Thanks for your response Dick. This might work for some of my pre-authorized
payments that have the same payment amount from month to month (like my car
payment) - I'll have to try this. However, my utilities and some other items
have a variable amount so I am not sure if this would work. Has anyone out
there done this successfully?

"Dick Watson" wrote:

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One way--may not work if the Payee mapping gets in the way--is to have the
pre-authorized ones scheduled in Bills and then hoping Money will "match"
these up by date/amount. Others will pile on the thread who are dealing with
this issue.

I just enter the data by hand and skip all of these complications associated
with downloaded data.

"eritters" <eritters[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Hello, I'm a trail user of MS Money Deluxe and I noticed that when I download
my bank information from Merrill Lynch into MS Money 2007 there is a payee
called "PRE-AUTHDEBIT." This is for my pre-authorized withdrawals such as my
utilities, car payments, membership payments. Even if I manually change the
categories for each individual transaction, the next time I import data, the
category that all transactions associated with PRE-AUTHDEBIT goes to is
always utilities which is not what I want. The "memo" field actually
contains useful information that could be used to properly auto-categorize
the transactions but I don't know how to make MS Money use this field instead
of PRE-AUTHDEBIT for these transactions. Anyone know how to fix my dilemma?