Pick your reason(s):

They don't view it as a requirement for the vast majority of Money users.
The competition they are chasing doesn't do anything like that either.
They are scared about what offering it would cost them in support.
They don't think they could add it in a way that didn't make "brownout
users" think Money was more "complicated" and "difficult to use" and
"non-intuitive".

"Bo Ossinger" <BoOssinger[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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I could see that I could get much of the transaction data, but most
immediately I wanted more detail on accounts. Mostly I just want access (pun
intended) to my own data, alas... MS has done so much with product
integration, I have to wonder why they missed the boat on this one.

After a long time trying, I think it's hopeless. They just plain don't care
about adding function at the "power user" end of the product.

What data are you trying to export? I've been able to get most everything
from the transactions and accounts except account (category, payee,
classification, etc.) details, loan terms, flags, payee addresses (really
that's just a payee detail), paycheck tab assignment for paycheck splits and
schedule of the scheduled transactions. LP, DRP, and BP data are harder. I
use customized reports and Export to Excel to get it to .CSV and then link
Excel to the .CSV to import this stuff into a schema I've created. Note if
you want the schema to be normalized, there is lots of work to do to flatten
the data that comes out from Money via the reports. I wrote a lot of VBA to
do this. Now I can normalize the entire transaction database including
investments and loans.

"Bo Ossinger" <BoOssinger[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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I unfortunately assumed that I'd be able to export from Money to an Access
database. I only want to pull data out so that I can generate my own
reports, but I can't believe that MS does not support that conversion. I'd
settle for going through Excel to get there, but the MoneyLink utility won't
even let me pick the data that I want to export.

How do we convince MS that this needs to be supported?...

In microsoft.public.money, GaryDave wrote:

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Moneylink, from Ultrasoft, can read data from Money to Excel.
http://www.microsoft.com/money/customers.mspx has a link.

Nope.

GnuCash on Linux using MySql (I **vaguely recall** they support that as a
back end) and the MySQL ODBC connection might get you there. GnuCash
normally uses an XML data file format. You could probably get there that way
as well. Of course, GnuCash implies Linux.

"GaryDave" <garydave[at]hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Dick - So Money is out. But do you - or anyone else reading this know
of a bookeeping program like Quicken/MS Money that can be
programmatically (VBA, etc.) linked to Access, in a way that would work
"on a production basis"?

Thanks for your useful replies.

Gary

They don't seem to think it's a legitimate requirement for Money users.

There *are* ways you can fake it on a limited basis. MoneyLink, the QIF
tools, and careful creation of Money reports then exported to CSV file which
you can then link into Access can get some things done, but none of it easy
and all of it tedious for any ongoing purpose. Lots of data in Money is just
plain inaccessible programmatically. I've used reports to export Account
data and account register data and a lot of VBA and cunning in Access to
recreate the transaction database in Access in my own table design. But it
was an experiment only--proof of concept that there COULD be a home-rolled
life after Money--and surely not something you'd want to do on a production
basis.

"GaryDave" <garydave[at]hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Dick -

Thanks for your reply. It's too bad MS doesn't make it easier to
integrate their programs. In fact, it sounds like there is no way to
do what I would like to do: be able to exchange data between Money and
Access. There must be thousands of small businesses that have similar
issues - I wonder why this isn't being addressed.

I will also contact MS directly to see if there is any help there. But
it seems clear from this newsgroup and other web research that I've
done that Money isn't very adaptable to VBA-type integration with other
Office programs, like Word/Access, or Excel/Access, automated
interfaces I have experience with and are used every day in our office.

Gary

Dick Watson wrote:
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See http://umpmfaq.info/faqdb.php?q=10 in specific and
http://umpmfaq.info/faqdb.php?cat=3 in general.

"GaryDave" <garydave[at]hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Greetings.

I have a registration database for a school that uses MS Access. Our
book keeper uses Quicken, so that all the student names, addresses,
etc. needs to be entered twice. I am thinking of migrating the
financial records to MS Money, so that we can do some VBA programming
or the like to send student data from Access to Money. Does anyone
know if this can be done, or have any experience doing this sort of
thing?

Thanks!

Gary