Here are the steps to linking loans to assets: 1. In the Account Bar, choose the liability account for the loan that you want to link to an asset. In the liability account's register, click the Overview tab. This tab shows basic account attributes, as well as the current status of its bal- ance and equity, as illustrated in the bottom figure in Figure 5-10. 2. Below the Account Attributes section, click Edit Account Details. The Account Details dialog box opens. Here you can add account details or edit its information, like the asset account to which it's linked. 3. In the Linked Asset Account drop-down menu, choose the asset account. Quicken lists all the asset accounts in your Quicken data file, as in Figure 5-10. 4. Click OK. You're done. You should see the "You successfully created the asset-loan link" in the Account Details dialog box. Check the Linked Asset Account text box to make sure it shows the asset you intended. (If not, go back to step 2 and correct it.) Making a Loan Payment If you dutifully performed each step on pages 190­198 when you set up your loan, you should already have a scheduled payment for your loan. With a scheduled pay- ment in place, you can clean house, play cards, or carve voodoo dolls until Quicken reminds you it's time to make a loan payment. Then, you pay your loan just as you would any other scheduled transaction. But every once in a while, you may decide to make an extra payment or pay your mortgage a little early. This section describes how to make loan payments, whether you're making a regularly scheduled pay- ment, paying on a different date than usual, or making an extra payment. Quicken creates payment transactions that include splits to allocate the payment to the correct amounts of principal, interest, and other payments. Listed next are the program's ground rules. CHAPTER 5: PROPERTY AND DEBT 205