

Use it to find for anything on a page instantly, without wasting time scrolling around scanning for it. The browser’s Search, CTRL+F, searches all the content of the screen you’re looking at.

This trick uses a feature of your browser, not QuickBooks Online. If you don’t want to open the whole list, but just want to scroll through the items in the text box, press Ctrl + down arrow or Ctrl + up arrow. Press Tab to select the item you want and move to the next field. Press up arrow or down arrow to move through the items in the list. Indented items show that they are subaccounts. Start typing the entry you’re looking for, and your list will instantly reduce itself to matching items. You don’t have to click on every drop-down arrow and scroll through long lists to find what you want. There is no need to pull out your calculator! In every Quantity, Rate, and Amount field, you can use +, -, *, /, and () to do instant math. Last day of the Month (28 th, 30 th, 31 st)

Typing 2/1, Tab will resolve to 02/01/18.Ĭlick in any Date field and tap these letters to jump to a key date without typing: Today When entering dates, you don’t need 0s or the current year. Hold down Ctrl+Alt and press letters in the list below to open those windows. A window will open up with your Company ID as well as a master list of keyboard shortcuts. Hold down the Ctrl and Alt (or Option on a Mac) and type the ?/ key on your keyboard. Press Alt + down arrow to open a drop-down list, or the pop-up calendar icon to the right of any date field.

Press the Space Bar to check a check box field.Press the Tab key to move from box to box.Keyboard shortcuts speed up your navigation and data entry in QuickBooks Online, even though you’re working in a browser. Even though QuickBooks Online is browser-based, it has a robust set of keyboard shortcuts so that you don’t have to take your fingers off the keyboard.Įvery time you use these tips and tricks to enter dates, those seconds add up and you can get that much more work done (and if you get stuck, we have more QuickBooks training online ready and waiting).
