I recently wrote about some “oldie but goodie” features in QuickBooks Desktop. The article, "QuickBooks Desktop Weekly: Color Schemes in QuickBooks Desktop," focused on customizing the user interface by changing the color schemes.
The “tips” in that article are just the “tip” of the customizability iceberg.
Over the years, I have made use of many UI customization features in QuickBooks Desktop. This QuickBooks Desktop Weekly article focuses on the icon bar.
Left / Top / Hide Icon Bar
By selecting View in the menu bar, you can decide whether you want to use the Left icon bar, the Top icon bar (which most of us old-timers prefer) or (if you need the screen real estate and are comfortable with using the menu bar only) hide the icon bar altogether...