Chapter 1. Setting Up Your Quicken Environment

• Launching Quicken

• Setting Up Your Quicken Data File

• Opening a Quicken File

• The Quicken Guided Setup

• A Quick Guide to Quicken Preferences

After you install Quicken (see Appendix C for instructions), you have just a few more steps before you experience the joys of electronic personal finance. Quicken stores all your information and settings in a data file, which is like an electronic version of the filing cabinet that contains your financial papers. (Actually, behind the scenes, it's a small set of files, as the box on Section 1.2 explains.)