Editorial Review
Do you remember New Years Eve 1998? Or was it 1988? You were probably raising your champagne glass and ambitiously resolving to finally get your financial house in order. Well, its high time you act on that resolution and take fiscal matters into your own hands with Quicken 98 -- the ultimate cybernetic bookkeeper.
Thanks to Quicken 98 Bible, you can learn to consolidate receipts, bank statements, and pay stubs on your desktop computer. The Quicken 98 Bible author team -- composed of a veteran computer consultant, a software developer, and a CPA -- pools its talents and provides an expert analysis of Quicken Basic 98 for Windows, Quicken Deluxe 98, Quicken Suite 98, and Quicken Home & Business 98.
Quicken 98 Bible also helps you establish small business accounts, generate tracking reports, and even plan for your financial future. Plus, you can optimize your new Quicken version by mastering Quicken extras such as the Home Inventory module, the Emergency Records Organizer, and Family Lawyer Deluxe from Parsons Technology.
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Customer Reviews
Forget the 98 in the title, this is the Bible for Quicken. 
1999-02-01
As a technical support representative for Intuit for the last two years, I supported Quicken 5 through Quicken 99. Quicken 5 was the last program to have a manual with the program. From Quicken 6 on to the current version, the manual has been incorporated in the now extensive Help Menu.
Customers were always asking me if I knew of a good reference book for Quicken. As one customer told me, "I like to take my software manuals to bed to read. Have you ever tried taking your laptop to bed to read?"
Since I left Intuit to privately consult users of Quicken and TurboTax, I have been looking for a few good reference books to recommend to my clients.
Quicken 98 Bible is a quick reference with it's comprehensive table of contents, good index, a highlighted chapter title on the left page, a highlighted subchapter title on the right page, with various tips, notes, cross-references and cautions.
I was glad to see the Caution icon in Chapter 13,Managing Files. Some new and older users of Quicken fail to understand the need to backup to another source other than the harddrive.
My only complaint is that the caution is not direct enough. I would have put a Warning icon and something as direct as " If you do not backup to another source, such as a floppy disk,you will loose all of your transactions you have entered. In other words, your year's worth of data will be gone if and when your harddrive needs to be reformated."
Other than the mild-mannered Caution icons, I would recommend this book for those who need a quick reference at their desk or for those who love a good read at bedtime.
It covers Quicken98, Quicken Delux, Quicken Suite which includes Family Lawyer, and Quicken Home and Business.
As a technical support representative for Intuit for the last two years, I supported Quicken 5 through Quicken 99. Quicken 5 was the last program to have a manual with the program. From Quicken 6 on to the current version, the manual has been incorporated in the now extensive Help Menu.
Customers were always asking me if I knew of a good reference book for Quicken. As one customer told me, "I like to take my software manuals to bed to read; have you ever tried taking your laptop to bed to read?"
Since I left Intuit to privately consult users of Quicken and TurboTax, I have been looking for a few good reference books for Quicken to recommend to my clients. Quicken 98 Bible is a quick reference with it's comprehensive table of contents, good index, with a highlighted chapter title on the left page, a highlighted subchapter title on the right page, with various tips, notes, cross-references and cautions.
I was glad to see the Caution icon in Chapter 13,Managing Files. New and older users of Quicken sometimes fail to understand the need to backup to another source other than the harddrive.
My only complaint is that the caution is not direct enough. I would have put a Warning icon and something as direct as " If you do not backup to another source, such as a floppy disk, you will loose all of your transactions you have entered. In other words, your year's worth of data will be gone if and when your harddrive needs to be reformatted."
Other than the mild-mannered cautions, I would recommend this book for those who need a quick reference at their desk or for those who love a good read at bedtime.
It covers Quicken98, Quicken Deluxe, Quicken Suite which includes Family Lawyer, and Quicken Home and Business.
Good for new Quicken users 1998-04-01
Not a bad book for new Quicken users, although it reads more like a software manual. Provides some useful tips on how to get more out of Quicken besides using it as just a glorified chequebook, but there aren't any deep secrets about Quicken to be discovered in this book. At least not for what I use it for anyway. Like most of IDG's other books, it's big, easy to read and easy to follow along. Probably worth getting if you're a new Quicken user. Veteran users probably won't get much out of it.
