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Some things have improved with Quicken 2011, some things seem not to work as well as previous versions and things quicken can't couldn't do in the past it still can't do. Negatives (after a couple of days): 1) If you trade options or anything but the most mundane investment products, forget about tracking them in Quicken. Prior versions couldn't do it and 2011 can't either. I dont' even bother to download invesmtent transactions anymore. It's easier to track them in excel. At least I can download option quotes in excel. Forget it in quicken. 2) Downloading credit card / bank transactions has become more cumbersome with each new version of quicken. It's almost to the point where it just isn't worth it anymore. A major issue for me is an almost complete inability of quicken to correctly match downloaded transactions. Even though I have no transactions that need to be matched, quicken just arbitrarily (seems that way anyway) picks old transactions to match newly downloaded transactions to. You can't turn off automatic transaction matching (this would be a big improvement in my opinion). You have to manually unmatch each downloaded transaction before you can accept it. Years ago this was one of the best features of quicken. Now it's one of the most frustrating. You can't download transaction from some banks until after their monthly closing date. What use it that? If I only want to see transactions once a month I can just look at the monthly statement! 3) Copying old transactions from previous versions of quicken to the new version is a lot more cumbersome than it needs to be. You can do it if you know the secret codes to add to the exported data files for the account types quicken doesn't want you to be able to import, but why should that be necessary? 4) "Renaming rules" seem to use the same corrupt logic as the download matching. I can't imagine why anyone would want to abuse themselves by using this "capability". At least you can turn this worthless feature off. Wish I could turn off transaction matching as well. Positives: 1) The annoying quicken starup chime doesn't seem to be as obnoxiously loud as the previous version. 2) 2011 seems snappier and more responsive than the previous version. 3) Wish there were more, but that's all I've got. Ed