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QuickBooks 2005: The Missing Manual
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QuickBooks 2005: The Missing Manual

by Bonnie Biafore
February 2005
Beginner to intermediate
608 pages
22h 4m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Modifying Items

You can change information about an item even if you've already used the item in transactions. The changes you make don't affect existing transactions. When you create new transactions using the item, QuickBooks uses the current information to fill in fields.

Note

If your company owns multiple copies of QuickBooks Pro, Premier, or Enterprise, no one else can access the QuickBooks file while you're editing items. To switch QuickBooks to single-user mode so you can edit items, ask others to exit QuickBooks. When everyone has logged off, choose FileSwitch to Single-User Mode. After you finish editing your items, choose FileSwitch to Multi-User Mode and notify your colleagues that they can log into QuickBooks again.

To modify an item, open the Item List window by choosing ListsItem List, and then double-click the item that you want to edit. QuickBooks opens the Edit Item window. Make the changes you want and click OK when you're done.

Be particularly attentive if you decide to change the Type field. You can change only Non-inventory Part or Other Charge items to other item types. You can change them to Service, Non-inventory Part, Other Charge, Inventory Part, or Inventory Assembly item types (this last type is available only in QuickBooks Premier and Enterprise). If you conclude from this that you can't change a Non-inventory Part item back once you change it to an Inventory part, you're absolutely correct. To prevent type change disasters, back up your QuickBooks file ...

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