Cool Date-Editing Tricks for Quicken 2012

Within the Quicken accounting program — and it doesn’t matter whether you’re using Quicken Basic or Quicken Premier — you'll enter dates again and again: the date you write a check, the date you record a deposit, the date you reconcile an account, the date you receive a dividend on some investment, and so on.


Fortunately, you have several very cool, extremely handy date-editing tricks you can use. Specifically, if the selection cursor is in a Date field, you can do these things:



































Press This KeyWhat Happens
+Adds one day to the date shown.
Subtracts one day from the date shown.
tChanges the date to today’s date. You can remember this
because t is the first letter in today.
yChanges the date to the first date in the year. Note that
y is the first letter in year.
rChanges the date to the last date in the year. Note that
r is the last letter in year.
mChanges the date to the first date in the month. Just to salve
my compulsive personality, allow me to point out that m is
the first letter in month.
hChanges the date to the last date in the month. Okay, last time
I’ll provide a memory tool — note that h is the
last letter in month.








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