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There’s also a Spending Cloud report, which is a vestige of Quicken Essentials and is more of a toy than a useful tool. Quicken 2016 ships with nine reports, such as account and category summaries, net worth, and monthly spending, six of which can be customized and saved for later use. One of the benefits of automatically mapped categories is that you have instant access to a reasonably good set of reports. I found that I needed to refine or edit categories to make them work for my specific needs. Quicken ships with a pre-defined collection of categories and does a great job of linking imported transactions to existing categories, although you’ll likely want to double check to make sure everything matches up correctly the first few times you import transactions.

Quicken downloads transactions for the accounts you link-typically three months worth of data, depending on your bank-as soon as you add them. When selecting accounts to sync, you also have the option of customizing the names of those accounts.

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Once you log in to your banking site, Quicken lets you to select the accounts you want the app to automatically download transactions from. Quicken would only allow me to enter an answer by typing into into a field, which my banking site would not accept.

In short, that bank’s website requires that you enter answers to personal questions from a drop down menu. I was easily able to create a link to accounts I had with two banks, but was unable to link to a credit union account because of the way that bank’s authorization system works.

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Quicken is designed to sync with your bank’s online banking services, but you do have the option of creating manual entry accounts if you want. Once you complete those initial steps you’re off to the races. Another unnecessary required step.Īfter signing in to your banking account, Quicken 2016 lets you select which accounts you want to sync. Also, once you log in you’re also required to complete a survey before you can begin using the app. Being able to save data in a local file seems, to me, to be something I should be able to do without linking to Intuit’s back-end, particularly if I have no plans to sync Quicken with any of my mobile devices.

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While I understand the purpose of using a Quicken ID-it’s used to sync Quicken data on your Mac with iOS devices-I don’t like that this is a requirement for using Quicken. The setup of Quicken 2016 is a little uncomfortable from the jump, as it requires that you use a Quicken ID in order to set the app up. Quicken 2016 for Mac, the application resulting from this mini-morphing over the years, is a solid tool for managing your personal finances that remains as easy to use as was its predecessors, but it’s no longer the only personal financial player in the game. Not to mention a brief name change from Quicken to Quicken Essentials and back to Quicken again. For quicker icon arrangements, go to the View menu in the Mac’s desktop menu bar and select Sort By there to see a list of keyboard shortcuts you can use for future sorting sessions.If you’ve been a Quicken user for any length time you’re well aware that the look and feel of the app has gone through some considerable changes over the last several years. The same menu also has a Sort By option to keep the icons aligned on an invisible grid and sorted based on the name, kind, the date last opened or other criteria.

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The contextual menu for Mac OS X has a Clean Up command that similarly organizes the desktop icons in neat rows. Right-clicking on the desktop and choosing Sort By lets you arrange the desktop icons based on name, size, type or date modified. All the icons clumped around the screen snap into precise alignment, which also makes it easier to see which ones can get re-filed or tossed in the Recycle Bin to further sweep up the desktop. In Windows, select View from the contextual menu and choose “Auto-arrange icons.” You can also make the screen icons line up in rows with the “Align icons to grid” menu command.

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In both Windows 7 and Mac OS X, just right-click the desktop, or hold down the Control key while clicking with a one-button Mac mouse, to see your options on the contextual menu. Desktops can get quickly littered with stray icons for files and folders, but there is a quick way to tidy things up.