For that matter, if you want to step back, check the "archive" file. It
should look just like your file looked before you archived.

"Marilyn & Bob" <privacy[at]nospam.please> wrote in message
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Let me follow up on what Dick just said. If in any of your backups you have
a Money file that predates your archiving, you should restore it. Then
just recreate (downloading will do this for your downloadable accounts) the
transactions that happened since that backup. Then people here can deal
with any other problems you still have.
--
Peace,
BobJ

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Archiving doesn't do what you are expecting, apparently, and doing it will
prevent you from getting any month-to-month and year-to-year data worth
anything. Do not archive. Picture archiving at the end of the month as
analogous to taking the register out of your checkbook and ripping it up
once a month. You could start a fresh check register each month, but you
probably wouldn't want to.

(What archiving is "supposed" to do: 1) copy your entire data file to the
"archive" data file. 2) remove many but not all transactions that predate
your "archive before" date from your registers and adjust the account
beginning balances accordingly. The transactions that don't get removed
typically involve investments. But archiving has proven buggy for many
users. Many of us long time users only used it once, promptly recovered from
the folly, and have never looked back.)

There are some reports that can show you periodic totals by account or
category, though typically it'll be from top to bottom and not left to
right. They can be setup with running balances. I'd suggest one or two, but
I don't have a system to look in. Look in the reports and note that they can
all be customized to dice and slice the data in different ways.

Money is used by many of us with years (or, now, decade+) of data in the
register. The View pulldown lets you regulate the amount of data hidden vs.
visible. Show Unreconciled transaction is very handy.

I'm not sure Money is outrageously complicated. (Some of us would like to
see much more complicated capabilities added.) It implies a way to use it
that may not reflect how you view the problem at hand. You may want to go
through some of its more tutorial help. (I'm not sure what M2K had--that was
a long time ago.) Post back with more questions.

"Mike" <francisco9[at]att.net> wrote in message
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Hello!

Using MS MONEY 2000, I finished entering all my data for January 2006 ,
and I ARCHIVED JAN 06,. I then started on February 06.

But my check register still shows all of January's activity; is that
the way it supposed to be? Couldn't I start a fresh Check Register for
February 06?

Also, I would like a 'Report' to show: a January column, a February
column, and finally a YEAR TO DATE column.....showing the
accumulated totals for the two months, a month later, three months and
eventually 12 months, etc. Is that possible? I sure would be happy
if I could have it that way.

Either this MS MONEY is outrageously complicated, or my 78 year old
brain is turning to gorgonzola cheese. I guess it's the latter, huh?

Thanks very much for any help I can get

Mike G