On 09-23-96 Daniel Jones regarding Quicken is time consuming said:
||I gave Quicken a try - several times - I don't like it. It sucks.
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||Now, I use Excel 5 and have written several spreadsheets to track
||checking, savings, credit cards, investments, taxes, etc. etc. You
||can't beat having the flexibility to configure each and every cell
||to your exact requirements. I don't know if you've ever given it a
||try; version 5 has a most excellent Formula Wizard.
||
||Quicken is back in it's neat little box, waiting in the junk pile f
||the next garage sale . . .
|
|Quicken is outstanding as an account management tool.  Providing
|equivalent functionality in a spreadsheet of Quicken's reconciliation
|abilities, transaction memorization and scheduling, report and chart
|creation, etc. would be cumbersome, time consuming and error prone.
|
|Despite it's aspirations, however, Quicken is NOT a complete financial
|management tool.  It's budget tracking capabilities, for example, are
|not even adequate for my needs.  I find a budget as a static projection
|to be essentially useless.  I therefore use Excel to create and use a
|dynamic budget that records my expenses through the month, tracking an
|original budget projection and an updated status that lets me know
|both up to date income and expenses, and projected income and expenses
|still outstanding.
|
|Quicken does certain things very well.  Because it doesn't handle all
|financial tasks as adroitly as it handles account management is no
|reason to dismiss it as a useless tool.  That you do so makes me
|suspect
|that you haven't thoroughly explored the program.
|
|Regards,
|Daniel              ddjones@pinn.net
Wouldn't this diatribe have been better directed at the person you
quoted rather then me who asked him why given his opinion of quicken,
he was even reading this conference? Look back at the message you
snatched up and look closely at what you cut out, you are preaching
to the choir. Recommend you resend this to the fellow you quote.
You can tell he is being quoted by the | symbol, the fact that his
lines now have two || symbols indicates this is the second time I have
quoted that text. Note my original comments to you lack the | prefix.
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