In microsoft.public.money, Vulgrin wrote:

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In Money 2007 help, enter Budget into the box. Choose the "Create a
new Advanced Budget" item.

I wrote:

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Moments later, I tracked down this post, which has instructions on how
to do it (by typing something into the money address bar to go around
the UI) F'ing billiant one MS.

http://groups.google.com/group/micro...e8b1e550acd740

So, I've been using MS Money since 2004, and decided that I needed to
re-setup a lot of my numbers, so I did a brand new money file in 2007.
I've been using it as a register, but decided to finally re-set up my
budget.

Now, I'm really angry at the upgrade. Apparently, I can't use the
"Advanced" budget, which made it easier to add one-time items (rather
than just adding them as custom categories with custom payments). Now
I find out that I CANNOT remove the Trended items from the Cash Flow
forecast and still show my budget items (like I used to be able to do)
WITHOUT having an Advanced budget. If I choose to include budget
items, I have to include trended items because the other option
(Advanced Budget) is grayed out, because I didn't upgrade and can no
longer select an Advanced budget - even though it CAN do it, because
its available for upgrading users!

This is the stupidest thing I've ever seen. I bought software.
There's a feature there that exists for users who upgrade, but not for
users who chose not to upgrade that I can't have access to. As a
result, my cash flow chart is basically worthless, and the budget is
hobbled, all so I can have someone from MSN Money tell me how I should
be budgeting BUILT INTO THE [at]#$#[at] SOFTWARE.

So - anyone know how to get around this and make my budget become an
"advanced" budget so that the cash flow chart works properly again? At
this point, I don't think I'll upgrade MS Money again - and will either
switch to Quicken next year, or back to Excel after 3 years.

Thanks
D