I agree with glasses, the kind of people who get into bookkeeping are the ones who WANT to organize and have order. I also inherited a client's messy books that have duplicate or erroneous vendors. I have merged and made inactive, AND I've unchecked the include inactive. This only removes them from the Vendor list on the main Vendor page, but when you are actually updating vendors all the inactive ones show up and I'm still scrolling unnecessarily. We should have the ability to delete vendors or QuickBooks should have better options for hiding the inactive vendors we don't NEED to see.