Quicken 2015 the Official Guide

very happy with order

I've written documentation for a living. I'm not at all pleased with this book. While it's true that I'm nearly drowning in information, and I'm sure lots of things are in there, somewhere -- I can't find how to do simple things easily and quickly, but I hear about the definition of "account" at least three times in different ways in the first few chapters.Graphics callouts are frequently out of context (not the whole screen, just a piece of it) which leaves the reader completely out of context if they're new to the program.The book comes over to me as an exercise in how to turn what should be good, simple computer documentation into a master's level college textbook. Among other things - if you don't have a bank that has signed up for the "easy" download of your data, you are advised on page 152 to (and I quote) "Follow the directions in Chapters 1,4, and 6 to set up this account with the online services"What????? How about a list, with page numbers? Better yet, how about a chapter for the 90% of users whose bank does NOT participate in Intuits "online" thing...?Since I have this book and am a sophisticated computer user, I'll figure it all out - but I would not advise anyone unfamilar with the program to try to use this book to get up to speed. Too frustrating. I was going to use it to train someone who is shaky on computers to use quicken - I'm going to have to translate everything - I simply cannot go through this book and use it to get someone up to speed... and I'm pretty sure Intuit would not like to be known as the company that requires a master's degree to read their docs or understand their software...This is a reference book - and NOT a good book for getting used to the software from scratch. If that's what you want, try something else...

Quicken is easy enough to use for the simple things that I have used it for over the years. However, when I decided to set up the way I do the accounts to make it easier when tax time comes around each year I quickly saw that I needed more help than the Help function furnishes. That is when I bought this book and it was the help I needed.

Quicken 2015 is not (IMHO) not an intuitive program to use. This book is very detailed. It would of taken a whole lot of googling to find the answers if I didn't have this reference material at hand.I had Quicken 2009 for Windows and this is a whole new ballgame! If you're planning on updating to Quicken 2015 (either Mac or Windows) I would highly suggest you buy this particular book.

If you have Quicken, you need this book. All of the on line resources are fine but if you just need to work through something there is still no better resource than a physical book. I use this program to manage a couple of rental properties. I am not an expert at managing the properties so this book is very helpful. I recommend it.