Thanks for the clarification about the deposits auto-clearing the check number field.  That will help me some of the time.

For my style of typing, I'd still much prefer not to have to clear the field when entering all other transactions.  I've been doing this in QuickBooks 20 years now and that habit has never formed, it keeps tripping me up.  I'll go in weeks later to reconcile a statement and find a bunch of check numbers I didn't know I had accidentally entered.

I know Intuit has adopted a stance of forcing people to buy the new version every year (or lose access to your very own data in a program that was previously working fine), but I'd prefer to see them adopt the stance of implementing popular customer requests and giving people a natural reason to WANT to pay to upgrade.