I was having the same problem. I checked this site and tried a lot of the
suggested solutions but to no avail. I normally update accounts every other
day so I deleted that statement that was giving me problems. I went back to
my bank and downloaded transactions day to day. One day did not show the
transactions. So I entered them manually and from there on out have not had
a problem. Must have been something wrong in that file. Since my bank
transactions are on a 30 continuous rotation I make sure I use a start date
after that problem date.

In microsoft.public.money, cd wrote:

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I just tested for that. Here is a simple QIF I tried:
================================================== ==
!Type:Bank
D01/15'01
CX
MTest date '01
T-1.00
N0001
PBR example nosp<br> ace
==========================================

With ShowStandardizedPayeeNamesForWhichANameIsNotFound cleared, the
transaction did not show in the register. With
ShowStandardizedPayeeNamesForWhichANameIsNotFound set, the
transaction showed in the register with the payee coming in as
"Br Example Nosp Br Ace.



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1) New Money file, setting unchecked - no items shown
2) New Money file, setting checked - items shown with < & > removed.

I tried another import file and saw something different:
1) New money file, setting unchecked - items shown, but credit entries
DELETED. I think this is a Money 2004 problem also. I had been missing
credit transactions.
2) New money file, setting checked - items shown just fine.

I think I will leave the setting checked.

cd

Do not put the spaces around the <br> . I believe spaces diffuse the
problem. That is why BARNES & NOBLE is probably not a problem for '&'.

cd

Cal Learner-- MVP wrote:
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In microsoft.public.money, Cal Learner-- MVP wrote:

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Trying the re-import of the same QIF file after checking
Tools-> Settings-> OnlineServiceSetting-> ShowStandardizedPayeeNamesForWhichANameIsNotFound
showed that deleting the existing "transactions to read" statement
was optional for my test case.

In microsoft.public.money, Cal Learner-- MVP wrote:

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What I was trying to say in that section is something like this:

I had tried to duplicate that transactions-to-read problem with a
test QIF in Money 2006 that included "PCREDIT VOUCHER <br> WAL-MART"
as one line. The payee came in as if I had written
"PCREDIT VOUCHER br WAL-MART".

In microsoft.public.money, cd wrote:

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I tried to duplicate that transactions-to-read with a test QIF in
Money 2006. The payee came in as if I had written

and "PCREDIT VOUCHER <br> WAL-MART" came in as Payee
"CREDIT VOUCHER br WAL-MART".

But I did see transactions in the register, and that differed
markedly from your experience.

So I wondered what might have been different in my test. I think I
found the difference, and it could be a useful workaround for you:
on Tools-> Settings-> OnlineServiceSetting check
ShowStandardizedPayeeNamesForWhichANameIsNotFound. Try clicking
MoreDetails to the right of that selection for a description of
what it should do.

You may want/need to delete the existing statement (right-click on
transactions to read) before re-importing that QIF file.. I have not
checked that out at this time.

Please let us know what you learn, and thanks for identifying this
problem and working on a workaround.





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You've hit it right on the head here. Money is probably following the
guidelines/standard to the letter on this, and won't import because that
sort of text in the tag is invalid. If you encode it the XML <![CDATA[
ext ]]> construct, it might import (not tried)

--
Glyn Simpson, Microsoft MVP - Money
http://money.mvps.org

Check http://money.mvps.org/faq/default.aspx for tips and fixes for MS
Money.
To send Microsoft your product wishes see http://money.mvps.org/wishes.aspx

I do not respond to any unsolicited email regarding Money

"cd" <cd[at]junk.com> wrote in message news:43E64838.6030001[at]junk.com...
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I should also add that is a problem in Money 2006 that is not a problem
in Money 2004. I have plenty of old QIF files that have <br> in them
that worked just fine in Money 2004.


cd wrote:
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After contacting MS Support, it turned out that there were entries in my
QIF file that looked like the following for the Payee field:

PCREDIT VOUCHER<br> WAL-MART

Since Money uses XML extensively and <br> is a valid XML-like tag, Money
does not like it in QIF files (no "<" or "> " are allowed). I changed the
entry to

PCREDIT VOUCHER -- WAL-MART

and all my transactions showed up correctly.

cd wrote:
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I have been reading this newsgroup in the hopes of finding an answer to
the problem where I import a QIF file and the transactions do not appear
in the register. I see the "Items to Review (78)" on the side, but the
transactions do not show up.

Here is what I have done:
1) Everything in KB829143 (Internet options, repairing, reinstalling,
etc). No difference.
2) Everything Carl has been recommending (Internet options, "msmoney
-s", etc).
3) I even started a new MNY file with only a credit card account, tried
to import again, and had the same problem. NOTICE: This is a brand
spanking new MNY file with nothing in it except a Credit Card account
and an imported QIF file.

Is there a fix for this?

cd
(email address is bogus so don't use it)