I have been a Quicken user for more than 20 years now. Problem is, the only usable version of Quicken is the Windows version.

I currently use a Mac and have an entirely separate Windows computer only for Quicken. This past weekend, I bit the bullet and bought the Quicken for Mac version. Pros: it's come a looooong way. Also, it is lightning fast. It makes the Windows version feel so clunky. The graphs and forecasting take only seconds (if even) to generate.

Also, I now have my finances on my main computer and this makes me SO happy. Cons: it's still missing some really core features. A couple of the biggest ones causing me problems right now are the following: • There no way to exclude transfers in reports which makes them completely unusable for me. • The downloaded transactions don't pop up for 'approval'. How is this possible!? I do not want them being automatically folded in my register. At least that's what I'm seeing.

Year over year, I’ve noticed much less visitor traffic going to our Quicken reviews and an increase of visitors to our review of Personal Capital. I’m sure that in some small part this is related to some of the negative issues expressed about the product.

• There's no scheduled transactions window?? I don't understand this. Maybe I'm missing something.

At least, I haven't found it yet. • How a user actually enter transactions is clunky. The split window is difficult to navigate.

Considering finances is a data-entry-heavy activity, this is a terrible design. I'm wondering if anyone else has switched? After buying Quicken Mac 2016 a couple years ago and promptly returning it, I recently took the plunge on Quicken Mac 2018.

Although I'm not crazy about the subscription, one positive is that it allows you to run both the Windows and Mac versions. This isn't necessarily ideal, but I'm using them both side-by-side until I can trust the Mac version fully. My file has about 12 years of data in it. I did have an issue with the import and ended up upgrading my Windows version to 2018, exporting my file manually, then importing it into Mac 2018 successfully. Overall, I agree with.

QM has come a long way but it still falls short in some areas. I too was missing the downloaded transaction approval of QW. But I changed my workflow a bit and now like the way it works in QM better. Alt +f1 for mac for excel. By default, downloaded transactions are marked 'Not Reviewed' and have a blue dot to the left of their entry.

So after an update, I can quickly see what was downloaded and modify the category if necessary. I then hit the reconcile button to reconcile the account to the online balance. After reviewing the information, hitting 'Next' and then 'Done', the account is reconciled, the transactions are marked 'Reviewed' and the blue dot is removed.

• Optionally, you can replace the original column with the one where the line breaks were removed: • Select all cells in column C and press Ctrl + C to copy the data to clipboard. • Now pick the cell B2 and press the Shift + F10 shortcut. Then just press V. Excel replace text in column. =TRIM(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(B2,CHAR(13),''),CHAR(10),', ') • If you want to remove all nonprintable characters from text, including line breaks: =CLEAN(B2) •. In this case lines will not join and extra spaces will not appear.