask a moderator to move this over to a Windows forum.

  • Quicken Jasmine
    Quicken Jasmine Quicken Mac Subscription Moderator mod

    Hello @acs2,

    I have moved this thread to the proper category for Quicken for Windows ideas and I have also added that you are using windows on your profile.

    Thanks!

    -Quicken Jasmine

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  • acs2
    acs2 Quicken Windows Subscription Member ✭✭✭

    Thanks. I'm surprised as I thought I clicked to get me to a PC forum

  • acs2
    acs2 Quicken Windows Subscription Member ✭✭✭

    I looked at my original post which was to Ideas for Windows Classic. Was that an error as I thought it was for PC?

  • jacobs
    jacobs Quicken Mac Subscription SuperUser, Mac Beta Beta

    Ideas for Windows Classic is correct. That's where your Idea has been moved by the moderator; it was originally posted in Ideas for Mac Classic.

    Quicken Mac Subscription • Quicken user since 1993
  • Rocket J Squirrel
    Rocket J Squirrel Quicken Windows Subscription SuperUser ✭✭✭✭✭

    I don't think Preferences is the right way to accomplish what is desired. Each "show hidden" check box should simply remember its state and appear however the user last left it.

    Quicken user since version 2 for DOS, now using QWin Biz & Personal Subscription (US) on Win10 Pro.

  • acs2
    acs2 Quicken Windows Subscription Member ✭✭✭

    Rocket

    Thanks for your comment. I think it fits with the theme of my idea and your solution is fine with me.

  • Randy 415
    Randy 415 Quicken Windows Subscription Windows Beta Beta

    Yes, Rocket.

  • Randy 415
    Randy 415 Quicken Windows Subscription Windows Beta Beta

    @jacobs Yes, when I had to close my deceased parents' estate, I used Quicken to reconcile transactions and activities over many decades. It was faster and easier than using a spreadsheet. Luckily, Quicken will handle dates going back to 1/1/1901. (Thru the year 5000). Doc Brown used Quicken to help develop the flux capacitor.