QuickBooks Can Do This? A Few Quick Tricks

Sometimes getting around QuickBooks can be a bit confusing and frustrating.  There are lots of little tricks.  Here are two of them:

1.  On the Home page, click "View" on the menu bar in the upper left hand corner.  Check the first option, "Open Window List".  Another column will pop up on your screen on the left hand side.  This column will show all open windows such as reports, the customer or vendor center, or various forms.  It is easy to jump from one window to another using this column.  This is especially helpful if you are looking at reports.  A few words of caution - you only want a few windows open at a time.  I have seen clients have forty or more windows open at one time.  It slows down your computer and can actually jam up your reports.  When shutting down QuickBooks, it is always a good practice to close all the windows except your Home page.  This will make the shut down faster and the start-up much faster.
2. Closing out windows in QuickBooks.  When we are finished with a report or one of the Centers within QuickBooks, most of us click on the little "X" in the upper right hand corner.  That works fine, but it is very close to that big red "X" which shuts QuickBooks down.  What a pain when that happens!  So, in order to avoid that, simply hit the "escape" key on your keyboard.  That will close out the window that is on your screen.