On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 05:38:56 -0600, "Dick Watson"
<littlegreengecko[at]mind-enufalready-spring.com> wrote:

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That work-around is actually more tedious than I thought. For EVERY transaction
there's an extra prompt to click "no" when Money asks you if you want to change
EVERY transaction to "print."

It sure would be nice if they worked half as hard fixing years old bugs as
they work coming up with tedious workarounds.

"Alan Boritz" <aboritzNOSPAM[at]cybernex.netl> wrote in message
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On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 10:42:33 -0400, Alan Boritz <aboritzNOSPAM[at]cybernex.netlwrote:

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I spoke with a Microsoft Money support specialist and we've come up with a
work-around to the scheduled payment date problem.

As of today, in all versions of Money, up to Money 2006, selecting "print check"
on an entry in the "Bills and Deposits" list will cause Money to ignore your
choice for the date to be printed on a check (twice, actually), and will ALWAYS
make that date today's date (whatever date "today" happens to be). That problem
carries it's way into the check register, where you find that EVERY payment you
entered in the register from the "Bills and Deposits" list has "today's" date,
rather than the date that you had set in the "bills and deposits" list when you
first entered it into Money.

For ALL scheduled payments to be paid with printed checks, set the payment type
to "write check" (even though you're printing the check for that payment). When
you go to "enter in register," Money will prompt for the check number (not the
date). Don't enter a check number, instead left-click on the spinner bar
(down-arrow) to the right of the check number and select "print this
transaction," and click OK. That preserves the original date you entered for
that particular payment and queues it to be printed with your next check print
job.

There's another check date scenario, however, that is NOT supported in ANY
version of Money. Some people (and businesses) do only one or two check runs a
month, and always use the same day of the month for the check print date (like
one of my former employers). For that scenario, the scheduled payment date is
only used to schedule which check run in which that payment is cut (i.e. payment
scheduled for the 28th of the month is swept into the upcoming 1st of the month
check run, etc.). Quicken has a check print option to change all check dates to
the date printed, however Money (all versions) does NOT.

On Sat, 30 Jul 2005 20:37:25 -0600, "Dick Watson"
<littlegreengecko[at]mind-enufalready-spring.com> wrote:

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At least I got the problem "escalated" to their "research" department, since I
already had Microsoft Money support on the phone for another problem. I suspect
that they won't likely change it, because some programmer thought that the way
he writes personal checks is the way everyone else using the program should be
doing it.

The major issue with check dates appears to be when you print your checks.
Selecting "write check" keeps the original date and allows you to change the
check number. Quicken gives the user the option to change all printed check
dates to the date you printed them (as some people prefer), but Money has no
such option.

Speaking of dates, the default selections for online services also force the
check dates to be changed to the date of downloaded transactions. If Money
crashes (as it has at least a dozen times within the past few days), you lose
your settings and it goes back to the default. Bank Of America's major screwup
with their Fleet customer migration made a mess of my accounts, overwriting
check dates, and creating four sets of dupes, before I found that the online
services settings had changed.

This "feature" has been there for many versions now. It really sucks.

Sometimes my change when I go to enter to register sticks; many more times
not. I've never calibrated to find the difference.

They eventually fixed the garbled tax estimator display. Maybe they'll
eventually fix this?

"Alan Boritz" <aboritzNOSPAM[at]cybernex.netl> wrote in message
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Installed the trial Money 2006 to see what was new, and found that the Bills &
Deposits section is still broken. Money 2006, just like all the previous
versions, refuses to use a scheduled date for a "print check" payment. Instead,
it ignores the scheduled date and tries to use today's date when entering the
payment in the register. If you change the date back to the scheduled date
before entering the payment in the register, Money 2006 will ignore you again,
and enter it into the register with today's date anyway. This is a serious
issue, since it requires changing hundreds of transactions throughout the year
just to get the scheduled payments to print with the dates as scheduled, rather
than the date when printed. Has anyone found a solution for this problem?