14500 Names
With the exception of the high dollar enterprise version QB has a name limit, the dreaded 14,500 number.
Bring up QB and hit F2 (the function key) this screen tells you a world about your installation, but some of it is not to be trusted. As an example my screen says
Date First Used - 2/18/2006
Integrated applications last accessed - 7/27/2007 (I don’t have or use integrated applications- pretty good though huh? Accessed an application I do not have before I ever got the program installed) Well Charlie pointed out the error of my ways in his comment, when I looked at preferences>integrated applications there sits my DYMO label maker - I forgot I had added it, but the date is still screwy, I added it in 2008.
Mine also has something called an on-line billing token and a shopping source token - both of which I have no idea what they are, and when I asked QB they said they weren’t used anymore and shouldn’t be there.
But anyway, right side, toward the bottom is a window, that tells you total accounts and total names. If the number seems high to you, that is because QB counts inactive items too. As I understand it, everything in that window is a name, and counts toward the magic number.
But you can delete items that have not been used in a transaction and it lowers the number.
You can merge items and it lowers the number.
