Wiley Quicken 2010 For Dummies 978-0-470-49002-0 Benutzerhandbuch

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Chapter 1
Setting Up Shop
In This Chapter
▶ 
Installing and setting up Quicken
▶ 
Setting up your bank (or other) accounts if you’re a first-time user
▶ 
Providing a Quicken overview
▶ 
Solving setup problems
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f you’ve never used Quicken, begin here. This chapter tells you how to 
install Quicken (if you haven’t already) and how to start the program 
for the first time. You also find out how you go about setting up Quicken 
accounts to track banking activities — specifically, the money that goes into 
and out of a checking or savings account.
If you’ve already begun to use Quicken, don’t waste any time reading this 
chapter unless you want the review. You already know the stuff it covers.
By the way, if you have Windows, I assume that you know a little bit about 
it. No, you don’t have to be some sort of expert. Shoot, you don’t even have 
to be all that proficient. You do need to know how to start Windows applica-
tions (such as Quicken). It also helps immensely if you know how to choose 
commands on menus and how to enter stuff in windows and dialog boxes. 
If you don’t know how to do these kinds of things, flip to Appendix A. It pro-
vides a quick-and-dirty overview of how you work in Windows. Read the stuff 
in the appendix, or at least skim it, and then come back to this chapter.
 
When I say Windows, I mean a recent version of Windows — something 
Microsoft is either currently selling or has sold in the last few years. Quicken 
2010 won’t run on Windows 3.1 or Windows 95, so if you want to run the latest 
version, I’m afraid it’s time to upgrade. By the way, for the computer I used to 
write this book, I used Windows Vista.
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