Gods. I wish I had your capabilities. Don't like the available software? Just write your own! *weeps* How I wish....
I've finally wrestled Excel into an acceptable routine. Not it's doing, mind you; only that I've messed with it long enough that it no longer makes me howl in frustration. Progress? Yeah, well, sorta.
QuickBooks I still curse roundly and soundly every time I open it. I had to abandon "Simple Start"--bought solely because it was the only thing my creakingly ancient Win98 machine would run--but it proved utterly worthless. So I upgraded the computer, then gritted my teeth and upgraded QB, too, to "Pro". Better the devil you know, or some such. *grumps anew*
Still the same ol' paternalistic, hand-holding, "idiot-proof" (HA!) crap it always was, I've found. Vastly over-belled & -whistled, too, of course, as all canned financial software is. And every month, as I have to post the gross receipts sales tax check, I want to just reach in and scrape the whole d*mned package off the hard drive with my bare fingernails!
The only thing I genuinely miss about my former career in the car business is the amazing software we had. Though Reynolds was getting a little too "New! and! Improved!" for my taste in some ways, the basic, every day, REALLY USEFUL AND RETRIEVABLE INFORMATION it would generate was still just astonishingly good stuff. What a pity they don't write for general businesses, only for dealerships....
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Date: 2005-11-26 04:06 am (UTC)I've finally wrestled Excel into an acceptable routine. Not it's doing, mind you; only that I've messed with it long enough that it no longer makes me howl in frustration. Progress? Yeah, well, sorta.
QuickBooks I still curse roundly and soundly every time I open it. I had to abandon "Simple Start"--bought solely because it was the only thing my creakingly ancient Win98 machine would run--but it proved utterly worthless. So I upgraded the computer, then gritted my teeth and upgraded QB, too, to "Pro". Better the devil you know, or some such. *grumps anew*
Still the same ol' paternalistic, hand-holding, "idiot-proof" (HA!) crap it always was, I've found. Vastly over-belled & -whistled, too, of course, as all canned financial software is. And every month, as I have to post the gross receipts sales tax check, I want to just reach in and scrape the whole d*mned package off the hard drive with my bare fingernails!
The only thing I genuinely miss about my former career in the car business is the amazing software we had. Though Reynolds was getting a little too "New! and! Improved!" for my taste in some ways, the basic, every day, REALLY USEFUL AND RETRIEVABLE INFORMATION it would generate was still just astonishingly good stuff. What a pity they don't write for general businesses, only for dealerships....