In a nutshell, Quicken arranges all of its features — whistles, bells, or whatever else you want to call them — into financial activity centers. For example, the Cash Flow Center and the Investing Center and the Property & Debt Center are all financial activity centers. You get the picture. Each of these centers gets its own button.

Quicken lists the features within a financial activity center underneath the financial activity center button. You can collapse and expand this list by clicking the small button that's just to the left of the big financial activity center button. (The small button shows a picture of an arrowhead.) You can also jump to a listed feature by clicking the feature — which Quicken calls a QuickTab.

If you're confused, just click the buttons and bits of text in the area of the Quicken window. You'll see how things work very clearly.