You are right, the date on the Money box says 2004, but I realised later that
it is the 2005 version - thank you Microsoft for such clear labeling!

And about my older version, recently having read so much in forums about
Money, I am beginning to doubt that it was a Canadian version. It did not
have online function for canadian banks (only US banks which I did not use).
And it came preinstalled with Microsoft Works. So I'm guessing it was Money
2003 US version.

But as I said my notebook has crashed so I only have the backup version
saved on an external drive.

What course of action do you suggest? It has 4 years of my financial records
which I don't want to give up on easily.

Thanks for your help,

Saman.

"Bob Peel, MVP" wrote:

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Money is very heavily localised so you cannot easily read a Canada file into
a UK one. There is a way of doing it but it is painful and you lose a lot of
data.

Why on earth did you buy UK M2004? The latest UK version is M2005 and has
been around for > 3 years.

See http://money.mvps.org/faq/article/28.aspx re migrating between regions.

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Regards
Bob Peel,
Microsoft MVP - Money

For UK tips & fixes see
http://support.microsoft.com/default...d=fh;EN-GB;mny.


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"Saman" <Saman[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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I was using a preinstalled version of MM 2003 on my notebook with Windows XP
bought in Canada. It crashed but I have bought a new one with Windows Vista.
I've also bought Microsft Money 2004 from amazon.co.uk but am yet to install
it.
I want to know if my back up version of MM2003 will run on MM2004. I read
somewhere that I should install the trial version of MM2007 which will run my
MM2003 file and after it changes to a MM2007 file I should use my MM2004 to
open it.
Please help! Thanks.
Saman.