Last month, I wrote about my disappointment with Quicken 2007 Home & Business on Windows. Today, Intuit released an update to the software. Here are the listed improvements:
- A choice of color schemes is available in the Preferences dialog.
- Quicken no longer moves accounts assigned to the Business Center to the Cash Flow Center after completing a One Step Update
- Fixed various issues that caused the Out of Memory and OL-2B errors during One Step Update.
- Future dated transactions on the calendar no longer cause incorrect balances on the account balance graph.
- You can now backup to a CD-RW formatted with a third party program
- Various changes to ensure Quicken is Microsoft Vista compliant
- Viewing Quicken Help files with IE 7 no longer causes script errors
- Cost basis and cash balance calculations are now correct when moving shares between accounts
That’s quite an impressive list of changes, and goes to show how flawed the original release was. I’ll test out the improvements. I’d like for Quicken to be software that keeps me happy.
For those of you with Quicken 2007, you should see the update available the next time you perform an online update. If not, you can download the manual patch.
Update: Now that I’ve been living with Quicken 2007 R2 for a while, I’ve reviewed the patch’s improvements.
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5:27 pm (reply)
Quicken 2007 doesn’t seem to work with Sharebuilder, something to do with QIF and OFX files. Do you just type in the numbers manually? A solution would be appreciated.
5:39 pm (reply)
I enter my ShareBuilder transactions manually. ShareBuilder doesn’t support newer versions of Quicken. Here’s what ShareBuilder’s website says:
Newer versions of Quicken won’t import .QIF files into investment accounts. They say the format isn’t appropriate, but they like to charge banks and brokerages extra money to support the .QFX proprietary format.
.QFX is almost identical to the open-format .OFX, which is used by Microsoft Money and other software. The difference between the two formats is one line that contains a checksum or key which identifies the bank or brokerage.
2:17 am (reply)
I have Quicken Premier 2007 Release R 5. I am unable to print many of my reports. I have “installed” a “ghost printer and was able to print some.
What I get is a microscopic image of the report in the upper left corner of the page.
Any suggestions? Do you know if Quicken 2008 has addressed the issue? I have had Quicken for home and business for many years without incident.
I am so sorry I “upgraded” to 2007!
2:24 pm (reply)
YO AM GOING TO LIKE THIS ONE
3:33 pm (reply)
Quicken 2008 does not solve the problem with the 1” X 1” report size that is prited. Tech support could not solve it either. I guess I’ll go to Microsoft Money. This is unacceptable.