Google "Loan Calculator" and I'm sure you will find many on line.

"alpha1" <alpha1[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Chris,
Yeah, I found the loan account and did setup a loan, then went back and
changed some of the criteria, but wow, what a pain compared to how it used to
be (was so much easier, quicker, intiutive then). I agree that an Excel
spreadsheet is probably going to be my best bet now to achieve that.

Thanks for all the work, I appreciate it. I'm hoping (not counting on it)
that Microsoft reviews some of these posts and brings that functionality back
"indside (off-line)" in Money 2008. I plan to post on their suggestions
section and hope for the best. Wishing now that I hadn't of lost my '95 CD
during my move (that's what "really" prompted the upgrade). Thanks again.

"Chris Cowles" wrote:

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You appear to have Deluxe, as I do. It appears you are correct in that it
does not include a loan calculator internal to the app. That's the way
Money (and the software world) is going, in general. I don't think Premium
includes it. That version is Deluxe, plus other online benefits, I think.

You can fake it by creating a loan account, then viewing the amortization.
You cannot do what-if's for the given loan, to my knowledge.

There probably are some basic financial utility packages available
inexpensively. I don't personally know of any to recommend. Consider
building some simple worksheets in Excel.
--
Chris Cowles
Gainesville, FL



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Chris,
16.0.120.621 version, are you thinking that there are add-ins or something
similar that would allow internal (off-line) use of that tool?

And Steve,
The loan calculator was a nice "plus" to using Money as my financials
management choice. Just hate being "limited" to only using the tools of a
package to the moments that I have an Internet connection. Do you have
another package suggestion that will yield this type of capability (that
Money has with the loan calculator)?

"Chris Cowles" wrote:

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Alpha1,
You really DID waste $50. You want a loan calculator, NOT
a personal financial program. I suggest you go back to Money 95 and
write off the Money 2007 purchase to stupidity. Good luck. Steve

On Oct 29, 1:31*pm, alpha1 <alp...[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
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I can read. That's the year. There are version variations within the year.

"alpha1" <alpha1[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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I bought 2007, as I said in my post.

I've never used Excel for that as my Money '95 had a utility already setup
for it. I figured that after 10+ yrs of use, that it was time to upgrade and
bam!, they get rid of the feature that I liked most. Now, I have no
"benefit" of using Money 2007 over the '95 that I was using (hence, I'm
afraid I wasted my money!).

"alpha1" wrote:

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What version did you buy?

I don't think it exists, within the program.

Why not use Excel or something similar?

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Ok, last night I bought a new version of Money (2007). I've used the '95
version since '95. There was one feature in '95 that I thought was the
greatest, the Loan Calculator. It didn't care what type of loan, just input
the loan amount, interest rate, payment length (mnths, yrs, etc) and it would
calculate the payment amount (p & i) or leave the loan amount field blank and
enter a desired payment and it would calculate the maximum loan amount that
you could get with those criteria. Well, after talking to the Best Buy -
Geek Squad guy who uses 2007, he assured me that the loan calculator was
still in 2007. I installed 2007 and have searced for hours looking for it.
I did finally find a loan calculating area, however, it is to an online Money
page, therefore I must always be connected to the Internet in order to reap
the benefits of 2007's Loan Calculator. This was not the case with '95
Money. Can someone tell me that this calculator current exists within the
software (off-line) and that I didn't just waste $50 when I could've gotten
Quicken?