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"William R Wood" <secret[at]???.net> wrote in message
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Gee. I was thinking that was what Money was targeted at...

"ZootRot" <NoSpam[at]NoSpam.com> wrote in message
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Look at download.com. There are a few progs for personal financial
management. They are typically targeted at a user with basic, simple
requirements.


"wrh61" <wrh61[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Yes, look at Moneydance.com

Simple to use and way faster, cleaner and smaller than Money.

But if you want your hand held, I would suggest Money Essentials.

Regards,


Bill Wood



"wrh61" <wrh61[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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We can call anything anything. At some level, it's all just semantics.

Back to the OPs request: wrh61 wants "simple" software that:

a) downloads statements. By the definition that an OFX file is a statement,
then Money qualifies. Per his/her request, MEss might make this somehow
simpler than Money or Quicken, but I'm not sure how much simpler it really
is because I don't know what wrh61 finds un-simple in M/Q. Setting up the
download? Doing something with the statement once downloaded?

b) organize statements. By the definition that an OFX file is a statement,
then the result of using Money, MEss or otherwise, is to organizing
"statements" (=OFX files) as peanut butter is to peanuts in the shell.

Anybody else that wants to take a swing at the OPs question is more than
welcome to.

p.s., I'll bet you can whip out a printout of an OFX "statement" to a
customer service Vice President (you know, anybody who isn't a janitor) at
any bank in the country, tell them "I have a question about my
statement...", start pointing at the "statement", and get noting better than
a really dull clueless stare. (Granted, you might only do slightly better
with a traditional "statement" in hand.) But it's all just semantics.

"Cal Learner-- MVP" <via_newsgroup[at]please.tnx> wrote in message
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In microsoft.public.money, Dick Watson wrote:

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Warning-- semantics discussion:

An OFX download would seem to meet these definitions:
http://www.investorwords.com/56/account_statement.html
http://glossary.global-investor.com/...116&PopupMode=

Here is a search that incorporates "statement" and "OFX":
http://beta.search.live.com/results.....y=0&go=Search

So while you may prefer to call an OFX file a collection of
transaction and balance data, many do reasonably call it a
statement.

Just to be clear, I download an OFX file that contains the transaction data
from day 1 of my last issued statement to day 28/30/31 of that statement.
This imports directly in Money.
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Peace,
BobJ

"Dick Watson" <littlegreengecko[at]mind-enufalready-spring.com> wrote in
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Yah, but you download the "statement" with a browser, right? And then it's a
what? A .PDF or similar? I guess were I'm coming from is that if you
download an .OFX file, it's not a "statement", it's transaction data. If
it's some kind of nice human-readable statement, I don't know of any
interface to Q, M, EasyMoney, MoneyDance, GNUcash, etc., that can do
anything with it. It's just a pretty human-readable statement replete with
ads and logos and balance-by-day and cleared item sections and yield
information and mailing addresses and so forth.

Perhaps I should have answered that IE or Firefox, Adobe Reader, and Windows
Explorer is what the OP needs to "download and organiz[e] bank statements"?
You know: Open the statement in the Adobe Reader control from the browser,
and then do a file save as, say, my documents\downloaded statements\2006\my
bank checking\2006-09-31 statement.pdf. Sounds like it meets both
requirements of 1) download statements and 2) organize statements to me.

I guess my assumption was that wrh61 was looking for *slightly* more
value-add than that. Perhaps not.

"Marilyn & Bob" <Privacy[at]nospam.please> wrote in message
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Some banks allow you to download statements from their website. For example
I have two MBNA (BoA) credit card accounts which provide statement
downloads. They do not provide real time transaction downloads, so I have
to wait for the statement to be produced each month in order to download my
transactions into Money.
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"Dick Watson" <littlegreengecko[at]mind-enufalready-spring.com> wrote in
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You might try the trial of Money Essential. You sound like the type of user
I think they target with that product. There is a trial version available on
the website.

But it doesn't download "statements". I'm not sure any software does that,
per se.

"wrh61" <wrh61[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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I have found that money and quicken are being long and hard to learn. Does
anyone know of simplier software options of simple download and organizing
bank statements ?