In addition to those cited by Cal, online transaction matching seems to me
to be a little more accurate and complete, particularly with investment
transactions.
--
Chris Cowles
Gainesville, FL

Dan Konigsbach wrote:
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In microsoft.public.money, Dan Konigsbach wrote:

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What is significant to you, may not be significant to me, and vice
versa. The improvements I see are obviously subtle (except #1),
since there seem to be few comments on the changes I like best. So
note that this is not a comprehensive list. These are the most
notable improvements that occurred to me:


1. There are two backup choices: each exit and selectable period.
Each can keep 1...99 auto date-stamped backups. The instructions
for how to make the periodic one to be CD, or explaining the
options, needs to be provided, however. This should be done in the
help item that is linked to in the backup setup.

The backup behavior out of the box is very good. It should cause
people to not continually overwrite their only backup file as they
exit. There are settings that fit my usage better from the initial
settings, and I plan to post my opinions/suggestions on that topic.
But the multiple version backups are a big plus, even by default.

2. One frequent complaint was the Money 2005 Portfolio was going
for quotes automatically each time you viewed it. If you don't have
it selected to check quotes every 30 minutes, M06 does not fetch the
quotes until you ask for them. That is a most requested feature
from my observation, believe it or not.

That is not to say that the portfolio is of much interest to a
majority of users. Money 2005's portfolio introduced some useful
extra columns that could be configured in. But those that used the
Money 2005 portfolio found the automatic refreshing of quotes to
take time when it was not wanted-- even if they were on broadband.

3. In CategorySettings there is a is checkbox for
UseTheDualCategoryDropdownControl and it was already SET upon
conversion from my Money 2005 file.

4.The one that is not often cited, but was my "favorite" 2005 bug,
was the when you Group by Position, many of the mkt value column
would be way high. It turned out to be a reproducible bug in 2005
where if you made an estimated value figure when you created and
investment account, that number would be added to the mkt val of
*some* investments.

5. With M06, the Market Value at the bottom of the portfolio view
did not change when I toggle ChangePortfolioView-> ShowWatchAccounts.
I had thought it odd that the watch account values would get carried
to the Market Value and to Today's Total Change for the portfolio in
earlier versions. On the down side, the watch accounts themselves do
not show the

6. In the portfolio, reordering a column while looking at an
account does not scroll the view back to the top. Vertical
scrolling position is maintained. Thus, while grouping by account,
focus into the account is maintained.

7. ShowStandardizedPayeeNamesForWhichANameIsNotFound works
for downloading for me now. That allows payee names that differ
by only a number and punctuation to be matched to the existing
payee.

I am sure that other things appeal to other people. I am
confident that others care about different things. Money 2005 users
who want to see things that look and work very differently will be
disappointed. However they had their "wish" upon the change from
2004 to 2005.

Could you amplify on the statement that Money 2006 has significant, but
non-obvious, improvements over Money 2005? I'd be willing to upgrade
if I had a good reason, but looking over the new feature list that
Microsoft posts, none seem significant, compelling or, frankly,
interesting to me. However, that list is so brief and vague that it's
hard to really evaluate.

What kind of significant improvements could I look forward to if I
upgrade from 2005 to 2006?

When I try to buy via Amazon, I am forced to buy the Canadian version. Is it
likely this is compatible with my current 2000 version, which I don't recall
as being a Cdn version? Do I need to provide you with the 'About Money'
version number to validate compatibility?

P.S. Tried to buy via US microsoft site (compusa) but it complains of my
Cdn address. www.microsoft.ca has no way to buy, just info. Man, I can't
believe how difficult it is to buy. puzzling why they would make it so
difficult to get a sale.

"Bob Peel MVP" wrote:

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In microsoft.public.money, Alan wrote:

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Money 2006 has significant, but non-obvious, improvements over Money
2005. None are cosmetic; they look pretty much the same.

The MS sites will only have M2006 but you may find earlier versions in shops
or at, say, Amazon. That said I really recommend you buy a CD rather than
download.

--
Regards
Bob Peel,
Microsoft MVP - Money

For UK tips & fixes see
http://support.microsoft.com/default...d=fh;EN-GB;mny.
For wishes or suggestions see
http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp
or for UK wishes http://www.microsoft.com/uk/support/money/feedback

I do not respond to any emails that I have not specifically asked for.

"Alan" <Alan[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:97D71879-976D-4732-B572-8431B42090E3[at]microsoft.com...
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Must I upgrade to 2006, or can I buy the 2004 or 2005 version? Does MS allow
downloading of those back versions?

"Bob Peel MVP" wrote:

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Providing you are doing the upgrade within region should work just fine. By
that I mean you have got to do US > US or UK > UK.

When the new version starts on your old file it makes a copy of it, so make
a note of where that file lives in case you want to revert.

--
Regards
Bob Peel,
Microsoft MVP - Money

For UK tips & fixes see
http://support.microsoft.com/default...d=fh;EN-GB;mny.
For wishes or suggestions see
http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp
or for UK wishes http://www.microsoft.com/uk/support/money/feedback

I do not respond to any emails that I have not specifically asked for.

"Alan" <Alan[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:0B1717B0-15F8-4E88-B2B1-E8EA42755B4F[at]microsoft.com...
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I want to upgrade my MS Money to version 2005 or 2006. I currently am running
with version 2000. Will I be able to install 2005/6 and boot up with my v2000
mny file, or is that version too old to be upwardly compatible with 2005?

P.S. I ran into this upgrade version incompatibility b4 with another product
and don't want to lose all of my historical MS Money data.

Thnx