If all you want to do is create an invoice on the computer and e-mail a PDF I would suggest downloading Open Office, I believe you can find it at openoffice.org. This is a complete alternative to the Microsoft products and it is completely free!
You can create a template in Open Office Write (MS Word look a like), create your invoice and then create a PDF and e-mail it to your customer. Open Office has a button that will create the PDF for you, it is built into the program.
I have still to see a company that use quickbook with their books "balanced"
To me
1st MYOB (native from mac platform)
2nd Peachtree very professional but CPAesque
3rd Quickbooks but so clumsy much better Quicken....
BUT in all you need to have some basic ideas about double entry...no Point and Shot accounting program do exist
