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Customer Reviews of Quicken Premier 2006 [Old Version]

2006 premier proves usefull
I have been using the 2006 Premier purchased in late 2006. As you might expect you must install the disk mushware and then register the product. Then you get to the "update check" where my dial-up must download for hours the latest edition available for what was paid for. I do not know the history of Intuit, but I think it is comparable to the biggies in that the proliferation of product is no reflection on the evolution of quality. I mean I've trained my WIN95 machine to do things and would never dare to update fearing the demolition of the system. <
>Quicken does some things very well. I have only one preferred stock in my portfolio so no problem. I could never set up a corporate bond in microsoft and Quicken maintains the tradition. You must sort of push the transactions along manually. Quicken has a "Help". In addition, I purchased 2 books that allegedly fill the chasm of no support. Forget it. One book in its umpteenth edition apparently assumes the knowledge of the previous tomes. I think the umpteenth and one edition will review the currant updates and promises. <
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>Quicken is a great help for portfolio management and I know people using the accounting software for a long time. My biggest beef is the inability to print a list of translations. When monitoring an account over a year with hundreds of various transactions. looking at a few through a narrow window is nonsense. The list of accounts does not go away no matter what you want to do. When looking at my checking account transactions, I doubt that 5% of the entire screen is work space for me. Like 'My Yahoo' the company promos can not go away. Carefully consider that Yahoo is FREE.

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Quicken - Don't Do It!
I hate to come down so hard on a program that is so widely used, but my experience with Quicken has been awful. At first I thought it was because I was simply used to other (easier to use) money programs. But I have suffered with Quicken for three years now and I am giving up and moving on. <
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>1. Typing-in the date of a new year (for example moving from 2006 to 2007) automatically starts the new year and silently wipes out all cleared transactions for the previous year. This alone makes this (or any program) unusable. The one thing that no program can ever do is silently delete massive amounts of data without a confirmation, backup or even telling you it is happening. Because it is silent, you exit the program normally, create a back-up of the session and, in the process, overwrite your previous back-up. You lose all of your history with no way to recover it. <
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>2. Reports seem flexible at first, but flexibility brings complexity. The problem is, there is no way to browse categories (their name for where you spend your money) and see a quick summary. You have to run a report every time you want to view an account or category. You can create them and save them, making it relatively easy to rerun them, but you have to rerun them. You can't simply browse and see the status of categories (how much did I spend on gas? food? postage? Christmas? etc.) nor can you quickly see which have had activity or not this month (handy for seeing if you forgot to pay a bill). <
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>3. Creating split transactions is harder than it needs or ought to be - it is a click machine. The number of steps (or clicks) required to do simple things doesn't seem so bad at first. But once you start entering a list of transactions, you find it to be onerous. If a split is the same over and over, that's easy. If it changes each time you visit a store (like, say, Costco), it is a pain. <
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>I am not a novice user. I have used personal computers since the early 80's for business and pleasure. No program has caused me the irritation and frustration that Quicken has. I have worked extensively with their customer support and they can't recover my data.

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Review of Quicken 2006
Easy to install, easy to use (as most Quicken products are). Too expensive for a year old version. Limitations with running separate files on the same PC that I'm still working on. <
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>Bottomline: Quicken remains the industry standard for home and small business financial needs.