help panel
can i keep help panel minimized on the bottom?
can i keep help panel minimized on the bottom?

Yes. Put "Panel" in the search up and to the right and click any of the first few questions that are not yours.


Settings, Options, Setup
Around 10th line down, "Help-Me-etc," make it NO
You'll only have to do this once a year.
I also suggest you make a desktop "Hints" file (or "Lacerte Hints" or "Computer Hints") and put this procedure into your hints. Then you can refer to it next year and not even have to ask again or look for early-2012 references on the Intuit website.
On the line underneath the "Help-Me" etc line, there's a line about "input-error-checking." You may want to set this to "no" if you're a fast typist. Having it be "yes" slows down the program to a snail's pace. You may also have to set it to "no" in all your modules, not just Individual. (By contrast, setting "Help-Me" to "no" in any module, makes all of them automatically be "no.")