I have used quickbooks since it’s 1.0 DOS version. I have also used Quicken for eons. Each has a method to import records from online resources. I use that in Quicken to import my personal American Express acount and in QuickBooks to import my corporat Amex account. The similarites end there. Quicken puts everything right into the register. Then you just need to go through and add categories, change some memos etc. QuickBooks on the other hand, is a huge pain in the butt. It puts everything into a “holding place” and then you have to go through an extreeeeeeemely tedious process for each and every entry to get it into the register. I dread having to do this and put it off month after month. Then I have to spend hours doing it. Even if I did one month at a time, it takes a good 45 minutes. I upgraded recently to the latest version of Quickbooks and they STILL haven’t done anything about this. Ugggh.
Daily Archives: August 29, 2004
Blog entries as tech support knowledgebase
I have two posts that make me very happy. One is a post on a Crystal Reports problem that I had a hard time figuring out and did not find help online for. I frequently see referrers coming in to that post where people are googling the same error message that I had received. Hopefully my post has answered their problem.
Another one was a debugging problem that made me nuts until I found a nugget in one of John Robbins books. I have gotten two comments on that post from people saying “THANK YOU!” as they were going through the same horrible pain.
This makes it all worth while!
aha!Why you are forced to install J# with Visual Studio .NET
by way of Don Kiely, an explanation from Aaron Stebner who was on the VS Setup team at the time the decision was made – if you are curious. I definitely was. I like Aaron’s comment on being asked this question so frequently:
of course, in the mails from internal devs I have to remove the expletives from the question also…..