Before you know anything about deleting accounts, you should know that deleting them isn't recommended. Rather than delete an account that you have closed, hide it in the Account List window. When you delete an account that you have closed, you lose all its financial records. Its records do not figure into reports and graphs. You can't examine your financial history as carefully. If you disregard this advice and delete an account rather than hide it, be sure to back up your Quicken data file in case you regret losing the account records that you deleted.

Follow these steps to delete an account:

1. Choose Finance, Account List (or press Ctrl+A).

You open the Account List window.

2. Click the name of the account that needs deleting.

3. Click the Delete button.

A dialog box with "Quicken 2001 for Windows" in the title bar appears.

4. Type yes in the text box.

5. Click OK.