- When entering out-of-date transactions. Quicken will notify you if you try to record a transaction with a date from a year other than the current year, giving you the option to keep the year as entered or change it.
- Before changing existing transactions. Warns you when you try to modify a transaction, giving you the option to go ahead and change the transaction or back out of transactions you do not want to change.
- When entering uncategorized transactions. Quicken will warn you when you do not assign a category to a transaction. You can still enter the transaction without a category, or you can choose a category.
- To run a reconcile report after reconcile. Use this setting to have Quicken automatically ask if you want a reconciliation report after account is reconciled.
- Warn if check number is reused: Quicken will warn you if you try to enter a duplicate check number.
Click on OK to save changes and close Quicken Preferences, or click on one of the other preference selections before saving changes.


