You will probably not get much help here as this is a peer to peer group and
almost no one here (maybe even no one) uses Money Essentials. In our
opinion, it is a totally useless product. Get you money back and buy Money
Deluxe instead. Get the CD instead of the download.
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Peace,
BobJ

"Hambone" <Hambone[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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I am testing out Money Essentials and have a few questions (note: the help
tool is pretty weak compared to other MS products).

1. Monthly budget tracker is cool, but how do you add items for which you
paid a few days before the current month started. For example, I pay my
Mortgage a few days before the first of the month - but I want it to show up
in the budget tracker for April.

2. How do I offset large onetime payments out of the consolidated pie
"spending categories"? For example, I paid off a credit card last month and
it shows Credit Card Payments/Transfers as a huge chunk. I would like to
remove that one time hit to see the forest from the trees.

3. How do you add to the categories section. Lots of info on other
versions, but not this version.

Help is greatly appreciated.