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!