30 QuickBooks Tips in 30 Days: Day 2

Here’s a link in case you missed yesterday’s post about my new “30 QuickBooks Tips in 30 Days” blog challenge.  Yesterday’s quick tip was about working with date fields and today’s is another date-related tip:

Tip #2 of 30: When you open most reports, your cursor is automatically in the “Dates” field.  You can type the first letter of the pre-defined dates to make that selection.  For example, on QuickReports I usually want to see all the transactions.  So as soon as the report comes up on my screen I tap the “a” key on my keyboard to switch the date selection to “all”.  You can hit the “t” key to cycle through “today”, “this week”, “this week to date”, “this month”, etc., etc.  Use the “l” key to cycle through the “Last Week”, “Last Month” and other “Last….” dates.  The ‘n” key cycles through the “Next…” dates.

Feel free to comment and let me know if you found this tip to be useful.  Also, I would love to know some of your favorite QuickBooks tips.