In microsoft.public.money, Cal Learner-- MVP wrote:

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That would be Banking-> AccountTools-> Categories&Payees-> Payees for
Money 2005. Instead of Tools-> Options-> ... use
Tools-> Options/Settings-> ...

In microsoft.public.money, Patrick Simonds wrote:

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To reduce the number of existing payees, go to
Accounts&Bills-> Categories&Payees-> Payees ; select a payee and
use Move to combine payees. This is better in most cases than
Delete. Advanced Find&Replace may also be useful in consolidating.


Tools-> Options-> OnlineServices-> ReplacePayeeNames...
enables replacement of payees with names you have used.
Accounts&Bills-> Categories&Payees-> Payees-> PreferredPayeeNames
shows how downloaded names are translated into Payees.


Also click on GoToPayeeRulesManager. Your downloaded transactions
may come with some generic term where the Payee should be.
Excluded Payee Names identifies words and phrases that should be
ignored from the payee field (e.g., check, deposit). Add words
that are generically added by your bank. There are
no wildcards, so check 334, check 335, and check 336 will each be
treated as potential new payee names. To handle that, set
Tools-> Options-> OnlineServices-> ShowStandardizedPayeeNames to
combine payees that differ only by a number. This may work better
after you have combined payees from previous downloads.

While trying to fix a problem I find myself going through my list of Payee
name variations and I find entries like:

Check 2295 trace #2411538
Check 2296 trace #2411542
Check 2297 trace #2411551

And then an associated Payee. Is there any way to have Money 2005 exclude
entries like this?