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Saturday, July 4, 2009

QuickBooks Question

Ronald, Hi, Mike

We are new students from Burlington, Iowa. We met you in Boston. We drove out east, so we just got home and looked at your system. Sally and I both have laptops, and we have a PC. Can we load it to all three? One has QB Simple Start 2009. Is that good enough?
Thanks
Ron & Sally

by the way, i am coming to Iowa in October, i think...


your question...

very sensitive question.....

1.) Sally and I both have laptops....
Answer: awesome and great.




2.) and we have a PC....
i assume this is a desktop PC parked at home or in an office?



3.) Can we load it to all three?

I don't mean to sound like Bill Clinton, but it depends on what "It" is... I will give you two answers.

Answer 1: you can loan QB Pro onto all 3 computers... (both laptops and your desktop)

Answer 2.: because and you Sally will both be accessing your Investor Books company file and your Tenant Tracking files with new data, entries and more... I recommend to install (restore) your Investor Books file and your Tenant Tracking file onto your desktop pc and treat it as home base, the master file, the original...

How to make it work?.... remember, with internet access, you and sally can access these files from anywhere and at anytime..

Try this on for size... let's pretend for a minute both you and sally were writing a book together.... and the name of the book is "See Sally and Me Work Together" ...... this is a 356 page book you both have spent a lot of time, energy and effort putting together.... once again, you both have a laptop, and you have a pc at home....

both of you want to edit, review and make changes to your book.... therefore, you put a copy of the microsoft word file on your laptop and you put a copy of the microsoft word document on Sally's laptop.....

Now you both, independant of one another, begin to make changes, edit, and add more content to your book.... you have edited things in multiple chapters, even added another chapter and Sally has done the same thing in her copy on her laptop......

NOW..... HOW DO YOU MERGE SALLY's COPY with YOUR COPY??????

See the challenge... the answer is to keep the original on the pc, and then you each can go in and make changes, edit, and add more stuff.... all on the original file and all is kept in order...




NOTE: i do recommend, if you want to keep a copy on your laptops for REFERENCE ONLY, but never to make changes or update...




One has QB Simple Start 2009. Is that good enough?
ANSWER: Nope, you must have QuickBooks Pro, and I recommend just go online to Intuit, download it right now for $99 and REQUEST a CD to be shipped to you as well... you can get the software right now along with them shipping you a cd of the software in a day or two or three...

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