QUICKBOOKS KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS FOR DATES

Before learning about keyboard shortcuts for dates, let's talk about setting up date preferences.  You can set up a default date in QuickBooks to be either today's date or the last entered date.  To do this, click "Edit" on the Menu bar and scroll down to "Preferences".  Highlight the "General" category and click the "My Preferences" tab.  This is where you set up the default date to be either "today's" date or the last entered date. 

To use the date keyboard shortcuts, put the cursor in the date field and click the following:

Click this key:                   To achieve this result:


    t                                    Today
  
    +                                   Tomorrow

    -                                    Yesterday

    m                                   First day of displayed month

    h                                    Last day of displayed month

    w                                   First day of displayed week


These few tricks will help your fingers fly across the keyboard and get your data entered faster!

   

   

KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS FOR QUICKBOOKS

Have you ever noticed that some people have fingers that just fly across the keyboard when they are using QuickBooks?  They make everything look so easy!  They are probably using a lot of SHORTCUTS.  Here are a few to help with navigating around the QuickBooks screen:

1.  To move the cursor to the next field, click the TAB key.  It will automatically highlight what is already there so all you have to do is start typing the desired text or number.

2.  If you are really good at using the number keys on the right side of your keyboard, you might want to use the ENTER key to move from one field to the next.  By default, QuickBooks uses the ENTER key to record the transaction, but you can change that.  Go to "Edit" at the top of the screen; scroll down to "Preferences".  Highlight "General" and you will see a place where you can direct QuickBooks to use ENTER to move between fields.

3.  To close out a window, most of us click that little tiny "x" in the upper right hand corner.  Unfortunately, you probably have clicked the big "X" by mistake and closed the program!  To avoid all this, simply click the ESC key on your keyboard and the window will close. 

4.  You can see all the windows you have open by clicking "View" at the very top and then click "Open Window List".  This will create an additional column on the left which shows all the open windows.  You can then click on this list to get from one window to the next.  However, only have a few windows open at a time.  Having dozens of windows open, slows down the program - especially if you have reports open.  You also want to close all the windows before shutting down.  It will make exiting faster and opening faster.