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Part I: Zen, Quicken, and the Big Picture
Finishing the Setup
If Quicken can’t figure out whether you’ve used the Quicken program before,
it displays a friendly welcome message (not shown), which asks if you’re a
new Quicken user or if you’re already a Quicken user.
If you’re a new Quicken user, Quicken asks whether it’s okay to use the
default location for the data file (you should agree to this) and then automati-
cally sets up a data file for you (you don’t need to worry about it). Quicken
next prompts you to register. (You might as well do this. The registration
takes only a few minutes. All you do, in a nutshell, is provide your name and
address, a bit of information about how you use Quicken, and your e-mail
address.)
If you’ve used Quicken before, select the I Am Already A Quicken User
option. Quicken then displays another Get Started With Quicken 2010
window, shown in Figure 1-1, 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.
Figure 1-1:
Another Get
Started With
Quicken
2010
window.
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
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