In microsoft.public.money, D. Smith wrote:

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I re-read your initial paragraph and missed the "THE BALANCE SHOWN
ON THE MONEY LIST OF ACCOUNTS IS DIFFERENT THAN THE BALANCE SHOWN IN
THE MONEY ACCOUNT REGISTER." Part. I think I must filter out
stretches of all-caps text. So I missed it. This is the crux of the
problem then. Your balance in the register is fine.

The quick fix should be the same as opening the file with the -s.
The is can also be done by opening Money with Start-> Run and
entering "msmoney -s" without the quotes into the box.

One highly unlikely thing is that you have a future transaction in
the register and that you have been looking at the Today's Balance
number. I did not think so.

I guess I would try the File-> RepairMoneyFile-> Standard. You might
want to burn and extra backup onto the CDR first. You do have a
backup strategy, right?

Thanks for the help Cal. I'm not sure I understand. I
used the previous balance that appeared on my Jan 22
statement as my opening balance since this is not a new
account and had a balance brought forward. I have
periodically manually reconciled the account throughout
the year so I know that all transactions have been cleared
and accounted for. Is there a hint of a bug in this
statement in the Help column? "Occasionally, Money will
find inconsistencies in the way your data is stored. These
inconsistencies mean that Money might display different
balances in the list of accounts and the register. This is
a problem only with the display; your account records
haven't changed. To display the correct balances and
resolve the data storage issues, do a Quick File Repair."

D. Smith



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