I think most of us hate the new invoices. However, I am sure a lot of you, like me, are busy running a business and don't have time to change all your books right now, so since Quickbooks Help robots or whatever they are are so useless, I will share what I have learned.
First, you CAN use your old templates. I was having trouble with "T"s showing up on every line though, like everything was taxable. Lines where I had just typed descriptions of work performed and things like that, nontaxable labor and everything else. I figured out by accident and then a little deduction how to fix that. I hadn't updated my sales tax center to the new one. Because the automatic sales tax calculation was another bad rollout years ago, I stayed with the old one because the way the new one calculated it was useless for me. However, now you can create custom rates and it works pretty much like the old system. So if you are having that problem, just update your sales tax center and it should fix that problem. That solved a huge headache for me, so I wanted to share it in case it helped someone else.
Also, I figured out a way to make spaces since it no longer allows you to make blank lines and runs everything together. Sometimes I want a space to separate days of work or give a description or something like that. Just type a few dashes on the line and then it reads it as a line so you will have a space. It's really ridiculous that we have to do this, but it does make my invoices look better.
As for the new interface and all the problems with that...I guess we are stuck with that. However, these other two things were huge problems for me so I assume they are for others too and if this helps someone else, it was worth the time it took to type it.
Good luck to everyone with all the other problems Quickbooks has foisted upon us with their "improved" invoices!
