Chapter 19

Ten Tricks to Speed Your Work

In This Chapter

arrow Speeding up your data entry with bank feeds and bank rules

arrow Memorising shortcut keys

arrow Doing without your mouse

arrow Mastering tricky searches

arrow Getting smart with lists

In this chapter, I talk about a few tricks to make your bookwork as speedy and efficient as possible. None of these tricks is essential to doing your bookwork — your accounts will still balance and your accountant will still be quite happy even if you ignore every single one.

But if you like to live life to the full and spend as little time in front of a computer screen as possible, this chapter is for you.

Get Bank Feeds Up and Running

Bank feeds are such a huge innovation and timesaver that I devote all of Chapter 5 to explaining how to set up bank feeds and work with ’em. In short, if you haven’t already signed up for bank feeds, do so now.

Wait a moment, I hear you cry! What about the fees? (You can’t get bank feeds unless you shell out for the monthly subscription ...

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