Go to the File menu near the top left corner of your screen, down to the Import submenu, and click the QIF or QMTFвЂ¦ menu item.If you need to create a new Account, leave the Starting Balance field set to 0.00.

Click the Create a New Accounts Document button and save your new document in your Documents folder. If you havenвЂ™t created a document yet, you should see a small window with three choices.To import a QIF or QMTF file into CheckBook Perform your first reconciliation and youвЂ™re off and running! Your Quicken Essentials accounts will appear in a brand new CheckBook document, ready for you to get to work. Name the document in the Save As field at the top of the panel, choose a location to save the document (we recommend your Documents folder), and click the Create button at the bottom right corner of the panel.Drag the highlighted document from step 2 to the open panel in CheckBook, or navigate within the panel to the document and highlight it, then click the Open button at the bottom right corner of the panel.Go to the File menu, near the top left corner of the screen, down to New, and click the Document from Quicken Essentials for MacвЂ¦ menu item.Your document should be highlighted in the Finder.

Click the second item in the menu, then release the Command key.

At the top of the window, where you can see the name of the document, hold the Command (вЊ) key on your keyboard while you click the name of the document.

Open Quicken Essentials so you can see your data.

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