Quicken 2002 Deluxe
February 12, 2010 | Posted by admin 
Amazon.com Product Description
Quicken 2002 Deluxe saves you more time and steps by improving the features people use most. Now you can download your participating brokerage transactions from the Web so your investment account data is more accurate and current. Update all your online accounts in one step. Compare the tax impact of selling different stocks and mutual funds before you sell. Automatically reconcile your accounts when your online balances match your Quicken balances. And, most importantly, Quicken 2002 Deluxe is built for Mac OS X, so you can take advantage of Apple’s latest operating system. It also works with Mac OS 9.0.4 or later.
Set up accounts with step-by-step ease. Quicken provides an assistant to guide you through a complete setup of your accounts. Enter your financial information in one sitting so you can put Quicken to work sooner. Download your account information, such as credit card, banking, or brokerage transactions, from more than 1,000 financial institutions. Pay bills, transfer money, and get stock and mutual fund quotes, all in one step. After you download and accept your online banking transactions, if your register balance matches your bank’s online balance Quicken will automatically reconcile your account. Never miss a bill, as Quicken will proactively find past repeated bills you’ve entered and alert you when these bills, such as a monthly mortgage or credit card payment, are due. Simplify the process of finding a particular transaction with global find and replace options that search all Quicken accounts at one time.
Save time by downloading your brokerage transactions from the Web so your investment account data is more accurate and up to date. This option works with TD Waterhouse, Fidelity, and more. Quicken now helps you set up the correct tax categories to more accurately track your taxable items, making tax time easier. Compare the tax impact of selling different stocks and mutual funds before deciding which ones to sell. Optimize your capital gains and losses to help you keep more money. Get a more accurate picture of your net worth. Even if you don’t know the original purchase prices, you can still start tracking the value of your stocks and mutual funds with just the balances from your latest statement.
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5 Comments »
I had a very bad experience trying to get Quicken to import my downloaded bank data. After several failed attempts to use the Internet setup assistant in the program, I finally switched over to trying to manually configure my browser (IE 5.1 for OS X) to recognize Quicken as the proper application for the .qfx file once it’s downloaded. It’s necessary to go to Quicken help to find out how to do this, and even then, you have to watch Explorer closely during download to get the proper MIME type.
After spending several hours trying to do this, the download finally triggered a launch of Quicken, and I was asked for a password. I tried all sorts of PIN numbers, account numbers, clearing out the PIN Vault, etc. No go. There’s no hint on the Quicken or the Fleet site what to do about this, and I’ve logged way too much time on what should have been a simple import.
Rating: 2 / 5
Do not pay for this. This came preinstalled on my eMac. What a waste! It often quits unexpectedly! I was using Quicken Deluxe 99 on Windows 95 and I never had so many problems as I do with this version. The layout is unintuitive, and nearly unusable. It spawns a new window for every account. There is just so much that I can’t do in this version that I could on the Windows version. Customization is one. Another is that the reports are limited to 64 columns, I had hundreds of columns QD99 under Win95. I could understand if the current Windows version had extra features but this is 4 years later! How Intuit could release such rubbish baffles me.
Rating: 1 / 5
This version has lost a lot of it’s visual pollish. We can only hope an update will fix some of the features that have been LOST since earlier versions. In ‘98 I could change the fonts used for registers! No more. My eyes hurt to look at it. But alas, I have 10 years of my life in there, I couldn’t jump ship now.
Rating: 2 / 5
After a month or so of use, I’ve found many conspicuous and a few not-so-conspicuous bugs in this version of Quicken which make it decidedly flawed relative to previous versions.
First off, the installer doesn’t work on UFS partitions, although you can install the software by just dragging the Quicken folder from the install CD onto your hard drive.
Next problem is that Cmd-Q doesn’t quit the application! It’s hard to fathom, but true.
Help won’t open (maybe related to UFS and locating the help files). One of my transactions mysteriously un-reconciled and the re-reconcile function doesn’t work. Trying to add a new subcategory crashes the application. You can’t automatically pay credit card bills after reconciling. Etc.
Oh, and it _still_ can’t handle stock options in a reasonable way.
Rating: 2 / 5
This product really has not improved much over from Quicken 2001 Deluxe. The icons have not become Aqua-nized in the program, and the features are still rather primitive (for full use of OS X or for that matter, OS 9.2.x). Furthermore, they have destroyed Billminder — a small program, but it was entirely cool to use, rather than using the main application. A Mac user would be much better off with Quicken 2001 than anything else.
Rating: 3 / 5