You can avoid the special category altogether, there is a
workaround in Q 80453: ""Method 2
Enter the transaction, making the category a split
transaction rather than a transfer.
In the split screen, enter the first item, making transfer
the category (as you would have in the Account Register).
Enter a second item in the split screen, but categorize
this one. Use the same dollar amount as you used for the
transfer, and choose or create the appropriate category to
reflect the action taken.

Note This will be the information that is visible in the
report.
Enter one more item in the split screen to cancel the
bogus entry that was just entered. Use the same dollar
amount, but make it negative. You may want to create a
category to properly organize this type of activity such
as "Bogus."

Note You will have a category in the report called Bogus
that should be ignored. If needed, cancel the selection of
this category by customizing the report.".

I use this by creating a category called CC Payments:name
of card so a typical bill transaction for these accounts
looks like this:
Transfer to CC:name of card xx.xx
CC Payments: name of card. xx.xx
Bogus (-xx.xx)

It works for me!

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I enter the transfer before either of the downloads and find that Money
04 (and previous versions) will match the download with the transfer. I
have even had it pull the transfer from the upcoming bills and match
that. I have not experienced the problem you are mentioning.

Shaun wrote:
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Since I download both my credit card and my checking account numbers,
if I enter the "Transfer" Money doesn't seem to understand that the
transfer is already recorded. so I get both payments. And that is
normal?

So, the best thing is to create a bunch of categories that are
"transfered to" and "transfered from"?


"Bonnie Synhorst -- MVP" <bjclarinet[at]hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<uIOvh7uhEHA.3548[at]TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl> ...
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In microsoft.public.money, Phil wrote:

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Does not matter.

See FAQ available at http://umpmfaq.info/faq.html for information.

A Special category is one that not only enters the transaction in the
account you are recording it in, but also in another 'linked' account. You
can use either of the categories you mentioned, or a different category that
is not 'special'. The regular category is the one I choose, although it
means you have to record the transaction in both accounts. This way, if you
ever have to export your transactions and import them into a new file, each
account's transactions come in independantly from the others and there is
less chance for errors.

"Phil" <p.mentz[at]comcast.net> wrote in message
news:txsVc.24276$Fg5.2209[at]attbi_s53...
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I am just starting to use Money 2003 (had it for a while, but never used).
I set up a credit card account and a checking account. If I pay off the
credit card using the checking, I now find that there is a new category
under "SPECIAL" under the category listings. This category is "Credit Card
Payment : Name of Credit Card". There is also another category under
special called "Transfer : Credit Card Name". Which one should I use as the
category in the checking account when I pay the card off? The payoff in the
credit card account exists no matter which one of the two aforementioned
categories I use. I also do not understand the purpose of the "Special"
groupings of categories.

Thank you,

- Phil