After I "upgraded" to Quicken Personal Plus 2002SE I found I could no longer
print with colour in reports. Putting this down to my ancient printer and
driver troubles I grizzled a bit but carried on. Recently I "upgraded" to
Quicken Personal Plus 2004, which wasn't worth the money and still wouldn't
print in colour.
I just bought a HP multi-function printer (brilliant hardware with truly
atrocious software). To get it working proerly I had to rebuild my Win2K PC
from scratch, which of course led me into the Quicken re-registration
minefield. After finally getting Quicken 2004 re-installed & working it
still doesn't print in colour. During my re-registration battle I found out
from Quicken support that colour printing in reports had been deliberately
removed from the product. Now I've just discovered that Quicken does't
actually use the negative format from Windows regional settings either so
you're stuck with -$x,xxx, like it or not. Frankly, this is unforgiveable
and just about the last straw. As I'm making much more use of reporting now
I'm not content to simply grizzle any longer - I need proper reporting.
All of which explains why I'd like to know if the version of Microsoft Money
on sale in Australia will print in colour (or even color <grin>) and if it's
reporting abilities are any good. Maybe a Quicken user out there knows how
to change the format of negative numbers in reports. As a Quicken user of
more than ten years, it'd be a wrench to change but really I've about had it
with Intuit.
Thanks, Paul
ps - in case you missed it, I'm talking about the Australian versions of all
these things