Non-obvious tech tip of the day

Downloading quotes for a preferred stock into Quicken:

“Edit the symbol name in Quicken by removing the space, the P, and the R, and replacing them with a hyphen (-). “

Oh yeah, I would have eventually figured that out on my own. The P and the R! Of course! And here I was thinking I could just type in the ticker symbol as-is, off Quicken’s own friggin’ web site! What was I thinking?

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