Datasheet

Finishing Setup If You Haven’t
Used Quicken Before
If Quicken can’t figure out whether you’ve used the Quicken program before,
it displays the welcome message shown in Figure 1-1.
If you have used Quicken before, select the I Am Already A Quicken User
option. Quicken then displays another Get Started With Quicken 2008
window that asks whether you want to open a Quicken file located on this
computer, restore a Quicken data file you’ve backed up to CD or disk, or start
over and create a new data file, as shown in Figure 1-2.
If you indicate that you want to open another Quicken data file located on the
computer, Quicken displays a dialog box that asks where that file is. If you
indicate that you want to grab a backup copy of the Quicken file, Quicken dis-
plays a dialog box that asks where that file is. Presumably, if either of these
situations is your case, you’ll know where the data file or backup copy of the
data file is.
At the very end of this chapter in the section, “The mysterious case of the
missing Quicken data files,” I describe how you can locate and open a
Quicken data file.
Figure 1-1:
The Get
Started
With
Quicken
2008
window.
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