Better Report Print Formatting (4 Merged Votes)

@Bonnie Optekman I know you're trying to be helpful with your comment above, but without more detail, it's almost impossible to know what you're experiencing and figure out why. There have not been widespread reports about reports having incorrect totals, so it's possible it's something with the settings in your report(s), or perhaps you've uncovered a bona fide bug -- but more information is needed to try to get to the bottom of it. If you're able to post screen shots showing both the set-up of the report and a section of the report showing an incorrectly totaled category (without revealing any too-personal data), that would be very helpful.

Sometimes when a user gets a report with data they say isn't correct, it turns out to be a filter setting in the report.  For instance, a user has Tags set to all tags, which is not the same as "any or no tag", an dither setting causes some expected data to not appear in a report. If you care to describes your report set-up in detail, ideally with screen shots, it might help us pinpoint what's going wrong.

@azsalsman I think most of us Quicken Mac users want the developers to provide more control over reports, but I just want to take a minute to make you aware of some things that have been added recently that do make a substantial improvement, albeit not all the things we might want. 

The reports in Quicken are in a somewhat confusing state right now. The reports listed by name underneath "New Report" on the Reports menu are all the "old reports" which were originally developed for Quicken Essentials back in 2010-2011 and were brought forward when Essentials evolved into Quicken Mac 2015. There are a lot of limitations with those reports, so starting two years ago, the developers set out to build an all-new reporting engine. The results of that work are tucked away under "New Report", which looks simple but is actually the gateway to all the new reports. Eventually, once they finish adding functionality to the new reports, they will likely do away with the old reports.

So, if you're using any of the old reports, it pays to experiment with New Report to see if you can create the reports you need. (New Reports can replace many, but not all, of the old reports.) Any report you create using New Report allows you to add or remove columns from a report, to re-order the columns, and to adjust the width of the columns. One really important new feature is tiny but immensely helpful: when you select to Print are report (to a printer or PDF), there's a Scale to Fit checkbox…



… which allows you to force wide reports to fit one (or two) pages wide.

Now, this doesn't allow for margin adjustments or fixed point size changes, so there's still more work they could do to optimize user control over reports, but to me, these changes have made what was once virtually unusable reports relatively manageable for my needs.

Yes, it's been a bit puzzling that they've gone through multiple releases with ever-more functionality hidden behind the innocuous-looking "New Report"; this has confused many users. I'm guessing from what we see and a few comments the product manager has made on this forum that they're trying to build all the functionality into the New Reports, and then they'll change the user interface to make it easier to discover (e.g. perhaps some pre-built reports, changes to the Reports menu, or being able to enter all your criteria up-front rather than creating a report you don't want and then customizing it into what you do want!).

The heartening thing to me is that they have been plugging away at adding new reports functionality every couple months, and clearly understand that users are demanding more customizability. The last update two months ago added the powerful ability to define both rows and columns in a report, a crucial need which hadn't existed in the old reports. There's certainly more to do, but I've found that the current tools have made reports pretty usable for me. For instance, while I can't specify a font point size, the only real reason I'd want to set a point size is to get things to fit on a page -- and adjusting the column width and using Shrink to Fit basically does that for me.