Budgets settings

Use the Budgets tab in Settings to control how your budget appears onscreen. You can change the layout, chart bar style, and highlight behavior to make your budget easier to read. You can also choose whether to display cents.

These settings affect only how your budget appears in Quicken. They don’t change your budget data, affect reports, or apply to printed views.

Open the Budgets settings

1. Choose Quicken > Settings from the menu bar.

2. Select the Budgets tab.

Layout

Use the Layout menu to choose how values appear for each budget category.

• Side-by-side: Displays budgeted and actual amounts next to each other in the same row. Use this layout to compare values quickly across time periods.

• Stacked: Displays values in a vertical stack, one above the other. This layout saves space when viewing long lists of categories.

Bar style

Use the Bar style menu to control how bars appear in your budget graph.

• None: Hides all bars and shows only numeric values.

• Graph Remaining: Shows bars that represent how much is left in each category. Use this option to focus on what’s still available to spend.

• Graph Actual: Shows bars that represent actual spending or income. Use this to see how much you’ve already spent or received.

Highlight

Use the Highlight menu to emphasize rows, columns, or headers in the budget view.

• None: No highlighting is applied.

• Headers only: Highlights section headers. Use this to separate categories visually.

• Row and header: Highlights both the active row and its section header. This helps you track data horizontally across categories.

• Row and column: Highlights the active row and column. Use this to visually scan across both time periods and budget categories.

Show cents

Select Show cents to display values to the cent. If cleared, values round to the nearest dollar. This setting affects only the onscreen display, not calculations.