Brief Hands-On Report--Intuit Updated Quicken 2005 and 2006 to R3

Intuit posted fresh updates for the 2005 and 2006 versions of Quicken for the Macintosh. This is the second update for Quicken 2006 in just under a month after its initial release. We're please to see that Intuit is quickly fixing problems. Here are the links:

1. Quicken 2005 R3

- Here are the feature notes:

Online banking

• Issues that could inhibit the ability to record new transactions or edit transactions via the Download Transactions window have been resolved.
  
• An issue in which prior statements could be lost after editing an account has been resolved.
  
• An issue in which online transfers could become duplicated when sending online transfers through multiple financial institutions has been resolved.
  
• An issue that could prevent enabling an account for Direct Connect online access if it had previously been enabled using Web Connect has been resolved.
  
• Support is now provided for additional secure connections when performing Direct Connect online banking with your financial institution.
  
• The download time of financial institution list updates has been reduced.
  

Home Inventory

• Onscreen Help files for Home Inventory have been updated.
  

General

• An issue in which an Internal Error 760 or 761 could occur when performing various tasks in Quicken (creating reports, downloading transactions, etc.) has been resolved.
  
• Stability improvements have been made to prevent Quicken from quitting unexpectedly when launching.
  

2. Quicken 2006 R3

- Here are the feature notes:

Online bill payment

• Fixed an issue that could impact users of the Quicken Bill Pay service.

We use Quicken 2005 so we downloaded the R3 update and installed it. We opened and manipulated several accounts, adding entries and getting reports, with no apparent problem. [Bill Fox]