Just a thought on some Quicken historic report options
I have been reviewing my data in annual files from 1986 forward and have noticed a strange thing that really has to do with the design of the reporting processes. In some reports where I am seeing, for example, columns by year if I select the options of 'earliest to date' or 'include all dates' and choose an interval, the report will contain columns generated far beyond the end dates of the actual data, with many pointless columns contains nothing but zero values to and including now 2025, or even worse even continuing the show the ending balance for the last year in the file.
Wouldn't it make sense to as a DEFAULT only include columns from the earliest to the latest ACTUAL dates included in the data being reported, even when reporting multiple accounts, without my needing to determine the begin and end manually?
Once the data is assembled, all you have to do it check the earliest and latest dates for the selected data, maybe with a last column where the overall total is $0.00 for all included accounts. I understand there may be intervals WITHIN the report with $0.00 values, but once there is no more data, we don't need the columns.