Wiley Quicken 2008 For Dummies 978-0-470-17473-9 Manuel D’Utilisation

In This Chapter

Installing Quicken

Touring Quicken

Setting up your bank (or other) accounts if you’re a first-time user

Retrieving existing Quicken data files

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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 from menus and how to enter stuff into windows and dialog
boxes. If you don’t know how to do these kinds of things, flip to Appendix A.
It provides 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
2008 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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