Quicken Classic Deluxe for Mac Version 8.4.2

Lizah
Lizah Quicken Mac 2017 Member ✭✭
in Reports (Mac)

Come on, Quicken, you can do better. In December, I printed Category reports for my tax appointment, landscape. My report was 33 pages, font was too big at that time. Now with the latest version, the font on my Category reports are twice the size with 66 pages for my report. Ridiculous. Why can't the reports print just what is displayed on the screen. That would be a perfect report. My accountant already thinks the report style & font on the Mac is cumbersome. Why can't you create the Quicken Mac like Quicken Windows. We deserve better. The price point is the same.

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  • RickO
    RickO Quicken Mac Subscription SuperUser ✭✭✭✭

    I don't have an answer to your question, but I do have a couple of workaround suggestions. The first is to filter an appropriate register or group register. Adjust columns as needed and print. The format from that is better. The second workaround is to export the report to CSV, then open in Excel or Numbers and format as edit to make the format as desired.

    Quicken Mac Subscription; Quicken Mac user since the early 90s
  • Lizah
    Lizah Quicken Mac 2017 Member ✭✭

    What I am needing for my accountant is the category report printed out in report form, not a register report. My reports printed just fine in December for our preliminary appointment before the Quicken update. Can you help me understand—Why is it that the user-consumer can't adjust the font on reports? I have seen others comment on the font size for reports as well in posted discussions. I also have a hard time understanding why the options have to be different on Quicken Mac vs Quicken windows?

  • jacobs
    jacobs Quicken Mac Subscription SuperUser, Mac Beta Beta

    @Lizah We'rej ust fellow Quicken users here trying to help each other; we can't speak for Quicoen management or the product development team.

    I'm puzzled by the changes you're describing between December and now, because I'm not aware or any changes which took place with existing reports in the new 8.5 release.

    Quicken Mac and Quicken Windows are developed completely separately because they are built on significantly different underlying technology (database, user interface controls, etc.).

    On your report, the first thing I'd look at is whether you have any columns you don't need. A default Transactions by Category report shows Category, Date, Account, Payee and Amount. Do you have any other columns, like Memo in your report? Do you need Account asa column? Once you have the columns you need, you can make them narrower by dragging the divider between the column headers to the left; the printed report won't exactly match, but making a column narrower on screen will make it narrower in the report.

    Next, is each row displaying completely on one line when you generate a report? Or is the Amount showing on a separate page? (Clicking Print and then selecting Open in Preview by clicking the PDF dropdown menu is a great wya to quickly check how the report will look and then make tweaks.) Next, hav e you tried switching from the default Landscape orientation to Portrait? That cane save a number of pages. Finally, if the Amount column is showing on a separate page, try clicking the Scale to Fit 1 page wide checkbox in the print dialog box. That should significantly reduce your page count, although it will result in a smaller font size to make each line fit the width of the page.

    I don't know how many transactions and categories you have, but these tweaks should reduce your report to a manageable length much less than 33 pages.

    Quicken Mac Subscription • Quicken user since 1993

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