Your Quicken data file holds all your account information, just as a file folder holds your paper banking or brokerage statements. In most cases, you'll only need one data file. When you enter information for all your accounts in this one file, the accounts can share the same categories, tags, and memorized payees. When you create a report, you can choose to show data from a single account or from all accounts in the file. You can also transfer amounts between accounts in the same file.
What can I do?
- How do I create a new Quicken data file?
- How do I open an existing Quicken data file?
- What if I can't find my Quicken data file?
- How do I save a Quicken data file?
- How do I copy a Quicken data file?
- How do I back up my Quicken data file?
- How do I change the options for backing up my Quicken data file?
- How do I restore a Quicken data file from a backup file?
- Troubleshoot a damaged Quicken data file
- How do I move Quicken data files between computers?
- How do I import data into Quicken?
- Export data from Quicken
- How do I convert data from an earlier version of Quicken?
- How do I convert data from Microsoft Money files?
- How do I add, change, or remove a Quicken data file password?
- How do I archive Quicken information at year's end?