How to change the look of Quickbooks Desktop

In this tutorial, we will see how we can change the look and color scheme of identical QuickBooks files.

Well by default, this is how the look and color scheme looks like and to change it, go to view menu and select “Hide Icon Bar”, it will hide the icon bar and start showing the remaining sections on the right side but what I want is to show the icon bar at the top. So, go the view menu again and select “top icon bar” it will show the icon bar at the top.

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Now, to change the color scheme, select “preferences” option under the edit menu, here you need to go the “My Preferences” tab under the “Desktop View” and check this “checkbox” here you can see that the colors of icons have changed, moreover, what you can do here is to click on this default option to select the color scheme of your choice.

Now you can see that the look of the file has changed but if we open more than one windows. it just make it little hard to know, whether what window is open and how we can get to it, so, to know that, select the “Open windows list” option under the view menu, here you can see that it has opened a new bar on the left side where you can see the list of open windows  and can select the one you want.

Well, if you hover your mouse on any icon, it will show you the description added to that icon and if you want to change it, select the “customize icon bar” under the view menu. It will open a small pop up window where you can add, edit and delete icons.

To edit, just select an icon name in the list and click on edit, here you can change the label, description, and even the icon image and here you can see that the label and description has changed.

Moreover, if you want you can rearrange the icons according to your need, all you need is to just drag the icon and drop it where you want to and it will change the position of that icon in the icon bar accordingly.

Well we can add more icons by clicking on the “add” button. Here we first need to choose what we want to add in the icon bar. Lets I select Calculator then change the label, description, and select an image and then click on ok. It will add the calculator icon in the icon bar and you can open the calculator by clicking on it and if you want to delete an icon from the icon bar, just select the icon in the list and click on “Delete” button.

Well, if you don’t want to see the label of the icons in the icon bar…just select “show icons only” option here and you can also hide the search box by unchecking this option and then click on ok.

Well, you can collapse these sections if you want to. Anyhow, here you can see that the look of the file has totally changed then it was before and you sure can distinguish the two identical company files quite conveniently.