2.3. Using Menus and the Icon Bar

Although the QuickBooks Home page guides you through bookkeeping tasks, QuickBooks’ veterans may still prefer to use the menu bar (Figure 2-5) at the very top of the QuickBooks window to launch commands for different financial activities. The menu bar is handy because, unlike other navigation features, it’s always available and serves up every command QuickBooks has to offer.

Below the menu bar is the icon bar. After shortcut menus and keyboard shortcuts (see Appendix C, online at www.missingmanuals.com/cds), QuickBooks’ icon bar is the fastest way to launch your favorite commands. You can add your favorite commands, memorized reports, or windows you open often to this bar, and remove commands you don’t use. Section 25.3.2 tells you how to add all these items to the icon bar and how to change their appearance.