QuickBooks® 2012 R6 Patch: What You Really Need to Know!
The R6 maintenance release is important for QuickBooks® 2012 users who will be processing 1099s.
Although it is not critical for the new 1099 Setup Wizard to work in QB 2012, R6 improves the following:
- Accounts will be in the same order as the Chart of Accounts.
- A tooltip was added that will display the full parent and sub account path when your mouse cursor hovers over the account name.
- The Account Number is appended before the Account Name when the preference, Show Account number is enabled.
- There is improved handling of parent and subaccounts with 1099 account mapping.
- The following reports are now available under the Vendors > Print/E-file 1099s menu: Vendor Review Summary Report, 1099 Summary Report and 1099 Detail Report.
We do encourage anyone processing 1099s in QB 2012 through the new 1099 Wizard to download and install this manual update. R6 WILL NOT be an automatic update inside QuickBooks. You have to download and install the update patch from Intuit's support site.
Instructions:
1. Browse to www.quickbooks.com/support
2. Choose QB 2012 as your product; I always choose QB Accountant 2012
3. Click on Updates and Downloads
4. Click on Manual Updates
5. Click on the qbwebpatch.exe and save it to your desktop
6. Close QuickBooks
7. Run the patch you saved to your desktop
8. You will need to restart your computer when it is done
7. Relaunch QB 2012
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