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"AC" <swamplander[at]gmail.com> wrote in message
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No... it didn't fix it in this case. The problem was that I had
"artifacts" from my old bills keep showing up in my Household category
(no sub specified)... so I had to remove the generic Household category
from my budget.

Or giving each Household expense a subcategory.

When I was looking at the category list in some detail a week or so ago, I
noticed that the "plain" categories were marked "Essential," while the
"Categories:Subcategories" were "Advanced." I don't think you're supposed to
use both in the same file.

Susan

"Cal Learner-- MVP" <via_newsgroup[at]please.tnx> wrote in message
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In microsoft.public.money, AC [MVP MCMS] wrote:

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Would allocating everything to Household with no subcategory do this
for you also?

So my workaround is to create a "General" subcategory under household and
just reallocate EVERYTHING other than my problem payee's to this. Not
ideal, but it's working for my budget.

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-------- -AC [MVP MCMS]
www.andrewconnell.com
www.andrewconnell.com/mvp


"AC [MVP MCMS]" <swamplander[at]gmail.com> wrote in message
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Why does Money have to try and do so much for me and not let me edit what it
does under the covers.... I just want to do a simple budget where I specify
the amounts for each category & keep Money from adding stuff from my
recurring/bills list. My issue...

I have some old payments that I had in a category (Household). I have since
gone back and updated all the previous payments (some scheduled) into
subcategories, but everytime I try to add the generic copy back to my
budget, it auto adds the payments I had scheduled and won't let me remove
them, thus adding duplicates.

For example:
I had a scheduled payment of "yard service" to be auto paid via the Bills
screen categorized to "Household". I have since updated the auto pay to
mark it as the category "Household - Scheduled Service" and updated all old
transactions to reflect this new category.

Then I went into my budget and had it add some autobudget fields...
specifically "Household" and "Household - Scheduled Service". The "yard
service" payee shows up twice.. under BOTH categories... both of them also
have the scheduled payment icon next to them and I can't remove the old one
from my budget WITHOUT removing the entire category "household".

I saw the workaround for autobudget & autopayments, but it didn't fix my
issue. Ideas?

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-------- -AC [MVP MCMS]
www.andrewconnell.com
www.andrewconnell.com/mvp