@bob: "I have a small home-based business and have been using QuickBooks for years. 
Intuit now is discontinuing QuickBooks Basic. For my purposes Quicken Home 
and Business would probably work just fine. I have no employees and the 
tracking is quite simple.
I realize that going from QuickBooks to Quicken is viewed as "going 
backwards", but I guess that's what I would like to do.
Does anyone know how this might be achieved?  I suppose I could just start 
over and keep the QuickBooks for historic inquiries, but ideally I'd like to 
convert.
Perhaps there are services that can do this?
Thanks a lot for any thoughts.
Bob Harris "
    @bob: ""Mike" <email_address> wrote in message 
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I was afraid of that. Reality is a heck of a concept!
Thanks for your reply.
Bob "
    @bob: ""John Pollard" <email_address> wrote in message 
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Yes, I've wondered if third party utilities might exist, but so far I've not 
found any. I do know that the file structure appears quite different. It 
starts looking like the pain of converting (assuming it can even be done) 
may be worse than just biting the bullet and paying the extra price for 
QuickBooks.
Thanks a lot for your reply and thoughts on this issue.
Bob "
    @spamtrap100: "<quote>
One trick I've used in the past for software that doesn't have an export
capability is to print detail reports to a PDF file, then either cut & paste or
find a PDF to Excel utility. They tend to be a little easier to locate...
YMMV of course."
    @bob: ""Clark W. Griswold, Jr." <email_address> wrote in message 
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Thanks, Clarke, that's an interesting suggestion. The fact is, though, that 
the QuickBooks data has become voluminous after 13 years of business. This 
even with archiving. :)
Bob "
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