Category: General Tips
Use the Open Window List in QuickBooks
QuickBooks has a huge number of options and features, so many that it is hard for anyone to know all of the ways that it can be used. When I help someone with QuickBooks, either on site or through an online support session, one of the first things that I show people is how to […]
QuickBooks Loan Manager and Internet Explorer 9 Problem FIXED
When Internet Explorer 9 first came out, QuickBooks users wondered if we would have problems with it. The answer was Almost no, but there are some issues. For the most part, current versions of QuickBooks work fine with Internet Explorer 9, with some small exceptions. The one that I heard about the most was that […]
QuickBooks 2012 Doc Center Problem Workaround
Quickbooks 2012 adds a Doc Center, which is a reworking of QuickBooks Attached Documents (or QuickBooks Document Management). See this QuickBooks and Beyond article on all of the changes (and there are lots!). Now the product only stores documents locally, without the option to store documents online. However, there are some problems.
How To Print Modified QuickBooks Invoices Without Saving Changes
This is one of those situations where a software company can’t win. People complain about the way it works, so you change the program to fix the problem. Then, other people complain about the fix, and wish it worked the old way. Fortunately, Intuit made this an option so you can have it either way. […]
QuickBooks Sales Tax Reports Don’t Match Total Income
I don’t have a lot of taxable sales in my business, so I only have to report my sales tax to California once a year. Throughout the year I just merrily go along entering my sales into QuickBooks, and in January I run my Sales Tax Liability report. I use that report to fill in the values […]
QuickBooks Holiday Grinch
It’s Christmas week here, when business SHOULD slow down, but it never seems to. Rather than talk about new features (or bugs) in QuickBooks, or how to accomplish a particular task, I’m going to get on my soapbox and throw out some thoughts on things that have been bugging me. And, at the end, ask […]
Problem Restoring QuickBooks Backups–Read Only Files (Quick Tip)
When you are restoring a backup copy of a QuickBooks file you often want to restore it in the same place that it existed before. Sometimes QuickBooks will refuse to replace the existing copy – saying that the file is set to read-only. This may be frustrating, but it usually is a simple thing to […]
QuickBooks Hosting: An Overview
QuickBooks is essentially a desktop program, designed to be installed on your local computer. That is fine if you always work out of your office, and if all of the people who need access to the data are connected to the same local area network, but what if you need “remote” access, via the Internet? […]
