Thanks for the reply and further insight.  While insightful and does answer my question, I do have to say this is highly disapointing.  I use QB to run a very simple HOA.  Send out invoives, pay a few bills.  NO inventory, no payroll....just pretty simple.  I just up-graded from 2011 desktop (yes, 2011) to QB on-line; and even my very, very old 2011 desktop version had BATCH INVOICING.  To up-grade to Advanced is crazy and costly just to get a basic feature as batching.  This seems to be a feature that should be in the essentials package. 

New question:

Since I am now stuck doing 158 invoices every year manually, is there a fast was to duplicate them/ repeat the information for each one or am I required to enter in every pice of information 158 times?