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Zooming in by holding down control up on the scroll wheel. We're currently at 125% on the zoom in. We're going to be selecting the cog drop down just to note that we're in the accounted view as opposed to the business view. We will try to toggle back and forth between the two so we could see where things are located in the two views. We're going to be right clicking on the tab up top to duplicate it as we do every time right clicking on the tab up top again to duplicate again to put our financial statement reports in them back to the tab to the middle reports on the left hand side. We're opening up the balance sheet report tab up to the right as that's thinking down to the tab to the left on the reports profit and loss P and L income statement. And then I'm going to go up and close the hamburger the hand boogie and then change the range from 010122 tab 123122 tab run it to refresh it and then go to the tab to the left close the hand boogie scrolling up ranging or a changing 010122 to 123122 tab run it to refresh it. That's what we do every time going back to the tab on the first tab. And now we just want to look at a couple shortcuts that could be useful. Now I think that the QuickBooks navigation system is quite well oriented. So you don't really need a lot of shortcuts to get into the standard forms. But if there are some forms that you open up a lot then you might want to have the keyboard shortcuts to get in there. And of course the shortcuts can be kind of impressive. Some people like using the shortcuts it can save time and it can be kind of impressive you know type of thing. So we can I won't be using the shortcuts most of the time when I'm doing the normal presentations. But if you want to note the shortcuts and then try to think about which ones would be most useful for you. Here's a list of shortcuts. It's in our one note item here our one note resource. So you can find it here. I have a tab that has the home page or gives you a flow chart and then the shortcuts underneath. So here's one for the control alt I for an invoice. So invoicing of course very common form that you might be using a lot. So instead of going into the invoice you can go straight there for writing a check for expense form which is kind of like a check form as we saw without the check number a received payment. So after invoicing receiving the payment the estimate the lists. Now I think if you work a lot with the lists maybe that would be like a more useful shortcut because the lists are a little bit more buried to find. Whereas the invoices and the checks and whatnot are right under that plus button which is always pretty close to find. Therefore the shortcut might not save you as much time there. So the accounts customers so these are another one's customers and the vendor centers. I think those are good places possibly to have shortcuts as well because if you're working a lot sorting your customer view then that one's a little bit more buried because you got to go into a couple tabs to get there. So the shortcut might be worthwhile to memorize those or the same with the vendor center or the search transactions and the help and then we've got transactional shortcuts to save and close save and new. I feel like those don't save a whole lot of time than just clicking on the bottom of a form typically to finalize it but maybe they could save a little time and then the save and send and then you've got the exit transaction and cancel. You can also put some calculations into a form which you might not realize until you actually test out some fields. So sometimes it's useful instead of opening up a calculator you can do the calculation within the form that you're working on. You also have some date quick shortcuts these might save you a little time they're probably you may not remember them a lot unless you're using these date ranges more often so you can type t for today y r you know for the for the year so it could save you a little bit of typing there and the zoom we've been using a lot holding down control and up on the scroll wheel of the mouse to be zooming in and out. So let's just take a look at a couple of those if I if I'm just going to pull this over here and then if we go into our quickbooks notice if I hit the drop down it seems to me that this arrow this plus arrow up top is fairly well positioned no matter where you are in other words if I was in another view like this then I don't have the plus is still you know fairly easy to find and even if I was to close the hamburger then you have the plus up here so it seems to me the shortcut doesn't save you a whole lot of time with these standard forms because the plus button is fairly easy to get to no matter what size the screen is but it might save a little bit of time and so the invoice we said was control alt I'm holding down control alt i and that will then open up the invoice automatically and so the next one is right checks form so the right checks form is control alt w control alt w will of course open up the check form automatically and if I want to exit the transaction control alt x and that will close up the transaction so let's go we've got a receive payment form so that's also up top so the receive payment form control alt r control alt r boom where did it go control alt r I think I'm not clicked on my cell here control alt r so there's the receive payment obviously you have to be highlighted in the in the quick books for the to work the estimate so let's skip the estimate let's go down to the lists control alt l control alt l is the lists that might be more useful if because it's a quick way to get into the chart of accounts which is a major list although that's not too difficult to get into because you can find it on the left hand side here under the accounting however other you know you might start thinking of things in terms of lists especially if you're used to the old desktop view and that's usually found under the cog up top so you've got all of your lists here that's the other way you can kind of get there but that one could be a useful one I'm going to go back to the dashboard for just our starting point and then we've got the accounts control alt a so I'm going to say control alt a and then we've got our chart of accounts that could be a useful tool because the chart of accounts is a little buried although there's only two tabs under here depends if you're in the business view and or in the other view but or in the accountant view so let's go back to the dashboard and then the customers and vendor center is control alt c and control alt v as you would expect so control alt c I think that's a useful one because if you go into the sales tab you won't necessarily be in the customers it's two tabs deep so that saves you a little bit of time to get into there and you should be able to get in there quickly even if you're in the business view or accountant view control alt v same for the vendors I think that could save you you know a little bit of time because if you go it's two tabs in right so it could save you a little bit of time and then the search search control alt f that could give you your recent transactions that's a useful tool because that you might have as kind of your default because if you want to see you know the recent transactions you've entered and search for those transactions that could be a useful a useful thing to be pulling up from time to time as you're working and then control alt h control alt h for the help so hold on control alt h it's not getting there control alt h I don't know what I have the help button up top so that's the easy way to get into the help button but my control alt h does not seem to be pulling it up I don't know what's going on I'm gonna move on and then you've got control alt d the save and close kind of buttons and whatnot so if I was in a form and I wanted to save and close save and new save and send and and then I can exit the transaction and cancel so notice that those buttons are down here so if you use the same one all the time like you always save and send save and new save and close it'll probably be down here in the default but maybe it'd be a little bit easier to just hit the shortcut from time to time if you want to exit the transaction control alt x could be a little bit faster possibly than just using that x arrow up top now if I'm going into a form like an invoice and you were doing a calculation here so say you were trying to figure out what the amount is for example or let's say the rate then you might just start to type it if it was 10 times 15 see not all fields allow you to do it but a lot of them will so you can kind of experiment with that but the default even for me still is to pull out a calculator but a lot of times the form will allow you to do the calculation within the form so you want to test that out you can start to say okay I got to do a little calculation here it will let me do that 40 times 5 or something like that plus 30 or whatever will it allow me to do that counting and tab will it allow me to do that kind of calculation if so might be a useful tool so those are just a couple shortcuts that might be worthwhile I'm going to close want to leave without saving yes obviously the control holding down control and zooming in and out is the other another you know shortcut we're going to use all the time and so that's clearly one that we've been putting in place and that you want to have in mind so let's just check that out with the other view cog drop down the business view now if I'm in the business view the most of the stuff that is still in the plus tab up top is still right there easy to get to invoice write checks expense for receive payment but the lists and the lists are still up here so they haven't really changed for the all lists uh your your accounts where to find the accounts could change a little bit so if you were trying you can go into like the bookkeeping and then you've got your chart of accounts is in here that's a a little bit different location and so again you could under either view use that that control alt a to go to your chart of accounts that I think is a useful one because this one under under either view is a little bit more buried same with the customer center which is control alt C so you'll note that that takes me here under the get paid and pay area it's a little buried especially under the business view because there's more tabs in here so that might be useful to memorize control alt V is is the vendors down here so that's under the get paid and pay area and the vendors that's a little bit buried under this a layout as well therefore easier to find and control alt F I think is good under either view to find these kind of recent type of transactions