Basic Money drill:

1) Spend money
2) Enter transactions in a corresponding Money account to recognize the
spending. Say #1 was Discover card at gas station. Enter transactions in
Money Discover account for gas purchases as they occur.
3) Pay bills when they come due. If bill is from an account that is also an
Account you represent in Money, use Transfer:[name of account]. Say #2 was
transactions in Money Discover account for gas purchases as they occurred.
When Discover bill is paid, Transfer:[name of Money Discover account] the
money you paid Discover.

This makes Gas expenses occur as the occur and get recorded where they got
paid from. The Transfer is a Money equivalent of moving cash from one of
your pockets to the other. It is neither spending (expense) nor income.

See http://umpmfaq.info/faqdb.php?cat=13 for some more info.

"drsteve" <drsteve[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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"Cal Learner-- MVP" wrote:

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For instance if I am tracking my gas expenditures and I have the entries in
my checkbook for gas then when I pay my back card I may have 20 more entries
for gas, can I use the split option on my card categories and input that
automatically somehow.

In microsoft.public.money, drsteve wrote:

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Are you saying that you have entered a credit card purchase with a
split as the category, and you want to match a downloaded
transaction to the one you entered by hand?

How can I merge a exported credit card download into the split portion of my
credit card entries? Hopefully I wan't too confusing.