Quicken® 98 Bible [Paperback]

Kathy Ivens (Author), Thomas E. Barich (Author), Stephen I. Busch (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1998 | ISBN-10: 0764532111 | ISBN-13: 978-0764532115 | Edition: 1

Quicken "RM" 98 Bible is an exhaustive and comprehensive guide readers will reference repeatedly, wether they want to take their first steps into multimedia development or they plan to program directly in Lingo.
-- Learn to organize and manage finances with a few clicks of the mouse.
-- Quicken "RM" is a best-selling software program and the number-one choice for tracking home and small business finances.
-- Create short-term budgets and long-range plans for college expenses, home buying, and retirement.
-- Discover how to set up a checking account, complete online transactions, use Quicken's "RM" electronic credit card, and much more.
-- Track investments and plan for future cash needs.
-- Get up to speed quickly on the latest features in Quicken "RM" 98, including the new online capabilities.
-- Start working right away with a Quick Tour that shows how to set up a bank account.

Learn how to expedite your financial chores and have fun watching your investments grow with Quicken "RM" 98 Bible. Explore the world's leading personal finance software through step-by-step instructions and real-world examples. From paying your bills to tracking your expenses to setting up long-term budgets, Quicken "RM" 98 Bible shows you the ropes. Readers benefit from expanded coverage of Quicken "RM" 98's new user-driven capabilities, especially new online features.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Kathy Ivens has been a computer consultant since 1984, and has authored and coauthored many books on computer subjects. She is a columnist for Windows NT Magazine, and has a syndicated column for home users in newspapers around the country. Before becoming an expert in computing, she spent many years as a television producer, where she had fun producing sports, and was mildly amused producing news and entertainment programs.; Thomas E. Barich used to be an editor of computer books, but saw the light and joined the world of authors. He's having much more fun now that he doesn't have to deal with authors himself (except for his coauthor). Tom has been using computers and bookkeeping software for a long time. He's written a number of books on a variety of computer subjects.

Product Details

• Paperback: 614 pages
• Publisher: Wiley Publishing; 1 edition (October 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764532111
• ISBN-13: 978-0764532115
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.4 x 1.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,363,083 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Kathy Ivens is the author of more than 50 computer books. She is a senior contributing editor forWindows IT Pro Magazine.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Forget the 98 in the title, this is the Bible for Quicken., February 1, 1999

By 

Robin Wright-Gordon([e-mail]) (Tucson, Arizona, U.S.A.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Quicken® 98 Bible (Paperback)

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.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good for new Quicken users, March 31, 1998

By 

Eugene Mah "physics geek" (Charleston, SC USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Quicken® 98 Bible (Paperback)

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.