6.1. The Vendor List

There's no way around it: You're going to work with vendors and pay them for their services and products. The telephone company, your accountant, and the subcontractor who installs Venetian plaster in your spec houses are all vendors. You can create vendors in QuickBooks one at a time, whenever you get the first bill from a new vendor. But if you already know who most of your vendors are, it's easier to create those entries all at once so that you can write checks or enter bills without interruptions.

The Add/Edit Multiple List Entries feature, new in QuickBooks 2010, lets you paste data from Microsoft Excel or copy values from vendor to vendor. It works the same way for customer, vendor, and item lists, and you can read how to use it on Section 4.3.3.1.