How To: Turn Off the QuickBooks Coach

You may not realize it, but your QuickBooks home screen may be harder to use that it should be because of the QuickBooks Coach feature being turned on.

Notice in the screen shot below how dark the home screen is - on some older monitors, it can make the screen hard to read:

To see how it looks when it is turned off, click Edit > Preferences > Desktop View and then uncheck the "Show Coach Window and Features". Once you do that, here is what your home screen would look like:

See how much cleaner the screen looks?

You can always get help and guidance similar to that the Coach feature was offering by clicking on the Help menu within QuickBooks.

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Scott Gregory is a specialist with QuickBooks Pro, Premier and Enterprise accounting software.