In addition to all of what Cal said--which deals with all of the different
forms downloaded payee names can take--see
http://umpmfaq.info/faqdb.php?q=63, which deals with controlling the
difference between implicit payees (used but not in the explicit list) and
payees in the explicit list.

<bhardin[at]telus.net> wrote in message
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In microsoft.public.money, bhardin[at]telus.net wrote:

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Here is something that should help:
In Money 2006 in Tools-> Settings-> OnlineServiceSetting, check
ShowStandardizedPayeeNamesForWhichANameIsNotFound. Try clicking
MoreDetails to the right of that selection for a description of
what it should do.


If your have Payees such as "Tenth Bank $12.34 05/05/05", change at
least one of these to "Tenth Bank". That way there will be a payee
that matches except for numbers and punctuation.

Also, you can change the payee for such transactions with a
Tools-> FindAndReplace simple search, and change them all to the
same payee. While the payees that you changed will not now show a
date for LastPaid in Banking-> AccountTools-> Categories&Payees, it
still showed up in the drop-down Payee list when I tried it.
Eventually it should go off of the list thru disuse.

In doing such changes to your file, it is always a good idea to
keep an extra copy or backup for your file.

Is there any way of preventing every payee from adding to list of
payees?

I pay my telephone, visa and several other bills each and every month
- and each one comes up in the payee list as Visa xxxx. I go through
the list every few months and delete all the duplicates. Is there a
way to prevent it?

Thanks,
Barry