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Renaming/Renumbering any list item in QuickBooks will affect both historical and future transactions.

QuickBooks will not “retain” the fact that it once had a different number and/or name.

Says Laura on this forum.

My searches for this:

1. quickbooks rename items
2. what is the effect of renaming items in Quickbooks
3. quickbooks rename items effects

[tags]QuickBooks, Items, Editing[/tags]

Quick Answer:

Don’t!

Figure out a way to stay logged instead. You can leave yourself or some other user logged in at the console, or you can even log in under terminal services but just don’t log out. (Closing terminal services is ok.)

What if the computer automatically logs you out after a set period of inactivity? See this post which does work in windows XP as well.

Sorry this is sucky from a security perspective but here’s why you have to do it:
The long answer:
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