Weird that they just summarily changed the behaviour without making an
option for it.
For now I think I'll go back to 2k2.

"Cal Learner-- MVP" <via_newsgroup[at]please.tnx> wrote in message
news:8idjp11ksmdev3usejbacvfk6eulsipt94[at]4ax.com...
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In microsoft.public.money, prost wrote:

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No. It would be nice if there were some way that dates and amounts
could be marked as estimates, and automatically defer to the
downloaded data. It would be nice if you could select which data to
go with in the case of a discrepancy.

For the most part, I can see the advantage of the downloaded data
taking precedence over the hand-entered data. One case I would not
want to see that comes to mind: if I mail my tax check on a given
day, I would not want the date that the bank processed the
transaction to override my date. From a tax point of view, it is
when you mail your money for state/local tax, or other
tax-deductible checks, that determines which year it is deductible
for. Since one of Money's jobs is to report those deductible things
back to you, that is significant.

On the other hand, I would want a downloaded dividend to trump an
estimated dividend entry.

Hi,

I had been using Money 2002 for a number of years now, and I recently
"upgraded" to 2006, and unfortunately I ran in to a problem.

I manually download a file from my local bank (.ofx file, not using online
services).
Some of the transactions in the file I have already entered in the register
(either manually or auto-entered bills).

When money matches a transaction (either automatically or through the
"change" button), then:

In Money 2002:
It would take the date and amount from the downloaded (bank)
transaction, and the description and category from the manually entered
entry. (Perfect, that's exactly what I want).
In Money 2006:
It takes everything from the manually entered entry. (Not at all what I
want since the manually entered one can be an estimated date and/or amount).

Is there an option to change it back to the 2002 behaviour?

Thanks,
Erik