At least I'm getting a rebate for the full purchase price on this program that
works once and never again. I betcha my information is stuck out in
Passport-land and it could be hacked by National Security!

"Chris Cowles" <spam_magnet[at]remove-me-bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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| <goldenset[at]gmail.com> wrote in message
| news:1140487990.240031.198630[at]g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
| > are there any real benefits to money 2006. i've used 2000, 2002 and
| > 2004. i stuck with 2004 since i didn't see any big benefits to recent
| > versions, or having the ability to do some stuff that 2004 cannot do.
|
| Only you can determine if the changes have value to you. Download the trial
| version and try it for yourself. If it asks if you want to uninstall the
| existing version, don't. Also, put it in a different directory.
|
| If you don't have reason to change, don't bother.
|
|

<goldenset[at]gmail.com> wrote in message
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Only you can determine if the changes have value to you. Download the trial
version and try it for yourself. If it asks if you want to uninstall the
existing version, don't. Also, put it in a different directory.

If you don't have reason to change, don't bother.

are there any real benefits to money 2006. i've used 2000, 2002 and
2004. i stuck with 2004 since i didn't see any big benefits to recent
versions, or having the ability to do some stuff that 2004 cannot do.

I agree. I bought Money Deluxe 2006 as it advertised it as being able to
backup to a CD/DVD as I do not have a floppy drive on my laptop. The stupid
program tells me I can't back it up to CD/DVD because I'm not the
administrator and I do not have the 'password'. Funny thing is, I'm the only
one that uses this computer!!
--
none


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"Robert" <xxx[at]xxx.com> wrote in message
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Actually, it did work, but just not how you wanted it to work. You can have
it delete unused categories without a prompt, and simply add back ones you
want by creating them as the need arises.

Chris,

Tried it, but it did not work. It ask me about 10 categories and
removed them. There must be a hundred more that it ignored. I want to be
able to view the category list with a check box format. I check those I
want and uncheck those that are inactive. That is the way it works with the
inactive accounts list. Why should categories be any different?

Robert
"Chris Cowles" <spam_magnet[at]remove-me-bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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Sad but true.

I've been thinking of upgrading from 2004 to 2006 only for two specific
features. Can someone say if they've worked on

a) The abysmal stupid retarded moronic semi-worthless transaction matching
when you download transactions from a bank, whereby it matches a $24.89
transaction you entered to "Farmer Jack" on 2/10/2006 to a downloaded $24.62
transaction to "Amoco" on 3/05/2006? I can't count the number of hours of
wasted unmatching this kind of stupidity, and I've *NEVER* found that I had
just entered a transaction wrong in these cases.

b) Some kind of report to reflect the cashflow screen information.

"Dick Watson" <littlegreengecko[at]mind-enufalready-spring.com> wrote in
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"Nospam" <Nospam[at]Nospam.com> wrote in message
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Not to dissuade you, but you can eliminate unused categories, at least. On
Tools> Settings, choose Category Settings. From there, Remove Unused
Settings.
--
Chris Cowles
Gainesville, FL

I tried the eval version of money and hated it. I didn't take the free offer
with the tax program I bought because I hated it so much. I switched back to
Quicken 2001. Might think about upgrading to a newer version of quicken when
I figure out a reason why.

"Nospam" wrote:

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In microsoft.public.money, Nospam wrote:

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The backup system is much improved, in that it saves multiple
backups, even by default.

The ability to do some other things while the online transactions
are being fetched can be useful if one of your FIs is slow to
deliver the data.

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You can go to Banking-> AccountTools-> Categories&Payees-> Payees.
Right-click a category and choose Delete. That will offer change the
category of transactions that you have.

There is a timed automatic hiding, but unfortunately no manual
control.

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The old help was nice.


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I suspect the re-organization was the result of usability studies
studying people largely without experience.

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Here's the rub: Money is NOT an Office product. It doesn't come from the
same group. It comes from the MSN group: their goal is to maximize the time
you spend looking at paying ads. No more. No less.

"Nospam" <Nospam[at]Nospam.com> wrote in message
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First let me say that I am not a financial wizard. I do have some
investments and pay my bills on-line. I am a user of Money 2002. I finally
decided to upgrade to Money 2006. I can find very little to cheer about in
terms of functionality and human factors. I can not find any significant
functional enhancements. The Human Factors are less than "industry
standard." Simple things such as "Hide unused accounts" is buried in a
menu titled "Sort Accounts by." I was also hoping that there was a way in
2006 to hide unused categories, but could not find that capability. There
is no Help unless I an online; what kind of support is this? The Settings
Menu item and the included functions are somewhat oblique.

Why can not Microsoft make Money's Usability similar to other MS Office
products?

I will continue to play with it for a day or two. My gut feeling is that
I will reinstall 2002 or switch.

Thanks for letting me whine,

Robert