1. Getting Started

   1. Chapter 1 Setting Up Quicken

      1. Launching Quicken
      2. Setting Up Your Data File
      3. Using Express Setup
      4. Opening a Quicken File

   2. Chapter 2 Taking Quicken for a Test Drive

      1. Recording Payments and Deposits
      2. Reviewing Your Finances

   3. Chapter 3 Setting Up Accounts

      1. How Accounts and Categories Work Together
      2. Choosing Which Account Type to Use
      3. Creating Bank Accounts
      4. Editing Account Information
      5. Closing Accounts

   4. Chapter 4 Categories and Tags: Tracking Transactions

      1. Understanding Categories and Tags
      2. Adding New Categories
      3. Editing Categories
      4. Removing Categories
      5. Organizing Categories
      6. Setting Up Tags

2. Getting Down to Business

   1. Chapter 5 Recording Banking Transactions

      1. Transaction Basics
      2. Recording Checks
      3. Recording Deposits
      4. Recording Credit Card Charges
      5. Recording Cash Transactions
      6. Editing Transaction Fields
      7. Reminders, Notes, and Attachments
      8. Tagging Transactions

   2. Chapter 6 Quicken and the Web: Online Banking

      1. What Quicken Can Do Online
      2. Connecting Quicken to the Internet
      3. Setting Up an Account for Online Services
      4. Downloading Transactions
      5. Updating All Accounts: One Step Update
      6. Renaming Payees
      7. Paying Bills Online
      8. Setting Up Online Transfers

   3. Chapter 7 Transaction Timesavers

      1. Transferring Money Between Accounts
      2. Voiding Transactions
      3. Splitting Transactions
      4. Searching for Transactions
      5. The Transaction Edit Menu
      6. Scheduling Transactions
      7. Automatically Recording Paycheck Deposits
      8. Recategorizing Transactions
      9. Managing Memorized Payees

   4. Chapter 8 Reconciling: Making Sure Quicken and Your Bank Agree

      1. Prep Time: Reviewing Your Account
      2. First Steps: Telling Quicken What to Compare
      3. Reconciliation: The Actual Review
      4. Modifying Transactions During Reconciliation
      5. Stopping and Restarting a Reconciliation
      6. When Your Records Don't Agree with Your Bank's
      7. Reconciling Automatically

3. Tuning Your Financial Engine

   1. Chapter 9 Tracking Property and Debt

      1. Property and Debt: An Introduction
      2. Setting up Asset and Liability Accounts
      3. Making a Loan Payment
      4. Editing a Loan
      5. Refinancing a Loan
      6. Changing the Value of an Asset
      7. Acquiring and Disposing of Assets

   2. Chapter 10 Monitoring Spending and Saving

      1. Creating a Budget in Quicken
      2. Filling In Budget Values
      3. Making a Budget Current
      4. Saving or Restoring a Budget
      5. Choosing Budget Categories
      6. Comparing Your Performance to Your Budget
      7. Using a Savings Plan
      8. Watching Cash Flow

   3. Chapter 11 Investments and Planning

      1. Quicken Investment Tracking: Details or Overview?
      2. Choosing the Right Type of Account
      3. Creating an Investment Account
      4. Setting Up and Tracking Securities
      5. Recording Investment Transactions
      6. Downloading Investment Transactions
      7. Adjusting an Investment Account Balance
      8. Evaluating Your Portfolio
      9. A Tour of Quicken's Planning Tools

   4. Chapter 12 Creating Reports and Graphs

      1. A Guide to Quicken's Reports
      2. Running Reports
      3. Printing Reports and Graphs
      4. Customizing Reports
      5. Saving and Reusing Reports

4. Quicken Power Tools

   1. Chapter 13 Backing Up and Protecting Your Quicken Data

      1. Backing Up and Restoring Data Files
      2. Password Protection
      3. Archiving and Compacting a File
      4. Quicken File Maintenance

   2. Chapter 14 Customizing Quicken

      1. Setting Preferences
      2. Customizing What You See

   3. Chapter 15 Exporting and Importing

      1. Exporting Quicken Data
      2. Importing Data into Quicken

5. Appendixes

   1. Appendix Keyboard Shortcuts

      1. Task Shortcuts
      2. Working with Transactions
      3. Dates
      4. Moving Around in Quicken Windows

   2. Appendix Quicken Help

      1. Help for the Task at Hand
      2. Working with Quicken Help
      3. Quicken Product and Customer Support
      4. The Quicken Forums

   3. Appendix Installing Quicken

      1. Installing Quicken
      2. Upgrading Quicken
      3. Registering Quicken

1. Colophon

Sanders Kleinfeld and Adam Witwer provided quality control for Quicken 2008: The Missing Manual. Keith McNamara provided production assistance. Ron Strauss wrote the index. The cover of this book is based on a series design originally created by David Freedman and modified by Mike Kohnke, Karen Montgomery, and Fitch (www.fitch.com). Back cover design, dog illustration, and color selection by Fitch. David Futato designed the interior layout, based on a series design by Phil Simpson. This book was converted by Abby Fox to FrameMaker 5.5.6. The text font is Adobe Minion; the heading font is Adobe Formata Condensed; and the code font is LucasFont's TheSans Mono Condensed. The illustrations that appear in the book were produced by Robert Romano and Jessamyn Read using Macromedia FreeHand MX and Adobe Photoshop CS.