Certain buttons are likely to be positioned in similar locations across different QuickBooks versions. As a result, when you need to know where the 2021, 2017, 2013, and Pro 2018, you can look in similar places. To put it another way, you can open any year's version of this software. The Gear icon will be located near the top and on the right. Otherwise, it should be present between two other icons, namely, Create and Help.