QuickBooks 2005: The Missing Manual

Running Reports

QuickBooks tries to atone for any difficulties you might have finding the right reports by scattering commands to run reports in windows, menus, and navigators throughout the program. Stick with the Report Navigator (page 458) if you want to learn about and choose from every built-in report that QuickBooks offers. When you're more familiar with what QuickBooks reports do, Figure 19-8 shows other ways to run reports:

Figure 19-8. Top: The Reports menu includes not only the built-in QuickBooks reports; it also launches the Report Navigator and contains the Process Multiple Reports command, described on page 474. Middle: At the bottom of every list window is a Reports button, which displays reports related to the list you're viewing. Bottom: Navigator windows also list links for reports that relate to an area of QuickBooks. For example, choose Customers→Customer Navigator to open the Customer Navigator window. On the right side, in the Memorized Reports area, click links to produce customer-oriented reports. Click the Memorized Report List link to open a window that lists every report you've memorized.

Some reports take a long time to generate, because they pull data from every corner of the company file. And running your company file in multi-user mode exacerbates the problem. If you're hunkering down to a report-running session of epic proportions, here're some tips for ...