QuickBooks and Office 2010: An Update

In a prior post about QuickBooks and Office 2010, I shared the fact that QuickBooks 2010 was the only version that worked with Office 2010. Seems that information has changed.

Based on some recent chatter about this subject, I went back and took a look at the QuickBooks support site on this issue and came across some disappointing news - "QuickBooks is not technically designed to work with Microsoft 2010 products." My translation - if you have any problems trying to make Office 2010 work with QuickBooks, they will not help you resolve them. You may get lucky and get them to work together, but don't expect it.

The support site goes on to indicate that QuickBooks will work with versions of Office up through 2007. It also discusses known issues for those of you trying to muddle along using Office 2010 with QuickBooks.

Not a pretty picture at this time for Office 2010 users.

I'll post updated information about this issue once Intuit formally acknowledges their support of Office 2010. Is it possible that they are waiting for the release of QuickBooks 2011 for the integration with Office 2010? Time will tell...

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Comments

[Scott Gregory, QuickBooks Expert]

Rohan:

The 2011 and 2012 versions of QuickBooks (US) have the ability to use GMail or other web-based e-mail services so you don't have to convert to PDF any longer.

Details:
http://bit.ly/QB2012ProWhatsNew

Scott Gregory

[Rohan]

Is there a way to make quickbooks send out via a Gmail or something just to make it work for now. Ive been printing as the convert to PDF was hopelessly slow as you had to find the email address and make sure you had the correct invoice etc. I wouldnt have upgraded if I knew it was this bad.

[Scott Gregory, QuickBooks Expert]

Larry:

In this case, the "work with" concept definitely applies to integrating with Outlook 2010. Apparently, QuickBooks has been having some major challenges in playing nicely with it. I'm hoping to hear from my readers about how this latest update has worked with that.

In addition, the ability to export invoices to Word 2010 has also had some trouble. QuickBooks has been able to perform that function well in prior versions of Office.

Scott Gregory

[Larry Kuhn]

What do you expect when you say you want QuickBooks to "work with" Office 2010? The only somewhat direct interaction I'm aware of is that you can export some data to xls file formats - that should still work fine as there have been no changes to file format support in Office 2010. Is there something else specifically that you are seeing as "broken"?