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It would be great to have your desired function to stop highlighting the vendor's name when opening existing vendor transactions, loilars. It works as designed, with no option to switch off directly.

That said, please know that your suggestions are highly valued, and I'm here to help you send this to our engineers. Once you enter your feedback, our development team will receive it once submitted.

Here's how to send your feature recommendation:

1. Open your QuickBooks company file. Then go to the Help menu.
2. Select Send Feedback Online, then Product Suggestion.
3. Choose the Product Area of your suggestion.
4. Enter your feature suggestion in the designated field and complete the form accordingly.
5. Once done, hit Send Feedback.

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RE: Is it possible to stop this from happening?

No. It's a feature.

@loilars  Sure, there's a shortcut for that.

Before you open the Enter Bills or Write Checks window through their respective menus, press the Escape key.

I thank you for the answer. However, I don't want to close the Vendor Center. I generally leave it open as I reference it quite frequently. 

A previous person mentioned it's a feature and nothing I can do about it. No big deal. 

@loilars  Fair enough, haha.

Well, jokes aside, there's still a way to incorporate the feature into your workflow such that it doesn't present a problem so long as the vendor you're working with already exists.

When you have the Vendor Center open (Or any Center, really), there's actually a kind of hidden search system always active, so long as you have a Name highlighted as opposed to one of the associated transactions for said Name. This system is entirely separate from the Search box.

That is, if you have Vendor A highlighted and type Home Depot, or any portion thereof, it will move you in the list to said vendor name, or at least the one that matches what you have typed so far. It requires a reasonable typing speed to work correctly.

In this way, if you wanted to enter a check to Home Depot, you could type 'home d' to move to their name in the Vendor Center, then press CTRL+W to start the check with their name autofilled.

You'd basically just be reversing the order of your actions; typing the vendor name before you open the Write Checks window rather than directly afterwards.

Admittedly, this would require you to either press ALT+K to start the check from the Bank Account field and Tab through the No. and Date fields as normal to edit them or Shift+Tab to move backwards, but that's probably the best approach. Easier than scrolling through the Vendor Center or always having to erase out an incorrect vendor name.

Thank you for your prompt and detailed response.